The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-08-10
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and Chicago, except the Pennsylvania. is
paralleled by lines of the Western Union,
and the trunk lines west of Chicago are
almost as numerous. With nonunion oper-
ators in Chicago. union men in a score OF
large centers will be forced either 10 re-
ceive from strike-breallers or to leave the
key. The Chicago men set the example
/ by refusing TO receive or send with the
! strike breakers who have taken the places
Of the striking operators in Los Angeles
WaIIS-out Unprecedented.
One gwho holds responsible position
in an Office of one of the telegraph COM
panies in New York and who is thorough
" conversant with the union labor stu
4 alton in the companies, said to-day that
the varioUs walk-outs of the teIegraphers
was unprecedented, as it was in direct
contravention of one OF the rules of the
Commercial photographers Union
zone of the cardinal bylaws Of the
main body" said ne. lis that whenever a
local has grievance and meditates a
! strike no action should be taken until the
i grievances and the plans Of the local are
laid before the executive committee of the
dertaken without the consent Of tie gem
eTal officers.
yet in the Chicago instance. and as
far as we have been able to gather in the
other cities where walkouts have oc-
CURED. such action has been taken indie
pendently of the executive committee of
the larger body, with no references TO the
heads Of the union.
Postal Operators Quit.
At 7 o'clock tonight committee OF
three, representing the union employees Of
the Postal Telegraph Company in Chi
caso waited upon General Superintendent
". I. Capel and presented schedule Of
demands on the part Of the Postal en-
ployes. They gave the superintendent
thirty minutes in which TO make a reply.
When told that no reply could be forth
corning in that limit the committee re-
tired. and in few minutes every key
manned by a union operator in the Postal
system in Chicago was deserted.
Vice President Charles Adams. of the
Postal Company, was seen tonight I'm his
Office. 253 Broadway. after the report OF
the walSout in his compauys Chicago
Office had come in. Mr.. Adams, who had
given out an optimistic interview concern
ing the immunity Of the Postal company
, from the strike agitation in the afternoon,
had this 10 say about the new develop
ment:
This strike is unexpected, unwarranted.
, and entirely without justification. This
afternoon the company had no intimation
that there would be trouble
The complaints Of the operators in Los
! Angeles and other places about ill-treat-
ment and discrimination against the union
are entirely without foundation. The
recent 10 per cent raise was for every
body. and there can he no Individual dis
elimination iu this line. We do not think
that this strike VIII spread to New York.
and u IL did We would not be as seriously
crippled as we might be. Only about half
Of the men under our employ in New
York are union men, and they haven't
sufficient money in their treasury 20 con
duct a strike
IT is plain on the face Of Il that the
Postal operatives simply went on a sym
pathetic strike, for they presented de-
mands and demanded that they be an
swered in thirty minutes palpable sub
I terfuge
'Siuce last September. when the Chi
= cago schedule went into effect. there has
Z not been any demand made by the en-
ployes Of the Postal which has not been
fully considered ana answered. On March
I, q 10 per cent increase in the wage
schedule went into effect all around
Mr.. Adams said that the Postal had
four wires working between New York
and Chicago tonight and that the COM
pany was going TO take steps To man ali
their wires ont of Chicago tomorrow. He
said he did not know what effect the Chi
cag0 strike would have on the New York
operators
2 Late tonight the Western Union re-
/ ported that they had eighteen wires work
ing between New York and Chicago.
When General Superintendent Brooks
. remarks were conveyed TO President
Ahearn. of the New York Local No. g. IN
p the union Offices. az Sc Pine street, today,
that official showed signs Of wrath
! Money in Three Banks.
Mr. Brooks knows shat % per cent Of
the employees Of the Western Union be-
: long TO the union" he said. AS for the
New York local being without funds.
b maybe Mr.. Brooks does not know that
We have money in three banks and a
y good-sized sum at each place There are
J. between leo and 1900 men working for
the Western Union in Greater New York.
and so many OF these men belong to the
e union that in case of a strike here the tel
I esraph company would be more seriously
= crippled than they think"
Ahearn went on 70 outline the attitude
y of the New York teIegraphers toward the
: strike epidemic. In reply 70 a direct ques-
E ton as 10 the possibility Of there being a
: Waik-OUt Of Western Union men all over
the city he said.
e Local No. 16 does not intend to go of
/ half-cocked. and I can give you my
4 strongest assurances that there viii be no
d atCion taken in a rash manner We real
e ize perfectly what effect a strike of the
tele6raphcr5 would have on the business
D interests Of the country We have 10 con-
2 slider other people who rely on the teIe-
? graph markets 10 do their business. and
z We cannot without good reason plunge the
f tremendous business Of New York finan-
4 cal interests into confusion.
Union Has Grievances,
''The New York union has grievances
against the company which are now in
e the course Of arbitration. such grievances
that sympathy for the Western men
! would not be needed as a reason for strik-
ing. But before a strike would be called
. we would be careful to get in touch with
y the executive heads Of the union, and we
! would abide by their decision.
d I'VE have heard nothing about the Chi
= cage strike except what we have read IN
! the newspapers, and I presume it was
done before the approval Of the central
] body was obtained though I have no
doubt that the executive committee Of the