Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-23
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. AN UNBROKGN FRONT Presented by the Striking Telegraph Operators. LOSSES TO THE COMPANY. Jay Could and the Directors
 Disguised. PLANS TO FORM A NEW COMPANY In Which the Operators
 will Hold Stock.
PLANS TO FORM A NEW COMPANY
THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.

tive obscurity in the employ of the company. It has been known ever since Thursday that the unanimity with which the best of the I operators throughout the country left their desks at the bretherhoods signal amazed and astounded the executive committee and chief directors, who had been led to believe that the brotherhood was 8 feeble organization and that it's demonstration would be as easily l suppressed by the iron discipline of the Western Union as several previous but abor- 1 tive strikes had been. It has been an open secret ever since the strike began that there have been very serious ouarrels between such officials as Acting President Eckert, Press Superinten- dent Someryille, Manager Dealey, Superin- | tendent Tinker and Chiefs Bates Bedding and Downer as to the responsibility for the misrepresentations and the lies which have been given out from the Western Union building to the press regarding the propor- tions and the progress of the strike. It had been stated that the membership of the l brotherhood was only two thousand when in fact it had membership of fifteen thousand at the moment of the strike and has received two thousand accessions since that time. | When the operating room was left practical | Iy unnamed last Thursday the directors l began to have their eyes opened. When they figured up their losses last night | they found they were at least $2OO, GOO day | on the wrong side of the ledger and there were many angry contentious. To day the 1 trouble eliminated in an angry interview be- tween Jay Gould and General Thomas T. Eckert, the acting president of the company. | The interview came about accidentally when the two met in a corridor of the Western Un- ion building this morning, and trustworthy informant states that it began by MT. Gould's asking in tone that showed both chagrin I and anger: stMr. Eckert, when is this | thing to stop? It is costing me money in | Wall street and we are losing thousands by the hour here.' General Eckert appeared to 1 be taken by surprise and began to explain that business was moving along in the oper- ating room, when he was interrupted by MT. Gould with the interjected remark: "Yes, | it's moving along - like freight train. '" General Eckert attempted 8 reply, but was again cut short by MT. Gould, who is report ed to have said: General Eckert, I don't want to say that you are fool or 8 knave, but what can I think? Either you did not know the situation well | enough to keep us posted, or else must think that you have been playing double. There was an ugly look upon the faces of both men at this juncture, but their conver- sation was lost to the public by General Eckerts leading Mir. Gould into the presi- dents elegant office and closing and locking the door, The handsomely dressed colored servitor who generally attends 1n the presI- dents room even during very confidential 1n- terviews came out very hurriedly moment later and as he rearranged his swallow tail coat and white necktie remarked casually, sIooks squaIly in there fo' de boss"
 Between four and five hundred of the strik.
 L. sT-lA 1 oI--ar kr~-f1 # the complimentary excursion on the Ply mouth Rock to Long Branch. The excur- sionists left at 9.3O a. m. and arrived at Long Branch at p. m. After short stay the steamer began her return and arrived at her pier little before 4 o'clock. The excur- sionists appeared in the best of spirits and enjoyed the trip. A meeting has been called for Il o'clock tomorrow.
 Mr. John Campbell the representative here of the executive committee of the Telegraph ers' Brotherhood said this evening in answer to inquiries by a United Press reporter ! ''AlI have to say is to reiterate in even stronger language if possible than I used last night that we absolutely sure oi winning There is no contingency now left in which we can be defeated" When asked for details Mir. Campbell replied ''Well our ranks are constantly swelling. Since the strike began we have initiated 152 new members in Philadelphia, 54 in Baltimore, 16s in New York, including many lipemen brought here to take the place of strikers seventy five at Pittsburg, one hundred and four a Chicago and corresponding numbers at other points, especially throughout the South ant Southwest. At Philadelphia the day chic operator, MT. Dillon, left to day, leaving only twenty-two men in the Western Un1ol office, where there should have been.one hun dred and fifty.
 An UnbroIxen F. ont at Boston-A Sehem
 to Form a Cooperative Telegraph Com
 pany.
 BOSTON, July 22.-About ten operators . two of them experts, were on duty at thu Western Union office to-day. Very little busi > ness was presented and the operators ha 7 leisure time. The press specials tonight ar miserably handled. The strikers continue t receive hundreds of offers of aid from busi ness men. There are steady gains and n assertions from the brotherhood. Public ir dignation against the monopoly increases |, and steps to force the company to fulfill fl l duties to the public will doubtless soon b
 taken. Two hundred brotherhood member
 held an enthusiastic meeting in Pythian Ha j. to day. Twelve young men employed by tn Western Union as clerks and operators sine F the strike were initiated, also one lady oI n erator making an increase of nine ladies ; the order since the strike. This leaves bU
 five lady operators on duty at the main ofdc
 and three of these have announced their il
 tention of joining the order tomorrow. A
 the meeting help from the Typographic'
 Union was formally offered, also S1, 900 an
 a 15 per cent assessment from the Unite = Trades Unions of Boston.
 The master workman of the local assembl of Providence, R. l., was present and e1
 plained that the reason the Providence opel
 ators did not go out on Thursday was b'
 cause of misunderstanding which Chairma
 O'Connor rectifed in his visit to ProVidenc
 on Friday. This he said was the only hitc
 in the otherwise simultaneous movement (
 the brotherhood The Providence ope ratol
 joined the strike on Saturday and the brotl
 erhood presented an unbroken front to tt 2, enemy. Reports were received from g
 quarters showing frmness and pro-
 ress. committee was appointed ! confer with several well known capitalis '. as to the feasibility of estabhshiz B cooperative telegraph company. IT '' scheme as discussed was that there should
 capital stock of $20,0oo, ,Oo0, divided int
 4,00O, 900 shares at $5 eacn. VI thus numpe
 the capitalists shall hold 100000 sharei = the balance to be owned by the operatol
 and the Knights of Labor. As there al
 over one hundred thousand knights the F
 quired amount could be raised among then
 It was provided that no stockholder ahoul
 be allowed to dispose Of his stock
 anyone not member or the Q ganization, thus keeping the control
 ing interest in the hands of tt
 operators and the knights. Twenty million
 of dollars it was argued would build an
 equip company with facilities equal, ii nt ie superior, to the Western Unions systen
 The teleeraphers could then so arrans
 their investments that while drawing reasol
 able dividends they could give. superior SC
 vice to the public This scheme has bee
 discussed in the Photographers Advocate ar
 it meets with strong favor among the oper