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MONTANA NEWS. Talist System OWNED and PUBLISHED by the SOCIALIST PARTY of MONTANA Verts br tb* Party Abolish tkc Capi• •f Y*ur Class MONTANA NEWS. talist System OWNED AND PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF MONTANA VOL V. HELENA MONTANA, THURSDAY, JULY 4 1907. NO. 34. Defense Pinkertons Union •lata nistorissl Ll&rvn • ed Up Exposed Veterans Work of Combating Orchard's Testi Methods Shown Up of Spotters andReview s History of the Idaho and Col* mony Under Way—Long Array Thugs—Detectives Create Dis• orado Wars—Witnesses Tell Ex• of Witnesses turbance and Lawlessness perience of the Bullpen Boise, June 27. sation with Sullivan in which he spoke Boise, June 29. falling out of the teeth and other crip• Boise, June 28. kangarooed in the courts, and false On Wednesday afternoon W. F. charges preferred against him. The defense is now well under way. asked Orchard if he had had a conver- W. W. Rush was the engineer who pling conditions. of Steunenberg, said he ought to be Davis took the stand. This is one of Borah searehingly asked him regard• It does one good to see the Westorn was carrying the train over the Flor• The Federation had corrected the killed, and that he would kill him him• the most valiant and dauntless char• ing the whole history of the Cripple Federation men (rather in to go on ence and Cripple Creek road on the abuses. The Butte union alone had acters in the whole ranks of the West• Creek war. the stand and uphold their accused self. night of the alleged attempted wreck. paid out a million and a quarter for ern Federation .He was accused of brother! with one voice, an 1 the con• Orchard denied the conversation The vagrancy notice issued by the He testified in the trial of the strike charitable purposes. stealing and running the train in the sciousness of the far-reaching power Mr. Richardson then asked if in a adjutant general was brought into tho committee in Cripple Creek that D. C. Coeur d'Alenes at the time the mill and necessity of their cause. And game of cards, in a saloon at Wallace This, he said, he had presented in limelight. This was one of the most was blown up. Tho mine owners de• they are such a bunch of stalwarts, in the fall of 1905, Orehard had told Scott gave him information that the his Salt Lake speech, a part of which disgraceful official documents ever is• clared he was on the engine and di• these undaunted western union men. of his troubles in the Coeur d'Alenes wrecking was going to be attempted, Borah had read. sued in America. It amounted to a to Frank Hough, spoke of Steunenberg rected the engineer, and he has been compulsory command to work under Many of th<>m have been shipped and asked if he knew of a good place Through the continuous efforts of by a vile name, and said he had no the Federation the eight-hour law for pursued relentlessly ever since by the, conditions the men were not willing to from camp to camp through the ven- on the road to wreck a train. It was persecutions of the mine owners He ge: nee of the mine owners. Some of right to live. the production and reduction of ores accept at this point that a few spikes were was a member of the strike committee them have been so bitterly pursued Ochatrd denied the conversation. has been established in all western Borah brought out the assaults made found to bo removed. in the Cripple Creek district, and was by the emissaries of the employing He was asked if he had a conversa• states. on Floaten and Richardson. tried with the other members of the class that they hav» Jeopardized their tion with James Ramey, a Btage driver The witness was a healthy, hearty, Mr. Boyce's testimony was a digni• During ibis dramatic presentation committee on the charge of attempted freedom by coming here to testify, in the Coeur d'Alenes. in April 1899, frank, young worker. The jury watch• fied account of the purpose of prole• every soul in the court room was a'.ert. wrecking of a Florence and Cripple and will probably be put under arrest in which he said he would like to sell ed his face most intently while he was tarian organization. The jury missed nothing. They were Creek train Davis was dismissed by before they can leave town. his interest in the Hercules for $400, giving his evidence. The very state• He went on to tell of the abolitin learning the realities of the great pro• the judge without letting the case go And a* one of them said, "We are as he had to leave the country ments of these men who do things car• of the script system, of the union in• letarian struggle that flows around to the jury He was obliged to leave all here to go to the river." Orchard denied the conversation ry vital might. They represent the sisting on doors and safety clutches our daily lives like a mighty sea ever Witnesses Called primal necessity of that conscious and the district when the union men were breaking over its fragile bounds. A working class that will hang to• being put on the cages, and the des• Lottie Day was the first witness useful activity that makes life pos• run out, and change his name in order gether like that in spite of bull pens, perate struggles they encountered from called by the defense The prosecution sible. The human mind turns with in• to get work jobbed courts, the blacklist, and other the mine owners to get these reforms On Saturday morning several wit• had first brought her up here from stinctive love and confidence to the outrageous persecutions will yet clear on account of the expense. While he was held in jail, his wife nesses from Mullen, la , testified Denver, but on closer examination they worker that maintains its existence. Thursday afternoon was a battle and baby both died. He is a big, the path of civilisation for their class Orehard was playing cards there while were afraid to put her on the stand, It is this basic dependence on the interests. to get in the evidence of the outrages noble-hearted fellow who has the con• and sent her back to Denver. The grapple with the material need that is the mill was blown up, and was not in The prosecution look puny, pusillan• against the W F. of M. The prosecu• fidence and sympathy of the entire defense then called her, and she made the substructure of the whole social• Wardner at all. These were Flynn, in imous and degenerate besi.les these tion kept objecting at every point, but Federation. He was moved to tears the journey again. ist position. big, intelligent, determined men, with Darrow said the state had covered the when the fact of the loss of his fam• whose store the game was played, and the light of serious purpose in their She roomed at the Belmont hotel, This grandeur and power of labor whole field and they had to refute it. ily were brought out on the stand. He Pat McCoyle, who was in the game. •yes. Far off from the progress, the over Pettibone's store in Denver at shall illumine the earth-life and make They had a right to show the counter- has jeopardized his freedom by com• The defense attorneys fought to loyal heart, the pene.-ons s^ mpathies the same time that Orehard was there. it glorious. conspiracy. ing here from Goldfield, as the mine prove the terrible conditions that pre• e* ivarkind are this? who will throw She testified that he had once told her This witness did splendid work for Mr. Boyce said he never saw Orchard owners are looking closely for a chance vailed in the Coeur d'Alenes after its ti>e'r weight against th I labor of the that he once loved a woman, but was defense. He showed there was noth• till in the court room, and that he to arrest him for the Coeur d'Alenes occupation by the militia. The prose- world. When labor is lifted up, man- separated from her by poverty, that ing to the "wreck" but a shamming never gave him a transfer card in difficulties. Orchard implicated him cution fought the introduction of this Iliad will also be lifted up, and the he might have been rich had it not put up by the employers to lay a trap Butte; that he had no authority to do in the blowing up of the Vindicator evidence, but were obliged to be quies- Western Federation is a part of labor been for Steunenberg, and that he for the union. so. mine at Cripple Creek, where the two cent. that is lifting itself up. would kill him because he stood be• Ed. Boyce, the first president of the The slate attorneys tried to show shift bosses were killed. When he Frank Hough was the man who was tween them. The prosecution attorneys looks un Federation, was called for the defense. that these reforms which the miners read Orchard Is testimony he imme- in the bull-pen and gave the testimony, He spoke of gambling to get some easy and out of place as one after Boyce is a character that is revered had askt-d for were also advocated by diately telegraphed to the attorneys He told of the wretched accommoda- of the miners' money and when Mrs.
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