Arizona republican., 1914-06-14
Series of Riots Mark At tempts to Celebrate the Thirty-foulth Anniver- sarv of Establishment of Union in Montana City
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"Industrial Workers' Sue ceed in Dividing Against Itself Union 5000 Strong and Deplete Mines of Working Forces
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 BUTTE, Mont, June 13.-Butte to- night is virtually under armed law, with saloons that have not been closed in years except on election days locked tonight, every hardware store cleared of all it's arms and ammunition by the police as a result of d series of riots during the day-Miners' Union Day the thirty-fourth anniversary of the establishment of the union in this camp.
 The Miners Union, with upward of 5000 members, is divided against itself More than 1000 have refused to recog- niZe the union further and under the leadership of agitators of the Indus trial Workers of the World, seceders from the ibg organization this morn ing attacked the Miners Union parade composed of more than half the union bodies of the city. President Bert Riley of the Union and Parade Marshal Michael Conway were knocked from their horses by a volley of stones from the rioters. Other officers of the union were chased from the line of march and took refuge in the sheriff s office
 The parade was broken up and the speaking exercises in the theater were abandoned because of the stormy street scenes The rioters moved on Union Hall in the center of the city. Every piece of furniture in the build ing was demolished and thrown out into the street. The piano was thrown down stairs and broken into splinters and books and records and two safes of the union were thrown ont
 Ballot boxes containing 4,56O votes cast at the recent election of pnion officers. which had not yet v been counted, were destroyed and their contents emptied into the street. AL derman Frank Curran. acting mayor of the city. socialist went to the union hall to appeal to the rioters to disperse and was thrown from the second story window to the pavement. He was taken to hospital, severely injured.
 The mob did not cease it's work of destruction until even the carpets in the big assembly hall had been torn from the floors and thrown into the street A crowd of 10000 persons witnessed the demonstration. The po- lice and sheriffs deputies were power less Sheriff Driscoll went to the Miners Union hail. but soon returned to his office in the court house when word came to him that union officers had taken refuge there and were about to be attacked by another section of the crowd.
 Chief of Police Murphy, during the midst of the turmoil, sent out a score of officers to close all the saloons. Half a dozen saloonkeepers who re- fused to obey were taken to jail. It was also decided to call off a boxing bout scheduled for this evening.
 Tonight the disgruntled faction of the miners held a meeting in the Au- ditorium to take steps toward the for nation of a new miners union under the Industrial Workers of the World
 The trouble had it's origin over the dissatisfaction of the miners with the heavy special assessments levied against them by the officers of the Western Federation of Miners and the local officials as benefits for the Mich igan copper mine strikers. Some of the miners were said to be paying as high as eight to ten dollars monthly in assessments More than $200.0O0 had been sent from Butte to Michigan AL though the strike there had been called off. the assessments continued Men failing to pay the assessments were disfranchised at the recent union cleo tion.
 The climax came yesterday when the men employed at the Speculator mine of the North Butte Mining company