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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12

city of Helena, and removing the same
to Great Falls, Cascade county, for the
reason that Great Falls by that time
will be easy of access from all parts
of Montana, and as the citizens Of
Great Falls are broad-minded we feel
that they will in the future as in the
past appreciate the fact that the work
ing men have indeniable rights, and
that there will never be occasion for
the visitors to Great Falls to complain
of being held up, or overcharged;
therefore be it
Resolved, by the Butte Central La.
Dor Council, in regular session con-
vened, That we request the executive
board of the Montana Federation of
Labor to have the said repeating law
submitted to the qualified electors, and
that preparation be made by the Fed
GRAFTON at the next convention to pro-
vide the necessary funds to carry on
an active campaign, to the end that
after 1908 the next State Fair will be
held in a city where the people ap-
preciate the efforts Of the working
men in the development of our great
commonwealth; and be it further
Resolved, That copy Of these reso-
lutions be sent to the various labor
organizations throughout the state,
with the request that they be en-
dorsed; to the press of the state for
publication; to the Mayor of Helena,
and to the secretary of the Helena
Commercial Club.
The foregoing resolutions have been
sent to the unions throughout the
state and it is reported that the
Trades Assemblies of Billings, Great
Falls, Livingston and Red Lodge will
endorse them.
This action is a sequel to the tele-
phone war in which me merchants Of
Helena and the Citizens Alliance sup
ported the scab phone company and
endorsed government by injunction.
The executive committee of the
Montana Federation have already the
matter under consideration and are
preparing to carry out the instructions
given them by the affiliated unions.
This will be the first time that ihe
initiative and referendum law will be
put in operation in this state on
state law.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12

high time that the commissioners were
getting busy and putting a stop to
such criminal practices on the part of
the railroad before any more lives
are sacrificed to corporation greed.
Let the railroads get boilermakers
and they won't have to use the boiler
liquid that is more dangerous to
human beings than ever was claimed
by the Pinkertons for Pettibone dope.
The strike of the bOilermakers is
still playing havoc with the railways.
At Livingston it is reported that at
least two dead engines are towed in
there each day, and the railroad had
to put one man to work to keep the
track at the round house clear Of dead
engines that need the attention of
first class boilermaker, that is i'm.
possible for the railroads TO hire at the
present time.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
TEDDY & MINE OWNERS CUT WAGES

with said Western Federation Of
Miners.
"Resolved, That the mines of the
Gold6ed mining district resume opera
ations at a. m. on Thursday, Dec. IL,
1907, with men who agree to the fore
going conditions and that all old en-
ployees Of the members of this asso-
citation be given the preference at all
mines, providing such employees pre-
sent their applications either at the
office of this association or Of the
mines formerly employing them before
a. IN. of Thursday, Dec. IL, 1907, and
that the office Of this association and
said mines be opened for the purpose
Of receiving said applications from 9
a. m. to Q p. m. Of each day until said
time.u
Teddy, the Terrible, who is the ia
ther of the open shop, has given the
officer in command Of the soldiers or
ders to see that the mine owners have
every assistance in carrying out their
resolutions.
The miners are law-abiding and no
violence has taken place so far and
the sheriff declares that he was ample
able to control the situation without
the aid of the soldiers.
A curious state of affairs exists In
Goldfeld and that while no rioting
has occurred and martial law never
declared, yet the soldiers are acting
as watchmen and guarding the mines.
1t is hard to say at this time what
what the developments will be in the
next few days. The corporations with
the assistance Of the Pinkerton thugs
may stir up trouble and in order to
give the soldiers an opportunity to
shoot down union men.
The situation as il now presents It.
self is this. Is the scene of Russian
tyranny and methods to be transferred
from Colorado and Idaho to Nevada 7
Working men of the entire country
take the lesson to heart. Teddy, your
idol, has followed the foot steps Of
Grover Cleveland when he sent sol
diers to Chicago in 1894 to break the
American Union Railway strike. Strike
at the ballot box ana vote the social
list ticket. Now as never before the
necessity for socialists in congress is
apparent.
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CONTINUED on Page 2.)

