Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-08-03
)ntana.
The Copper City Described by a
Staff Correspondent of the News
1.-The Brand in Evidence.
Anaconda, Mont, July 90, 1904.

Anaconda, Mont, July
Judge McEIugh has kindly given me the use
his official desk which write few inspired euoges
Copper City.
book could be written and exhaust subject because
from Socialist standpoint this is wonderful city There prob
ably not in the United States another exactly like
1t "one company town." The Anaconda Copper Mining
Co. may be said the city body and beechs The Ana
conda sme the largest meer in the world provides the
only industry of any magnitude this locality employs prac
tcay the entire working population Thus controls the Jobs
therefore the lives of most OF Anacondas citizens brewery
brickyard and smaller institutions give work few
the company them also first lighting service
works electric ine all belong to the After smelling sui
phuric fumes all day the wageves might perchance go and
hrstcass meal in freedom from the everlasting Copper City
but the company its love employees provided them with
and concluded that belong Rockefeller hied my
to cheap working class restaurant and ate NV in the
consong thought that twobt piece directly into
the Golfers of the rich But upon investigation found the
Anaconda Copper Mining CO. ineaceaby stamped
department stoeand bet they buy be thought
that the poor wagesve does like this affairs
the last of desperation take the tall timber But there
no tall timber The smoke from the smeter has killed
within five miles.
Could capitalism devise a more model. city?
The mddlemen here being driven slowly the wall. the
wagaves being thoroughly instructed in class-conscousne
and Anaconda will be in line for Socialism long before the free
cities their Indeed it would have been this time
Overwhelmingly Sociasc had the roaded Social
lists by the These conditions exist because there is
capitalism here than in other capitalism
concentrated and has that advantage control the
city in fact well in theory
company owns everything worth owning There
notable exception 1t does directly in
the smallest degree the Socialist and city officials This
the OF light shining through the darkness 1t does
Socialists heart good find amid the absolute capitalist despom
the city few comrades vaanty holding ao the banner of the
working class And this condition is what makes Anaconda unique
cities The has for completely dominated the
industrial and political affairs of the the Socialist party
power This is explained only by the fact that
fully awake the situation would not have permitted such
thing happen especially in the Its county
politics has been complete and daily becoming less The
Socialists elected labor ticket and the company
thereby caught off its guard However slow to
the situation and after the election the blue
commenced Comrades who had taken part who
had heard Socastc who had been
detected trading Socialist notified that their services
the h longer needed Thus they the radicals
and forced the others activity Some who
imagined Socialists neaed back parties
Peace be to their ashes.
When after such wholesale deportation of the active spirits,
again Anaconda will be the signal that the
social revolution has burst.
city admirably situated and well laid Streets