The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-07-06
|. W. W. BACK OF
BUTTE TROUBLE
DoHo1H ORGAN SAYS STRIKE
WAS PLANNED TO ENiIsAR.
RASS GOVERNMENT.
would stop the Production of Conner
as Protest Against the War and
Against Constription; Would Also
Make Trouble in Arizona and Utah.

mat the industrial troubles in
Butte that threaten to close down the
producers OF zinc and copper, metals
now needed by the United States gov
eminent in its war with Germany. is
part OF a widespread conspiracy ey-
tending throughout the country. is
borne out by matter published in l.
w. w. publications now circulated in
Butte. Butte newspapers have pub
lished, from time to time, quotations
from Solidarity, the official organ of
William ID. Haywood, head of the L.
w. w. national organization, and of
lndustrlalisti, a recognized I. w. w,
publication, printed in the Finn
tongue at Duluth, all proving +. w.
w. connection with the agitation in
Butte.
The latter publication has wide
circulation among Finn disturbers in
Butte. 1t paid particular attention
TO the antl-conscription demonstra-
ton, engineered by Finn l. w, w.
members and Pearce-Connolly ag1ta-
tors on the night of registration day,
June 3. On June the Industrialisti
printed the following in the course of
an article describing the affair at
Butte:
Would Curtail Copper Production.
THE situation is very disturbing
after the militia and soldiers stopped
the demonstration against conscrip-
ton and arrested many Firms and
other workers. The miners are very
bitter and strike may come any
minute. The miners want to stop
the production Of copper to show that
they are against the war, and against
conscription
From this authority it will be seen
that, four days before the men walk
ed out of the Elm Orlu mine, and two
days after the anti-war demonstra-
ton in Butte, an I. w. w. organ in
Duluth predicted the strike and said
that means would be taken to stop
metal production "to show that the
antl-Amerlcan demonstration in
Butte had a direct connection with
the strike and that the strike is part
of an effort to curtail the mining of
metals required by the government
for war munitions.
On June 10 the Industrialisti said:
Five of the biggest mines are al
ready on strike and the miners of the
other companies are willing to 20 out
Thursday morning and it will not be
many days before all of the 80 or 40
mines are stopped. The situation
looks very fine for the strikers"
Would Hamper Government.
In the same number of the Indus
trlallsti, reference was made to the
TACT that the strike was on in Butte,
that it would hurt copper production.
1t added that Arizona and Utah would
take action for the same purpose. a
fact since developed to be true, 1t
further adds that the trouble in che
copper districts would spread to the
iron and steel districts, thus hamper
ing the government in the present
war crisis. Here is what the /. w. w.
organ in Duluth said on June 13:
The big strike is on In Butte, and
in few days it will be on in Michi-
gan, Anaconda, Great Falls and all
over the west. Butte is the biggest
copper producer and if they strike
there it will hurt the production of
copper. Arizona and Utah are just
waiting for the strike at Butte and
they will then take the action there.
The iron miners in Minnesota and
other places are willing to strike to
help the copper miners and stop the
production of all metals from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic coast"