The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-27
A WEAK spot.
ACompromise Between the American
Rapid and the Operators
the Only Change.
The Western Union Continues to
Breathe Defiance and the
brotherhood Insists ON
Recognition.

Recognition
| NEW York, July 26.-By a majority of
persons the surrender of the American Rapid !
| Telegraph company to the demands of tho
strikers is regarded as a certain indication |
that the strike is nearing its end. Tt is |
rumored that the Baltimore & Ohio company
would be the next to give in, and that nego
tiations are now pending looking toward its
| consolidation with the American Rapid com |
| pany, thus forming a combination against
| the Western Union. 1t is said at the office of
| the Baltimore & Ohio company that it was
| the intention accompany to remain firm At
the office of the American Rapid company
| 1865 operators were on duty, including the llG
men that went out on the strike. Nine hun /
| bred out of town offices were opened and
| 400 operators in all bad returned to the en-
ploy of the company; So branch offices in
| this city were also reopened, and a large
amount of business is reported to have been
| handled The Western Union company still
| remains firm, however, in the position as
| sumed since the beginning of the strike and
| shows no indication Of weakening. A large
force of operators is on duty, and the reports
| of the managers of the operating-room
| showed that business was being handled
promptly. Press Agent Somerville said the
| action of the American Rapid would have
no effect upon the policy of the Western
Union There seems to have been a little
| Improvement at the exchanges. No com
| plants are made anywhere, except at the
cotton and produce exchange At the latter
| place nine operators were at work. The
| Postal Telegraph company has put in two
| Chicago wires which have been quadrT'-
| picked. NO operators oil the estern Union
| company are at the cotton exchange, and the
| messages have TO he sent TO the main Office
| for TRANSMISSION
| AT CHICAGO.
| CHICAGO, July 26-''I have not heard so
| far, of any Chicago member of the brother
| hood who wants to give in said one of a
| knot of operators who were walking lIp and
| down the board of trade alley, discussing the
concessions made by the American Rapii
| company: but think a good many of them
would be very well contentad if some sort of
a compromise could be effected that would he
| satisfactory to both sides One thing they
are decided on to a man, however. and that's
not to make any negotiations as individual is.
| but in body If the Western Union and
| Baltimore &, Ohio conpanie, would unIAaDd
| ca far as To racoonize the hro+barhood Ii,u,o.
| I'M, ,ho+ II ,,-,nlJ not lao g, l;fti,,IJi ~ -
- ,la l,,,o,,+i,r, tn,
at a" s'','T'o'I "a 'He f"0''' nc me" want
| to stand * each other, ana project their III
terests in the future; they don't want to give
| the companies the power to dismiss them one
| at a time on trivial pretaxtS after the trouhle
| is anded and they have hean taken bacl-
really don't think that any of the men artici-
| NATE the unconditional surrender of the Wrst
| ern Union. and if the Question were 10 he ar
bitrated by disinterested parties, and any
| thing like fair decision given, | do not think
| there would he much danger of the brother
| hoods refusing to abide by that decision. The
| bows are all sorry for the vast injury done to
| business men in all parts of the country bv
the movement, and we should be glad to see
these business men stop losing money on our
| account
Mr.. McCulloch, manager Of the Baltimore
| & Ohio declined to give any information as
| To the Drohable action of the counany further
| than that the brotherhood would moi he rec.
| opnized rs a body. If the men NEGOTIATED in
| dividusIly they would urnhahlv he we'll re-
| ca;v-a5 hut s6 far as no knavy mo sio,,s IF
vielding 10 the mems demands had haen man.
| ifas+ad nv the directors
| Superintendent CIoUrv has recaivad tho
following from Gen. Eckert:
The attitude of the Western Union com
pany, as deIlhed III previous communications,
IL noY orn,snias The canditon Of pnlT iinss
and service is most gratifying. and warrants
the belief that within a day or two the gen
eral restriction upon the acceptance of mes
Sages may be discontinued.
MORE WIRES CUT.
Seven of our wires on the Milwaukee
division Of the Northwestern road were cut
again last night about II o'clock, between
BelleplaIn and RavenSwood, SAID the district
superintendent of the Western Union, but
we had them all up and working before
O'Clock. The perpetrators OF this and former
outrages or a similar nature remain unde-
tected, but we nave our suspicious Our OPP
Grating force mas grown TO such proportions
that We're the strikers to give up and come
back IN body, there would be at least fifty
OF them that we could not provide places for.
| The operators VINO came 10 us when we were
snort OF men VIII most asSuredly be taken
care OF hrsI. FROM tiile Iinihemorial there
mas peeh SOFT Oh dhCagohis1lc leelihg De
tween Ihe hIsC-ciass operator ana Ihe pug
Dut tnis PreSenI experience seems 10 nave
wlped II almost ehIleiy ouU- never saw
klhaer leelns oe'"eeh 'he men Inc e&
BerlenCeu oies III every "ePai 1nieh1 ald anu
clioo' '''e le' 0olAi0i''
A NOVEL TELEGRAPH sCHEME.
! John d. Cutter, of Union Square, New
York, has formulated a plan for building a
telegraph line which can neither be sold out
nor consolidated, nor fall into the hands Of
SPECTATORS, and in which no stakeholder can
obtain advantage over another" His scheme
proposes: The capital shall not be stock,
but shall be the aggregation of initiative
fees of life membership; in lieu of interest or
dividend each member shall enjoy certain
privileges in the use of the wires; the invest
inent shall be returned as life insurance to
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