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Show ANACONDA COMPANY MINES SHUT DOWN Mediator W. H. Rodgers Arrives at Butte to Attempt a Settlement. Set-tlement. BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 25. Mining operations op-erations of the Anaconda. Copper Min-i Min-i ing company arc completely suspended j in Butte and Anaconda today, and the smelter plant at Great Falls will bo closed within forty-eight hours. W. 11. Rodgers, mediator of the federal department de-partment of labor, returned to But to last night from Ely, Nov., and en-j en-j deavored to pick up the tangled skein ! of the local labor situation. Although company officials have announced that the closing of mines and smelters has result oil from the refusal of the men at Anaconda to appear for work, the leaders in the metal trades who advocated advo-cated an "individual strike" of mem-: mem-: bers after their unions had signed a ! two-year contract under a new wage scale, declared today they view the 1 situation in the form of a lockout. This j is the position they will assume, it was ! said, when a suggested effort by 1 American Federation of Labor officials of-ficials is made to ' force members of unions allied with that organization to live up to their contracts. |