Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-09-16
FIRM
AND NONE RETURN
TO WORK
General Belief That Strike Is
Broken Appears to be
UnCdlled For
Today.
BOTH SIDES SAY
THEY MUST WIN
Defeat for Operators Would Mean
End of Union But Companies
Declare They VIII Never
Give Up to the
Men.

New York, Sept. 16.-Desplte the
belief that the telegraphers' strike
was near Its end, not an operator be-
longing 10 the union went back to
work today. This was admitted by
oInclals of both telegraph companies.
ihougn leading somewhat forlorn
nope, the strikers show logged de-
termination to force every demand
from the companies, and were as
staunch in 1t as on the first day of
the fight.
The daily meeting in Grills hall
was well attended and the speeches
of the labor leaders were enthustias-
tically applauded.
Among the speakers was John
Bradley, a member of the executive
committee of the Iron Molder's un-
ion. Bradley encouraged the strik-
ers to hold out till they obtained
every demand, and said the iron
molders would give them financial
assistance.
'If Abraham Lincoln were a tele-
grapher and alive today" said Brad
ley, he would be a strong union man.
He was unionlst when he lived. He
worked to prevent dlsorganization
among the states"
Operators Must Win. 80.
Daniel L. Russell, chairman OF the
union board of strategy, said the
strikers had placed themselves In a
position where they would have to
win. He said going back to work
now was out of the question.
''The telegraph companies cannot
win this strike" declared Russell,
so long as even forty per aest OF
our men stay away from work. We
have now ninety-five per cent of the
operators out all over this country,
and 1t will be long time before the
m he Of at fsil a
forty per cent. 1t took the telegraph
companies one month to compromise
the strike I'm San Francisco and they
needed only $50 operators to do the
trick They could not get that num-
Der Of operators for whole month.
That illustrates how hard 1t is to get
telegraphers. The men have no de-
sire to go back to work. They fully
realize that should there be a stam-
pede back to work the companies
would take advantage of the Victory
Immediately cutting wages. We will
fight 1t out to the last ditch"
Might as Well Quit Business.
superintendent Brooks OF the
Western Union said that no strikers
applied for work today. He declared
there were no negotiations for set
tlement of the strike pending with
the company and there would be
none.
The Western Union might as well
go out of business" said Brooks, ''if
1t lost the strike. If the strikers won
would not give ten cents a share
for the stock"
Vice President f. j. Nally of the
Postal asserted there would be M
settlement with the strikers.
Chicago Benefit Raises $4,000.
Chicago, H., Sept. 16.-Twenty-fiv
hundred dollars was raised at the
benefit given for the striking telegra-
pliers at the Garrick theater Miss
Blanche Walsh in '~rhe Straight
Road" and Louis Mann, playing "The
White Hen" conceived the idea and
rendered the benefit to the belligerent
keymn.
a moyment is now under headway
with the telegraphers to give Miss
Walsh and Mr. Mann an ovation in
every city in which they appear in
the future
Miss Walsh facetiously bantered the
keymen TO get reply to a telegram
she had sent to her banker in New
York two days before. 1t took just
seventeen minutes for the strikers to
transmit the message and deliver the
reply TO Miss Walsh through some
means known only to themselves