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Show m i mm QUIT TH JOBS Valkout at Atlanta Starts on Schedule Time; Local Affair, Chief Says. ATLANTA, 0;i., Juno L In nerordanoo with nn ultimatum served on officials of tlio outturn licit rolepliono Sr. 'JVlc-Kruph 'JVlc-Kruph company, union operators stnrtoil a walkout promptly nt :i o'clock tlila aftu--nonn ljccauyo of failure of tho company to reinstate a number of Klrls dlnmlHHi'il for altered union nft'Ulatlonn. Shortly after that hour morn than one hundred and fifty r1i-1h had left wwltc hboards. Telephone company . officials .stated that lilno out of 100 lon-dlstanco operators opera-tors also Joined tho walkout. Reports front tho other exchanges Indicated that about thirty per cent of tlio workers had gone on strike. According to a poll taken hy th company com-pany about 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was announced, a hunt 7o to 7,S per cent of the employees signified their Intention of reniulnluy ul work. WAST1 tNTJTON, Juno 2. S. J. Konen-kamp, Konen-kamp, president of the Commercial Telegraphers' Teleg-raphers' union, stated hero today that no da to hud been set for a nationwide telegraphers' strike and that tho threatened threat-ened walkout in Atlunta wus purely a local lo-cal affair. Almost simultaneously with Mr. TConen-kamp's TConen-kamp's statement. Postmaster CI en era 1 Ihirleson announced that if telephone operators op-erators in Atlanta had been dismissed because of union affiliations they would be reinstated at once and that steps would be taken to discipline the responsible respon-sible officials of the Southern Bell Telephone Tele-phone company. |