New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-24
HUSTLING TO COLLECT.
Montana Business Men Hot on Trail
of imoLgamdted En- pIoy6s.

Butte Mont oct e3-By the general shut
Gown Of the Anlalgamated copper Company
properties last night from thirteen to fifteen
thousand rnen are directly thrown out Of en-
rlovment. and others will he indirectly affected
within week. SO that the total will reach
twenty thousand The Great Northern will lay
off = large number Of the freight crews hereto
fore hauling ore from here to the Boston and
Montana srnelter ar Great Falls. The Butte.
Anaconda arid Pacific Railway will lay off
freight crews between Suite and Anaconda. In
addition to these. numerous other enterprises
which relied upon the Amalgamated as their
chief customer will he obliged n curta:l
In this State alone approximately Slon,CD
week is cut off the payrolls. Boarding house
keepers. storekeepers and others here, whom the
miners owe. besieged the justice courts to-day,
seeking garnisslment orders. The constsbles can
not serve the papers fast enough, and the JUS
tees clerks ire working overtime filling out the
papers.
The number of men directly Of employ
rnent here is $500 These include the men in
the Boston and Montana, the Anaconda, the
Syndicate group, the Butte and Boston the
washoe group the PARROT group, and in
the Colorado mines the Colorado Smelter and
the Butte and Boston smelters. At Anaconda the
Amalgamated employees at the limeklns, at the
silica quarries. at the brickyards and at the
extensive coal mines at Diamondville. Wyo.
While these will not be entirely shut down. be-
cause they supply coal to the trade well
TO the company. the output will be limited ma
teraly.
In the vicinity of Great Falls more than $500
men will he affected. OF this number 1900
employed in the smelters Of the Boston and
Montana Company. a constituent company; 800
are Belt, where the coal mines of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company are; between
200 and 800 railroad men who handle the
ore traffic from there and about 200
pioyed in stone quarries, lumber camps and in
miscellaneous capacities. The Boston and Mon
tana smelter at Great Falls is the largest in
dustrial plant in the vicinity.
F Augustus Henze to-day gave out state
ment on the shutdown. He said that it was a
move on the part Of Wall Street spectators to
control stock manipulation and was not directly
Acaused by the injunction issued yesterday by
Judge Clancy. He added that Judge Clancys
decision was in line with the Northern Secur-
titles decision.
President William Scallon of the Anaconda
Copper Company. made a statement in answer
to Mr.. Heinze. He said
To lawyers who are acquainted with the North
his assertion that the provisions of Judge Clancys
decision very nearly Identical with the order
merger case. indicates either gross ignorance on
In the Northern SECURITIES case the order directed
the retransfer Of the stock its original owners
seure c6mp p Judge Gancy q 'd dc6n 6n
the contrary SO far as it goes. declares that the
adverse party has no rights whatever. prohibits
rights.
Mr.. Scallon said that there was no truth in
the statement that H. H Rogers. president of
the Amalgamated Company. ordered the shut
down to affect the stock market