The weekly tribune., 1894-10-12
An Emphatic Answer Of Anaconda
WOrkingmen to Helena
FalsehOOds.
TRUTHS WORTH READING
|rhose Who Know Place Anaconda IN
a Proper Light Before
the People.


Vas represented and the accounts shoe
hat the proceedings were enthusiast c
bpeeches we're made protesting in mos
nmeasured terms against the false re
borts regarding labor in Anaconda nov
being circulated by the Helena paper
b bolster up their cause.
The indignation manifested took shap,
a series of resolutions which wer,
dopted and which are worthy of con
Iteration by those who take any in
rest in labor matters in Montana. Tn,
eoutions are as follows:
THE REsoLCTIoNs.
ia ANACONDA, Mont, Oct. 3, 1894.
Organized labor, in mass meeting ss
Abled at Evans opera house, do here
unanimously adopt the following
buttons:
Whereas, The question of the location
the permanent capital Of the state OF
bntana ls Of great concern to us ae
borers and mechanics, living in the
Ute and depending upon our employ
bnt for livelihood, and
Whereas, The press favorable to Hell
a has repeatedly misrepresented the
cts as to the condition of employment
d the wages paid to the members OF
ganized labor in this city, with the
ident intent and purpose Of preju-
cling labor citizens as well as mem
rs OF labor organizations elsewhere in
e state against our ity and in favor of
elena; therefore, be 1t
Resolved, that we, mass meeting of
fganized labor in the city of Anaconda
Pnounce the statements made in the
elena press that the laboring men in
|e employ of the Anaconda Mining and
hrlling works, in the city of Anaconda
e working for 81 per day less than is
bid in Butte City for the same kind of
,rk, as fal Q and malicious statement
bd an insult to the organized labor of
lis city and county, where labor is bet
r organized at the present time, and, in
lct has been for all time past, than in
be city OF Helena OF 10 Lewis and Clarke
|bunty. There are no employees working
i the works or any place in the city who
re not members OF some labor organiza.
ION, and the Anaconda Mining and
melting company have at all times
&pwn friendly spirit toward labor Or
pizations. We have yet to hear of the
ppany calling upon the governor for
milltia,to settle any labor trouble
penn. Whatever grievances the labor
pizatiops have had with the com
have been amicably settled with
empany through their representa-
10 the organizations; and there is
present time no trouble between
company and labor organizations
MS city. We denounce the at
Oh the Helena capital committee
pace MIR. DAILY in the light OF an
ny TO organized labor as a mean,
emptible slander, without a word or
Dlance OF truth in it. The wages
here are as good, and in many in.
ces better. than are paid In any place
be state, and from so to 100 per cent
Der than are paid in Helena and East
ena, as will be readily seen by com
ltive scales o. wages which will soon
published under the authority of this
% meeting
esolved, That it is our firm belief it |
the best interests of the laboring |
Bes in this state to vote for Anaconda |
the permanent capital for many rea-
too numerous to mention-but |
OF which are as follows:
II the capital is located at Ana
ia there will have to be erected state
dngs instead of paying into the
IDS Of wealthy private individuals an
rmous rental for the necessary build
for the use of the state, and we are
fdent that union men will be em-
I'D at union wages in the erection OF
buildings Many other improve
b will be made in the city and vi.
which will employ many laborers
mechanics at the union scale of wages.
\ That the people of this city
ye ehown their determination
Dulld up community in
there shall be no Chinese en-
y, US giving opportunities to ser.
yirls to live by honest labor and to
sses OF servants and mechanics EN-.
ent at the best wages paid at any
10 the state for such employment.
Pr. DAILY and the Anaconda Mining
my and the citizens of Anaconda
proved to us that they appreciate {
nehts accruing from the orgsniza. ,
labor and have in the past, az we ,
they will do in the future, re-
the rights Of labor and lent them
a Peistance. 1
pm the past we have no reason to
that the laboring classes will be
y ythe privlles Q Of making q living
pity OF the capital of the state il It
ed 10 Anaconda through the i'm.
on OF Chinese cheap labor.
The leading men connected with
md the Anaconda Mining and (
ny company have not been en-.
In constant attempt to lower the
paid to miners and laborers :
Eh the state in the different enter t
In which they are interested, but v
coitrary have refused to co oper- u
tn the leading men Of Helena in a
Pchemes TO lower the scale paid to @
and laborers. c
hat in everything and in every p
Il CO the leading men of Hell o
and the city OF Helena make O
ptrast by taking exactly op- b
action and demeanor toward r,
as Is instanced in the coal miners s,
q at Timberline in 1886, wh.n the a
!, ern Pacific railroad and the Hell Il
- eople starved out the miners and n
all cont mptible means known to C,
and slave DRYERS to break up el