The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-16
FEDERATION IS
LOSING ITS HOLD
Union Men Turning in Due Books
to Mining Companies

N'llll 'dAltto never VIII ltNNSillAf All'
federation ana they will start up their
mines. The start will oe gradual, and
as the returning miners are projected
and are drawing wages the strikers
really very few compared To the totaI
ct men formerly employed -will return
GO work.
In the meantime the strikers are
having meetings and paradcs. are pic
ketiug md are generally making an
effort go give the strike the appear
ancc ~ strength it hal at the com
mcnccmcnt II the industrial war. That
the strike is not now as strong is adj
mittcd Ivy an but the strike leaders
There is every reason to believe that
IL Chicttains Mahoney aud Miller ana
the other agitators would leave Hough
ton county tonight this strike would
bee % thing of the past at that minute
Take Exception To Charges.
The military and civil authorities
take exception To the assertions con-
tanned i'm a telegram John II Walker
representative in the strike district of
the mining department of the NmCri-
can Federation of Labor. has sent To
President Gompcrs of the American
Federation, that the troops have been
suilty of hendish acts such as insult
ng Young girls and abusing strikers
ana their families. the shooting of one
man white peacefully on his way HON,
ON a public road. and that the two men
who met death as the result Of tho
fEht between deputies and strikers AT
paiuesdalc Thursday night were muir
dcrcd hy hired guumcn and thugs Ii
is declared 10y the authorities that the
troups have behaved themselves i'm an
admirable manner, aud that the public
gen rally knows this to he the case,
also that the deputies at the Champion
mine wcrc attacked and fired upon
1rs; 10y the strikers.
Injunction Proceedings.
Coroner Charles L. Littl,. expects {,
this afternoon serve on Sheriff Crus,
and ON James W. Waddell, presidcn
of the Waddell- Mahon corporation, tn,
4 papers and processes incident To a re,
quest FOR an Injunction, prohibiting tn,
sherin from employing Waddell mci
/ as deputies The injunction is askc,
uy the executive committee of thu
Western Federation of Miners through
! Attorney \. w. Kerr
These papers were placed in tn
! hands of the coroner for service las
evening but Sheriff Cruise was at Cal
umct and could not bc located unit
after midnight and as the papers ha,
10 be served on August H. it was i'm
( possible to use them after midnight
/ and consequently the entire service, al
! Of the st'idavits and processes, had 4
he rcdrawn and sworn to again.
I'm the request for an Injunction tn
Western Federation makes some start
|. linz charges against the Waddell- Ma
I hon corporation. The men who ar
L here in the employ of the corporation
are described as strong arm men" an
as tall, muscular men of the pril
lighter variety"
They are charged with having dc
Iiberatoly tried to incitc the citizen
ut this county to riot" with havin
tried TO break up and modest parade
IN the pablo highways" and wit
having pretended to be intoxicated an
while IN that condition having tried I
pick quarrcls with the citizens Of tht
county
II is alleged that they arc i'm Contrc
Of the sherihs office, hat they hIy
ollcd the positions of deputy sheriff
i'm violation of the law, that they hay
made numerous arrests without tn
slightest evidence and that they HAY
4 beaten prisoncrs numerically"
The Seehervllc shooting aitray
detailed ia . startling manner. an AT
ndavit from Mrs Antonio Putricl
nif" of the man who passed away yes
tcrday. d"cl3riuG that two men stoo
~ each ~ three windows ana cmptie
their r"Nulvers into the rooms. that
man stood at the door and fired int
the crowd around the supper tahl
rho presence or any one upstairs
strenu,usly denied and the atlidav
declares that none of the inmates +,
| the house were armed.
Judge O'Bricn viii hr compelled
pass ON the request rur AN iuiunctio
within four davs.
Deputies Are Not Arrested.
Sheriff Cruise has not complied wit
Prosecuting Attorney Lucas rcquc'
that six deputies. concerned i'm III
shooting at Paincsdalc Thursday nigh
which resulted in the death Of tw
strikers, he deprived of their stars an
placed under arrest pending an inve'
tiratiou of the affair. The Shcri
dpuhjs HE authority of the prosecute
m the matter and will consult leg;
advice.
Victor Brandcr IS Released.
Victor Brandcr, alleged agent of "
Western Federation of Miners and ~
Tyomics. WAS this morning release
] ly Judge Little OF Houshton on m'