Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-02-18
DIGGING COPPER
AGAIN At BUTTE
ASSTR|KE ENDS
5000 Men Likely to Be
at Work Today, Wage
Loss $452, 400.
RUSH To NATURAL|zE
AGAINST DEPORTATION

Butte, Feb. l7.-Butte's strike Of
miners has ended.
UnofficiaIly, it ended this morning
several thousand miners who had re-
mained away from work for nine days
presented themselves at the mines and
asked for their old jobs.
Officially, it ended late today, when
officers of the Butte Metal Miners
union Independently made public an
strike Temporarily, acting on the recon-
mendation of the Soldiers, Sailors and
Workers council.
Prior to the announcement of the
metal miners union, the Metal Mine
Workers Industrial union, No. 500, /.
w. W., had announced that it had voted
unanimously" to end the strike and re-
turn to work.
Five Thousand Came Back for Jobs.
Close to 5000 miners appeared at
Butte mines, this morning, and reported
for work, according to reports of COM
pany officials. Of this number, approx
imatcly 5000 are said to have gone to
work. No discrimination was shown, it is
said. and those who did not go to work,
ut is understood, will receive their jobs
back within the next As hours
Dull tools were said to have been re-
Isponsible for the fact that all men who
wished to were not placed on the pay
rolls at the time they reported
Unofficial statistics from several of
the big properties in the Butte district,
Showed that about 1.S0O men went to
)work at those mines of the Anaconda
"copper" Mining company which have not
been closed for repairs. About 200 of the
poo who reported at the Black Rock
mine of the Butte & Superior company
|were put to work. At the Elm Oru. a
wv. A. Clark property, where the first
strike movement originated February Z,
about 200 are said to have been put to
work.
Ten Thousand Expected Soon.
Approximately 5000 men are said to
have gone to work when the morning
shift reported on.
A like number was expected to have
gone to work tonight. BY tomorrow
morning it was expected that nearly
5000 men will be working.
This. it was said, will approach the
Total at work before the strike was de-
|.lared. The number will increase daily
work.
Smelters Spared Shutdown.
All mechanics who reported TODAY |
HsAS piA'SA a. hoih, DIS ore SUP |
plies accumulate. the concentrator at |
Anaconda. which closed last week. will |
begin again to handle ore. The fires of |
/ he smelters at Anaconda and Great |
Falls were not allowed to go out. as it /
|vas expected, today. that ore would |
each those smelter towns in sufficient
ime to prevent any delay.
Butte's strike of miners which ended |
|oday and which threatened to paralyze
|lontana's principal industry, began Feb
|uary Z, when the miners employed at
Pie Elm Orlu mine. a property operated
" w. A. Clark, former United States
|enator, walked out in protest against I
In announced cut in wages of 81 a day.
lost of the miners employed at the
Elm Orlu were Finlanders. They sue
|eeded in persuading others of the same
ace to quit work and within 81 hours
be strike had spread to other organi-
|htions of miners.
The organization in which the Fin
nders held membership was known as
he Metal Mine Workers Industrial
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