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Show 1,200,000 TO j Ml RAILWAY I STRIKE VOTE I i CHICAGO. June 3. Strike votes affecting af-fecting 1 200 000 of America's railroad workers, returnable on the same date., probably about August 3 will be de- rldcd upon at tho railway labor con-( fcr. i.ee In Cincinnati next week, in the, op:nlo nof B. M Jewell, president of lm railway, employes department of, the American Federation of Labor. The employes expected to vote are .those affected by new wage reduction; orders already announced or pendlnn. from the t'nlted States railroad labor '. board. I Eleven standard railway union heads will gather In Cincinnati Tues-i day to take some dclinite steps regarding re-garding the board's new wage cuts Tho six railway shop crafts nave three tentative ballots ready to po to their membership. Two of these, j were authorised at the recent con-: Iventlon hero and tho third deals with' the new wage reduction Another Is on the acceptance or rejection of seven working rules promulgated by the j labor l.oard with Which th shop crafts ..re dissatisfied The jnost Important of these rules! I are five concerning time and a half, I for overtime The third relates t..( signing out shop work, disputes over which: are now before the board "If tho board gran s j recent request re-quest of the shop unions to lake juris-' diction of the contra, t . w- and restore re-store wages nnd rules In effect prior to the alleged Illegal changes, that I ballot will be withdrawn. Mr Jewell! said -oo |