Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-08-15

m thT blstTlci Count ot Lewis * i
Clark county as defendants in a friend
ly suit brought 10y the Helena Cab
company agSust them for writ Of
mandamus TO compel them 10 operate
the telephones.
The injunction wns granted Wedues
day Aug : and the writ Of mandamus
granted the Cab company the next
morning al IA clock A. NJ.
The Helena Trades Il Labor assembly
met Wednesday night Of the same day
that The injunction was granted and
after considering the injunction and
the entire situation came to the con
clusion that She Helena Cab company
was bU'tjBg in to the telephone strike
for the sake Of assisting the Telephone
company to secure court protection for
seabs.
As this scented 10 be the only reason
for the friendly suit by the Cab com
pauy against tGe Telephone COMPANY
In other words that the Cab company
and the Telephone company had enter
ed into u aouspiracy TO defeat tho
union
The Tradg- assembly decided by
unanimoUs vote g. extend the strike
and put tbo cab company an the ma.
fair list anl are now vigorously en-
forcing samr
I IL is sail that the Cab company
wants 20 settle with the Trades conn.
ell, but the members of the unions say
that the boycott against the Cab con.
pany will not he lifted until the phone
strike is settled.
After the court had granted a writ
Of MAJ damus against the 'phone com
pany, scabs were Immediately put to
work in the local exchange office, this
being proof enough that the forcgone
conclusion Of the Trades assembly was
correct and that the court was being
made football 10y the corporations in
their struggle against the unions.
4 number of scabs operators have
been secured by the company but ow-
ing 10 the excellent picket duty being
done by the girls most of the strike
breakers have quit. -Four scabs were
shipped in from Salt Lake. Utah,
which place seems TO be the scabs ;
nest for telephone operators.
The company not being able TO keep
the strike breakers in their employ
are furnishing cabs TO take the scabs
home and a policeman deeorates the
top Of the cab, TO prevent the pickcts
from speaking to the scabs and trying
TO induce them to quit.
Regardless Of the court injunction
the friends and sympathizers of the
strike are ordering their phones out
and the members of organized labor
are concentrating their trade at the
stores who do not use the scab phone.
Another case of where the courts
are used to help corporations win
strikes. was in the district court of
Helena last week.
The Helena Cab company had a sham
fight with the Telephone company or
as it was called a friendly suit.
The main reason was to secure court
protection for scabs working for the
Telephone company and a writ of man
damus to compel the Telephone com
pany to operate its phones was the nee
essary thing to secure the court pro-
lection.
The Cab company was willing 10 sue,
the Telephone company was willing to
be sued, and the judge was willing TO
give the decision,
IL is such tactics on the part of cor
porations that are bringing the courts
OF the country in disrepute with the
large mass of laboring people. II the
judge had fined both companies for
contempt in trying to make n corpor
alton foot bull of the courts he would
have only been uPhoding the dignity
Of the courts. The decision Of the
judge was what the Telephone com
pany wanted and the decision was no.
thing else than another court decision
against organized labor.
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