The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-27
PHOTOGRAPHIC
The photographers Strike.

QlrAtlOn~ tQaE Tue BLIlk6 l6 nearing the
end. 1t Ia rumored that the Baltimore
and Ohio company would be the next to
give in, aud that negotiations are now
pending looking toward a consolidation
with the American Rapid company, thus
forming com binGtion sgsinst the West
ern Union. It is RiAted this morning at
the offices of the Baltimore and Ohio
company that it was the Intention OF the
company to remain firm. At the office
of the American Rapid company 166
operators were on duty to-day, including
the ll6 men that went out on the day of
the strike. Nine hundred out Of town
offices opened and tour hundred opera
tor, in all had returned to the
employ o. the company. Thirly-e'gll
branch officers 10 this city also resign ed
and large amount Of business is re
ported to have been handled. The
/ Western Union still ram ms firm how
ever.
Chicago, 26.-Superintendeut Clowry,
this morning, reports all ousir as. Of the
Western Union in this city cleared I'D
to sll leading points, but Winnipeg, to
which the wires are all down. All
wires in the board of trade are manned.
He alao reported that the day and night
forces in the main operating room Of the
company are now getting full. The rest
OF the wires on the Northwestern roads
were cut again last night, but we're
speedily repaired.
The officials of the Baltimore and
Ohio Company have been negotiating
with the strikers the'past two days, but as
The latter demand a recognition of the
brotherhood ss preliminary to the set
Element, no conclusion has been reached.
| Operators held q secret meeting at Uhl-
rlCh's hall at 10 O'Clock, with the object,
j. was whispered, Of discussing some i'm.
portant information that had come to
hand from Pittsburgh. A member of
the brotherhood exhibited TO his brother
strikers previous to the meeting an IN
official letter he received this U orning
| from friend in st. James, Michigan,
saying that one thousand dollars could
easily be raised in the writer's division
Of the Milwaukee and st. Paul's Rail
| way alone, should the Chicago men need
| assistance, and that more would be forth
coming from other divisions. Mr.. Nc
Outlook, manager Of the Baltimore and
Ohio, declined TO give any information
as to the probable sction Of the company
| further than that the brotherhood would
not be recognized as body. If the men
negotiated individually, they would prob
ably be received, BIT so far as he
knows, no signs of yielding to the mems
demands had been manifested by the d.
rectors.
Norwich, Conn.,, 26.-The entire force
of telegraph operators except the mana
| ger. struck this morning.
New York, 26.-The position assumed
since the beginning of the strike shows
no indication Of weakening. The large
force Of operators on duty yesterday re-
turned to-day, and reports Of the man
ayers of operating departments showed
business was being handled properly.
Press Agent Somerville said the action
of the Rapid Companies would have no
effect on the policy Of the Western
Union. There seems TO have been little
improvement at the exchange this morn
ing, and little complaint is made any
where except at the cotton and produce
exchanges. at the latter place nine
operators were of work. The Postal
Telegraph Company b as pui in two Obi
cago wires, which have been quadrupled,
No operators of the Western Union
| Company are at the cotton exchange,
and messages have TO be sent to the main
Office for Transmission. at the stock
exchange are nine Western Union oper-
Rtors, and it was reported that the direct
wires to Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore were entirely clear no
delay would occur to-day in the trans
mission of messages to these points.
The Mutual Union and Baltimore and
Ohio offices are closed, but merchants
and bankers were dong large business,
apparently.
Superintendent Clowry is in receipt of
q telegram FROM acting President Eckesl
at New York, cent al IL O'Clock this
forenoon which reads as follows: 'The
altitude Of the Western Union company
ss defined in g previous commune ,tion
will not be changed by any action taken
| by any other companies. The conduct
OF our lines and service is most gratifying
and warrants the belief that within day
or two the general restriction upon the
acceptance Of messages may be discontin-
ued "
Washington, 26.- Seven Western IN.
| ion opers tors, not members Of the tele-
grsphers brotherhood who last week
signed the agreement to strike by a GER
tain time if no action should be taken By
the Western Union company looking
to compromise Of the question at issue
between the company ard the strikers,
were discharged at Y O'Clock to-day. Al
those discharged we're frat. class men anC
constitute q majority Of those who re-
manned at their desks when the strike
began.
The discharged operators asv Supt
Zeu5lin, this morning, appealed 10 eael
of the seven men Individually and en-
deavored to induce them to Withdraw
their names from the agreement abov
referred to. He informed them that b
was instructed to discharge them unles
they consented to wiehdraW. Each ma
replied that he would keep his pledge t
his fellows. The hour at which tn
agreement was to be carried into efeC
was II o'clock. a few minutes befor
noon the seven men congregated in s
outer room of the operating room, wher
after few words more from the super
intendent they were informed that the
were discharged. They all went to th
) Headquarters of the brotherhood WheE
they were met with an enthusiastic II
ception, and a meeting was held, 1t
suppose for the purpose Of initiating tt
new men.
In response to an inquiry from II
Associated Press Office as to the coDditio
in which the exodus had left the Wasl
iDgton Office, Supt. Zeublin made Il
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