The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-11
President Small Says Union
Men Everywhere VIII Be
Ordered TO Strike.
EAGER TO QUIT KEYS HERE
St. Louis, Omaha, St. Paul and
Other Western Cities Follow
Chicago's Lead.

60 Out Against Orders-IItue Des,rs
for Quitting In the East Outside Of This
CIty. hut the Hands Of the National
Body Have Been Forced by Successive
Business Activity WIN Suffering
chicago Union Threatens tn go n
AIene-Teamstcrs There asked 10 Help
Companies Say IT'S the Pest TIme Of
the Year to right a strike Local
Union TO Hold q Meeting To-day.
President Samuel Small OF the Com.
mercial Telegraphers' Union through
Percy Thomas. his representative In this
city. announced yesterday that a general
strike Of all the union operators in tbs
country would be callod tomorrow. The
order to walk out would include the opsr-
ators OF wires leased to stock brokers.
newspapers and press associations
Independent strikes by various locals
in the large relay centres through
out the country continued yesterday. In
many instances instructions to locals not
to strike until ordered wers ignored. The
men had the strike fever and coubdnt
wait.
In addition to the local unions which
went out ON Friday, reports up to a lats
hour last night were that Western Union
employees had quit work at st. Louis, st.
Paul. Milwaukee,. Omaha. Minneapolis.
Knoxville. Nashville. Columbus. Sioux city.
Ia. and Fargo. N. ID. On tho Poetai
Telegraph Compsny's lines walkouts were
put into effect at Birmingham. Ala; Omaha.
Milwaukee. st. Louis. Kansas City. Augusta.
Ca; Meridian. Miss; Sioux City. Ia;
Memphis. Galveston and Nashville.
The spread Of the strike yesterday
left most Of the large cities Of the West
without any teiegraphio communication
whatever. All union men are now out
In Chicago. st. Louis. Milwaukee. Kansas
City and Omaha. When the markets
closed at noon yesterday ~communioa-
ton with these large centres Of trade
was being maintained with difficulty
over leased wires.
THE EAST DOESN'T WANT A STRIKE.
So far the strike infection has not spread
further east thar Cleveland. Ohio. Re-
ports received from Pittsburg. Boston,
Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia
indicate that outside Of New York thers
is no great feeling Of unrest among the
union photographers.
From union men here it il learned
that there is a line OF cleavage in tho
national body between tho East and the
West and that the radical leaders Of the
cities beyond the Mississippi nave out
stepped the more conservative principles
Of the seaboard cities by ~stampeding
in the wake Of Los Angeles and Chicago
and forcing the hands OF tho national
president and executive committee.
There are many conservative operators
In New York who ont welcome a strike.
In the opinion of men who passed through
the strike Of 1883 the Eastern unions are not
strongly enough organized to join In a gen
eral strike and the time is not propitious
for such q demonstration. Many q the
tslegraphers in Wall Street said yesterday
that they did not wan to go out with tho
general body. Their jobs were too good
to risk.
II the order Of President Small is carried
out by the union every wire except those
operated by the railroad telegraphers will
be deserted and a paralysis In the market
reports Of the country will ensue. The
"a will be thrown back upon long
distance telephone for the transmission Of
news.
R%EBELLIoUs cHIcAao UNION.
A significant phase Of the situation
arose In Chioago yesterday, when the
striking local whose men had walked
out from the Western Union and Postal
offices announced that It would seek an
injunction preventing the ~oficials Of the
national body from interfering with their
strike. Since from the union point OF
view tho strike in Chicago. as in other
cities. 10 illegal because Of the lack OF
confirmation and appreciation from the
executive body It appears that President
Small and his associates have lost control
Of the individual units or the organiza-
ton.
A second element appearing 10 the Chicago
strike yesterday was introduced by the
telegraphers In an effort to influence out
side labor to q show Of sympathy. Team
sters who we're carting cots to the Western
Union building were turned back by pick
cts. The telephone girls. whose services
had been requisitioned by the telegraph
companies to telephone messages to out
side towns where free wire connections
could be had, sent expressions Of regret to
the teiesraphers and offered to quit.
HERE RESTLESS.
Most OF the members OF New York local
No. 10 had the strike fever yesterday and
it was manifest that a walkout from the
Offices Of the Western Union and the Postal
might take place at any minute. In both
the Offices union men had to take mes