The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-17
NO GREAT EFFECTS
TELEPHONE STRIKE HAS LITTLE EF-
 FECT IN CITY.
Manager Lyle Says Only Three Wcrkmen and no Linemen Went Out-Sec- retary Bivins Makes state
 upeut.

The effect of the general strike of the electrical workers employed hy the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, embracing the cities of seven Southern
 States, was not felt as greatly in MontGom- cry as in other cities. The order for the
 strike went into effect at 9 o'clock yester-- day morning. Manager Edward Lyle. of the local eI-
 change says little or inconvenience Is being experienced by the company in Mont
 gomery and that throughout yesterday, only
 three employees went. they being inside wire
 men. None of the llnemen. he says. have
 quit work.
 Workers Union of Montgomery, says that
 many of the men in Montgomery have gone
 out. including bona fide union men and non-
 union workers
 Manager Edward Lyle of the Montgomery
 agency of the Southern Bell Telephone
 Company said last night that the alleged
 strike had had no perceptibie effect upon
 the work nf the Montgomery agency. As yet he said 1t had not disturbed the friendly relations existing between the linemen and
 the officers of the company
 "so far as 1 have been able to learn"
 said MT Lyle. "a total of only three men
 have gone out one was wire man. the ether two were men who investigated inside
 trouble men who are called trouble shoot
 CTS" by the lnemen. As yet not lineman
 has gone out.
 .rhe most harmonious and cordial rela-
 tions have existed between us and the line
 men We pay them 80 cents an hour. which
 I take 1t is pretty good wages We pay
 the 30 cents an hour for day of nIne houls
 long and if they work over time pay
 them extra. Moreover. we permit the line
 men to quit work Saturday at o'clock and then pay them for full days work Of
 nine hours The alleged strike has not r the least affected the efficiency of our working force and the same cordiality exists ha of the has all ways existed
 "Things look good" said Secretary Bivins of Union No 363. last night. but l suppose l it will be but few days before some agree IT ent can he reached.
 .The strike affects all electrical work CTS in the employ of the Bell people. this l includes inside wiremen and lnemen There are about twenty-five of them employed | from this exchange About ten of them went | out yesterday morning and the remainder struck during the afternoon .'Tomorrow morning the company will | find itself with possibly one inside and on" | outisde man. There are about eleven or twelve bona fide union members among the | twenty-five. but the non-union men are also l with the movement.
 What we ask is in the nature Of requi- | sition. For our men. we want an increase | of 25 cents more per diem, meaning SE tS' instead of s2 50 day. We do not ask for shc rter hours and right here want to say that the ocmpany is trying 10 leave the impression that we also asking for q change in hours. This is not SO We have been asking for an increase since Auguet. 1904"
 The orders for the strike. supposed to take effect at 2 o'clock yesterday morning
 were issued from headquarters in Atlanta
 The orders were transmitted to the elac- trIcal workers of Montgomery by Secretary Bivins
 The strike affects about 1.50o men in the Statns of Alabama Georgia. North Carolina
 snuth Carolina. West Virginia. Virginia and Florida.