The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-16

STRIKE ENDING
Promise by Burleson That He
Will Get Strikers and Com
pany Representatives
Together.
MEANS END OF WALKoUT
Telephone and Electric Workers Ma
tion Wide Strike is Called
Of by Brother
hood.
MEANS END OF WALKOUT

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, June l6-"The begin
ming of the end" of the nationwide
strike of commercial telegraphers was
seen here today by President s. D.
konenkamp and other union officials,
as result of the announcement Dy
Secretary Frank Morrison Of the A. n.
of l.. that Postmaster General Burie-
son had promised to get the strikers
and company representatives to-
gether.
President Konenkamp said this
news was received Jubilantly by his
men. He said he predicted such &C
ton by the wire chief, basing his
prophecy on the contention that what
he did for the electrical workers ne
necessarily would be called upon TO
do for the telegraphers."
A committee is ready to confer
either with Burleson or the COM
panies and only awaits the call. kon-
elkamp said.
Percy Thomas, deputy international
vice president, New York, was re-
quested by President Konenkamp to
visit Samuel Gompers to ask him to
take up the strikers demands with
Burleson, Konenkamp said.
Thomas also was instructed to ap-
peal to President Wilson for aid In
settling the difficulty, he announced
yesterday.
Discussed at A. F. Of L. Convention.
IBy Albin E. Johnson, United Press
Staff Correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, ". j., June 16-
Postmaster General Burleson's order
to the telephone companies to nego-
tiate with their employees, so as to
avert the threatened electrical work
ers strike, was one Of the most en-
crossing topics discussed by A. F..
OF l.. convention delegates today.
Burleson's order will only postpone
the crisis. according to Thomas Fla
herty. Of the Postal workers. He pre-
dicted the companies and the workers
would be at loggerheads again when
the wires are returned to their owners.
IF the employees find they have
been double crossed, In the words OF
Frank McNulty, international presi-
dent of the electrical telephone
workers. "our action will be more de-
termined than ever.
The convention today was to re-
ceive a full report Of the telephone
situation.
1t was considered probable, as the
second week of the session opened,
that the convention would have to sit
perhaps ten days longer A mass OF
resolutions confront the delegates.
Electric Strike Called OFF.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 16-That
all sections of the country may be
formally advised Of the calling off OF
the nationwide strike of electrical
workers, Secretary Ford. of the Inter
national Brotherhood today sent out
eight hundred messages on the settle
ment.
Struck Before Order Arrives.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 14-Em-
ployes of the Bell and kinloch tele'
phone companies here struck today
when orders calling off the walkout
failed to arrive in time, according to
o. F. Jennings, international repre-
sentative of the Brotherhood of Elec.
trical Workers.
! Bell officials said service was only
slightly handicapped
BurIeson Denies Report.
| WASHINGTON, June 16 - Post,
master General Burleson today told
the United Press there is no truth
| in the report that he has taken steps
to bring about conference between
striking telegraph operators and Off
cials of the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies.
| Burleson also denied report that
he had requested Rail Director Hines
to cause the discharge of railroad tele
graph operators who refuse to handle
the commercial messages rendered by
the Western Union or Postal tele
graph company.
Complaint Officer.
WASHINGTON, June 16-AH tele
phone companies are directed to ap
point Immediately an officer to receive
complaints from employees in an order
issued today by Postmaster Genera
Burleson. Notice Of the designation o.