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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
3
Union operators in Kansas City and Helena walk out over Chicago wire work. Dispute centers on manager’s refusal to relieve a nonunion worker, leaving about 150 in Kansas City and forty in Helena without service as strike spreads.
Western Union Telegraph Company offices in Chicago and branch rooms were largely idle as a Chicago local union strike order halted both day and night operators. About twenty workers reported for duty at 8 a.m. police kept crowds away, and officials said the company could not man its wires or handle business.
Salt Lake City Aug 10. The entire local force of Western Union operators walked out at 1 30 p m after Manager Long refused to reinstate operator R L Bartlett discharged for refusing to work the Salt Lake Chicago wire Bartlett charging the Chicago office with unfair practices
Samuel J. Small president of the Commercial Telegraphers' union is expected in Los Angeles to lead the local Western Union operators’ strike. Assistant Superintendent Miller of the coast division is anticipated to take up the company’s side in the confrontation.
Western Union operators in Denver threaten to strike and refuse to use wires to Chicago or Los Angeles. Sixty to seventy of the seventy five day operators are reported ready to walk out if a service stoppage occurs.
Stockholm August 10 The Credit Bank of Stockholm suspends operations as directors cite extensive forgeries by a nobleman and an army officer. Many firms and private individuals suffer substantial losses.
Chicago reports the death of Michael McDonald a longtime politician and noted gambler in the city He had been less active in public life over the past decade The note adds a reference to the recent murder of Webster S loodayie by his wife providing context of crime in the era
The telegraph strike widens as Western Union and Postal workers walk out in multiple cities. Officials vow no concessions, predicting a prolonged battle while about sixty percent of New York staff stay at keys amid orderly crowds and growing striker ranks.
In Chicago both Western Union and an unnamed company faced crippling strikes. Ticket service slowed to a crawl and brokers saw little value in the disrupted system. Strikers say both firms are tied up and will worsen until operators win.
Omaha reports workers called to continuous twenty four hour shifts stirring widespread complaints and tension. The telegraph lines carry word of fatigue and frustration as crews cope with extended schedules.
Nashville telegraph operators in the Western Union office walked out on August 12, forcing the local unit to halt messages to Chicago. The walkout involved seventy five workers who refused direct communication with Chicago and demanded altered conditions.
In Columbus workers from the Western Union telegraph office walk out in a citywide protest. Management reports most operators in the city are organized, with thirty three telegraphists striking after a local supervisor clashed with an operator.
Houston workers join Dallas strikers in a 10 am sympathy action. Fifteen operators walkout, leaving three at the keys, including one who stayed.
A garbled OCR fragment notes Soeraties in the employ of the Western Union company, hinting at workers or activities but lacking coherent details. The readable text references a corporate workforce and infers some movement or action by staff, though specifics are unclear.
The union says many workers shown by companies are telegraph students and only a third of claimed manpower is at work. Secretary Wesley Russell asserts that workers will be ordered out when needed, while Western Union rejects arbitration and will only communicate via circular letter directing former employees to apply for pay.
At 1 p m the Western Union main office operators walked out without orders, leaving a quiet, cheering crowd on Broadway. Police redirected traffic as about 400 men and 30 women left the building amid speculation of a planned union action.
Western Union Postal Telegraph and Associated Press faced a citywide strike with operators at many offices walking out. News service continued in part as others stayed on, while leaders and labor officials pressed for arbitration and a halt to plug pulling. Governor Russell urged unity as unions vote on a general strike nationally.
In Philadelphia line workers walked out at 3 40 p m with little local strike activity until after New York operators joined. The Postal Company felt the impact as two workers refused to work with nonunion colleagues in New York and were dismissed.
Aug 13 telegraphers strike expands quickly with widespread walkouts in multiple cities including Chicago. The movement begins as workers protest job conditions and seek better pay and hours across communications networks.
In Belfast falls and Grosvenor districts rioting left streets and houses wrecked. About fifty people, half troops and half rioters, were treated in hospitals for severe injuries. No fatalities reported as rioters remained aggressive and troops guarded against further attacks.
Victoria, Aug 10. Bill Quantrell leader of Quantrells claims to be alive living as John Sharp on Vancouver Island. A timberman J B Duffy says Sharp resembles Quantrell and says he escaped after being wounded not killed at Louisville. Sharp, over seventy, previously logged on Vancouver Island and hunted near West Vancouver mines.
A man caught in a storm sought shelter under a tree struck by lightning. The blast threw him fifty feet, but he survived and claimed he heard the crash clearly. Doctors say his hearing was restored and will not return to deafness.
Rodbert Filer of Elwood New Jersey was arrested for attempted murder and allegedly committed suicide. Magistrate Garger ordered overnight confinement for his protection in an empty freight car at a siding. By morning the car and the prison were missing after a freight train coupled the car.
A bold robbery at the Columbia Heights post office in Anoka county outside Minneapolis saw burglars lock doors, barricade stairs to nearby Johnson's restaurant and Postmaster J B Cornell's rooms, crack the safe with nitroglycerin, and escape with 50 dollars in cash and 250 dollars in stamps.
Pittsburg August 10 Andrew Starzynski the second victim of Thursdays shooting in the Carson Street hotel has died. Paris Bergiel a Polish priest now jailed for the murder heard the news without comment as the Starzynski family learns of the second death.
In Boston on August 10 Daniel J. Tobin of Boston was elected president of the Team Helpers International Drives defeating Cornelius P. Shea of Chicago who had led the group for four years.
A detachment of infantry commanded by two lieutenants was massacred by rebels in the Mori district of Celebes. The loss includes several seblets captured or killed, with fifty-five casualties reported.
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