The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-25
LEADERS CITED
BY JUDGE HUNT
Men Who DepOrted NOn-Union
Men From Butte Charged
With Contempt of Court.
BELL TELEPHONE TROUBLE
AFFIDAVITS ARE FILED IN THE
CASE.

Helena, Mont, Dec. 24.-Six laboring
men of Butte have been cited to ap-
pear before Judge William H. Hunt in
the federal court at Helena next Fri
day morning at 1 o'clock, to show cause
why they should not be punished for
contempt, for the alleged violation of
the temporary injunction issued lin Oc-
tober, restraining the labor unions of
the state from interfering in any man
ner with the operations of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company.
Attorneys for the Bell company filed
the motion for an order to show cause
to be issued. Several affidavits accom-
panied the motion, in which the depon-
ents alleged divers acts Of violence had
been committed.
The names of the persons cited to ap-
pear are withheld until the marshal
makes returns, showing they have been
served.
Woodmancy's Story.
One of the affidavits is made by H.
n. Woodmancy, who alleges that on
Dec. 13, being then in the employ of the
Bell company, he was surprised by GER
tain persons, who grabbed him by the
shoulders and by the nape of the neck,
punching him repeatedly; acted in a
bulldozing manner and forced him
against his will to accompany them to
the Miners union hall.
While he was struggling with the
men a police officer was standing near
by. He told the men to quit their
fighting" Woodmancy replied that he
was being taken along by the men
against his viii.
The police officer replied: go along
with them if they want you to co.
Took Him Along.
rs there no protection around here
and does a man have to be bounded by
a mob law with an officer around"
WoOdmancy responded.
The affidavit AYERS that after Wood
nancy was in the hall a photographer
was sent for and WOOdmancy's picture
was taken. The men in the hall threat
ened that if he didn't stop working for
the Bell company he would be black
listed in every union in the country and
his picture would be printed in every
newspaper in the United States.
Walter H. Briggs foreman of con-
struction on the Bell company's build
ing in Butte. makes an affidavit TO the
effect that a certain individual came up
to the men working on the building.
Briggs told the man he did not want
any more interference.
II will interfere all I want as long
as I am on the streets" was the re-
Spouse, according to the affidavit.
Experience of 5eIasco.
Another affidavit is made by Jacques
Belasco, another workman employed on
the Bell building. He alleges that one
of the men cited to appear said to him:
1--WE made Butte what it is and we
viii have your kind of people run out
of it."
BeIasco replied that he was out of
money and had to work as his family
needed support, the affidavit recites,
and then he was told, 'it would be bet
ter to hold a man up than 10 work as
'scab.'"
Other affidavits were made by work
men who were escorted, Dec. II, out of
Butte by mobs of men. The affidavits
allege that in one mob were forty men
and in the other eighty men. The af-
flants allege they were kicked, abused
and threatened with bodily harm if
they ever set foot within Butte again.