Lindsay finding that union men will
not patronize him, is squealing and
is telling the courts that the entire
trade in Bear Creek is lost and is
rapidly fading away in Billings and
that the courts should drum up his
lost trade for him.
Lindsay is learning his lesson and
may take it to heart, while the unions
are weak in Helena, they have the
support of the entire labor movement
in the United States.
We can not see what good his ap.
pealing to the courts will do him. II
laboring men will not buy his goods
who will force them to do so. In
a mining camp near Helena, IL the
stores had continued to handle Lind
says goods, the union would have
opened a commissionary and got all
their food supplies from Butte. The
union men did not want Citizens Ali.
ance wares and were determined not
TO have them, therefore the stores, to
do business had to cut Lindsay out.
Can an injunction judge compel peo'
pie to buy what they do not want
or buy from people that they have
no desire TO do business withi Nitl
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
BUTTE WOULD MOVE STATE FAIR

Representatives Of unions of Mon.
tana metropolis adopt resolutions
against Helena merchants and seek to
invoke initiative and referendum on
proposition to establish State Fair in
friendly city; war to be carried to the
ballot box.
Whereas, The business men of Hell
ena have allied themselves with the
enemies of organized labor and have
given their support to government by
injunctions; and
Whereas, The unions Of Helena act
ed in good faith, we believe, when
they decided not to boycott the Mon
tana State Fair, and the business men
of Helena have given the unions of
Helena the double cross; and
Whereas, We believe that the ma
lignant and vituperous attacks against
the Montana Federation of Labor, of
which we are part, that have been
and are now appearing in the Helena
Independent are inspired and printed
at the behest of the Citizens Ali.
ance and Commercial Club Of Helena;
and
Whereas, The federal court iniunc.
tions have tied the hands of organ
lied labor of the state and prohibits
us from resenting the attacks of the
allies Of our enemies, while they are
free to heap all the insults on us
they desire; and
Whereas, There is one place where
no court can enjoin us and one place
where the union man is superior to
any court or corporation, and that is
at the ballot box, where we will settle
this question, If necessary; and
Whereas, The constitution of the
state of Montana gives the power of
self-government to the people collect
lively, as expressed though the initia-
tive and referendum; and
Whereas, The legislature has created
by law a state fair commission and
designated that the state fair shall be
held in the city of Helena, Lewis and
Clark county, and owing to the hostile
attitude of the Helena Commercial
Club and the business interests gen,
orally to our brother unionists in Hell.
ena and toward the trade unions Of
the entire state and nation, and their
hold-up policy of the public in gen.
eral during fair week, we, as union
men of the city Of Butte respectfully
petition the Montana Federation of
Labor to commence by proper petition,
circulated throughout the state, to
have submitted at the next general
election, in 1905, a law repeating the
act establishing the State Fair in the
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
Boise, Dec. 5.

BOISE, Dec. D.
The rapidity with which the Petit.
bone jury is being formed is a sur
prise to all who have been familiar
with the Federation trials. All jurors
in the box have been passed for cause
and but four peremptory challenges
remain TO each side out of the ten
allowable.
There is every evidence that the
trial will begin in earnest next Mon
day. Judge Wood announced from
the bench that he expected the prose
cution to be ready with its evidence
Monday morning, and the Judge has
telegraphed Senator Borah who is nov
in Washington to that effect. So that
Borah will be here to take charge of
the case.
The complexion of the jury looks
much more favorable at the present
writing than we had hoped from the
venire. Most of the venire was drawn
directly from Boise where the feeling
has been the bitterest against the Fed
Grafton. The least that could have
been expected was that the talesmeu
should have been summoned from re
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
WAS EXPLODED BOILER DOPED?

