Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-10-03

of Helena, the side that live off pro-
fits, interest and rent, while the labor
ers slave to support them and their
families, have adopted a scheme of In
dian warwhoop tactics which shows
that the same spirit animates them
which inspired the murderous citizens ,
alliance Of Colorado and the idaho
bull-pen atrocities.
On the 25th of September, what is
called the Commercial Club" of Hell
ena, held meeting and went crazy
because of the discovery that the gen
eral strike by the Trades and Labor
Assembly had proved successful and
had issued list of unfair firms that
persisted in using the telephones which
the public was asked to discontinue
in the interest of the striking tele-
phone girls.
The antics of these little pseudo ca
pitalists were a matter of vast amuse-
ment to the intelligent part of the
working class who are endeavoring to
bring about a condition in the indus
tries of Helena favorable to the com
mon good.
At this meeting the little cockroach
business men, who are living on a sys-
tematic plunder Of the public, went
wild. They realize that their brigand
methods can only flourish when public
opinion is with them, and that the
working class is the principal part of
the public, eighty per cent.
Their resolutions are red hot against
organized labor in general and the
Montana Federation of Labor in par
ticular. Some OF the speakers advo-
Gated the appointment Of vigilance
committee to run the union men out of
town, such remarks being loudly ap-
plauded by the law and order gentry,
who want to start Cripple Creek or
Coeur d'Alenes reign of terror and
bull-pens in Montana.
Their great, chief, bowling griev-
ance is that their business will not be
supported, and that the easy-living,
white handed "business men" and
their families can not have so many
luxuries in consequence.
The mayor of the city distinguished
himself by being the most rampant
capitalist in the bunch. He called the
working men "hogs" and said they
had their headquarters in the Electric
building, spoke of "the usual coward.
ly tactics" of organized labor. He
thinks il is time for the "business
men" to take a stand and "assert
their independence. And he ended
his disgraceful TRADE against the
working class by saying, ''These peo-
pie that declare a boycott are depend
ent upon the very men that they boy.
cott.u
This man Lindsay is the fellow that
raised the black flag among the unions
of Helena. He has contemptibly and
persistently fought organized labor
from the first. II is a disgrace that
working mems votes should have put
him in power. He is a profit-monger-
ing parasite, and only lives by the
grace of the working class that sup.
port him. His crowning statement Of
ignorance and audacity is the remark
that the working class are dependent
on the cockcroach parasites that they
boycott. IL he knew enough to come
in out Of the rain, he would know that
1t Is not the business men that support
the working class but the working
class that support the business men.
He assumes TO himself an uppishness
and Importance that does not belong
to him. This man has grossly violat.
ed the oath he took as mayor Of Hell.
ena. II Is his business to be the mayor
of the whole town and be equally in
terested in the welfare of all classes
and not merely in the twenty per cent
OF the business men. Lindsay had no
business in that meeting. The prop
rietor of the Grandon appeared before
the meeting and made the statement
that he had been given fifteen minutes
by the Cooks and Walters union to
decide whether he would remove the