The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-15
MINER IS PARADE
WAS REMARKABLE
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u "AASh ouly $l,lUU was pdlQ IN. IL mas
Il paid S1s,000.000 dividends during the
past forty years an average of $500, 900
a year besides paying over forty mil
lions for equipment, including rail-
way and transportation stock and also
investing about $25,000,0OO in other
4 mines and leads. In one month the
Calumet and Hecla earned over $780,,
900. 1t has paid dividends of one hun.
dred times the original investment or
item thousand percent which Is $50 per
cent year since the organization.
In 1907 1t earned over $4,000, 900
net profit and paid less than half OF
ilt In dividends. The Calumet and
Hecla bought stock to control about
fourteen mines and has practically the
same board of directors for all com.
panies.
Most OF the stock is owned in Bos-
ton. Quincy Adams Shaw draws q
salary Of 100000 year as president
and $4,000 a year as director. Ru-
dolph p. L. Agassiz. grandson Of the
famous Louis Agassiz. draws soc, 900
a year as first vice president, and
$4,000 as director. James McNaugh-
ton, big boss and uncrowned king OF
the copper country, draws $25, 5000 as
second vice president, $4,000 as di.
rector and $4,000 as general manag-
er. He also draws salary as general
manager Of various other mines con-
/ trolled by the Calumet and Hecla.
The other directors, Higgins and Hun
newell draw $4,000 each. All these
except McNaughton live at Brookline,
Mass. Geo. A. Flagg, secretary-treas-
urer. draws $4,000; his assistant,
$4,000, and q. D. Leavitt, consult
1 ing engineer, draws $4,000, making
a total pay roll of officers and direc-
tors of s370,0o0 a year from the
Calumet and Hecla, besides what they
pay themselves from the other min
ing companies.
There is in reality mining trust
controlled by the directors of Calu-
met and Hecla. Through stock owner
ship they control the following other
mines: Asmeek, Centennial, Cliff.
Gratiot, Isle Royal. LaSalle, Laurium,
EOsceola, Seneca, Superior. Tamarack.
White Pie and Alluos. The company
pays taxes on 80 per cent of the
property in Calumet township. Their
leases run from year to year. II a
miner builds house on the company's
leased land he can be ordered off II
he quits working for the company.
| McEaughton Is one of the county
supervisors and controls every other
member, except one. The supervisors
run the county.
During the present strike, the sher-
lift. former employee of the Calumet
and Hecla imported Wadell-Mahon
strike breakers from New York and
eastern points and gave them permits
to carry guns and swore them In as
Especial deputies.
Deputies already have killed two
miners and beaten up many others. A
little fifteen year old italian girl Is
in the hospital now with part of the
4 back of her head shot away. Depu-
tiles fired into crowd without provo
cation and this little girl was the vic
tim. Nobody has been indicted for
! the shooting. The parade passed the
, hospital and the nurse had the child
at the window where she could see the
crowd of men, women and children
wave their handkerchiefs at her.
, Governor Ferris said last Friday that
II r ~, a
two imported gun men here These
are the ones brought in by the sheriff.
Vice President Mahoney Of the west
ern federation, estimates the number
employed by the company at from 500
to 700. There are 760 militiamen here.
The strikers have attempted no
violence and there has been none ex-
cept when there were clashes between
them and gun men and the militia.
In his speech John Lemon said he
saw soldiers on the main street last
night so drunk they could hardly nav
igate and they were carrying big re-
volvers on their hips. 1t is evident
ly to be finish fight. The miners
are determined and report no deser-
tons from their ranks The entire
board of the Western Federation of
Miners is here with one exception.
Lennon Is here as a special represent
iative and Palmer, government statis-
titan, will see McNaughton in an at
tempt to bring about a settlement.
The miners have offered to accept
from the outset. There has been
some uneasiness among the mine
owners since Uncle Sam stepped in.
The local chamber of commerce got
busy and decided to investigate a
strike that has been on right under
their noses for seven weeks. Bv the
way, there are over thirty churches
here and most Of them are on leased
ground belonging to the Calumet and
Hecla. If the company did not hap
pen to like their preaching 1t could
order the churches off its land.
1t looks hopeless so far as Governor
7 Ferris is concerned. 1t is up to the
federal government to settle this