The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-12
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MORE UNION MEN,.
Some Unusual Methods Were Employed
With Great Success.

Some Unusual Methods Were Employed
With Great Success.
The membership of the Mill and Smell
termen's union of Butte was increased
last night by about half dozen. The
increase was brought about by unusual
means, but to which Butte labor unions
have resorted before.
Some of the smelters, notably the Par
rot and Butte G. Boston, have had some
non-union men in their employ. Several
committees from the union on different
occasions waited on Superintendent
Grant of the Parrot regarding the mat
ter and wanted him to compel his nom
union men to join the organization. Mr..
Grant informed the committee that it
made no difference to the Parrot COM
pany whether it's employees were union
men or not; that they could join the
union if they wanted to and did not
have to if they did not wish.
The men were also waited on and
told that it was to their interest to join
the union. 1t is said that they We're
threatened and they became uneasy
and asked the superintendent what they
should do. He told them to do as they
pleased. Some of them then joined the
union. but two of them, Henry Bertsch,
a blast furnace man, and Charles Saw
age, a motorman, refused to join, and
Mr.. Grant received several more letters
from officers of the union, but he paid
no attention to them The same condi-
ton of facts existed at the Butte &
Boston smelter and, it is said, at the
Montana Ore Purchasing company's
smelter.
Last evening the union held a meet
ing in the Mantle & Belenberg block,
and at 8 o'clock about $50 men, in deep
silence, formed in line four abreast
on Broadway.
Don't let it bother your head" re-
piled several of them in reply to ques-
tions as to what was up
The men marched east on Broadway
to Gaylord street, followed by num-
Der of curious people and watched along
the route by many more. A report got
started that the mob was a lynching
party, but they didn't lynch anybody.
They simply marched to the Parrot
smelter and through the works, the
gang separating into two squads. and
they picked up the two non-union men
and then marched out again. So the
thing was SO quietly done that the fore
man and bosses did not know what had
happened until the business was done
and the mob had gone. Savage was
taken off the motor used to haul Stag
from the smelters and the engine was
left standing on the track, and another
man had to be sent out to bring it in.
The mob was not in the smelter over q
minute. They knew exactly where the
non-unon men were at work and they
were simply swept up and carried along
with the crowd before they knew what
was UP and were not given time to make
any protest. A portion of the mob took
charge of the prisoners and marched
them up town to the union hall, where
they made "application' to become
members of the union. The other por-
ton of the mob started on to Meader-
vile and visited the Butte & Boston and
the M. Q, P. company's smelters, where
several other non union men We're pick
ed up and later brought up town and
taken before the union What argu-
ments were used with them is not
known. The union men had everything
perfectly planned in secret and their
programme was carried out with neat
ness and dispatch.
Some of the nOn-union men refused to
join the union. These the mob escorted
to Woodville on foot. About midnight
telegram was received a the Montana
Central station from Woodville, which
was telephoned to police Headquarters
and to the sheriff's office. 1t was a re-
quest for protection, but did not state
with what severity the men were treat
ed. AS far as learned, no officers were
sent out