The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-28
TELEGRAPHERS ASK
ROOSEvElT'S AID
MAY HOLD STRIKE CONFERENCE
WITH PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT.
THEY WILL MEET At OYSTER BAY
Heads of Union and Other Labor
Organizations Will Gather in
New York City.

NEW YORK, Aug. 27-That the
strike Of the commercial telegraphers
will become more aggressive with the
arrival of National President S. j.
Smail from Chicago is the declaration
of the local leaders. They are not
yet ready to place hope in immediate
arbitration, in spite of the fact that
big labor men from various parts
of the country will follow Mr.. Small
to this city.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
head the peace delegation which
comes here for conference. John
Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, was said
to be on his way from Indianapolis
to aid the work of arbitration. Unit
ed States Labor Commissioner Char
les p. O'Neill is ready to come from
Washington at any time.
Whether there will be peace con-
ference VIII be decided after Presi-
dent Small has looked over the situa-
ton. It is possible the labor men
will endeavor to secure a hearing be-
fore President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay
A new feature of the strike was
the initial appearance of Fair Play,
the strikers organ, edited by Daniel
l.. Russell, chief of the board of
strategy. 1t is a neatly printed eight
page paper and sold readily at the
price of cents copy. but the first
hundred copies offered for sale
brought $24, some paying as high as
a quarter for the paper.
b. Brooks of the Western Union,
in statement, said:
Il want to say with emphasis that
so far as we are concerned the strike
is over While there are men among
the strikers whom | should like to see
return to our operating rooms FOR
their value as experts, there is not
one whom we would make any spec
ial effort to get back.
wrong impression has gone forth
that we are fighting organized labor.
We are not doing so. We gave our
operators full permission to join any
organization they wished so long as
they did not inject it into our affairs.
Company Ignores Small.
"But we do not deal with any com
mittee of union. We do not pro-
pose to recognize unions or organized
labor in the conduct of our business.
NO officer of this company will recog-
nize or even see Mr.. Small if he
comes to New York. The Western
Union company is carrying on its
business from night to night and day
to day in a normal condition and
without overworking single mem
ber of it's operating staff.
This comment called forth an out
burse from Chief Strategist Russell,
who said that it amused telegraphers
who knew the inner workings of the
Western Union Office to see Mr..
Brooks take the high moral plane
that has marked his recent inter-
views.
1--WE know what the Western I'm
ion officials did when the Telegraph
ers union passed a resolution that its
members should not operate gamb-
ling VIII es,' said Mr. Russell to the
Hearst News Service reporter. "They
put non-union men on the wires and
continued to give active assistance to
the gambling element.
Boodling Is Charged.
I'VE defy the Western Union on
man wh) ever violated his trust hy
leaking un confidcntiaI message
hich ed throu:a lis nands. We
can prove Chat they are employing
! men as ebreakers Who have sold
over the wires.
There were no developments in the
threatened strike of the railroad OPP
orators on the Long Island system
Vice President McCrea, who has the
telegraphers' demands under consid-
Grafton, was not at his office today.
He has until tomorrow to decide.
The Great Western railway, which
handles Western Union messages in
Canada, and the Canadian Pacific
railroad. which serves the Postal,
have announced that they will not
| force their operators to handle non
union commercial messages.