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VOL IV.HELENA, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JULY 12 1906.Labor HurlsDefianceButte Unions Launch National ProtestMovement—Haywood Nominated For Governor of Colorado.The latest outrage of the loner circle of the Mine Owners association—the refusal to grant bail to our comrades incarcerated in Idaho, threatens to stir up a protest movement of national dimensions-—one which will dwarf the protest movement of last spring by comparison.Tho determination of the capitalist conspirators and their hirelings to keep the prisoners in jail indefinitely while refusing a trial is opening the eyes of labor as never before to the real intent of the plot to strike a fatal blow nt unionism and socialism.Two Knockout Blows.In the general tide of indignation vfhich the socialist aud labor press shows is rising througout the country. Butte has struck out for a national effective protest to secure if not justice at least a little mercy for our comrades and brothers. And from Colorado comes the news of a direct slap administered in the face of the capitalist class by the socialist party of that state which shocks capitalist conservatism and capitalist precedence by placing Haywood, accused of murder and wearing stripes, on the ticket for the governorship of Colorado.Butte Leads Out.The Silver Bow Trades and Labor assembly is launching the protest movement. The circular quoted below is being sent to all central labor bodies in the United Stntes and explains the nature of the movement:Circular.Butte, Mont., July 1,1900. To all Central Labor Bodies in the United States.Brothers:As you know the trials of Charles H. Moyer. W. D. Haywood, and George A. Pettibone, for the murder of Ex Oovcrnor Stcunenberg, of Idaho, have been postponed until the United States Supreme Court shall have acted upontheir appeal to that body as to the legality of their being kinnapped from the State of Colorado into the State of Idaho.When the trials were postponed by District Judge Frank J. Smith, of Caldwell, tho defendants asked to be j released on bonds, offering to give bail I in any amount named by the court; but this was refused them, and it seems likely now that they will be confined for at least another half year, and possibly a year, before their trials will take place.The prosecution admits that neither of these men were in Idaho nt the time the murder was committed. Aside from the whim of the prosecution, which is in realty the Mine Owners' association, there is no reason why they should suffer confinement for a year and a half awaiting trial for a crime of which nearly all of the people of this country believe them innocent.The loyalty of these men to theworking class entitles them to theunited support of the workers of theUnited States in a supreme effort to induce the judge in the case to admit them to bail pending a trial.Therefore, the Silver Bow Trades and I.abor assembly, of Butte, Mon tana, appeals to every central labor body in the United States, regardless of affiliations, to set apart Sunday. |August 5th, IftOfl. for a general, united and direct demand of Disctrict Judge Frank J. Smith, of Caldwell, Idaho, to either give these men an immediate trial or to admit them to hail pending their trials.Let every central body arrange a tremendous, rousing mass meeting of working people for that day, and then and there adopt resolutions addressed to the District Judge, setting forth their wishes in the matter.Consider the awful importance of this case, and let us for the time being forget everything else except our duty to these men and to the American labor movement, for which they have fonght so valiantly for so many years.even at the risk of their lives andtheir liberty.Fraternally fours,SILVER BOW Tit A DEB AND LABOR ASSEMBLY,JOHN McMCLLAN,President. O. M. PARTELOW,Secretary.A SLAP IN THE FACE.The Colorado convention throughout is a direct slap in the face of the ruling class. The nomination of William D. Haywood for the governorship of Colorado, is equivalent to serving notice on the capitalist class that their sham ‘ • legal ’ ’ games are not regarded seriously by the working class and that capiatllat unjust rulings have no effect on the opinions of the working rlnaa. This centers the fight on Haywood and prevents the conspirators from slipping so easily out of the meshes they were tvenving for others, (ieneroutly labor has received the weight of tho charge ngainst Moyer and Itnvwood and it Is the working class now that is on trial.Here follows the associate press account of the convention:The Fighting Ticket.“Denver, Col., July 6.