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YELLOWSTONE COUNTY TRADES
AND LABOR ASSEMBLY
Billings, Montana
December 16, 1886.
In Re T. E. Hodges and Grand
Hotel, Billings, Montana.
Mr.. John Clark,
Financial Secretary,
Great Falls Mill & Smeltermen's
Union, No. 6,
Great Falls, Montana.
Dear Sir and Brothers:
In reply to your letter of the 18th
inst, and the inclosed communica-
ton of MI. T. E. Hodges to you and
your local of the 4th inst, | wish to
advise that Mr.. Hodges, in his palp-
able design to deceive you, does not
state the facts, nor even half truth,
in his effort, weak effort, to justify
himself, but resorts to downright
falsehood.
In proof of my strong charges, !
relate the facts: at the time of the
football tournament a year ago, in
November, 1885, relative to the res
ervations for the players and coach,
I sent MI. T. E. Hodges the following
wire;
Billings, Montana,
November 26th, 1885.
"(Coach) Ted Hodges,
Giles Apt, Great Falls, Montana.
Grand and Northern Hotel are
unfair; if reservations made at either
please cancel same"
sc. H. Helterbran,
Sec'y Local No. 861."
Mr.. Hodges received this wire be-
fore he left Great Falls, but deliber-
ately disregarded the same and took
lodging for the members of the team
and himself at the Grand Hotel and
patronized the Grand Cafe. / called
upon him at this time and protested
without avail.
Contrast this with the attitude OF
the Butte coach and team. On the
evening of November 18th, 1885, !
received the following wire filed at
Butte Western Union office at tbs:
Butte, Montana.
Nov. 26 P. M. tbs
Cooks & Walters Union Head
quarters,
Billings, Montana.
"Is Grand Hotel unfair High
School Cancelled reservations. Must
know tonight"
Clarence Blewett."
To which I replied by wire:
Billings, Montana,
Nov. 26, 1895, 1925 p. m.
Clarence Blewett, Butte, Montana.
Grand Hotel still unfair, ans, E.
H. Helterbran, Sec'y Local No. $751;"
The Butte coach and team took
reservations at another hotel and
patronized a union cafe. When Mr..
T. E. Hodges, having received my
telegram at Great Falls before he
and his team left, arrived in Bill
lings, disregarding the wire, he took
reservations at the Grand Hotel and
patronized the Grand Cafe. AS soon
as | learned the fact, the same after
noon that he arrived, l went to see
him personally, and protested, ask
ing him to cancel his reservations
and take this team to a fair hotel
This he refused to do.
By
When Mr.. T. E. Hodges, director OF
athletics of the Great Falls High
School, and his team arrived in Bill
lings for the football game this No
vember, 1886, again disregarding the
protests made in November, 1885, by
wire and by me in person, he again
deliberately and consciously took
reservations at the Grand Hotel, and
patronized the Grand Cafe, still on
the unfair list. Meeting members OF
his team on the streets, l inquired
Where are you staying?" and they
replied, "At the Grand Hotel" ]
asked them, Don't you know the
Grand is a scab hotel?" l went at
once to the Grand to see Mr.. Hodges
about the matter but did not find
him in. Thereupon, l returned to
my office at the Cooks & Walters
Union Hall and called Hodges by
phone, and protested, asking him if
he didn't know that the Grand is un-
fair, and insisted that he cancel res
ervations. He then hung up his
phone on me, and continued the
patronage of the scab hotel.
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Mr.. Hodges knew me personally
from my contact with him in Novem-
Der of last year. He knew me when
l called him on the phone and was
well aware that Tom, Dick, and Har-
ry' was not interviewing him, but
E. H. Helterbran, secretary of the