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Show TWO THDUSAHO I MIHEHS LAIil OFF Unrest in All Lines of Work I as Result of Request for Higher Wages. V Mine Managers Declare That All Development De-velopment Work Will be Discontinued, Discon-tinued, While Labor Leaders Deny That a General Strike J Wilt Result. 1 Butte, Mont. Tho Butto miners on Tuesday voted for tho amendment to tho constitution providing for nn increase in-crease of wages of underground men from $3.75 to $4, nnd for shaft men from $4.25 to $4.60 per day, by a voto of 2,349 ngnlnst 1.0C8, tho Increased B scale to go Into effect May 1. Tho I nllcged threatened shut down of tho j mines will not tnko place, nccordlng 1 to John Gllllo, mnnngor of tho Amalgamated Amal-gamated properties In 11i!b city, but whllo tho hoisting of oro from thos portions of tho mines vilroady blocked out will continue as beforo, nil development devel-opment work will bo discontinued. Tills will bo tho policy of tho Butto Coalition, tho North Butte nnd alt subsidiary companies. Tho action of tho Amalgamated company will bo followed by tho managers of tho Clark properties and also nt tho Helnzo properties. President Duffy of the miners' union stated again Tuesday, nnd ho wns Indorsed by a number of tho moro conservative nnd by former officers, of-ficers, that thero positively would bo no strike. If It comes to a question, of enforcement of tho scnlo by striking, strik-ing, tho matter must bo decided by a two-thirds voto resulting from an election, elec-tion, and It is not bcllovcd by thoso who ought to know thnt a enfflclent numbor of votes to carry nn order to- ' strlko can over bo secured. I Development work was ordered stopped at all of tho Amalgamated properties and nbout two thousand men engaged In such work wero laid off. There Is considerable feeling ot expectancy In tho city nnd tlio action 1 of the miners' union has occasioned much unrest in all lines. It has already al-ready had an effect in tho building lino and work has stopped n n. number num-ber of largo structures. |
