The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-02

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| Now the individual says, Il will join
the union for protection while some of
you say. We can protect ourselves. We do
/ not need the help of outside unions
This. my friends. has been the cry
| from every selfish heart since the world
began but sooner or later all have been
made to see the error of their way.
Il need not so further than the great
| steel strike now in progress. In the east
for years that was their policy. We can
take care OF ourselves. but let me telf'
YOU my friends, there is not a labor or
ganization in this country today that is
| able to protect itself under our present
industrial organization. os1
Il might here repeat that which Frank
lin said during the efforts to secure a
unanimous vote on the Declaration of
| Independence:
| We must indeed all hang together OF
| most assuredly we shall all hang separ-:
atey. "a
| Now there may be many who will
| think it is considerable presumption on:
! my part to speak of these things here. d
| but kind friends I wish to remind you :
| that it is the So called presumptious men
| who compel humanity to move onward
| and upward.
| Socrates was called crazy or pre-
| sumptious. Gallileo was made recant.
| Morse was thought to be demented. Full
ton was also supposed to have an inn
beetle mind. and l might go on and re-
| peat the names of men who have made
this world brighter and better for their
having lived. Men who were looked
upon as men to be Stunned. And last
but not least in fact the greatest of them
| 81. the meek and lowly NaZarene. who
died that man might learn of that divine
spirit that is yet to bring us to a realiza-
ton of our kindred to each other. was
stoned and condemned by those that
| knew him best But thank God for this
| Labor day which is the harbinger of the
glad time when man to man will as
| brothers be.
| And let me state further that the
| order Of the day is concentra ton as we
see on the part of employers from one
md of the world to the other. Capital
is constantly banding together md con-
ICentrating it's forces and if concentration
is good for capital. why is it not good
for labor, therefore l say that is time
for la Dor in Butte in Montana, yes in all
the states of the union, to get together
and to show the world that there is
something more than words in that grand
cid Declaration, That an injury to one,
is concern of ALL and let US hope that
this grand union city will start the ball
rolling that shall call the hosts of labor
throughout our entire land to this vital
truth, that when next labor day ar
rves, a union card vii! be the passport
into any and all unions in our common,
country.
Now let us take a hurried glance at
the conditions throughout our country
that have existed for the past year. and
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position from numerical point of view,
than ever attained before in our history,
but from protective standpoint still in
it's infancy.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania par
TALLY Won their struggle because of the
proximity of our last presidential cleo
ton, but it must have been a poor VIC
tory as is evinced by the unrest Of the
, miners there at the present time.
THE strike of the allied trades in Chi
, oago lost, the telegraphers on the Santa
Fe railroad system lost, the machinists
won partial victory but the concessions
were so small as to be unimportant, as
compared with the loss of time. etc.
! And the two strikes in progress at
) the present time, namely, the steel strike,
) and the teamsters strike in San Fran
| cisco, (and let us trust that they will
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of most Importance to workers. not on
| account of numbers, nor the issue at
: stake. but the method Of dealing with
. the strikers, is the strike at Tampa
| Florida where it seems they have got
: a new method of injunction as the follow
, | ing Associated Press despatch explains
t ! uLder date Of August 9Th, and forwarded
r | from Tampa:
altogether eighteen leaders of the
Resistencia Cigarmakers union have
been seized and spirited away by the
committee of citizens who have taken
s this means to stop the strike troubles.
: ut is impossible to learn what becomes
of these men. many of whom have been
|, prominent here in labor circles. Those
to whom they were intrusted refuse tt
say what disposition was made of them
After this vagrant laws will be enforced
!, against those who refuse to work. 81,
e 1.-The kidnapping last night had beer
we'll planned for days. A great open ali
It meeting had been arranged, at which al
O O.. the Resistencia leaders had been in
II vted, the purpose being to catch then
# all in bunch.
e They We're all present. Music ,hat
+ been provided, and the streets were hnet
with thousands of people. Shortly be
l. fore the posse of citiznes reached tn,
l. place the news reached the strike leader
in and they quickly dispersed. The crow,
j. was not daunted and commencing a ma,
in tc man search through the streets
snatched the men from the crowds. The,
J. had been placed in carriages that hay
= been provided. between heavily armet
m guards and driven away.
" The captured leaders were at one
F. driven to the county Jail. where they re
n manned on the outside under guard 70
a few minutes then they disappeare
and have not been seen or heard O
. since. Various rumors as to their dis
position have been circulated in the cit
today it being most generally reporte
| that they were taken into gulf In a.