The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-27
EVEBYTRlhG IS QUIET NOW
Yesterday Passed Without Any
Fresh Cases Of Assault.
GOOD ORDER EVERYWHERE
Tho Strikers Tende Their Services as
Guardians OF Life and Property TO
the Authorities Sundays
Outragea Dcpiored.

No additional assaults in connection
with the strike were reported yester-
sday. All the decent strikers deeply de-
plored the occurrences Of Sunday and
volunteered their services to the city
n county authorities in suppressing
fresh attempts at violence. The watch
men at the works and 20 other citizens
kwere sworn in as deputy sherifs. and
ksystematic work was begun to provide
1.-THE men at work i'm the converter am
Sple protection while they are passing
between the works and their places OF
residence.
II is believed that the men who COM
mitted Sundays brutal outrages viii
Eeoon be arrested. No stone will be LETT
kunturned TO hunt them down. and once
Scaught. they will he punished to the
full extent Of the law. The community
lis of one mind on this matter. and so
svigorous was the denunciation of VIC
llence everywhere expressed yesterday
that Il Is hardly likely that the vi
cious thugs who were responsible FOR
the brutalities sunday VIII
resume their Infamous and horrible OPP
ferations. Steps have been taken To put
"a stop to intimidation of every sort. and
.it H. confidently believed that law and
surder will henceforth prevail
All cars running TO and from the
works to-day will be thoroughly guard
ed and every workman assured Of COM
plete protection.
The strikers held a meeting yester-
day and invited the presence of Mayor
Lesser and Under Sheriff Donohue, who
is acting as sheriff In the absence OF his
ssuperior. Sheriff Fitzpatrick. The strik-
-ers rendered the ayo and the under
ssherif their services. promising To act
In apU a. apaeifN that might he deemed
advisable and necessary to prevent FUR
Their acts of violence. Mayor Lesser
and Under Sheriff Donohue thanked the
strikers for their offer. but agreed that
there was no occasion TO avail them
selves of II at present.
4 At yesterdays meeting the strikern
tdrew up the following statement and
trequested its publication In the stan
tdard:
To the Editor of the Standard,
We. the member Of Anaconda Millnnen
and SHELTERS union. would ask for space
TO make the following statement TO the
public:
While The immediate cause OF the strike
was the discharge Of the two men who
Rcted as Spokesman for the balance OF the
lonverter men I'm presenting their grieN-
Snces TO the management. II was n final
act In "A series OF expressions placed upon
the men by Superintendent Ellsworth
since he assumed charge of the depart
ment.
To begin with. one-half of the men
were taken OF OF the converters and the
work placed on the men remaining. The
men stood the change. thinking that he
would soon give them the old plan again.
which he refused To do. however. Things
kept going from bad TO worse. until he
removed the sweepers from the floor and
added that work to the men. even break
ing up the benches upon which the men
sat TO eat their lunch and issuing orders
IN the men TO stay I'm their own places.
not allowing them to go To the window
for fresh air. on penalty OF being dis
charged.
Not alone on the converter floor were
these orders issued. hut In every depart
-ment the same. Extra work was placed
on the men at the blast furnaces and the
company derived no beneft from II. only
added oppression to the men. The same
orders were issued to them n they were
found away from their furnace To get a
breath of fresh air-they were told that
n man would be put In their place. In
the lining room men are required To hns
5eonverters that are red-hot aud mel
have tainted from sheer exhaustion after
lining a converter and have been pun
ished by layon because his
converter did not last when IL would h.
nut in use before Il was dry. In the par
room when a man asked II he could do
away with the dust that accumulate
from the CruShers by adulnS "A une OF wa
ter pipe, Dave Sourby. the shift boss
stated that 1.-THE company was curtailinl
expenses" and ~ cents was worth NOR
10 the company than n man.
Knowing that several men have die
from the dust which settles on the lungs
and that there Is no cure for IL but death
Superintendent Ellsworth does not know
what constitutes a days work In any de
partment. Nor can he take a gang q
men and place them 50 that they cal
work 10 the advantage of the company &
any department.
All corporations In Montana which worl
two shifts of men have a certain amour
of work constitutes a shift; and tina
plan Is followed in all departments O
The Anaconda company. hut Superintend
ent Ellsworth wants "A man to work con
stantly. regardless of the kind Of fume
he may have TO breathe.
The men hold the kindest regards 10
Mr.. DAILY and Mr.. Daugherty and IN
manner in which we have been treate
by the company up TO the time superiu
tendent Ellsworth took charge of the d,
psrtment. but We do object to the tyrann
and abuse which We have been subjecte
20 by him.
Now as to tie acts Of violence charge
20 us we wish most ~emphatically to den
that any OF the converter men were gull,
OF such acts. We called a special meetin