New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-13
STRIKERS TO BE AIDED.
TRADES UNIONS DEvIsING HELP.

| The work of cutting the wires of the Western
| Union Telegraph Company was not suspended Sat
urday night Between q late hour that night and
early yesterday morning seven wires were cut near
| Union Hill. n. j. Four wires were interrupted
on the NewYork and Harlem Raiload. near Chap
paqna, by being tied together with fine wire. Two
wires at Thirty -secondst and Second-ave also were
similarly treated. The damage resulting from the
| cuts OF Friday night has been repaired. Supern-
tendent Humstone. the Western Union Company
said that the wires of the Gold and Stock
Telegraph Company had been repaired and be
supposed there would be no trouble with
the "tickers" this morning. Mr.. Humstone said:
am afraid we will have further trouble to-
night. The boys are getting more desperate each
day. They have had large meeting to-day, hear
and fear thay will want to give us trouble when
| the new business week begins"
| Mr. Humstones fears were realized last night
The trouble with the wires began about $50 o'clock
Wire after wire was interrupted as the night wore
on until up to o'clock this morning 101 wires had
| been rendered useless. Most of them were
cut Twenty-one Mutual Union wires leading east
ward and tw eve leading westward, eleven Ameri-
can Union eastern wires and six western were inter-
rupted. There were nineteen Western Union wires
connecting with the South and West
along the line of the Central Railroad Of
New-Jersey and eighteen on the New-York and
Harlem road interrupted Three Atlantic and
Pacific wires on the Albany route, four
| Western Union wires On the west
bank of the Hudson River and seven Continental
wires between here and Philadelphia also were cut
or crossed with fno wiro The mischief is
supposed to have been done within thirty
or forty miles of New-York. Mr. Humstone
SAID that. expecting the renewal of damage to the
wires late at night, he had kept the testing offices
open and hoped to have the situation of all the
| breaks ascertancd before daylight Ii was then
n question of whether tho damage had been so
great that IL would take long to repair it. If the
cuts were not bad there would te little interference
with the business Of the company to-day. Owing
TO the light business done Sundays compare
lively littlo delay was caused last night by tho
! mischcf-makers.
| Two moro strikers returned 20 work yesterday at
the Western Union office From superintendent
| Merrihew, who is now In New Orleans, word was
received yesterday that the strikers In the Southern
division had generally gone back TO work and the
strike was over except IN New-Orleans There
thirty vacancies caused bv the strike. Twelve
of them have been filled permanently OF the
eighteen remaining vacancies fifteen are now filled
by competent operators detailed from other cities
| who will be returned TO their regular places when
ever the vacancies in New Orleans filled perma-
nenty. Practically full force is said to be i'll this
| city now.
| A meeting OF delegates from a number of the
trade anu labor organizations was held yesterday
afternoon at Eighteenth-st. and Eighth-avc to
discuss The telegraph strike and devise ways and
means to bring IL to n successful termination. Del
/ ogates were present from tho Clothing Cutters
| Union. tho Sheet lion and Metal Workers Union.
the Typc-ioundcrs' Union Bricklayers' Union No.
! q u nh
makers Progressive Union. Carpenters Union No
l, the Alpha Labor Club. tho Society of Operative
| Masons the Yorkvie Protective Union. Brick
! layers Union No. g. Local Assemblies 12ss and
1,s0s Knights of Labor. the Hudson Association,
Typographical Union No. @. Progressive Labor
Club. Unity Labor Club, Columbia Labor Club,
Atlas Labor Club. Excelsior Labor Club. and the
Dock-BulderS Union. Other organizations to
the number of twenty also
represented. MeSsrs. Mitchell, OReilly
aud McCleand. on behalf of tho
operators and Smith, ToOker. SaYres and Kelleher.
for the lnemcn. explained the situation of affairs IN
the strike, and set forth tho prospects of success
The subject thoroughly discussed. and the con-
clusion was reached by a unanimous vote that the
strike could bo yet with proper support, and to
this end the organizations represented pledged
themselves to give all the aid IN their power.
shops in the city and solicit subscriptions.
The unions which were not represented at the
meeting will also be visited and active measures will
be taken to for private subscriptions 1t Is
G tmatcd that II o 900 can be raised by tomorrow,
and Mr. Mitchell says that If this can be dono the
sneeess of tho strike Is assured. The following form
of subscription drawn up for the use OF the can
yassers:
Subscription. are earnestly solicited in aid OF the
striking telegraph operators and Ineinen VINO arc
making strenuous efforts TO win their fight against
grasping monopoly. you are in sympatny with them
give what aid YOU can. Their Ia yours and VIC
! iory for them 10 a victory for all working men,
Each subscription blank will bear the seal of the
Brotherhood as a guard against swindlcrs and con-
fdonce men. The unions present promised to
continue their subscriptions.
At the headquarters of tho strikers in the Manhat-
tan Hotel MIR. Mitchell said that there had been no
defectIons from the ranks during yesterday, whllo
several recruits had been gained from the western
| linton Messrs. Campbell and OConnor considered
| the situation sufficiently encouraging to war
| rant them in spending the afternoon aI
Coney Island. A dispatch was received from
Augusta, Ca. stating that only three men
| of the strike Mr.. OCOnnor character
| lzed the communication from Assistant General
| Superintendent Merrhew, ut New-Orleans' as un
| true There had been very few desertions IN tue
there than it is here In New-Orleans particularly,
| said Mr., OCoDnor. the men are the Dest III tho
country and the places of the strikers could not 20
! filed IL every man that remained IN the compahys
employ in tho Southern Division were called ' tte
! did not believe that Mr.. Merrihew was IN New-or-
| leans at all.
A LINEMAN FIRED AT
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man OF the Western Union Telegraph Company was up
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