The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-25
The Hearing Will Be Resumed
This Week.
THE DEFENSE WILL BEGIN
Ths Deposition Of Frank Baldwin, One
Of the Ds.sndants. Taken In Seattle.
Frank and Clear - 70 the Part
Taken by the Unions.

the complainante, the deposition OF
Frank Baldwin. one Of the defendants.
was received from Seattl yesterday.
and will be filed in the United States
court to-day. after which the defense
will be ready to begin the introduction
of its evidence. Mr.. Bafdwin's deposit
ton was taken by A. c. Bowman. a
Seattle notary, and the testimony. con
sidering the fact that Baldwin is one Of
the defendants. is very frank and clear
as to the boycott and the part the
unions and different members OF labor
organizations took In IL. In answer to a
number OF preliminary questions Bald
win testified that he was 43 years Of age.
an hotel waiter by occupation n now
resided In Seattle. where he contem-
plated remaining. He live In Butte
during 1896 and 1897 and was employed
as q restaurant waiter. In answer to
questions regarding the existence Of the
various labor organizations. their
strength and character. he said:
Il knew labor organisations existed
because ] was a member during the last
three years 1 lived in Butte of one
union. and knew OF its cooperation with
other unions that were In the city at
that time. On Miners union day there
was usually a procession. which COM
prised delegates from all the labor
union of Butte. and / believe there was
one day in the year they called Labor
day. They also had a procession on
that day and the various unions COM
bined. There were some hundreds In
the parade and each union had its dis
tinctive banner TO the best OF my
knowledge every man that worked for
wages in Butte was q member of Or
ganized labor. but l have no means OF
estimating the number of such working
men. There were plumbers and gas Mt
tiers, carpenters, smelter men. miners
probably 80 or 40 unions in all. They
all affiliated with various national or
CARNATIONS. / only belonged to one. n
that vas the Cooks and Walters assem-
bly,. Our assembly sent delegates to
what we termed the Trades and Labor
assembly. 1t was composed of dele
gates from all these various organiza-
tons. but as l never was a delegate my
self / have forgotten the different names
of the various unions.
What do you know Of the existence
of a boycott on the Chinese OF Butte
by the labor unions during the period
mentioned
II know such a boycott existed"
What do you know concerning a
union of the Cooks and Walters. its
membership. time of meeting and its
oficers?"
II was a member of the Cooks n
| Walters union during hat period. Its
| membership averaged, probably, TO. II
met every Monday evening at the
Miners union hall. The officers during
that period were elected every six
months. The principal officers during
that time were George Morgan, master
workman; Frank p. Weldon, secretary:
| Jim Reed. treasurer; George Abt, finan-
| cial secretary. George Morgan, master
workman, was in office about Is to Is
months"
Was there a boycott OF the Chinese
carried on by the Cooks and Walters"
There was. IT was first declared dur
ing my absence from Butte. along about
1891 or 1892, but had been allowed to
lapse. 1t had not been pushed vigor-
ously up until 1896 perhaps. l think II
was in 1895 that we started or Inc lat
ter end of 1896. and 1t was continued
until i left about two months ago II
was in force then. To the best of my
knowledge 1t was declared by the
Trades and Labor assembly. originally
1t was carried on by the Cooks and
Walters union entirely. All organiza'
lions in Butte assisted. and when | say
labor organizations 1 mean labor
unions; all assisted as far as paying thu
of carrying on the boycott
was concerned. The Hotel and Restau'
rant Employers association and tn
proprietors Of the three leading steam
iaundries in Butte and a delegation from
the Cooks and Walters union com
bined together and called themseive:
the Joint committee n paid all the ex
penses Of the new movement. The new
movement was to push the Chinese 81
hard that thy would eventually qui
town. There vas a committee IRON
three organizations-the hotel and res
~,. a~nvloxorcs o~Qnciotinn CnnkI
and Walters union and laundrymen
There were three from each organiza
ton"
"who represented the Cooks AM
Walters on the joint committed"
Frank p. Weldon, Frank Baldwin
and George Morgan"
Who represented the laundrymen !?
Mr.. Free, Mr.. Hurlburt and M
Taylor"
..who were the members from the Ho
tel and Restaurant Keepers associa
tom"
Their original committee was J. A. G
Dougherty, Harry Morgan and w. r
Martin. All these men were member
at different times Of that COMMITTEES. MI
Sherman appeared on two or three oc
casions as a o for one Of the mem
bers of his association. the hotel an
restauran employers association. w
met weekly over Frank =. Weldon
restaurant. There were usually the flu
number of the committees present. Thi
occurred. TO the best Of my knowledge
during the period Of three months. clea
up to the time the injunction was is
sued in this case. They met to devils
ways and means Of ~boycotting the CHI
nese n japanese element, and also {
devise ways and means Of collecting tn
funds necessary to carry on such boycott
We had what we called a working fore
EMPLOYED by the Cooks and Waiter
union. They sent In q report at eac
meeting night which was read TO III
Joint committee by The secretary. an
IL was decided after such readin
whether such work would be continue
for the following week. Such order
from the Joint committee was taken b
the secretary Inc carried out for III
ensuing week. The bill for such wor
was also brought in to the joint con
mittee, and the pro rata for each OF
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