Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-24
THOUSANDS ARE OUT
Amalgamated Copper Shut
down Affects Vast Number.
MINERS, SHELTERS AND QUARRY MEN
Concerns Tossed Are Some of the
largest In West-EIeinxc Throws
Blame on New YorI1's wall
Street Spectators.

BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 24.-Thc follow
ing properties are affected by the shut
down OF the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany:
The actual number directly out of
employment i'll Butte is $500. These
include the men in the Boston and Mon
tana, the Anaconda mines, the syndi-
cate group, the Butte and Boston mines,
the PARROT group, the Colorado mines,
the Colorado Smelter, the Washoe
group and the Butte und Boston smell
teFs.
At Anaconda the Amalgamatcd en-
ployees at the lime kilnB, at the silica
quarrics, at the b~rtckyards and at the
foundry are thrown out. The compa-
ny operates extensive coal mines at
"Diamondyille, Wyo. While these will
not be entirely shut down, because they
supply coal to the trade as we'll as to
the company, the output win be linn
tied materially.
In the vicinity of Great Falls more
than $500 men will be affected. or
this number 1900 are employed in the
smelters of the Boston and Montana
company, Il constituent company; 500
are at Belt, where the coal mines of
the Anaconda Copper Mining company
are; between 200 and 300 are railroad
men who handle the ore traffic between
here and Butte and elsewhere, and
about 200 others are employed In stone
qlarries, lumber camps and in miscel-
lanoou3 capacities. The Boston and
Montana smelter here Is the largest in
dustrial plant in this vicinity.
F. Augustus Heinge of the Montana
Orc Purchasing company has published
a statement giving his s!do of the shut
down. He said 1t was @ move on the
part of the Wall street spectators,
among them H. H. Rogers, president
Of the A~malgauatod Copper company,
to cnptrol stock manipulation and was
not directly caused by the injunction.
He also said that Judge Ckancy's deci-
stpn was In line with the Northern Sc
c~urities decaSLon. President William
Scallon Of the Anaconda Copper compa-
ny has mode 8 statement In answer to
Mr.. I1e.nse. Ea Says:
40 faSyyers alike who happen 10 be
acquainted With tho Northern Becuri-
ties ease, to which Mr.. Heinze refers,
his assertion that the provisions OF
Judge Clsncy's decision are very near
iy Identical With the order issued BY
tho circuit court OF appeals in the
merger case indicates either gross ig-
norance On MF. 1Ieinzo's part or a 6e-
sire to pcrveyt the facts. In the North
ern Securities ease the order directed
the ~retraJsfer OF the stock to it's origi-
nal owners and recognized the proper
ty rights OF the Northern Securities
company. Judge Clancy's decision, on
tho contrary, 3 for as it goes. declares
that the adverse party has no rights
whatever. prohibits any transfers and
simply proposes to wipe out tho rights"
Containing. NF. Scallon said that
there was no truth in the statement
that Mr.. Rogers, president Of the Anal
gamated company, ordered the shut
down to affect the stock market.
With $4,000 men now out Of work,
1000 more scon to be and no relief In
sight for six weeks, public feeling over
the shutdown IS at white heat. Seven
thousand miners out OF work walked
the streets of Butte, but SO far there
has been no disturbance.