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Show are prodigious. A pay list of the company com-pany would show that a majority of its employe! toil on for less ; than $50 a month, while a salary above S100 is the exception. We venture to assert that the Salt Lake office, though still employing em-ploying skilled operators, since ' the Whcatstone system is not introduced born, doe not average, including the clerks, $00 a month. ' Of such is the wealth amasied by Jay Gould and his co-partners. A FEW years ago the telegraph operators oper-ators of the Western Union Telegraph company entered upon a prolonged strike, which resulted in their defeat and the practical destruction of the Telegraphers' Tel-egraphers' Brotherhood. It appears, however, that the organization is being reestablished, and if the telegram from Omaha announcing the dischargo of two men for being members thereof be true, the company is determined to crush it out. We hope it will fail in the attempt. Until ten or twelve years ago the telegrapher's trade was a paying pay-ing one. Since then the introduction of the Wbeatstone system in the large offices renders it possible for inexperienced inexperi-enced persons, mostly- young girls, to do a great part of the work and skilled operators are accordingly at a discount. dis-count. The. Western Union company takes the most cold blooded advantage of this fact to swell the dividends on its stock, real and watered, and the returns re-turns published in Thb Times last week |