Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-08-10
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ScAB LABOR
No Other hind Wanted in the
W j telegraph Company

There is war On at the present in
the Western Union Telegraph Co.
between the regular skilled operators
and the scabs.
The company has laid down the ul-
timatum that no operator can work
| tor the company belonging to tele-
graphers union, or who is suspected
of sympathy with such al organiza-
| tiOn $685.
AS result of this policy, skilled op-
| orators qualified by their knowledge
of the business to belong to union,
are being weeded out of the employ
| OF the company and ssab labor sub
stituted. At the present time the war
is going on in the big cities and any
man who is able to spoil his name on
| a telegraph key can get employment
with the Western Union people
| The result is evident in the wretch
ed service that this antiauatet, com
pany is now giving the people of the
coast.
| The writer recalls three instances
in his own experience within the last
year. He wants to meet a man at
| WadswOrth and telegra rhe him to be
at the train. The dispach YVES never
delivered, because wn4n it reached
Wadsworth it was twisted around so
! that 1t was directed to the sender and
! the name Of the party the dispatch
| should have reached was signed TO it.
The sen,.er took a trip to Wadsworth
in the night and was out his eXpen-
ses, and the company generously Of
fered to refund the money. Twenty
five cents.
A few weeks ago the writer sent a
dispatch from San Francisco to this
cityfiied at six o'clock in the evening,
and it reached this city at ten the
next morning.
A few days ago dispatch was sent
ter wired to him 10 meet her at the
Ferry depot, but the dispatch reached
him some hours after the train had
arrived.
We know of instances where dis
patches We're lost entirety. OF one in
stance, when an operator had to t.
step across a platform only to deliv
er an important message and declin
ed to do SO. saying that he was not {
delivery boy
A few days ago a didspatch was sen
over the Western Union wires to the
Asylum but did not arrive on time
and it cost the State extra.
People complain OF the wretchet
condition of the service of this di
lapidated company through this Stat
and it is matter OF general common
that the mail delivery is quicker thai
1.-THE Western Union, better write o
take the message yourself on the train
In a city like San Francisco, VIII.
does not the company when they recei
We message directed to some one
say twenty blocks from thhe Office
telephone it to them at cost to them
selves Of five cents?
Not on your life. Such rapid tran
sit as this for a Western Union mes
sage would upset all the established
8 nosS-covered prec dents Of the sys
tenn and could not be tolerated.
One would think that since Jon
I tIackay started his Postal Telegra p
company and shook up their old ant
delGvian system. that they would hav
hustled little, and improved in tn
face OF such lively competition. bu
they seemed TO have become dishear
aneG and their service has grown ste;
Oily worse. Now they have begun t
weed Oft their best operators an
these are being snapped up by tn
Postal Company as fast as they ar
let out Result. The Postal Compan
is steadily improving, its service an
e the Western Union is decorating
l. the same proportion.
/ The Appeal hopes the public wi
take up the cause Of the men VIII
e are giving long hours. low wages an
Ii orders to get out whenever they joi
e a teiaSraphers Union.
IS If the public will throw it's patrol
u age to the Postal whenever it ca
l. it will be step in the RICH direction.
Already the business of the Post;
has increased as a result of the strik
Is and its service improved.
y AS fast as skilled labor is kicked OF
L. Of the Western Union the patronag
Il OF the public should follow and 6
&c along with it to the rival company.