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THE FACTS IN THE RAILWAY WAGE TROUBLE THE EMPLOYES Number About 90,000. Number that votedr 76,734. Number in favor of striking Con ductors, 11,808; trainmen, refer ring to brake and flag men, 60, 829; total, 72,637. Number opposed to striking Con ductors, 1.466; trainmen, 1,631; total, 3,077. Their principal demand Wage in crease, 'averaging 20 per cent Organizations The Order of Rail road Conductors and the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen. . Classes of conductors and train men represented All, including passenger, freight and yard workfers. THE RAILROADS Number Forty-twor faileage About 50,000. Total gross annual income -$957,-190,000. Annual payroll, conductors and trainmen Approximately $85, ,000,000. Annual payroll, conductors and trainmen, if- proposed increase should be granted Approxi mately $102,000,000. Realm of operations Eighteen states, including the New Eng land group, the middle Atlantic group, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. The greatest system involved The Pennsylvania lines, with a total '' mileage of 11,500 and gross in come for the fiscal year 1911-12 ; of more than $158,000,000. The smallest road involved The New Jersey and New York Rail : road, with a total mileage of 45, a subsidiary of the Erie lines. New York, July 12. The Commit tee of One Thousand of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors today met to ratify the strike of their 90,- l 000 members on the forty-two East ern railroads. That the Committee of One Thou sand will sanction the strike vote cast by 75,734 trainmen and conduc tors almost unanimously seems cer tain. The only uncertainty in the matter now seems to be whether the com mittee will ratify the walk-out order today or tomorrow. The chance for an eleventh hour offer of peaceful settlement from the railroads is barely possible. The conference of the committee was convened in the Engineering So ciety's Building on West Thirty-ninth street. The morning's session was given, over to. careful and detailed consideration of. the vote and the re ports of the men in charge of the balloting. The conductors and trainmen ask a twenty per cent increase In wages to meet a similar increase In the cost of living. The average wages now paid by the railroads are: Passenger conductors, $1,767; passenger train men, $1,027; freight conductors, $1, 313; freight trainmen, $859.80; yard conductors, $1,234.63 ; yard trainmen, $1,042. Sbe missed her Itusbaiti-