The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-13

o'clock there was continuous improve ment, and at 10 o'clock, Buffalo, El- mira and Rochester were getting undi- unfinished service, while Albany, Syra- cuse, Utica, Binghamton, Schenectady, Troy and all the other cities in New York state as well as the points in Vermont were promptly cared for by direct Western Union wires,
 There was not more than a few min utes' delay to the Washington, Balti- more, Philadelphia and Pittsburg news service, all the operators at the two first named cities remaining at their keys and enough at the two latter to care for the slightly curtailed news service.
 Statement by Union President.
 Percy Thomas, deputy national pres dent of the Commercial Telegraphers' union, tonight issued a statement in which he said
 "The Commercial Photographers union Of America will win this fight with the telegraph corporations because it Is in the right.
 My advices tonight are to the ef- feet that office after office is walking out and I am sending out an order to every commercial office in the Unit ed States and Canada to follow their example.
 "The interests having agreements with this union will not be affected by the general strike order. Ninety-f1ve per cent of all the telegraphers in America will be on strike by Friday morning. The organization is many times stronger than the telegraphers union in 1883, both in numbers.
 finances and the constituent unions of the American Federation of Labor and other labor bodies have volunteered their full assistance in the furtherance of this unions cause"
 Western Union Statement.
 General Superintendent Brooks of the western Union tonight said
 we have more operators than we need and we had to send ten men home. We have three hundred and fifty men and women at work and less than 50 per cent. of the regular night shift failed to show up. We expect that more of them will drift in later in the evening. We have an ample force to handle all the business on the wires"
 "You'll find that a great part of the night force at the keys in the Vest ern Union, said President Ahearn, of Local 16, fare dummies. They can not operate a wire, and when a visit | or goes in these dummies will at once get busy ticking the key and hanging dummy messages on the hooks. It's an old trick that was played in the strike of '83 so as to fool the public" :" The general grievances of the oper- | ators in both companies are the same they want an eight-hour day, a Is | per cent. increase in wage, extra pay ! for overtime, and no discrimination against old employees. with the rein statement of those who have been discharged.
 In addition to these demands, the Postal employees want an arrange ment with the officials so that they may have a regular luncheon hour. | Business at the office of the Com mercial Cable company in Broad street was being conducted tonight as usual. The operators there have no grievance lagainst the company While they are Iall union operators they are affiliated with the Marine Cable union, which Is a separate organization from the Commercial union. According to the striking Commercial operators, the Commercial Cable operators will handle only strictly cable business and will refuse absolutely to handle any domestic business.