Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Strikes Paralyze Butte. [ARTICLE]

Strikes Paralyze Butte.

The City of Butte, Mont., for six weeks has been without a telephone service on account of a sympathy strike of operators and linemen for some striking linemen in Utah. The courts have sustained mandamus writs against the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company to compel it to operate its lines, but so far as Butte is concerned the company has made no effort to resume service. The telegraphic strike almost completely isolated the city from the outside world. The strike of the mail clerks several ir-nths ago left the po«to(E<?e service r-ilffy cnpV lva condition, mail delivery being alfiKJSf'Jj.uncertain as the telegraph. In addition to these troubles the strike of the machinists, who went out about a month ago to enforce a demand for increased pay, is gradually closing down the mines.