New-York tribune., 1907-06-27
APPEAL TO DIR. MACKAY.
President Small asks Postal Head
to End Strike.

sa, Francisco June 2e-President s. J. Small OF
the Commercial Photographers Union appealed
yesterday directly to Clarence Mackay, mead oI
the Postal Telegraph Company Small wrote
letter directed to Offset the ono written by Mackay
to the officials OF the Postal company, In whicn
Mackay commended the operators who refused TO
go out and condemned the men who struck.
President Mackay and the officials of his COM
pany have enjoyed the esteem Of the telegraphers
who said Yesterday that they hoped that Smalis
exposition Of the case from the point or vie" OF the
employees. might be productive of peace.
A possible step toward settlement was made
Yesterday when the striking operators appointed
conference committte OF seven members including
President Small. with view or opening negotla-
tons with the Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph companies. Although the powers of the
committee were not announced following its ap-
pointment. It IS thought the committee will be
clothed with authority to arrange a basis for the
settlement OF the strike. One Of the instructions
OF the board will be 10 place the demands of
the strikers before the heads OF the companies.
The operators declare that the companies are
seriously crippled and must ultimately yield to the
demands for a % per cent increase In wages. It
was conceded generally that the strike was likely
TO continue for several weeks, and the possibility
of extending the strike zone was also admitted
officials of both companies declared yesterday that
they were handling expeditiously all the business
that came TO them. Both claimed gains in their
staff OF operators.
President Small, Of the Teegraphers' Union. said
to-day:
Should the two telegraph companies refuse to
meet their operators in order TO adjust the diff
ferenCes now existing. there is doubt in the
world that the struggle will continue until we can
force a government investigation. We are willing
and anxious to do anything in reason adjust the
present trouble. The Union need not appear in the
adjustment at all. and, has often been stated
before. if the employers Of the telegraphers VIII
deal honestly and honOrably with their operators
they will never hear Of the union we MAINTAIN
the sliding scale the blacklist and the employ
ment of women at less than will pay their living
expenses are dishonest and In way criminal Ihat
is what both the Western Union and the Postal
Telegraph companies doing all over the coun-
try
The national officers of the Commercial TeleGra-
,lrs Irnjon who were left in this city when Presi-
dent Small went San Francisco reported yester-
day that bulletins which had been received were
10 the effect that the Western Un:on and Postal
companies had only nineteen men at work in San
Francisco. of whom were chief operators,
and that the strike sure to be won. Another
bulletin posted at their Astor House headquarters
read:
Southern Pacific handling commercial messages
hearing commercial franks Grand Chief Perhan
has been appealed TO- and If the practice Is not at
once discontinued trouble may follow on the South
Pacific"
The Perham who is referred 10 in the bulletin is
the grand chief of the Order of Railroad Telegra-
pliers. Deputy President Konsnkamp of the Com
mercal Telegraphers' Union said last evening that
President Small had not left San Francisco.
The executive committee of the telegraphers re-
ceived yesterday from Wesley Russell. secretary
treasurer, Chicago Strike Bulletin No. 2. and copies
We're sent to all the chapels throughout the coun-
try and the chapels OF local No. IS of New York
1t says that hundreds OF letters and kilograms
being received at the national headquarters in Chi
cago indOrsing President Small and pledging unrl-
ited support 10 the strikers in San Francisco II
continues:
The strike assessment has been responded 10
with such pTomptitude and Iberaty as to nearly
swamp the general Office A large force Is work
ing night and day. and the daily receipts exceed
$1,000"
The teIegraphers here said that at the Postal
relay station in Chicago at II a. m. the messages
were four thousand behind. The messages, it
said, three days late and II stated that
at the Chicago relay station Of the Western Union
the messages five thousand behind and being
delivered three days late The general belief IS
that the strike if the strike is TO be extended,
is likely be at Birmingham, Ala: Atlanta, New
Orleans Galveston.
At the main Offices OF the companies II de-
MED that thousands Of messages delayed On
behalf OF the Western Union company II said
that the service fairly good and business was
being done regularly; also that there was not one
days delay in the transmission OF messages.
Tie executive committee here received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Secretary-Treasurer Wesley
Russell, at Chicago, last night:
Information from San Francisco confirms
port that four chiefs from Western Union offices
have joined the strikers leaving total Of eight,
including Superintendent Jaynes. Situation grows
rapidly The Postal is helpless. The Pa
cifc Gable is reported closed Not strike breaker
has arrived. Business coming from the coast
through Chicago two days late"
Another message to the effect that informa-
tion from the Building Commissioners Office in
San Francisco that the Postal company
also stated that President Small OF the union
railroad Offices