The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-09
TELEGRAPH
STRIKE IS
SPREADING
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Chicago local union to the night OPP
orators applies also to day operators.
thus affecting some 700 men employed
In the main Chicago office during day
hours.
Late this afternoon it is expected
that the union will present to the
Western Union the following demands:
An S-hour day.
An increase of rs per eel In wages.
Recognition of the union.
If these are not granted in full. they
say. the strike will be continued.
No trouble was experienced today by
brokers and commission houses in
handling their business None Of their
operators had been called ont, and
all Of them reported today as dsuaL-
About twenty operators were at work
in the rooms of the Western Union.
and the officials Of the company de-
clared h a they expected many more
throughout the day. Wesley Russell.
the secretary of the local union, de-
| clared that the company would not be
able to man the wires OF handle the
business.
There were no signs OF disorder
around the Western Union building to-
day. but Chief of Police Shippey de-
tailed fifty. officers to see that no
crowds con~gregated about the West
ern Union building OF the Board Of
Trade. EARLY in the day many oper-
ators gathered near the Western Union
office, but they were ordered by the
officers to keep moving, and there was
no trouble of any kind
An insane man rushed into the Central
Police Station early in the day and In
quired In an excited manner for Presi-
dent Roosevelt. saying that he wanted him
to end the telegraphers' strike at once. He
was arrested
The Western Union tickers were almost
entirely out of business early in the day
and the men in charge declared that they
had no idea when conditions would inn
prove. The diminished service caused
much Inconvenience to brokers.
HELENA, Mont, Aug. s.--All Western
Union operators here are on strike.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. ga
meeting of the Salt Lake local of the
Commercial Telegraphers of America will
be held this Afternoon to decide whether or
not the men in the local Offices Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company shall
go out in sympathy with Los Angeles.
DENVER. Col. Aug. 3s.-The Western
Union operators in this city are ready to
go on a strike as soon as they are asked
TO use the wire to Chicago or Los Angeles.
1t is said that seventy put of the seventy
five day operators will walk out In case
of a strike.
NEW YORK. Aug. 9.-The strike Of the
telegraph operators In Chicago today is
regarded by the company as local in Its
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strike here. The walkout has hampered
the transmission OF business both to. and
from Chicago, but wire chiefs. and chief
operators are doing all they can to-
the business at the Chicago end of the
New York trunk lines.
1t is said at the local headquarters of
the telegraphers' union today that q. strike
of operators here because of the trouble In
Chicago was very unlikely.
Coloney CIowry, president and general
manager of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, today gave out the following
statement In relation to the strike at Los
Angeles and Chicago:
son July % an operator at Los Angeles
was charged with maliciously delaying
traffic. AS a careful investigation, which
occupied several days, showed conclusively
that he was guilty of deliberately OBJ
structing traffic on important circuits, he
WAS QStidTBGQ. a peLlllOu Slbueu ny O1uC
employees of the office, requesting his
reinstatememnt, was thereupon presented
to the local superintendent, and when the
signers we're advised that the mpa
would not tolerate the malicious delaying
of important messages n that the dis
charged operator would not be re-em-
ployed, the majority Of the operating force
quit work without notice.
Operators were Gent to take their places
from nearby points, and at IL o'clock last
night the operators in the Chicago office
employed on the Western circuits, acting
in conformity WIN resqlutlohs unaersLoou
organization, refused to work with the
non-union men at Los Angeles, and when
this was insisted on they quit work IN a
body. 81
The Chicago operators have presented no
grievances. and the present movement IS
an attempt to enforce. the closed snop
rule, which. if successful, would take con-
troll of the company's affairs out of its
hands. Such a condition., as las been
repeatedly shown, is inimical to the comb
dental and responsible character of the
company s relation to the United States
government ard TO the public,
Western business on the local stock ex-
change was affected by the Chicago
telegraph strike, and all early grain quota
tions and reports from Chicago we're de-
layed. The strike did NOT seriously inter-
fere with busines on the stock ~exchang
though commission houses with chicago
wires said that they had been notified. IN
Chicago by the Biographies Union mat
nothing except quotations and orders
should be sent over the private lines.
Roads Accept New Michigan Rate Law.
LANSING, Mich. Aug. 9,-The state
Railroad Commission has letters from
the Lake shore. the Michigan Central
the wabash and the Big Four rail-
roads saying that they will comply
with the new two-cept-fare law when
il goes into effect September,tl