Show Inter Mountain Inter Mountain News NeW's Service B By THe Th Republican 8 Special Correspondents CRISIS IN i BUTTE LABOR TROUBLES Amalgamated Says Miners' Miners Demand for Advance Will Cause Discharge UNION WILL NOT STRIKE resident nt Duffy Says Sus Request for In Increased Iii Ju- creased Scale Sc May Muy Iu Bela Ho lie Made la lc n Republican Special Service Feb 23 Tt 3 It H Is stated upon nt authority this evening c that John D. D Ryan Han managing manag director of tho the Amalgamated Cop Copper pel com company pan I has conveyed word to tIle the o of the time Butte Miners Miners' union that In the time event n of the miners voting to raise the I scale of wages from rein 7 to lo 4 at their heir special meeting next Monday MontJay evening the men need not report for or I work vork on nn the hue TUl Tuesday s-da s shifts that lint such sucIl men 1 as will bo bu needed h by the companies com coin panics paniC will bo IJO notified It is to ti forecast the probable proba bl ble action of or the m miners On every eyer sub side can be heard expressions favoring favor favor- ing tho time proposed Increase and the Ito sentiment expressed I Is such as would s seem em to 10 indicate tho the passage of or the he amendment to the constitution of the miners miners' union for Cor or the lilt Increase S President President dent Duffy of the lie union states stales there theme will be no ito fo strike that the he miners if iC Uti they voU vol the tho Increase will request time raise alse but not nol d demand mal II It i ij r Twenty 1 ct Thou 1 Men Ieni A shutdown of or the tho Amalgamated Copper CI affect about OOOO workmen in time the state and antI precipitate an Industrial crisis In iii Butte the lie effect ef of- feet of which will be felt throughout the tue state The Tue big smelters of the Amalgamated at Great Grent l Falls and 1111 Anacon Anaconda Ana Ana- con conda a employing about men will lihI be he forced to close cluse together with wHit the coal mines and lumber camps of the he company The Tho suspension of ot these mutters will force Coree other mines throughout Montana and Idaho to close The Time Amalgamated Copper company com corn pany PLIny employs about men and antl tho the North Butte Jutte and Butte Coalition companies which are dependent upon the Amalgamated smelters about abou 2000 more leasers and antl small operators ors probably employ men mon A halting halUn- tone to business is Js vcr very apparent In Butte Bulle and antl the tho situation is one of oC extreme suspense which will I on only be relieved when the vote voto of the miners 1 Is announced d next Tuesday The r h miners m. m will 11 p g c nil all da clay Monday |