Montana labor news., 1938-02-17

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that l had asked them to get in
touch with Harry F%reebourn or
Juttner and that as yet they had
not. When they found out that the
advice they were trying to get me
to follow-"go into police court and
see my lawyer afterward''-did not
work, they called Juttner and Tues
day afternoon he came down to see
me and told me that his phone was
in the telephone book, No. 3015. I
told Mr.. Juttner that I had COM
%pensation due the next day, Wednes-
day, had intended to go up to 521
Hennessy Bldg, get it and tell Jerry
Shea that l was going back with
my mother and to send my monthly
compensation on to me at Leaven-
worth. I had learned from sad ex-
perience that it did not pay to let
them drag you into the police court
without a lawyer for their objective
was to make life so disagreeable
that 1 would ask the A. C. M. for a
settlement.
Well, they had not been able to
vag me and run me out of town, OF
make me ask for settlement before
my months compensation was due
AT that time the miners strike was
on, and they were taking pot-shots
at Jerry Murphy. Things dragged
along, Mr.. Juttner said that he
would get out a habeas corpus fol-
me, and I said that I'd just wait and
see what they were going to do
Friday noon they asked me if I was
ready to go to trial. l replied that
I had been ready and waiting ever
since they had got Mr.. Juttner for
me. In police court Friday after.
noon, Jerry Murphy did not tell
anyone that he was through, on the
case of a contemplate dog, like he
had Monday. He left his hard-boilec
ways at home. 1t was time for me
to get a little hard-boiled, but Muir
ply stayed put, Judge Buckley TOLD
me not to bawl Murphy out, to bawl
him out. l asked Judge Buckley il
he had done anything to me to need
a bawling out and he replied, mo.
that he had not" I said that Jerry
Murphy had, and I proposed to bawl
him out. l agreed to leave town as
soon as I collected my compensation
and settled any business here the
forepart of the next week, which ]
did. Leaving town in August Of
1884, I did not return until June oil
1886. l spent the winter Of 1885
in Salt Lake City and received my
compensation there. I went to Los
Angeles in May of 1886 and received
a letter from Jerry Shea saying that
he would send me no more com
%pensation aside from that then due
until DR.. Shields examined me. I re-
turned to Butte, and went up to see
Jerry Shea, on Tuesday. He asked
me if I was able to go to work. ]
was then on crutches as I have beer
ever since I left the hospital in
August of 1929. I told him that il
l were able to go to work l certainly
would be up at the Badger State
mine pulling down more than twice
what I was getting on compensation
That night l was stopped on the
street by police who asked why ]
was in town and told me to get out
I replied that I would as soon as ]
finished the business that 1 came
here for. Wednesday I went down
to see DR.. Shields and he got my
report. I went up the following Fri
day to get another compensation
then due. l had not asked for a
settlement when Shea wrote me in
Los Angeles that he would pay me
no more compensation until l had
an examination. l had been in Salt
Lake City all the previous winter
but he had displayed no desire to
have me come up for an examina-
ton. l would have come up from
Salt Lake City during the winter
for l really wanted to come up, but
! did not care to be annoyed, and
there was no necessity to come up.
I left town soon afterwards in
June of 1886, returning to my moth
er's home the fall of 1886. After l
received my absent ballot from
Butte for the fall election, I went
east on business. While east 1 got
a letter from Jerry Shea saying that
l had been classified partially dis
abled, that I still had 81 weeks com
ing on the 425 weeks that l had been
allowed. Did 1 want it in a lump
sum OF should he continue paying
it to me monthly. l replied that he
could continue paying me Last July
he wrote me that they had paid me
400 Uaakc and T had five ~vuealxc vat