The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-13
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEN WALK OUT
Partial Report Is Received in
Salt Lake Over Postal
Wire.
ENTIRE COUNTRY AFFECTED
THREE EMPLOYEES OF POSTAL
QUIT IN SALT LAKE.

OF first Importance in the develop
ments in the local situation with refer
ence TO the telegraphers' strike was the
walkout, at $40 o'clock last evening, of
the operators employed by the Associ-
ated Press in this city, The operators
number six, but the strike affects eight,
on account of the fact that two extra
men are usually employed to relieve the
regular men-not by the company, but by
the company and men in combination;
the men hire their own substitutes.
Last night there was not line of AS
ISOLATED Press received over the
leased wires in Salt Lake after
operator on the last sheet of copy taken
by +. A. Adams. The last item on the
last sheet was simple enough, saying
merely that the whole country was out.
Would Have Waited.
Salt Lake and the northwest circuit and
the west circuit, when the operators read
the answer of Melville Il. Stone, the gen.
eral manager of the Associated Press. to
the demands for an increase of wages,
at first voted faYorably on proposition
TO give Mr.. Stone until $50 Tuesday even
ing to call meeting of the board of d.
rectors OF the association by wire. From
the south and middle southwest came
such a demand for immediate action that
there was nothing left for the local men
TO do, save to join the movement at once.
favor OF an immediate strike.
Shortly before midnight Manager bod
secured communication with the Associat-
ed Press offices in Chicago, and arrange
ments were made for the forwarding of
about 1900 words of the Associated Press
report to subscribers in Salt Lake City.
What Men Ask.
The Associated Press operators ask an
eight-hour day, the rate of pay to be So
for day men and $35 for night men, six
nights, with overtime and extra time at
GO cents the hour.
In the United States, Canada and Mex
leo approximately 500 newspapers are
served with Associated Press. This in
cludes the great dailieS which are classi-
fled as members. and the smaller papers
which are served with 'ponies" from diff
ferent centers-repOrt for the Nevada
towns for example. The telegraph ser
vice for this class of papers is not I'M
der the direction or the Associated Press,
but is turned over to the telegraph COM
panies. These reports vary in volume
from a few thousand words TO the full
night report of the association. which ag-
gregates fourteen or fifteen thousand
words. Four newspapers receive the As
ISOLATED Press service in Salt Lake.
Sunday night the Postal company
placed an advertisement with some of the
newspapers, the drift of which was that
telegraph operators were wanted. At a
meeting of the local union yesterday fore
noon a committee was appointed to wait
out if the advertisement were not at once
withdrawn. Later three men in the Pos
tai service went out
Only One Man Short.
The strike in our office" said Man
ager ID. McNicol of the Postal. lis annoy
ing. of course. but it is not seriously Grip
ping our business. Mr.. Hawk, the SUI
perintendent of the district, and myself
are filling two of the vacancies caused by
the retirement of the men, and we have
our two chief operators left So that,
really, We are only one man short.
I'VE are working with Chicago and are
nearly clear at this time g o'clock.
do not know who is working in Chicago,
but 1 presume the people who man the
wires are mostly chiefs There are q
great many in the electricians depart
ment who are operators"
The Postal went out in New York yes
terday, and also in Denver, as well as
in numerous smaller places.
In the Western Union.
Manager Long, Chief Operator McDon-
aid and one man are at work in the
said that he had taken no action with
reference to the proposed wage scale pre-
scented by the men Friday night
I'VE are keeping business moving. but
! confess that we are not getting much
sleep. We have a Chicago wire, an Oak
land wire and Denver wire. We are
still placing the restriction on our BUSH
ness, subject to delay"
A large number of the operators yes
terday enjoyed an outing at Lagoon.
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BE A KNIGHT FOR A DAY.
Saltair, August 10, 1907.
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