Daily globe., 1883-08-04
GOULD WON'T GIVE IN.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
| New YORK, Aug. 3.-The strike nov
seems to have settled down to a question
of endurance. Mr.. Gould outlined this
plan IN his statement to friend while
talking of the situation. He said the
present state was but skirmish line in
the fight which has been projected by the
Knights of Labor of which the brother.
hood is a branch. The very corporation
or firm or individual who employs large
numbers of men is interested in SEEING
! this movement defeated, for they know
that its success means the success of the
Knights of Labor. Owing to the great
! interests involved the Western Union can
not and will not give in, no matter what
its loss is or to what inconve nience the
| public put.
THE TAUNDERER ON TEE STRIKE.
New YORK, Aug. 3.-The following is
taken from an article in the London Times
of July %, on the strike of the telegraph
ers: "a kind of high treason is committed
by telegraph clerks as by engine drivers,
or gas stokers, or policemen, when they
take advantage of the extreme dependence
OF the public upon them to put pressure
upon their employers by suddenly quitting
their desks. At first it seemed that the
American telegraph operators had proper
sense on this point of honor. They were
within their right in asking better terms
OF the Western Union company if they
believed the company could afford to yield
better terms.
1.-The brotherhood has made an irretrieva-
BILE mistake. Already the Western Union
company has shown its possession of re-
sources sufficient to enable it to withstand
acquisitions it holds to be exorbitant. The
one chance for the operators was that the
public. which is naturally sympathetic to-
ward their class, would have thrown the
moral weight of its good will into their
scale. But the public is selfish in such
cases. It cannot afford to let its servants
fight battles on their own account at the
cost of excessive inconvenience to itself.
When its officials, whoever they may be.
desert their posts, its one predominant
wish is that their places may be filled up
as speedily as possible with more loyal
successors and the deserters be forgotten"
WILL TAKE TO THE TELEPHONE.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.-The officers of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railway COM
pany have arranged system of telephone
service should the telegraph operators be
ordered out by the brotherhood. The
company state they are prepared at
moments notice to meet the strike.
NO CHANGE.
New YORK, Aug. 3.-The situation of the
telegraph strike. is not materially changed.
Two strikers returned to work to-day.
Western Union business is being handled
promptly. The superintendent of the
Mexican Telegraph company states there
is no foundation for the story that the
staff of the company have struck.
TIE TELEGRAPHERs' MEXICAN STRIKE.
MEXICO, Aug. 3.-Five striking operators
of the Mexican National railway have ar
rived here and state they were employed as
operators and afterwards given the duties
of station agents, for which bonds were
demanded. They refused to give bonds
and demanded their pay be increased $50
per month. No attention being paid to
the demand they sent in their designations
the 1st inst, to take effect at o'clock the
I'd. The company refused to accept their
designations and pay off the men for July
unless ten days notice was given. The
operators stopped work yesterday. Some
vacancies on the line were filled yesterday
and more operators go to work to-day.
The passenger trains are running on
schedule time and some freight and con-
struction trains are running but under diff
fculties. The strikers are all Americans
except one Mexican. The telegraph com
pany itself lost none of its employees.
RETURNED TO WORK.
CHICAGO, August. 3.-General Superin-
tendent Clowry received telegram from
Charles A. Tinker, superintendent of the
eastern division of the Western Union tele-
graph, dated New. York which reads as
follows: Six more operators came from
the New York strikers to-day, making
twenty-six in all here, and over 100 have
returned since the strike in this division.
Reports of further Withdrawals from our
forces in any direction are false as are
all Of the sensational reports daily circu-
lated through the channels of the strikers.
THE PRESIDENTIAL