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Show MONTANA NINES -TO STAY OPEN Miners Vote to Request Increased In-creased Wages, bat Union Men Say StriKe Is Improbable Im-probable in Any Event. BUTTE? Mont.. Feb. 26. The count of . votes of the Butte Miners union shows that the proposition fixing the scale of wages at 14 a day . carried by a large majority, ma-jority, and will go tntd effect May 1. Con- j ' t trary te reports, the Amalgamated mines will not be shut down. j Superintendent John Gillie says mining will continue as usual, but all development develop-ment and construction work will be suspended sus-pended for the present. The companies will devote all attention to taking out ore and mining copper. The miners say their vote is simply a -request for a r&ine of 25 cents a day. and that it Is unlikely that a strike will result, re-sult, even If their request Is refused. . |