The sun., 1907-08-13

disa bility draws 80 per cent OF his salary.
Those who leave us In this strike will be
considered as new men II they are ever
reenGaged. Their years Of service count
for nothing.
Though we ara temporarily embar-
rassed by the walkOut we will continue
our business AZ n there were no strike and
within twenty -four hours we will be able
TO continue our business uninterrupted
Mr.. Brooks, general manager OF the Fast
ern division Of the Western Union. char
acterized the wslkout from that Office ss an
attack Of hysteria. He said
Il know the name Of the man who was
delegated to blow the whistle that was 10
call the union operators out and l also know
that he did not blow IL. II was somebody
else who stood on the landing outside OF the
door to the operating room on the seventh
floor and blew his whistle-some irrespon-
sible who just took a chance. Why, II q
Wall Street m8nipulator who wanted 20
see a depression in Western Union stocks
should have come and blown that whistle
the men would have gone out just the
same.
But now that they are out we are not
worrying We will have m many wortnnR
on the night force as there ever are On
Tuesday we will close up some OF the hfteen
or twenty Offices we have in the financial
district for the convenience OF the brokers
and move those operators up here. A
broker may have to walk block further to
file his stuff, hut that will he all the inoon-
yenienoe that will attach to the change.
The men OF the branch ofices are TO
large extent unorganized. and as couse-
uuence they have stayed with US. We viii
bring them down here to the main office
for the time being, but we can reopen our
uptown branches in a short time. There
are plenty Of telegraphers out OF work.
The recent movement against the bucket
shops here and elsewhere has thrown
many non-union telegraphers out OF work
and we can get them
| THREE MEN FIRED OUT UNoEREMoNIoUsLy.
Mr. Brooks referred to an incident which
| the union telegra pliers subsequently dilated
upon as being one OF the reasons for the
hasty strike yesterday
Last Saturday Thomas Brennan, who
has charge OF the hiring and discharging OF
men, discharged three union men who would
not take from a Chicago wire. said Mr..
Brooks. Those men came in to-day and
| Mr.. Brennan told them TO get out. That
seemed 10 enrage the union men who were
| in the room mt the time Mr. Brennan did
no more than act according TO his duty.
MIR. Brooks, who is general manager OF
! the American District Telegraph Com
pany, said that there had been no trouble
with the messenger boys and that he APP
pretended none. He said that Immediately
upon the walkout of the teegraphers at
the main office most OF the Western Union
operators on newspaper loops refused TO
take messa ges over the wires. They were
then discharged.
STRIKERS TELL WHY THEY LEFT.
At the Office Of the New York Local No 1,
Commercial Telegrsphers Union, Sc Pine
I st rect Daniel NJ. Russell. chairman Of the
locals board OF strategy, and President
Ahearn named the three specific causes
which led TO the walkout Of the men from
the Western Union. One was the remark
attributed by some Of the newspapers to
Supt. Barclay that the nine discharged te-
legraphers whose reinst atement the union
has been seeking were let out for drunken
ness. A second immediate cause Of aggra-
| walton. so the union officials explained
| WAS the fact that when the telegraphers
went to work at the Western Union central
! operating room yesterday they found twelve
special policemen stationed there; that was
an insult they could not brook. The third
and most grievous offence Of the Western
Union was that in yesterday morning.
papers the company had advertisements fol
| strike breakers, Needless Of the warning
embodied in motion passed at the meeting
| Of the local on Sunday.
The officers Of the local admit that the
men struck without their knowledge anc
without their sanction" said President
| Ahearn. lit is true. also, that they strucl
despite the motion adopted in the meeting
Of the local yesterday, but we are perfectly y
agreed that they we're justified and w
sanction their action"
Daniel NJ. Russell explained the inciden
Of the return to the Western Union ofRce'
Yesterday Of the three union men dis
charged on Saturday from the view point o
the union. He said that the three had no
received their pay, and that yesterda,
morning when they went up TO Mr.. Brennan
with the intent to ask him for pay check
they were abused. and an attempt was mad,
to strike one OF the union men by one Of IN,
under clerks. The sight of that indignity
reused the rest Of the telegraphers in tn,
room TO the point Of striking instantly. sale
Russell.
The same officer OF the union ASST gned Al
the grievance against the Postal oompan,
which started the wslkout there the fac
that a chief operator ordered H. A. Yoeli. I
well known hothead OF the union. to taxi
messages from a non union telegrapher II
Chicago. Yoell was discharged when h
refused.
Russell also said that one reason why tn
Western Union hastened the strike by op
posing union demands was that Supt. Bar
clay is the inventor OF a patent automati
receiver which he has sold to the company
Barclay. 40 Russell said. wants to have th
machine installed. and a strike would hes
show it's value.
The New York local received . Telegram
Of commentator on their action from Wes
ley Russell. national secretary OF the unioI
in Chicago. The telegram says that tn
strike il fully sanctioned by the nationa
body. and no yielding should he done with
ou, orders from an officer Of the nations
, organization.
WOMEN OPERATORS BoorED.
, The strik ere appeared in good humo