The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-09-23
FIRST BATTLE FOR
NEW ORGANIZATION
SUIT BY A. l. U. EFT AL AGAINST
p. l.. MILLER DISMISSED BY
JUSTICE OCONNOR.
COSTS TAXED TO PLAINTIFFS
New Bartenders' Union Issues a Com
munieation to the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Assembly.

In Justice O'Conners court in Walker
vile this morning the suit brought against
T. l.. Miller. business agent OF the new
hartendcrs' union, by the American Labor
Union. Dan Mcdonald, Clarence Smith
and John Kane was dismissed by the
justice and the costs taxed to the parties.
When court opened Attorneys Mackel
and Meyer for the plaintiffs moved for
postponcment Attorney !. l.. Wines. for
defendants. announced his clients were
ready 10 try the case. Under these condi-
lions the case was dismissed. The suit
was brought to recover the charter. jour
nal and accounts for the old bartenders
nnion.
Similar suits by same plaintiffs are to
be tried in Justice Dancers court III
( Meadervlle against Fred l.. koontz and
Robert Lander. representing the old
union.
The new union called the Bar,ender4'
Protective Union 3o3 OF International
Bar,enders League, today issued the fol
lowing communication to the Trades and
Labor Assembly:
Butte. Mont. Sept. 10, ioo5.--To the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly
Sisters and Brothers.:
AZ the Butte Bartenders' Protective Union
No. ia5 OF the A. l.. u, and now mem
.tefs of the Bartenders' Protective Union
No 3oa of the II. & K. T.. |. A. aud
the Bartcndcrs international League Of
America do hereby protest against your
action Of last Sunday night September
~, 1903. in refusing to recognize the
credentials sent from our union. and
represented in the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor assembly.
We also protest against your action in
recognizing credentials purporiing to come
from the Butte Bartendcrs Protective
Un,on No. Ia7 of the A. l.. u. for the
fcllo~inR reasons, to-wit:
First---That there is no such union
existing as the Butte Bartcndcrs' Pro-
tectivc Union No. I27 Of the A. l.. IT,.
that union having on the I2th day of
August. 1903, severed its afiiliaiion from
| the A. l.. u. and returned its charter to
Clarence Smith, secretary Of the A. l.. ",
| at their headquarters in Butte, Mont.
Second--Tha, the credentials purportinp
i. come from the Butte Bartendors' Pro
tettive Union No. Ia7 OF the A. l.. u
we're not even indorsed with visible seal
and were therefore illegal. and were acted
upon by the assembly contrary TO its own
constitution. s.s
Third-That it could not he shown or
established by one John Kane. who claims
10 be president of the supposed Butte
Barienders Protective Union No. ia7,
tina, he was ever duly and legally elected
president and delegate by any number Of
bartenders which would be sufficient in
number to either create or compose any
organization.
Fourth-That it was shown and estab-
lishcd by his own John kanes) aimis-
sions, that the credentials which were
| forced upon the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Assembly by the American Labor
| Union were fake credentials and from n
| fake organization.
| We, by our signatures hereunio an
nexcd. 40 hereby confirm the action taken
| by our union August Ia, 1903, severing
our afiliaion with the American Labor
| Union.
| IN view Of the foregoing facts and
declarations, we therefore ask that yor,
reconsider your action Of last Sunday,
September I3, 1909, and that you act
faYoraby upon our credentials, and
thereby give us our union rights, accord
ns TO your own constitution. that is,
proper representation in the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Assembly.