Missoula, Dec. THE Northern
Pacific officials have received word
that the enginee of passenger train No.
70, on the Zurke and Wallace branch
of that road, blew up yesterday morn
ing, killing Fireman Bulls, Brakeman,
Hodges and an engine wiper, name
unknown and fatally injuring Engineer
Copenhaven.
No details of the accident were re-
ceived. Engineer Copenhaven is one
Of the old time engineers on that di-
vision.
This is the first boiler explosion on
the railroad since the boilermakers
strike began AMI IL the strike cOntin-
ues we can expect to have more of
them.
There are various causes that would
make the boiler blow up. The en-
gine may have been in need of boiler
repairs that could not be given il SOW
ing TO the strike of the boilermaker
or there could have been not enough
water in the boiler and the latter is
the most likely to have been the cause
of explosion. 1t is quite likely that
this engine had been treated TO the
Tin Can Boilermaker Dope, a liquid
that looks like black oil and about
two gallons of it at one dose is put
into the boilers through the iniectors,
for the purpose of stopping leaks in
the boiler, that can not be stopped
otherwise owing TO the railroads being
unable to seucre boilermakers because
Of a strike.
This liquid that is used, closes up
all holes in the boiler, provided the
holes are not too large. The holes
in the attachments of the water glass
and in the gauge cocks that are used
for the purpose of determining how
much water is in the boiler, becomes
clogged up after the liquid is put in
the boiler, so that it is impossible
for the engineer or fireman to tell
how much water is in the boiler or if
the water in the boiler is below the
danger line.
1t is quite probable that this was
the cause Of this particular explosion
that has caused four deaths.
The Northern Pacific have stopped
using this tin can boilermaker dope OF
the division east of here, since the
News published the facts Of the ease
but both the Northern Pacific ant
Great Northern railways are using Il
in the other parts of the state. II Il
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
PINKERTONS AMONG UNION MEN

how, both TO live and work in. Those
suckers at Sparks (meaning Master
Mechanic Smith and General Foreman
Whelan) won't give me any tools or
men to do the work with and are Civ
ing me HI for the failures and what
can a man do here, but if they don't
give a d-n / amt going to worry
myself about the d-n work as / am
sick of IL here" / said, "It is only
light running work you do here" He
said, "Yes. if we don't do any washing
out or blown down, only change water
and that is not much good and the
other fellows don't do anything at
Winnemucca or Montello." He also
said, "Why, have got only one clerk
and even have no one to look after the
store room. / have been asking for an
engine inspector for a few months, as
the engines 60 out Of here and are not
inspected, as the machinists won't in
spect them, only doing the work that
the engineers report and the conse-
quence is, out goes the engine not in
specteJ and fails or something breaks
off or drops off and causes a wreck and
these fellows give me HI and what
can l doi"
The men speak all well Of Pancake.
Seeing no chance of getting a job
and no accommodations TO stay there,
as the place is only 300 population, !
thought it might create suspicion. so !
took second No. and went TO Ogden.
While enroute to Ogden, the engine
that was furnished for second No. 4
at Carlin failed at Wells on account
of hot driving boxes, and freight en-
gine took the train from Wells TO
Montello. The engine that failed was
the 100 class, I think 1777. II was
dark and j could not see the last num-
ber, but the conductor told me Il was a
100 class. Losing forty minutes at
Wells, at p. m. arrived at Ogden
and went to the Healy hotel and dis.
continued.
Respectfully submitted,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
Reports Of Pinkerton Detectives oper
ating Among the Railroad
Employees.

Dear Sir:-No. IL reports:
Sparks, Sunday, Feb. "a, 1907.
met Machinist Nuthall today at
the round house. / watched him at
work robbing engine 1855 of driver
spring to put into another engine. He
said, "While I'm doing this I'm not
doing nothing else, but it doesn't pay
the company very we'll" / asked him
il he and the other round house men
had to do much of this "robbing'. He
replied, eyes, all the time. Supplies
were always short at the store house
Sparks has always robbed Peter to
paw Paul, that the company seemed to
ignore Sparks and consider it Of little
importance and this robbing made
double the work which was one of the
nrincipal reasons there were dead en-
pines and break downs, because the
men were doing too much dead work,
oyerwork, that he had worked forty
five hours straight the latter part OF
the week" I"
I met Foreman Barrett today in a
saloon. the first time 1 ever saw him
visit such a place. He asked me how
I was feeling and told me TO take care
as there was an epidemic Of Ia grippe
and pneumonia and many were dying
with both here in the valley. l told
him was feeling some better, but
was very weak yet and was expecting
to be back at work soon. He said he
would be pleased, as he was short
handed, but to take no chance Of re-
lapse.
1 discontinued at $3.50 p. m.
Respectfully submitted,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
Reporters Scarce.

