Show ACT CALLED BRUTAL AND A N D DESPOTIC Clarence H. H Mackay lackay President lent dent of Postal Co Issues Scathing Statement Now New York March 24 Postmaster 4 Burleson's action in dismissing Clarence 11 31 H. Mackay zi no ac president of the Postal Telegraph Cable company I was characterized by Mr Ir Mackay a aa as despotic edo lc and in a statement issued here t tonight en n hl his return from Baltimore where ho was the dismissal dis missal notice was served at tho the comans company's com corn pany's ans office hero last Saturday Mr Mackay added that William Ho- Ho himself could not have o been more moro arbitrary despotic and indic tive and served cd notIce on Mr BurleSOn Burle- Burle son that he would fight to o my last dollar and to the last ditch Ridicules Statement He lie ridiculed 1 Mr lr Burleson's statement state stat mont ment that tho the dismissal was the re result result re- re sult suIt of or his to obey Instructions Instructions lions of the postoffice department asserting that tho thu Postal's only two failures to comply with instructions were in cases whore ambiguity in instructions caused dela delay and where the company would have ha faced prosecutions prosecutions prosecutions prose prose- possible heavy fines had hadIt It Jt obeyed This act of oC Mr r. r Burleson ho hois said Is only the continuation of or a deliberate ate conspiracy to wreck wrel an and ruin tho the Postal Telegraph graph s system stem and then tien establish a monopoly of wire communication communication In tho the United St States tes Act Favor or Western Union Mr Burleson's principal acts since taking of or the lines Mr 1 Mackay asserted asserted as as- had been Increasing of long I distance telephone rates in the Interests Inter inter- cats ests of or the Bell Telephone company compan tho tiLe proposition to Increase telegraph rates rate In the Interest o of the tho Western Union Telegraph company compan tho the seizure of or the cables after tho the ElI signing of or the I I armistice the ousting of oC myself and other officials ls of the tho Commercial Cable Ca Ca- blo ble and Postal company's compans and the tho or order order order or- or der that the Postal build no lines to compete with the Bell Dell Telephone or Western stern Union without first submitting I our plans to officials of or these com corn panics |