The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-21
BUTTE TROUBLE
IS CONSIDERED
Motion Adopted at Miners
Convention Does Not Sat-
iSfy Any of Parties.
EPITHETS ARE CONDEMNED
sLURRING REFERENCES TO FOR
EIoN-5oRN BITTERLY SCORED.

Denver. july 20-An effort to rush
through before adjournment for the day
a settlement of the controversy growing
out Of the brewery engineers strike IN
butte Mont resulted I'm the adoption
of a motion which in retrospect does not
satisfy any Of the parties 10 the agree
meut The effect probably VIII be 20 ne
cessitate another conference between the
national officials of the United Brewery
Workers of America and western FED
Grafton Of Miners The resolution pre-
scented was based on the agreement
reached last spring between President
Mover for the federation and Secretary
Pr0bestle for the brewery workers.
The Butte delegates, led by +. W.
Flynn, were opposed 10 the agreement IN
its entirety but unable to control the
convention, succeeded in eliminating the
paragraph providing that there shall be
no discrimination pracuced against the
engineers, or other Workmen VINO went on
strike against the brewery employers IN
Silver Bow county. or any part OF Mon
taua" BY this action the settlement au-
thOriEed By the convention Today was
rendered unsatisfactory 10 the admins
tratiOn.
Conditions Are Imposed.
The resolution was introduced by
Michael J. O'Couuor and as amended
provides That there shall be free in
tcrchange of cards between the United
Brewery Workers of America and the
Western Federation of Miners. that the
question of Jurisdiction over the enSi-
neers shall continue as at present until
the expiration Of the present agreement
between Engineers union No. IS and the
brewery employers; that in the brewpries
OF Silver Bow county, Montana, where
the brewery workers are on strike and the
local unions Of the Western Federation OF
Miners have been responsible for furnish
iuE members to take their places, said
members shaI be Withdrawn and the fu-
ture employment of labor shall be gov
Crued hy agreement between the brewery
employers and the United Brewery Work
eTs; that iu case of violation OF the pres
tnt contract the matter shall be placed
with the Joint executive boards Of the
I -nited Brewery Workers and the Western
Federation OF Miners and their decision
shall be binding
a feature Of today's deliberations was
the reading of poster made public IN
Butte while the strike was in progress /
The noSter severely criticised the Butte /
and charged its members with attempting /
to disrupt the organization. Secretary I
Prohestle of the brewery workers ad- I
United having written the poster, and I
declared that he still believed the charges l
contained therein 10 be true.
Epithets Are Denounced.
Condemnation Of the American manner
cf Ietertns 10 foreigners as ''dagoes,
''roundheads.' "bUtternuts.' red necks'
and other obnoxious words occupied the
tins in the convention OF the Western
Federation Of Miners this morning. The
greater part Of the membership is Of
as commonly applied. James kirWin of
the Black Hills. a native born Irishman.
expressed himself thus. Il consider that !
] am better citizen than a large pOr-