Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-28
THE STRIKE.
IL is hard at this distance to arrive at the true situation of the telegraphers' strike. but the fact that the Western Union has held out this long, and that

1t hEs been increasing and improving It's force Of operators for the past five days,
 indicates that it may be able to weather
 the storm, in spite the Brotherhood
 Contrary to the expectations of the
 strikers the company is filling their places and doing the ordinary business. The work is not being done so well nor
 so expeditiously as it was by the old
 operators, yet 1t is being done after a fashion, and the new men-many of
 whom are old operators out of practice,
 are improving every day, and will soon
 be able to do fair work. Many good 1 operators have walked ont, believing
 that the company could not get along ] without their services, and ridiculed the
 Idea Of filling their places with crude
 young men and old operators out of
 practice. But they should remember
 that the time was, and not very long
 ago when they themselves were not ex-
 perts at the business. Many of those who are now transmitting messages witE ] great effort, consuming much tune, will do their work better every day, and | while the company u>a- zuffer, 1t looks | az though they were going to stick Jo
 their first resolution. The Chicago
 Times of a recent date discusses the question gs follows.
 One of the striking telegraph opera ! tors, no doubt a man Of skill and parts | Iu hls occupation, says: "Ihe talent ID | the profession, or occupation If you pre- | fer II, Is out. There is no disputing that | And there are not enough competent | operators Co ull their places" It is the | kind ol remark often made by misguided l humanity and arises more from ego tism than from interest, but Is generally the suggestion os both. Men of special fitness iu special directions become par. ticulariy useful. Quick to see their worth, employers lean upon them, and would be loatl, perhaps, to assent to severance of relations which they find agreeable and profitable. Man rarely makes the mistake of estimating him. self at less than his real value. The l mistake IS in the other direction. The | amour pTOpre that abIdes Tn every bosom | in greater or less degree encourages the | seif-deceptlOn, so universally met with. | tha, particular men are essential to par ticular places. "rhey cant get on with | ont me- Is the delusiOn winch many an | employe hugs to his soul. His talent | and fitness may be admitted freely, but bis opinion that his services are indis- pensabie IS none the less a delusiOn. No man in thIs world occupies a place in its activities that cannot be filled. This is true Oi industry and commerce and the whole line of business venture. It Is true, also, m war, and statecraft and re- hyion. l. Is a rule acknowledging some restrictions only in domestic life, and there the change comes quicker than affection wIll be willing to concede.
 There is, especially in this new couu- try, a surplus of labor, and the struggle for existence Impels men tO qualify themselves to answer a call upon their services The boy who sweeps the office to-day may be the leading salesman of the house a few years hence. And fl the house cannot wait for the lad It will not experience IucouvenIeuces, Iu filling the place of the leading salesman, who may fall into the common error of supposing that his services are indispensable. De ceIved as they have been in their calcu- latiOns, for the strike was a failure from | the start, the brotherhood of operators have leisure now to marvel at the readi- ness with which the work they suddenly threw down went on ID other hands l Whence all these recruits, when to the brotherhood 1t seemed that the yoke of | their organization was upon the the neck of all who were worthy and skillful in then occupatiOu2 It is a revelation which other wage-wInuers than these, which all humanity may study with profit, fer IU dispOses of the illusion SO generally cherished that in the partIcu- lar direction of our activities We are really a necessity.
 THE Army and Navy Gazette of re- cent date says:
 General Crook, having concluded his business successfully. left Washing on on Saturday evening last for Oakland, where he spent few days, going thence | To Omaha on private business. He will probably reach hls pos, n Arizona about | Inc 2Oth Iusf. He IS to be, practically, l governor of the Indians in his depart nent. To all intcnts and purposes the Lndlaus in his department have been l transferred to the War Department The agreement reached is an evidence of he high regard which both the secreta- -ies entertain for General Crook. The retention or the captured Indians on he San Carlos reservation was against he original judgment of both the in- .erior and war departments, and Is in 'pife Of the protests of Agent Wilcox, he other reservation Indians and the general frontier sentiment General Crook stood alone in favor of it. He las staked his reputation upon the ex- . pertinent Of keeping them in order.
 This is fair statement Of the case, ( with the exception that General Crook s wanted the Indians admitted on the San ] Carlos reservation and placed under !, Agent Wilcon In our opinion General f Crook got more than he wanted in the ( inal settlement of the disposition of the C eneCades. But having staked his rep l. ltation upon the experiment, 1t will | prove a very serious matter 10 General a Jrook if he falls. He not only "staked ( lls reputation upon the experiment." ,ut on ''bringing in the remainder of he renegades." We are ready 10 throw ] lp our hat very high for General Crook he moment the reuegades come in and ' urreuder themselves up to him. 1