The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-20

and the entire crown VI oPPioAihldte
" 400 persons agreed to see That nc
one went to work the next day.
Threats to kill were made by several
men in the audience, and during i'm
flammatory speeches, 1 heard threats
10 or Is times that 'scabs' would
be killed.
Mr.. Boiling also stated that he at
tended another meeting at /. w. w.
headquarters the day following the
riot. There were between 375 and
400 men present" he said. Il heard
more threats and a committee of six
were appointed to be on duty at the
I. w. W. hall at all times to receive
names of men who refused to strike
in order that pickets might get them
at their homes. There was no OPP
position to this plan, more than half
of the men present voting Tor it,"
This meeting led up to the battle
of Anaconda road, in which Tom
Manning was killed and IA pIckets
wounded. Several hundred men had
concentrated on Anaconda road.
Sheriff O'Rouke called in his deput-
les and deputized the mine guards
and was endeavoring to dlsperse the
mob, which had become ugly, when,
according to the testimony of several
of the deputies, two or three shots
were fired from the second story of
a nearby building, and the riot start
ed. Following this clash between
the officers, mine guards and strik-
ers Sheriff O'Rouke called on Gov
ernor Stewart for troops, advising
him that the situation was beyond
his control.
Following the arrival of the troops
there has been but little violence,
aside from mysterious shooting with
%silencers.
The /. W. w. leaders have been
making a determined effort to
prove that Roy S. Alley gave the
word for the deputies and mine
guards to fire and started the
shooting. Mr.. Alley is a promin-
ent executive of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company and the
personal representative in Mon
tana of John ID. Ryan.
Mrs. Catherine Dougherty, wife
of a striking miner, was expected
by the /. w. w. leaders to give
testimony proving Mr.. Alleys con-
nection with the start of the riot.
She had testified in her direct ex-
animation that she had seen a
stout, dark man, wearing glasses,
draw a pistol from his pocket at
the same time waving his hand for
others to get into the fight.
When Mr.. Alley was brought be-
fore the witness she acknowledged
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the man who fired the first shot
and concluded with these words:
81 have never seen Roy Alley
in my Ife."
None of the /. w. w. witnesses
identified Mr.. Alley in connection
with the start of the shooting.
The testimony of John Templeton,
a former member of the marine corps,
and a special deputy sheriff, was to
the effect that the first shot vas fired
from the window of the second story
Of a boarding house 100 feet away.
was employed as a miner,
and had been driven down the hill
by the 1. W. w. pickets. Then he
went to the sheriff's office and volun-
teered to serve as a deputy.
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the Butte street car lines, told of the
fight the strike pickets made to block
street car traffic, pulling the trolley
the wire and threatening the
motorman.
Several of the I. w. w. witnesses
testified that they we're not citizens
Of the United States and did not want
to be. Others who were citizens
said they had not voted for years.
Colonel D'Gay Stivers testified that
he had seen two men firing at the
officers from the crowd.
During the testimony it was
brought out that the bullet which
killed Manning was of smaller calibre
han that of any of the deputies or
officers.
Many miners, who had endeavored
to get through the picket lines to
90 to work, testified to the violence
with which the I. w. w. pickets
them.
Roy Alleys Testimony.
Roy S. Alley was one of the last
He denied that he had
waved his hand as a signal for the
men to come on" or that he in any
way assumed direction of the work
Of the officers, declaring that as
as he learned Sheriff O'Rouke
was on the scene and in charge of
the efforts of the peace officers to
dispense the mob, he retired to a posi-
ton some distance up the hill from
the place where the deputies and
police were stationed.
Characterizing the mob as a typ
Ical wobbly crowd, Mr.. Alley de-
clared that in his opinion any force
deemed necessary by the peace Of
ficers to dispense the mob was justi-
fiabe, under the circumstances. Acts
Of violence and assaults by members
Of thesmob upon the officers were de-
tailed by Mr.. Alley, who described
the 1. W. w. crowd as defiant and
ugly to the extreme.
Mr.. Alley declared that he was
unarmed. He told of the efforts of
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