| Show A STRIKE AVERTED THE TIGHT OF THE W U TO BE PAID POH FOR OVERTIME considerable commotion was observed among the th western aaion operators yesterday little knots of ta tae e 4 night shift gathered in their accustomed resorts apparently greatly exercised over some matter of importance in which all took deep interest prompted by curiosity a reporter for the herald managed after several futile attempts to glean enough which by putting patting this and that together served to reveal the cause for this hubbub bub it Is said that within the past month work on the wires has been extremely heavy and the operators at this point have been doing the increased business without increased pay many of them performing seven hours of extra work after their regular time lime has expired and receiving nothing the murmurs of discontent have been growing louder loader ind and louder until yesterday morning when after baying dragged through a hard night the night shift went to manager williams and presented a demand for pay for overtime over time intimating that in case the request was denied they would from further duty until they were accorded their rights or in other words they would strike but queried edthe the reporter will not the day shift respond toa TO a call cal I 1 from the company and andi till id your time thus throwing you yon out entire entirely IT no sir bir reply we have the assurance of every man loan not concerned in this movement that he will absolutely refuse to work for love or money after j his days work is done besides the opening of the mackay rue jine hotbed every surplus operator in ia the country and the western union are today to day extremely short of working force in chicago omaha kansas city denver and cheyenne Cne yenne so we feel that they have got to fish or cut bait and then we are asking nothing unreasonable the company compa are reaping a harvest from the largely augmented business and we axe arc getting the foot we will not stand it and there is an aa end of it later in the evening the reporter learned that all demands had bad been conceded aud and harmony once more reigns iu in the abode of lightning ogden gerald mai march ck 24 |
