| Show STRIKE AT ANACONDA The Bricklayers Go Out for Higher Wages 4 f 1 J NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE A Resolution is Introduced and Unanimously I Carried Condemning the Lodge Force Bill Louisiana Lottery Denounced ANACONDA Mont Dsc 3 Special telegram tele-gram to THE HERALD Trouble has been brewing for some time among the bricklayers brick-layers at work upon the immense works being constructed by the Anaconda mining min-ing company They were getting but 6 per day while the same work in Butte was bringing T They thought they n snouio receive tne same pay as ineir brethern in Butte but Contracter Dwyer refused to see it that way Only about fortylive of the men walked out at first but as the others were evidently only waiting wait-ing to follow suit Dwyer closed down thus shutting some five hundred men stone masons day laborers as well out of employment As this action would decrease the capacity of the smelting works for handling ore the principal mines of the company in Butte wero at once closed throwing SOP miners out of employment Dwyer declares that no work will be done until the bricklayers return at their old wages or a new crew can be obtained Meanwhile fully one thousand innocent men are out of work at the opening of winter through the action of this small body The officers of the Bricklayers union disclaim the strike National Farmers Alliance OCALO Fla Dec 3The sensation of the morning session of the Farmers alliance was when President Livingston of the Georgia alliance arose to a question of privilege and denounced as infamously false the insinuations in certain newspapers news-papers aimed at Dr Macune and himself and even at President Polk in connection with the recent senatorial contest in ru n L L ueorgia tie uemanueo tie appointment of a fair and impartial committee to thoroughly thor-oughly investigate the charges President Polk and Dr Macune also spoke and it was decided that a committee ot investigation be appointed to consist of one member from each state the delegation delega-tion to make a thorough and searching investigation in-vestigation in accordance with the demand of the gentlemen concerned At the afternoon session W G McAllis ter of Mississippi introduced a preamble and resolution setting forth That the President of the United States in his annual message recommended recom-mended and urged the immediate passage of the Lodge election bill I That said bill involves a radical revolution I in the election machiney of the union and its passage will be fatal to the autonomy of the states and the cherished liberties of tho citizens That said bill is partisan in spirit spirit and will be partisan In application thus revitalizing thehoary ghost of sectional sec-tional estrangement That in a holy war the alliance has declared de-clared against sectionalism and the firesides of the farmers of the north east south and west are citadels around which the heaviest heavi-est battle is being fought and to the end that victory may crown their crusade and fraternity and unity reign Be it resolved by the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union of America in national council assembled that we do most solemnly protest against the passage of said bill and most earnestly petition our Senators to employ all fair and legal means to defeat this unpatriotic measure which can result in nothing but evil to our common com-mon and beloved count y McAllister made a strong speech in favor of the resolution Delegate Deminir of Pennsylvania said he regarded the introduction intro-duction of the resolution us untimely that there was largely prevailant at the north a feeling that the Farmers alliance was a southern organization saturated with southern sentiments and that the passage of the resolution would strengthen this cpinion and check the growth of the alli ance in the north and east A delegate from Illinois expressed the I same sentiment He feared the adoption of the resolution would confirm the charge that the Farmers alliance is a partisan body The alliance he said is getting a grip in the west and in localities where Republican Re-publican sentiments are strong This action ac-tion of the national order would tend to throw in into political disrepute and stop its expansion over the states of the west and northwest After several other speeches however McAllisters motion to adopt the resolutions was put and carried unanimously unani-mously amind the wildest enthusiasm Resolutions were also adopted denouncing denounc-ing the Louisiana lottery as a blow at American civilization and morals and asking ask-ing for submission to the people of America Amer-ica of an amendment to the national constitution con-stitution prohibiting the operation of lotteries lot-teries in any state A resolution will be offered tomorrow in Senator Stanfords bill for loaning money on land at 2 per cent interest mortgages to run for thirty years |
