The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-08-17
BOTH SIDES ARE
FIRM IN STRIKE
Corporations Contend Trouble is All
Over-OperatOrs are Sure. Of
Winning.

Over-OperatOrs are Sure Of
Winning.
1 NEY YORK, Aug. 16.-That tn,
main Offices of the Western Uniol
and Postal Telegraph companies ar,
Istill terribly crippled is the encour
laging report brought to the striking
photographers in their headquarters IL
Everett Hall by their pickets, who
claim to know actual conditions.
| The report is supported by reli
liable information that 5000 messages
/! from New Orleans had been received
by express in the Western Union Of
flee, recopied on regular receiving
blanks and distributed as though
they had come over the wires
The strikers declare that both com
fpanies are expressing messages to
Philadelphia. Boston and other
| points today: that many of the young
women operating keys in the West
ern Union Office are students of tel
egraphy, incapable of sending or re-
ceiving message correctly, and that
only five expert telegraphers are
among the thirty at work in the Post
al Office
Statements for Companies.
President R. c. Clowry of the
Western Union declares that the
strike is over and that the company
! is turning down applications for re-
linstatement from union men.
vice-President Edward ]. Nally of
the Postal reports improved condi-
tions and that business is moving
as smoothly as usual.
General Superintendent Brooks of
the Western Union was most positive
that the strike was broken and de-
clared that the men now working for
the company would not be replaced
by strikers when the fatter were
ready to come back.
.They are keeping up the blum" :"
declared the officials of the CONNER
cial Telegraphers' Union. when
shown the statement of the officials.
Not a word of truth in any state
ment they have made" returned the
company men when asked about ex-
pressing kilograms and filling their
main Office with dummies"
Compromise with the striking
operators of the Associated Press IS
out of the question" declared Gener-
al Manager Melville K. Stone during
discussion of the strike situation.
Every one Of the operators who
went. out has been discharged and
not one will be taken back. Apph-
cations are being received daily for
the positions made vacant by the
strikers, which are considered as
among the best in the business.
We are opening our circuits rap
idly ana within few days we ex-
pect TO be running the same as be-
fore the strike.
brokerage Houses Yield.
The most striking local victory IN
New York is the capitulatlon OF the
big brokerage houses, which nave
been debating signing the $50 a
week minimum wage scale demanded
by the union members of the wall
street chapel.
Practically all of the big broker
age firms are now In line and VIII
he given their usual service over
leased wires.
A waikout was narrowly averted
in the telegraph department of Julius
S. Bache & Co... which employs from
twenty to thirty men. The firm. re-
fused to sign until it learned that ar
rangomen, al been made for a
walkout. VIZ hey signed the sched-
ule and their operators continued AT
work
State Attorney General jackson
ca me from Albany yesterday to look
Into the STRIKE situation. He deciar-
ed that the s.riae was OF vital impor-
tanee to ths. Interests of the state and
that it should have his fullest con-
sideration. He conferred with a
| con,,,sffon nf tho strikers who set
forth their claim that the company
had violated their franchises in not
properly transmitting messages IN
New York state. The attorney gener-
al is gov considering the strike sit
tuation and will confer with the
|strpSers again this afternoon.
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