The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-16
News Service Improves
Circuit Between Gotham
and Frisco Operates.
KEYNEN ARE RETURNING
Telegraph Instruments Click at Board
of Trade Where Six of Them
Now Work.

Chicago. Aug. 16.-s. J. Small. presi-
dent of the Commercial TeIegraphers'
union. early this morning issued a gen
eral order to all commercial telegraph
ers to cease work Immediately where
contracts with the union have not been
signed.
Chicago. Aug. 16.-President Small,
of the telegrahpers' union. arrived here
last evening. An hour and a half later
he went into conference with Samuel
Gompers, Quick, the head of the rail-
way telegraphers' union, and a repre-
sentative of the cigarmarkers' union,
Chicago, Aug. 16.-Decided improve
ments has been made in the condition
of the Associated Press wires The en-
tire leased wire circuit between San
Francisco and New York has been
placed in operation, the wires having
previously terminated at Denver. A
number Of operators who went out on
Monday returned to their work during
the day.
Board of Trade Report Resumed.
Telegraph keys clicked on the Board
of Trade floor for the first time since
the regular operators were called out.
There were six instruments working
in the big telegraph section at the west
end of the exchange floor. but they
made merry music in the ears of small
er commission firms. whose business
had felt the strike most Thirteen men
were at the keys. Both the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph floor man
ayers said they expected TO add few
men daily to their working force, and
the feeling on the board was corre-
spondingly moro cheerful
Gompers Said To BE Offended.
President Gompers has to leave Chi
cago to attend meeting of the ex-
ecutive council of the Federation of
Labor on Monday at Washington. La
Dor leaders, however. declare that
Gompers is offended at the attitude OF
the striking telegraphers in refusing
TO accept arbitration and. demanding
that the only way in which they could
be induced to return to their places
IS through the telegraph companies
meeting the demands of the new wage
scale. Shortly before noon President
Gompers met the national executive
committee Of the keymen in the Mo-
non building. The meeting was at
tended by all the executive committee
members in Chicago and General Sec
retary Russell, but what was done is
a profound secret.
Two More Strikes Begun.
One hundred check girls working In
the Western Union Telegraph COM
panys main office left their posts in
sympathy with the keymen The girls
trooped out OF the building shouting
encouragement to the striking opera
tors. Before walking out the girls an
nounce that they would leave their
posts of their own volition If the strik-
ing keymen did not call them out The
check girls are not affiliated with the
telegraphers union, but when they
were not called out they sounded the
call to strike and left the building.
An hour later the union walters in
the luncheon on the eleventh floor OF
the Western Union building were called
out on a strike because non-union op-
orators working for the telegraph
company We're being served by them
The walkout of tho employees OF the
luncheon will result in further com
plicatfons. for the non-union operators
will be forced to secure their food
from other restaurants. 4 number OF
walters at the Grand Pacific hotel are
reported to have walked out rather
than serve the non-union operators.
One thousand union telegraph opera
tors, headed by a brass band and car
rying banners announcing their stand
gathered in the Union station to await
the arrival of the Union Pacific over
land limited train bearing their chief
President s. ]. Small. Of the CONNER
cial Telegraphers' Union of America
Ten minutes after the train from Sar
Francisco came into the station Presi.
dent Small was expected to give tn
call for a general strike of all unio
commercial operations. not bound by
contract in the United States an
Canada. The banners carried by IN
procession bore such inscriptions q
no Arbitration" Were Out to
Finish" Stick"
Nothing New at New York.
New York. Aug. 16.-There were n,
developments of moment in the tele
sraphers strike in this city and a
nearby points. All sides to the con
troversy continue optimistic in thei
public expressions. The strike /
over" declared President Clowry. o
the Western Union. 1T has but jus
begun" continued Deputy Nationa
Chief President Percy Thomas. Of tn
Commercial Telegraphers' union.
Attorney General jackson has ar
rived at New York and will meet
committee OF the telegraphers' unio,
which Will present its contention tha
the two telegraph companies have for
feited their charters in this state b,