The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-24
.Telegraphic.
STRIKERS CONFIDENT.
The Companies Equally Sure Of
Gaining Their Point,
COMPLAINTS From Business Circles
Sympathy for tho Strikers Two
Murders Caused by BetrayaIs-
Robbery, Etc.

rest the position Of the strikers aud the
telegraph companies is practically I'M
changed In st. Louis. Each body OF the
contestants is apparently as determined as
on Saturday. The strikers know they have
cut of all chances OF re- instAtement unless
they keep together. The companies,
especially the Western Union, still
assert tina, they can handle all a the
business offered them and that
they have all the men and women they need
10 conduct their business. There is no
lack OF confidence. The strikers are max
ing all necessary arrangements for long
period OF idleness, and the Western Union
ID engaging all the operators it can possibly
secure, promising steady situations and in
creased pay over that which the old hands
received.
ON 'CHANGE.
The condition OF affairs on 'Cbange WAS
very much improved this morning. The
Board OF Trade Telegraph company had
three wires in good working order between
here and Chicago, and messages were flying
between the two cities with their usual
rapldity, AT the Western Union Office
force OF six operators, four Of them first
class, one Of them fair and the other very
poor, were supplying very satisfactory
service, and the members OF the Exchange
were very willing 10 acknowledge the ame-
liorated condition OF affairs.
IT'S great deal better TO. day. Pres-
dent Ewald remarked 10 a reporter, 1.-The
Western Union has a very satisfactory force
OF operators at work, and in many respects
the situation OF last Saturday is greatly
improved upon. The blackboarders are
being supplied pretty regularly with quota
tons, and II we could only get
regular communication with the inte-
rior and with Toledo we would be
getting along nicely. Until we have
this, however, We shall have the right to
complain and shall not refrain from the
luxury
81 see that you have excluded the
striking teegraphers from the floor this
morning.
"Yes. There were complains made
Saturday that private policemen had been
admitted TO the floor, whose object was 10
watch the strikers, and this morning /
came to the conclusion that the best way TO
be prepared for trouble 10 to prevent il, so
1t was decided not 10 admit the strikers.
Anyhow, it's avery hot day, and the fewer
outsiders in the room the more comfortable
|. will be for the members. ~
Among the visitors TO the Exchange this
morning was Mr.. Tom Burns, q member OF
the Chicago Board ofTrade. Speaking Of
the strike be said that business on the
Chicago board has been sci iously en-
barrassed by the great difficulty 10 securing
telegraph service. The Chicago board has
only few telegraph operators, and they
are otno earthly good. The merchants
place no dependence upon them. Satur-
day, July 81, he received thirty seven
kilograms from differeat points, all OF
which were dated the 10th
Other parties had had the same experience.
The Chicago merchants were heartily in
sympathy with strikers, and II has been
proposed TO raise so 900 on the board to
help the boys out. There was talk, also,
OF holding an indignation meeting by the
merchants 10 protest against the telegraph
service now being given them, and also to
express their sympathy with the striking
telegraphers. II the workings OF the
Western Union do not improve very shortly
this meeting Will undoubtedly be held. BY
way Of exempifying that the service rem
dered at the st. Louis Exchange was
hardly as good as ii ought to be, be stated
that few minutes betor Ill he received
from Chicago private telegram, showing
the price of wheat there to be 81 cents.
while the quotation placed upon the black
board at the same time was ~ cents. a
difference Of half a cent. With such dis
crepancies as these existing trading with
confidence is an impossibility. Still the
members Of the Exchange we're willing to
acknowledge that an improvement had
been effected, and, II it Is an earnest OF still
better service to come, the angry feelings
which were aroused on Saturday will be
allowed to slumber.
MUTUAL UNION.
The office Of the Mutual Union company