Show TELEPHONE STRIKE I One at Butte Threatens to Become I General Over System TRIBUNE SPECIAL I Butte Mont Aug iTho strike of the men employed on the construction work of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone I Tele-phone company at Butte threatens to become general l all over the system The trouble arose over the employment of J H Reed who was put on the inside In-side work of the construction department depart-ment while the company was cutting out the old phones and establishing the new system Reed was not a member mem-ber of the union but put In his application appli-cation and was refused admission on the giounda that he was an lucompe tent workman Immediately after this the union de mangled that Reed be discharged from th < employ of the company on the ground that he was Incompetent Manager A G Miller refused to comply I com-ply with the demand saying that the man was competent and he did not Intend to allow the union lo pass upon the proficiency of his employees On last Friday night the men twenty In number were paid off and then they struck The union has not shown disposition disposi-tion to concede to the company the right to pass upon the efficiency of Us employees and unless this Is done I within a day or two Manager Miller states that he will supply the places of the old force with men who are not members of the union He sas that It will make no difference on the other portions of thg service so far as the I company is concerned but the proba bilities are that the union will call all of Its men In Montana Wyoming Idaho and Utah and then the company will be compelled to put on nonunion men or the men now working will be I compelled to withdraw from the union |