Evening star., 1907-08-11
WIRE STRIKE MAY REACH
EVERY LINE IN The LAND
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ham. Ala; Omaha, Milwaukee. st. Louis.
Augusta. Ga; Meridian. Miss; Memphis,
Galveston, Kansas City and Nashville.
The spread Of the strikes on the Postal
lines today left most of the large cities OF
the west without any telegraphtc communt-
cation whatever. All union men are now
out in Chicago. St. Louis. Milwaukee. Kan
sas City and Omaha. When the markets
closed at noon today communication with
these large centers of trade was being
maintained with difficulty over leased
wires.
East Quiet So Far.
So far the strike infection has not spread
further east than Cleveland Ohio. Reports
received from Pittsburg, Boston, Washing
ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia indicate
that outside of New York there Is no great
feeling Of unrest among the union teleg-
raphers. From union men here it is learned
that there is a line of cleavage IN the ma
tiOnal body between the east and the west.
and that the radical leaders OF the cities
beyond the Mississippi have outstepped the
more conservative principles or the sea.
board cities by stampeding in the wake OF
Los Angeles, and forcing the hands OF the
national president and executive committee
An undercurrent of feeling that Is felt in
the New York local obtains throughout the
eastern cities 1t is the opinion of men who
passed through the strike of 1883 that the
eastern unions are not strongly enogh
organized to join in a general strike. and
demonstration. Many Of the stock report
telegraphers on Wall street said today that
they did not want to have to go out with
the general body, because even in the event
of settlement and the reinstatement OF
the men the companies might move them
to points west Their jobs are too good to
risk.
Threaten Internal Strife.
a. significant phase Of the situation arose
in Chicago today. when the striking local.
whose men had walked out from the West
ern Union and Postal offices. announced
that they would seek through the courts an
injunction preventing the officials OF the
national telegraphers body from interfering
with their strike Since. from the union
point of view the strike in Chicago. as In
other cities, is Illegal. because OF the lack
Of confirmation and appreciation from the
executive body of the union. IL appears that
President Small and his associates have lost
control Of the individual units of the Or
ganization.
second element appearing in the Chi
cago strike today was that introduced by
the striking telegraphers In an enort to in
fiuence outside labor to show sympathy.
Several teamSters who were seen carrying
cots into the main Office of the Western
Union Company were advised that they
were indirectly hurting the cause OF labor.
The telephone girls. whose services had
been requisitioned by the telegraph COM
panies to telephone messages to outside
towns where free wire connections could be
had, sent expressions of regret to the teleg-
raphers, but did not carry their union prin-
ciples further.
Officers of both telegraph companies In
New York took an optimistic view of the
situation, and stated that they were now
filing the positions of the strikers. and that
they would be able to maintain their wires
even under general strike.