Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-13 | Page 2 | Strike Being Aided

I STRIKE I BEING AIDED I Railway Telegraphers I Are Not to Handle I Commercial Business. H CHICAGO, June 13 At the openinp ' ol ihe third day of the Commercial Telegraphers' strike leaders of tho union un-ion today professed to bo encouraged, I ' asserting that additional men had j cone out during the last twenty -lour i hours, and ihat more would join iIip ranks of the strikers during the dfy. On tho othrr hand, officials of the Western T nion and Postal Telegraph companies claimed that a number ol men in the various parts of the roun-iry roun-iry who left their keys on the first day of the strike had returned to work I and that only slight inconvenience had been caused by the walkout. Union officials Bald the order Issue I yesterday to the members of the Order I rf Railway Telegraphers to refuse io handle commercial business of the two telegraph companies after tomorrow morning would be of great adn;pe in their fight to forcp recognition of the right for collective bargaining, im proved working conditions and wage increases. Further enrouragement was found by the union officials in the order or-der for a strike of more than 100,000 electrical workers next Monday, un less a settlement of their differences is affected in the mpantime It was also announced today teat telegraphers emploved by brokers in the west would hold meetings to de cide whether they would go out in sympathy with the commercial men. 1 i Railway Operators Object. ATLANTIC CITY, N J.. June 12 E. J. Manion, president of the Order ' of Railroad Telegraphers, tonight, explained ex-plained that the strike called by him was not "a complete strike," but sim-pjy sim-pjy on againr.t all eommercial business of the Western Union and the Postal i telegraph companies. Twenty thousand railroad operators," opera-tors," said Mr. Manion, "have tor a long time been anxious to get rid ot the Western Union business they were handling. While they have been dispatching dis-patching trains and handling railroad business, the Western Union has ic-quired ic-quired them to handle commercia1 business for which they received no pay whatever. "The situation now Is that the railroad rail-road operators sending commercial messages into a Western Union relay office have to send to 'scab' operators or to operators v ho are the same thing as 'scabs' those who would not leave their keys in answer to the strike ca!l issued by the Commercial Telegraph ers. Our men simply will not handle these messages any longer under these conditions."