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Show GREAT TIE-UP JSJII1 Heads of New York Traction Companies Onitedly Refuse to Grant Labor Demands. New York. Aug. 3. Despite the efforts ef-forts of Mayor Mitchel and the public pub-lic sc-rvica commission to prevent i oTSk"?, V" the trans!t " of this city, the danger of a tie un is regarded today as imminent. Heads of the various traction companies are reported to be united in i declsS to refuse to grant tho demands of leaders of the street railway men's union for recognition and increased Officials of the city, the New York KrJIways company, and the labor union un-ion Btiid that by tomorrow a strike order probably would be issued effecting ef-fecting every surface line in the boroughs bor-oughs of Manhattan and Queens Trior to the hour set for the meeL-Ing meeL-Ing between representatives - of tho traction companies and union heads at Mayor MItchel's office, William B Htzgerald, general organizer of the amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes an-nounced an-nounced that demands in behalf of ho employes of the New York Street Rallwnys company and tho New York lllV!aI1ay coml)an'. would oe presented to tho companies today and i hat they would be given until G p. m tomorrow to give their answers. Ii unfavorable a strike vote, amon--the employes would be taken, he aaLd |