MAIL HANDLERS ON STRIKE. ~ Places Quickly Filled by Recruits From Helping Hand.

October 19, 1909
MAIL HANDLERS ON STRIKE.

Places Quickly Filled by Recruits
From Helping Hand.

Twenty porters employed at handling the mail bags at the Union depot quit work yesterday morning because of a change in the system of paying the men from a monthly salary, ranging from $52 to $57, to 16 cents per hour. This gives the old men, who have worked twelve hours a day, a little more than they had previously gotten, but it also acts in a measure to shorten the pay of the newer men, who work but ten hours a day. The depot company employs 175 men as porters in the baggage and mail departments.

The places of the score of men who walked out at 9 a. m. yesterday were filled a few hours later by recruits from several places in the city, principally from the Helping Hand headquarters.