LABO STRIKES-CAPAL BOL I .- NO. 267. 1 IUTTE, MONTANA, MONDA. JLY . }19_. PRICE FIVE ~

O . B. U CN ON I SSSIES STRIKENTINUES WORKERS REAINING OFFSIKE NTINUES KER REMAINING OFF T II

RPOTS SHt1W MANYUNINS JOIN STRIKE IN

BEHALF O F MOONE(Special to The Bulletin.)

Chicago, July 7.-TThi Mooney general strike committee,rep•nirnlg:1jh• .rank andl'flie of yoions with. a membershif

i th e ko 1 O••. plgedged solidly., to strike, reports manguni~•• are•o•ig daily;, Rena Mooney is speaking. beforemonrster: mass demonstrations three and four times daily.

E•tcoi~raging: reports are being recekilvedfrom all parts of thlcourtry. Peoria is over the, he top, 10 qopr qnt, opper minher q91IMontana, iron:miners of iron range and the lumber workers o1Washington and Idaho, are allJ reported out for a fair trial foiMooney.

The Chicago strike committee Iurging all strike organizations thold theniselves intact for compacmass action beginning September 1unless Mooney and Billings. are freebefore that time. They are also calling for a council of the central strikcommittees in two weeks.

LOGGERS TAKE HOLTDAY.(Special United Press Wire.)

Seattl.-;Jaul.- * -udl--Shipyard anconstructj.on iyorkers. and all, meinberS of Th~ I.. W, W:'thro'ughout t;hnorthwest. Pacific coast region atout solidly on thb five-day Moonestrike, local leaders reported.

It was stated. the Lumberjack:union had added another six dayto the strike and will not return twork until July 14.

FARMERS OUT AT BAKETI.(Special United Press Wire.)

'Baker City, Ore., July 7.--umberjacks, miners and agriculturaworkers, practically all of whom armeipbexrs of. the I. W. W., are othere in sylmpa.thy with the Moonestrike. It was reported the cntirmembership of those divisions of thI. W. W. were out.

IDAHO STL1t1JERS DETERMINEI(Special United Press Wire.)

Mullan, Ida., July 7.-Miners anloggers throughout the state. are d•termined to stay off their jobs unt.July 9, according to reports receivehere from various sections whermembers of these unions are out ostrike as a protest against the inprisonment qf. clas-swar prisoners.

MINERS VITIL MOONEY.Burnett, Wash,, July 7.-The fol

lowing resolution, passed at the lasregular meeting of Local No. 237:United, Mine Workers of America iiself-explallatory :

"Wher eitf, We ljsve supporteThomias Mooney in every way conceiyable. by ftllancial, assistaiice, analso by sending a' delegate to thChicago conference; and,

"Whereas, We backed- up, the a,tion of .the cosiference by takingvote on May 20 Which favoredstrike, 12 to 1;. anld,

"Whereas, Owing to the pressurbrought, to- bear on us by the international aid district officers we werplaced in Lthe position of either rescinding our former action or seceding from the organization, we dnot think that seceding, would be tthe best interest of 'the movement athis time owing to the division of tblocal -unions. We are eager to gany- length to secure justice' fdMooney providing we can get united worK or m-e commission was such

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State Metal Tradesi;_O l 10 CV SIouncth

The annual convention of theState Metal Trades council openedthis morning in. regular session atK. of P. hall, with PresidentO'Brien in the chair. The meetingwas called at 10 o'clock, with dele-gates from Anaconda, Great Fallsand Butte present.

The following committees were ap-pointed: Credentials--Collier, Shep-pard and Kuchenmeister. Audit--Murphy, Senot and Dwyer. Rules-Marble, Mahoney and Howarth. Re-cess was taken until 2 p. m. to getreports from the committees.

The following committees wereappointed:

Credentials--G. F. Kuchenmiester,A. W. Collier, James, Shepard.

BOLSHEVIK ARMY CAPTURETURKESTAN CAPITAL(Special United Press Wire.)Paris, July 7.-A Constanti-

nople dispatch reported bolshevikf0rces have captured. Tashkentl,capital of Russia& Turketanu, exe.cuting o0,000 inhabitants. Abrother of Alexander Kerensky,former Russian premier, is amongthose executed, the dispatch says.

