Show THE BUTTE TELEPHONE STRIKE i t News comes comes that the telephone exchange at Butte is closed The strike there was not about hours or wages it was purely a sympathetic strike The operators have broken their word over and over Mr lr Murray Muray went up there and told the operators that that he could not deal with them as an agreement made with a a. few of oft hem would not be held as binding binding binding bind bind- ing on the rest but he would deal with Mr l McNulty McNulty Mc- Mc Nulty their chief He was absent at the time and the operators A agreed upon a truce for ten days and to work during Athose those t n days Mr McNulty 1 wired that he could not reach here until yesterday or today This was communicated to the operators and it was thought that they would continue at work until Mr McNulty Mc- Mc Nulty and Mr Murray could meet But on Sunday they all walked out and so yesterday yes esterday es- es the exchange at Butte was closed It must l not be forgotten that the Butte workers had no grievance it was a purely sympathetic strike The telephone company has been doing all it could to 5 5 adjust s matters in this is the business men of Butte Z 4 f have assisted in every w way y they could but everything everything everything every every- thing for the time has failed We hope an adjustment will soon be reached for a telephone is like a when baby bab baby when when once in the house there is no getting along without it |