The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-13
The RANKS EXTENDING
Every Hour Brings Recruits to the Army
Of Striking Laborefs.
The Committee Making the Rounds
OF the City and Inducing Hum
dreds OF Men to Quit
Work.
spec.al Correspondence of the standard.

SPECIAL Correspondence of the Standard.
BUTTE, May 12.-The strike for So a day
has extended far beyond the an~ticipations
doubtless of any Of the Is men who left
work i'm East Broadway two weeks ago.
The strike, from being a merely local
difference between n few workmen and
their employers, mas become a difference
in which the whole city is interested, or
soon will be.
This morning a committee Of the Butte
Laborers' union started out to consult
employers, not Of day workers only but of
general b about town, to urge them
to adopt the 81 per day schedule. As the
committee made its rounds il was Joined
by strikers and adherents at almost every
place visited until this afternoon a body
of 100 men was moving about the streets
making a formidable looking c~oncourse.
The committee began operations at 8
O'Clock this morning. The first place
visitesl was Winney's feed store in South
Butte, where differences were patched up.
The motor menin the shops of the Butte
City Railway company were visited and
NIL but one of them were taken out of the
shops. The strikers were threatened
with legal trouble, but declared hat moth
ing could be done with them. The COM
pany agreed to pay 50 a day within the
city limits and S2.25 outside the limits,
but this was not satisfactory to the
strikers, who said that all Silver Bow
county is included in the strike for So.
Kelly d Clark's rock quarry was visited
next, where men are receiving 81 per day
and boarding themselves. The firm has
a ~sub-contract under Green 4 Kecfe. The
men did not show a disposition TO strike
ut first, but after n conference with the
contractors without favorable result, the
committee called the workmen, and they
responded, swelling the ranks materially.
A driver of one of w. H. Winters teams
was next stopped; said he was working
for $40 a month, and joined the strikers.
The men at work under Kelly 4 Clark in
laying. tracks in the freight yard, struck
and joined the gang. The men at work
in the Northern Pacific yard also struck.
Several places about town were visited.
men in his slaughter house 50 per day, but
he steadfastly refused to bulge. The
workmen in the slaughter house will be
seen BY the committee soon. Carr, the
liveryman, was visited next. MIR. Carr
refused to listen to the committee and
said his men were at liberty tn leave at
any moment. He said he was paying his
men $50 and $50 n month and had been
doing SO all winter, even when there was
not enough to do for the men To earn
their & He thought he was doing
the fair thing and refused to advance
wages. IL is not known yet whether the
men in his employ will strike.
The gas Office received n call and the
working nj S75 per month on twelve ho,r
shifts. IL is likely that an agreement will
be made i'm this auarter thar will he salts
factory.
William Parsons resumed work his
moruin0 ON Inc GAS works being con-
strlcteT i'm Sort6 Butte. having So per
lay. He also went responsible for teams
of Contractor Winters. agreeing TO see
that the drivers received 81 per day IL he
had TO paw the difference himself.
One of the committee said TODAY: