Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-19
AGGRESSIVE TACTICS
WILL Be PURSUED
President Small Declares That
There Will Be Plenty of Money
TO Rush Strike Even if
II Continues For
Months.

| NiltdSOs llls august l5.-A world
] wide telegraphers' strike is imminent.
| 1t has not been generally known, but
| 1t developed today that the officers of
| the Commercial Telegraphers Union
| of America have been carrying on ne
| gotiations for more than a year with
| the Telegraph Clerks association of
| England with a view of bringing
| about a working alliance between the
| English and American telegraphers.
| They have so far succeeded that
| sym pathetic action i'm the present
| strike is assured Any attempts to man
! the American cable stations at Canso,
| North sydney, and Hearts Content,
Nova Scotia will result in the refusal
of English operators to handle cable
| grams from America.
Should the British end of the trans
| atlantic cable be manned by non-un-
ion men, the action would be sure
| to precipitate a general strike of all
telegraphers in England.
Socialists VIII Cooperate.
| That the strike may extend to the
| European continent and spread over
! the entire world seems probable. A.
Nj. Simmond, editor of the Chicago
| Daily Socialist, the American Nation
| al Labor union organ, and delegate to
the international Socialists convention
| at Stuttgart, Germany, Is authorized
| TO present before the convention,
which is practically one of labor or
ganizations, the question of establish
ing a defensive and offensive alliance
between the telegraphers of America,
Europe, Australia and the Orient.
President S. j. Small of the CONNER
cial Telegraphers of America said:
I'VE are assured of the co-opera-
| ton of every Socialist operator of
Europe. They consist of 80 per cent
of the telegraphers of the continent
and three-fourths of the operators of
the British colonies. When non-un-
ion men begin to send cablegrams
| from America a walkout from Eng
lish and European offices Is newt
able,
already we have bottled up the
Orient by cutting off San Francisco.
If this were not sufficient we have
assurances from the Socialist opera
tors of Japan that during the strike
| they will refuse all messages from
America. This strike will demonstrate
to the world that labor interests are
fully awake to the necessity for uni
| ted action"
Aggressive Tactics.
Aggressive tactics are declared by
President Small of the striking tele-
graphers to be the only hope of vic
| tory, and he has planned to put them
into effect.
Among projects he has outlined are
| the calling out Of every leased wire
operator not under union contract by
noon Monday, the complete TELEGRAPH
phic isolation of North America by
calling out cable operators at all
| points, and a demand for the sane
ton and active aid of the American
Federation Of Labor in the present
strike.
The national executive board of
the strikers is In session to discuss
and ratify the plans of the strike
| leader
The attitude of President Small is
said TO have dispelled hope of inter
vention by Labor Commissioner Neill
who, with President Gompers of the
national labor organization, has gone
to New York.
A positive demand for the closed
shop was declared by President Small
today as the only basis for settlement
of the strike.
Washington, d. c., August 19.-
Can the interstate commerce commits
sion, under the present law, assume
jurisdiction over the telegraph sys-
ten Of the country?
This Is a question that has been
brought out forcibly by the great
strike of keymen.
Even assuming that the telegraph
Is an instrument Of interstate COM
ers, land that 1t was the intention of
congress to include IL under the regu-
lative authority conferred in the
Hepburn act, what of it? 1t would
not help IN this situation. The Hep
burn act does not give the commission
| any power to take possession of an
| instrument Of interstate commerce
and operate Il, even If 1t becomes in
operative by strike or otherwise.
"The commission would have, at
most, no more than power TO regu-
late charges on kilograms sent, and
to make rules in regard 10 the kind
Of service to be rendered the public.
The commission has no authority to
regulate wages Of railway employees
or to adjust wage disputes between
common carriers and their empOlyes.
| No more would IL I'm case Of the tele-
graph companies.
Il do not see how the commission
could, I'm any event do more than
hold an investigation into the merits
of the dispute and to make public a
report on IT, That might or might
not do good Just at present, how
ever, there Is no call for action By
! the commission OF any sort"