Show W. W U. U HEAD H AD SAYS US U.S. U. U S. S CONTROL OF WIRES NECESSITY i Telegraph Head Says Company Com Coni- pany pallY Glad to Acquiesce in Matter Iatter Federal of the telegraph h and telephone ne business looms loom as a n war e necessity accord according In to Pr President comb Carlton Canton of or the Western Union who arrived In Telegraph company Salt Lake lat last night The Thc action o of the President In akIng asking ask ak- ing Congress Conre to authorize the taking over of or the lines I 1 Is a forerunner Zer of the consummation of f the Pre Presidents President's wishes wish wish- es es he said In case the nation needs our lines Unes we will acquiesce c willingly and s-Ia s gladly lr a R will every on loyal citizen In this hour o of the thc nations nation's need Our employees are loyal to the nation and It Is II this loyalty which pre t prevented the unions union pians of or a I. I wide nation strike last Monday Mon Ion 1 1 day y from being carried out Our men r that the country U II must t have ha the thelo lo loyal oraI al support and the continuous service lIen ervice erv- erv ice Ic of ot the wires to help carry earn on the war hence our employees themselves are opposed opposed to joining ot a union ojie Olle of ot Whose We weapons Is a l strike nod Hotly llody fI List Lut Th Thursday la I was vas In Washington Washing ton and s start of ot the thc constitutional Honal convention con of oC our oui employees employees' as aso as- as o It Is a a. hod body hody composed of our workers to take up UI their grievances de to present their petitions and discuss discus wage scales scale It IK is one of or orth th the mo most t purely pun democratic bodies bodle III In labor Jabor circles b being ing- ing composed entirely n of the men meri In the tle ranks no man nan with the authority to employ or discharge dl being allowed allowe to belong The one great I 41 H f J AI- AI AIA A K ht An n n f and find n n fh unions Is that the trades bodies affiliated with the Federation Labor reserve reser the right to go JO on strike while our employees submit their differences to arbitration tra Sixteen delegates are framing the constitution for tor tile the the employees employees' association asso asso- elation which our workmen are CormIn formIng formIng form form- In Ing and when their work worl Is II completed branches will vIII doubtless spread throughout the thc country wherever er our lines extend Object in do Strike Our O r position ha has not lIot and md never ne will willbe willbe be We c merel merely object to any organization that permits a strike In Inthis this thle time lime of ot national tr trouble uble our country country coun coun- try tn needs our continuous service ser The press pres dispatches stated an error when the they said laid that we were wele opposed to the policy of or the thc war labor board Th This Is was not tru true The war labor r board has never ne yet made a decision upon our QUI matters maUers No Xo decision Is possible unless there be bo a unanimous action Recommendation made by Board Members Taft TaCt and nd Walsh of the board were taken up but there was wall no affirmation mati mation on there being five thc votes against and seven cn In favor tavor o of the tho recommendations recommendations o of Members Taft TaCt and Walsh ew e Cable Coble Project I Plans for the building building- of cable lines between this country countr and Brazil and Argentine and also between this country country country coun coun- try and Scandinavia la b by the thc extension of cable service ser with England were explained b by Mr dr Carlton Canton lie He said that It would be Impossible to un undertake e take this project during during- the wal wai that that as soon as the seas were safe laCe the ork woul-d woul begin heln If It It wc for toz the tue scarcity of men and materials sal said 1 Mr Carlton we would begin at once the expenditure expendi expendi- ture of ot about In Improve improve- In ments C II tL Regarding business conditions condition he said The Tho telegraph company's compans business In time of oC pla prace e Is the greatest barometer barometer eter to business con conditions there is The rhe more mere business there I Is iL the more moro business men need ned the telegraph teles-raph however how- how over ever the present Increase In our business bus bus- iness is not all due to Increase of oC bus bus- t mess Iness generally Much of oC It Is due to jr war var conditions directly affecting u us There Thele must mURt be a 1 head had to all corpor corror- corror he said but I think it Is la best that th-Ot we m make It AS impersonal as pos pos- sible 1 I like to have ha people think that when they the deal with the local representative e the they arc are dealing with the company's compans head ar far tar as It Il affects th them em President Carlton Canton Is making his re regular ulal semiannual trip o of inspection over O the lines o of the company compan traveling tray trav eling In the private car of oC the Western Union lie He Is la accompanied b by three lc vice presidents these being J J. J C. C Willever Will Will- m ever In char charge e o of the commercial endor end of or the thc company W. W N. N Fashbaugh of the department and Vice President lent dent MaJ laJ George M. M I. I York Yorke In charge or of- the of-the the plants W. W C. C Merley Is tar of the tary part party oJ 5 Custom Permitted dhen d. d When hen asked concerning the thc story printed to the tho effect that the company compan had bad been refused the right to transmit night letter messages per personally on the tho limited trains President Carlton said That Is a practice that ha has been permitted per- per h by custom for many years cars Yh n is a congestion between lar nearby earb cities and we arc are unable to handl all the business on our wires We e sometimes l vend send men with these mc messages l on the fast mat trains to carry them through Especially at this time tim when h n the government has I. turned over overt t the company compan per percent cent Increase In our bu business we wo were compelled to take this means of or expediting the thc ser ser- vice Had this government gO notified un u. th that at the they did ld not wish us to do this we e would not have done fio so BO concluded President t Carlton The Carlton party part will Inspect the Western estern Union plant Ilant here to today a and leave lea tonight for QT Los s Angeles |