man yesterday who wanted to go to work in the Globe Smelter. This party did not know Alden was a union man. Alden told him he was thinking of going to work himself. Alden said, "He told me to meet him this morning at 5.30, and we would go in together. The son of a gun did not show up this morning. If he had, I'd have fixed him so that he would be in the hospital now. I wanted to get him out alone, having had no chance at him yesterday."
At Predovich's place this evening I mixed with several of the boys. Frank McNamara was there. Policeman Malone spent an hour there, drinking and talking with the boys. Predovich called Malone out. They went out, talked for fifteen minutes, then came back. I do not know what they talked about.
I walked with Alden this evening. He told me that the
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Allen and Stewart combination, that are trying to get Smith out, are also trying to get him, Alden, out. Alden said, "I have done more for this union than any other man in it, and now this is what I get. I led that attack on the smelter on July 3rd. I made the watchman open the gate, and told him if he dared to blow that whistle Td kill him. You bet he did not blow it. Mike Golden was with me. We went in the engine room, and it was Golden that pulled the whistle. Mike Golden is in California. They are looking for him, but he got away from them.*'
Alden is dissatisfied with the way things are run. He expected to get $2.50 a day, and as he is only getting $1.50 he is angry. He said, "If they try to run me out of this union, 1*11 make them feel sorry, if I have to kill a couple of them."
I discontinued at 9 P. M.
Yours respectfully,