The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-13
MOATAAA'S INDUSTRIES GO.
GOV. TooLE CALLED SPECIAL
SESSION OF LEGISLATURE.
President ScaIIon Of the Anaconda
Company Ordered Mines to Work.
Tuesday GIaddest Day Butte Has
Known for Years-Twenty Thousand
Men Return to Work.

Helena, Mont, Nov. 1.-The gov
ernor of Montana, Joseph X. Toole, has
called special session Of the state leg
islature to meet on December l at Hell
ena. The purpose Of the session is tC
pass laws that will relieve the indus
trial condition in Montana, where, by
the shutdown of the Amalgamated com
pany's properties, $4,000 men are di
rectly thrown out of work, $4,000 more
from the suspension Of work.
Butte, Mont, Nov. lin accord
ance with statement made by Will
Ham Scallon, president of the Ana
eonda Mining company and the repre-
Sentative of the Amalgamated Copper
company of Montana, to the Butte
miners union that if Governor J. ~.
Toole would summon the Legislature
in special session with view of the
enactment of flair trial" bill, which
provides for the removal Of any case
from any Judge where bias and prelu-
dice is shown the Amalgamated would
Immediately resume operations in
Montana. John Gillie, superintendent
of the Amalgamated properties in
Butte, has issued the order for all the
mines to open upon the receipt of
news from Helena that the governor
had ordered an extra session to con-
vene December 1.
Blue Monday in Butte developed
into the gladdest Tuesday that the
camp has known for years. The toot-
ing Of the Gagnon mine whistle from
1913 p. m. until the steam in the boil
ers was exhausted proclaimed the
news of the calling of the extra ses-
sion of the legislature and resumption
of work in the Amalgamated Copper
cOmpanys mines and smelters. The
bulletin boards Of newspapers were
besieged by crowds, and the scenes
were impressive to degree as hun
dreds Of idle miners learned it. Men
shook hands and Rugged one another
in their JOY. Others wept. Flags
foated from all the stats of tile Anal
gamated mines and the feeling in
Butte was that of holiday. The min
ers held a meeting at night and cele-
brated.
The governors action followed tue
presentation of petitions to him from
practically every labor organization
and business man in the state of Mon
tana asking that an extra session be
called, that legislation remedial to the
present state of affairs in the state be
enacted.
The resumption of the Amalgamated
properties means the return to work
of approximately 10000 men and the
averting of an industrial crisis in
Montana, as the Amalgamated COM
pany operates in at least six different
counties. In Butte alone it restores
payroll of about $4,000 day. Seven
thousand men will resume work in
Butte Immediately.
The works OF the Amalgamated
company will at once resume in vari-
GUS parts of the state. This includes
the great mines in Butte, the smelters
of the Washoe company in Anaconda,
the smelter at Great Falls. also vast
in their capacity; coal mines at Stors,
Belt, Oakdale and in coal mines in
Wyoming, the great quarries in north
ern Montana and the immense lum-
bering industry in western and north
western Montana. AS soon as the fires
can be started and the conditions
made possible for a resumption Of
work, the Amalgamated properties will
again be running and hardship will
have been averted. Probably more
than $4,000 men will be employed di-
rectly in the properties of the Anal
gamated and that many more will in
directly be given employment in the
way of furnishing supplies and the
like.
Governor Toole in his proclamation
disclaims any reflection upon the in
tegrity of the judiciary of the state
and says his call for an extra session
is solely in response to the formidable
requests presented to him by the peo-
pie of Montana and the fact that thou.
sands OF idle men will be permitted
to return to work. Mr.. Scallon, in an
interview with the Associated Press
representative. said: 1.-THE Amalga-
mated company is willing to trust it's
case with the legislators of the state
and there is not the slightest desire
on the part Of the company to see any
one suffer. therefore. we will open up
at once Without waiting until Decem-
Der l or after to see what the legis.
iators will do. All we ask is fair
play"