—It has just transpired that he socialist party of Colorado hold a convention in thia city on the Fourth of July and nominated a full state ticket, headed by William D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, now in prison in Idaho, for governor. The balance of the ticket follows:Secretary of state, H. C. Darrah. Colorado Springs.Treasurer. J. W. Sawyer, Grand Junction.Auditor, John M. Martin, Denver.Attorney general, I. Tarkoff, Mon troae.Lieutenant governor, A. H. Floatin, Telluride.Su|H-rintendent of public insrtuetion, A. L. Lurch. Wellington.Regents state university, Dr. J. H. Morrow, Denver; Dr. E. H. Oraeb, Denver.Judges of the supreme court, F.W bide, Colorado Springs; John M.King, Denver.lt; iign-ssman at large, Guy F. Miller,Tclluri'ie.will he selected by referendum vote. NOMINATING SPEECH.In nominating Haywood, John M. Mnrtin of Denver, said:• ‘“I do not rise to nsme a woll-gr-' inii'd business msn or a professional politician, seeking graft. Nor do I nan ■' :i labor leader who is dined and Wined at civic federation banquets. Bn’ I rise to name a man, who in executive ability is the peer of tho best, nn-l whose persoual Integrity is without stain. A man whose hands have be*111 i n Moused by honest labor and Whose every heart throbs in svmpthay wltli those who toil. A tnan who has ■ever been praised by the capitalist press as the “greatest labor leader in the world,’ but one who ns a labor leader has never betrayed his trust nor sold out a strike. A man who, because of bin loyalty to the working eli.«*, has been struck down by a brutal aoidierv on tho streets of our city and jwh . for that same loyalty was kidnap i peil by the command of the powers ofeapitnlism and, contrary to all legal | forms and observances, was carried to distant state and thrown into a felon’s cell where for months he and his faithful comrades have waited, demanding in vain the speedy trial guaranteed to •Vi rv citizen by our constitution and lavs. •William D. Haywood, tho prison* r in Caldwell jail.”’Foretells Election.Mr. Martin declared that the working ' hisses of Colorado would rally to Haywood nnd that he would be elected. Concluding, he anid:“And If they refuse to release him we may feel impelled to mareh to Idaho and take our chief executive by force, if neceseary. out of the teeth of the dogs of capitalism, and carry him in triumph to our state bouse.’' Let All Assist.Every socialist and every unionist wh rend the “Montana Newa” should urg upon immediate action upon the circular. Let us make the protest an atri.ng, so stern and so widespread that it will porve thoroughly effective.Fergus County Lines UpConvention Held—Strong Ticket Nonvinated—Ben Wilson has the Plutocrats On the Run.Capitalism ie being riddled by the fighting socialists of E'ergua county. At the present rate of demolition there won’t be enough of It left for decent burial the day after election. Never before were there aueh meetings and enthusiasm. Ben Wilton haa stirred up the entire population where ever bo haa been aa it was never stirred before. Bat this is only the beginning of the great campaign.Great Convention.Twenty fix delegatee met in the Y. M. C. A. hall, Lewlatown, July , assisted. The ringing platform will be and Herman Brown secretary, and proceeded to buaineee. Ben Wilson with hia inspiring pretence was there and asiated. The ringing platform will be published In the “Nowe later. The following ticket which la both etrong and representative was nominatedtState senator, Arthur T. Harvey, Pbilbrook.Representatives, Thomas Hayden, Kendall; Herman Hohnick, Lewlatown.County commissioners, Edward Ai-kon, Forest Grove (0 year term); Robert McMillan, Maiden, (4 year term); Levi H. Woody, Cottonwood, (B year term).Sheriff, J. W. Nelson, Moore.Clerk and recordor, J. W. Stoner, Lewlatown.Assessor, Owen McCabe, Kendall.SUPPRESSED NEWSThe following rejected news which you will look in vain for in the capitalist dailies came across the ocean in the regular press cablegram, but our capitalist information bureau saw fit to throw it into the waste basket Items like this one given below are suppressed daily. It is not the pollcy of our masters to give us the uneen sored international world newa. Events in the world revolution are crowding each other so rapidly that the capital 1st rlaas finds it muat censor the dis patches anl give us just what it thinks it good for itself, leading us to believe we are getting the news. Do you know that men are getting killed or badly injured in the Butte mines nearly every davt You don’t read about them, do yout Why notf Yon ought to know. Who owns the Butte papersf If we want the real life newa of today —the news that vitally concerns us as a class—we will have to support the socialist papers—the papers of theworking class. We must have a ••Greater Montana News, and you must help us.Here follows the suppressed dispatch:Berlin, Jnly fl.