Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-28

ing miners I have submitted to you terms
of arbitration which should appeal 10
any one who is DESTROYS of bringing 10
an end conflict which has been goine
on for more than five months, during
which time millions of dollars nave been
lost and unnecessarily expended, and
human lives have been sacrinceo' 10 say
nothing of the suffering of the partici-
pants and those who must necessarily
feel the effects of an industrial conflict
at this time.
THE thinking people of this country
believe that there must be something 10
settle between the employers and their
employees of this district. Can you longer
maintain that there is but one side 10
this question. and that labor snail not
be given an opportunity to be heard! IN
my last proposal of arbitration l agreed
that the mining companies at interesi
might select two, the miners on strike
two who are not members OF their local
organization or the Western Federation
of Miners and either the President of the
United States or the governor OF tn
state of Michigan should select one; that
the entire question in dispute be sub
mitted to said board and that all partisan
interests be bound by their findings.
Supplemental Proposal.
81 submit to you the following:
That the President of the United
States and the governor of the state of
Michigan together select a committee of
arbitration, composed of five or seven
members: that all matters in dispute be
submitted to said board and that upon
the acceptance of this medium of arbi-
tration the miners on strike shall be re-
employed by you without discrimination
and that all at interest shall be bound by
the findings of said board.
Il submit to you gentlemen that no
fairer proposition for a settlement of a
controversy of this character has ever
been submitted by men strike. and
urge upon you its acceptance to the end
that peace may be restored in this dis
trict and assurance given that such
scenes as we have been called upon to
witness shall be forever ended"
The letter, according to Meyer, was adj
dressed to the general managers of the
mining companies of Houghton and ke-
weenaw countless"
Victor Berger quoted Meyer as saying
the letter was dispatched to the general
managers before the attack upon him.
Deportation No Surprise.
BUTTE, Mon, December 27.-John c.
Lowney. member of the executive board
of the Western Federation of Miners,
who returned to Butte a few days ago
from Calumet. said today that the feder
alton officials were not surprised over
1.-The deportation" of Charles II. Meyer
from the Michigan copper district.
THE deportation Of Meyer had been
planned a month ago, and We knew ii,
Lowney said This action was not the
result of our refusal to accept funds
from the Citizens Alliance following the
Christmas eve tragedy. The Michigan
copper companies were determined to
bring matters to crisis by New Year
day. President Meyer had offered only
few days ago to have President Wilson
or the Governor of Michigan arbitrate
the strike, and the companies ignored his
offer.
Leaders Anticipated Indictment.
Many of the officers of the federation
left Calumet because We expected in
dictment by the trumped-up grand jury,
the first called in the copper district in
fifty years. We left to escape arrest
so that the funds OF the strikers would
not Be tied up in the form of bail to
keep us at liberty. The money was need
ed for food rather than bail.
Meyer will be back In Calumet under
government protection within few days.
We feel now that We are assured of a
federal investigation of the whole strike,
and that is all we ask. We are willing
to abide by the results of such an in
vestigation.
protest meeting of the Butte miners
has been called for Sunday. 1t is ex-
pected further funds will be sent to
Calumet. Already ST. 600 has been sent
by the local miners to Calumet.