The press outside Boise seems to
be taking no particular interest in the
case, and is apparently contending it.
self with the Associated Press dis
patches. No strange reporters are pres
ent with the exception of Mrs. Jessie
NJ. Myer of Eugene, Oregon. She is
catching significant points in the trial
and preparing them for various social.
ist publications. The Statesman, true
to its parasite policy, is loudly pro.
claiming the absurdity of claiming that
this i capital and labor fight, and is
attacking the defense counsel.
Ida Crouch Hazlett,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
Special TO the Montana News

Boise, Ida, Dec. 3.
Judge Woods court had adjourned
Wednesday evening before Thanksgiv-
ing TO allow the sheriff to bring in
an extra nevire of 100 men in the trial
of George c. Pettibone, honorary mem
ber Of the Western Federation of
Miners, for the murder of Ex-Governor
Steunenberg. Pettibone is tried on
conspiracy charge in which he, Hay
wood, Meyer and Jack Simpkins, mem
ber of the w. f. NJ. executive board,
were jointly indicted.
Monday morning, Dec. 2, the court
reopened. The prosecution seems to
be pressing this case against the Fed
Grafton with all its oldtime vigor, ap-
parently undaunted by the fact that
not a conviction has been secured
against the Federation in either Colo
RADIO or Idaho. All the august machin-
cry of the law is put forth in the des-
perate effort of the "law and order"
appropriators of society to destroy the
Western Federation.
There will be more taxes, the grand
play, a great hullabsloo, dust thrown
in the eyes of the people, and nothing
accomplished after all. The county is
hotnn ;nnnyar;gbad a,1 annrmo,o Nv
pense bills being run up to keep a lot
of parasiticblood suckers on the trail
of the largest lobar organization of
the Rocky Mountain region.
Great Public Interest.
There seems to be as much public
interest manifested in the trial as in
Haywood last summer. The court
room is full at every session.
Pettibone does not look quite so bad
and CHASTITY as he did last summer, al
though it can be plainly seen that he
is a sick man. He sits at the table
used by the defense, and is in constant
consultation with the attorney in re-
gard to the jurors chosen.
Mrs. Pettibone sits beside her hus-
band in the court room. She is taste
fully and stylish gowned in a costume
Of very dull green and brown. She
appears paler and more careworn than
during the summer.
The defense attorneys present are
Clarence Darrow, John F. Nugent, who
has been i'll but has sufficiently recov-
cred to be present at the trial, Edgar
Wilson of Boise, J. X. Perky Of Boise
and Leon Whitsell. President Meyer
sits and advises the attorneys.
This is really a remarkable feature
in the case that a man under indict.
ment on so serious a charge, a fellow
prisoner for so long, and out on bail,
should sit and direct a trial, with his
own in similar manner looming imme.
diately before him.
Meyers Hand on the Lever.
And Meyers directs the affair. He
is the handspring Of the whole bust.
ness. The attorneys take orders from
him. Gloomy and taciturn, he is the
master mind that moves the machine.
The prosecution attorneys present
are James Hawley, Gooding's counsel
q. A. Stone of Caldwell, Prosecuting
Attorney Van Duyn Of Canyon county
and Charles Cavanaugh, law partner
TO Senator Borah. Borah is sitting on
the right hand of the strenuous capi
talist administration at Washington
but his firm is still fighting labor il
the west, while he is joined with the
prosecutors Of the "undesirables in
the east.
Greater Determination to Convict.
All the signs point - the fact thai
a more determined Tort TO convic
Pettibone even than was evinced il
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
THE SECOND TRIAL AT BOISE

