| Show Telegraphers Favor Government Ownership Strikers Preparing List of Demands to Submit to Local Manager M nager Long of pf the Western Union Giving Terms of Settlement Ninety Per Cent of Salt Lake Messages Shut Off Today Postal Has Hns Delay D lay Sign Sn Out Strike Headquarters I of or Hull 3 8 J ITc on 01 nn 1 u IM IH i ir er vent vIlt ut of or Western Union huL oil olT ol Postal lostal taking nielli subject to 10 do tIc dolay d dIn lay In Number of Men 11 and Out n 14 J 10 19 from om regular force foree 23 2 from the tue extra force foret boys Join Joll operators with presentation pi of or for or more pay nt Noon OnS Strikers nrc an Irl list or of to 10 submit io to o Manager hll cr git Ing terms of or set I I operators operator of or the Iho thi Western Union Ullon Telegraph company are holding strike meetings today toda In lu room 3 of the tue Federation of oC Labor hall ball hal Their Im Immediate mediate task In hand Is the preparation tion tOI of f a ft set of or demands to fe with Manager Long giving the torts terms on which they IhlY will wi go hack back to work A v Y Palm president of or tho the local union who was nas W called caled out of oC the ses session sion title this morning to his views on the thi tim situation declared most em om emphatically that lint the men will wi not go goback gOback goback back to work on any sober second thought and that tho the strike is ls not a I hastily considered move This Is IB a a Western Vestern Union fight ho hG h said It Is on in earnest carnet and ond Jt It has ha been coming on for a I long lone long time The Tho Th boys have hae been dissatisfied for rOL years and the tho reason renson there thoro has hns been no adjustment is a I personal one OlO with Colonel president of or tho Ule th West Western W est ern Union The demands of ot the men have always run counter to tho set Bet policies of or tho the colonel and ho hn has allowed matters to come cOn to this crisis before seeking to make an nn adjustment Now tho the light Is on und and a I general generl airing of or conditions Is to my m mind all ni that that can cnn bring brine pence peace When fl asked about abUt the tho demands to bu b filed fe with wih Manager I Long ong Mr r Palm PaInt said paid that they would bo ho for tor the eight hour day cia 1 and Il the tho giving ot o higher pay payIn payin In good gOOI faith This last clause eluse ho am amplified pulled by b explaining a n little niora about tho the personality of ot Cot Col dowry clown The Tha dissatisfaction In the thC Western Union he sal said ium Is general and in Is practically tho the same everywhere If I we e me are not nt striking sinking In ln every city it itIs ItIs itis Is merely mereb because bonuso we are arc not shoot shootIng lug Ing alt all 11 our ammunition at rut tho the first shot and ond do not wish to drag the pub lip lie lc In nay more moe than wo we 0 have to to set get Iet fair treatment from front the company COmpall Our demands on Manager kong Leng will wi not dif differ differ fer far materially front from rom the tho demands mad t tall all along the line hoc lne We Insist that the ni company furnish typewriters and that that the tho pay of first lut class men Inon bo be raised Also that the extra list let be cut elt down and many men moan now result employed ed nn ru this thul list be put on tho the pay pa oil ohl 01 This statement too needed ne deJ amplification tion and Ind Mr Palm mails It clear by hy stating that Cal Col dowry was advanced ed Id d through the Western Union service because of or his promises to the directors tars tors that ho h would get dividends Col Clown was waa a great groat dividend hp tu If explained When h ne he ro rn his hll appointment ns os superintend superintendent eat ent It was vai as with will 1 tho the boast that ho he would save to Western Union dividends 2 a I year out of or operating ex ox expenses expenses Well elI maybe ma bf dowry Clowry did It I nut lInt ho Ito took tool Wel It out of the tho legitimate Income of or orthe the operators and Ind he demoralized tho time service created discontent nod and finally brought on tho the great strike triko that Ih Is starting now new n w There Thero vet map many he hI worked One wits was to mak mal a I high salary alar list for far regular employee and ad then thou put everybody he h possibly could on n the extra list lift for regular the extra list working thorn bent nt at a n low iov rate in II the tho hope of getting on tho reg regular regular ular list Why Wh ten years ear ago a I J was WIS an operator In Chicago supposed la o 0 bo be b getting fretting 72 7 o n Chiago month mont and nail although t r worked 12 to 15 hours a I day Hint is isI isI I was there subject to call they figured my m salary sinI down by 11 typical Clowry dowry methods to about halt half that and Ind the tho In stance Is la typical of or Clown Clowry tactics So Sn you Ie see co what a 1 clasi tei d ul I y hi Ills been brought about for fil adjustment through this radical method decided Upon When how ho thought the tho trou trouble trouble ble itle would finally Ina end Ild President Palm said old definitely anti and with decision that thai government ownership was the final III solution and an the th only olly one You see ho he said the tl company operates for div dis dividends dl nail and you must remember this Is 19 neither for tho the public nor for the theop op 01 The Tho government would oper operate operate ate nto to 10 give gle and Ind Justice to tho the thomen theroan roan men menAs lel As long as ns a I superintendent Is In 11 charge whose orders ordes tire lIre to get et din divi dividends lends you OU will wil have n a repetition of or the Iho tactics that tha t have been bren I en played on onus onUS us JS until this revolt A civil service examination would determine 1 ones oles fitness to man n a wire and give Ilvo the Ule public reliable service At present pre tho tito company puts on the cheapest chen pest ma mn material It can get and works Its best besl Iet men as os little l I 0 aa as I It I Ii Is forced to to cut down their salaries cown Mr Palm Paint considers the tho explanations given glen by hy Col Clowry of or tho the Los Is Ls An Angelen Angeles gelen geles fles affair lies and calls cals them that directly The nina man ian who was IS die dis discharged charged for rol delaying with malice mallco malce the transmission of or telegrams was a 11 I bonus honus man nan who Is If paid by b the mes mc message sage A good receiver could tika his hits messages and the only emily way lie hue obstructed the service was by b sending theta them faster that a a poorly taught oper operator tutor ator Ilor could receive them To lift IW him oft of a I fast talt wire to u it 1 slower one was WIS to cut his salary and yet et this Is tho the punishment given him for Cor or being proficient With Wih this tItle tact fact before berol you ou you ou can easily understand why such a 1 elIte easo should be mado lado n a 1 test matter wily why wh wo we should go out gut in city af at after nt atter ter city The Tho ho Western Union nion Is la handling a ate lit little the tle te business through Its I manager chief operator both of or whom are arc man manning ning keys today The Tho Postal has hao Ha its iA entire local force at nt work worle but Is entre swamped Western Vestern Union busi business busIness ness flees n |
