New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-18
prTJIRN OF THE STRIKERS.

RETURN OF THE STRIKERS.
~,,,,prp oF APPLICATIONS NOT ACTED
upoN-THIRTY- SEVEN MEN AND EIGHT "o""N
ACCEPTED.
A.. rnrsnal number of the striking telegraphers
,,;ea for work at the Western Union buildlng
aur,nu the day yesterday but late IN the AFTERNOON
, thew returned IN docks, coming 80 rapiu'y
that all the applications could not DO aus
nosed of before night VI the apphcan'S
fortv-6ye, of whom eight were women were rem
stated at their former salaries Nearly Twice tha'
number of cases were considered and many were
.ola that their requests would be acted on to-day
When il was learned by the officers of the company
that the strike had been abandoned, orders TO re-
.r.n all the branch Offices in this city to-day were is
sned at once Several offices reopened Yesterday.
Manager Sink, who was in charge at the main
office last night said "The boys come back 10
GOOD spirls and take their old seats with apparent
satisfaction No. they do not look seedy. Some oil
them showed me large rolls of money to prove that
necessity had not compelled them to give up the
fight. A few of them looked thin and nervous as II
they had been labOring under unusual excitement
As rule they seem glad to get back. do not
imagine that any of the present operators Will be
discharged They are excellent ones and the COM
pany will not replace them even with better ones.
They have stood faithfully by the company and
will not suffer for it, Of course we take our pick
Of the men who are now coming back"
VIEWS OF WESTERN UNION DIRECTOR.
c. Huntington, who is a director of the West
ern Union Company, was asked last evening what
he thought of the official announcement OF the end
of the strike. 81 not largely interested IN west
ern Union" he replied, "and l do not give
it the same attention / give to other things
For three days have not thou ght much of the
details TO Mr. Gould and tho executive officers who
are more closely interested. There was idea OF
surrender by the company from the first and far as
it was concerned the strike has virtually been over
for some time. The msu who thought that
they had grievances left their work, as
they had perfect right to do. But 1T Is a
question whether their manner OF leaving work
was proper. In my experience with employees L
have always tried to remove all causes OF dissatis-
faction But trades-unionism IN this country Is
getting to be a serious question. consider that IL
Is sdemoralizing labor more than anything else In
my early DAYS men had chance to rise. and every
man was paid what he was worth. If a man could
do three days work in one he did 1t and
was-paid for n. But now the best work
men in the mechanical trades are kept
practically on level with the poorest. IL
man can get his head above the common level the
tadcs-unions beat it down. This feature was Illus
trated in the demand of the strikers for uniform
increase of Is per cent. No doubt there were some
telegraphers who did not receive all they were
worth but there also were many who were paid moro
than they were worth. Trades unions
also are working injury in the Inn
itation of apprentices to large numbers OF
boys who ought to learn trades"
sWill the strike benefit Western Union In the
endfn
"Well yes; the company may be able to weed
out poor men; the strike furnishes good excuse
where the workman inferior Of course the
strike caused inconvenience; that is always the
case where large body of men
leave any corporation or controller OF labor There
vas hiatus to be filled at the start between the
experience of the men who had left and the mex
perence of some of the new workers. But tue VIC
tory OF the company in maintaining its position
will 60 far to counterbalance all the disadvan-
taQesn