The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-30
.ELEPHONEC CO.
N D N E N
AT ODDS
Detectives Pat on Watch.
Trouble Over Man They
Say Is a "SpOtter."

Serious trouble between the philosophers
and their helpers and the New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company was mar
rowly averted today, and SO afraid were
the officials Of the company that private
detectives guarded the various cable sta
tons throughout the city.
There were no attempts whatever made
by the workmen to injure any of the com
pany's property-in fact, the action of the
men involved brought the company to an
understanding and a change Of opinion
and although the men were locked out on
Monday they all returned to work yes
terday and 1t is believed that the backbone
of the trouble has ended. The trouble
started recently when four of the spiders
were discussing matters of interest to them
at New Brunswick.
A short time ago the company placed
in service a certain out-of-town man who
did not appeal very we'll to his fellow
workmen. There appears to be a bitter
feeling between the Newarkers employed
by the company and those from other
cities, who are known as the travellers
1t happened that one of the quartet
dropped the subject which p~ertained to
the splicer who was disliked and made
a foreman, and more recently a "spotter.'
The discussion reached the ears OF The
company officials and they decided to lei
two OF tho splicers and one helper go
This aroused the other workmen, who are
all members of the international Brother
hood of electrical Workers No. 567, ano
there was some talk of a general strike
Following this the splicers claim that
there was a "nigger in the wood pile
who carried a report of all that transpired
at their meetings, and the company ten
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two things to choose from.
'You cannot work for the interest of the
company and be a member of the union,
was their cry, and their demand was thai
all should withdraw from the union.
AT first the men were given severn
hours to decide, but the plan was changed
and the time allotted was extended 4
week. and ended last Saturday night. Dur
ing this time the men were all in favor
of remaining in the union, and further in
sisted that the three men discharged b.
again put to work. When Monday arrived
and the company had, received no defnit,
all of the splicers should be dropped from
their payroll.
The men were notified and when severn
of them learned that there were a mum
Der of broken cables out of order they Sc
out to repair them, and this demonstrate
to the company that their hiring detective
to watch the various cable houses was use
less and they not only allowed the men I
return to work but took back the thre
men discharged. Ali was well today, bu
no one in authority could be reached o.
either side that could make any forma
statement with regard to the situation, bu
it is believed that all is over.
eve were aggravated when we lesrne
that the company hired detectives !
watch their property said one of tn
splicers today. I'VE showed them tha
we were not of the troublesome sort whe
we repaired a lot Of broker cables the da
they wanted us to decide. Thus we save
them thousands of dollars
The spIicers would not admit that a
was over. and intimated that there wa
likely to be trouble while the Brooklynii
was a %suotter. '"rhey made him a for'
man Mt first. and when they saw that
couldn't make good they turned him int
a spotter. He is an informer, and we nay
no use for him and that ends It,"
If the strike was declared or the loekol
continued it would affect 200 men, h ma
jority being residents Of this city.