Show STRIKE THREATENS W E N ROADS ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN OF NINETY EIGHT ROADS WEST OF CHICAGO VOTE TO STRIKE up of traffic can only oe be averted by reopening of negotiations and concessions concession by companion companies men refusing to arbitrate chicago only tile hope that tho the managers ina will yield to the deni demands ands e of engineers and arcemen stands stand between ninety eight roads west ot of r t chicago and the greatest strike in ill tile the rd history of american railways with the statement on tuesday that the men had voted nearly unanimously to strike union officials announced that arbitration under tile the federal law J would bo be refused on oil the ground that the railroads have not lived up to previous arbitration awards tile the railroads through their general managers committee contended that to grant arant tho the employees demands comanda would mean an increase ot of andua mutually ily in wages the engineers and firemen asserted that their demands were fair and equitable it la is expected that further conferences will ile bo held should tile the negotiations tiati ons fall and the employees stand by their announced refusal of con the resulting strike would it Is j declared almost completely paralyze paralyn par alyo traffic in tile the central west and west it was announced by W S carter for or the employees that the vote of tho the brotherhood of locomotive Engine engineers erg was waa per cent in favor of a strike and that the vote of tho the Drother brotherhood hood of locomotive firemen and engine nea inen was per cent in favor of 0 A strike A NV Tren holni general manager of tie the I 1 chicago st paul minneapolis omaha railway chairman of tile the conference committee of the railway managers 4 t eald bald that tile the next move in the i negotiations was up to tile employees jit die said the managers committee would mould await an alt a formal statement of the present requests of tile the employees and offic official idl notification of the strike voto vote lie fie declined to discuss the announced refusal of the employees to accept possible federal arbitration and said that no definite time had been set bet for another conference |