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Show MINERS OF BUTTE FORM JEW UNION FIVE THOUSAND MINERS SANCTION SANC-TION COURSE OF INSURGENTS' EXECUTIVE BODY. Seceders From Western Federation of Miners Reject Peace Overtures From President Moyer and Select Temporary Officers. Butte, Mont. Seceders from the Western Federation of Miners launched launch-ed an independent miners' union on Sunday, rejecting peace overtures from President Charles F. Moyer and his assistants. They elected as temporary tem-porary president M. McDonald. . There is little hope of compromising compromis-ing the two factions and with the issues is-sues sharply defined, a breach is expected ex-pected within a few days. Federal officials of-ficials threaten to import miners to fulfill the contracts with the operating operat-ing companies. The mass meeting Sunday was attended at-tended by 5,000 miners. All voting was done by acclamation, the officers addressing the assembly through me-' gaphones. The report of the executive execu-tive committee, in whose hands had been left the drafting of the insurgents' insur-gents' policy, was adopted without change. It provided for the eventual formation of a permanent organization. organiza-tion. Temporary headquarters will be established and an assessment of 50 cents per month levied. No official notice was taken of the Western Federation and President Moyer had no one present to offer a compromise. Unofficially it was declared de-clared that the seceders' reason for not accepting advances from the federation fed-eration officials was determined opposition op-position to the national as well as local lo-cal officers and a strong desire not to be affiliated with any national organization. or-ganization. The Western Federation has the power by its contract with the mine owners to say who may be lowered into the mines and the federation's agent at the mines has the power to order the engineer not to lower any of the seceders into the workings. Under Un-der the contract between the federation federa-tion and the mine owners, the federation, feder-ation, if it has not enough men in Butte to work the mines, must furnish fur-nish them from the outside. |