The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-25
MONTANA MINES OPENED
Trucs in Copper War Gives Work to
10000 Men.
Passage OF Fair Trial Law Expected to
mated Company to Resume. Work.

Butte. Mont.-In accordance with
statement made by William Scallon,
President of the Anaconda Mining
Company and the representative of the
Amalgamated Mining Company in
Montana to the Butte Miners Union,
that if Governor J. Il. Toole would
summon the Legislature in special ses-
sion with view Of the enactment Of
"fair trial" bill, which provides for
the removal Of any case from any
Judge where bias and prejudice is
shown. the Amalgamated would at
once resume operations in Montana,
the order was given for all the mines
to open upon the receipt of news from
Helena that the Governor had ordered
an extra session to convene Decem-
Der l.
The Governor has issued the call at
petitions to him from practically every
organization of labor and business men
in the State Of Montana, asking that
an extra session be called, that legisla-
ton remedial to the present state of
affairs be enacted.
The resumption of the Amalgamated
properties means the return to work Of
approximately 10000 men and the
averting Of an unusual crisis in Mon
tana, as the Amalgamated Company op-
crates in at least six different counties.
In Butte alone it restores a pay roll OF
about $4,000 a day.
The Legislature is called especially to
pass laws to relieve the industrial con-
Iiition in Montana, caused by the shut.
ting down of Amalgamated Company's
properties.
The aim of the session is to pass
law whereby mining cases may be
taken from one Court to another when
the Judge in the initial Court Is shown
to be prejudiced. Other legislation of
like character has also been promised.
A so-called fair trial bill, of the char.
ncter now proposed, was passed by the
last Legislature, but was decided. by
the Supreme Court to be unconstitu-
tional on technical grounds.
Recently at Butte Judge William
Clancy. Of the District Court, gave
decision, in which he said that he
might appoint q receiver at any time
for the Boston and Montana Company,
one Of the largest constituent COM
panies Of the Amalgamated. The de-.
cision was made on the application OF
John. MacGinnis. a prominent holder
of stock in the properties controlled
by F. Augustus Heinze, Of the Mon
tana Ore Purchasing Company, which
has been at war with the Amalgamated
for years.
Upon this announcement by Judge
Clancy. President William Scallon. OF
the Anaconda Copper Mining Company
and general manager of the Anal
gamated, issued orders to shut down
all the An,algamated properties IN
Montana and elsewhere, declaring that
/ the company. unable to secure judicial
fairness in the Courts, could not con-
tinue in business.
The works of the Amalgamated Com
pany will at once resume in various
parts of the State. This includes the
greater mines in Butte, the smeltsrs
of the Washoe Company, in Anaconda,
the largest in the world; the smelters
Of the Boston and Montana Company,
| in Great Falls. also vast in their copac'
ity: the coal mines at Storrs, Belt. Oak
dale and in Wyoming; the great quarry
in Northern Montana. and the immense
lumber industries in western ana
| Northwestern Montana.