Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-12
telegraph Wires Idle Throughout
Country in the Meantime Ex-
cept in a Few Localities.
GENERAL STRIKE PROBABLE
Newspapers Might BE Forced TO s"s'
pend Publication and Many En-
terprizcs Made Idle.

Chicago. Aug. 12.-Both the Western
1-nio, and Postal telegraph companies
claimed today to be in better condl,'o"
+han at any time since the commence
mont of the strike of the operators
Tho western Union announced early
tn the day that 1t had more than +Vv
r,,or at work and was able to care Tor
,nsinoss in fair shape The Postal
claimed to have about 100 men and also
asserted that the delay IN hanoiihs
messages was not great Both, now
ever. had posted in conspicuous places
NAT nessageso would be only accepted
subject to delay in transmission.
number of men were reported
last night by the Western Union ana
all Of them went to work today. Inc
officers of the Union claimed that the
companies had about one-third OF the
nuuber of men at work that they
claimed to have and declared that
many Of them were telegraph students
who are not capable OF doing goou
work.
WILL BE ORDERED OUT.
The decision of the operators at New
York. Washington and Boston not 70
strike did not disconcert the oiheers Vi
tbe union Secy. Weeley Russell SAID
today. ut makese no difference what
40 ,rcn cast vote to do. When the
sine comes they VIII be ordered out
and that will be ali there is 70 y. ln y,
vii come out when we want thetn-
NO ARBITRATION.
supt. Cook OF the Western Union ~,
this city today issued stateirsn ~, re &C.
.hnra Nh he no arbitration. Il VIII re.
ccSye no deputation of the strikers,
ss;s Mr. Cook. and will hold no COM
,,,,,,icotion with them excepting IN
ninn,,l,,. letter which will send out To-
day This will be brief and VIII feau'
Having left the employ OF tne cot,,r
many. YOU will apply at once loi sou,
,>av. we now have go men nj "orh
~ arc commencing TO choose our
,,on Today we have turned away d
n,,mher of applicants because we ala
moi consider them competent men,
GoMPERs IN CHICAGO.
Prest. Samuel Gompers of the Am
erlcan Federation of Labor arrived IN
tho CITY today to aid the strikers IN an
advisory caphciNy. i'N9'.
said: LAS to the merits OF tne 'e,rs-
raphers' strike. l know nothing. ine
action has had the sanction OF their
executive committee and nauonal Of
fcers. and that removes from the
scope of the inquiry any inVestgatioh
as TO It's merits.
we assume that an affiliated Or
ganization which has legaliZed a strike
has Just grievance and, according 20
union principles, we are determined 10
give the operators our best support,
Before any plan of action can be
adopted the local heads of union ana
the rational officers must confer. we
will 90 that some time today.
BOTH SIDES sAUCY.
The officials of the Chicago local
union today declared that they have
no more desire to arbitrate the issues
of the strike than has the Western
Union They made this declaration to-
day as soon as they learned of the eff
forts of the officials OF the NATIONAL
civic federation TO secure Intervention
again by Commissioner of Labor Neih
and of n reported promise by Prest.
Small 10 send the men back TO work II
the government will promise TO secure
arbitration.
Cen Secy. Russell received answers
today from many of the 1876 local UNI
Ions throughout this country and Cam
ada 10 whom he sent requests for
vote on the proposition to call gem
eral strike. All the replies so far, ac-
cording 10 Secy. Russell, are i'm favor
OF the general strike.