Daily globe., 1883-07-22

procedure, and to this end the following
committees were appointed:
On Finance and Relief-A. II. Seymour,
T. j. Morrison, S. A. Coleman, Alfred Dill
Ion and VIM. Taylor.
Intelligence-C Clarence A. Simpson. Chas.
NJ. Jansen and A. J. Voyer.
On Law and Order-Charles Matthias
and Frank Reynolds.
The skirmishing committee as appointed
consists of E. t. Barberie and E, F. Welch.
OF the Western Union company, and z. j.
Smith of the Fire Alarm service.
After definining the duties of several
committees collectively and individually
they repaired to Caledonian hall where at
II o'clock there were nearly 1,20O strikers
assembled. The duty of the finance and
relief committees will be to receive all
subscriptions, investigate all applications
for relief and audit accounts of all sub-
committees. The committee on intelI
gence viii attend to the transmission and
reception of all telegraphic communica-
tion which will continue in CIPHER. The
duty Of skirInishers will consist of per-
sonally visiting operators now at work
and try to induce them to join the secret
order of the Brotherhood No dishonora-
bic means it is promised will be employed
to this end.
AT PROVIDENCE.
PRovIDENCE, R. L, July 21.-Six of the
operators employed by the Western Union
company in this city struck to-day, leav-
ing the force at work insufficient to handle
the business. Three of the operators,
which composed nearly the entire force of
the American Rapid company, this city,
also struck this noon.
POSITION OF THE 3. t5 o. COMPANY.
BALTIMORE, July PA high official of
the B. & 0. Telegraph company stated
most positively that the B. & O. company
would not treat with Campbell, nor with
any man not in their own employ. That
they were ready and willing and anxious
to meet and talk with their own men and
offer most liberal terms, but were resolved
not to treat with men not in their service.
SIDE ISSUES.
New YORK, July 21.-The cigar makers
lockout and the strike of the dress and
cloak makers continue without any new
features to-day. Both employers and en-
ployes are firm, and the determination is
to hold out.
THE NEW YORK SITUATION.
NEW YORK July 21.-The striking tele-
graph operators met to-day. They num-
bered about 700. of whom sixty were ladies.
Ten linemen, who had been brought into
the city last night by the Western Union,
from the Scranton, Pa, and New Jersey
districts and been captured by the skir-
mishing committee of the strikers, were
initiated. A petition was received from
the distributing clerks of the Western
| Union company, asking to be received into
the ranks of the strikers They will be
| initiated to-day. They number about
| forty-ffteen boys and the rest girls.
| They receive from $15 to $50 a month, and
| their work requires more than ordinary
| skill and knowledge. It was said letters
| had been received from many out of town,
operators asking to be enrolled among the
| strikers. 1t is also said Rev. Mr.. Aims.
worth, a minister in the Methodist church
| at Pamraho, Mo-, was once in the employ
Of the company had returned and is now
| at desk IN the Western Union Office. To-
| day the men formed in a line and paraded
from their hall on the west side to a new
and larger hall on the east side of the CITY
There a meeting was held at which it was
stated that encouraging news had been re-
ceived from all over the country. 1t was
said that twenty-three linemen and fifty
! operators had joined the ranks of the
strikers yesterday.
The situation in the Western Union
Office is apparently unchanged. Over 200
operators were at work, and none seem idle,
General Superintendent Merrihew said
everything was encouraging, and in Ionly
a few cases was there any delay in business
He stated positively that there was not a
single dummy in the room. Young women
were there this morning awaiting to be
tested, and he said none were engaged un-
less they were competent to do the work.
AS general rule, Merrihew said, the new
hands were much better operators than
| they expected to be able to obtain, and the
ranks were filling rapidly. To-day some
new hands who are not required at the
main Office will be sent out of town to man
some Offices left vacant by the strike.