Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-25

held consultation with them to-day and
offered them very satisfactory terms for
returning to work, except in one particu-
lar, the refusing to recognize the brother
hood. The Chicago board of trade execu-
tive committee passed a resolution to-day
in favor of submitting the question in
volved in the strike to arbitration.
THE RAILWAYS WARNED.
CHICAGO, July PA circular was sent
out from the headquarters of the brother
hood in this city to the superintendent of
the roads centering here. The gist of the
circular is that the brotherhood does not
wish to interfere with the traffic, but may
be compelled to do so in self protection by
calling out its men, if the roilway mana
gers do not Cease aiding the telegraph com
pany by sending their men to work for
it. The roads to which the circular is sent
are the Chicago Burlington
81 Quincy, Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific, Chicago & Alton, Chicago & At
lantic, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago
& Northwestern, Chicago & Western In
diana, Illinois Central and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. 1t will be noticed
that none of the east bound pool lines are
claim that of 10000 men of the brother
hood 5000, or more than half, are en-
ployed by railroads and Iassert that they
are prepared, if absolutely pushed te it, to
call them all out. They decline to
taken or when, If the railroads
Superintendent Clowry of the Western
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of the telegraph operators are distributed
single and by twos at small stations where
their duties as operators are but a small
proportion of their work, such as generally
includes that of station agent and express
agent and that they are men of standing
in their communities and that very few of
them would relinquish their other duties
from which they receive most of their pay
to come out even at the call of the Broth
erhood.
LOOKING BLUE IN PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, July "a. - Fourteen
branch offices of the American Rapid COM
pany have closed all business, which is
now conducted at the main Office, which is
deserted by all except the manager aud
two female type writer's. At the Office of
the Baltimore & Ohio company the same
state of affairs exists. All the operators
are on a strike except the chief, who says
the business is at a stand still. Presi-
dent Chanely, of the branch of the Broth
erhood telegraphers, sends to the press a
circular addressed to the public, in which
he calls attention to the impression which
prevails to some extent, that the executive
board Of telegrsphers inexorably insists
upon all or nothing, and that the strikers,
therefore, are responsible for the inconve-
nience which the public is suffering. This,
he says, is an erroneous impression, as the
board has always been ready to consider
proposals having in view the settle
ment of difficulties, but thus far
the telegraph companies have positively
refused to recognize the board as repre-
sentatives of their employees, when the
events Of the past few days have clearly
shown that the board does represent the
telsgraphers Of the company. A salts
factory adjustment of the difficulties, it is
claimed, would be quickly arrived at if
several corporations would recognize and
treat with the executive board chosen by
the telegraphers for the purpose.