Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-08-15

country with fair degree of fullness
and promptness.
New England Gets Service.
Boston, Aug. 14.-When the time
for the night force to come on at the
main office of the Western Union ar
rived at $50 p. N, 20 of the As men
regularly employed made their ap-
pearance, according to the statement
of Manager Allen Woodle
Of the force of 11S men which
went on a strike at noon, the com
pany claims to have filled 80 places.
At the Postal Telegraph company's
Office last night the As men of the
force of 1875 who remained at their
keys when the strike was called
worked overtime to clean up the work.
The night force. which comes on at
$3.50 o'clock. consists of but Is men.
Only four showed up. Messages to
New York were being handled rapidly
by an automatic telegraph instrument.
The Postal and Western Union op-
orators at Worcester are ont. The
wire service of the Associated Press
in New England was intact last night
with the exception of four points.
Business Moves in Frisco.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.-Offcials of
the Western Union said yesterday that
they have considerable force at
work in both this city and Oakland
and that they are able to handle a
II amount of business. Fewer men
went out at Oakland Monday than on
the previous strike, and the situation
consequently is better than at that
time. The operators of the Postal are
still at work here, but it is said that
they will go out when ordered to do
SO by the local council. Until the or
der is given, however, they will re-
main On duty.
Little Change Noted.
Los Angeles, Aug. 14-Verv little
change was noted in the local teIe-
graphers' strike yesterday. The
western Union officials said that thew
mad more men than were required to
work the available wires. This was
partly due to strike conditions in
other cities. Six men, including the
manager, were at the key yesterday In
the local Postal offices. The Assocf-
ated Press is sending and receiving
news without delay.
General Strike Certain.
Chicago Aug. 14.-Secretarv Wesley
Russell of the Commercial telegram
ers' Union of America said positively
that a general strike of the $4,000
union commercial telegraph operators
IN every city of the United States and
Canada would be called.
No Kick, But Will Strike.
Z. e. Hill, a member of the national
executive board of the union, who
lives in Toronto, reached Chicago and
told Of the feeling of the Canadian
operators. He said that they all were
with the ''nion in the fight.
"The men get good wages up there. D
he said. land have no grievance. but
they are ready to go out to help the
union win. Even now they won't take
any messages from strike-bound cities
in the United States. [ had a tele-
gram today from I. McMichaels, SUI
iperintendent of telegraph of the Can
adam Pacific railway He said he
would guarantee me positions for
several hundred operators on his road
within the next few weeks, if the men
need the jobs
Roads Men May Be Involved.
Word reached General Secretary
Russell that the Chicago & North
western railway operators were being
given commercial business to handle
for the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, and that the operators on a
certain western section of the Bur
lington road had been ordered to
handle all commercial messages sub
mitted to them for transmission.
A report was circulated that Secre-
tary Quick of the order of railway tel
.egraphers, after the officers of that
organization had pledged their aid
Ito the commercial teIegraphers, is
sued an order to the men of his union
to handle commercial business when
ever asked TO and to cease obstruct-
ing the Western Union company's
wires, as it is declared has been done.
Railway Order Is Explained.
The orders to railway telegraphers
to handle commercial business said
to have been signed by Secretary
Quick of the order of railway tele-
graDhers, and which caused cOnjec-
ture at union headquarters, were ex-
planned by Superintendent w. w.
Ryder of the c., B. & @. railway. He
said:
'Secretary Quick ordered the union
railway telegrahers in a few little
towns where the Western Union Of
fees always have been in railway
stations and the messages have been
transmitted by railway telegraphers
to continue to take the messages as
they always have done, subject, how
ever, to indefinite delay. This or
der as I understand it, does not apply