The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-10-06
The Real Attitude OfThat Town
Toward the Friends Of
Organized Labor.
HISTORY OF DALY'S SCHEMES.
For and Against the Eight Hour
Law, and Oh Both Sides of
Every Question.

Superservlceable Anaconda news
papers have endeavored to compel
labor organizations to take part in
the capital contest, and the Anacon-
da capital committee has ccmmen-
ded their exertions so far as to have
their articles on this subject printed
in the Standard, thus endorsing
them.
1t goes without saying that no
political or labor organization can
take part in the capital contest as an
organization. If it would be folly
for political organization to take
such part, it would be worse than
folly for labor organization to do
so. 1t follows, then, that any man
or newspaper that endeavors to bring
the forces of organized labor to bear
upon one of the other side of the
capital contest is an enemy and not
the friend of organized labor.
The question might be permitted
to rest here, had not the advocates
of Anaconda made the assertion,
without the first particle of proof,
that Mr.. Marcus DAILY, the manager
of the Anaconda company, was q
great friend of organized labor, and
the people of Helena its enemies
But these statements can be easily
refuted.
Helena is not manufacturing o.
a mining city as Great Falls, Ana
conda and Butte. are. In proportion
to its people there are not nearly ST
many miners, mechanics, skilled o
unskilled artisans or workmen a.
there are in the cities named. Th'
greater the numbers of what has beel
called "the tin bucket Brigade" il
any city, the greater their influenc
upon public affairs. This influenc
is so considerable in Butte and Grea
Falls that ambitious men, thoug
opposed to organized labor, eithe
!: say nothing against it or openly en-
doIse it Did they live at other cit
les, where organized labor is not s
strong, they would be found in OF
position to it. 1t is therefore naturs
that more of such men should b
found in Helena than in either of tn
other cities of Montana in proportio
to population. But such is not tn
fact. Whenever organized labo
be it the railroad organizations {
the unions or assemblies of the cit,
have had any opposition to their ju
demands they have always met wit
. public recognition by the majori'
A, of Helena people. There have neve
s - been strikes of any magnitude
Helena, other than railroad strike
o and we do not call to mind sing
. failure, except one-in which lab
was itself divided. The people
ID Helena in the case of the Gre
Northern strike, and in the Pullm;
strike that extended to the Northel
Pacific road, showed where the
sympathies were-and are still sho,
ing it. OF course, some individua
of prominence have not approv'
these strikes or of the principles
acts of organized labor, but they a
few compared with the whole nu'
: Der of the people. There Is no ci
in the world where the peoI
not belonging to organized labor ha
so much sympathy with it as they
in Helena. The reason is that I
greater number of our people ha
been workers themselves as labo
~ miners or mechanics, and they hs
4c not forgotten the forces by VIII
IA their conditions have been improv
&c
5c How is it with Anaconda?
0c DAILY is said te have been a min
'oc ac once upon time, and is reported
4c have said, ga saucy one." But
&c became mining superintende
&c an we find him in such antagoni
to organized labor that he uni
with others to reduce miners wa