Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-30
LABOR UNIONS ACT
Together in a Demand for an Ex.
ira Session of the Mon
tana Legislature.
HOPING TO START kTHE MINES
BY the Action of the SoIons-Amal.
gamated Company Issues
Statement.

Helena, Mont, Oct. so. - Governor
TOole received committee represent
ing the mill and smelter mems union,
of Anaconda. The committee present
ed a resolution passed by the union in
| which the governor was asked to call
an extra session of the legislature in
the hope that the situation at Butte
and in the smelter towns might be re-
lieved and the mines of the Amalga-
mated Copper company started up. The
governor has not yet decided the ques-
ton. He left this morning for Butte
TO take part in the conference with
President James J. Hill, Senator Paris
Gibson, Senator W. A. Clark ard Rep
resentative ID. Dixon.
other Unions to Join in the Request.
Butte, Mont, Oct 30.-A telegram
1rom Great Falls says J. ]. Hill is
there on his way to Butte, where he
will meet Senators Gibson and Clark
and others for a conference OH the in
dustrial crisis. The Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Assembly will name a com
mittee to wait ON the governor and
ask for a special session of the legis-
lature. This request will be backed
by the influence of the unions of Mon
ana and by the Western Federation OF
Miners.
Company Issues Statement.
c. T. Kelley. counsel for the Anal
gamated Copper company, gives out
the following statement: Our atten-
ton has been directed to the fact that
private news bureaus and special cor
respondents havecirculated many false
and misleading statements regarding
the cause of the shutdown of our prop
erty and the situation here. One series
of these dispatches alIege that retalia-
tion on our part because of the Minnie
HeaIy decision moved us to shut down:
another alleges that the shutdown is
a stock jobbing scheme. Both are er-
TOneous.
Lays the Shutdown to the Courts.
''The shutdown is the inevitable re-
suit of the action of certain courts,
which have an unbrOken record for
six and one-half years of deciding adj
versely every question concerning our
interests in Montana. \ decision was
rendered on Thursday, Oct. 22. where
by n previously-issued restraining or
der prohibiting the transfer of the
stock of the Boston and Montana COM
pany to the Amalgamated, and pro-
hibiting the payment of dividends on
Boston and Montana'S stock, was made
an injunction.
Which Made Operation Unlawful.
This decision declared our opera
tion of the Boston and Montana IT,
the Anaconda and other properties is
on precisely the same footing as our
ownership of the Boston and Montana.
and subject to the same Interpretation
of law, it became impossible for us
longer to operate in violation of what |
the district court has declared to be
the law Therefore there was nothing
for us TO do but cease operations un-
til such a time as the whole question: |
can be adjudicated by the court of ulti- |
mate resort
Great Strike Is Ordered.
New York. Oct. 3O.-By vote of |!
Parks men the international Associa |
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron |
Workers has ordered Il strike all over
the United States against the members
of the Iron League, the employers
union. The order is effective Satur-
day
Strike to Start Next Month.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 30.-William |
Howells. president of district No. 16. |
United Mine Workers, has announced |
that Nov. is the date ON which the |
coal miners strike in Colorado, New |
Mexico, Wyoming and Utah will be in |
a tnd 1n1.rn,-ilnl n nf |