New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-22

| the Baltimore and ONO were cut WITHIN pIock OF
| the main office. The break was repaired so that
| business went on usual after p. IN. Two OF the
striking operators returned yesterday ana IL Is ex
| pected that more viii return on MONDAY.
|
FEW MESSENGER BOYS STRIKE.
NO TROUBLE EXPECTED. HowEyER-PLACIs THAI
| CAN BE EASILY FILLED
| "No. we shall have no trouble with the messen-
| ger boys" said John Dauler, manager of the mes
senger department of the Western Union Telegraph
| and American District Messenger companies to a
TRIBUNE reporter at the offices at No. Dey.st.,
| about D. no. yesterday "All the American Dis
trict Offices are in full blast aud tile lads know
much better than to strike. In this Office they
are paid at the rate of Dig cents a message
| that . only for delivering teegrams-and they
| average about 81 week. But they are
| picked hands. New boys, on going into branch
Office get S. a week at first. then 81 80. and so on
untilpromoted TO this work, aud they are perfectly
| satisfied, as they ought to be. Messenger boys
not skilled operators and they know well as do
that if they stepped ont of this office now, every
| one OF them would be replaced tomorrow. Buty
| can ask the messenger boys yourself"
81 striker said the first boy the reporter asked,
| mot /! What do want to strike fort get from
SO to $40 week. and if | went out to-day nv
place would be filed in an hour. Anyway. that
notice up there" pointing TO pacard on the wall,
"glves all we have to ask for"
The closing of branch telegraph offices has thrown
| more work upon the central Office. from which
messages had formerly only TO be delivered between
Franklin and Cedar sts: now they have ~ go over
| a wider region So the placard in question an
| nounced that beginning from to-day, and while
delivering messages above Canalst., boys will
be allowed 10 cents per hour overtime at night and
ON Sundays, in addition to the pig cents for each
| message"
| foId af at
$40 Broadway. IN Newest and Broad-st; at the
Mutual District Office in Murray-st. and
| at the offices of the Bankers and Merchants
Telegraph Company, the American Rapid Telegraph
| Company the Postal Telegraph Company and the
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company. In spite
| OF this, however, the proceedings at irving dali
were interrupted al about O'Clock 10y me entrance
| OF thirty American District messenger boys IN a
| body, ali on strike. These came chiefly IRON the
Offices at Nos ~, 80 and 20 at l47 lhlrd-aye.. a5
Broadway aud Twenty -thIrd-st aud No ITO West
| Fouvteenth-st. respectively. They don't really
| know why they struck" sad the manager OF the
Twenty -third-st. Office. Eleven of ours have
gone, out OF tuH force of tmrty-two.
but it makes no difference ia, and they know
cannot. If they were asked now they would
back again giadiy enough fancy. 1 here are some
OF the boys themselves outside
enough hanging ab0ut the door OF the Office and
looking Somew hat loUsingly IN.
What did you strike Tor y asked the reporter or
one 0i them
Seven dollars" was the quaveriug reply
At another up town Office tine reporter was told
" The reason OF their going IL that they were un-
settled by the operators strike, ana then at some
offices-aS in West fourteenth--the two offices.
the Western UnIon and American DIS riot, are under
one man. and when he vert with the Western
Union there was nobody 10 pay the boys yesier-
day, which was their payday. That dissatisfied
them. Those who took lie trouble 10 go to Dey-5t
got paid at once, and ali were paid to-aay."
ODDS AND ENDS OF THE STRIKE.
The published statement taat the operators on
ni.atalv gfritr
day was apparently without Foundation. Tho
Manhattan Railroad Company employs only a few
operators who stationed at the ends of the lines
In the train-ds pa chers' ON os The trains are run
by schedule, however, and not by telegraph. Cen
era Manager Hahn said yesterday that the ticket
agents at some stations were telegraph opera
tors, bat they rarely had dispatches to sead
or receive. They have made no complaint
demand" he added. " anu they are not likely
to do so they are paid 81 % a day. We have
received a considerable number of applications for
work to-day from the striking telesraphers.'
The relation OF the New-York Associated Press ID
the strike has been misunle stood IN quarters.
OF its private operators-foGty live in nunber-not
one has gone strike, and the news messages
transmitted by them over the assoolatiols leased
wires have suffered little II any interruption.
The relations between the Associated ProsS aud the
Western Union Telegraph Company grow only out
OF contracts 10 transmit news, and TINS service
has been performed handsomely ever silce the
strike began. In way has the Associated
Press yielded 10 the strikers. Ii has not
been called upon to DO 50 in any hammer.
No further steps taken yesterday towards
beginning legal proceedings against the Western
Union Telegraph Company TO compel it TO receive
and promptly transmit messages. The MEM
beIs of tho Board OF Trade and
Transpor .ation who requested legal opin.
ion on the subject Thursday said that they
act for the Board but Individuals, though
they thoughts probable If the strike continued that
action would be taken by that organization. the
counsel of the Western Union said that any such
proceedings would DO futile and ony result
in costs to those instituting suits, as
there was no legal ground for any such action Mr..
Cary, attorney for the Western Union Company,
said that no papers in any suits for damages had
been served. The courts, he said, would undouot-
eddy hold that they had a sht 10 take messages
subject to delay Mr. Thurber, Of the Autobiography
League SAID that action had been taken
by that organization, though opinion OF
counsel in regard to the subject had oeen carefully
- 49, 49,
The manager of the Droad-s.. Office of the Western
Union Company said that all tue business offered
had been executed promptly. Messages 10 Boston
were taken without the STIPULATION about delay
" hich has been required since tae StrlKe bsgan.
Unusual activity was displayed IN the Office ut
the FIFTH Avenue Hotel. "Delayf" said an opera.
tor. e" / should imagine So Just look at tins
showing a large roll of messages. " This Office IL
supplying the district between Harlem ana Twenty.
third,st almost exclusively and we have only -four
but we anticipate a reinforcement TO-
morrow"
1t was limited that the strikers intended to do
mischief to the wires to-day, but every Oae ex-
pressed an earnest hope that the rumors were
sroundless.
NEW TROUBLES IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July 2l.-The officials of tho
Western Union in city report continual satisfactory
of offo A eoD wor forc