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ButteNews.net
July 3, 2023
Thomas McGovern was found dead in his cell in the Butte-Silver Bow Detention Center. He passed away Friday, and was discovered deceased late that night, reported Sheriff Ed Lester.
Agents from the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation were called to the jail, and are conducting a full investigation into McGovern’s death.
The body was transported to the Montana State Crime Lab in Missoula for an autopsy.
The death did not appear to be the result of foul play, but cause and manner of death will be determined after the autopsy and toxicology reports are in, the sheriff noted.
Mr. McGovern was 43 and from Butte.
“This is an extremely unfortunate event, and our thoughts are with the family of the deceased male,” the sheriff wrote in a text message.
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BUTTE, Mont. – Montana Tech Football released the football schedule for the 2023 season today. The Orediggers start a new schedule with the addition of a new Frontier Conference member this year and a nonconference opponent for the first time since 2011.
The Orediggers will play 10 games this season. The season and home opening Copper Game presented by Rocky Mountain Credit Union is on a Thursday night this year. The Orediggers host Carroll College at 6:00 p.m. on Bob Green Field at Alumni Coliseum.
The opener against the Saints will be a nonconference game. Tech finishes with the Saints on November 11th in Helena.
All Frontier institutions’ first games will not be counted in the conference standings except newcomer Arizona Christian University. The Frontier Conference added Arizona Christian this season bringing the conference total to nine teams. The conference slate consists of eight games this season to accommodate the odd number of teams.
Including the home opener, the Orediggers have four home games in their first six contests. In week two, Tech travels to NCAA Division II Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. The last time Tech played a nonconference team during the regular season was 2011 against Southern Oregon. The Raiders became a fulltime member in 2012. The last NCAA contest for the Orediggers was against South Dakota School Mines in 2010.
The Orediggers host Eastern Oregon on September 16th for Homecoming presented by NUCOR. Tech hosts the College of Idaho on September 23rd with kickoff slated for noon.
The Orediggers hit the road for the first Frontier Conference away contests on September 30th when they travel to Ashland, Oregon to face Southern Oregon.
Tech returns home the following week for their fourth home game of the season hosting Montana Western on October 7th. The game will be Hall of Fame Weekend celebrating the Hall of Fame Class of 2023.
The following week will be the only bye week on the schedule this season.
The Orediggers go to Rocky Mountain on October 21st for just the third road game of the season.
The final home game of the regular season is October 28th when the Orediggers host the newest Frontier Conference member Arizona Christian for the first time ever. The last home game will be Senior Day.
The Firestorm played football in the Sooner Athletic Conference previously and are regular members of the Golden State Athletic Conference where football is not sponsored.
Tech finishes on the road at Montana State University-Northern on November 4th.
All home games except the Copper Game and the College of Idaho contest kickoff at 1 p.m.
Season tickets are currently on sale. To purchase season ticket, call Oredigger Athletics a 406.496.4105. The ticket office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Single game tickets will go on sale in August.
The Digger Athletic Fund is currently taking contributions towards the Digger Athletic Endowed Scholarship. Ryan Lance presented a challenge this spring of a $1 million match to donations towards the Digger Endowed Scholarship.
To make a donation to football or athletics, go to https://foundation.mtech.edu/give/.
The Digger Athletic Fund (DAF) is the fundraising arm of Montana Tech University Athletics. The Digger Athletic Fund operates under the Montana Tech Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization recognized as a public charity. For additional information regarding donating or supporting Digger Athletics, please contact Tommy Heppler with the Digger Athletic Fund at
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“Labor is prior to, and independent of, Capital. Capital is only the fruit of Labor and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to Capital and deserves much the higher consideration.” -Abraham Lincoln, Progressive Republican
Wednesday, June 28:
Birthday of Matthew Maguire, New Jersey Union machinist, who in 1882, proposed to the CLU (Central Labor Union) the creation of the Labor Day holiday to celebrate United States workers. -1850
The federal government sues the Teamsters to force reforms on the union, the nation's largest. The following March, the government and the union sign a consent decree requiring direct election of the union's president and the creation of an Independent Review Board. -1988
Thursday, June 29:
IWW strikes Weyerhauser and other Idaho lumber camps. The IWW successfully organized and represented many lumber mills and loggers in the western states. -1936
Jesus Pallares, the founder of the 8,000-member coal miners’ union, Liga Obrera de Habla Espanola, is deported as an "undesirable alien." The union operated in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. -1936
Friday, June 30:
One million railway shopmen strike. -1922
Alabama outlaws the leasing of convicts to coal mine owners, a practice that had been in place since 1848. 73 percent of the state's total revenue came from this source. 25 percent of all black leased convicts died. -1928
The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a Union whose roots traced back to the militant Western Federation of Miners, and which helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), merges into the United Steelworkers of America. -1967
Anaconda Company suspends all operations in Butte. The massive wealth and profits flowed out of state while the taxpayer was left with a world-class poisonous mess. (Privatize the profits, socialize the cost - the ugly truth of U.S. “Free Market” Capitalism) -1983
Saturday, July 1:
Homestead, Pa., steel strike. 7 strikers were murdered as Andrew Carnegie hires armed thugs and Pinkertons to protect his high profits by keeping wages at starvation levels and working conditions deadly. -1892
Copper miners begin a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Ariz. Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt repeatedly deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company and protect profits over the course of the strike. -1983
Sunday, July 2:
Bituminous coal miners begin a 10-week strike for less deadly working conditions and better pay. -1897
An auto worker at a Detroit Chrysler plant pulled out an M-1 carbine and killed 3 supervisors before he was subdued by UAW union committeemen. A jury found Johnson innocent because of insanity after visiting and being shocked by what they considered the “maddening conditions” at Johnson's place of work. -1970
Monday, July 3:
Children employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., go on strike for 11-hour day and 6-day week. A compromise settlement resulted in a 69-hour work week for children laborers. -1835
Butte Montana: Mayor Lewis Duncan (Socialist) is attacked and stabbed in his office. Duncan shoots his attacker in self-defense. Elected twice as a Socialist Mayor, Duncan's socialist policies ended corruption, increased public services, improved the city streets and sanitation, lowered infant mortality rates by fifty percent, and brought Butte out of bankruptcy. -1914
Tuesday, July 4:
AFL dedicates its new Washington, D.C., headquarters building at 9th St. and Massachusetts Ave. NW. The building, still standing, later became headquarters for the Plumbers and Pipefitters. -1916
Madison, Wisconsin: The Capital Times reporter John Patrick Hunter asks people on the street to sign a "petition", (actually the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, 6 amendments from the Bill of Rights and the 15th amendment of the U.S. Constitution). Only 1 in 112 does. 20 accuse Hunter of being a “Communist”. Many feared McCarthy could use it against them. The rest find the words in the petition “too subversive”. The journalist's actions demonstrated that an ignorant fearful populace incited by McCarthyism can and do threaten the very foundations of our Democracy. -1951
This Week in Labor History is compiled by Kevin D. Curtis
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