Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-28
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. FIRM AND DEFIANT. No Surrender by The
 Western Union. SET ON BEATING THE STRIKERS. Large Snms Voted for the
 Operators.
DORSEY SHOOTS OFF HIS MOUTH.
And Tells of Stanley Mat
 thews' Appointment.
THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.

No Change Yet-The Western Union Still
 Holding Out-No Let Up i'm Their War
 fare Against the Brotherhood.
 NEW YORK, July 27.-The Western Un- ion holds firm against any reoognit ion of the Brotherhood of Photographers, and it is inti- mated that so far from harboring any in- tention of yielding to the terms proposed by the brotherhood, the company has resolved to discharge from it's service all who are identified with it, and that the first step in this direction was taken by the superin- tendent of the Washington district, Thurs day, when seven old operators were per- emptorily dismissed from the service for re- fusing to withdraw their names from an agreement of the organization which they had signed few days before. The superintendent of one of the railroads centering in Boston has taken measures to as- certain such operators of the company as be- long to the order, and on Saturday they will be given the alternative of resigning their DO. sitions or abandoning the brotherhood
 The situation at the Western Union office was practically unchanged to-day, though it was claimed by the company that all business was being attended to. At the American Rapid office more business than ever bsfore was reported here to day.
 The new scheme of the Merchants and Telegraphists' association for the construc- ton and operation of an efficient telegraph system on purely cooperative principles meets with much favor among the business men of this city. Many unsought applica- lions for individual shares in the new enter prise have been received to-day from mer- chants, brokers and others, and most of them have been accompanied by letters ex- pressing the belief that the project is not only practicable, but certain of success. A fair sample of these letters is the following i:
 NEW YORK, July 27.
 Dear Sir-Count in on the cooperative telegraph scheme, and if you will send us signature blanks we will endeavor to get many. of our neIghboring merchants as we can The city ought to be district ed and canvassed by striking operators here and throughout the country large and small likewise. If ''the iron Is struck while 1t is hot" the required number 1I can be made up in forty-eight hours By sand subscribers have been obtained Do you think s2,ooO,ooO capital is required to start with
 H. K. and F. B. THURBER & Co. A statement having been sent out this evening over the lines of the Western Union company to the effect that the striking ope- rators at Chicago had returned to the employ of the Western Union company, a reporter of the United Press asked MT. John Camp bell, district m aster workman of the broth erhood. AS to the truth of the report MT. Campbell replied: "It is an unmitigated falsehood and is circulated in the hope of influencing members of the brotherhood at other points that may not promptly receive 8 refutstion of the lie. We have trustworthy advices this evening which show that be- tween 250 and 300 Western Union men are out in Chicago and that no power or persua- sion in the world will be sufficient to bring them back until the proper signal is given. This effect is precisely similar to the forgery of Mir. O'Connor's name to the despatch or dering the operators to return to work. All this simply shows the desperate straits in which the Western Union finds itself in Chicago. As matter of fact they are from twelve to fifteen hours behind on their work and are getting worse of every hour.''