| Show STRIKING MESSENGERS DECIDE AGAINST I VIOLENCE NO MESSAGES TO DELIVER I Seventeen messenger r bO boys in inthe Inthe the employ of the Western Vestern Union and Utah District companies who went on strike Friday afternoon at l showed up for or their first meeting yester ester day forenoon in Federation of Labor hall where the strikIng Western Union oper operators operators are are makIng theIr headquarterS TIll The kids were cleaner than a new pin and read ready for anything the occasIon required There was no formal Call to order neither was there reading of the minutes of time the previous meeting and approval ot of the same the affixing of the signature of time the president and the attest b by the clerk The kids just aU all President A F Palm of the Tele Telegraph Telegraphers ers union was asked by Fritz David Daid Davidson son the recognized leader of the th bunch to talk talle to the boys Who Vho are you asked Palm Im the executive board modestly replied Fritz Mr Ir Palm addressed the boys briefly advising them one and all to keep awu away from the Western Union office and from Its Immediate vicinIty Wehl Vel give you plenty plent or of notice when our strike is over and the best thIn thing you youcan youcan can do said Mr Palm is to go to Saltair or go swimming in the Jordan river play marbles or get up a baseball game Dont worry wom Let the other peo piE do o the worrying oming Be decent and do doas doas as your mother tells you and we will ceo seo that you land right side up If you ou want us to Dats a good speech all right said Rust Rusty Its a goOd speech because its short and got a whole lots or of big words in it And then the kids leids who are askIng for 2 cent cents a message delivery and an in increase increase crease of 13 5 on the dIstrict work scam scampered scampered away Not one or of them was to be seen in the vicinity of the Western Union office be because because cause President Palm had put them on their honor that they would be good and keep out of mischief Thoughtful Fritz has arranged for a that will call at the tho telegraph operators headquarters eel every morning They aInt goin t be no of eggs ncr ner bean snappers he said with ThIs strike is a strike fer our rights and we want to win It without making fools of ourselves Manager Manag r Long of the Western estern UnIon said last evenIng in reply to a question wIth reference to time the messenger boys strike We have no dont seem to need any with a smile that showed that this patient man appreciates the ludicrous even In the mIdst of the serious |
