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Show GENERAL STRIKE BITTERLY OPPOSED BUTTE, July 20. The session of the convention of the WcBtern Federation Fede-ration of Miners at the Auditorium today proved to be a very warm one as regards heated discussions. It was probably as Interesting a session as will be held by the convention The proposal to declare a general strike In this country and Canada on the day tho trial of the McNamara brothers opens In Los Angeles was voted down, 172 to 124, after a num-bor num-bor of spirited speeches on both sides o? the question, and tho discussion or the question of the assessment for tho McNamara defense fund was almost al-most as spirited. It was flually voted to levy an assessment ot 25 cents on each member monthly, the assessments assess-ments to continue as long as the executive ex-ecutive board of ?fie union deemed the money was necessary for tho purpose of tho defense fund. A special committee, com-mittee, to which the McNamara matter mat-ter wag referred, consisting of Thos M Dee of Anaconda, J. C. Drlscoll of Butte. Mike Hennessy of Butte, Wm Gogglns of Wallaco Bob KnudBon of Pony and Lew Bartels of Ouray, reported re-ported this morning In favor of calling call-ing a general strike throughout the ( United Ctatos and Canada on the day I the trial of tho officials of the structural struc-tural steel workers Is called in Los I Angeles, If the American Federation of Labor should sec fit to call such a i strike. |