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Show ; WiLL BEPUSHED: ' Statement by Leaders of Telegraph Union Has a I Defiant Ring. Will Continue Until Wil- . son's Principles Are En-forced, En-forced, Is Declaration. I ' .'f IIC.U;0, Jun-; HO. The commor.'lal . telegraphers' strike, according to a. state- mint from st iko headquarters here to-! to-! . ', day, vill fontiiiue as long "as the Wilson ; ; administr;i lion stands on record as denying deny-ing us the riht which President Wilson flays al! workers are en ti tied lo." , ' The statement charged the telegraph j . eompann-s a 1 1 t-rnpted to take ad vantage , i. of "our ;ivat(lng anion by the American , J-V-dr-ra tion of 1 .a nor by circulating fa I he reports aiidiit desert ions fro in our rank and that tin; ti-ii; ; wi'iild soon be over." '"Afier tirst declaring no one had fit ruck," the statement continues, "now . they are ottering fancy Inducement a for B'rlkei's to return. As a matter of fact, the 'ams have been all on our .side." The. statement said that the number of telephone workers on Ktrike was In- creasing steadily and would so continue, j Commercial companies said that condl- ' tlons here were unchanged and that buai- ; , -j nesa vas normal. May Call Off Strike. WINNIPEG, June 2'). Shortly after the Fix Englisl i peaking strike, leaders, re-cently re-cently arrested, were released on bail t trom Stony Mountain penitentiary today, executives of the central strike, eommlt-, eommlt-, tee, In session here, announced that the j - committee was considering the advis-l advis-l '('ability of calling off the strike. Ac-,t Ac-,t ceptance of the collective bargaining plans , - FnbmUt"d by the Industrial employers ' wan considered probable. Pour aliens of the eleven strike leaders ;. a r res led Tuesday still are in Stony . ; ' .Mountain penitentiary and their cases i' . have not been decided u pon. Those re-, re-, leased on ?2mh) bail today are to be ..-.placed on trial In local courts on charges J . ; of seditious utterances, government ofli-, ofli-, v - cia) .--aid. They promised to take no f further via rt In the strike. Acceptance by strike leaders of the col- ; ,1' . o.. u.l, pla n recently ufi'ered v I'uliliclv by the employers now appears ' .' " probable. according to strike' leaders. 1 - ; .a ide' ina n Ernest Robinson, secretary of 1 i - the Trades and Eahor council. In a con- c ciliatoi-y statement today, said the strike , leaders had not been formally notified 1 reua rding the em plovers' offer of set tie - , v tneiit and that "any avenue that may be ! ; opened which promises a road for settle- I , ment" will be utilize'.. 5 Will Decide Strike Proposal. t SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 20. C'onfer- e trees to be. held within the next tew days with officials of the Pacific Telephone Tele-phone company at San Francisco by rep-re.sentatives rep-re.sentatives of the International Hrother-? Hrother-? hood of Electrica IWorkers will decide the : question of calling a general strike on Monday of electrical workers throughout i the Tacitio district, which includes five " states, according to a statement made lo-I lo-I ' day by Secretary Charles p. Ford of the electrical workers' union. f r Sends Appeal to Washington. ' . KAN liAXClSCO, June 20. Washing- ; - ton was appealed to today bv officials of striking telephone operators' and line- Jn?-!icMU11011 " C;(lifo'- and Nevada to ... investigate the source of funds which according: to their charges, are being used by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company to break the strike L.mon leaders reported that men" were being recruited here to take the places ' - , g,' pe,it for s'lPlies. JJietolcphone company maintained si lence regarding the situai Ion. liefo'-M Cjiit liming a cnfernce with the tei.rphone officials today to pn-i-ent a ln".v s--t or -'iemands, union official.- an-nooiic'.-d that an ultimatum was being framed wh ich, if presented, would cut off negotiations after tomorrow and result re-sult m ail locals In Oregon and VVadh-1: VVadh-1: gton being caiied out. Today's conference wan again continued contin-ued after the workers had presented their m-mamN. P. KuiN-rton, the confer of tiie company, announcing that he would cail the e.Sion again as soon as he had , digested n.,-. demands. j ',"orthy Horsnian, Seattle, and C. W. 1 nurd. Portland, were added today to the : committee named by the unions vestc-r- j dav to m-gQtia'e with The cojnpany. , Returns trom the two states affected, ind :eated a more acute strike condition ! t"dai |