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Show RAILROAD MEN FAVOR A STRIKE New York, Aug. 1. Ballots of one-fourth one-fourth of the 400,000 members of four railroad brotherhoods, who are voting on the question of calling a general strike on 235 railroads, have been canvassed and they were virtually unanimously in favor of a strike, it was learned tonight. The ballots counted here today were received from the eastern and southeastern territories and it Is ox-pected ox-pected the count in these districts will be completed tomorrow. Chairmen of the general workers on railroads west of Chicago and the Mississippi river, will report here, it was said, not later than Saturday. Many of them are expected Thursday. Timothy Shea, assistant president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men and Enginemen, who is in charge of the staff of fifty men counting the ballots, said tonight it will take fully five days to count the votes rom all territories. About 050 chairmen will report here, he said. When the complete vote has been counted, probably on Saturday or Monday, Mr. Shea said, there will boa meeting here of the national conference confer-ence committee of railways and the result will be submitted by the brotherhood broth-erhood officials. Negotiations then will be conducted in tho hope that a satis-factory satis-factory settlement may be reached. A strike would be called only if the negotiations failed. "The railway employes are not asking ask-ing an Increase in pay, but only a shorter working day for the same wages for which they are now giving ten hours' service," said Mr. Shea. |