Show SOME OF the telephone companys employees em-ployees propose to administer to the company com-pany a mild dose of the medicine which the company is giving to the public in such a heavy dose The employees referred to who by the way are not paid wages equal to those allowed to other mechanics ask for an increase of 20 per cent or from 250 to x3 per day The telephone people who were already charging the public an exorbitant price for service did not hesitate hesi-tate to increase the tax 33 > per cent but when their poor laborers ask for living wages the reasonable request is denied and the men go outon strike It will not help the telephone company in its present contest with the public to let it be known that while demanding outrageous pay for itself it grinds the poor workingman down to the last nickel The sympathies of the people will all bo with the strikers as against the monopoly |