The sun., 1907-08-12

ne counted aB extra on the basis OF seVen
hours per day or night. and where you
deem it wise TO do 50 you may also furnish
free meals and lodgings until we return to
our normal condition.
Chief operators working IA chiefs will
he paid for all overtime at the regular rate
Of pay. Chiefs or sub-chiefs who work at
the key will be given their regular salary
as a bonus and receive extra for all time
worked at the highest rating for operators =
Vice-President Nally sent out by tele-
graph an advertisement for insertion in all
papers published in affected cities. The
advertisement Offers permanent Jobs 10
those taking the strikers positions. with
full protection.
W. ]. Capen. general superintendent for
the Postal company In Chicago. has ad-
dressed an open letter to all union men in
the points within his territory warning
them that the Postal will not submit 20
union pressure and asking them TO consider
the step they are taking. The letter calls
attention 10 the fact that most of the Chicago
force remained away from the meeting
held there in May, at which the latest wage
schedule to he demanded OF the Postal
people was formulated.
At the New York Offices Of the Western
Union and the Postal companies it was said
Ivy the night managers last night that wires
10 Chicago and other cities affected 10y
strikes were working smoothly and that
the light Sunday business had been easily
disposed Of
NEW YORK LOCAL REFUSES TO STAMPEDE.
The New York local met in the afternoon
AZ Manhattan Lyceum. ~ East Fourth
street Seven hundred members were pres
ent. II took the conservative element three
hours TO carry "A motion postponing a strike
until the mediators Of the national body
and Of the American Federation OF Labor
have had negotiations with the telegraph
companies in Chicago and empowering the
executive board of the local TO call strike
Immediately il by next Friday the repre-
sentatives Of the telegraphers have failed
to secure material and favorable conces-
sions from the Western Union and the
Postal
This action came after there had been a
vigorous attempt 10 stampede the mem
hers into an immediate strike. II had been
the intention Of the more radical men to
rush through an order for a walkout To
take effect either at midnight last night or
al noon to-day. and when the meeting was
called at O'Clock this programme was put
nto the field AZ once
The radicals had been restrained by the
president and executive committee since
the first outbreaks in the West and they
were in a warlike temper. So unanimous
seemed the strike sentiment that when the
meeting was callei Percy T homas. ap-
pointed deputy national presi dent for New
York and the Eastern scab oard. announced
in an opening address that he was ready to
indorss the sentiment Of the ajority.
Al moment when the radicals seemed
about 10 have their way James p. Archibald.
local secretary of the Civic Federation.
gained the ear Of President Ahearn and
told him that he had just been IN communi-
cation by telephone with Labor Commits
siener Neill at Washington. Neill had urged
him to put before the meeting the fact
that a conference was to he held in Chicago
between President Small of the telegraphers.
Ralph NJ. Easley of the executive committee
Of the Civic Federation. Samuel Gompers.
president of the American Federation of
Labor. and the officers of the telegraph
companies, and TO warn tho New York
teegraphers against taking action before
the results Of the conference could be known.
OLDER MEMBERS URoE DELAY.
When President Ahearn put this before
the meeting there was a turn in the tide
Daniel r. Russell. chairman OF the locals
board of strategy; Herman A. Robinson,
financial secretary of the Central Federated
Union, and MI. Reidy, the Boston member
of the executive committee Of the CONNER
cial Jclegraphcrs Union, made speeches
advising DELAY
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IN the telegraphers strike oi mss ana VINO
nau charge "' '"e etr,Ae ~ 'n'S envy az '''"'
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sell. formerly editor OF the Tctfgrdph ,Ce
when that rapcr was a union organ. and
other Of the older men followed
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uIoh nm Une "rath ol 'he raiicais. ne sain
tnat he vas leaving Tor Chicago last night
ard that there in conjunction with the
other mouobera of the national committee
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hhncu''l's "i'ho"' 'he necessary ol gem
eral strike
Thomas J. Dunn offered the motion thar
~ ,;o., ,r tho ,,Iea ,r Labor Cor,risa;onor