OCR Text |
Show Telegraphers Threaten to Strike. New Orleans. A gereral strike or the telegrapher employed by the Illinois Ill-inois Central railroad will be called on April 1, If the demand of th" men foi" a 20 per cent Increase In wages Is not granted, according H a local representative of the telegraphers. telegraph-ers. This bears out previous statements state-ments of a like nature from the north. It was asserted that a strike vnt already al-ready has been taken, resuling In 91 per cent of 1.600 men declaring in favor fa-vor of a walkout. |