Daily globe., 1883-07-20

business department.. Two lady operators
remained and Mr.. McMichael. the general
superintendent of this division,
came down from Minneapolis, max
ing force of five operators to handle the
business. Messages were taken "subiect
to delay" but as the business public knew
the strike was in progress, there was not
the usual number of messages filed. and
the same situation existing in the East.
there were fewer messages to be received,
ana as consequence all the business was
handled by the limited force in very good
shape and with rapidity and promptness
which surprised their customers. The
day associated press report was much cur
tailed but at night Mr.. Curry, the chief
night receiver of Associated Press report,
was promptly on deck, and as he is one of
the most rapid and competent operators
IN the entire country, the report came in
good shape and the GLOBE is enabled to
supply all the current news of the world
this morning Notwithstanding several
thousand operators are absent from their
keys.
Mr.. McMichael was seen during the
evening and stated that the company was
putting forth every effort to handle busi-
ness and secure operators to fill the places
of the strikers. They were meeting with
gratifying success and he was in receipt of
reports from various prominent points
showing that operators were being rapidly
secured to do the pressing work. There
would be some delays for day or two. but
from present indications they would soon
be able to handle business as before. The
strike was only serious in the larger cities,
as but few of the smaller offices were in
volved. In his district there were but few
of the smaller Offices embarrassed
at all. In some only the manager
remained, but the volume of business at
such points was not so great but that it
was being handled in fair shape. The
company would spare no effort to serve
the public and from the experience thus
far he had no doubt of their ability to
meet the demands in manner that would
occasion much less damage and incon-
venience than had been anticipated.
TALKS WITH BUSINESS MEN.
GLOBE representatives talked with num-
erous business men who were large
patrons of the telegraph, and while they
did not assume to be champions of the
telegraph company the almost unanimous
sentiment was adverse to the method
resorted to by the brotherhood of tele-
graphers to carry their point. Brokers
and merchants all agreed that
such movement to disarrange business
was one that could not be justified, and
while not assuming to pass upon the
merits of the controversy, the hope was
universal that the telegraph companies
would be able to restore their former IA
cilities without delay.
THE RAILROADS.
A call at all the railroad offices ELECTED
the fact that their business was proceeding
as usual, without the least embarrassment
One railroad man said:
"We employ our own operators and they
are satisfied. They may belong to the broth
erhood of telegraphers and sYmpathize
with the strikers, but as they are at work
for US and paid by US, and only incidental
ly serving the Western Union, if at all, we
are not affected in the least, and do not
apprehend any difficulty in doing our bus
mess as usual
This is a fair sample of the replies to in
terrogatories at all the railroad Offices. At
all important points there are commercial
Offices as we'll as railroad telegraph offices,
and while both use the same wires a strike
in the commercial Office has no effect upon
the railroad service. Where the Office is both
railroad and commercial the operator is
almost invariably employed by the rail-
road, and hence not involved in the strike.
This makes the strike much less formid-
able than it otherwise would be, for while
the Brotherhood probably number from
fifteen thousand to seventeen thousand
members a comparative small fraction
absolutely left their situations.