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Show COUNTING THE STRIKE VOTES Two Hundred Thousand Counted at Noon by Members Mem-bers of Four Railway Brotherhoods. SOUTH FOR STRIKE Western and Southwestern Chairmen to Arrive Soon With Votes From Respective Respec-tive Localities. New York. Aug. 2. When 200,000 of the 400,000 ballots cast by members mem-bers of four brotherhoods who are voting on the question of calling a general strike on 225 railroads nad been counted at noon today, it was announced that 3 "perponderant number num-ber of the men are in favor of a ctrike." The votes counted today are mainly votes of the eastern and southern districts of the "Big Four" railway brotherhoods. Western and southwestern south-western chairmen will arrive in a few days with the ballots from their respective re-spective localities. 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 tho majority major-ity of them favor the strike it was asrerted. ' Thus far the largest number of irntac in fnvnp nf tho ctriVro liflVfi been cast by the members from the south. One of the southerners who is in touch with the vote counting, predicted that the vote coming from his section would be as follows: Engineers, 96 per cent; trainmen, 98 per cent; firemen, 99 1-2 per cent and conductors, 94 per cent. . An official of the southern associa-j tion of trainmen who is in close touch with the situation declared today that j 991' per cent of the four orders of, railway workers of the south favor the strike. - It had been expected that the counting of the vote would be complete com-plete by August 7, but at the rate the count is being made, it ought to be complete before that unless there should be some unexpected delay. |