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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-26
BUZZELL REPLIES TO WILSON

Dear Sir:-The December number
Of the "Square Deal" fell into my
hands last night. i knew of this pub
lieation, but this is the first copy l
have ever read.
/ have been pastor for twenty
wears and I have observed the acts
of both the laborer and the capitalist.
1 know something of the claims and
conditions of both sides. Now, If the
contents Of your last publication are
what you call "Square Deal, l
wonder what a crooked deal would BET
observed first: That the whole
magazine is general denunciation
of organized labor; second, that your
position to me is one Of hypocracy, for
while you profess TO be an organiza'
tion made up Of all classes Of society,
whose object is "industrial peace -,
your publication is so bitter toward
organized labor that any real union
man reading it would be more than
convinced that the capitalist, while
protesting to be his friend, is his en-
cmy. SO far as know no labor or
ganization or publication processes to
be working in the interest Of capital.
To be honest, you, Mr.. Vance, would
have to publish to the world openly
that the object Of your organization
is TO defeat labor in your own inter
ests as truly as any labor union Is
seeking their own interest by curtail'
ing the power of capital over them.
Thirdly, observe that every one
Of the eight principles upon which
your organization is founded, are moi
only against labor unions but are such
that If you could enforce them that
you would rob organized labor Of ey
! cry ounce Of power IL now has to pro
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CROSS EXAMINING ORCHARD

his own statements of things he hsd
told persons all through his life, and
asked him whether he told the truth
then or not and Orchard admitted that
he had not.
Mr.. Darrow brought out an admis-
sion of many crimes that Orchard
had committed that were not touched
in the direct examination.
At four O'Clock Saturday afternoon
Mr.. Darrow announced that he was
through with the eross-examination,
but would ask the impeaching ques-
tions on Monday.
A requisition has been made by the
state to bring Mrs. Steve Adams here
as witness. Word received from
Rathdrum by private sources states
that she collapsed completely after the
trial of her husband and is i'll with
pneumonia.
Peter Breen, the attorney furnished
by the Butte Mill Smeluermen's
Union, arrived Friday
In Petitioners Cell.
Saturday afternoon after the court
session was over / went down to see
Pettibone to get his picture for sew
eral of the papers i was correspondent
for. He was lying on a cot, seeming
ly wearied after the demands of the
day. His wife was sitting by him.
The watchfulness of the sheriff's Of
fee has been wonderfully relaxed since
the Haywood trial. At that time Wis
itors could hardly gain admission to
the accused, and when they were al
lowed in the cell, guard was in
constant attendance at every CONVERSE
tion. Now, upon a simple request you
are shown into the main room. There
are no guards, the door is unlocked
and the iron door not closed at all.
Half dozen of us were in this large
room at the same time with no offc-
ials present whatever.
Pettibone, although looking i'll and
worn and wasted is still full of his
quips and gibes. 1t is wonderful the
way these men have stood this awful
confinement.
Darker and more strenuous days
than these though are before the work
ing class before it comes into its own.
Ida Crouch Hazlett.
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LABOR TROUBLES IN BUTTE
Continued on Page 2.)

order the state militia in Butte.
Another report was also current and
we have good reason TO believe IL is
true and that is the adjutant general
of the state militia had received no.
tice TO hold himself in readiness for
active service in Butte.
We have no doubt that spineless
Joe Toole, governor of Montana, woul ]
only be too glad to rush troops into
Butte. The corporations want TO es-
tablish the open shop in Butte and
break up the unions and are trying to
use the telephone war to make Butte
an armed camp.
Kessler's brewery in Helena is an.
other firm that took advantage Of
Judge Hunts injunction and com
mencel doing business with the scab
phone. Kessler had to discontinue the
use Of the phone sometime ago in or.
der to prevent a strike Of the brewery
workers, after the injunction is made
to stick, Kessler puts in the phone,
knowing that his men cannot strike
without being liable for a Jail sentence
for having contempt for government
by injunctions.
This firm of Kessler does a large
business in the mining camps in Mon
ana and the miners should remember
the methods used by this firm against
labor when they are drinking beer.
II you cannot do anything better,
to show your contempt, get on the wa.
ter wagon. There is no injunction to
prevent you from doing that.
Remember government by injunc-
tions rules supreme in Montana and
the advocates and supporters of such
institutions should not receive any
support from union men.
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Socialist Agitator Slugged.

