The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-30
MEANS BIG LOSS
RESULT OF SHUTDOWN OF THE
AMALUAMATED COPPER
PROPERTIES.
ONE mIllIoN DOLLARS A WEEK
IS CUT OFF THE PAYRoLLs -
BUTTE sTREETs FILLED WITH.
IDLE MEN.
CONTROL STOCK MANIPULATION
He,NzE SAYS * that VALE
STREET sPEcULAToRs ARE
-, RESPONSIBLE.

Butte. Mont, Oct 24.--By the gen.
eral shutdown by the Amalgamated
Copper company properties from 49,
900 to-" i 900 men are directly thrown
out OF work and others will be Indirect
ly affected within week, so that the
grand total will reach 10000.
The Great Northern will lay off a
large portion OF the freight crews here
tofore hauling ore from Butte to the
Boston and Montana smelter at
Great Falls. The Butte, Anaconda T.
Pacific railway will lay off freight
crews between Butte and Anaconda. In
addition to these. numerous other en-
terprises, large and small, which re-.
lied upon the Amalgamated as their
chief customer, will be
Obliged to curta'.
In Montana alone approximately one
million dollars week is cut off the
pay rolls. Butte streets are filled with
the miners thrown out of work.
Boarding housekeepers, storekeepers,
ETC., whom the miners owe, besieged
the justice courts, seeking garnish-
ment orders. The constables cannot
serve the papers fast enough and the
Justice clerks arc working overtime
filing them out.
The actual number directly out OF
employment in Butte is $500. These
include the men in the Boston and
Montana, the Anaconda mines, the
Syndicate group, the Butte and Boston.
mines, the Parrot group, the Colorado
mines, the Colorado smelter, the
Washoe group and the
Butte and Boston Smelters.
At Anaconda, the Amalgamated en-
ployes at the lime kilns, at the silica
quarries, at the brick yards and at the
boundary are thrown out. The COM
pany operates extensive coal mines
at Diamondville, Wyo. While these
will not be entirely shut down, because
they supply coal 70 the trade as we'll
as to the co.Nsany, the output will be
limited materially In the vicinity of
be affected.
r. Augustus Heinze, of the Montana:
Ore Purchasing company, yesterday
published q statement
Giving His Side
of the shutdown. He said it was
move on the part of the Wall street
spectators. among them H. H. Rog-
ers, president Of the Amalgamated
Copper company. TO control stock
manipulation, and was not directly
caused by the injunction issued by
Judge CLANCY. He also said that Judge
Clancy's decision was in line with the
Northern Securities decision.
President William Scallon Of the An
aconda Copper company said that
there was no truth in the statement
that Mr.. Rogers, president of the
Amalgamated company. ordered the
shutdown to affect lac stock market.
Long Shutdown in Prospect.
According to every present indica-
!jc2 the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany is preparing for long shutdown,
AS many Of the pumps in the big mines
have suspended operations. The
Ama]gamated officials are reticent as
TO the probable length of the suspen
sion, saying it may be of six or eight
months duration, and perhaps great.
er period. Throughout the state gen
orally a state Of depression is reflected
and in Butte business is practically
paralyZed with fear of crash in the
event Of a prolonged close-2cwn.
Business men are canceling their or
ders for winter supplies.