The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-08-23
GUNNER MURDER
COPPER MINERS
F8SE I.
board in appointing an outside prose-
cutor to handle all strike cases.
Pleads for Strikers.
Continued From PAGE H.

llcduS 1Oi SCflhciS.
Standing by the graves, Cannon
made an impassioned speech in which
he charged the state .officers by name
and the copper owners and stock
holders with responsibility for the
killing Of Putrich and Tazan. Can
non showed that the deputies We're
gunner" brought from New York to
intimidate the Strikers
He censured Governor Ferris for
having been informed of the purpose
of their presence, and blamed the
governor for sending troops to the
mines.
Cannon urged the strikers to re-
frain from violence and told them
that keeping quiet was the only way
they could rid themselves of the pres
ence of the. troops. .
The four deputie;. implicated in the
killing of the two strikers have not
been, nor are they likely to be, APP
pretended. =:
Press Reports Unfair.
The associated press reports Of the
shooting Of the miners by the hired
thugs Of the copper kings have led
the public" to believes hat .=th g. men
provoked the assault. The other side
of the story is told by the Miners
Rulletin,' published in Calumet. It
shows that the gunner, like the men
engaged on the Mesaba range:in 1907.
were wholly responsible. The miners
side is told by the bulletin as fol-
lows: /
John Kalem and J. Stin1ac came
from South Range yesterday after
noon, to their home in Seeberville,
following the railroad track till near
the bridge, when they took a by-path
leading to a mine shaft, on the prop
erty of the mining. company, although
In general use. While near the
shaft, a secret service man ordered
them back: They replied: I'VE ALWAYS
go this way it's Closer" and went
on. They had scarcely reached the
house when Deputy Sheriff. Harry
James, trammer boss, and six secret
service men arrived. The trammer
boss pointed out Kalem as the man.
says: come with me- He replied:
Il guess not At that the leader
sprang upon him and began clubbing
him. All the men ran into the board
ing house. Upon command from the
,ader, the secret service men, two
at each window, began filing into
the little home, and James shot one
of the party, shooting from the door,
way, with the results indicated above.
The Tragedy Occurred. =
The tragedy occurred in an
Austrian boarding house. The Wife of
the proprietor has four children, the
Oldest four years old, the youngest a
baby of six months, in her arms, was
burned by powder smoke from the
shots of the secret service men shoot
ing into the room where she and. her
children were. Almost at once after
the shooting, deputies and soldier.
arrived. They: searched the. house,
even going through tho trunks of the
man. They found no. weapons of any
kind. There was: no resistance to the
officers. There was no call upon the
men to surrender. The secret service
men came to murder, and they ac-
complished their infamous purpose.
Then, as if to afford justification
for the murder, they went around the
| houses Of the location picking up ali
old broken bottles, the product OF
years, and gathered them up, claiming
they had been thrown at them. It wa,
too late to manufacture evidence,
There were too many witnesses to- the
crime. who knew what the thugs were
| doing. - ~. $500. =. ':3 =
| 1t is reported that the prosecuting
attorney twice requested that the
sheriff serve warrants upon the muir.
! derers. He has not done so yet.> He
divides honors (?) with other acces.
sories before tho fact >, -. e