Show THE STRIKE the telegraphers of the east give up the fight as a failure but the western men hold out a little longer by intern A asad d P the HERALD NEW YORI aug 17 at a meeting of the assembly of th brotherhood of telegraphers today to day there were some expressions of dissatisfaction at any further continuance of oatlie the struggle and there were also some manifestations fe of d disapproval VI a with the management of 1 disruption seemed imminent yet the tile majority are still determined to iab ide by their obligation entered into on beZ becoming oming members of the brotherhood the order of master workman campbell was about this time issued declaring tho the strike ended and authorizing thor izing the members to resume work it was then decided by those present that the young women en ga gazed ed in the strike be given tho tile first opportunity to regain employment and the men were not to apply for reinstatement before saturday the women immediately came trooping g down to the main office of the tho western stern union telegraph company and tripped lightly into the elevator to be taken to the rooms of superintendent perin some mas cullines bad anticipated them these had token taken the rapid elevated railroads and meeting members of the fraternity informed them thein of tho the break these did not hesitate upon the order of their going but went at once for the office of mr ilu in estone hence en trapping the girls the fourth floor was quickly quickly taken possession of angheld and held emly until mr 11 u mes tone lata late hirthe afternoon announced that he could not receive any more tonight but would be entirely free to give further audience tomorrow to morrow each person as a me preliminary of re employment must sign a paper agreeing to abandon the present brotherhood the of telegraphers Telegraph em and not again become member of any similar brotherhood while in the employ of the western union co A leat leading ting striker er sava ss we have made a good tight fight but tit have been broken because the force of the company was stronger than thin ours and because allies who had promised us aid haye failed to do BO so the executive committee of tha the brotherhood is preparing a statement which is to be pub dished in ft a short time chowins the am amount aunt of money received and expended wo we have receipts for every cent that has been paid out and when the whole history of the movement is known it will bo be seen that the brotherhood lias has waged a conflict which though disastrous Is not dis creditable we ve have received in all not less than ten thousand out of this the rent of clarendon hall had to be paid and the hotel bill of the executive committee at the manhattan hotel skirmishers who were on watch to keep weaklings wea klings from returning to work required considerable mone money yso so there was only or to divide among operators and 20 line men and of this bum sum line men illen got a larger share the average amount paid to operators on strike was four dollars for the entire four weeks that the men have been out A number of men not re employed left for Pittsburg Pit and other 1119 lit some soine of the men feel very sore over the issue of the battle but hope that a few days will blot out all disagreeable gree able memories and that old time pleasant pleasantries ries will prevail the benefit baseball game postponed owing to bad weather laer is now declared off the tile telegraphers telegraph dI rs hero here say thero there will not be a striker left aug 17 secretary says lie has notified all the assemblies sem blies to return to work in regard to tho the sudden col collapse lapso of the strike lio lie was very reticent but 1 said I a lie was satisfied three days lays after the strike that it vas a failure members of athe the brotherhood attributed their defeat to the of labor who they say failed to give them tile support promised promis eil cuicio aug 17 an unexpected move was nado by the striking tele alphers of this cita at the meeting feid held at Uh licha hall wil which was attended by bet beaw en een and master workman morris received a telegram from john campbell declaring the strike a failure and advising the loon tuen to seek employment the tile speak er said he lie first doubted theau the authority of tho the tele telegram grais but after campbell over the postal wire had bad become convinced that t the e word had actually been given ven no do he lie declared to the tile assemblage dl t that hat ho would not endorse the advice i 0 of f campbell 1 ta they could do 10 a 8 if it they chose he lie would resign and hiyo hayo nothing more to do with the brotherhood tho speaker asserted that the west vest had shown no sign of weakening but tha the east on the dpn arary had not displayed the fi firmness which had bad bean expected with the tile operation cooperation co of other largo large western cities lie believed the contest could bo be prolonged to a stage where the company corn any would have to recognize their bill of rights telegrams from cincinnati cleveland and st louis were read alleg all ing t that hot tile strikers ikera str of those cities would not recognize campbelle Camp bella cir lar jar the session was brought to a close at 1115 by a raising vote to continue the fight prior to this ine meeting eting two cr er three of the brotherhood had hall and been riven given work at the office of the company compan at the session 0 of i the executive committee of the leml assembly it wits outlined as the policy of the tile chicago operators that they remain out operators until I 1 monday londay noon and until they could obtain t the lie signatures r 0 of the ex committee at new york the strikers contended that no one oue haa has gone to work in this city today to day and that the two men nien applying for work did so under misapprehension |