“Dagos are cheaper than props.”
-Mother Jone quoting a Mine Manager
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday June 20, 1917
Butte, Montana – Metal Miners Organize and Strike
From the Phoenix Arizona Republican of June 17, 1917:
NEW UNION CLAIMS 1600 MEMBERS
—–(Republican A. P. Leased Wire)
BUTTE, Mont., June 16.-Sixteen hundred miners it was announced today, are members of the Metal Mine Workers’ Union which is about a week old. The union’s speakers, at an open air meeting attended by more than 3000 miners, appealed to the miners to continue to keep away from the mines. The union’s officials said more than 3000 miners are on strike for an increase in wages and improved working conditions.
No disturbances were reported to the police today, but several arrests were made for distributing without a license, circulars issued by the union attacking the local newspapers and urging all miners to join the union.
The mining companies reported all the mines working but with reduced forces.
