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Show MOYER CONFERS WITH GOVERNOR STEWART HELENA, Mont., June 24. At a conference con-ference here tonight in which Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Feder- ation of Miners; Governor S. V. Stewart, United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Attorney General D. M. Kelly and six representatives of the Butte Miners'1 union participated, a full discussion of the labor troubles In Butte took place. Both Governor Stewart and President 1 Moyer stated after the meeting thi.t no , formal demand for troops was made, but 1 the situation was laid before the state '. authorities, who were left to draw their , own conclusions a;: to th necsity : senom soldiers into Butte. i President Mover empnai-izel the fa :t 1 that the Butte Miners' union was a cor- j poration, organized under the laws of Montana, and that it had a right to hold meetings lawfully, without interference from mobs and vinder the protection of the state laws. "I made no demand for troops at the conference tonight." said Mr. Moyer. "I presented the situation as I have learned it since going to Butte. The city officials have not protected the people and property prop-erty of Butte." "You could not say," he went on, "that when men were forced to go down, dark alleys and when people are leaving leav-ing the city in fear of their lives, the Butte officials are protecting life and property." Asked if he thought the Industrial Workers of Tthe World were stirring up the labor troubles in Butte, he replied: "Think it! I know it. The Western Federation of Miners has nothing in common com-mon with the Industrial Workers of the World. "We do not indorse the theories, or the methods of men of that tvpe." Moyer clings to the belief that the situation sit-uation will be cleared up and the difficulties diffi-culties settled. He believes, he said, that an independent union cannot exist in Butte, and that whatever solution of the question is made it will be made along the lines laid down by himself as expressed ex-pressed in an interview Tuesday night, which embodies reorganization under the Western Federation of Miners. Governor Stewart, following the meeting meet-ing tonight, declined to make any statement state-ment looking to the future. Another conference was held late today to-day bv Mr. Moyer with Governor Stewart. Stew-art. United f'ta tes Senator Thomas .T. Walsh and M. M. Ponahue, president of the Montana Federation of Labor. |