New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
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Before the mass meeting 800 union teleg-
raphers employed by companies using leased
wires held meeting At this gathering oper-
ators for brokers, news agencies and CONNER
cial organizations including the stock yards
packing houses were represented resolution
was adopted declaring that this class Of labor
was underpaid and that tho various firms
would be asked TO sign wage scale and also
70 employ none but union telegraphers II was
decided to let the private wire men prepare and
present their own schedules TO their employers.
The broker operators will present their sched-
aale at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, asking for
a minimum wage of $50 week
The men employed by the press associations
presented their requests al f;3e o'clock to-
1ieht giving the employers twenty-four hours
10 comply with the request. The schedule calls
for s3s, 4 week for six nights week and 40
cents an hour overtime for night operators
pient hours 70 constitute nights work. with
,.alf an hour for luncheon. Operators employed
by re-rs associations and newspapers for day
work ask for $50 a week and go cents hour
ryerti71e eight houre 20 constitute days work
Il at the end OF twenty-four hours the re-
quests have not met with a favorable response
the racn wiz report TO the union officials. and
shey say strike wifi De ordered to enforce the
demands.
n regard t. the newspaper end Of the con-
rroversy, Secretary Russell issued the following
statenlent tonight:
.T All Publishers - the United States and Canada
The Commercial TeiegrapheT5' Union does not de-
sire in any way whatever 10 hamper the newspa-
yers of the country. We fighting for rights
however and believing that the telegraph op-
rafcrs employed in this service are underpaid. we
have authorized our TO present schedule TO
s,heir employers asking for what we consider
reasonable reccmpense for their labors- III these
demands are not met by the various news satIeI- gamer
iSng organizations within specified time the men
will he ordered 10 quit work
In Chicago to-day officials of both companies
declared that they had more men working than
,hev needed Mr. Capen. general superintendent
,.e tre Postal Telegraph Company in Chicago
said:
The first break in the strike has occurred A
,,r5o man has applied fo- his old place and has
,oeen reinstated We are handling all the bust
,,ess that comes to US and have plenty of opera
tnrs More we're On duty than is usual on sun
days
Mr. T1evhoff night manager Of the Western
Union Chicago office. said: Our wires are an
clear tonight and have been able to
handle the business all day with dispatch. we
nov have more than one hundred operators
working in the Chicago Office, and we are adc-
.ng men every hour. From present indications
II z-5n NOT he long before shall be able TO
open some Of our branch offices throughout the
81, These Offices have been closed since the
strike began When came on duty to-nlsh'-
so,lnd more men than were needed ana sest
twenty of them home.
afo7yt five hundred men were added TO the
ranks Of the strikers to-day. The new recruits
come from various parts Of the country IN
.aacF, case the strike was preciptated by refuSaI
% work with ron-llnior men in other cities To-
might approximately forty-five hundred teles-
aaphers are on strike.