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Show OPERATORS MAY CAEL A STRIKE President of Telegraphers' Union to Decide After Reaching Chicago. WASHINGTON, June 1 A decision as to whether he will call a strike of ' commercial telegraph operators will bf made, S. J Koncnkamp, president of the telegraphers' union, announced today to-day after he reaches Chicago whence he will go tomorrow "Wo are not in any hurry about going out," he said. WASHINGTON. June 3 Repreaen tatives of 500 railway shopmen today asked the railroad administration not I to put into effect the new wage scale! without upward revision for their crafts, saying great dissatisfaction 1 would be created and Intimated that It 1 micht be impossible lo avoid many strikes Appearing before the board of war Industries and working conditions! at the first hearlnc. spokesmen for the six shop trades declared they had1 found it difficult to work out a wage scale on the basis of the director Km eral's scale and that extreme disap- j pointment is prevalent among all men who had read it. The urged speedy action to revise the scale In order to prevent emuloyes from golnc to ship yards within the next week or two. in |