Comrade r. T. Sims, member Of
the Progressive Socialist Club in Min
neapolis, was assaulted by two police
socialist paper, "Gaa Paa," in that
city, and badly injured. He was ar
rested and brought to the police sta
tion, where he was again maltreatei
by some sleuths connected with the
police station. Sims had been doing
some effective propaganda work among
the coloreI population of the city and
thereby caused the indignation of the
politicians.
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tect itself-and you must know this.
You will say that labor organiza-
tion has the right to "strike." But
to quietly quit work and wait for ca
pitalists to grant their demands would
mean starvation to the laborer and his
family if you possessed unchallenged
your eight principles. If you have
your "opeu shop" you can afford to
wait till you secure from all parts Of
the world sufficient labor, while the
striker looks idly on and his children
cry for bread IL is too bad that the
young can not more generally work as
apprentices and learn trade. But
for the same reason that the capitalist
fights for this point, the laborcr op-
poses it, and that interest is selfin-
terest on both sides, not the interest Of
the boy-and you must know this.
You know that organized capital will
crush out by any means any man who
starts a competing business, and is il
any more wicked for organized labor
TO seek to destroy anything that comes
into competition with their interestsf
You would have no boycott. Then
why don't capital, who has every ma
tural advantage, set the example to
the lnborer, by ceasing to boycott. II
you know a workman who is active
in his union or in politics, who is
working to better the interests Of his
class, you turn him out and put him on
the "'black list" You do this when
| you know the workman has Advocated
no violence. You, ms rule, when IL
is for your interest, lock out whole
armies Of men, If you see that strike
is probable, aud thus you set the cx
ample In boycottiug.
You say no sympathetic" strike
Continued on Page 81
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The telephone war is still raging,
the scene of activities have changed
to Butte. Recently a mass meeting
of all the union men Of Butte was
held and resolutions denouncing Judge
Hunt and government by injunctions
were passed.
A number of scabI linemen were
marched out of the city and now a
number of union men are to appear
before Judge Hunt to tell why they
violated the injunction.
At present Butte is full of Pinker-
tons who are acting as scab hnemen,
They drive around the city in wagons
belonging TO the Telephone company.
The wagons are filed with old junk
and the Pinkies are trying to make
a showing thereby as il they were fix
ing wires. SO awkward are the Pin
kerton scabs who are filing the places
of the linemen in Butte, that they
use ladders to climb the telephone
poles.
Scab linemen frequent saloons at
night and go everywhere that union
men congregate and try to pick a quar-
rel, while United States deputy mar.
shalls are standing outside on the
street with guns ready for business,
should the union men resent the ac-
tions of the scabs.
This is the method OF the hirlings
of the Telephone company and the de-
tenders and upholders OF the sacred
methods Of government by injunctions
A report was current in Helena
last week that Governor Toole had no
tilted the mayor of Butte that If the
Telephone company scabs Were con
tinued to be molested that he would
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Boise, Ida, Dec. IL, 1907. 1

Boise, Ida, Dec. III, lsOf.
Orchard, the grand star in the pro-
secution's cast, was placed on the
stand this morning. He came in look
ing trim, dapper, well-fed and we'll
groomed, wearing a new, tailor-made
suit of brown. Only two guards ac-
company him this time, whereas last
fall there were six. However, a guard
stood at the door for the first time
during the trial, and Reynolds, Four
gun Jack and several of the old gun.
men faces were in the room.
This man has been kept in the
greatest comfort possible by the state
for two years solely to be used as
tool to break down the great labor
union.
The hall has been crowded TO suffo-
cation ever since he came on the stand.
Some Shiny Tale.
His tale was substantially the same
as in the Haywood trial, Mr.. Hawley,
in his questions, reading from the
transcription of the former proceed
ings
Orchard, or Albert Horsley rather,
told the tale of his early life in Can
ada, and then of his experiences in
the Occur d'Alenes, of the industrial
troubles there, Of the stealing of the
train by the union men and the blow
ing up of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine; of how Bill Davis managed the
job, and how he, Orchard, helped carry
the powder and set off the explosion.
Cripple Creek Next.
The scene then changed TO the
Cripple Creek difficulties, and Or.
chards share in the Vindicator ex-
plosion, when Mccormick and Beck
were killed, the arch-murderer impli-
eating Sherman Parker. w. +. Davis,
Easterly, Adams and others.
Mr.. Darrow objected to all this evi-
dence, as it had nothing to do with
the Steunenberg murder, and no con-
nection with the defendant. The OBJ
lection was overruled.
Judge Wood asked the attorneys for
the prosecution when they expected
to be through with their evidence so
he could instruct the defense when to
have its witnesses ready: Mr.. Haw-
ley replied that they thought they
would be through by the middle of
next week.
Lays His Sins on Pettibone.
In the afternoon Orchard went on to
tell of the many agreements made with
him by Meyer, Haywood and Petit
bone, and how Pettibone usually paid
out the money. Meyer, who sits at
the table with the defense attorneys,
is taking careful notes all the time.
Orchard rehearsed how Pettibone
had communicated to him the secret
Of bomb making and had shown him
how chloride Of potash and sulphuric
acid would explode bomb and could
be set off by an alarm clock. He went
over the tiresome ground of the con-
fession, rehearsing the various designs
which he accused the Western Fedora.
tion of having on governors, judges,
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GRAND STAR WITNESS

