The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-12
NO STRIKE IN SIGHT.
And None Is Likely by the Telegraph
 Operators,

I
 | The articles that have appeared in
 the newspapers during the last week to
 the effect that the telegraphers all along
 the line of the Consolidated road were
 on the verge of great strike seem | to be somewhat padded out and in some
 cases entirely groundless. Some of the | officials of the road have been inter- | viewed and in every case they say the reports are, as a rule, entirely wrong and that the startling stories which have appeared within the last two or | three days concerning the telegraphers
 are made to seem a great deal more
 dangerous than they really are. Superintendent Waterbury of the New London division said last night when l speaking about the matter: "The stuff which appeared in a local afternoon paper two or three days ago stating that the superintendents of the divisions had received petitions from great
 many operators of the road, is a fake from beginning to end. Not superin-
 tendent has received a word from tee-
 graph operator, and in my mind the
 telegraphers at least great majority,
 are perfectly satisfied with the prevail ing conditions.
 q do not feel that anything will ever
 come out of the current strike talk
 MT. Waterbury went on to say that
 it was the same way with the brake men and baggage men short While ago. The papers were full of strike tax for more than a week, the imagination of the reporters was exhausted and the matter finally dropped, showing the strikes to be nothing but strikes or the pen.
 Boston, Aug. 11.-General Manager Chamberlain of the New York; New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, into whose hands the controversy De- tween the road and it's telegraphers has been placed. states that he does not anticipate a strike, but that If one should take place the road would slm- ply return to the original principles or railroading, whereby running ume' stops and meeting places were estapllsh- ed and observed by fixed rules.
 MT. Chamberlain says that no com- plaint of any kind has been made by any telegrapher of the company to the head of that department which step would be necessary, as under the sys- lG1H Ol luH IUdo et EiiS Nt'iiSS S''S 'N'0 be presented to the head of depart ment, and failing to get satisfaction by this course, complaint then may be made to the general sperintendent, then to the general manager, and finally to the board of directors.
 General Manager Chamberlain says that a committee representing the Tel egraphera' association waited upon him recently, but he declined to see them because of the fact that they came 1 as members of the organization rather than as employees of the road. There | was one employe of the road on the 1 committee
 With reference to what the road | would do in case of strike, MT. Cham | berlain said:
 "'If there wasn't a telegrapher we | would run the road just the same. | They are not essential, though conven- ient There are meeting places for all | trains, and the tralnmen would simply | follow the rules which are laid down for their guidance when there are not | proper telegraph facilities for some rea- son.
 "'Ae to tower men. any man of in-  eration in a very few hours and be- sides all these switches can be operat- ed on the ground by switchmen as in former times, if need be.
 "Concerning the dissatisfaction among the freight handlers of the company, MT. Chamberlain said that the New ' ork, New Haven and Hartford road was paying the same rate of wages as the other New England roads and they can see no reason why they should pay more than the other companies In case of a strike in this department, MT. Chamberlain says he has 250 applica- tioHs for clerkships on file and 800 from laborers from which all vacancies could readily be fled''