Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. MATTER ON THR HOOKS The Western Union Blocked
 With Business WHICH IT CANNOT HANDLE. The Strikers Still Firm And
 Confident. DISASTER AT 4 SUMMER RESORT, A Pier Crowded With PeO-
 pie Gives Way.
WHICH IT CANNOT HANDLE.
DISASTER AT A SUMMER RESORT
THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.

| II AA2A41NNASGAA A HI kC A 1611A 1 Efforts for n COmpr0mIse-TheR Rapid ana 1 Baltimore and Ohio Disposed to YieIC l The Western Union Still Firm
 Though It Cannot Handle Its Business | Tine Situation As 1t Is At Present
 NEW YORK, July 24.-The report from thC
 main operating room of the Western Unio1
 this morning at 10 o'clock was to the effeci
 that se7enty-seven operators were at work
 sending dispatches as fast as the disordered
 condition of affairs in other offices will al
 low. This estimate was made by going from desk to desk. Some talk was cur
 rent as to the circulation in the
 main office of paper pladging
 the remaining operators to resign or Saturday next at noon, unless the Western
 Union had made some offer of compromise This has been the course adopted in some o
 the western cities Much cheering was caused | by the announcement from the platform o
 Clarendon Hall that Joseph Stuart, chief o the western division in the main office, haG
 resigned this morning upon the ground tha the struggle was 8 hopeless one or
 the company's part, and the sooner it wal
 ended the better. MT. Stuart reported tha
 about one-twentieth of the usual business
 was going out from the main office. The
 force was equal to doing more work thar
 that, but hours were frequently wasted ir l trying to get answers from different points l and one-half the work sent out yesterday waf
 to be mailed part of the way.
 More than four hundred of the striking | telegraph operators crowded into Clarendon I IT. IL AI.s ] Notwithstanding the threatening weather 1 there was goodly proportion of women iu l the assemblage, who eVinced the strongest 1 symptoms of confidence in the success of the movement, and received all encouraging re- ports with enthusiastic applause. The meet l ing was called to order at 12 o'clock by l Chairman John Mitchell, who announced | holding firm, and not one of the number had yet been reported as | having violated his pledge or yielded to 1 the temptation of the large bribes offered by | the Western Union company. He also l stated that it was true that the cable opera l tors at Duxbury, Mass, and at North Syd- I dey, Cape Breton had struck, notwithstand- | ing the denials of the Western Union officials and that everything was encouraging and ! speedy success was assured. The intelli- gence committee reported new recruits for the brotherhood all over the country and that the telegraph companies are everywhere 1 becoming more and more crippled. The re- l port as announced from the chair that Joseph 1 Stewart, one of the chief operators in the Western Union office, had become disgust ed | with the state of affairs and had resigned his | position this morning, was received with the l widest applause, which was continued for some moments. A dispatch from Troy was read, which stated that the two girls wh O 1 were on duty had gone home. No one was now left in the office, except the manager ] and two Vermont hoosiers. Everything was reported to be booming at Albany. The 1 chair announced that the Maritime Exchange 1 had received letter from the Exchange in 1 Baltimore requesting that no maritime news l should be sent by wire until the strike was ! over, as the news came in such 8 mutilated form that the mails could reach there before 1t was possible to correct them. A prominent manager of one of the New York l city offices is reported to have said that the business of the Western Union was terribl y delayed all around, and that operators on 1 duty were all played out. If the strikers held out for two days longer the battle would | be won.
 The feeling among the strikers was as | hopeful as upon any day since ths strike be gan. The rumor of an offer of compromise ! from the Western Union company, although l it could not be traced to any reliable source, | and the Eexecutive committee refused to con- | firm or deny the reports served to keep up the spirits of the men, and the general opinion, often expressed, was that | the end of the week would see the end of the strike. The collapse of the girls strike at l noon yesterday, was the subject of explana- tions from some of the scouts who had seen 1 the girls last evening. It seems that on Sun 1 day it was arranged that seventeen of the girls l who had not struck should leave the office al l noon yesterday and proceed to Irving Hall, f Uha fhau xv0n1d a enthusiastic r. l ception. Yesterday morning six of the girls did not appear at all, and the officers of the | company, finding out what was proposed,
 went to each girl and asked her if she had
 anything to complain of. If she had griev
 ance, her story was listened to, and every re- quest granted at once. At quarter before 12 the whole female contingent was invited into the dining room and given luncheon,
 which kept the girls employed until after the
 time decided upon for the strike
 The strikers all assert tonight that they have the best of reasons for believing that the best results will come from the confer ence of to-day with the Rapid company, l which they claim has made the one essential
 concession in acknowledging the brother hood, and from negotiations pending with the Baltimore and Ohio. Overtures have it is
 said been made by both companies, but no
 sufficiently definite proposition has been made by either Several merchants have
 
 ize new company on co-opera- tive plan and some such outcome of thu strike seems quite possible The strikers deny the truth of the staten ents
 made by the Western Union company that
 they have had three hundred operators in the
 main office here and say they have the name
 and rating of every employe ln the
 operating room. Mir. Campbell, the mas ter workman said to night that there
 were to day exactly ninety three persons em- ployed in the operating room during the
 day, of whom eight were strictly first class, twenty second-class and the rest were scarce ly operators at all. He had evi-
 delayed from eight to twelve hours. INC better evidence of the weakening of the companies could be had,' said Mir Camp l bell, f'than the effort made last night to bribe four of the best operators in Phila
 delphia by offering them from $9C to $50 month with 6
 promise of permanent employment. This
 proposition was made by an official of prom, thence in the employment of the company
 and was cIinched by the threat that if they
 did not accept the proposition they would
 never again be employed by the Western Unior
 anywhere in the country. The men dld not
 accept the proposition, as they understood
 thoroughly that by bribing the leaders the company hoped to break the organization in 1 Philadelphia"
 Vice-President May, of the American
 Rapid Telegraph company, said this after
 noon, in conversation with reporter: ''It is | true that I have had g talk with Mir. Camp bell, of the Photographers Brotherhood
 What the result of that conference was
 cannot say at this time. I have heard ru
 mors of a compromise between this company
 and the operators who quit work, but can l not affirm or deny them.
 Mr. SomervilIe and other officials of the | Western Union company denied emphati
 cally this afternoon that any negotiations fol
 8 compromise with the men were in progress i A number of operators gathered about th'
 Western Union building at noon to day, il
 anticipation that some of the operators now
 at work would strike, but they were again
 disappointed.
 The Waste of TaPe-SIxty Feet Used t'
 Send Seven Words at Boston-An En thusfastfc Meeting of Strikers.
 BosroN July 24.-At noon to-day fort. operators were working at the Western Un ion office. One of the clerks stated that th
 company was altogether behindhandin send