Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-30

I and still farther Iessened receipts Scores Of letters have recently been re- ceIved by the Western Union company from railroad officers all over the country offer
 ing them aid and sympathy and desiring that they should hold out This was done be-
 cause the organizations of the engineers, conductors and fremen to say nothing of the mechanics of various claszes and brakemen had become so strong that they were anxious to avoid increasing their power by
 adding the strength of the telegraphers
 union. On the other hand the operators have never been Identified with any of the
 many railroad strikes directly but they have given an infinite amount of information at their personal risk and have conveyed thousands of messages during such strikes thus aiding the strikers in the most valuable way. The telegraphers now expect encour- agement and assistance from the railroad men and regard their interests az in com mon.1
 An Appeal to Presfdent Arthur by the
 Washington Members of the Brother
 hood.
 WASHINGTON, July 29.-A committee of the Brotherhodo of Photographers waited up- on the President of the Unitad States to-day, but not being able to see him left with his secretary, MT. Prudden, the following com- municaticn:
 To the President of the United States
 At meeting of the Washington assembly of the Brotherhood of Photographers held on the evening of July 28, 1883, it was resolved that committee of three be appointed to wait upon your Excellency and make the following representation which this organization stands prepared to substantiate if given an oppor- tunity so to do: It is respectfully represent ed to the executive that as result of the ob- stinate attitude assured by ths Western Union and Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph companies in the matter of the pending practical suspension of telegraphic communication very important interests of the government are jeapordized. It is alleged by this assembly that the telegraphic cores pondence of the State, war, navy. interior, treasury and postoffice departments has for the past ten days been subjected to delay and garbling growing out of the inability of the corporations above mentioned to properly handle the dispatches of the national govern ment. It is further alleged by this assembly that the necessary facilities for the prompt and intelligent transmission of the reports and bulletins of the signal service bureau of the war department are withheld by the Western Union Tele- graph company by such withholding of facilities it is believed by this assembly that the agricultural and mercantile industries are at present badly hampered and their future seriously threatened all this it is represented is in direct violation of the United States. Cholera and yellow fever threaten us and in such juncture the sanitary arm of the govern ment service should, we believe, be strength ened not paralyzed. That prompt, accurate and cheerful support in the matter of easy communication between dis tant points is an absolute essential to the strengthing of the service is truth which passes without argument. We hope and belisve that you will immediately instruct the law officer of the government to officially investigate these allegations and take such steps as may be necessary to assert the rights of the government in the premises. Signed, Robert l.. Delkers, Fred G. Marean, Alfred J. Huston, committee of the Washing ton assembly Brotherhood of Telegraphers.