Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-08
POLICE CALLED TO QUELL DIS
TURsANcE CAUSED By TEL
EPHoNE OPERATORS.
GIRLS TRY TO PREVENT
NIGHT FORCE WORKING
Grab Mrs. Carrie Kirkpatrick as She
Goes to Enter Building, and Police
Protection is Called For-company
instalIs Sleeping Quarters and Din
ing Room in BuiIdins-Meetins Held.

The first attempt at any disturbance
elephone operators occurred Monday
isnt, when six or eight of the operat-
us out on the strike assembled in front
If the telephone company's office in an
fort TO prevent the night force from
going on duty.
Mrs. Carrie Kirkpatrick, 404 East
Linn street, one OF the night operators,
was seized by the girls as she was ca
terinS the building, and for a time it
was feared that she was going to be
roughly handled. Mrs. kirkpatrick lost
her hand bag during the melee, but il
Vas afterwards found.
Police Are Called.
\ large crowd of men and boys
g,ttherel and lent the usual encourage
neat, according to the police. The po-
lice We're called. and Sergeant Goodale
and Officer Breckel We're sent TO the
scene. The police say that the crowd
would not have been nearly so hard to
handle had ii not been for the on
the acts after the officers arrived We're
serious enough to constitute an offense,
and TO arrests We're made.
Girls Meet Superintendent.
The demonstration of Monday night
followed a meeting held in the after
aoon between the strikers grievance
committee and Superintendent w. G.
Sowe AT this meeting nothing was
nil 81, IN he
intendent
The members of the strikers griev
nee committee are Misses Edna Sc
,crg. chairman; Esther Sheetz, and
Lillian Perrin. In addition to the COM
nittee Miss Elizabeth O'Hearn, night
OIL operator, met with the superintend-
mt.
Mr.. BoWe said that the girls said
icy had not quit their positions, but
at they had simply left their places
-or few days.
The superintendent said he replied
that, when he awoke in the morning
and found the girls absent from duty
without any explanation, and that no
one had seen him to explain the abb
sences, he had considered the positions
vacant, and had made other arrange
ments. The superintendent said he told
the girls that he could not discharge
operators now employed to make places
for those who had formerly occupied
the positions.
Committee Not Mixed Up.
| The members of the grievance COM
mittee of the strikers said today that
no member of the committee was in
any way mixed up in the demonstra-
ton in front of the telephone build
ing Monday night. The girls said that
| the committee did not know that any
attempt a a demonstration was to be
made.
Wage Schedule Presented.
The grievance committee presented
TO the mana cement of the telephone
! company Monday afternoon the wage
| schedule which the striking operators
are demanding. The grievance commit
| tee says that Superintendent Bowe re-
fused fatty TO grant the increases The
| committee ALSO said that the superin-
] tendent was asked what it thought
| the public would think when it knew
! that out of-town opera tors were being
employed. and said that Superintendent
Bowes reply was that he did not care
for public opinion nor expense.
| The schedule OF wages presented the
com pany by the strikers grievance
committee is as follows:
! A Class-EXperience two or more
years, $50 per month.
X B Class-Experience six months or
m ore, $50.
C Class-Inexperienced operators,
s25.
Eight and three quarters hours to
constitute a working day.
Seven and three quarters hours for
relief work, coming three times a day.
Sundays and holidays, time and a
tas
The girls say that none of them
made any formal requests for their old
positions.
Mrs. kirkpatrick's Position.
The name of Mrs. Carrie Kirkpatrick
one of the night operators, was included
in the list Of eighteen furnished the T.
r. blythe girls, as the personnel of the
striking operators. Mrs. Kirkpatrick
was off duty the night Of the day on
which the girls had struck. but her
absence was explained from the fact
that she had been up all night, and
during the day following the striking
operators had kept her awake, in their
efforts to get her to join them in the
strike, and she was unable, from loss
of rest, to report for duty that night.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick said she was re-
ceiving more money than the girls who
are ON the strike, and she has a boy