The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-21

ton or these hand bilSg"
Il cannot"
How many were ordered?'
Il cant tell"
do you know II the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Assembly is in an,
way responsible for the printing!"
i don't know anything about that"
DO you know whether the Horse
shoers union was responsible?"
II can't say"
II. II. Becker. one of the plaintiffs
was recalled. and testified that Melon
aid introduced Pelky TO him as a dele
gate from the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor assembly. TIE witness said Nc
Donald told him he had better settle
with the horseshoers and avoid beinf
boycotted.
That concluded the testimony. anc
then Mr.. Lippincott opened the argu-
ments and practically admitted a fail.
ure to tx responsibility for the boy
colt. but said that the strenuous de-
NAL OF the defendants that they had
any knowledge of the boycott convict
ed them. He claimed that Pelky knew
all about II. but he denied all knowl-
edge of it. Lippincott said the condi-
tions in Silver Bow county were un-
surpassed in any other part of the
world. The defendants and their unions
have so successfully combined for self
protection that they have almost been
able to defeat n effort to locate re-
sponsibility. The attorney said he
learned that there were 365 private or
ganiZations in Butte. He urged that
the injunction should be issued because
of its morAl results on the commune
ty. whether 1t in itself would prove eff
fective or not.
j. l.. Wines, for the defense. said the
failure of the plaintiff in making out
a case and the forgetfulness of their
witnesses should not be charged up to
the defendants. The plaintiffs had
most ~signally failed TO make out a case
n having failed to make out a legal
case. they ask the court to continue the
injunction on moral grounds, but the
court will hardly make on order against
the defendants. when nothing has been
proven against them, for the sake of a
moral effect on the community. Mr..
Wines made a strong plea for the labor
unions and their rights.
In closing the arguments. Mr.. Lippin-
colt said that If the injunction was dis
solved il would u the boycott
tiers. while If ii was maintained il would
harm no one. but. on the contrary.
would work a great good to the COM
munity and would not prevent the la
Dor unions from carrying out the legit-
innate objects Of their organization.
This question of capital and labor
Is as blu HIS OUT ClNlilZdI non.
said Judge Clancy i'm passing on the
matter. 1T has been up for centur-
les. Before the reformation and the
20-year-war in Germany labor in that
county was thoroughly organized. and
wages were good. In any community
where wages are good labor is well or
ganized n contented. and the people
are prosperous. In those days they
built large houses. and the country had
q gnhGtanfial annanranaa MnnahapG
of organized labor Travelled from one
place to another on their certificates,
on which they could get employment
or a meal or a nights lodging. All
that, however. was changed by the
war, and at the close of II there was
not one guild in all Germany. and men
had to work is hours for small pay This
struggle between capital and labor is
constantly going on. On the one hand.
they want less hours and more pay. and
on the other, they want more hours and
less pay. In this country a very large
per cent of the money is controlled by a
very small per cent of the people. The
Vanderbilt family alone controls the
labor of three million people. In the
case at bar Judge Wines has cited to
me a section of the code which pro-
vides that there may be agreements or
combinations between laborers. made
with the object of lessening the num-
Der of hours of labor or increasing
wages. 1t appears from the evidence
that Mr.. Becker signed "A contract with
the Horseshoers' union to close his shop
at ; o'clock on Saturdays. The union
had certain rules and regulations of
which he had knowledge, and he signed
a contract to close his shop. He adj
mits that he violated the contract, that
he kept his shop open 20 minutes after
8 o'clock to complete a job OF shoeing
a team of colts, and he thought he was
ble under the circumstances. The
othrr parties TO the contract made an
investigGtio and concluded that his ac-
tion was not excusable. The matter
was reported TO the union and he was
fined 81. He should ave paid il. but
he did not. and he was again fined $50.
ard then he appealed TO the court for
relief. but under the circumstance ne
has no standing in court. When a
committee waited on him to try and
adjust the matter he got short, admit
ted that he treated Mr.. Mcdonald that
way. The testimony is that the boy
colt was not ordered by the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor assembly or the
Horseshoers' union. n that none of
the defendants had anything to do with
II. To surmise and conjecture is one
thing. and proof in court is another.
There is no proof as to who put out
these boycott circulars. and the plain
lifts utterly failed to make out a case.
There is no testimony to show that the
organizations did this thing. Maybe
a few Individual blacksmiths got out
the circular. but they have not been
identified, and they are not here. |
don't hin that Il would serve any
good purpose 10 continue this injunc-
Ito. in force. There would be no good
i'm il. and / will, therefore. have TO
dissolve it,"
An order to hat effect was made,
and Mr.. Lippincott took an exception.