| Show 1 DECISION LEfT TO TELEGRAPHERS President Small of Union indicates In Indicates Indicates That Strike Is Probably Over HAS BEEN ON TWO MONTHS NO PREJUDICE AGAINST OPER OPERATORS OPERATORS CALLED OUT OUTU U H 4 44 4 4 4 New York Oct 12 Following the t visit to this city of ot Labor Commis Commissioner 4 Nelll Neill President Small of Qt the thet 4 Telegraphers union this afternoon f t took decisive action to close the t f 4 telegraphers telegrapher strike He sent the 4 4 following telegram to all of ot the 4 leading cities in the country 4 New York Oct 2 1907 Prom f f nent New Yorker pealed to me to f call the strike oft off All efforts at 4 t 4 negotiations are exhausted and the 4 4 companies officials say they will 4 4 fight tight to a finish The treasury Is de tie depleted 4 and no more funds are arc aval avail 4 4 able Requests for relief from nil all 4 sides are heavy and urgent The gen Ien 4 4 eral era assembly cannot meet them 4 The strike having been ordered with without 4 4 out the presidents sanction I t rec ree 4 4 that locals vote on the prop proposition proposition 4 4 to call the strike off otto ottos offs 4 4 S J SMALL 4 to J JOn On the authority of ot the Associated Press and on the lt a telegram received by A F Palm president of ot local union No 30 O of ot the Commercial Telegraphers Telegraphers Telegraphers Sylvester J Small president of ot the International body bod has advised l the striking strikIng ing Irig operators to take a vote vot on n 0 whether they will remain on stride or not These Thle operators having the most of or them at any rate gone on strike without orders from President Small Sinai and as locals mere merely merey ly Jy y have the call to decide President Pr Ij nt Small did not call a general strike trl rik o mill days after the local strikes were in progress progress progress ress elsewhere In Salt Lake the president of ot the union does not take the order from Small ser seriously In New York the pe vrho vho ho have hae been behind the operators most enthusiastically on the union un I sid Ild declare that they are astonished at lt t Small action There will be a meeting of ot the local union this forenoon f at 16 1 Nat Natural Naturally ural a full attendance atten an e is desired Meanwhile the officials of ot the tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph companies say they are progress Ing and have been Locally J the strike began in the Western Union in Salt gaIt alt Lake Lak Lakon on Aug 9 Approximately half a hundred undred l men Then and women went out n the Western Vestern The walkout was complete A few days das later the Postal operators became Involved Since the beginning of ot the strike the strikers have maintained d h and reading rooms in the Har mony hull huh hullon hullon on West est First South street It Is 1 said I nt ut the union headquarters rs that dat all except eight ight of ot the strikers rs have hava secured Re places phaes elsewhere IT In I comparison with the strike of f fas tS ns as the operators say sa the present contro controversy controversy versy has exceeded that memorable event more than a month In duration for tor the of ot SZ 83 lasted only thirty days dRYs 1 John Campbell conducted the strike of ot a quarter of ot a century ago and he says that the failure thereof was not due to lack of money mone but to a surplus of men Convary President Small says the failure faIl re of the strike Is t not due to a lack of ot strikers but to the th lack of money Doubts Its Authenticity This message does not have the right tone said Eald A F Palm last evening for tor the reason that we have positive Instructions from President Small and the tho national executive committee to topa pay pa absolutely no attention to any com corn communication communication except when written on the official letter heads of ot the national of ot offices flees of ot our organization and bearing the signatures and arid seal of ot the national 1 officers I cers That for tor one thing makes it look bad Again the statement that the treasury is depleted Is hardly borne out by ty the fact that this local received from front the general assembly funds today This money mone was not requested by b us and the fact tact that they the would send it to us with without without without out our request does not show that the national treasury Is depleted as stated in the message received I r have advices from Los Angeles say 8 1 Ing that the local there had accepted the message as a fake also advices from New York Chicago Omaha and Kansas City saying that the locals at those points had voted to continue the strike I have called a meeting of ot the local union for 10 this morning in Fed Federation Federation hall and will place this message mess e before the members for tor their consider consideration consideration consideration Bears No Malice All I know concerning the matter said Superintendent W P S 8 Hawk of the Postal Telegraph com pan Is that a flash was received over our wires from Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago saying saIng that the strike had Imd been de declared declared dared off otto It will make no material dif difference difference di ference to our company com pan locally as we weI bave I ve the usual quota of men at work at atthe atthe atthe the present in the local office otrice We e bear no malice toward t ward the boys bOs who went on strike from our office and will consider without prejudice their ap applications for reemployment should thy be received The strikers have conducted themselves In a gentlemanly manner ever since the strike began No act of ot violence on their part has been brought to my mv notice In the Associated Press All my ray operators six in number left the office just two months ago tonight at said Harry Dod of the Associated Press At the present time we have hac two men wen working here who were sent from irom the east cast The men who went wenton on strike were officially dismissed by Su Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Paul Cowles of ot San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco but there will be he no prejudice against n their returning to the service ot of the association Any An man applying to us bs for employment will be merely on his merits as an operator Continued on Page 2 DECISION LEFT TO TELEGRAPHERS Continued From Page 1 Theres nothing much to say sa said Manager A W V Long of the Western I last night All I 1 have hae to go so o b bIs bIs by Is the tha report sent out by the Associated d Press Should any of the former em of this office apply for positions here I will consider them as I would any other There arc a few men however who have made themselves obnoxious to tous tous tous us and we will not allow them to reen reenter reenter ter tel the service at this point The volume of business handled by the company has been considerably reduced by the strike but we have bare been and are handling busi bus business business busness ness to the larger cities with promptness and dispatch The principal delay has been to small way wa offices The Messenger ger Boys BoysOn On the day da when the Western Vestern Union operators went on strike a strike of mes ines messenger messenger boys b ys In the Western Union office also occurred Sixteen was the total cal calculated calculated calculated by b the leader of the boys Little has been said about the messenger boys end of the strike If end It may ma be called for the Western Vestern Union had no messages to deliver for a time and the district Wn wa I easily supplied by the other companies After a while the Western Vestern Union had a sufficient number of boys to deliver its telegrams and to take errand calls When school opened this number was cut down again but on the whole there has been little about the telegraphers strike situa tion upon which the kids have had bearing |
