Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-29
ROBERTS ALSO BUYS LEADER
Two Morning Newspapers at DsS MOinoI to
Be Consolidated as Register Leader.
RAIN INTERFEREs WITH THE CARNIVAL
LInemen and Electrical Workers
Strike in sympathy with the TeIe-
phone GIrIs-Rains Do Great
Damage.
CFrom a STAFF Correspondent

DIES MONIES, June 2S.-(Special Tele-
gram .)-Beginning next Tuesday the two
morning newspapers In Des Moines, the
Leader and Register, will be consolidated,
and will appear as one. George E.. Roberts
will be editor-in-chief. The assistant ed
itor in direct charge of the editorial page,
will be Harvey Ingham Of Algona. Allan
Dawson, present editor Of the Leader, will
be managing editor, Sam Strauss, business
manager Of the Leader, will be publisher Of
the new paper. A company will be formed
on Monday with $500. 900 capital fully paid
up to own the property. Both papers were
taken over on practically even terms. The
Clarksons retire absolutely from the paper
with tomorrow's issue.
The new paper will be published from the
Leader office until the Register block is
renovated, when 1t will be moved there.
The paper will be issued seven days a
week, and the name will be the Register
Leader. Negotiations have been going on
for the deal for more than a year, but
the announcement came as a surprise to
everybody.
Bad Week for Carnival.
The week Of the Elks' summer festival
in Des Moines closed tonight. The weather
has been very bad for the festival all week,
there being only one fair day and three
Of the days being cold with heavy rain
falling. The only day that was At for the
occasion proved a most successful one,
there being many thousands OF persons in
the city. The Elks' lodge had secured one
Of the principal streets with an enclosure
in which they conducted a fair. A feature
was a kangaroo court, where hundreds of
the men Of the city and the visitors were
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thousand dollars was secured for a building
fund. The Elks' lodge is preparing to
build a clubhouse. The festival, though
handicapped by the weather, was regarded
as a success.
The electrical workers OF Des Moines
| made a demand on the telephone managers
today that they recognize the telephone
operators union, and receiving an unfav-
orable reply, the linemen belonging to the
union quit work at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
| Only one person failed to stop work. All
the electrical workers Of every kin con-
nected in any way with the telephone bust
ness will stop until the strike Of the girls
is disposed of. A meeting will be held to-
morrow by the Trades and Labor assembly
and the policy Of having sympathetic
| BITlhBb Will JIG OllO"Su AuANhSA NN ON
men will go out. A number of persons have
been here from other cities Of the state
making an investigation into the situation
and they contemplate interesting workers
in other cities in the fight Of the girls here.
1--WE are going to strike while the iron Is
hot" said President Minton Of the Trades
and Labor assembly, this afternoon. The
time is ripe for unionism to strengthen lis
hold In Des Moines. The opportunity VIII
be accepted. Unionism must be recognized
We will stay by the telephone girls. the
electrical workers go out first, because they
are most closeI- connected with the girls
on account OF their connection with the
companies. II the strike Of all electrical
workers does not prove effective in bring
ing about a settlement with the girls on
union terms, then the strike will be car
ried further and further until 1t does sue
coed. II necessary we will call out every
member of organized labor in Des Moines
This is an important fight, and we propose
to win, II 1t takes all summer. A special
meeting Of the trades assembly has been
called for 10 O'Clock tomorrow and the
strike matter will be gone into thoroughly
at that time"
Demands n New Trial.
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