| Show r SAM SMALL TALKS I ION r ON S1 A President of Telegraphers Declares Declares De De- clares dares Companies Must Make Concessions 4 FORCES WELL ORGANIZED five Per Cent Union k Men Postal Men Postal and Western West- West em ern Union Join San Sn Francisco Junk June 21 President I. 4 SO Sam arn t Small of u the United Commercial lol o of America Issued the tho following statement tonight on uial un conditions Ay There me are about WOW VOW positions In Mho he commercial service In 1st this country and le less s than 0 commercial telegraphers tele lele- to fill III them For 1 years c us u's It tins has been fI necessary a 1 for the lie telegraph companies com coin service their t panics to force Coree extra upon In every cr largo kirg 9 city in the country countr AVe Wi t arc are gradually educating v our members to lo the tue principle or of eight 12 hours hours' work worl eight hours sleep and 1 eight hl hours for with the lie re result ref re- re f sult suIt that there Is le Ics less desire desire- now tor to lo A r i work worl long hours than limn formerly I. I President Clarence If H. Mackay of or orl P l J the Postal l Telegraph le raph company has lits sent I out out n Ii duplicate of or President Pr dowry's Clowry's l Jotter Informing the lie Postal opera operators tots j or Sun SilO Francisco that his Ills company i will pa pay time to all loyal nUt and Instructing tent ten ten- 1 operators t li t sto Stonier to lu afford I them O lI every Ion and every cry comfort rl J i i IA n. n message s ur of that kind would ItU hay have II been beca from Mr Ir Mackay ut at tI the ii I time the Postal operators were workIng work work- t Ing da day Lint und and night ht and sleeping iier eve l' tI y l' l could coult find a t place to lu la Ia lay their heads while to the lie credit of the Jo Western ostern Union thc they provided plo ever every t comfort during the first trying weeks of tho the disaster l Tho TIie secret of ur Mr Mi Mackay's lions to provide provide- comforts for or tho the Postal Postal Pos Pos- 4 tal tat Telegraph company's compans strike break t f era is Is that tho Ito Mackay Interests have o u been cu pooled and Clarence Ciarence Mackay lUllS has given hell 1 the he lie management t of tho ito Postal tal p- p company over to others others- Thc These e new in influences In- In In the tho company compan ho have yielded to tu the thc wl wishes he of ot tho thu Western Union rt and entered into an agreement as to tu break breakup up UI the unie union n. n The write attitude of Clarence Mackay Macku raci a to toI toward to- to I ward his Ills telegraphers II Is In iii great conI contrast con con- I 1 trust to lu that of oC his honored old uhl father I wino who when General Superintendent lt i Parker suge suggested ted that the tine salaries of ur I coulD be reduced told Parker to lo start starl on himself and see bow Jow he be 7 liked UThe U. U V VeIl 11 I I The Western estern Union an arid and Postal having hayI may hay I In big ing gotten n her In III a trade and of offensive of- of and und dc defensive a agreement I presume pre pre- I. I sume sume w c mu may look OOt for fOl a long tong dla drawn wn out fight That flint is not worrying u us II Q a OK we l know no absolutely absolutely- where I l V We Ve Vare are are j 75 per e cent nl organized ill til O ove i l the count country ntH and tho railroad are aro stronger er we wo are arc Wo o are arc adopting entirely new mew tactics in iii carrying on our strike We Wo ma may change chauSe those tactics any d day and nobody nobody nobody no no- body but bul the executive board of oC the organization will know the tIa day and antI hour the tho tele will be called out I 1 personally regret vcr very much mocha that lilal the tho efforts of or Labor Labur Commissioner l i cill lo to adjust our grievances with f c President Clowry were not more inure sue suc j c However If 11 Mr 11 Neill was out out- g l by 11 Mr lr Clowry it is no fault Cault tt of or ours Ilic strongest point brought out In tn the alleged d settlement was wan Hint r Mr 11 Clowry considers tie the Western I Union corporation more mOlO powerful than the States government |