SiCRES "SECRETGOVERNMENT"D URING WAR

Chairman Graham of WarE x p e n s e InvestigatorsBrings to Light SecretActs of Defense Council.

(Special United Press Wire.)Washington, July 7.-The United

States had a "secret government"during the war, which functioned, indisregard of the law, "ChairmanGraham of the special house com-mittee on war department expendi-tures charged in a statement he it-sued. He characterized as a "secretgovernment" the advisory commis-sion of the council of national de-fense. He charged the "pregidertdisregarded the intent of congsrsq tomake the commission of purely ad-visory character and made themeni-bers real execuitives,"'

Chairman Graham declared thecommission allowed interested par-ties to fix. the prices on war suppliesand violated the trust laws. He de-clared the press censorship wasplanned by the commission at thesuggestion of Philip Patchen of thestate department.

"Such unprecedented, illimitablepowers were assumed by the com-mission," he said, "that cabinetmembers protested." He declared thework of the commission was such

in aesstolAuditing-E. W. Seenob, DanI Dwyer, M. A. Murphy.

[ Rules and Order-J. P. Mahoney,t Dan Marble, A. E. Howarth.

Law-A. Heimback, J. E. Cutler,G. F. Kuchenmiester.

Organization-Jed R. Powell, J.C. Smith, H. E. Thornton.

Adjustment - George Kidder,James Monahan, J. P. Mahoney.

READY TO BEGIN.Zurich, July 7.--The German gov-t ernment has notified Clemenceau,

that it is ready to execute the repara-e tiog provisions of. the peace treaty,

and is sending a coismission of ex+plerts to Versailles for":itails• accord-ing to a BeriiA. di antch.

HANDS ACROSS THE CONTINENT

SI j -

"7-

Oxmeali , backted by toeuwho•mE ass 1 as iee ,ul•. fa poit ou hr3 VESR SNA / O W /- -- r S t b /J n/

Oxrnani, backed by frame-up gallng asks a liana in ,I]iiois to (()loe to Calif'or'nia and conperjury iii the Mooney caste.

More evidence has come to light in New Orleans that Oxman'u first you to come to San Francisco tcagainst the men who "framed" Tomletter to Rigall wag a blgclt perjury an expert witness in an imporMooney into San Quentin. Will H. proposalr without a postcript, case. You will only have to, ane

i Donaldson has turned up in New Or- The public is familiar, with that three or four questionls anld Ileans. He is the man to whom Ed letter. 'It has been published far post you on them."Rigall. showed Oxman's written at-and wide. Oxman began by saying This letter convicted Oxman in

against Mooney. he and Rigall had seen ofe another.Donaldgon swore before a notaryThen he said: "I. have a.;~lhance for (Continued on Page Two.)

ANOTHER COMPANY EXPLOSR1In Palpable Effort to Discredit Labor and Secure Troor

A. C. M. Tools Believed to Have Used Powder on P<Office---No One Hurt, as Usual---Gunmen Beat Up TvYoung Men Sunday Because They Expressed the Prvailing Opinion That the Blast Was Perpetrated 1

x A&"~j-ComHpany TrropeSimilar in many respects to the

dynamiting of the rustling card officeof the Parrot mine in 1914, an explo-sion which partly wrecked the en-trance to the Anaconda Copper Min-ing company's new pay office atQuartz and Main streets was stagedat about 3:25 o'clock yesterdaymorning. And, as in the case of theParrot office blast which was latershown to have. been engineered byhired detectives and gunmen in theemploy of the mining company, the1 explosion of yesterday will probably

later be shown, to have been stagedprimarily for the purpose of discred-iting the cause of labor.

Workers Accused.

Already the officials of the com-

pany are accusing workers of having

placed the powder which explodedyesterday morning and already twoworkers, .against whom there is noevidence, according to statements of

the police, have been arrested on sus-i, picion.

