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Show Effi STRIKE PARHLYZING INDUSTRIES IN PlONTfiNA THREHTENS IN BUTTE BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 20. The far-reaching far-reaching strike in Butte was spread this morning by a notice served, on all em , ployers of a raise in the scale by the Butte Workingmen's union. This organization, or-ganization, the largest in the city outside out-side the mining trades, embraces laborers labor-ers of every description except mining men, street sweepers, ditch diggers, shovelers, etc., -who have been getting $3 per day in Butte. Their new scale. vas announced today, will take effect Mareh 1, and -calls for $3.50 per day. The xnty.of Butte is most heavily af- fected, but a number of other industries will suffer. Many employers will refuse re-fuse the demands. , The crisis in the situation draws near. The miners' union will vote next Monday on the proposition to increase the scale from $3.75 to $4. If the.de mand is refused and the men strike, Butte will witness widespread suffering, suffer-ing, as the miners and smeltermen outnumber out-number air other unions combined. A shutdown of the Butte, mines would close the smelters here, .in Anaconda and in Great Falls and throw out of work, in addition, several thousand men engaged in timbering and coal mining. A shutdown would cut 20,000 men off the payrolls. The Amalgamated company pays $2,000,000 a month to its Montana Mon-tana employees and a strike of the miners min-ers would paralyze industry throughout the State. It is not too much to state that the development of the State within the next decade hangs very largely upon the vote to be polled Monday Mon-day by the miners. There are no developments in the strike of newspaper employees. Rumors Ru-mors of an adjustment cannot be traced to an authentic source. The representative represen-tative of a great Eastern publisher is in the city, ostensibly to negotiate for a building in which to rush in a plant and start a daily newspaper. |