The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-27
HEAD OF FEDERATION OF MINERS EXPELLED FROM COPPER
 COUNTRY DISTRICT.
RELIEF MONEY IS DECLINED
Heads of Stricken Homes Say Union Will Provide-Tension Drawn Taut Over Reports Regarding Identity of Panic Originator.

Calumet, Mich, Dee. 2G.-Charles II. Mover president of the Western Federation of Miners. was put on a train and sent out of the copper strike district tonight, The deportation Was the direct result of refusal of families stricken by the Christmas eve disas ter here to accept relief from a com mittee, the majority of whose mem bers belonged to the Citizens Ali ance. an organization combating the fiye-months strike of the federation
 It was stated to the relief commit tee that the federation had forbidden it's members 10 accept any portion oi the s25,000 raised for relief of the panic victims. section of the com mttee thereupon was delegated 70 confer with Mover.
 The session held at hotel in han cock was warm The Citizens Ali ance men told the union executive that his attitude was against all die tates of humanity" They demanded that he retract statements attributed to him. saying that the cry of fire which started the panic was raised by a member of the Alliance
 Mover it was said, refused to make retraction satisfactory to the commit tee A short time later he and John Tanner of California. an organizer Of the federation were observed on a street car going from Hancoca tc Houghton.
 Just across the bridge connecting the two towns is the depot of the Copper Range Railroad There it was noticed that Mover and Tanner board ed a train bound for Chicago They were accompanied by three men, wnc seemed to be guarding them, although there was no visible demonstration of force or coercion.
 Movers departure leaves the strik CTS without leader, other than loca men. In the early stage of the strike c. F. Mahoney, vice president of the Federation and Guy Miller, Yancc Terseich and John C. Lowney, mem bers of the executive committee, were on the ground. Mover joined then after his return from an internatioua labor conference in Europe and has been in actual charge of the situation several weeks.
 The other executive officers of tho Federation left the territory about { fortnight ago.
 That Movers departure was unex pected was evidenced by the fact tha ha had engagements for tomorrow with several persons. It was stated on good authority that he went t' Hancock tonight on a telephonic re quest for a conference with Sherif James Cruse of Houghton county. Th' latter said the conversation was hel( early this afternoon and was deyot ed to discussion of means for pro tecting the union heauquarters her and the federation officers. The shei fir said Mover did not expect any tea of deportation or say that he person ally had received threats. Sherit Cruse added that he left Mover a the hotel and that the lafter's depart ure was a surprise to him.
 "I don't know a thing about it, h sheriff said, an hour after Mover train departed. "I have not begu an investigation yet am going t hgf
 Citizens Alliance circles professe ignorance of the incident and refuse to discuss it. Most of the leaders c the organization were i'll Calume fourteen miles from Hancock, attend ing meeting of the relief committee The meeting was considering mean of persuading union families to a' cept aid when word of Meyers d' parture reached Calumet.
 At the local federation headqua ters Movers departure was called Kidnapping by the citizens alliance The action was said to have cause no great surprise as it was sal threats of such possibility had bee received two weeks ago. It was poin ed out Una. these threats had bee reported by Vice President Malone when he made a plea for federal il vestigation of conditions before tn rules committee of the national hous of representatives
 The high handed action of tf citizens alliance today will have | effect upon the strike, except strengthen the men in their determ