—The executive committee of the socialist party has announced its intention to establish a partisan war school in the nutumn with the object of preparing socialist youths for public life by leeturee on national economies, socialism, law. history, science .literature, the natural sciences and debuting exercises.The “Vorwnerts,' ’ organ of the party, says thnt no expense should be •pared to carry out the plan of thus • renting a body of well informed agents, adding that owing to the Ui-ichstag's decision to pay members of the Reirhstng for their services it is not necessary for the socialists to collect money to pay their own mem-l»'rs, ns has hitherto been done, thus •nving #20,000 annually for the “partisan war school.’’Treasurer, B, F, E'ulmer, Lewistown.Public administrator, A. Sellers.Surveyor, Ksr.ra Olson, Kendall.Attorney, A. E. Brinkle, KendallA county superintendent of schools Herman Brown was elected chairman of the county central committee.Praise from the Enemy.Our ticket elicits praise even from tho enemy. A “Butte Miner dispatch reporting the convention speaks well of our candidate for senator, mentioning tho fact that he is a veteran of the war with Spain and that he hears a fine record.Wilson’s Meetings.E'rom practically all the places WUgon has visited reports are rolling in of the splendid success of his meetings.Brown says of hia Lewistown meetings:’1 Ben is here and all people know it, he has exploded the largest bomb ever on record in Lewistown. At the present rate the people will not cense talking about him for years to come. Tuosday night last be delivered to an audience of between four and five hundred people, a speech that is still yessting in the doughy gray matter of many of the “wise ones.’’ Ben Wilson haa a “way”, It may not bo the “only way” but ho arrives snd many of tho multitude struggle after him. it la a common thing now to hear an old time democrat or republican sayho has changed his views, and we will hear more in the near future. Satnr day night he speaks again. Tonight he is in Moor** nnd will make Gilt Edge and Kendall again before leaving E’ergus. ’At Kendall.Bobert llondry reporta from Kendall.“Com. Ben Wilson has been in Ken dall and that marks an epoch In the history of the movement here.“The evening of June 30th he apokc on the street and had a large and very appreciative andlonee. Collection good.‘ ’ Afternoon of Jnly 1 ho spoke in Miners' Union hall, every chair occupied some aitting on rostrums and on steps ontaide.“He hit the Items and Reps as he knows how to hit them. He offended two of our democratic friends by bis reference to Gov. Toole.“Who failed to mention in his speech Miners’ Union day that the president, secretary treasurer and Com. Pettibone had been illegally arrested, and iropris oned by the agents of the Mine Owners association.“But the offended ones are aspirants for favors at the hands of the de crats ot the coming election nnd as such will defend tho present syatcro and its votarlea.'The balance of the audience gnvo him a very attentive hearing and when asked for a show of hands of those wishing him to como again next week two thirds of them held up their hand*“Eve of July 1 he apoke on the street again and had a much larger meeting than night before.“A number of those present saw the light anil one man came out publicly and renounced bis allcgisnce to he old parties, saying he had been a '•clalist all his life, but did not know it until Com. Wilson told him. ■ “Collections were good nt all of the •looting*.“Com. Wilaon is n cracker jack, and f we could have him with us thia fall vc would give the old parties a run for their money.' ’Lee Mantle haa suddenly assumed such dimensions in the eyes of copper collared papers of Montana that nothing is thought of devoting several pagee to hia speech over in Missoula, although there aro several other towna in Montana and sevcrl other politicians spouted. We look in vain in the speeeh for evidence of its surprising importance. There la nothing in it a July orator could avoid saying: Another weather sign in the political bar Hinder.Mrs. Ida Crouch-Mazlctt. editor of the Montana News, will reply to Lee Mantle's Missoula speech at an open air meeting. Cor. of Higgins nnd Cedar streets, Missoula. Saturday. July 14, 8 p. m. In his buncombe about Liberty Mantle forgot to tell about the liberty enjoyed by Moyer, Maywood and Pettibone in Idahc and a few other things.
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Thu, Jul 12, 1906
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