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Show MM UNGHHEDj II TELEGRAPH STRIKE i Electrical Workers Reach an Agreement on Terms With Burlesoru The threatened strike of the electrical workers in sympathy with the telegraphers telegraph-ers was canceled yesterday because of a 'settlement effected in the east between Charles P. Ford, president of the Internationa! Inter-nationa! Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Work-ers and Ppstn.: aster Genera! A. S. B :r.e -, son. On one hand the strikers clahm. that the strike was postponed because the demands were satisfied, while the Western West-ern Union authorities claim the strike was prevented after Joseph P. Hyes of the Employees' Association of the Western West-ern Union explained the situation to Ford. . Local". y, the telegraph companies' officials offi-cials say that the back cf the so-called strike has been broken and they sr.!! refuse re-fuse to recognize it as an official strike. A. H. Beckman. manager of the Fostal Telegraph company, states that the eastern east-ern heads have offered to furnish, men to any of the western offices in need. He maintains that the public business is be-1 be-1 ir.g fully iikea care of. I The leauers cf the strike take the op-I op-I posite view and hold that the strike is j still in its infancy. G. R. Simmons cf I the Commercial Telegraphers union said, (in a statement last nicht, that each c?y i f ?nds more e mplovees dropping from the I list of the Western Union. "At first." he stated, ""there was seme ; little doubt abo-jt the strike's bem.c a success, but d.i-.ly reoorts prove that the men a:- now respond'.!- g in larce : numbers. There is no doubt about the 1 outcome. We will win " I S.mmons also says that an order has 'be- issued bv the pres. dent cf the Order 'of Reread teU sraphers prohibiting the ; railroad telegraphers handling pr:- j vate menaces, as was the custom prior - to the strike. It is held that this mow1 ' will force the Western Union to suppV i tr.e local towns ab.-ut s-alt U;-ke :n other j wavj Mian through the medium of the ; railroad wires. ' "o new activity has been taken m the cooks' and waiters' strike or in re curd i to the proposed walkout of the held ' maids. i |