The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
BREAK LOOKED FOR
 AMONG STRIKERS Telegraph Company Officials Say Men Will Return PLENTY MONEY ON HAND Operators Have Received a Large Amount Lately-The Men Say
 They Will Stay Out Till
 They Get Justice.
PLENTY MONEY ON HAND

New York September 14.-(Sepecial.)- Whether there will be a break in the ranks of the striking telegraphers this week. it was said tonight, will be known Monday morning when the working week of the operators begins. Officials of the telegraph companies said tonight that they expected a stampede of strik- ing operators to their old positions by Monday If there be no assertions to companies they will have to prepare for a continuance of the struggle. However, the indications in union circles were that there would be no stampede. No deser- tions from the ranks were reported today and the strikers exhibited the same deep purpose to win that has characterized them since the opening of the fight. Reports that the union was laeing in cash could not be verified.
 A telegram tonight from T. l.. Boyle of Springfield, Ohio. chaplain of the Ohio circuit of the Associated Press, saying that every member of the day force employed by the Associated Press in that state had struck. It was ex- plained by the local leaders that the day
  not struck before owing to misunder- standing with the union. The news from Springfield was regarded by the local leaders that this week the strike would be more complete than ever.
 That the Western Union had provoke the present strike to coerce the Postal in- to closer combination with itself was the assertion of a strike leader tonight, who would not permit his name to be used. This man pointed out that the strike had crippled the Postal much more than it had the Western Union because the men employed by the Postal were bet ter organized than those working for the other company. For this reason he said the Western Union had courted a strike to demonstrate to the Postal that if it hoped to dos business at a profit hence force the Postal would have to come under the protecting wing of the West ern Union.
 President Small of the National union, denied emphatically the reports that the union was hard pressed for funds. He said the Order of Railway Photographers had sent 1t three installments aggregat- ing s25,OOO and that tonight the union re- eeived sS0O0 from another source Daniel l.. Russell, the union chief strategist, made the same statement.
 Reports that we are hard pressed for money" said Russell 'are without foun- dation Proof that we can and will meet our financial obligations was furnished al noon today when We paid the strikers their regular weekly allotment. l may say, on passing, that mere money never won a strike. If the men and women in our ranks were more anxious to get money than to make sacrifices they would not be out on strike today. The demands made upon us for money have been moderate and we have experienced no difficulty in meeting them. As the days go by our financial obligations are becoming lighter. because many strikers are getting employment in other lines of work.
 Tt is not true that the American Fed eration of Labor is not helping us. That organization officially sanctioned our strike and issued a call to all affiliated bodies to help us to the very best of their ability and in a financial way in particular. Returns from the federation are necessarily slow, owing to the for malities that must be complied with, where so large an organization Is con cerned The Order of Railroad Tele- graphers has already paid into our na- tional treasury $25,000 and will in few days pay us $25.0 900 more.
 Both the Postal and Western Union companies admit that not single striker returned to work this week. That IS proof that we're out to stay until we get justice