Show MONTANA VS UTAH LABOR 1 I Bite Miner Disclaims In Favor of the former in Municipal Work I Itutto Miner Major ltnrrlnKons suggestion that any complaints against the paving contractor of havIng hav-ing Imparted outside labor to do the work be Irought to the notice of the city council oinclallj Is I one that should be ncteel on The matter Is I one ot too much Importance to he de eIled upon street rumor anti Is I ot enough Interest to labor In 11111111 to warrant action by the city authorities The contractors when they bid for the work did so upon the basis of the recgnlzed value of dny labor In Butte It Is I charged now that they have brought laborers from Utah and while ostensibly paying the seal le have anA arrangement b > which the men an-A a it a orders on galt Lake with the understanding under-standing that they be subjected to a material discount The Implied understanding under-standing that Ilutte labor was to be employed nnd Butte wages paid seems to have been violated from the beginning begin-ning If the state of facts alleged are true Whn the project of paving Main 1 street was broached It met with favor 1 for nnf reasons One was the Improvement I Improve-ment It Viould make In the appearane of that thoroughfare The other was I f grtrII ht the o portunlty I It would afford to give employment in some of the Idle I workIngmen j mn tmTh otr Ingmen of Ilutte t There Is no conten thin that the labor of Butte would have Improved the appearance of Main street any more than the labor ot IJtnh nor I thr any Ireln that Utah Inbor can do the work any better bet-ter limn Butte labor These conditions being equal nil other conhlrutlon point to he fact that U mould be mol beneficial to the entire community that Butte labor be emplojed here Is I nothing In the contract to comld the use of Butte later on this mark hut the mayor fcnd city council l toy be able to do something that will bring about I that desired rI state of af rI That they will try to do so cannot can-not be doubted That they will succeed everybody holies And that the con ttor will take the patriotic view of It I A Is I to be looked I for At |