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Hellraisers Journal – Friday April 23, 1920
Butte, Montana – Gunthugs of Anaconda Copper Shoot Down Striking Miners
From The Butte Daily Bulletin of April 22, 1920:
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Butte today was shrouded in grief, mixed with considerable awe, as the result of the unprovoked massacre of unarmed, peaceful striking miners by Roy Alley and his selected band of Anaconda copper Mining Company’s hired killers, which occurred on Anaconda Road about 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. All night and today, awed groups of men stood in clusters on the streets and discussed in quiet tones the facts of the outrage as they have developed and frequently the belief was openly expressed that the time has come when the rule of the Anaconda company in Butte and Montana through the use of its political crooks, backed by armed thugs must cease…..
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Frank Little re Guts, Wobbly by RC p208, Chg July 1917
https://books.google.com/books?id=n-ygPQAACAAJ
The Butte Daily Bulletin
(Butte, Montana)
-Apr 22, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045085/1920-04-22/ed-1/seq-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045085/1920-04-22/ed-1/seq-3/
See also:
Tag: Anaconda Road Massacre of 1920
https://weneverforget.org/tag/anaconda-road-massacre-of-1920/
People’s Voice
The Online Home of the Montana Labor Movement
-Apr 24, 2017
“Give the Sons of Bitches Hell!” The Anaconda Road Massacre
https://mtpeoplesvoice.com/2017/04/24/give-the-sons-of-bitches-hell-the-anaconda-road-massacre/
The Gibraltar
Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920
-by Jerry W. Calvert
Montana Historical Society Press, 1988
-Chapter 11-To the Anaconda Road, pages 115-125
https://books.google.com/books?id=fMUEAQAAIAAJ
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