The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-09-09
WALK OUT AND FAIL 10 co BACK.
THE RESULT IS THAT OTHER
GIRLS WILL BE SECURED TO
TAKE THEIR PLACES.
COMPANY SENT 10 INDIANA FOR A
CHIEF, WITH A VIEW 10 I'M
PROVING THE SERVICE AND
AFTER THAT THINGS
DID NOT GO RIGHT.
Operator Has a Grievance and Goes out.
Others Join Her as a Matter Of SYM
pathy.-Giris Come from Several
Nsighboring Towns to Take
Their Places.


The CIarksburg Consolidated Telephone
company has a strike on its hands in
the exchange Office in this city. The
operators all went out except two regu-
lars and five relief girls. The superin-
tendent requested that it be not writ
ten up by the newspapers, both on ae-
count of the company and the striking
operators, and so the daily papers here
let it pass without notice, believing It
would be beneficial to all concerned TO do
30. But the Fairmont Times comes out
in gIaring headlines about it, and other
papers have more or less to say about it,
40 that the Telegram concludes that the
home papers are now Mt liberty TO say
something about, the telephone manage
ment having not successfully suppressed
the matter
The Faimont Times has this to say
about it:
's1.he Consolidated Telephone company
now has strike on its hands at ClarlSs-
burg. where the exchange operators
threw down their tools and walked out
in a body this morning. OF the twelve
operators employed ut the Clnrksburg
eentral, only five are left at their posts.
"Just what the trouble is can not be
learned, but It is stated by some that
the strikers object to the chief operator,
who is alleged to be mean and unrenson-
-tbIe in hsr demands. too free to drive
ia girls under her as though they were
slaves. Another report says the chief
operator has disposition like a seraPh
md is kindness itself. and that the quit
ting girls are entirely to blame.
aAIanager j. Walter Barnes is today
in Clarksburg wrestling with the hello
problem. Tie strikers, it is said, viii
not be taken bacIS. but win be allowed
to pine in illeness while new operators
draws their princely salaries"
The situation, as we gather it, is about
as given below. The company concluded,
after Miss Bess Shuttleworth resigned>
as chief operntor that none of the other
girls had the ability to be chief, and the
services OF Miss Britton, Of Rockville,
Ind. were secured She Is said to be a
irst-cIass OPERATOR and is all business.
One of the girls had a grievance and quit.
Others quit in sympathy and only two
of the regular operators returned to
work. Others were willing to return,
and were on the way, but were met by
he girl who had a grievance and they
we're persuaded to sty out. This ieft
the chief two regular operators and the
relief girls to run the exchange.
Superintendent Barnes came to the
scene and went to work on the case. II
was decided TO get other girls, and ar
rangements were made Mt once to bring
them from salem, Weston, Manninston
and other places, the aim being to fiii
the places OF the strikers at the earliest
moment, so as not to impair the service.
There are two sides to the question, OF
course, as there always Is, and it may
take few days to bring out all the facts
but if the above is not just right, It may
be depended upon that the hello girls
win be heard from, and the company
may have something to say about It TOO
It may be a case Of 4tit-for-tat-