Evening journal., 1913-09-15
CALUMET Mine
WORKERS QUIET
AFTER PARADE
Only Presence Of Armed
Guards and Militia Stir
the Town
UP TO UNCLE SAM
TO BRING SETTLEMENT
BY n. D. COCHRAN.


there was fear of clash between the
militia, gunner on one side and the
strikers on the other, Sundays big
parade of striking copper miners and
their sympathizers was as quiet and
peaceable as a Sunday school picnic.
II was a remarkable demonstration,
there being about seven thousand men,
women and children in line. The
parade was led by the women and
children, a striking miners wife
carrying a large American flag, with
two little girls, dressed in white,
walking at her side carrying the rib
bon streamers.
Mothers carried babes in their arms
or wheeled baby carriages. Little
ones barely able to toddle marched
the two miles from Red Jacket to the
big rink at Laurium and then back
again. There was no flag in the big
parade except the American flag, and
there was one of them for every dele
cation.
The soldiers were in the barracks
ard the gunmen and deputies kept
out OF sight, and there was no demon
gtraticn different from an ordinary
parade IN any city.
The banners were few One said the
headquarters of the Calumet and Hecla
mines in Boston and another that the
Headquarters of the Waddell Mahon
glinmen were in Sing Sing. The entire
population turned out and there was
much sympathy expressed for the
miners and their wives and children.
AT the monster meeting the prin-
cipal speakers were President Charles
II Meyer of the Western Federation OF
Miners and John Lennon, treasurer of
the American Federation of Labor. Len
non assured the strikers that the en-
tire organization labor movement of
the North American continent was bacl,
OF them. Both speakers urged the
strikers to obey the law and leave law
lessness to the militia and imported
Runmen.
Speeches were made in Finnish,
Croatian, Italian and Hungarian and all
the speakers urged the men to stand
firm. These men are striking for a
minimum wage of three dollars a day
for men who work underground for an
eight-hour day and for two men tC
operate drilling machine instead O
one. The machine weighs from 1875 tC
lao pounds
The men now work underground for
from 10 to u hours and don't average
S2.2O a day. ! saw a mine company
check showing that after all deductions
had been made, the miner got S27 for a
months work. Under the Butte agree
ment the lowest wage paid any miner
by the Anaconda company in Montana
is SO a day and the minimum for a man
working underground eight hours a day
is $3.50.
The Calumet and Hecla Company was
organized in 1871 with a capital stock OF
S25O0,O0, of which only $4,000 was
paid in. 1t has paid Sl2l 100000 il
dividends during the past forty years
an average of S3,0OO.00O a year, beside:
paying over forty millions for equipment
including railway and transportation
stock and also investing about $4,000,
900 in other mines and leads
During the present strike, the sheriff
former employe of the Calumet s
Hecla, imported Waddell-Mahon strike
breakers from New York and eastern
points. gave them permits TO carry gum
and swore them in as special deputies
Deputies have already killed tw
miners and have beaten up man,
others. A little 15-year-old Italiai
girl is in the hospital now with par
Of the back of her head shot away
DtHuAitn MAtu llAO a GlOMu MAlIOh
provocation, and this little girl wa
the victim. Nobody has been indicte
for the shooting. The parade passe
the hospital yesterday and the nurs
had the child at the window, wher
she could see the crowd of ner
women and children wave their hand
kerchief at her.
Governor Ferris said last Frida
that his report showed there we're .
imported gunner here. These ar
the ones brought in by the sheriff
Vice-President Mahoney, of the Wes
tern Federation of Miners estimate
the number from 500 to 700. Their
are 760 militiamen here.
The strikers have attempted no vic
lence and there has been none exceI
when there were clashes betwee
them, gunner and the militia.
II is evidently a finish fight. TIL
miners are determined and report n
desertions from their ranks. The Ell
tire executive board of the Wester
Federation of Miners is here, wit
one exception. Lennon is here II
presenting the. American Federatio
of Labor, and John A. Mofiitt is hei
as a special representative of II
United States department of labor. II
and Palmer, government statisticiai
will see McNaugton today in an a
tempt to bring about settlemen
The miners have offered to accel
arbitration.
There has been some uneasinel
among the mine operators sinS
Uncle Sam stepped in. After Mofh
got here Saturday the local chamb'
Of commerce got busy and decided
investigate a strike that has being e
ing on right under its nose for seve
weeks. BY the way, there are ov'
thirty churches and most of them al
on leased land belonging 10 Il
Calumet & Hecla. If the compar
didn't happen to like their preachin
it could order the churches off /
land.
1t looks hopeless as far as Govern
Ferris is concerned. It is up to Il
Federal government to settle tn
strike
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