Show UNIONS THREATEN I Arrogant Treatment at Hands Hanth of Western Union Causes Action THOUSANDS ARE AFFECTED K Called for fell Sunday lo tu Take Tillie General nl Tic Up S CO 1 Chicago ChiC I O Fob 1 12 l fhe country is h i facing the time n II of a of all th the We Western Union teh telegraph ih lines hues es through a strike of telegraph operators in im two twenty two of the lie chief eft cities ies The railroad telegraph service el time tho dispatching of trains Indus awl and even P handling hal of IC the malls mall also Is placed in fin Jeopardy by hy the lie situation which hast has ha arl arisen en bet between the lie Western Union Telegraph company and amid Its employee nver I the time ii e of II nine lI men n III in the he Chicago cHico Announcement went out from ho limo le s of the lie Commercial Telegraphers fob Tele union that lint negotiations lookIng look look- Ing lug to the settlement of the trouble lind hOll been een abandoned The Thc 11 dead d sit siU Mice which the company lore icie re maintained tell tended e to the IC 10 1011 I A t final Una I effort made in the afternoon on in n the part nai t of oC the operators to oh- oh aln a conference with the company copan was vas a failure To II 1 Take Radical Action i Pre Sam Sam un J. J Small Sinai head he aeJ of the time operators operators' union the lie ion which the lie committee received recCi at ut atthe atlie the lie han hands s of Genera Gencia nt Cook Cool a as bo so o hostile that thal he lie called a special of the time I local o ell I executive tire tive board of the Je union in in the lie Monon 1 block and advised md radical c. I action He lie sa said 11 a strike scorned inevitable The fhe members I of th the bO with him They aId they were ere rel lo to place ilace the time matter maUer in tho ho hands han of ot tIm the national officials of tho thu union For Im this th- purpose o a special mass mars meeting 1 of or the Western Union operators was vas called for nc next t Sunday when such aclou action action ac ac- tion lou will bo be taken f r r am am ready realy to 0 give II a t strike OI order older CI within 24 2 hours after attel I am ani placed in iii c of or the tIme wild said President euL It Il will affect the lie whole hole coun- coun i iy I cHr rii r tI t- t I lt l 1 U tK i I 1 tt l tt tor oi te l. l l c Thu rhu V Union company lie hi h said 1 1 has haM ha Indicated that thai 11 IL will not tolerate or among It UN A car cor has hw b been en turned to 0 all appeals for ol originating with the union The union 1 he said ald will light 1 to o survive l It If It engages eln en emi gages n s In Iii the I strike t II e rh The of IC the he union In Iii the thee e Western Union onic ume in lii Chicago I Is variously estimated According to the telegraphers about 00 JO JJ per cent ot of o the 1000 cs here here- arc are now union members In imi the 21 1 other cities whore where the union has oc n under unde com course he of or organization the leaders I claim nearly near I ly Iy as large lalle a II proportion of member member- The total number of of the company is said a lo to be about 18 |