Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-31
A9 THE BUTTON AGAIN.
The Striking photographers Returning to
Work Where they Can Find Positions.

Work Where they Can Find Positions.
NEW YORK Aug. Is.
The main office of the Western Union Tel.
egraph Company was hesieged from an
early hour this morning by nearly 100 OPP
orators seeking reinstatement. There were
but few women and girls among the mum.
Der. Superintendent Humstone was busily
engaged discriminating between the appli'
cations from first-class workmen and those
who were considered second and third rate.
only the best workmen being taken back.
and quite number of operators
were disappointed by being reject.
ed. Those operators who had been
taken after the strike commenced will be
retained by the company in their present
positions. Forty-hve were taken back yester.
day afternoon andlast evening. About thir.
ty more first-class men were reinstated this
morning.
A delegation of striking linemen visited
the offices, but were told their places had
been filled by competent men. Later they
held a meeting and resolved to apply for
work individually and 90 back as soon as
the company would take them. Operators
who were unsuccessful in their applications
for reinstatement also held a meeting and
passed resolutions of thanks to the press.
Quite large number of the female opera.
tors have failed in securing positions, and
the Brotherhood intend to see that they
receive regular salaries while out of EN-
ployment.
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. Is.
Up to noon to-day to exceed fifty had
made personal application to Superintend.
ent Tubbs for reinstatement and thirty
nine had been given places. Striking tele-
graph operators kept applying for work at
the Office of the Western Uni0A in small
squads up to one o'clock, when a stampede
occurred and from that on till late hour
this afternoon the hallway leading to the
Office of Superintendent Tubbs was crowd.
ed. Practically the entire working forces
Of the Baltimore and Ohio were taken back.
AT ST LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 19.
The strike is ended in st. Louis. Twenty.
five operators have been taken back by the
Western Union, only two of whom were
women, and nine of the men were sent out
of the city by Superintendent Baker to
points ranging from Galveston to st. Paul.
Much sympathy was expressed by the men
who still held out for the women and girls.
They had been faithful to the end, and men
who had made the first break were those
who had encouraged them to join the
strike.
AT DETROIT.
DETROIT MICH, Aug. Is.
A large number of operators applied to
day for reinstatement and eleven have
been taken back in Detroit, four or five IN
the interior of the State offices, five have
been rejected, and this evening the super
intendent has applications of sixteen more
on file for consideration on Monday. The
most desirable operators will be selected,
and the balance rejected. All who have
worked during the strike will be protected
and will be retained
AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, TENN, Aug is.
After thirty days of solidity here on the
part of the strikers, they have, under in
structions from the East, disbanded and
placed their services at the command OF the
Manager of the Company. Only three SO
far have been reinstated.
AT CINCINNATI.
CINcINNATI, o., Aug. Is.
This morning the striking operators sent
. committee to Superintendent Miller to as
certain on what terms they can return. He
showed them the form of the contract they
would be required to subscribe to, abjurfng
the Brotherhood. and they went away to
report. After holding meeting and decid
ing on their course of action, personal appli
cations were made. Nearly all the lady
operators will lose their situations.
AT SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Aug. is.
Up to this evening no applications have
been made for position by striking tele
graph operators TO the Telegraph Company.
One striker saws: ave will apply in a
body Monday, asking the superintendent
/ to reinstate them ell"
AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Aug. 10.
At 1915 the striking operators called in
a body upon Manager Clark, of the Western
Union, and stated that, as the strike had
been declared ended, they were DESTROYS OF
resuming work. Manager Clark received
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the fiEst-class positions were filed, but five
second-rate places were open TO men who
would be designated from among the
strikers to occupy them If they so desired
AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Aug. Is
Nineteen strikers were engaged this
afternoon, to be placed on duty here
Monday. Five or six others viii leave for
Chicago tomorrow.
AT PITTSBURGH.
PTTTsBURGH. Pa. Aug. Is
Manager Lloyd, of the Western Union,
was very busy all the morning receiving
applications from strikers for reinstate-
ment- Out Of sixty-ive who quit work al
the beginning of the strike all but fifteen
/ were taken back upon promising TO re-
nounce the Brotherhood.
Reuben II. Kline, who escaped
from an insane asYlum near Norristown.
Pa. transacted ali his business and con-
ver5ed with his family entirely in Ger.