Show I tree et Car ar Men e T Threaten re t n N Nation ti n. n Wide id le Walkout u u Railroad Looms Votes I I as Are u I WILL QUIT j i IS BELIEF I II I Eastern Returns Show Almost Unanimous Sentiment in Favor of Calling Out Workers NEW V YORK Aug When 2 When of the ballots cast by members of four brotherhoods brotherhoods brotherhoods brother brother- hoods who are voting on the question of calling a general strike on on railroads had been counted at noon today It was announced thata that thata a fla preponderant number oi of o the men are i in n favor of a a. strike Timothy Shea who is in charge of the counting said he believed the vote will wI be alm almost st unanimous to quit work if the railway officials persisted in their refusal to grant the demands of the men for an hour eight-hour day and time Um and arid a half for or overtime The co counters expect ex to finish today the tha counting of the theote vote ote In the the Eastern Eastern territory They will then wilt then take take up the Western vote When the final result Is lm known wn a mass mss meeting will be held to explain the controversy to the chairmen of the adjustment committees committees committees commit commit- tees of the four brotherhoods of railway railway railway rail rail- way way workers who have brought the ballots here to be he counted A meeting of the national conference committee of the railways will be held here next Tuesday to to Inake make another at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to settle the differences between between between be be- tween the railroads and the men The ballots counted today are mainly votes of the Eastern and Southern I members of the Big Dig Four railway brotherhoods The Western Vestern and Southwestern chairmen will wll arrive In Ina Ina ina a few days with the ballots from their respective communities It is expected that the lowest number of votes cast in favor of the strike will come from the Eastern members of the railway unions However no matter what the number of votes cast against the strike by the Eastern men there Is practically no doubt that the majority of them favor the strike It is asserted Thus far the largest number of votes voles I In favor of the strike have been cast by bythe bythe the members from the South One of the Southerners who Is in touch with the vote counting predicted today t that at I the vote from his section would run approximately as follows Engineers 96 per cent trainmen 98 per cent firemen 4 per cent and conductors 94 per cent An official of the Southeastern association association association asso asso- of trainmen who Is In close I touch with the situation declared today i I that 99 per cent of the members of ithe the four orders of railway workers of I the South favor the strike i It had been count g counting expected that the countIng count count- I Ing of the vote would be complete by by byI August 7 7 but by the rate counting is being made It ought to be complete I before that unless there would be some unexpected delay |