Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-09
STRUGGLE DECLARED
OFF COUNTRY OVER
TELEGRAPH OPERATORS AFTER
FRUlTLEsS STRUGGLE OF THIR-
TEEN WEEKS VOTE TO GIVE UP
THE EFFORT.

application ana LnaC a rSIldll pel-
centage of them can be given en-
ployment.
Following the official calling off
of the Biographies strike the
offices Of the Western Union was
crowded with; applicants today,
who, sought to regain their old
positions None was accepted
however, the company, according ,
to its statement, having brought
it's force up to the original quota
Tuesday.
Chicago. Nov, 1.-THE telegraph
strike is ended. After thirteen weeks
Of a labor struggle which has involved
nearly $1,000 commercial telegraphs
throughout the country, the final &C
ton toward terminating the strike
was taken yesterday afternoon, when
Chicago local union, the largest local
in the country voted to call off the
strike and return to work uncondition-
ally
Similar action was taken at meet
ing Of the New York local in the even
ing, operators there being directed to
return to work today.
The vote was 231 Affirmative to So
negative. The resolution in the Chi
cago meeting requesting the national
executive board to "a the strike,
which was presented on Tuesday and
lacked two votes of securing the nee
essary tWo-thirds majority, was recon.
sidered and passed thus almost I'M,
animously. g
The action of the Chicago local. al.
| / ,y,, ;v,, r,15t
is recognized by the national officers
and executive board as semi official
The desire of the Chicago strikers to
call off the strike and return to work
| was forecast by the executive board
| in the morning. The officers and
members of the board and of the con
ference committee which had return
ed from New York went into executive
session in the headquarters in tho
Monon building and considered ofhcia
steps.
Urge End Of Struggle.
| Committeeman Brand of Chicago
and Clamage of Denver were sent t.
report to the massmeeting and were
advised to urge upon the strikers thu
necessity Of calling off the fight.
circular letter prepared for issuranc
to all local unions asking them to vot
upon granting the executive board al
thority to act. The latter will be sen
out to the locals today or tomorrow
and the official order ending the strik
will be issued as soon as twothirds Q
the locals have signified their willing
ness to end the fight.
The circular will present the neces
sity of suspending the strike and wi
appeal to the unions to maintain tn
organization in anticipation of anothe
fight If the telegraph companies d
not grant concessions within yea
However, the letter expresses the mop
that the companies voluntarily wi
make some concessions.
Strike Began in Los Angeles.
The great strike of the Commerci.
Telegraphers' union, which began j
Los Angeles, August Z, and two day
later spread to practically every il
r portant city in the country, was til
outgrowth of series of grievance
which the union men had held for
long period against both of the b
companies.
:, There had been strike June 4
. San Francisco. 1t was patched |
!. through the intervention of an age
Q of President Roosevelt, United Stat
g commissioner of Labor and CONNER
d Charles P. Neill. The union failed
y secure all it's demands, howeve
Charges were made that there W
= discrimination against union oper
: tors in San FIR ncisco, Los Angeles al
Oakland
II A woman operator who had serv
Y. as nonunionist was permitted
y work in Oakland. The union demar
ed her dismissal, and when this W
refused operators in Los Angeles W
had been compelled to receive MI
!. sages from her over the Oakland vii
walked out. Nonunion keymen we
~ given their places.
@ Sylvester J.. Small, then president
the national union, authorized a ge