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Show SHOPMEN REJECT EXECUTIVE'S PLAN PROPOSAL OF PRESIDENT CA8T" ASIDE AND STRIKE VOTE ORDERED TAKEN.. Secret Balloting to Start, at Once, the. Officials to Abide by Decision, Having Declined to Assume Responsibility. Washington. Tlicro will: bo no lm-mcdluto lm-mcdluto strike of railroad shopmen as. a result of tho administration's announced an-nounced policy to grant no general wage Incrcaso whlio endeavoring to drive down the ubnormal eost of living. liv-ing. This was determined or August 20, when tho executive committee, of thu railway employes' department of the American Federation of Lnbon asked thu 000,000 railroad shopmen, of. thu cw'intry to decide for themselves' whether whe-ther they should strlku for tho Increase In-crease turned down by tho president nnd railroad ndmlnlstratlon or keep In n general truco over wngo disputes until normal living conditions cuu be restored. Tho commlttco of 100, rcpirwntlng tho trades affected hy tho government's' govern-ment's' decision, voted to reject the-proposal the-proposal mado by tho president nnd Director General Illncs for an equalization equal-ization of wages, but Informed tliu government gov-ernment that they would not assume-full assume-full responsibility for n strike under the clrctimstunccs, nnd had therefore referred tho Issue to tho affiliated unions. , ' Thu organizations nro to take n strike vote by spcrut ballot us soon as possible, and upon tho decision of the majority tho executive committee and committee of 100 will abide. The Issuo, thus presented to the railroad rail-road shopmen Is: Tii accept In lieu of a 2.1 per cent Increase In wages which they demanded demand-ed nn equalization of pay on the basis of eight hours of work for ten hours' pay, which amounts to tin tucrenso of i cents an hour, uud thus to yield to tho president's' request for cooperation In a general truce over wages whlio the government Is waging Its fight against the high cost of living-, or to strlko'to enforce acceptance ot the demand for 83 cents nn hour. |