Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-13
STRIKE
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directors, Mr., Stone replied that a
meeting OF the directors would be held
on September 18th, and lie would be
glad to lay the matter before them
at that date. In the meantime he
would be glad to meet any committee
of their operators and consider their
grievances. This arrangemnt was I'M
satisfactory to many of the operators, 1
particularly those on the southern cir.
cult. They sent a message to Chi
cago urging that Mr.. Stone be pressed
| to get into communication with the
directors by wire and give the oper-
ators a reply by Tuesday night at
lT:30 49,. 7.s IS.
| To this Mr.. Stone replied, address
ing his message to the operators of
Louisville, that he would see what he
could do about getting the matter be-
fore the directors by wire tomorrow.
| To this message the operators in New
York added a chaser in the shape
of message to the Chicago operators
saying that they were ready for the
| strike at 7:30 if it came
| The situation was still unsatisfac-
tory to the operators south of Louis
vile and they announced that unless
| messages to the directors from Mr..
Stone went over the wire before u: 80
they would leave at that time. They
| also sent message to Mr.. Stone say
| ing that they wanted to know what
recommendations would be made to
the directors before they consented 20
wait for another tWenty-four hours.
| Promptly at 1880 a message was re-
ceived in the Chicago office from
| Louisville, saying:
| Good night, we are out
The operator in charge of the oper-
ating room in this city as soon as he
received the message called out "Good
night, r. ST." the letters being the call
for the Chicago Associated Press In
stantly every man working at wire
in the Office rose from his wire and
stopped work. Only one man re.
NAMED in his seat long enough to
finish the few words necessary to COM
plete the item he was then sending.
| The others left their work as it hap
pened to stand at the time. The oper-.
ators remained in the room for few
minutes and then being requested to
leave the premises they did so in good
temper and with every evidence of
/ good feeling. .555 .5s5sS.s =
! The shutdown Of the wires pre-
vented the situation in other Offices
than Chicago being knWn for a time.
AS soon as communicate was es-
! tablished, however, it was apparent
that the strike had not by any means
4 been unanimous.
| The Offices at st. Joseph, Mo-, and
at Milwaukee responded at the first
/ call with all of their men ready for
| duty and it was declared that the men
at Cleveland and Detroit were still on
duty. Details were lacking from other
points at the same time
\ At 10 o'clock tonight the following
message was received from Louisville,
the distributing point for the southern
circuits: Service resumed south at
8 $50 p. M. to Nashville, Chattanooga
Montgomery, Memphis and Macon, Ga
!, At IL p. M. Kansas City notified the
Chicago office that the operators die
! not join the strikers and that the re
port Of Wichata and Oklahoma Cits
, was being handled in the regular
manner
Detroit, Too.
Detroit, Aug. 1.-THE union mel
( employed by the Western Union Te1e
graph company here walked out short
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