L- Union officials and workers gen-erally were among the most surpris-ed when thdy ̀raaiied that the A. C.M- MI. office hiad been blasted. It was

freely stated-that the explosion was

Spaganda Agents"the

A woman whose name is beingen- it hhell until the proper time

iu- this morning, informnied the Bulle- oat tin that early yesterday morning

gqd coincident with the noise of theday blast which wrecked the entrance tthe of the A. C. M. pay office, she saw S

iter a man run down Wyonming street e

by to Granite ( and west on Granite athe street to the entrance of the Hen- fthe nessy building in which the coinm-

ibly pany's main_, offices are.. located. dged From her positive description of

red- the man and the clothi•lg he wore F

at the time, it is believed identifi-cation of one of the company of- Cficials as one of those who set off "

om- the bomb will be effected.ring ..

ded ttwo just such another one as others which tno have occurred in Buttein ppast years,us- all of which were later shown to have

been, engineered by company "stool;en- pigeons" and gunmen for the purpose ciris- of bringing in, troops to assist the f

C. company in forcing the, workers to dwas continue under intblerabl. ,workingwas and living conditions.. .

striwetOI

Plain statements by various laborleaders and citizens generally indl-cate the prevailing sentiment is that

'e yesterday's explosion was merely an-e- other move on the part of the Ana-

conda and other companies operat-e ing in the camp to throw discredit onc. the workers who are at present onw strike in protest against the continu-

et ed imprisonment of Thomas Mooney 1

to and other class war prisoners. The

n. fact that the time picked for the ex-

.- plosion was the day on which tl}eI. delegates were, assembling for the

of One Big Union convention, too, is

,, pointed to as indicating that the com- wa;

ri- pany engineered the plot with the aid Pef of some of its huge corps of gunmen onif and dynamiters.

I)o Not Advocate Violence. ant

"Despite propaganda printed in corthe company's newspapers to the con- firs

Lich trary," sad one union official, "the filE

ars, unions of Butte do not now nor have attthey ever advocated violence in any-

ave form. besool "The mere fact that the explosion hel

Lose occurred at a time when the peace- uni

the ful Mooney protest is on and when :whto delegates from various sections of ofng (Continued on Page Two pa

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DELEGATES FROM ALLINDUSTRIAL CENTEI•

AT OPENING SESSNWith about 50 delegates present from all the ind t'strIAPr

centers of the state the 0. B. U. convention opened t i•listsession at 101 South Idaho street, in the hall of the Met ,..Workers' union, at 10 o'clock a. m.

Called to devise a plan of bringing the workers of Montinto closer affiliation, :the first session was largely deyqe t*a discussion of organization. .

J. R. Knight, member of the executive board of the 0 :.i1y

concerning the movement it

STEPS BEING TAKEN F(EXTRADITION OF KAISEI(Special United Press Wire.)

Lqndon, July 7. - AndriBonar La]w, government spokeIaeP, announced in the house*cOialiQh * .today that -. no fortrepi'eselitattibns 'hd yet belpade to Holland with regardthe etraditign of the olrnkaiser. He added, however, stcwere beilg taken in that directic

[ DENOUNCE BLA',AS COMPANY

PLOTSpeaker at Mooney Str:

Mass Meeting Recallstermath of Parrot Expi

rmit ion in 1914.

tt Denouncing the explosion at

er A. C. M. pay office yesterday morlas a palpable attempt on the paithe mine owners to discredit ;and declaring that the explosion

the engineered by company "gunmenthe behest of their employers attime in order that the blame mbe laid on delegates to the OneUnion convention and on thoseare striking as a protest againstcontinued imprisonment of 'IheMooney, R. B. Smith, general Iager of the Bulletin, and other soers, addressed a crowd of more2,000 strikers at a mass metheld at the ball park last night

Display Indignation.

