The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
THE TEIEGRAPHIC TURMOIL.
Operators Only Want Wages Ad.
vanced SO per Month.
THE BILL OF GRIEVANCES.

Nance0 $40 per Month.
THE BILL OF GRIEVANCES.
NEW YORK, August 5.--Master
Workman John Campbell, of the tel
egraphers, states the bill of griev-
ances presented to the Delaware and
Lackawanna Railroad Company Sat
urday, and to be presented to other
roads Monday, calls for an increase of
SO per month on every sala Y; that
no salary be less than $50; that extra
pay be given for Sunday; that all tel
egraphers discharged Tor refusing to
handle commercial matter be re-
employed. All telegraphers includes
members or non-members of the
brotherhood.
The Western Union offices state
that all wires are in good order, and
messages will be sent as soon as re-
ceIved.
PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
CHICAGO, August 6.-Up to
o'clock to-day no telegraph operators
on railroads running out of this city
had quit their keys. At the general
offices OF the Chicago and Alton a
statement was made that none of
their employees had left up to that
hour, and the same was true of all
other roads having their headquar-
tiers in this city. Officials of all the
lines have apparently guarded against
an emergency, and have arranged to
run all trains by printed timetables.
in case their men going out should
make this necessary, so that no delay
in the running of trains will oc cur in
any event.
NEW YORK ABOUT THE SAME.
New Y DIRK. August 6.-The aspect
OF affairs regarding the telegraph
strike is unchanged. Operators on
the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern railroad were all working to-day.
INVESTIGATION POSTPONED.
NEW YORK, August 6.-The United
States commission on labor and edu-
cation met this morning and ad-
Journed until the 18th instant. They
intended to begin an investigation
into the present telegraph strike. but
witnesses, among whom are John
Campbell, John Mitchell, Eugene
Connor and other leaders of the strike,
could not attend, owing to additional
duties devOlving upon them, conse-
quent on the ordering out of the rail-
road operators, and the postponelnent
was requested on this account.
DID NOT GO OUT.
TOLEDO. August 6.-Regarding the
threatened order to telegraph oper-
ators on the Wabash railway to leave
their places at noon to-day, Superin-
tendent Selden has advices that four
men only in the entire system under
his management obeyed the summons.
Their places have been refilled and
the superintendent is confident this
will be the extent of the detection on
that road.
FAILED TO RESPOND,
NEW YORK, August 6.-Otficers of
the Delaware and Lackawanna road
say that the order of Campbell to oper-
atOrs on that road to leave their posts
to-day, was not responded by single
employee.
The Strikers Said to be Destroying
the COmpany's Property.
NEW YORK, August THE fol-
lowing has just been issued:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE W. U. TEL. Co.,
New York. August :, 1883. :
NQTICE.-Ith has come to our knowl-
edge that, in connection with the
strike of operators and linemen, an
organized plan of cutting and cross
ing wires of the Western Union and
other companies in New York city
and vicinity has been agreed upon
and is now being carried out in pur-
suance to such plan. A large number
OF our wires have been cut during the |
past week and fifty-nine were cut last |
night in New York and vicinity, the |
work showing all marks of having |
been done by skilled hands. One |
thousand dollars reward will be paid |
by this company for the arrest and |
conviction of each and every person |
wilfully displacing, injuring or de-
strOying any part of this company'S |
appurtenances.
THE w. U. TEL. Co.
THoS. L. ECKERT, Acting Pres.
Officials of the company say a cable 4
box was DESTROYED last night and the /
cables cut; that % out of 30 Mutual /
Union wires were rendered useless at
Scarsdales and that the w. U. and
Atlantic and Pacific routes to Boston
were interrupted with the evident in
tention of preventing the Boston pa
P0LS liOH1 SOoUiiiS lul1 lOPOICS VI CIl6
Sullivan-Slade affair at Madison
Square theatre.
NEW YORK PAPERS ON THE STIKE.
NEW YORK, August IA Times
editorial this morning says it is like
ly to weaken the Brotherhood to call /
out railroad operators. To call them /
out now would SAVIOR of compulsion;
that it is clear they are not inclined /
of their own notion to leave their in
struments.
The Sun says the Brotherhood's &C
ton in calling out railroad operators
is wrong and unjustifable, and says
the fact that they have ordered them
out amounts to a declaration that the |
telegraph strike has failed.
oNE-THIRD OUT.
PITTsBURG, August 7.-Superin-
tendent King, of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, reports that at o'clock |
about one-third of the telegraph ope-
rators working on the Pittsburg di-
vision quit work and are now out.
VERY FEW LEFT WORK
CHICAGO, August Tt appears
very few operators have left the en-
ploy of the Wabash and Chicago, and |
GIlt A1GOu TdllTOduS. III Was eAp6CG6Q \
the full effect of the strike would be /
felt at noon to-day on those roads, but |
according to the version of the Off
cials in this city. not to exceed ten
have quit on both roads.
NOT HURTFUL.
BALTIMORE, August 7.-Oficials
of the main Office of the Baltimore
and Ohio telegraph company make
the following statement: All opera
tors at Camden station quit work to-
day-not one remained. They have
heard from nearly every station along
the line of road, and the number
striking and leaving their posts does
not exceed half dozen, and their
places have been supplied. The strike
at Camden station, they say, is not of
serious moment, as the main office at |
Baltimore and Calvert station can be |
used for al the work of Camden
station.
NOT INCONVENIENCE.
RICHMOND, Va, August THE