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Show WHAT OPERATORS WANT; NO DEMAND YET MADE Desire Shorter Workday and Better Provisions for Overtime; Over-time; Loral Situation. I Local union telegraph operators in the omplov of the Western V'nion and Postal Telegraph companies want an increase in the r.ite of wages paid for overtime, bul as yel have made no demand on the managers of their corn panics for an advance, and no action will be taken by either side until word epTnefl from the Bast of the result of a conference between the national officers of-ficers of the union and the heads of the j teiegruph companies. The wants of the local union teleg . raphers add local interest, to the at niflnd made by the national bodv, the Commercial Telegraphers 1 union. One of tbe things desired by the fortv or fifty local operators, who are members of the ('omniercinl Telegraphers' union, is an eight hour day instead of a nine- j hour dar, besides hotter provisions for overtime The operators now receive ST a dav. nine hours constituting a dav, and for overtime tliey are paid $3 for nine hours' work The operators want seven hours' overtime to stand ; as a dav's work, for which they ak $3. Until the Western I'nion increased their wages 10 per cent in March thev had been receiving $8 for seven hours overtime When the 1 0 per cent in crease went, into effect the rates for overtime in force then were either reduced re-duced or withdrawn |