Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-21
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THBOPBRATORy SlRIKB No Material Change In The
 Situation. BOTH SIDES REMAIN SOLID And Messages Taken Sub-
 ject To Delay. A MAJORITY AGAINST BUTLER. His Charges against TeWks-
 bary Bot Sustained.
A MAJORITY AGAINST BUTLER.
His Charges against TeWks.
 bury Bot Sustained.
THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.


 THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.
 No Change in the Situation-Both Sides
 Showing Solid Front-Phe Ranks of
 the Strikers Being Reinforced-ORers of
 Assistance From Various SOurces-Lat-
 est Details of the Great Strike.
 NEW YORK, July 2O-Two policemen were on duty to-day in the receiving room of the
 Western Union Telegraph company on the first floor of the building and two more were detailed to the operating room on the sev-
 enth floor of the building, Tbere was no call for their services, however, as none of the men who quit work yesterday visited the building, and there was no attempt made to intimidate or influence the men who contin- ued at work. There were six young women on duty receiving messages on thu lower floor, and at each window there were from five to eight persons waiting to hand in their messages At each window a notice was displayed that messages would only be receiv ed subject to delay and mailing to points of destination if necessary. All collect" messa- ges were refused, and the senders of paid messages were required to sign their name 1 on the back of the message, agreeing that it was sent ''subjeot to delay" One gentleman said, after wait ing for about ten or fifteen minutes in order to hand in his message: ''I sent number of despatches to Chicago and other points last night, and have not yet received an an- swer from one of them. This interruption of telegraphic business is costing the country 8 large amount of money every hour; but do not think it is right to hold the operators responsible. It is the officers of this compa. ny who are to blame, and they are the ones to whom I, for one, shall look for remunera- ton for any loss may sustain in my busi- ness because of their failure to transmit mes- sages." young man, after handing in a message, said to reporter: ''That makes five messages which have handed in for the same persons in Nashville since o'clock 1 yesterday afternoon, and we have not re- ceived reply to any one of them. We usu- ally have from thirty to forty messages every ] afternoon in the office from which come, but yesterday we only received one despatch, which was dated at Albany at 9 o'clock yes- l terday morning. and was received at seven ! o'clock last evening.
 I thing more than 200 operators at work up- I stairs in the operating room and are rapidly catching up with the business which was de- 1 layed yesterday. The sub offices throughout the city which are now open for business are as follows Fifth Avenue Hotel. Harlem, Manhattanville, 70 Broadway, A Broad | street, Windsor Hotel, Grand Central depot, l 539 Fifth avenue, 395 Third avenue, Car mansville and the Produce, Stock, Mercantile | and Cotton Exchanges. There are about 12O ! | the officers of the operating room said | f'We have about one-half force at work, and ! are getting along very nicely. Of the 19 | Wheatstone operators who were at work yes- 1 terday only four quit work, and one of these ] returned to work this morning. This | official also said that last night there was 1 more than the regular number of operators l at work, but when asked whether the greater | part of this force was not made up of opera | tors who had been at work during the day said that it was, and professed his inability 1 to say how many of the regular night force were at work. The reporter glanced into | the room and saw that less than one-half the desks were occupied. Fully two-t thirds of those sitting at the desks were women, and about two ifths of the number were appar- emily doing nothing.
 l At the office of the American Rapid Tele- graph company all messages were received ''subjeet to delay" It was said that the | company had about thirty men St work, | whereas the number usually employed is ! about 12O. None of the officers of the com pany would say anything about the prospects 1 of success of the strike. At the downtown office of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph company, No. 63 Broadway, the receivers l said that they were receiving all messages subject to delay" for all points throughout the country except for l Louisville and St. Louis and all messages to these points were refused. Many of those who called to send messages, 1 when they learned of these facts, refused to send the messages. One gentleman said 'I sent message to Boston last night, and have not yet received reply. If had sent the same message by mail, I would have had an answer an hour or more ago."
 At the office of the Postal Telegraph com pany, MT. John Hemmens, the manager, said: "We are now working a line to sages entrusted to us free of charge subject. however, to no responsibility on the part of the company. We are not doing l great amount of business, but the pressure on us is increasing every hour.' The Baltl- more and Ohio and the American Rapid Tel egraph companies have no sub-offces open in the city, and there is only one office in Brooklyn open for the reception of messages for both companies.
 The striking linemen held secret meeting ! at o'clock this morning in Pythagoras Hall 134 Canal street. There were about 3O6 men
 
 Speeches were made by several of the men and members of the Brotherhood of Teie- graphers present. It was stated that there 1 were about 400 llinemen in this city and neigebhrhood all of whom were on..strike. The I telegraph companies were badly crippled and last night the Western Union brought into the city gang of twenty-tTo inemen from the country districts. They were met by delegation of the strikers at the depot on their arrival and all of them, instead of go- Ike a&& lad the strikers meeting this morning and wsNfe initiated into the association, It was aid that word had been received rom Chicago that 275 linemen in that eitX had gone on strike. The linemen formed<gn nro. cession about 1O:30 o'clock and maj scbed in a body to the CaIedonian Hall, wheNEe a nublic meeting of the telegraphers was ReId
 A number of the BrotherheodK had gather. cd in front of Caledonian Hakf, at Eighth avenue and Thirteenth streeH at an early hour this morning and ere engaged in an eager discussion Q. tne situation Re- who had been watching closely the effect of the strike upon th companies. It was stated that the largeg offices were completely crippled. The Western Union office, it was claimed, nag oniS six good operators, and those were hel7Eg worked day and night. All of the city offices were reported to be closed and tl reports from other cities showed that $the situation was everywhere the same was the general opinion among the strikersA who appeared to be in the most jovial spiriEs, that the strike would only last few dag Is and that the companies would be obhg8gd to concede everything. Several of thSg strikers were asked what ofez l of co1mpronaise from the Western Union comp5anies would be accepted. The more en- thu Elastic and younger members of the broth. erAEood were certain that nothing short of the l-c6mpany's complete capitulation would sat lizsfy the strikers; but many more thoughtful
 men were sure that the brotherhood would { meet the companies half way Besides the | sum of money at the command of the broth : erhood-said to be $40, ,O0O-many strikers d said that they had been saving money for g | year in expectation of the present event, and n would be able to hold out all summer with. i. \ out aid from the brotherhood.
 a Robert Ewing of the executive committee of the Telegraphers' Brotherhood left here 1,;S in Naxv Or1oana