Daily globe., 1883-08-02
THE HELEGRAPHERS.
What the Striking Brotherhood. in st.
Paul are Doing.
A FEW NOTES OF ENCOURAGEMENT
At Chicago They are Still Confident Of
Success at Last.
THEsCOMPANIES VERY CHEERFUL,
And AhlpxtO3TranSactkaII RuSiuasS fhof
THE:COMPANIES VERY CHEERFUL,
And AblestolTransactsaIl Business that
COmessWithOut Delay.
THE ST. PAUL REPORT.

Aoe JOoUOA0oS LWO Lew u6nD0rS.
Applications for number of new mem
bers were also received and encouraging
| reports from all the committees were read
showing the utmost confidence in ultimate
success. st. Vincent, MINI. , sent in $40
with note reading:
Hold on with death grip. You will be sur5
! to win.
One detection was announced, that of
W. j. Ecoles, who has resumed work for
Western Union. He was roundly berated
| for having deserted the brotherhood and
duly expelled. A number of instances of
comical mistakes in sending and receiving
messages by the green operators were
cited, and the meeting adjourned until to-
day.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. l. 1.-"Everything is work
ing smoothly" was the invariable reply of
every operator when questioned as to how
things were going this morning. The men
are still as confident as ever,and claim that
they put no faith in the company's asser-
tions that they have nothing to complain
of. The railroad operators are still at
their posts.
good this forced vacation has done some of
the boys" said an operator early this
morning. ''Some of them needed rest
very badly. They were pale and thin and
looked played out, and now they are get
ting to look ssif they would live a few
years longer yet. You see, a man may
stick to his work in the operating room
for monts and months, and though he
looks as if he could not live another day
he sticks on steadily. Then when at last
he does break up, he is a regular wreck,
and unless he quits work altogether he is
apt to get so that he will never be fit for
anything again as long as he lives. have
worked there from 9:15 a. m. until
4 o'clock the following morn
ing, and can tell you
when fellow does that he feels as if he
didn't want to do it again for some time
to come.
The officers of the Baltimore & Ohio and
Western Union companies had nothing
new to report. No wires had been cut,
and no damage done to property, and mat
ters were in better sha pc than yesterday.
Every officer was confident that the strike
was surely and thoroughly beaten. The
district superintedeDt of the Western
Union said with reference to the men who
worked until their health was being i'm
paired, that any operator, by making the
requisite application, could always secure
leave of absence for a sufficient period to
have his energies thoroughly recruited.
Col. Clowry, general superintendent of
the Western Union Telegraph company
received the following;
DEAR Sniff the Western Union wires
are cut or tampered with, and you honest
ly believe that the trouble is caused by
Brotherhood men, I will send out first
class linemen to repair any damage done.
Very respectfully,
A. J. NORRIS,
M. W. Brotherhood Telegraphers.
Chicago, August 1st.
The notice subject to delay" was re-
moved from the windows of the Western
Union counting room shortly after noon,
and the officials of the company announced
in response to inquiries that the notice
had been removed throughout the country.
The notice, they claimed, was now unneces5
sary, as all business could be handled Just
as soon as received, and no more delays
would occur in the transmission of mes
sages. The men say they are rather glad
ice, as they claim that the public, believing
the trouble all over, will pour in their
business and thereby swamp the com
pany.
All the operators who had any money
due them on the day the strike began were
paid off to-day. No disorder was mani
Tested, the men moving quietly away from
the building as soon as they had got their
money.
THE NEW YORK SITUATION.
New YoRK, Aug, 1.-The situation Of
the telegraph strike is about the same.
There are rumors of important movements
on the part of the strikers, but nothing can
be learned regarding it. Business is ap-
parently going on smoothly at the West
ern Union. All the operators paid off
yesterday were at work this morning.
,Strlkers who desired money were paid off
by the brotherhood to-day. Word was re-
celved at police headquarters at noon to-
day that number of striking telegraph
operators and linemen had assembled ND
town and were preventing linemen belong
Ing to the department of charities and
corrections from climbing thepoies to re-
pair the wires. A force of police was sent
to the scene. Early this morning the Do
lice circuit running south from headquar-
ters refused to work, when daylight came
lineman who was sert out by the depart
nent found that not far from the head
quarters some one had climbed a pole and
put a piece Of heavy wire around
forty or fifty wires that run through the
street, punching them all together. The
obstruction was removed.
NO ACTION.
New YORK, Aug. 1.-The executive
committee of the Western Union company
met to-day, but no action was taken in re-
gard to the strike.
BENEFIT BASE BALL GAME.
TEnnE AAUTE, Iud., Aug. There was
benefit game of base ball played hare
yesterday between the Awkwards and
Blues, to assist the striking brotherhood of
telegraPaic operators. There was a mum.