Daily globe., 1883-07-23
DEFIANT.
THE WESTERN UNION POLICY
Announced to be That Operators Can
Only Return by Leaving the
Brotherhood.
ANOTHER STRIKE IN CHICAGO
The Delivery Clerks Follow the Mes
senger Boys Into the Street.
THE DELIVERY CLERKS STRIKE.

CHICAGO, July 21.-About twenty-five
clerks engaged in the Western Union
delivery department struck at one o'clock.
They simply laid down their books and
papers and walked out with the hundred
or more messenger boys who have preced
ed them. In a few moments two men
only were left on duty in the delivery de-
partment. The delivery clerks duties are
to copy the message as it comes from
operating department, number and enter
it into the messenger book. So far as
known the delivery clerks and
messengers have no particular
grievance. The boys were
paid $1S to $25 per month, explained
Manager FELTON,. They have no fault to
| find that ever heard of. They have been
wheedled into this. Their going will only
inconvenience US for the moment, as we
can fill the Office up at once, and turning
| away he dispatched an order to the Ameri-
can district Office for eight boys. The
entire crowd went decently and in order.
| Such clerks as had money on hand be-
longing to the company turned it over to
|
to the company's interests before they left.
The brotherhood made a stragetic move
ment and induced the gold and stock ticker
| operators and market reporters on the
board to join their ranks. There were two
| transmitters who sent market quotations
on tickers in all parts of the business dis
trict. On the floor of the board four re-
| porters gathered quotations from which we
made up G. n. D. service. All went out this
forenoon when change opened. Some re-
porters from public produce exchange
were secured to take place of the old men,
but officers of the board objected to them
being on floor on the ground that they
were bucket shop men. New transmit
ters and reporters will be secured as soon
as possible and commercial news service
| resumed.
"The Western Union is all right" said the
superintendent to-day, operators are con-
stantly coming in and being given employ
ment."
"Where do they come from?"
"Oh, all over. A good many ex-opera-
tors have come in to help us out and rail-
roads have contributed literally. The en-
barrassment is growing less every hour.
1 can say now with far more emphasis than
ever before that under no possible cir
cumstances will the company give up this
matter or recede in the slightest from the
position it has taken. The situation is
improving. The action of the men in
inducing the messenger boys to go out will
revert to them and be very damaging.
They have no right to swear in children.
The parents of these boys will rise up and
object to this.
We are doing splendidly, said Manager
Strudwick, of the Wheatstone department,
| yesterday we handled more business than
any day since the system has been in
operation here. The ladies who went on
were punchers and students who were
not under pay. We have a dozen
or fifteen skilled Wheatssone
operators working now and keeping new
business we'll cleared up.
We are in better shape to handle bust
ness now than we we're yesterday" remark
ed a Baltimore 6 Ohio official. "We have
secured three first class operators which
increases our working force in the Office
to eight. All the business that We are re-
ceiving is being sent forward without de-
lay, and altogether things look more
cheerful. I know negotiations are pend
ing between the brotherhood directors and
employees to effect compromise but so
far the situation in that respect is
unchanged from yesterday. The mon I
think would be willing to accept a COM
promise, as they were satisfied with their
wages, which were more liberal than those
received by Western Union boys before
they quit, and only did so on order of the
executive committee of the brotherhood.
The headquarters of striking operators
were reasonably quiet to-day, only few
members being present, and they are not
as demonstrative as yesterday. "You must
not Think said striker, "because we
are not making as much noise as before
that we are weakening in the least. The
novelty of the strike has worn off and we
have settled down to business. We are go
ing to win if we have to stay out a year,
The strikers say they have received few
reports outside of those printed in the
morning papers, but what have come in
are favorable to their side. st. Louis, Mil
waukee and Kansas City they assert
are in worse condition than
Chicago. They claim to know that in spite
of the fact that so few messages were re-
ceived here on account of the uncertainty
of transmission that business Is piled high
on the hooks in Chicago offices, with no
hope of being quickly sent unless by mail.
All the operators profess to be confident of
quick termination of the strike.
| THE NEW YORK SITUATION.
| New YORK July 21.-The striking tele-
graph operators met to-day. They num-
bered about 700, of whom sixty were ladies.
Ten linemen, who had been brought into
the city last night by the Western Union,
from the Scranton, Pa, and New Jersey
districts and been captured by the skir-
mishing committee of the strikers, were
initiated A petition was received from
the distributing clerks of the Western
Union company, asking to be received into