The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-25
THE STRIKE.
No Important Change in the Situation
A Statement from the ST, Louis
Brotherhood - Complaints
from Business Men.

ADN hlluhllOu VI sluID lCb-
terday. Some members OF the Brother
hood had an idea that the railroad operators
would be ordered out to-day, but the re-
port cannot be traced TO any reliable source.
Those who are supposed to be in COM
munication with the executive commit
tee deny that they will be ordered to
quit work at present. The strikers, how
ever, in fever Of expectancy, feeling, as
they say, that the grand effort Of the
Brotherhood to bring the Western Union to
terms Is liable to occur al any moment.
That there is held In obeyance a
resort that II is thought will effectually
cripple the company is not denied, but
what il Is or when it will be put into effect
no one will say.
ON CHANGE.
On Change there Was still general dis
satisfaction. More than one member
stated that he had received dispatch dur
ing the day out OF which he could get no
meaning at all. There was considerable
talk about holding an indignation meeting,
and II was even stated that petition asking
thai meeting be called had been signed
quotations were still very meagre. From
New York there were no wheat quotations
and only one on corn. At two p. N. there
was but one Baltimore quotation and two
from Milwaukee. Toledo was pretty full
for the first time in several days, The cable
dispatches were mesgre and incomplete, A
Price Current showing that the Chicago
Board Of Trade had markets much more
fully, caused considerable kicking.
WESTERN UNION.
At thesE estern Union office business, It
is claimed, is improving daily, though not
equal to that done previous to last Mondsy.
Applications for work are still received,
aud good men and women at once EN- e
ployed. Mr.. Brown says that the company
Is laboring under no difficulty here, and
that messages are received and sent with no
more than the usual delay, except to small
towns. He says his force is fully compe-
tent to do all the work required, and is
only sorry that other offices have not the
same facilities.
b. & o. OFFICE.
Manager Roberts, Of the b. & o., has not
ye' succeeded in getting an assistant, and is
still doing his best alone TO carry on the
business OF the office. He says that he has
heard nothing from the East as to how
business is going on there, and don't know
whenihe will get any help.
AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FROM THR
BROTHERHOOD.
The st. Louis Brotherhood has issued the
| following circular as exemplifying tn ell
views and describing the situation:
BRoTHERHoop OF TELEGRAPHERs, !
LOCAL ASSEMBLY 100
ST. LOUIS, MO-, July %, 1884,
BROTHERS AND SlsTERs-The following
is the exact situation 10 ST. Louis: Tn
force consists OF eleven chief operators
four girls who refused to strike, fou
''scab" male operators and seventeen NAL
and female students, fresh from TELEGRAPH
colleges. with no experience whatever
The force OF forty-one, all told, are at
tempting to do the work OF 200 com peten
operators who are in the strike.
This force I've are pleased 10 say insid
OF six hours from the time we left the offic
had succeeded In mixing matter TO degree
that would have made an angel weep, pro
yided the celestial being had been a friend
to the Great Monopoly. Short checks
checks not short enough, and mes
sages by the score without the shadow OF
check.
twas a great day for the "cog hog
gang, and they improved the opportunity
with q vengeance. The beautiful worl
noted above was rewarded by the kird Off
Gals In various ways. Large free unche
for all, cigars for those who wished them
and a free carriage ride t, their severs
hasheries for the female artists, some O
whom were undoubtedly enjoying a sensa
tod new aud unusual.
We are In possession OF facts which prove
beyond doubt, that the news now bein,
disseminated by Western Union official
and Associated Press agents, relative
weakness in the ranks west of here,
utterly false and unworthy OF credence.
The officials here are giving their coleg
hams and scabs the letters formerly used
some Of the men now striking, for the pur
pose OF conveying an impression that
number OF the old men are still at work
Every man and woman that we, expecte
TO have with us came, aud many who wor
not connected with us came out, an
Joining the processionwent TO our hall an
initiated. St. Louis Is solid satisfied an
determined, and send greeting to on
brothers and sisters throughout the land
Stick stick stick !! /!
Since sunday, the 18th inst, there hay
initiated seventy three linemen, and sixty
two operators, number OF the latter rail
road men. Each and every town and cit
in the United States and Canada, wher
there are ten or more linemen add tel,
graphers, stand as we do to-day, kcepir
In mind the old and wholesome motto
Omitted we stand, divided we fall,n
Excepting the superintendent OF constru
ton and chief foreman, the entire force
linemen, numbering sixty-fve men, stru'
with the operators. Our repairers n
darings. The following is at extract fro
local paper OF the 10th;
The following conversation, which toe
place yesterday before the linemen bi
: Joined In the strike, between one OF II
| linemen superintendent aud a well.know
mechanic Of this city, may be taken as
, truthful view OF the situation, coming fro
, the source II did,
my men have not gone out
| yet" said he, "but am o
pectlng every minute to hear th
. they have quit work. Itell you the con
pany Is making great mistake In not con
cedinglsomething to these men. kno
what am talking about. There are "a,
{ operators In the United States and Canad
| almost ninety per cent Of whom belong
the Brotherhood, and will stick 10 this q