and prominent persona. He said that
Adams and Pettibone assisted him in
the Lyte Gergory murder, and the gun
used was buried in Pettibone's back
yard. Lyte Gregory was detective,
who, Orchard averrej, had made him
self obnoxious to the Federation.
Adams and he were living of money
which Pettibone gave them.
Ran the Convention.
According to Orchards fantastic
tale, as the trial for the Western Fed
Grafton drew near, Pettibone said there
was liable to be a split and he was
afraid Haywood would not be re-elect-
ed as secretary. He said something
must be pulled off in Cripple Creek,
they must make some excitement So
that nobody would want the Offices,
and Haywood and the old gang get
to stay.
The Independence depot explosion
was then pulled off and fourteen men
killed. When he got back to Denver,
Pettibone said it was the finest thing
that ever happened only he wished the
scabs had all been killed, the conven-
tion had met and adjourned and all the
old officers were reelected. The con-
vention had offered $4,000 reward for
the perpetrators of the deed.
Continued Thursday.
On Thursday Orchard continued his
tale Of conspiracy and blood. He told
of the dynamiting of Fred Bradley in
San Francisco, former manager Of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in
Wardner, north Idaho.
After his return to Denver, he said
Haywood wanted him to shoot Judge
Gabbert, and said at that time it
might be laid on the democrats, but
he didn't want il to be laid on the
Federation till after they had got
Adams seated as governor. This is
certainly a most rational statement
considering that the officers of the
Federation were members of the So
cislist party, and in the natural order
of things would not care a rap about
what capitalist candidate was elected
as governor.
More Politics.
Orchard said that Haywood then
wanted Peabody taken off because IL
looked as though he were going to be
seated as governor, and with two more
years of him orgapizei labor would
have to leave Colorado.
He wanted them to take off Judge
Goddard ofthe supreme bench because
he said he blamed him more than any
one else for the decision in the Meyer
case. He was the attorney for the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company, and
Frank Herne, the president, whom
they also tried to kill, had been sent
out from Pennsylvania to fix the Col.
oraIo legislature.
Pettibone was paying out the money
all this time for these jobs.
After the dismal stqxy of opera
tions in Denver Orchard changed the
scene of his crimes to North Idaho
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At 11:30 Friday forenoon Mr.. Oar
row began the cross examination.
There was much curiosity as to how
this "great criminal Witness" as the
capitalist papers call the labor traitor,
would be handled by the great labor
advocate. 1t was over this point that
Attorneys Richardson and Darrow had
such vital disagreement during the
last trial with the result that all the
questioning was done by Richardson.
Many were anxious to see Mr.. Darrow
get hold of Orchard. The selfaccused
murderer had seemed dubious of Oar
row from the first, and has borne a
halffrightened expression whenever
Mr. Darrow asked him a question.
A few questions on the cross-exam-
ination soon settled what Darrow was
going to be able to do with Orchard.
His attitude Of assurance hanged at
once, and he began to give his answers
in a humble and vanquished manner.
Mr.. Richardson's overbearing way
had called forth the defiance in him,
and kept him braced up to his job.
But Darrow's intellect nonplussed him,
and the handling of the labor Judas
by the attorney was a marvel Of pow
erful mind over a weak and eringing
one. All the fight in Orchard was
gone. His shoulders dropped and he
crouched back in his chair as Mr..
Darrow's searching questions probed
this terrible human heart. Darrow has
justified what his friends all thought
he could do with Orchard.
Will He Be Tried7
The question asked were concerning
Orchards trial, and when it is to take
place, who his attorney was. The
answer was that no time was set, and
that Wyatt was his attorney, furnished
by the state. Mr.. Darrow asked him
if his case was not standing in court
on a plea of not guilty. Here is an.
other of the strange anomalies of this
strange case. Orchard s confession"
in one court exposes his killing of
Steunenberg, while in another court
he is claiming he never committed
the offense.
Darrow minutely went over the
crimes that Orchard had committed,
burning a cheese factory and getting
the insurance money, stealing cheese,
running off with another mans wife,
bigamy, murder, theft-all those scat
tered through his early life, and asked
him if he knew Pettibone then, and if
Pettibone told him to do them, or
Meyer or Haywood.
One of the weightiest facts that
Darow has demonstrated in the course
of ais grilling of Orchard is that the
words urging to crime and destruction
which he formery attributed to Hay
wood, he now says Pettibone said.
Darrow asked him If he would attri-
butte them to Meyer if he should be
brought to trial.
A Liar by His Own Mouth.
Mr.. Darrow then proceeded to show
that Orchard was an unconscionabl,
liar, out of his own mouth. He took
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-26
COLORADO WAR REVIEWED

