The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-15
EMPLOYERS ARE
 CONTRADICTED
TELEGRAPHERS DECLARE THAT FEW OF THE MEN ARE SATIS-
 FEED WITH CONDITIONS.
After Giving Testimony Declare That They Win be Out of a Job and Will Not be Able to Get Another.

Chicago April 14.-Five Postal Telegraph Company telegraphers, sud denly subpoenaed to appear before the United States commission on indus trial relations today, unanimously con tradicted yesterdays testimony of Edward C. Reynolds, general manager ol the company, who said that condi. tions of employment were 100 per cent satisfactory. Mr Reynolds re- marked that the commission could confirm his statement by asking the men
 The five witnesses said that none of the operators were satisfied, in the main, because they all thought they did too much work for too little money, they knew of no way to ob. tain redress of grievances, and there were minor troubles.
 n. F. Rogers. working regular extra split trick" for the Postal com. pany, was the last witness. As he was being excused he was asked by Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the com mission, if he had any further com plaint to make.
 Only that I won't have a job to- morrow he said.
 Alr Walsh replied: If you or any other of the young men get into diff ficulty because of your testimony dug ing the life of this commission please notify Secretary Brown"
 Its ten to one that you hear from me Rogers insisted.
 oh let us hope not" the chairman said
 'Ill be fired and l never will get another job concluded the witness
 Other witnesses included Thomas w. Carroll, traffic superintendent western division, Western Union Tel egraph Company and E. Frank Simp- ton, secretary-treasure of the New York local Commercial Photographers Union of America. When w T. Rus sell, a Postal operator, took the stand, Mr. Walsh stated interoga- lively.
 "Mr Reynolds, your manager stat ed yesterday that conditions among Postol Company telegraphers were satisfactory and there were no com plaints"
 There is much dissatisfaction over wages and the 'hounding' of the men to speed up replied Russell Tn Chicago our instruments are too close together and we cant work in com fort and when snort relief from the key is asked sometimes you cant get 1t for hours
 Mir Walsh asked;
 Why don't you state your griev- ances through the union or associa- ton of employees to which Mir. Key holds testified yesterday? MT. Rey, holds stated that this union elected its own officers and was d channel for the adjustment of grievances"
 "I never heard of it." responded the witness. The other telegrapher5 either had not heard of the union or only vaguely. C. F. Emerson, an other operator, said that he never hal trouble getting short relief from the key if he appealed to the chief opera tor
 Two messenger boys testified to de tails of their business. Both said they had been used in obtaining opium from a Chinaman recently convicted of the crime in Chicago, Shrimpton testified that the spy system the Western Union uses makes men in that office afraid to be seen talking to a union man, much less 10 join the union
 Mir. Carroll presented another side of the picture and went into details of portions of the testimony given pre- vously by the president and the vice president of the Western Union, Au-