The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-16
ALL OPERATORS
OUT IN new YORK
STRIKE EXTENDED TO MANY
OTHER CITIES IN THE EAST
ERN STATES.
Montreal Men Quit in Sympathy-As-
ISOLATED Press TeIegraphers Leave
Their Keys - Gompers Promises
Support of Federation of Labor.

Chicago, Aug. 13.-Walk-out of
operators of the Western Union COM
pany and Postal company in New
York was the chief development of
Monday in the spread of the telegra-
piers strike. The men in the eastern
metropolis left their keys without
orders of the union officials, but the
latter will give support to the action.
Later in the day the Postal and
Western Union operators in Philadel-
phia, those of both companies in
Cleveland, Baltimore and Washington
quit work.
With Mondays strikes in different
cities the struggle extends from the
Atlantic coast to the Pacific and from
the Gulf of Mexico as far north as
Montreal, where about 80 operators
went out in sympathy with those of
the United States.
Associated Press Men Quit.
Many of the telegraph operators en-
ployed throughout the country by the
Associated Press went out on strike
Monday evening. All of the night op-
orators in the New York and Chicago
Offices quit.
Several of the large brokerage
houses yielded to the demands of
their operators and averted strike,
in others the men left their keys early
in the day.
Backed by Federation.
President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, arrived
in Chicago Monday and held a long
conference with other labor leaders.
He and all the others declared that
the federation would support the strik-
ers. Mr.. Gompers said:
GAS to the merits of the operators
strike know nothing. But the action
has had the sanction Of their execu-
tive committee and national officers
and that removes from the scope of
the inquiry any investigation into it's
merits.
I'VE assume that an affiliated or
ganization which has legalized a
strike has a just grievance and, ad-
herring to labor union principles, we
are determined to give the operators
our fullest support"
These Now Strike-Bound.
The following cities. aside from Chi
cago, are now strike-bound:
Memphis, Minneapolis, Oklahoma
City, Dallas, New Orleans. Topeka,
Pueblo, st. Paul, Knoxville, Sioux
City, Meridian, Miss, Birmingham,
Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Ell
Paso, Little Rock, Ark, Galveston, At
lanta, Ca, Texarkana, Ark, Milwau-
kee, Houston, Tex, Sedalia, No., Col
umbus, o., st. Louis, Jackson, Miss.
Augusta, Omaha, Council Bluffs,
Helena, Kansas City, Los Angeles,
Spokane, Butte, Denver, Charleston,
s. c., Beaumont, Tex, Nashville,
Tenn, New York, Fort Worth, Mont
gomery, Ala, Des Moines, Savannah,
Cairo, Chattanooga, Detroit, Mime
apolis, Montreal, Pittsburg, Buffalo,
Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Washing
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Jackson
vile, Fla, Columbia and Charlotte
Vile, S. c., Toledo, Cincinnati and
Trenton.
Whole Country Involved.
Chicago, Aug. 12.-With Chicago as
the center, the strike of the CONNER
cial telegraphers spread to nearly
every section of the country Sunday.
The strike fever seemed to run ram
pant, city following city in suffering
isolation
Chicago remains virtually isolated.
Although few leased wires are work
ing and the Associated Press continue
to furnish the newspapers with the
regular day and night reports, so far
as the public is concerned Chicago is
all but off the map. Every branch
telegraph Office in the city remains
closed and at the main Offices of the