Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-26

ct the various exchanges. according
to their plan OF campaign as drafted
today The OLD union which has re-
fused to join the strikers. made pub
lie it's intention Of picketing the pick
cts.
The Western Union and Postal
Telegraph COMPANIES Announced to-
night that they had engaged large
stats Of boys to handle the additional
business expected to develop should
the g.rike cripple telephone twice.
Lewiston, Maine, June 25.-Haf Of
the operating force at the Lewiston
Exchange of the New England Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company will
not go to work tomorrow morning.
according to a statement by Miss
Eleanor OBrien, head of the local un-
ion affiliated with the Electrical
Workers. At the present time So
girls are employed in the operating
department.
{. +. Story, district manager, does
not expect many of the girls will go
out tomorrow and believes the COM
pany will have no difficulty in main
tanning adequate service at the Lew
iston exchange. Union leaders have
arranged to picket the exchange day
and night. Boston operators arrived
here late tonight and will begin picket
duty at A. NJ, they announced.
Portland, Maine, June 25-Thirty
Portland members of the telephone
operator division of the lnternation-
III Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
will go on strike tomorrow morning,
, Miss Beatrice Thorndikc, local secrc-
tary, announced tonight. This COM
pr;scs about one seventh of the to-
tai number of girls employed here,
Miss Thorndille said. She stated
that twenty girls will 20 on pickcting
duty in front of the exchange tomor-
row morning.
Nellie Mac Smith of Brockton, vice
president of the New England branch
of the telephone division of the broth
| erhoOd, arrived here tonight with
eight walking delegates, for the pur-
pose of organizing Maine for the
strike. She will visit Lewiston to-
morrow.
Boston, June 25.-Oficials Of the
New England Telephone & Telegraph
Co. here tonight announced that they
had received assurances from the oper-
ators that there would be no strike to-
TOW III l. dIiiItl, w a. balpt.I u Iil''
Monson. Warren and Brimfcld. In
these places. officials said. the opera
tors had refused to join with the tcle-
phone operators department. Interna-
tional Brothcrhood of Electrical Work
crs. which has. called a strike in five
New England states. to begin at Z
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Boston June 25.-Mcmbcrs Of the
| two rival unions of telephone opera
| tors, emerging from mass meetings.
held tonight on the eve of strike
called for tomorrow morning by one
body. the telephone operators de-
partment. International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, staged a street
demonstra ton and for a time
| ira details of police kept the 5000
girls on the move and probably
| averted violence.
When the two crowds of about L.
! 500 each met at the corner of School
| and fremont streets they began to
| exchange compliments. The opera
, tors who are to strike shouted,
| ''Scabs," at their colleagues, who re-
torted. Were stickers."
| Finally the groups dispersed and
the danger was over.
| When the meeting of the so-called
| loyal sgroup was concluded the
whole force marched down to News
| paper Row where they halted and
! after series of yells. calls and
whistles began to retrace their steps
| For ten minutes traffic in the Row
| was completely at standstill while
| operators clambered over automo-
hiles stalled in their midst. Gradually
| the crowd turned and made their way
| back up School street to fremont
where the crowd which packed two
| halls in fremont Temple met them.
| \ band which the striking union
| had engaged to lead a parade which
! they had planned but which the pol
| ice refused to permit, blared out from
| the lobby of the Temple and the
j operators who had voted to strike
divided their attention between fox
| trctting in the lobby and hccklins
! the passing annie Molloy crowd,
| so-called after. their leaders name.
| Providence r. L. Jun, o5--NSjth