The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-10

IN STRIKE COUNTRY
Congress May Take Hand in the Two
Great Strikes in Col
orado and Mich
isan.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CALUMET, Mich. Dec 10-The
crisis in the iron miners strike in
upper Michigan is at hand today. Up
on the events of this afternoon and
tomorrow, both sides depsnd upon
success or failure of the walk out OF
$4,000 miners ordered last July by the
Western Federation of Miners.
Schools factories, mines and busi-
ness places closed today and citizens
from all over the coppar country are
gathered in Calumet and Hougilton to
attend the funeral of the three miners
murdered last Sunday and to Join in
great mass meeting of protest
against continuance of disorders in
connection with the strike. Forty
thousand persons, 1t was expected.
would join in a demand upon strikers,
strike breakers and the notorious
gunmen, who over ran the district,
that there be an immediate end to all
violence
The situation is desperate, Sheriff
Cruze said today, and he has mar
shalled nearly all of his 5000 depu-
ties in Houston and Calumet for an
expected clash What few state
militamen remain in the district were
also ordered to Calumet today. Strik.
ers parades were held as usual this
morning after union leaders had cat,.s
toned the men to refrain from any
action that might bring on the out
break. These instructions were OBJ
served to the letter. The parades
were led by women and children
carrying huge American flags. There
was no apparent decrease in the
ranks of the strikers.
With President Chas H Meyer of
the federation, again In personal
charge Of the strike, the men again
appeared more confident of ultimate
victory than at any time within the
past month.
Congressional Investigation.
WASHINGTON, Dec, 1O-Dramatio
recital Of alleged wrongs perpetrated
upon striking coal miners In Colorado
and upon copper miners in the Calu-
met, Mich, district led many of the
house rules committeeman today to
intimate that they would vote for an
investigation by the house. The com
mittee granted a hearing to Represen-
tatives Keating of Colorado and Mao
Donald of Michigan The congress-
men alleged that laws preventing the
discharge of miners because of affii-
ations with labor organizations were
being ignored; that civil tribunals had
been supplanted by military courts:
that mfners being arrested are de-
prived of attorneys, representatives
and their constitutional rights. Keat-
ing said hundreds of "profe sionai
gun-men' who had been employed in
the West Virginia coal strike troubles
were now employed by the Colorado
coal operators.
"Armored autos have been purchas-
ed and gatling guns mounted upon
them" he declared
The miners have been warned not
to call for their mail under pain of
DEATH
The strike in the copper distr' cts OF
Michigan. said Macdonald, has dis.
placed twenty-thrae thousand men,
three thousand more than have b en-
affected in Colorado The conditions
there are acute. The only means
whereby they can be improveG Is
within the control OF congress-
Macdonald read President Movers
telegram to the American Federation
of Labor and declared if attempts
We're made TO deport union msn seri-
Gus bloodshed would result