The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-20
MINERS UNION and FREE SPEECH

The following address was delivered by Edward Mason,
president Butte Miners Union December &c. 1885,
Ladies and Gentlemen
AS president of the Butte Miners Union, resident of
this community for the last hrtve and actual
entitled tell of the problems facing the peo-
pie Of Butte and the Miners Union particular At the
whom expect will enter high school when the term
in 1910
children and them the advantages of the American
OF we v wah e % m
the working people have had in the past
The aims aspirations Of the working people have
facilities for adequate expressions date because it
costs to which have controlled and
there are some splendid progressive newspapers
the of Montana must be conceded that most of the
big represent the corporate interests and
their conceptions of the social and system These
papers do not represent the outlook the interests of the
this might opportune least indicate
toward free speech assembly, only Butte
place in the United States under conditions which
Of the United States called the Bill of Rights Are we to ex
ona or religious preudces because nations in
Europe because fear and hatred again being
sitting itself psychology the people the United
States again to let war hyseria run away with us
The United States has proclaimed its neutrality in the
land France England nor Germany Their age old quarre
should not be worth the life of one American boy.
pean situation in public print or in public meeting they
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c then neither have the national commentators of the radio
throughout the United States the great daily
throughout the United States right opinion
their papers influence public opinion Of the United States
against government If public meeting in Butte
suppressed then the national the
should be suppressed, fact all editorial
should suppressed But who in country this
The daily papers have been urging that the Finnish people
subscribe fund to assist in the suffering caused by the
controversy between their country and Russia SURELY
NEITHER THE MINERS UNION NOR ANY OTHER LABOR 4
IN BUTTE NOR ANY HUMANE INDI- /
VIDUAL HAS ANY FAULT TO FIND WITH so NOBLE A /
PURPOSE But it should not be forgotten that people
feel that it the representatives of the big
the last legislative session who the who
blocked adequate relief for the people
and particularly people who had been manned and
ured and become sick in the industrial work.
This appropriation also has untold suffering
among innocent children helpless
hat the appeal for funds for Finland have quite
III, of irony.
The editorials in local Wednesday and Thursday
this week have been looked with not little suspicion
The history of the relation to the miners has
which would always tend to create feeling of
urty integrity reliability Perhaps it should not be out
place to refresh the of the relation
prosecution of the Finnish people in 1909 and 1911 when
hey inaugurated of and 1914 when
mother also instituted resulting in people
the county being blackbaled that the ultimately
lad to complain that there enough experienced
miners here to operate the mines 81
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