The New York herald., 1870-01-06
Inc str.Aers Bold and Firm, and tn,
Western Union Company Still
"a Deiying the lightning.
Probable Suspension of Communi-
tion with the Atlantic and
Cuba Cables.
Meeting Of Operators in This City Ycster-
day-Strising Reports from Every Sec.
tion - Statements OF the Ope.
rat0rs and the Western Union
Company.

The strike OF the telegraph operators sti, In firm
and persistent progress. Al The Western Union
-eegraph o!iice IN this city only two nrst class
operators and one 'plug'' yesterday at
work. Out vi seventeen lady operators twelve have
joined the strikers The strike is daily assuming
enlarged magnitude ana the strikers feel confident
OF success. YESTERDAY at four O'Clock r. NJ. meet
y OF the operators Oh strike In thus city held at
10 27o Graad street. There was large attendance
: including several lady operators. The proceedings
M gere OF tue most orderly character.
n Mr.. X. j. HUTCHINSON was called to the chair ana
alicr briefly explaining the object OF the meeting
AID they would nrst listen to statement from Mr.
p. .rlstle, chief Southern operator.
AZ ,Nr. CHRISTIE. on rising sand that he had long
Tory 10 toll but that lie would make 1t brief Some
: of II was good news and some bad He would
I commence with the good news. The New York once
.S crowded with busness As lar as he could learn
mere was only one place where more than Two
81 operators were still This Plttsburg
~r Furtner West and ut the South the ofnccs were
: nearly destitute of operators. This was the good
81. ews The bad news was tnat the telegraph COM
~ n any would take back only as they chose
t. ld that none VIII be taken back belonging 10 the
" eegrapn League "a v0ice-.'Inat's good news.n)
she telegraph company had an immense
capital, and lie had been told positively that
shey would risk millions before they would
.Jleld an inch. H,s opinion was that II 1t took six
faOatfs they would carry their point. Several
yolces-"Wc Will rD The telegraph company
say taey VIII shut up saOp before tney viii Yield
He had heard General EcKert say there was no power
Oh earth that could move him. There was higher
. power than General Eckert. The directors would he
iouEd TO have lne first General Eckert has
rope out the printing operators There are only
y ak oil these operators now at work IN tins city
Man
c.aicly.
}, VOiCEs-'I think we have hal enough of General
EcGcrtn
M. BUEu.Ns moved that reporters be excluded
from the meeting.
Mr. BELLOWS said that reporters ough: to be ad-
mlttcd. He Deiievei that the majority Of the mem
Ders present would accord with hin in this regard.
mr. BURBASs insisted that their meetings ought to
be held secretly.
ihe PREslDENT stated that this was not q league
meeting
Mr. Burbans motion found no second and 80 the
matter dropped.
Mr. BELLOWS went on to say that he was not will
ing to his little In tho telegraph company
sent to court. Thcr association was formed
t, protect tneir rights Everybody who knows
General Eckert knows that he Is o man Of no
principle. lie managed by hook or crook TO becoms
Assistant Secretary Of War but he never did any
thing. lie was AN arbitrary man. He refused the
reading OF the morning papers. At present lie was
keeping police 1orce IN front Of the oice to prevent
the strikers from going up stairs even after
ter personal property or letters from their friends
Yney mad 40 iauit 10 lind Win the Managers a. s.
Brown and a. H. Downcs; but there Was no END 10
the iau.L to be found win General EcAert He
would speak more oil General Eckert. All lie had
to say Was, that II they continued tner strike they
would come out al ilght. Ihey were the injured
parry, aud right would conquer.
kilograms were read announcing that the oocrat-
in Portland Me- had lett their machines. and
that IN iunalo only the manager and SIX boys re-
manned at work. tApplause
Mr. CHRISTIE said that telegram had come from
ST. Louis saying that the operators there expressed
regret that they had joined the strike ana we're now
salisied tina. they had committed gross blunder.
VoICE-from whom dId the news come?
MIR. CnRIsTiE-Mr. Amer.
A VoICE-Ine authority Is not reliable. Those
teegralns are got up for effect.
ULner kilograms were read and their reading inter-
rupted with applause, shelving the progress OF the
strike In places near and remote. Among them were
tine following
WASHINGTON, jar. s, ls7o-2P.M.
f. W. rorE The two CHEZ Operators hero have JUS. mott
Ned us that they vii! quit Al nve H. and JOIN u. This
At the monopoly and has joined US 10 man. ROYCE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. A. 1870.
reduced. They the notices In their possession.
Thee operators for beng memDers OF 1ele
Circuit wer. dschar ed Tor resovn 10 sani by San Fran
the beginning. r. N. JACo3s Chief Operator.
the general agent IN California. Mr.. Mumford,
AIDED to the above despatch with pis own hand and
assent IN any particular my frank being attached TO
The message
r. PorE--rhe manager of Western Union Ia les de-
not bulge an inch. ii. W. WHEELER
CINCINNATI, Jan. 5, 1870.
Il. W. PorE--wc firm and conadent sfIEK.
ISpIAsopoLIs, Jan. A. I37O.
W. rorE-"c stand hrn w w never y1sld an inch
Other kilograms were received announcing, in
effect, that all the operators mad abandoned their
instruments and were nrm IN their resolve to
time the strike, from Philadelphia, ST. Louis, Chi
cago. Buffalo. baltimore, Lexington, Erie, Omaha,
Galveston Houston Austin and other iexan cites:
ooTrnne taans sa .aNs U Vgna ely
Nashville Cleveland, Detroit, T0edo, New Orleans
aud Augusta.
The committee appointed to investigate and report
upon the causes oil the strike reported as foiows:
The Photographers Protective League claim that the
of the western Union Company Ina. they the eessphes
not the Offensive but on the defensive; that three
San Francisco once and also salaries OF eight operators in
the rsdac,"n were dschasa u on which tie operators e
abandoned their instruments and communicated
grievances their fellow teegraphers ia the
Easi who ALL to man have stopped WORK ana DO not pro-
Pacific coast, where reduction .irst
meneed This me true cause o. the teieraphsrs, STRIKE
sixnaiLs n W. BDhhAM,
!. ii;s. flItks, COMMITTEES.
a. j. FLoWkY,
The report was accep pied with applause
~. PETERS added TO The above lst that the Boston
: 70 tators we're heart and soul win them
y ne PRESIDENT stated that he had understood that
Western Union Telegraph Company here had
,pied tive page despatch from san Francisco.
. ). . other telegraph companies were open to them.
from all sections OF the county as they well knew,
come telegrams expressing sympathy with
lhcn. II they would only stand Irm he had no
doubt OF the result being all right. As general
thing they were unaccust0med TO being idle, but he
thought they would get used to 1t. lie did not think
that the New YORK oflice would RUE the western
Union Telegraph Company. For one he should not
touch key for the Western Union Telegraph Com
out OF place was reinstated. cloud and prolonged
applause.)
Mr.. COLLINS referred to the reassembng OF Con-
sress, and expressed 1t his opinion That some
hing would be done IN = legislative way that would
ION essentially prove OF benont to them. tCheers.
The PRESIDENT alluded to the crowdinp or their
ambers about the 0rce on Broadway. He hoped
ry We uld not give the police there as guard
General Eckert, an opportunity to tell them 20 get
NF OF tue way. His counsel was that they continue
!. behave themselves orderly benceforward us they
- at thus ldr.