Daily globe., 1883-08-08
THE OPERATORS REPORT.

D. VI L. met at tne usual tlme and place,
full attendance present. Communica-
tions received from outside assemblies
show strength, unity and fidelity. Visiting
delegations from L. A. K. of L., of CITY.
addressed the meeting. Also a delegation
from the Chicago B. of L. giving an ac-
count of the struggle there. During the
course of his remarks he stated that Chi,
cago was solid, and could be depended
upon to remain out until the last. The
Western Union was demoralized and bad
ly crippled. There were not more than 100
alleged operators in the Chicago Office to-
day. One-third of these were nominally
good, the balance chair warmers. One new,
member was initiated, No deserters, and
all feel confident of ultimate success, If it
takes all summer. The Western Union at
tltude to-day would seem like as if jay
Gould had adopted Vanderbilt's N otto:
"The public be d." The Western
Union in this city continues to withhold
the salaries due the strikers.
A WEAKENING MOVE.
New YORK, Aug. Ga Times editorial
this morning says it will weaken the
brotherhood to call out the railroad opera
tors. To call them out now would SAVIOR
of compulsion, and that it is clear that
they are not inclined of their own notion
to leave their instruments. The Sun SAYS
the brotherhood's action in calling out the
railroad operators is wrong and uniust1fi-
able, and says that the fact that they have
ordered them out amounts to a declaration
that the telegraph strike has failed.
oNE-THIRD WENT OUT.
P1TTsBURG, Aug. 7.-Superintendent
King, of the Baltimore & Ohio, reports at
o'clock that about one-third of the ope-
rators working on the Pittsburg division
quit work ana are now out.
DIDN'T LEAVE THEIR KEYS.
CINCINNATI, Aug. NO strike among
railroad operators on any roads leading
into this city was reported up to 2:3O this
afternoon.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7.-Nothing new locally
this morning regarding the telegraphers'
strike, and at 1920 p. M, there had been
no Withdrawals on the Iron Mountain lines,
and there were no indications of a strike.
REWARD FOR WIRE CUTTERS.
New YORK, Aug. THE following was
just issued from the executive Offices of
the Western Union Telegraph office:
New YORK, Aug. Z, 1885. 5.-Notice.- 1t
has come to our knowledge that in con-
nection with the strike of operators and
linemen, au organized plan of cutting the
wires and crossing the wires of the West
ern Union and other companies in New
York city and vicinity has been agreed
upon and is now being carried out In
pursuance of such plan large number of
wires have been cut during the past week,
and fifty wires cut last night in New Xork
and vicinity, the work showing
all the marks of having been
done by skilled hands, and $1,000
reward will therefore be paid by this COM
paDy for the arrest and conviction of each
and every person wilfully displacing, in
juring or destroying any part of this COM
paEy's telegraph lines or appurtenances.
(SIgned(,
The WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,
THos. L. EcKERT, Acting President.
In relation to this matter the official of
the company say the cable box at the COM
papy's cab was destroyed last night and
the cables cut, that twenty-six out of twen-
ty nine Mutual Union wires were rendered
useless at Scassdale and the American
Union and Atlantic and Pacific routes to
Boston interrupted with evident intention
of preventing the Boston papers from
getting full reports of the slugging affair
at the Madison Square Garden.