Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-07-16
RIOT PRECED|ES
SETTLEMENT II VI OF
MONTANA STRIKE
Great Falls City Officials
Make TemporaryA Agree
n me With Workers.

Great Falls, Mont, July 15.-
After q riot in which strike. SYM
pathizers estimated / number q
Thousand formed at the city jail,
. temporary settlement of the
strike situation was reached which
constituted q complete victory for
Mayor r. M. Armour and the city
officials who have been conduct
ing the strike against the strik.
erS, a
After being out six weeks, the
Cty's boulevard workers and gar.
bage hauaers will return to work
tomorrow morning at the wage
scale voted by the council. They
win work side by side with strike
breakers. The wages eventually
to be paid will be determined by
q board OF arbitration.
The riot about the police ana fire
started at 8 o'clock when eight
women pickets were arrested for
throwing red pepper at boulevard
workers. Taken to the police station
in the patrol wagon they were ushered
into the room where police court wac
In session. The women made a break
for windows back of the judges bench
and two succeeded' in jumping into the
arms Of the crowd pressed close out
The crowd did not begin dispensing
until after 6 o'clock. Police officers
were kept all afternoon on top Of the
buildings in the downtown districts to
guard against the throwing Of bricks.
''string Him Upw Is Heard.
Sam Stephenson, president of the
First National bank, who has been
active in support of Mayor Armour,
was surrounded by a crowd on a down.
town corner with shouts of string
him up!"" Stephenson, Shirley Ford,
president of the Great Falls National
bank, and other prominent business
and professional men, have for several
days been driving strikebreakers to
their private automobiles to prevent
clashes at'the tool houses.
When. the riot broke all work on
garbage and boulevards was halted SO
that the city entire police force could
be called to the station. City firemen,
sheriff's deputies and railroad detec-
tives deputized by the sheriff, were all
organized ready to resist violence.
Wages We're Reduced.
Wages Of Great Falls boulevard
workers were reduced to $3.50 a day.
and of teamsters and garbage haulers
ployed by the city to $5.25, six weeks
ago. Small crews of strikebreakers
worked sporadically, until last Monday
thirty men from. nearby towns were
employed. Monday night the city coun-
Gil voted to accept a proposal from
the union strike committee for arbi
tration of the proper wage: Union mel
.reportedsTuesday but ~refused>to work
with. the strikebreakers, who had beer
given a promise of permanent employ.
ment. This force of st~rikebreakers
has increased daily until the city now
has a full crew.
II have told the strikers every day
that they can return to work any time
they want to-" said Mayor Armour
this afternoon, discussing the situation
with John T. Taylor of Helena, sec.
rotary of the State Federation Of La.
Dor. The city will not relinquish
however, the right to say who viii
work. The jobs are there. To dis.
charge the men who went to wori
while the strike was on, with a prom.
ise of permanent employment, woulc
mean breaking the word of the city
but that union labor domination would
prevail" .H&