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Show TELEGRAPHERS WILL ADOPT NEW POLICY I CHICAGO, Aug. 25. The Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America opened a ! four-day convention here today. Sev- entv-eight delegates from all parts of the country attended, and it was announced : t;ie convention was for the purpose of reorganizing the union and adopting a new poiiey. S. J. Konenkamp, international interna-tional president, who resigned recently, will preside until the election of new ofii-cers, ofii-cers, it was stated. Among the states renresented were New . York. Illinois. Indiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado, California Califor-nia and Texas. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 25. A meeting of 1 ponernl chairmen and officers of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, to formulate demands de-mands for increased wages, will be held hero September' 1. it was announced today. to-day. The organization has a membership of' SO.Cm'O railroad telegraphers In the , United States and Canada. |