The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-04-22

Our, Testimony
condoning deliberate murder lying with calous indiffer
that is unbelievable the cold
print the copper Of Butte this morning falls the lowest
depths to which possible for and
men to sink.
Fortunately, there thousands people who that
without proyocation stated last nights BuIetn
gang Of Anaconda Mining company numbering about
y according to the testimony of dozens Of witnesses and
victims, led by Roy Alley opened fire with Rifles rot-guns
pistols and revovers peaceful gathering Of miners just
after they had concluded Sheriff oRourke,
who stood pasvey by and allowed the gunmen work their
will upon the unarmed miners.
The Sheriff oRourke copper press
that shot Shots fired from nearby boarding
before the opened fire. brand lie manufactured
out Of the whole cloth clear the skirts Of county and mining
company officials whose hands and dripping with the
blood Of workngme whose crime that they strike
for living wage and decent working conditions. 4.
We have the testimony Of dozens Of witnesses, including
police officers present at the time, that the shooting done
by in special deputies by the sheriff and
paid by the mining companes-and that fired by
the miners either from boarding house or from anywhere
else.
TIE AlNERs WE'RE UNARMED They started down the
hill at the first shot, which witnesses state fired by Roy
Alley The continued to fire at the fleeing miners
many of whom shot from behind Not content with shoot
ing unaed and helpless workers. Of the thugs attempted
TO beat wounded miner who rescued by Chief of Detec
tves Jim Larkin Miners attempted to Of their
wounded comrades and again fired by the blood
crazod thugs commanded by Roy Alley.
The Miner that Patroman HaItunen knocked
from his motorcycle by rock.
They lie and they know they lie.
Haunen himself states that he struck by weapon in
the hands Of while he walking down the hill in
company with the striking miners. The gunn,an struck at
?atroman RyIand, missed him and cut Hanens head
Sheriff oRourke's satementn all probability written
the sixth floor Of the Hennessy buildings Of lies,
contradictions distortions and haIf-truths.
His statement of the alleged disorder night before last
lie. The miners committee proceeded in orderly
to places where liquor being sold defiance Of the law
the law that oRourke has enforced for that
intend to print in full at some future tmeand told them
to close while the strike The fact that the committee
entered the Fne ote where gather the rotten political
who cronies Of Oouke probably ncensed this offica
who stood without raising hand while murderous degenerates
led the secretary John D. Ryan, rain Of lead and
steel into peaceful gathering that oourke had just assured
of protection.
o'Rourke says in his statement shots from
the boarding house, that "nformed that shots
fired from there. He NOR ANYONE ELSE SAW OR HEARD
ANY SHOTS FROM THE BOARDING HOUSE. There were
despite the fact that witnesses state that after the shoot
ing, the gnen entered this house and beat 22 men who
had taken refuge there from their fire.
ORourke says nothing about his regular deputies doing
ooting say who shot the fifteen strikers for the
very good that THEY WERE SHOT BY euNMEN LED
EY roy ALLEY. HE IS ASHAMED OF HIS MASTER.
Perhaps oRourke's deputies did shooting, but they
did not they stood passivey by and watched the slaughter of
unarmed men who had previously asked o'ourke to in
form them they breaking the law by pckeng
county road, and if they were, to arrest them.
ORourke had said after hearing the arguments GALL
RIGHT, STAY HEREW
number of striking miners had pointed out gunmen in
Alleys crowd who had previously assaulted them and asked
him to them. He repIed GALL RIGHT, I'll INvES
TIGATE THIS. WE'RE HERE TO GIVE PROTECTION TO
EVERYBODY
this watching the gunmen firing into
crowd Of unarn1ed men,. sr
o'RouRkE STATES THAT ne HAD REQUESTED ASSIST
ANCE FROM the AMERICAN LEGION. TO THE ETERNAL
cREDlT or THE MEmBERs OF THE BUTTE POST or THE
AMERICAN LEGION, MEMBERS STATE THAT THEY RE-
FUSED TO BE DEPuTizED FOR THE BLOODY WORK IN
HAND
The Butte Miner that the sheriffs deputies
shot that their guns examined after their the
courthouse and found not to have been fired.
The Miner also states that the city police who the