Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-08-22

wife and little once goodbye and ar
rived in Dallas May 2, signed extra
list six A. NJ; went on duty 1890 p.
NJ; of duty . A. M. May 3. On duty
twenty hours; receiving remuneration
for but thirteen hours. An extra man
working for a commercial company is
required to sign the waiting list and
remain ut the convenience of the com
pany without compensation. When he
is put TO work he is shown no consid.
GRAFTON but is required to work until
convenient for the company TO release
him regardless of his physical condi-
tion OF the time he spent in waiting
before going on duty.
"In Dallas office met Mrs. W. w.
Hoskins, whom i had known in Alaska.
/ was astonished to learn that she was
rated az third class here which rating
during the present month would net
$2.44 per nine hour day. Fellow cit
izens, if there is first class operator
on the western hemisphere, it is the
viee-president of Local No. 27, and
there is not a commercial telegrapher
on the Atlantic seaboard, or south of
the Ohio river who will not substan-
| tiate this fact. But two dollars and
fourty four cents per day is the top
salary for ladies telegraphing in
Dallas w. L. regardless of their ef-
f, feiency. We do not ask that the tel
| egraph companies hire all our wives
and daughters. We ask that they re-
munerate us sufficiently for our ser
vices that we may support them com
fortably and keep them as God in
tended we should, TO bless and sane.
tify our homes-but if per chance a
lady is thrown upon her own resources
like ease / am going to cite, in the
name of all the higher virtues and
lofty ambitions of mankind. does there
live upon earth, under the canopy Of
heaven, in human shape a man So base
that he will sanction the greed of such
4 corporations. j am going to reeite the
experience of competent telegrapher,
q member of our organization who was
bounded from pillow to post until as
a last resort, unable 10 secure for her
self alone was forced to place her child
in a charitable institution, TO fade
away like the rose Of the morn for the
tender care of the mothers love.
80. ID. Parker, manager for the
Western Union at Austin, and scab
producer for !. G. Smith s district
learned that Mrs. Crew was an enthu.
siastic member of the G. T. u. A. and
the o. r. r. and while she was work
ing in his office at Austin, during the
last session Of the legislature. mad,
life so miserable for her that she wa,
unable TO remain in his employ. She
secured promise of a position in Dal
las. As soon as Parker learned of thi'
he called the chief operator at DALAI
for private conversation who in turl
notified Mrs. Crew she would not b,
used in Dallas. We secured her a po
sition with the same company in Tyler
Texas. Her whereabouts becoming
known to the superintendent Of tn
district, one morning she found a not
4 al - l..
manager at Tyler requesting her dis
missal from the service. She came &
Dallas and every means of persuatioi
on our part was exhausted in a fruit
less effort to secure position for her II
this office. We then procured for he
a position at Amarillo which is unje
the supervision Of Denver, thinking
her secure from the ravenous beas
which was pursuing her. But all on
, efforts were in vain and she returned
, 10 Dallas where her youngest child wa
sick and which died.
"The officials ofthe Western Unioi
, have boastsd TO our members openl.
that public sentiment was against u
in our strike, but unless the people o
Dallas are of different Temperament
from those who inhabit the sunny hill
of Georgia, when you repair to you
homes tonight and when the news
papers of Texas have done their duty
which believe they win do, when tn
: people Of this great commonwealth o
ours have heard our side of this con
troversy, they will stand shoulder L
, shoulder with the @. T, u. A. TIL
/, people will suffer the inconvenience o
/. the mail, they will suffer whatever fin