Daily globe., 1883-08-19
The Expiring AgOnies OF the Great
Telegraphers' Strike.
THE MEN RESUMING THEIR DUTIES
All Competent WOrkmen Reinstated on
the Old Terms.
MANY LEFT OUT IN THE COLD.
A General Feeling Of Relief That the
Trouble is Over.
THE MEN RESUMING THEIR DUTIES
ANY LEFT OUT IN THE COLD.
End of the Strike.

When the announcement came on Fri
day that John Campbell, of New York,
had declared tSe Telegraph strike IS
terminated and advised the Brotherhood
to look out for themselves, and the devil
take the hindmost, there was
great incredulity among the striking St.
Paul operators. They claimed to havere-
ceived cipher message declaring thel Or
der of Campbell bogus and urging all of
them to stick. The news which came dur
ing the night and appeared in Saturdays
GLOBE was so cumulative and confrmatory
that it proved Campbell's order to be gen
uine and the cipher denial bogus. Still even
then the operators here were incredulous
and as they met each other yesterday
morning they were inclined to brace each
other up with mutual assurances that
Campbell had not declared the strike at
an end. As the day wore on light began TO
dawn, and the more shrewd ones conclud-
ed discretion was the better part
of valor, and dropped into the West
ern Union office to look for a job.
Most of the strikers were, however, in
clined to hold out until Monday until mail
advices could be received, but along to-
wards night it began to be whispered about
that if the st. Paul strikers did not want
to secure situations there would be an i'm
portation from Chicago, where there is
great surplus of operators just
now. That settled it, and last
right the st. Paul brotherhood practically
went to pieces by the general rush of the
operators to get their places. They were
busy at the Western Union Office until late
i2 the evening receiving applications for
employment. Nearly twenty applications
were favorably considered and accepted
This fills all the positions the Western
Union has at their disposal in st. Paul.
In fact, they could not have given as many
places as they did, if they had not quite a
force that had been called here from other
points, who will now return to their sta
tions.
Mr.. Wilson, manager of the st. Paul
Office, was interviewed last night, and stat
ed that they were entirely full. The branch
Offices in the city will be opened on Mon
day, and the brokers who have loops in
their offices, will be supplied with opera
tors. In short, they will have as strong
and complete working force as they ever
had, if not a little more so. They have
taken back the most expert operators, and
the strike has enabled them to do some
judicious wedding out. Only two lady
operators struck and they will not beirein-
stated. The operators who are now out
in the cold will have to remain in that
condition or seek employment outside of
st. Paul. The company, both here
and throughout the country, make it
a positive condition of re-engagement
that the operators must renounce ale
glance to the brotherhood and the result
must necessarily be the practical disband-
ment of that organization.
And thus ends the telegraphists' strike.
THE CHICAGO SITUATION.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-The telegraphers'
strike practically ended to-day. Master
Workman Morris, of the brotherhood, to-
day advised all striking operators to go
back to work by Monday noon, and even
to-day the Office of the Western Union
Telegraph company has been besieged by
operators asking for work. One hundred
men are still out, and many will be left
without job. Meetings were held this
evening at the brotherhood headquarters,
and few strikers stampeded to keep up
the enthusiasm, but large majority have
decided that the long strike ends Mon
day at noon. The brotherhood
has paid out $4,000 during four weeks in
the way of relief, needy operators receiv-
ing from S. to $16 per week. The relief
funds has been mostly contributed by the
various lodges of the Knights of Labor,
of which the telegraph brotherhood
is branch. For the first time in four
weeks the strikers are not patroling the
streets for scabs, and the police
force is early all withdrawn from
the telegraph .ofice. Peace reigns.
The number of operators applying to
the district superintendent of the Western
Union for work to-day increased hour by
hour until shortly after noon, when reg
ular stampede was made for his Office, the
men filling the ante-room to overfowing
and the string reaching out into the hall
All who were re-engaged signed the
| pacific agreement, but a number OF
those who applied were refused places fol
reasons best known to the officials them.
selves. The cause of the general collapse
was the receipt of information at Uhlich's
hall from number of western union cities
that the men were focking back to the
company's office. The Chicago men now
| admit that the strike is over. The entire
| force OF the Baltimore d Ohio comp any
| operators, linemen, and counting room
hands have applied for work.
NEW YORK.
New YORK, Aug 18.-The main Office Of
the Western Union Telegraph company
was besieged from an early hour this fore
noon by nearly hundred operators seek
ing reinstatement, but few women anC
girls among them. Superintendent
Rhinestone was busily engaged in dis
eliminating between the applications from
first-class workmen and those who wer,
considered second or third rate, only the
best workmen being taken back, and quite
a number of operators were disappointed
by being rejected. Those operators lwh,
were taken on after the strike commenced
will be kept by the company in their pres
ent positions. Since the strike was de
clared ended yesterday only twelve womer
have been received back into employ
The total number of women who hav
applied fer reinstatement is over 45, s.
that SO of that number are left withou
work. Superintendent Rhinestone said 4!
men were taken back yesterday afternoon
and evening. About 80 more frst-clas
men were reinstated this morning. H
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