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Show oo COUNT VOTE ON STRIKE Railroad Conductors and Trainmen Officials Offi-cials Are Counting Vote of the Members of the Order Upon Question of Going Out on All Eastern Lines New York. July "Official of tho Order of Railroad Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen were busy today completing the count of the ballot of members on the ques tlon of a strike of 100,000 trainmen and conductors on the eastern railroads rail-roads The result of the vote will le submitted to the railroads before lf Is made public but In anticipation of the result Ellsha Iee, chairman of tho railroad managers committee, ad mitted today thai the railroads h,d received advices giving the vote as overwhelmingly in favor of a strike ii ordered by the leaders. Although it has been known that the men wanted increases of about 15 per cent in wages, the details of the demands arc published for the first time today. For passenger service, serv-ice, on runs of 155 miles or more t day conductors on steam and elec-trb elec-trb trains want 2 90 cents a mile baggagemen 1 R7 cents a mile, flag men or rear brakemon 1.80 cents a mile, and brakemen 1.74 cents a mile On runs of less than 155 miles con ductors want $4.50 a day, baggagemen baggage-men 2 90, flagmen or rear brakemen $2 80 and brakemen $2 10. There are other specifications in detail for overtime over-time work, including the demand that trainmen who are ready for service the entire month and who do not lav off on their own accord receive $135 a month in the case of conductors, $87 for baggagemen, $84 lor brake-men. brake-men. In the freight service the demands are on the basis of 4.18 cents a mile for conductors on through trains and 4 84 cents a mile on way trains. The Chicago standard of wages is demanded for all railroad yards with ten hours or less to constitute a day's work and overtime to be paid as time ami a half |