Don't Like "gipsy Life"

DON'T LIKE "GIPSY LIFE"

Telephone Linemen Make a Kick Against

LIVING IN A TENT

While in Town and Seven of Them Conclude to Quit Their Jobs

The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. has a strike on its hands in this city.

For some time the company has had a gang of workmen located in the city, working on the many improvements incidental to their removal to new quarters in the Savings Bank block and other work in this vicinity. This is their regular repair gang and travel about the state fixing up the lines whenever necessary. During their stay in this city the men have been boarded at the American house at the expense of the telephone company, but recently the company has felt that it could arrange to have this done at less expense and procured a large tent to be used as sleeping and dining rooms for the men and hired an expert cook and caretakers.

The men did not take kindly to this, however, and Wednesday seven of the linemen concluded they would quit rather than board in the tent. There is no question of quality of board, but simply that the men, as they express it, object to "Gipsy life" when in a town as large as Ann Arbor.

Just what will be the outcome is not known.