The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-13
AS TO THE G.N. STRIKE
Roy Goodwin Is Not Much of a Leader
in A. R. U. Circles.
HAS VERY FEW DISCIPLES
The Railroad Employees In the West
Say They Have No Kick Com
ing and Pay Little Attention
to Strike Orders.

Kalispell Flathead Herald-Journal:
Last Sunday night Roy Goodwin order
ed the railroad men at Kalispell TO
strike, but only three men quit the en-
ploy of the company.
That night a crowd of men went to
the round house. pulled the fires from
the engines, and run the snow dozer
into the turntable pit. Monday morn
ing r. NJ. Goodwin, Nick Moran, Steve
Tucker and A. Malcolm were arrested
for the offense, and bound over to the
district court.
An attempt was made to wreck Tues
days passenger train by burning
bridge this side of the Falls. The
train passed safely and stopped, and
the fire was extinguished. Two men
were seen to ride rapidly away, yell
ling as they went. VIM. Richards has
been arrested charged with setting fire
to the bridge.
If the efforts of Roy Goodwin and
his companions to bring on a strike
had been successful traffic on the Great
Northern would have been suspended,
and what does that mean?
Only this: that the Kalispel Roller
Mill would have to close down; the B.
& NJ. sawmill would not start next
Monday; Lebert & McMannamy would
have suspended operations; c. II. Mof-
fit would have to quit buying produce
for the present; the Kalspell Brewery
would have stopped operations; the
farmers could bring their produce to
town, and then haul 1t back again
because buyers could not be found.
The Great Northern payroll would
have been obliterated, so far as Kalis-
pei, Columbia Falls and other places
dn the county are concerned. The far
mers would have had no money, the
railroad boys would have had no mon
ey. the merchants would have had no
money, the tax collector would be here
to demand, and under the law to en-
force the payment of taxes. In word
business would have been brought to a
standstill, and bankruptcy would have
reigned supreme. These, and a thou
sand other evils would have followed
in the train of Roy Goodwin's success.
But his efforts have proved miser-
able failure, and yet not without re-
suits. He, himself is under a bond of
$1,000 to appear for trial; Nick Moran
is out of good job and under a bond;
A. Malcolm has been bound over, and
had to give bail; Steve Tucker is in
the same fix, and Billy Richards is
charged with a crime which, If proven,
will send him to the penitentiary. And
then in addition, the criminal expen-
ses of Flathead county, which must DO
paid by taxation, has been, and will
be largely increased.
Because the employees of the Great
Northern railway, with but few ex-
ceptions, were satisfied with their
treatment and pay; because they alb
solutely refused to be guided and gov
erned and led to destruction by a
fanatically false leader-the country
has been saved almost harmless from a
great disaster. People of Flathead
county should not forget those who
stood by their agreement with the rail-
read, to give good service for good
pay. those who, by continued service,
stayed the hand of destruction that
was raised against the peace and well
fare of this community.