Show MAIL L TELEGRAMS TAKEN TO BOOTH I District Attorney Asked by the I Telegraphers to Take Action In Matter SA SAYS YS IT MAY BE FRAUD But Nothing to lo Prevent Companies from Mailing All Messages I KL t I Jig t the Ime St striking ii ki ng I II I this committee In city U a called on United States Slates District Attorney no ncr ney Hiram E. E Booth Friday to a ascertain ascer eer- eer tain Lain as to the time Je legality of mailing telegrams telegrams tele tele- grams that have havo been paid for COl at wire rates rales It I Is alleged that time thc telegraph companies Involved In the thc present strike have C been doing so In order to keep th Ir business I moving while they ther arc In a crippled condition for fOI want o of ol operators The conference between Mr tr tl Booth and amid the committee ended elided without anything definite in having been done but It will wIH be continued at some sometime sometime time line within the tho near The Time are arc determined that If fC the thc companies arc ULC violating the law the they shall be bc prosecuted S. S A committee waited on Attorney General with rc regard I to the thc same thing he lie declined to lo take a u apart apart part In the affair rtuh asserting asserting- that the lie matter mattel of malls maIls Is entirely under the Jurls Jurisdiction of federal law Jaw und and does 5 not hOt In iii an any anar way tay belong to lo his ollice I. I j I-j It li A Asked I C a as to his opinion of ot tho time le legality legal legal- alIl al- al It Il ity of sending telegrams through the time malls District Attorney Booth l said ul l Friday o evening T r 1 find Ond nothing Im In tho time Ce federal el-aJ el law Jaw that would l t tend to tv lace S tho practice of If sending telegrams by mail as Illegal tJ The only that seems to obtain In iii the time case is as to whether or not tho ho person who has hils given thu tho telegram to time tile company has hns been defrauded The Time local strikers held ir usual daily meeting In III Harmonic 1 hall bull Friday Friday Fri Fri- day morning No 0 particular business was transacted but some ome editorials strongly favoring fa the time strikers strikers' cause A were wele read cad and anI loudly applauded prominent one was VOs from the he St. St Louis Star Sar This article went into the tile dela details us lis of or the telegraphers telegraphers' work oli and asserted that it is time the highest form bun of skilled tl J- J labor bol I It I maintained that lint the time operators have han not miot been ad adequately ad- ad paid for Cor or their services an and scored the telegraph raph companies for 01 l paying large dividends In Instead of ex expending expendIng ex- ex pending some of or the tho profits of their business for fot time the benefit of ot the lie em em- m- m Other communications o of in interest interest in- in terest crest to the thc operators were rea read and enthusiastically received The Time local telegraphers allen attended ed the musicale given In their benefit at the First Methodist t church chulch Fri Friday a nl night ht |