The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-29
BONNER LUMBER MILLS
TIED Up BY STRIKES
Mine Hundred Men EN-
'ployed by A. C. M. and
Clark Mills Quit Work.
BLAME GERMAN SPIES
Striking Employees Deny An,
Motives Than Better
Working Conditions.
CONTINUED From Page one.l
trfbuted here yesterday. however.
bearing the following list of de
mandss0f lumber workers."
List 81 Demands

AN cight-hour day with no
work on Sundays and HOLIDAYS:
"A minimum wage OF $50 per
month with free board;
Good. wholesome food to be
served In porcelain dishes, with no
over-crowding Mt dining tables.
COOK house to be supplied with
soflctent help to ekcp same in
clean and sanitary condition;
sanitary steering quarters with
not more than II men in each
house. Single spring beds and
mattresses with good. clean bed
ding, to be furnished by the COM
rany. free OF charge:
The houses to be well lighted
with plenty of. room and furnished
with reading tables:
Extra dry and laundry room
with shower baths. convenient to
sleeping quarters. to he installed:
Free hospital service:
Five dollars per day. minimum
wage for river drivers;
That we be paid twice per
month. BY bank check. with no
discount:
That all men be hired on the
Job or from the union hall and
that the employers furnish free
transportation to the men, where
hired. to the job
THAT there be no discrimination
against members OF the l. W. w."
Government May Step In.
The possibility Of federal interior
cnce IN the strike was the only appar
ent immediate solution of the troubl
yesterday. 1t is regarded as not i'm
probable that the government will TAX
some action because Of the pressin
need Of lumber for the construction o
army camps and the wooden flee
which is TO be built as a weapon
against the submarines.
IT the strike should spread to tn
coast mills the shipbulding industr
would be seriously affected. TIL
coast mills, however, have not yet bee
troubled.
No Violence Reported.
No violence has yet been relorte
ny any OI the companies.
There has been no trouble at all.
said Mr.. Ross YESTERDAY.
The 7. w. w. officials say that the
are conducting a peaceful strike
Signs on the walls of the hall her
Yesterday advised the strikers to lie
liquor alone, and officers Of the unto
kept warning the men not to drink.
''ThiS homo ic n,,p Hrnryt nn.,,,,.
said Turner.
Striker Says He Was Beaten.
Abram Rosen. young Jew. sal
yesterday that he was attacked an
beaten up Wednesday on the count
road just outside the Polleys mi
here. He had serious bruises on hi
forehead and his shoulder and sal
that three men, who rode up to hii
in an automobile while he was passn
strike circulars to men coming out
the mill. jumped on him and hit hi,
with something heavy.
The Polleys mill Is still open an
officials said that no trouble has bee
experienced there.
Organizer Holds Meeting.
Organizer Turner addressed a crow
of striekrs in Eagles hall last nigh
lie said that conditions in the CAM
were intOlerablc. If cattle wei
kept as We arc in these bunkhouscs
he said. ''the dairy inspector wou
have the men responsible arrested
One of the chief complaints of Il
men, he said. is against "woode
hunks. with hay thrown in them. M
bunkhouscs so crowded and so poor
ventilated that the smell almo
knocks a man down."
IF We lose this strike" he said
his audience. IT know that the IN,
will SLOW down their work when tn,
20 back. If.thcv don't win the eish
hour day they will do about six houl
work in nine."
Many Men in City.
The police say that several hundr
strikers are in town from camps ;
through this section. All the che;
lodging houses are full, and the stree
are crowded with Iumbcrjacks al
mill hands.
Carl Racn and Nibala Pirtila. stri
crs arrested at Bonner yesterday on
charge of intimidatinE men working
the Bonner mill. were released in t
afternoon when IL was found that I
charges were false.