Show CLOSING THE AMALGAMATED MINES It must strike every one as peculiar that the great Amalgamated company of Montana has resolved to close all UK mines and furnacefc1 on account of JUdge Clancys decision against It In District Court The shutdown Is declared de-clared to be the mout complete and cx enElve eer known In Montana Seven i thousand minors In Butte alone are i thrown out of employment and twenty thousand In the Slate Just what It nIl means the public may not know for some time But the act IB most unusual It Is seldom Indeed In-deed that a great concern throws up the sponge on a mere District Court ruling The ordinary course Is lo appeal and keep appealing to demand new trials lo sue out writs of error und go right on with their work till every legal recourse re-course IB I exhausted That this course h not taken at this time by the Amalgamated Amal-gamated does not mcan that It Intends to give up the fight the purpose Is hidden hid-den and deviates from the course usu j i ally taken but that It Is I a campaign of continued resistance Is certain The stock market in New York Is I puzzled by It and the price of Amalgamated stock which fell off 214 points from the quotation of the day before rallied though there was much fluctuation and the market was feverhh Whatever the purpose of the company com-pany Is In thus so readily yielding Its course will have a most important effect In Montana It is Incredible that the apparent compliance with the courts order will last Quite possibly some thing else than the decision Is at the bottom oC the shutdown Can It have anything to do with the labor situation situa-tion jr |