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Show TELEGRAPHERS B Or SliEff- Salt Lake Offices May Be Involved in Nation-Wida Nation-Wida Dispute. UNIONISM AT issu Local Operators Reticen; in Commenting on Newi From Chicago. A hint of a nation-wide strii( . coinn'orcial telegraphers is con-.ai-t, . -a special dispatch to The Tribune Chicago to the effeet that nni-:, . Western Vnion and Postal Tt'.jr,-con.i'anies Tt'.jr,-con.i'anies v.-iris draw an etr.rr;c t je i to have been placed by trc ,.a'-s ui-.on riteir o,erarors, j r.JV" those ...jit love-!, from holumz csrJV -ship in tii.-- ' oinmercial liiTv.-.fT iinio:i. a v. aikout will be orcrei' Tne' question is eij.ected to . lro;:lit to a bead by a of "-.-j nieeunes" er b-red by S. J. E ---kamp, 1 -'--. : : t of the tc;r-:.. union. Koiiei.rmi. ha? appoiLtej ; day. April a "'be day ani : ,''o-'e open nsoetins-. an.l be quov--ayins 'that if the teleoraph c.r.ti. d'is.-harice aiiv operators for anr.,-t. iii-on those hieet:i:zs a strike wit; low. A.-cordinu' to the nisa;.i f r!11,j. the te:eTarhers demaiii r.ht to cr.'an.ze. a ri;ht T.hifh. operators at.e. has been caii u by the telera, li comj-anics. Wage Issue Not Present. No .inest ion of wa?es will b? volved in the strike, ir one is tL Tiie airreexent nnie: taken by American federation of I'w.r Buffalo convention prohibits stru , a-aue questions r.ntd every off or been i:.ade to arrive at a s--; arbitration or me iiarion. Tne r-;-. organize, therefore, is the sole -j w-irh the telegraphers. (ifficials in Salt Lake oi ti raph eo:i:panies last nijht iiecur. dis. r.ss the matter. They acmrtte: : itit- heard about the proposal n-.eeiinsrs ' " on April -V and a'so n formation that the union had tt-ine- out literature-, but that was x:- tent of their know'.ede. they . Moreover, these otfieials ?irc '. knew of no con.n.ercial teirs:. u:.i..n in Sad Lake. They ttc-; : venture a j-re iicriou as to wnat tr." iranies n-izb.t or nuh: uo: c.o c v: to the "open nieet:nc;s. if hi-:. F.fforrs to locate a local of-.it rrav'-.er's orcanination here prove. i avaiiir.z. oicrators beinz reticent uro this and other points connected wit the matter. Recalls Strike of 1907. The last strike ofcoc-- operators occurred in -V ' time the Western Union on;ee ct ; 1 ake was first to see its men i j l'ortv-seven cf some fiity-two eraphers resnonded to the s'r.ie t: The local Western Vnion cffU't ' Western l"nion waiiov.t was folk-, waikouts of teiejravhers eniyiicyM the Postal Telera: ii eornvany ai. Asscciared Press. The Interns:. News Service w ires and brokers' r were continued iu oreraf.un. 3::: a few broker operators went c;t v lu the event of a strike of . operators, it is quite iikeiy thst te'.Cirr.ap'a eomrianies wul increase :: installation of nivtltiy'.ex vria::r.- : erap'ns. ann.iratus wherev ss ij" oijht teleeranis are simultaneous.. -.i'.c i on a sir.iile wire. Tnese n.i.: are operated, iarce'.v bv boys S3.-. : What' percer.tr.ce of these printer:-tors, printer:-tors, if any. held nembersh-.n :r union, of course, cannot be ever. : lecture. i. Government May Act. If the commercial teieers: 1 should be seriev.slv crrn; led by a $:: of operators, t :e enormous vo::r; covorntn.ent business riir: out c ' war W'l.i have to be hanuier a f wav. Keceuriv there have 3:".e3'.;U the newspapers items in.U.-stwe movement to ha e the eovenruent over the teiecraph lir.es. on s pans lar to that bv which it took over ' railroads. In 'that case the cove-: would, operate the lines ar.d the t' telost'fl-.-h companies would hsv( voiie in thei" lontroh . It is posstb'e. too. tV.t if '-acamst '-acamst the Western I'mcn and T'- V so crirpied the lam', teiccra: 'r. ' ' dclav covcrument business, th,- service would install wire. ess . thror.eb.out the country. In . there were several amateur stations of eonsiderabie power sr.;. --before --before thev were dismantled bT f" of the government, and mess-,'! 1 sent and received from Per.vcr. r.-and r.-and t'oiuts at similar distances, cc ' creator. In connection with t.-.f j tion branch the s'inal serine ' eucaeed iu teacb.-.nc b.nn.'.re :s e! b men ti.e art of ta.b.o tclci-s;"-. s in case of need, these U'.ca ii1 assicned to various rac.io stilt." ' linnc.'o ev 01 imcnt dr.spat. bcs. |