Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-09

ay evening, and decided to mine
will mean that there will be coal
seemed to spring up during the
d a push back of it that will bring
rip of a fuel famine.
was started SO quickly, after the
smeeting was planned, that it was consd-
cred best to take only IS men to the
mine this morning when the special train
leaves the Great Northern depot at {
q. m. There will be a large crew taken
Wednesday, still larger crew on Thurs
day and, If the strike of the coal miners
has not been settled by that time, it is
expected there will be enough in the
party by Friday or Saturday to open at
least one more mine The men are
all going to work for pay as coal miners.
and for the rate of pay of the work to
which they are assigned.
American ChivaIry
While the volunteers NAV be bankers
III every day life. they are going TO take
pick and shovel and be coal heav-
ers In the mine until the women and the
children the old and the decripit of
.ireat Falls, are out Of danger of death
from the cold of winter It is case
Of the American chiyalry rising 10 the
occasion and. judged on the spirit that
was manifest at the meeting AIon1ay
night. Great Falls has very large t,,sn,--s
Der OF men willing to make any sort Of
sacrifice TO see that the home of the
city have fuel TO keep the women and the
children warm.
300 lam Council Chamber
Called at noon Monday, by procla-
nation issued by Mayor Louis Newman,
more than 800 men were at the court
house and trying TO jam into the council
chamber which normally would furnish
room for much smaller crowd The
temperature of the weather outside was
somewhere about 20 degrees below zero.
the temperature of the council room was
farbeiow comfortable. but the tempera-
tuer OF the Americanlsm present was 100
plus and every individual was of the
material of which soldiers who win wars
are made. while quite number pres
ent had, IN fact. just recently returned
from helping TO win the greatest war
the world has ever seen. There was a
spirit of determination. a force an air
Of purpose about the meeting that fur
nished the best evidence of security from
real crisis in the present coal strike
that the city could desire. 1t was the
spirit that takes trouble by the scrufF
OF the neck and the seat of the trousers
and pitches it through a window, and the
men present were ready to do Just that
in the present case.
Longeway Tells of Balky Miners.
Mayor Newman called the meeting to
order at T:45 and told briefly of the
and why the gathering was
summoned He said that tragedy was
impending il the citizens did not act
and act quiekly-that there was a coal
supply insufficient co last during today.
Tuesday. and that it could all be dis
trhured before noon He said there was
no more ar immediate command until
it was taken from the earth and it was
for that purpose the gathering had been
decided upen. He then asked DR.. A. +.
Longeway, chairman of the citizens
committee, 10 tell Of the condition as
that committee had found it and DR..
Longeway addressed the meeting
Miners Dodge Interview.
Dr. Iongeway outlined the work OF
his committee, saying that it had gone
to Sand Conlee on Sunday to talk with
The miners and had found them disposed
III injunction prohibiting them from act
az. Then. he laid, the committee had
asked il they would attend meeting
20 talk the matter over with the COM
nittee TO see if some arrangement could
Tot be arrived at whereby the people
,onld have some coal. and it was finally
leeided that the committee call meet
iis iof .hbuuAS auQ invite the Striklng
miners. When the committee went out
IN Monday, they found not a single
member of the Sand Coulee miners
lnion present TO confer, but there were
hree from the nearby camp of Tracy
who, when they found the Sand Coulee
men We're not to attend also refused 10
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Operators Turn over Mines.
Chairman Longeway said the operators
lad agreed to turn their mines over ta
he committee as had been suggested by
he governor and they had already ad-
Used the committee of their willingness
o do SO. we have reached the point
where we are going 70 take out coal,
'aid the chairman, "ana we have come
lere to ask for volunteers. We want
he men who have the requisite amount
# red-hlooded Americanism IN their
reins to say whether the women ana
,hildren Of this city shall be allowed to
reeze | don't believe that Great Falls
viii sir still and allow that. We have
ol3 the miners that We a-o -ct taking
he part OF operators nor are we taking
h. nart of the miners Ill this con
roversv. We are taking the part of our
r;yes and our children and it is up TO
: 70 get busy now and get out coal"
All Who Go VIII Be Paid.
The doctor then explained that two
lasses of volunteers would be called
,r. but this later was changed and all
-ere allowed to sign one list and all
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