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Show HEAD OF TELEGRAPHEBS KILL IT ARBITRATE President Small Insists That. Striking Operators Can Hold Out Two Months. JvEW YORK, Aug. 26. President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers union today declared that, arbitration in the telegraphers strike was nt present, out of the question. He added that thn strikers are prepared to remain out. for two months. Hp aid tho executive board of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor will shortly consider the federation's relation to the strike. President Small asserted that "the companies' conditions are worse than when tho strike began, and that half of the Westorn Union force have failed to report for work after Friday, when a doublo pay scalo was established Superintendent Brook of the Western Union said: j "Our company will have nothing to do wit b Small or his union. While wo are willing to consider individual cases ol men who struck under tho pressure, agitators who engineered this situation will not be re-employed under anv cir- I cumstnnces. : |