odiu thdt ATnoln, secretATY OF the mine
owners association of the Cripple
Creek district, got him to come and
testify, and the Pinkertons in Denver
paid him.
Bob Naylor was the most important
witness on this subject. He is major
in the Colorado national guards, and
assistant secretary of the mine own
ers' association. The judge admitted
all this testimony over the vigorous
protest Of the defense. The purpose of
the state is TO prove a general con-
spiracy on the part of the Western
Federation to destroy and murder, of
which Pettibone and the killing of
Steunenberg were only a part.
Vengeance on the Federation.
Naylor said that his duties as as.
sistant secretary of the mine owners
association were to issue recommeuda-
tions to the men TO go to work. He
said no man could get a job in the dis
trict unless he allowed him to, and he
would issue no credentials to any mem.
Der of the Western Federation. He
uttered this with a mephistophelian
villainy that shows the slave existence
the working class may expect when
ever their employers take it into their
heads to decisively tell them what they
can do and so long as the powers of
government are in the hands of those
who own the jobs. The working man
can take his medicine or starve.
Wilson undertook since Naylor was
bringing the authority of his great
associations upon the scene, to ques.
tion him in regard to outrages perpe-
trated upon the miners during the
strike under his directions as COM
mander of the guards; such as the de-
struction of the union stores with sup
plies for the existence of the women
and children during the strike, pouring
coal oil on the provisions, and perform
ing other barbaric deeds of vandalism
Borah remained standing with his
eye on the judge, iike a commander
of the whole works and objected to
every question. Again and again Will.
son persisted in asking these questions
with such damning evidence of inhu.
man outrages on the working class,
r1en beaten and shot in their tracks,
inoffensive working men bounded out
of the country. Borah objects; the
| judge rules with Borah. Finally Mr..
Wilson made a most earnest and elo-
quent plea, said this was virtually the
Haywood case over again, that it had
been so announced by the state, that
the defendant had been allowed to
show the animus of these bitter at.
tacks before, and he certainly had a
right to show this feeling and preju.
dice on the part of the witness now
in order to discredit him. The state
had been allowed all the latitude IL
pleased, and such a harsh ruling work.
ed an unheard of injustice to the lie.
fendant.
1t was all of no avail. The court
ruled against us. The state is OBJ
structing in every way possible SC
as not to allow the defense the op
portunity to counteract it's evil re
Iports.
| No IJnion Man Need Anniv
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No Union Man Need Apply.


Naylor brazingly asserted in reply
to Wilson's queries that his chief du-
ties were to keep any member Of the
Federation from getting employment
in the Cripple Creek district no mat
ter what his abilities were. He was
asked il he also prescribed our wit
nesses from getting jobs when they
went back after testifying in the Hay
wood case. This was objected to, but
such were the facts.
All that Naylor has to do is to put
on the DEVILS cap and horns TO make
him look like the god Of imps. His
head runs up to a peak, and he has
a cruel, expressionless, soulless, con
scienceless face a typical tool Of ca
pitalism, not brains enough to have
any initiative of his own.
Wilson put up a brave fight TO be
heard in thes instances. He has con
Quoted the case with the utmost ere
dit to himself during the absence OF
Darrow. His questions are clear, ra'
pid, decisive and to the point-sat.
isfactory in every way.
Naylor made clever evasion Of his
participation of the Cripple Creel
outrages.
This has been the most bitterly
fought contest Of the trial betweer
the struggling counsel to get each it,
side Of the dark drama Of unionisn
before the jury.
Ida Crouch Hazlett.
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A Liar by His Own Mouth.

Mr.. Darrow then proceeded to show
that Orchard was an uneonscionable
liar, out of his own mouth. He took
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