the Haywood case. There are many
assertions that the jury is to be packed
and the faces in the box seem harder
and more set than in the trial of last
summer
Acquittal for Pettibone seems pure
ly illusory.
As we see these forces of the state
hurled upon the working class one is
moved to ask-how long can they stand
up before iti
Blu the answer comes-Always, be-
cause Of their great mass.
Tho working class cannot down. All
else may pass away, but they will not
pass away, and they will not always
be ruled and controlled either by the
institutions of others, but they will
rule and control.
Socialism Still in Evidence.
Since Pettibone is a democrat, we do
uVt htaI 80 MUCH Ol eOclalisHl Us III
the Haywood trial; but the jurors are
still asked as to whether they read
socialist papers.
Monday forenoon the prosecution
had passed the jury for cause. Most
of the jurors admit bias and prejudice,
but Hawley keeps trying to run them
in on the jury anyhow by asking them
if they wouldn't 60 by the evidence.
Nearly all of the talesmen are called
from Boise.
Tuesday morning the defense had
passed the jury for cause, and the
peremptory challenges commenced. The
headway that is being made with the
jury is astonishing every one. Monday
evening the court held a night session
to expedite matters.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12

Official figures just issued show
that New York socialists polled L.
sos votes (not including Richmond
borough) as against 13,354 last year.
The increase amounts to 81 per cent.
The socialists have begun the cam
paign of 1908.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
Dear sir.-No. 8 reports:

Carlin, Friday, Feb. s, 1907.
arrived here at Q a. m, called at
the round house and saw Foreman Bob
Pancake and asked him IL he was put
ting on any machinists. He said, "No,
I have got only two men on day and
two at night and have no chance for
you, though would like to put you
on" said, "Do you think there
would be a chance In the next few
days IL / would waltz" He said,
"You might wait a month and then
there would be no chance as all the
men are sent here from Sparks" He
said, "This is a h-ll of place any
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12

Nine companies of United States
soldiers with machine guns are now
camped in Gold6eld, Nevada, and do
ing picket duty around the mines of
that camp and are prepared to give
the mine owners every assistance to
break the strike and reduce wages.
The strike was called by the miners
union owing to the corporations pay
ing the men their wages in scrip,
something that is entirely unlawful in
this country. The scrip is bogus
money, in fact, is counterfeit and
therefore illegal, but the corporations
and banks can do anything they de-
sire and have the protection of the
government in carrying on their law
lessness.
The scrip that the mine owners were
paying their employees with would
not pass as currency in Goldfeld. The
railroads would not accept it in pay
ment for transportation, the banks
would not give cash for it and the
United States government would not
accept it in exchange for postage
stamps, yet this same government
sends soldiers to shoot down the
miners who refused to accept the scrip
in wages that the government itself
would not accept.
The mine owners have taken ad-
vantage of the strike to secure troops
on pretext that their property was in
danger and have declared for the open
shop and twenty per cent reduction in
wages.
Must Leave Union.
At a meeting of the mine owners
association the following resolutions
were adopted:
"Resolved, tt no member Of this
association employ in or around his
mine OF around his mill any member
of Goldfiled Local Union No. 220, of
the Western Federation of Miners, or
of any union connected with or affil-
lated with the said Western Fedora
tion of Miners, and that all men here
after employed by any member Of this
association, in OF around his mine or
mill, be required, as a condition of his
employment, to sign a written con-
tract which contains an agreement
that the miner is not now and will not
be during the time he is working, a
member of the Goldfeld Miners Union
No. 220, Of the Western Federation of
Miners, or Of a union in Goldfeld or
elsewhere that is directly or indirectly
affiliated with or has any connection
of any kind, nature or description
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-12-12
Federation Statement.

Denver, Dee. s.-The executive
board of the Western Federation Of
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