Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-26
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GEIMPSRS OF VICTORY. The Rapid Surrender to
 the Strikers. OTHERS LIKELY TO FOLLOW The Western Union Alone
 Holding Out, THE STRIKERS FIRM AS EVER. Bound to Win at All Haz.
 ards.
OTHERS LIKELY TO FOLLOW
THE STRIKERS FIRM AS EVER.
THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.

To the Hitter End-The Western Union l Bound Not to Surrender-The Strikers to Carry the War Into Africa-Their Resources Not Yet Exhausted-A Conn | plete Surrender by the American Rapid Company.
 NEW YORK, July 25.-To days develop. ments have been the most important of any since the inauguration of the strike. The executive committee of the Western Union held long secret session this afternoon and at it's conclusion the members announced with straight faces that only routine business had been transacted and that the subject of l the strike had not been mentioned. As 8 matter of fact the strike was very gravely considered and the committee formally de- ternnined to hold out to the bitter end. This determination was based upon inaccur- ate reports from loyal employees who are afraid to tell the truth in regard to the em- barrassed condition of their respective de- partments and the directors are thus con- tinuing the fight as they began it. in the dark The decision of the company was communicated to the officers of the brother hood almost as soon as it was arrived at and was fully considered by them. So far from causing them to weaken in their efforts or to abate their hopes of ultimate success the news resulted in a prompt determination to carry the war into Africa by more aggressive measures against the Western Union than ever before. The officers of the brother hood say that they have not yet begun to show the extent of their resources. Thus far they have ordered out only the commer- cial operators and 8 few of the gold and stock operators at the West They have in reserve the gold and stock operators in New 1 York and other eastern cities. the cable op- orators on all but the District and French cables and seven thousand out of the rail- road operators throughout the country. Among the latter the accessions to the ranks of the brotherhood have been surprisingly rapid and numerous since the beginning of | the strike. The brotherhood has now rep resentatives constantly travelling on every 1 important railroad in the cou untry armed with power to initiate all railroad operators l who are desirous to join the ranks and who l are certified as trustworthy men by present r members. The formula of initiation occupies but little time and hundreds | of new sentinels along the main | highways of intelligence are thus being recruited daily. The use that is being made l by the brotherhood of these men has been 1 studiously misrepresented in some quarters. | They have never been asked to neglect line of their railroad work and will never be ask l ed to do so They are distinctly told to at- l tend to their railroad duties with the utmost l fidelity, but not to accept non railroad busi- ness which is offered to be transmitted to l Western Union offices. So far from being an 1 interference or 8 menace to the regular run | ming of railroad trains this order is really 8 | protective measure for the safety of passen- gers and employees. Ever since the strike began and the Western Union offices have been closed the railroad offices have been overru1 with applications to send all sorts of messages which the public have no other way of getting through or which the Western l Union has no other way of getting carried | over the breaks in it's own lines. If this | mass of business had been accepted and put | on the wires it would have crowded the Iegit- innate railroad messages out of sight and no l one can say what disasters might have hap l pened in consequence of delay in despatches | intended to regulate the running of trains. The railroad operators are in very many ] cases already overworked by the railroad service alone. The brotherhood insists that they shall confine their efforts to that service and do that as well as possible.
 This certainly does not indicate any hostil- ity to the railroads, but that it does seriously cripple the Western Union company may well be believed when it is known that | eight thousand out of the twelve thousand railroad telegraph offices threughout the country are now dramatically sealed to other than railroad business. The brotherhood claims that the weapons of the Western Union are lies, bribery and intimidation, but that it's methods of warfare have been strict ly legitimate. As proof of this the broth erhood officers state that they have organized an efficient service for the protection of the l Western Union wires. If 1t be true as 1 reported that any Western Union officials in this city have hired men to cut their own wires expecting to cast the odlum of the act upon the strikers, some of those officials may have the unpleasant experience ot walk | ing up in the Tombs some fine morning as the penalty for this offense in this State is very severe. The telegraphers also claim that while the Western Union has no spies in their ranks they have facilities for knowing everything that is going on in the telegraph offices There exists within the brotherhood and in full afillation with it picked body of operators who arc known as ''non-union men" and who are still at work in all the lending Western Union offices. It Is their duty first, to earn their money faithfully by doing the company $ work as well as the company $ remaining facilities will allow second to keep the brotherhood informed of every es- sential fact in their respective offices. These men perform their double duty on the prln- ciple that the end justifes the means and if their methods smack of Jesuitism 1t must be admitted that they perform their difficult task with the energy and mystery of the fol lowers of Loyola. It was owing to these secret service men or t'Jesuits" that the brother
 hood knew the afternoon when Mir. Dealey reported that there were about three hun dred operators at V ork in the Western Un- ion building there were exactly nlnety-two people in the operating room, of whom eight
 were reckoned as first t-class, ten as fair and
 ten as second-class, while all the rest were
 students, ''dummies'' or helpless ''plugs.
 The 'Jesuits" aided the brotherhood to an-
 other important piece of information to day.
 The Western Union has been constantly
 claiming that it is well up with it's work, or
 admitting that at the utmost it is from thir-
 tv to ninety minutes behind. This morning
 over two hundred original messages
 couched in commercial language
 and therefore of the very
 sort which the Western Union Is most l anxious to get and is stralnlng every nerve
 to carry, were filed in as many Western
 Union offices throughout the country for 1 transmission to the addresses in this city ot
 various parties in sympathy with the broth
 erhood Most of these messages have now
 come through, but every one has proved to | be ten hours behind, thus proving in the
 most conclusive manner the 1aIseness oI Ihe
 company's boasts.
 Outside of the action of the Western Union
 the most important of to-day's developments
 has been the equalization of the American
 Rapid Telegraph company, whose men re-
 turned to work this evening and are now
 handling an immense volume of business.
 which the public has in vain endeavored to
 send by the Western Union. The terms ot
 the arrangement between the company and
 the brotherhood are not made public, but as
 they are refused to the press by the brother. hood at the express request of the company
 the natural inference is that the company has
 acceded to the full demand of the executive committee.
 It is confidently stated that the Baltimore
 and Ohio company will follow suit to nor
 row and the combination then presented
 against the Western Union will comprise tht Baltimore and Ohio, the American Rapid
 the Postal, the Southern and half a dozer
 minor companies. The concession made to
 day by the Rapid company involves an ad dition to it's pay rolls of $8,o00 per month The cost to the Baltimore and Ohio will b'
 still larger and to the other companie
 it will be in proportion to the voium
 of their business. Of course it is hoped b.
 these companies that the public will recog : nize their efforts for it's accommodation ant
 the brotherhood will do it's share in uphold ing the independent companies by furnish
 ing them with the very best operators in tn