The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-18
NEW YoKK.
A Virtual Collapse ortpe strike-opcr.
htors fIocEiuE Back.

A Virtual Collapse OF iBe strIke-0per.
niors fIochinE Back.
New York, August ia statement
is made on the best authority that Master
Workman Campbell, OF the Brotherhood
Of Telegraphers, to-day informed the mem.
bers Of the organization to look ont for
themselves and make as good terms with
the Western Union Telegraph Company
as they could Eecure. Each man looked out
for himself. The female operators came in
body, thirty in all. Twelve we're accept.
ed and the rest were rejected, their posi-
tons having been filed. Forty-fve mals
operators were accepted out Of sixty.two
who applied. ~
The order to the assemblies in other cities
docs not appear to have reached them
until this evening. It is learned from
Pittsburgh, Boston and Chicago that the
operators are coming back on tue run.
The ECtning P0I says: There was good
deal Of popular sympathy at the beginning
with the strikers as an oppressed class, but
it rapidly subsidized when it was discovered
the strikers were, as one OF their spokes-
men described them before the
Senate Committee, "Mostly young
unmarried ruen living in comforts-
bio boarding houses" The woes OF young
unmarried men who persis. in striking
against sedentary occupations in which
they say they are insutiiciently paid do not
touch the American Imagination very long.
Popular sympathy for the underpaid ia re-.
served iOr men with families in callings
laboriously acquired through long train
ing, and which cannot be readily changed.
Telegraphy does not belong to this class.
TAe truth Is the business OF telegrAphy
properly belongs to women and any SYM
pathy the public has to spArs in the matter
IS due 10 the women whom these young
fellows keep out oft, or TO women now in
it whese wages their competition keeps
down.
ACTION OF THE DR0TUERHooD.
At a meeting Of the Assembly Of the
Brotherhood of Telegraphers to-day there
we're some expressions Of dissatisfaction at
any further continuation OF the struggle,
and there were also some manifesto
tions OF disapprovaI with the manage.
ment OF the strike. A disruption seemed
imminent, yet the majority still determined
10 abide by their obligation when becom.
ing members OF the Brotherhood. The
order Of Master Workman Campbell was
about this time issued declaring the strike
ended and authorizing tho members 10 re.
sumo work. IL was then decided
by those present that the young
women engsged in the strike be given the
first opportunity to regain employment, the
men MOI to apply for reinstatement befJIe
Saturday. The women Immediately came
troopiug down town to the main oti;e OF
the w. U. telegraph company aud trIpped
into the elevators 10 be taken to the
rooms OF superintendent Humstone. Some
masculines had anticipated them. These
hal taken the rapid elevated rail.
roads, and the meeting OF the
members OF the fraternity informed
them OF the "break." These did
not hesitate upon the order OF their going,
but vent at once for the office. Mr.. Hum
stone, however, anticipating the girls,
the fourth flor was quickly taken
possession Of and held firmly un-
til MIR. Humstone, late in the even
ing announced that he could not receive
more to night, bnt would be entirely free
10 give further audience tomorrow. Each
person as d preliminary OF unemployment
signs paper agreeing to abandon the
present Brotherhood oi Telegraphers and
not again become members OF similar
brotherhood while in tie employ vi the
Western Union Company.
- EXPENSES OF THE STRIKE.
A leader Of the strikers says: "We have
made good fight, but have been beaten
because the ilrce OF the enemy WAS stronger
than ours, aud because allies who had
promised 10 aid US failed to do 3D."
The Executive Committee OF the
Brotherhood is preparing statement
which will be published in short time
showing the amount of money received
and expended. Wehave receipts for every
cent that his been paid out, an1 when the
full history ci the moyem. ut 10 known 1t
will be seen that the Brotherhood has
wsged a cot lict which, though disastrous,
Is not discreditable. VIZ have received in
all less than $4,000. Out OF this the rent
OF Clarendon hall bad to be paid and the
hotel bill OF the Executive Committee at
Manhattan Hotel. Skirmishers who were
on watch to keep the weak.knees from re.
turning to work required considerable
money, 80 there was only 81, 600 or $1,000
to divide among nine hundred operators
and two hundred linemen, and Of this sum
the linumen got the larger share. The
average amount paid to operators on the
strike was four dollars for the entire four
weeks that the men have been out"