The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-07
SpecialDiSQatcheS
MORE STRIKERS.
The Telegraph Operators in the
Employ Of Railroads Or
dered Out.
Notices served-The Situation as Viewed
From Both Sides-A Specimen
Of the Way the Company
Now Doing Bus
mess General
News.

first place, and in the second place they
wish TO damage the Western Union by com
pelIing the railroad operators TO withdraw
the people they have sent over to assist the
Western Union.
THE FOLLOWING NOTIFICATION
was served on the superintendents OF all
the railways this morning:
HEADQUARTERS BROTHERHOOD or
lELKGRAPHERs,
81. LOUIS, Mo-, August 4, 1883.
Superintendent Telegraph:
DEAR >IR-1he telegraph operators and
AGENTS who act a. operators employed upon
the railways have instructed me to request
uf YOU as follows:
First An increase OF $40 per month on all
salaries n now paid.
Nccond-Ihat no salary less than $50 per
month hall hereafter be paid.
1nrd-Thst all sunday work be com pen.
stated ~ extra service.
Fourth-rhat the terms OF this agreement
shall take effect upon the date Of acceptance
by yourself.
An early reply Is respectfully solicited.
Yours very truly,
NJ, ~, oHAW.
Secretary Executive Board Brotherhood OF
Photographers L, ). and Canada.
II these demands are not complied with
10y y O'Clock tomorrow, Il. Louis time,
4 strike OF operators on those roads will
be ordered. 1.-The strike will start on
the Iron Mountain aud will 60 straight
through TO the RIO Grande, - said mem
Der OF the Brotherhood. "A majority OF
OF the railroad operators belong to the
Brotherhood, and three fourths Of those
who are not members OF the Brotherhood
are in full sympathy with it. In Dallas,
Fort Worth aud other places In Texas the
railroad operators are eager to strike. on
receiving the memorial Mr. Hammond at
once called in the railroad operators that
be had furnish 20 the Western Union office
here. superintendent Baker was in Ham
mond's Office about the time the memorial
was received, and was heard to say that the
Western Union would be more paralyZed
than ever in the Southwest by strike Of
railroad men. The railroad officials will
be compelled 10 call in the men they have
loaned 10 the Western Uuion, and in Texas,
especially, large number Of good oper
Union, Offices, The same bill Of grew
anccs has been presented to all the princi-
pal eastern roads and TO the roads in
Canada, and within week railroad
operators throughout the country will be on
a StrIku.
The meeting in LghtstoBe's Hall this
morning was a large and anxious one. The
committee on correspondence handled over
fifty letters. mostly from points throughout
the Southwest. Members OF the Brother.
lod assert that underhsnd measures have
been reSorted to by officers OF the Western
Union 20 embarraSs q number OF the strik-
ers in their personal matters; that in some
cases landlords have been persuaded 10
raise rents to price beyond their ability to
pay. and that hotel men have been APP
preached to increase the price Of board.
one striking operator said, IL have just
seen circular letter sent to the Missouri
Pacific News Company and 10 agents OF the
road, ordering that only the two English
morning papers OF this city be sold upon
the road, These papers have misrepresent-
cd us, aud therefore this favortism. -
Mr.. Mortimer Shaw was seen near the
Western Union building,
'DO YOU see that oticerY' he asked the
newspaper man. Now this is high noon,
aud there isn't soul going in or coming
out OF that office, There are no messengers
coming ont of that door on Olive street.
Usually there Is n tremendous rush at this
time of day why, they're not making
enough money to pay their hands. We
took four men out OF there sunday and
they told me that the work was just stacked
up there, Now, II this, one OF the largest
teegraphc points In the country, is In this
shape, what must the other places beY'
Nv hat does your latest move meanY
"Wel, we're going 10 tickle the rail-
roads little. We expect to block up the
roads and show how strong we really are.
Besides we know that II we draw the
Brotherhood men out OF the IA lroad Of
fees the railroads will have to draw their
men out of the western Union. served a
little bin on Mr., Charley Hammond this
morning, and he didn I seem to take to IL
as nicely rs YOU would think he would from
the way he talks.
"NNh hen will you call the railroad men
QUIZ
Cant tell, We will call them out At
different times, expect all the operators
on the Wabash system are out by this time.
The boys on the Manhattan road will be
called out to-day. That will paralyae PEG.
pie in New York. We want to call them
out slowly, believing that series Of
struggling blows are better than one solid
shock. -
"When will you call MIR. Hammond's
men outY'
Never mind. They'll come out before
many moons or suns, should say, F"
"lle says YOU have only about ono. tenth
OF the operators on the roaG. y
lis that alp Well, he'll find that we
have about ninety out ola hundred by this
time Tomorrow
Mr.. Brown, Of the Western Union, said
that he had been afraid the Brotherhood
would not call out the railroad operators,
but now that that fear was removed he felt
happy. lie thought II would be good
hing for the railroad companies
to have that class wccdcd out
OF their employ. They did