Show MR PRATT ASKS INTERCESSION INTERCESSIONS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT S C O p Pratt who Is 15 directing the strike of th Street treet car men charges s the com corn with displaying United States mall luaU contrary to a n ruling made mado by the department d m hi May Mil 1599 In prosecuting this charge cha Mr Pratt late night sent tho the following telegram Postmaster P General George Goorge Von L Washington J wish to Inform you that the tho Utah LIht Railway RallA company of this city Is displaying United States Slates mall mail signs on cars S that do not carry mail mall C O 0 PRATT Kenon Ken on Hotel The company unlawfully displayed m sin today s said ld r Pratt last Wb reSpect h Sign In any and andall aU all and wo we offer to men man mento manto to er te mail malt oars Otira 00 rs Today however a it number of oars ears started by the company bare mail mall signs which carried no mall at atall nil alt allI I 1 have bumped against that same lame c game before and If 1 the company persists In that line lino of tactics It will find itself butting Its Us head against a tone W In May ISM l I happened to be one or of the the committee that sent SOnt an appeal eai to President McKinley M asking that the street car company c in Cleveland land j 1 b ba pre pro prevented vented from tram employing mall signs to break bl k our strike The petition came e our biennial convention nt at Louisville The president referred our communication to the post postmaster postmaster master mast r general and we wo secured scoured d a ruling to the effect that till all cars ars bearing ag the sign sigh U S Mall Mali must have mall mail on board If there Is 19 no mall on board th the sign must be removed consequently In Inmost Inmost Inmost most cases the sign must be bea a portable one In some cities like Chicago how however however ever whore electric lines run mall mali trains the th words V are painted on the Mrs Cars but passengers do not tide ride In those these cars c rs hI 1 have notified the postmaster gen gun general general eral oral as you jou ou will see sae by my m telegram of the situation here |