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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers records (1917) Collection includes three IBEW contracts with three different companies in the Butte area: Montana Power Company; Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company; and The Butte Electrica Railway Company (also includes agreement with Local Union 200). Contracts all created in the months following the Anaconda Mining Company Speculatro Mine Disaster, a time of much unrest between labor unions and companies in the Butte area.

Content Description Artificial collection of records related to labor activity following the Speculator Mine Disaster which happened in Butte on June 8, 1917. Collection includes multi-page typed responses from Mrs. Jack Adams, two addressed to CF Kelley of Anaconda Copper & Mining dated July 17, 19th, 23d, and 31st, 1917. Calls out the management at ACM as well as the Anaconda Standard newspaper for their role in the disaster and/or feeding mis-information about the mine unions and conditions for the...