Genyeral indignation on the pasthe strikers present at the obv

O attempts of the gunmen to disc]their peaceable means of gaitheir lawful ends by staging anre plosiop at this time was disjl

by the crowd, who unanimouslycided that peaceable picketing ofnmines on the hill during the Mostrike and the expected contilstrike for new wage scales and bistrike tor new wage scales auu uetteir invitation to me aeiegas yworking conditions shoud aic used with the I. W. W. for .the en r'

bor ' (Continued on Page Two.) i ( ontinued on Page'-i;1dl-

Ghat -an- Sna

eon w d1mut lil E

The X;ex-the

the As the result of the brutal and un-:om- warranted assault made n .W. F.

aid Peoples and John Duggan yesterdaymen on East Quartz street by W. C. Long

and W. J. McLain, two of the Ana-

in conda company's gunmen, charges ofcon- first degree assault will prolably be

the, filed against the men at the countylave attorney's office.

any ioith Peoples and Duggan werebeaten abqut the head with "saps"

sion held by the two gunmen, who *were

ace- unmercifully beating their victims

hen -when, stoppgd by the timely arrivalof of a policepmaq who forced the com-

piny thugs to6 quit'.Peoples and Duggan had -visited

peUniI YrW~rAIU5sU I4SUU l IIIIW y

in Canadai and the underlyin• •of the W innipeg strike, heddcti z.,0tention of the delegates for an•

R He told how the Canadian .had discovered their hqlwhile split up into dozens,otoizations when confronted wlhsolid front of an organ{ze4Cclass; he told hw. tla , ';

row Imuovembq.t had spef aices- workers }settle tlel

of the jo withiinal tional fflcers IA o ne nrot oe'n the workers daily protbil• he

s? scribetd how the O. B. t of' Ca•o•iner was using the exist machinery of •,lops trade unions in so far as it wasl oion. sible; he spoke of the neces ity d,

the workers understanding their trtteposition and mission in moderpn •ety and described the work that tO. B. U. was doing in this directi:S

Embree Speaks.

A. S. Embree of the IndustrialWorkers of the World then stioklq tthe delegates after explaining thatthe Industrial Workcers liad. ot o 4tdelegates but that they had seti -acommittee to place the position ofthe, organization befqgq the eqsei•tion, Embree outlined the priulqllof the L. W. W., told of th•k r;for the formation of the orgaiiizatt•ipike I gave a brief history of their strugg ',

told of the persecution that they l4d

Af- encountered and stated that the ,n-dustrial Workers was' the unionl do

108- the working class, organized indtis-trially, taking as members only .bo•afide wage earners .with the lurppsuof building up. industria• ud• s,'.

the the workers with th'e. ail " vl<pwruing of finally managing and dpe o 'grt of industry for the benefit of sociy.

labor to abolish the wage system In'itswas tirety.i" at Takes Issue With I osi

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'd.`i

this A. S. Embree was followed byT.ight W. Sellers, also of the : Industrial

Big Workers; he took issue with.seVqrat

wthb statements made by J R'. Knighte' domas denied in particular that the IT.V,'.

man- was a "theoretical" orgaDitaitft,calling attention to the bitter •-

tha ner in which the organization fjvXetig its members were bein rfauightv

tu the capitalist class. He told •ft0, great worlk of. organizatibn aid> eu#i

cation carried on by the Iiuiisttliirt of Workers of the World ai~ton the itivious skilled workers whom the A. F.•' ocredit had never reached and, dothe grovthlining of the industrial form of orgainil

u ex- tion in the mining cdmla s atndtl mberplayed woods of the wyest..;•:......

y de- He said that he s•a~*no neceskty.f the forany new organization in the sa; 'ooney field now covered by the In• rA

inued, Workers of World and exteiihoit rl invitation to the elefP.atas In- 1i

un- the scene of the explQoSj t ofF. curiosity and whiteo, ; 4d onrday Quartz street, were ac the

.ong gunmen who made

anent the blast." Qpe" o?7 dtima irafllegd to have has of it "nac., godd hea they be co ..p... I~pe s."(;.: tl@

unty guni h

were ous, VItrr1 y IIaPe" gai t. {.we s1-

were Cousty to;-py re-tims fused" to fold ti' trival dy ni }tip ;thei:om- Char. e qfa S.

stetidued and oh en .iited under bonds of ;25O..e