The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-08-15
WIRE MEN IN many
CITIES ON Strike
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
COMPANY TEMPORARILY TIED
UP IN THE WEST.
PostaI's Employees in Chicago Also
Abandon Their keys-company
VIII Make Stubborn Fight-smaII
Expects Early Settlement.

Chicago, Aug. 10.-The strike Of
telegraph operators, begun Thursday
midnight in the Chicago offices of the
Western Union company, spread rap
idly Friday, tying up the local bust
ness of that corporation and practical
ly putting out of service all it's trans
continental lines.
At 6:15 o'clock Friday evening
about 500 operators of the Postal Tel
egraph company left their wires and
joined the strikers. Only ten en-
ployes remained in the main office and
the company's 100 branch offices in
the city were closed.
All but about a score of the 7S5 en-
ployes of the Western Union in this
city quit their keys, and practically
the entire forces walked out at Kansas
City, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Colo
RADIO Springs, Helena, Ell Paso and
Salt Lake.
In New Orleans all the Postal Tele-
graph operators, numbering about 60,
left their wires Friday night because
an operator was suspended for refusal
to work the Chicago wire. In the
Western Union office there an opera
tor was discharged for the same ca
son. but the union men did not make
an issue of it because he was an extra
man.
Exchanges Are Crippled.
The effect of the walkout of the
nnorotN~c ip ThSoo ro Woe orro~orf
first on the board of trade and the
stock exchange. The Western Union
has the exclusive contract for hand
ling the stock quotations between the
exchanges of the country, and the
failure of the company to summon suf-
ficient loyal employees to handle the
business put the brokers in a guam
dairy. The firms which have leased
wires, employing their own operators,
handled all the information regarding
the security markets in eastern cities
that vas available up to noon.
The Gold and Stock, Ticker COM
pany, which is affiliated with the West
ern Union and operated the wires
from the New York stock exchange,
ceased to send the quotations.
A meeting of the grievance and ex-
eeutive committees of the union was
held at one o'clock in the afternoon,
when the formal demands on the
Western Union company were drawn
up by presentation. These include
the eight-hour day, a rs per cent. in
crease in wage and recognition of the
union.
What Mr.. Small Says.
Oakland, CAL, Aug. 10.-Samuel J..
Small. the national president of the
Commercial Photographers union,
was seen in this city Friday afternoon
and submitted to a brief interview.
The subject" he said, "is too deli
cate to say anything about. Mrs.
Nichols is, of course, the storm center
Of the strike and she and the San
Francisco officers of the company are
responsible for what has happened.
The latter have not lived up to the
agreement adopted two weeks ago.
When ar investigation is made some
things extremely sensational will
come out.
THE strike is spreading. We have
advices that the operators in the fol-
lowing cities, in addition to Los An
geles, are out: Chicago, Helena,
Mont; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Salt
Lake, Kansas City, Birmingham, Ala;
New Orleans, Denver and Butte. These
represent about 1000 operators. Oak
land operators want to go out, but we
are holding them back.
Expects Early Settlement.
I'VE expect that the whole trouble
will be settled in two or three days.
President Clowry of the Western
Union Telegraph company will have
the facts before him in "a hours and
may settle it at once. 1 cannot say
anything about our demands, for
everything is in a chaotic condition at
present.
Mr. Stewart, of the department of
commerce and labor, arrived here to-
day and will look into the San Fran
cisco and Oakland situation. He will
Immediately get into communication
with Commissioner Charles P. Neill at
Washington and the whole matter
will be adjusted quickly, provided Col.
Clowry instructs his subordinates to
treat the San Francisco and Oakland
operators humanely."
Company Will Fight Hard.
New York. Aug. 10.-The Western
Union Telegraph company will fight
the strike of it's operators in the west
ern cities, in the east, or wherever the
men may go out, It expects to win
as it claims to have won in 1883. A
strike among the 5000 operators of
Greater New York city is imminent,
though the sentiment among the EN-
ployes is said to be divided.
Murder In Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus. O., July 29.-Joseph Pan.
pan. an Italian boarding house keepe,
Friday night shot and killed Joseph
Long and wounded James Long. 8
brother. Pappan escaped. He had
been drinking and quarreled with the
" men, who were boarders.
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