Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-14

years the effort to bring about the settle
ment Of strikes by means of joint agree
ment arbitration has been attended by
considerable success
During the fve-year period. 1901 to 1900
). 10 per cent of all strikes and l.. 20 per cent
of all lockouts were settled by joint agree
ment. and 1.tD per cent of the strikes and
2.O2 per cent of the lockouts were settled
by arbitration These methods of settlement
have been thus far largely confined to a
few industries. practically ona-half of the
strikes and two-thirds of the lockouts set
tied by joint agreement being in the build
ing trades. and about IA per cent in the
coal and coke industry.
Of the strikes settled by arbitration more
than one-fourth were in the building trades
and IL per cent In the coal and coke In
dustry. These figures do not fully represent
these methods of settlement of disputes. be-
tween employer and employee for both
methods are being used to a large and in
ereasing extent to settle disputes before a
Stoppage of work occurs.
The question of financing the Washington
strikes is said to be occupying the attention
OF local labor leaders, and friends of the
telegraphers are reported to be taking steps
to hold mass meeting of the we'll wishers
OF the operators with a view of giving them
monetary assistance. The statement that
President Samuel Gompers has assured the
telegraphers of the moral and financial as
sistance of the American Federation of La
Dor has encouraged the telegraphers, it Is
said.
ing the statement that the telegraphers NAV
call upon the International Typographical
Union. now in session at Hot Springs for
funds to help out in the struggle against the
Postal and Western Union companies said
he did not think the printers organization
would be able to respond very literally, as
1t still has troubles of its own in connection
with the big eight-hour strike, which has
not yet been entirely settled and is still
costing their international body considerable
money.
In connection with the causes which led
to the telegraphers' strike comes an in
teresting report from Oakland, Cal, which
was in the earlier stages Of the walkout
termed the storm center of the strike"
The report says:
Mrs Sadie Nichols. the Western Union
telegraph operator who caused the strike
which threatens to cripple the commercial
telegraph systems of the country. is for
mer resident of Buffalo. She is the divorced
wife of Ernest A. Nichols former policeman
there. Mrs. Nichols left her husband ten
years ago. She said he was dismissed from
the department for failure to support her
and her son. She has been operator for
the Western Union in San Francisco and
Oakland for two years. Samuel J. Small,
national president of the telegraphers'
union. styled Mrs Nichols the storm CEN
ter of the strike
Concerning her position Mrs. Nichols
said: Il had been greatly bothered by the
operators at Los Angeles sending unintel-
ligibe messages on my wire. 1t was not
sibility of understanding what was being
sent. Several night chief operators tried
to make out the stun and on their failure
I suppose the trouble was reported to the
higher officials Of the company"
Mrs. Nichols denied reports from the
east that she had deserted her husband in
Buffalo. She asserted that she was the
victim of his neglect and that Superin-
tendent of Police Bull Of Buffalo had helped
her to get a divorce from her husband
subsequently procuring his dismissal from
the department
A Chicago writer has enumerated in the
Record-Herald the causes of the telegra-
piers strike. He gives them as follows:
Union telegraphers in Chicago refused to
work with strikebreakers in Los Angeles,
Cal
AS result LOO Western Union and 500
Postal operators and 800 messenger boys
walked out in Chicago.
This was followed by strikes in the prin-
cipal cities of the west, from the gulf to
Canada and the Mississippi to California.
At number Of centers chief operators
and wire chiefs were the only ones left to
handle business.
The telegraphers demand % per cent in
crease in wages an eight-hour day and the
recognition of the union.
One of the conservative labor leaders of
Washington Is Mr.. Oliver r Beaumont,
chairman Of the board Of trustees of the
Central Labor Union. He is also a writer
on labor topics over the nom de plume Tim
Tickle and always manifests a lively in
terest in all matters that affect the work.
ingman and his cause.
Credentials OF delegates from labor unions
to the Central Labor Union have been fled
with Secretary Sam De Nedrey as follows.
Steel and Copper Plate Printers-Patrick
]. Ryan.
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
workmen-George Bakersmith. G. Otto. F.
]. Beuchert, James Leonhardt and A.
Eckert.
International Association Of Marble
workers-George Ball.
Hold Carriers and Building Laborers-J. e.
Campbell. John Lightfoot. r. L. Johnson.
c. r. Henson. A. L. Murphy.
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers-R @.
NJ Ross W. P. Johnson. vice ]. c. Osborn,
and ]. II. Steffy. resigned.
brotherhood Of Painters and Decorators
William Hunt, D. G. Cleland. Garrett Tuck
err James Clarke. H. H. Baker.
Bakers-John G. Schmidt. John Weber.
Harry Langley.
brotherhood Of Stationary Firemen-
James Mcdonald, vice H. N. Ward, re-
signed.
Window Cieaners-Frank Longstreet. ]. L.
Perkins. N. 8. Keyser and Noah Lewis.
International Union Steam Engineers
George 7. Little. vice l.. c. Pottinger. re-
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