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Show MOVE ON TO END STRIKE ! Telegraphers Submit Conditions to Postal f Telegraph Company. Ft CHICAGO. June 13 First steps toward to-ward a settlement of the nation-wide strike of commercial telegraphers were taken today when officials of the Commercial Com-mercial Telegriphers' Union of Amei lea submitted to the Postal Telegraph company conditions upon which an 'agreement could be based. Tho conditions in effect provide that j the strike would be called off so far as the Postal is concerned if that com pany will agree to wage adjustment I Immediately after full control has been given the companv by the wire administration. The conditions, which are understood under-stood to have been requested by the Postal Telegraph company, were forwarded for-warded to New York officials of the company today, according to report? k V' here. Union officials said that an order issued is-sued some time ago by Postmaster-General Postmaster-General Burleson and still in effect prohibits the commercial telegraph companies from signing wage contracts with their operators. For this reason it was 6tated, the conditions were so drawn as to provide that actual wage agreements would not be entered into, 'nor other concessions granted until after af-ter the government had discontinued j all control. With the announced determination J 9l 'of making the wire tie-up in the country coun-try complete, so far as commercial business is concerned, by next Monday, picketing committees in scores of ' towns and cities today set to work urging urg-ing telephone girls to join the strike. . Many of the girls are affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Elec-trical Workers which has called a strike for next Monday that will affect 130.000 workers, according to strike leaders. lb It was estimated the number of workers idle today exceeds 22,000 with i the number swelling hourly. Moral ; support to the strikers will be given by the American Train Dispatchers' association, as-sociation, according to a statement today to-day by its president, J. G. Luhrsen. The Postal Telegraph company reported re-ported that in Chicago the operating force was "about seventy per cent nor-Imal.' nor-Imal.' Strike leaders took issue with this statment, pointing to the state-ment state-ment of E. W. Collins, general superintendent super-intendent here, that at one time since tho strike was called he had taken a key to help move traffic. The Western Union here reports 51 strikers in the traffic department, only 18 of whom are Morse operators. Union Un-ion leaders also claimed that these figures were "ridiculous," Both companies said practically all their messengers were on strike. The1 strikers began distribution of posters reading "We fought autocra-cy autocra-cy over there. Now we're fighting au tocracv over here." i ni |
