Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-21
THE EFFEor ON 'CHAEGE.

| CHICAGO, July 20Lh. - Superintendent
Clowry reports that the bueiness of the Chi
cage Office of the Western Union Company
| is moving along without any perceptible fric-
! ton, and that while there ia not the usual
rapid service, nevertheless all vital CONNER
/ cisl snd personal messages and press dis
| patches are being sent over the wires without
married delay. On Change this morning
! there was disiaciinstion to engage IN trad
/ ing, and but little business wss transacted
! during the early hours, owing 30 the meager
! nature Of advices. Tho Western Union Dut on
a trained force early in the day, and there
1 was perceptible improvement immediately
/ thereafter. The strikers here, thus far. dis
| play irmness in their determination to stsnd
! ou for considerable psriod, and express toe
| belief that the company will have to accede
| to their terms.
NEW YORK JOURNALS DIVIDED N OPINION.
NEw YoRK, July 20.h-Tbe Herald,
Times Journal, Truth and " all street papers
! empaatcalg Condemn the action Of the tele.
| gvaph companies in precipitsting strike by
their treatment of the operators demands,
| aud insist that their obligations as common
| carriers forbid the delay IN filing the places
of the rikers with persons competent to
! transact the business. The YrtJune says
nothing was left open to the telegraph COM
/ paries bu5 to refuse to accede to the extrava-
! giant demands IT the operators, and the latter
| have made foolish mistake which they viii
! long regret. The Journal Of Commerce calls
Ii 3 rebellion, and says the strike is not for a
moment to be justified, and hopes some way
! viii be und to punish the ringleaders. Tne
! Sun and World mildly deprecate the strike.
| The World ssys it is an unfortunate 0ffair for
| the employees, bscsuse at the moment the
! atcike occurred a Western Union committee
| IN llzftar1 In THAR sTtc
| and t. naske concessions which would doubt
! less have led to a settlement. This is infor-
nation contained in 10 other paper. The Sun
| doss not snink this will be long strike, but
| expresses no opinion on the merits Of the csse,
ALL OUT BUT osB.
DEMrNG IN. Nj, July 2Oth.-At Deming,
/ tie principal repeating ofice in New Mexico,
| I'll the operators have gone out excepting
one. TIE Superintendent at San Francisco
/ has telegraphed that he viii send new force
within few days.
ALL QUIET AND HOPEFUL.
WASHINGTON, July % h.-Au ia quiet snd
/ hopeful among the striking telegraphers TO-
night. The sympathy Of the press and pub
/ lie is with the movement, and the strikers
have been rendered financial aid by leading
merchants. Two operators from Pennsylys-
MIA, who came here seeking employment,
| were met at the depot by the strikers, and
induced subsequently to Join them, and be,
came members Of the Brotherhood. All the
! aepots are under strict surveillance for SINH.
lar puIposes. The Departments and the
Signal Service have not Dssn seriously intsr-
| fered with by the strike. All the Offices are
working tonight to the satisfaction of the
company. Nest of the operators employed
ara amateurs. Similar reports are received
from Baltimore.
The Boston ChInese Case.
BosToN, July 20sh.-Before the United
! States Commissioner. to-day, in the case of
! the Master Of the British bark Erne, charged
with the violation of the statute prohibiting
F, the landing of Chinese laborers, some novel
| points were raised. Tbs defendant shipped
at Manila IN December, All Chung, a chi.
nese, ss ship carpenter, who, by the terms of
/ the shipping articles, was 20 serve two years
| snd be discharged in come port OF the United
I Kingdom. On tbs arrival of the bark at
/ Boston, the Government claims defendant
! discharged All Chung in violation of the
/ above statEte. Defendants counsel insisted,
/ among other points of dsfeuse, that All
! Chung had never been legally discharged :
/ that, being carpenter, he was not !absrer
1 within the meaning of the law, be never hsv-
/ ing been 8 common lsborer in digging and
! Ehovsling dirt thst he had been in San
Frsuci5c0 about ttrse years. and wished 70
/ Fst3En 50 the bark AID finish his voyage.