Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-09-14
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semblage of wage slaves on Labor
day. None of Mrs. Ida Crouch
Hazlett in theirs. They wanted a
capitalist speech-a lawyer, or
something, doncher know. One
who could tell them that they
were voting kings" that they
were THE only pure and uuadul-
terated that produced by the sweat
of their brow" Same game as
they give the farmer. "Remcm-
Der me on election day" No they
didn't want Socialist speaker, so
they secured George O'Mallcy OF
Butte. \ poor one. that. Must
have been a Socialist on the COM
mittee on speakers.
\ pair of labor decoy-ducks,
named Reuben Dwight. and a Mr..
Hardenberg. of Alissoula. the for
mer appropriately named. who is
a low-salaried clerk of the NJ. x
| NJ. Co, and lately was used in
their political department as rep
resentative. while the latter is
tiu-merchant in gents furnishing
goods. and has as much license
to be in labor union as a lawyer
has To deliver a Labor day ad-
dress, became highly offended on
account of Camrade O'Mallev de-
livering an address on Labor day,
that pictured in unerring words
the causes OF the workingman :
subjcction. They became epizootie
and wanted him called off.
| From a union standpoint. the
unionists of Bonner in the car
penter line touch the climax. They
are class-conscious there. Re-
Gently a delegate appeared before
the Western Trades and Labor
Council and assured that body
that he was a duly accredited rep
resentative of labor to the coun-
Gil. inasmuch as lac had permis-
sion from John X. Toole, the oily
manager of the Amalgamated Co.
at Bonner, TO establish carpen-
tcrs' union there, segregate from
the Missoula union. and. like Fin
negan's goat in Moriaritys cab
bage patch. go it alone. Indeed,
the good-natured John r., in adj
dressing the council some time
after. declared that I'VE must
have carpenters union of our
own down in Bonner. Good-na-
tured fellow, you know.
Recently Mitchell refused
raise in his salary. The pure and
simples lauded him to the skies
for this. as being an honest labor
leader. with his heart in the cause.
Under this system labor fakirs
have gone before Mitchell and
likely will thrive in the future un-
til set aside by the educational
features of Socialism. Lately
Mitchell and his lieutenants
stumped the country in the face of
a referendum vote advising that
the coal miners accept a reduction
in the scale. Eleven times in nine
minutes Mitchell declared him
self a republican in labor lee
ture." The point is this: Can not
Mitchell well afford to refuse an
increase of a couple of hundred
dollars in salary and make a
grandstand play for what there
would be on the side in playing
capitalist politics and bringing
about the accepting of reduction
in pay, both acts which mean mil
lions of dollars to the capitalists.
We say is not this possible? |?
Moral: A shell game man throws
out a few concessions before he
goes after the whole chunk.
The burning question of the
hour in the state, politically speak
ing, is: Has Heinze sold out? 2"
Positively. we cannot say. The
barometer used in gauging old
party political matters is by the
. ,.,,nu,t ,F h,,IIo that is IN tan
We hear of none of il emanating
from f. Augustus. This is the
crucible test. Old party politics
, is business. From that standpoint,
in view of the fact that the trust
! has displaced competition in all
large businesses, as the eliminator
of wastefyl expense, is it not a
(: business proposition for Rockefel-
; Ter to buy Heinze out, at a fair
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