The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-16
WHEN THE COLD
WEATHER COMES
CONTINUED from nage IL

who stuck with the company are work
is grave danger of wholesale murder
II the state troops should be with
drawn. Aside from the disgraceful
condition OF few soldiers, the militia
men are really protection for the
men, women and children against the
several hundred imported gun men,
many OF whom came from New York.
These gun men are thick all over the
district. When parades are on, they
follow the strikers in automobiles and
are stationed all along the line of
march. All of them are armed, and
many carry heavy clubs, besides their
revolvers. II they ever out loose on
the miners here there will be an aw-
full slaughter-and it would take only
a spark to start real war. 1t may
start any morning when the parade
is on.
These gun men have dubbed wom-
on as well as men and all the out
RACES SO far, including two cold blood
ed murders. have been committed by
these deputies. Annie Clemens. an
American born Crotfan, is the heroine
Of striking miners and leader OF the
women. She carries a big silk Amer
lean flag at the head OF all the pa
rades. She showed me a bruise on
her wrist made by bayonet and said
she was black and blue on her shout
ders when she was struck with a club
by one OF the gun men deputies.
AT military inquiry yesterday af-
ternoon on the striking down of
flag by the soldiers last Saturday,
Mrs. Clemens told the officers that
she would die before she would give
up the flag to anybody. 81 am willing
to die for that flag she said. IF
the soldiers want to strike it down,
they must kill me-" That was what
she told the soldiers on Saturday
when she invited them to strike her
through the flag. 1t appeared in the
testimony before the inquiry that Of
fcers who stopped the parade acted
In violation of orders, as the miners
were parading when they had the
right to and It was not the policy OF
the militia to interfere with them.
1t appears that II war breaks out
here the governor of Michigan will
have to call an extra session OF the
legislature to declare martial law as
he has not the right to do 1t himself.
The mine operators have turned down
Governor Ferris last attempt to save
the situation and 1t does not appear
that there Is anything further the
state OF Michigan can do. If Mofltt
fails IN his mission there will be war
The miners are determined and it
runs through the entire family. They
have never before been organized but
have about fifteen thousand members
The real difficulty in the wav of set
tiement is James MacNaughton, the
mine manager who spurns both state
and national government and seems
determined to beat the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners and to make con
per miners in this country bow In
AAtSSh SuphiiGeiOn W Ills Will,
| never saw such desperate de.
termination and such cheerful com
placancy on the part of men and WON
en- out of work and facing a hard win
ter in very cold country. There
are those who will starve or die
fighting for what they believe to be
their rights. The weather is mild now
but cold weather is not very far off.
War may be precipitated any day.
The situation is full of danger and
the federation officials have about
given up hope of arbitration. They
expect no mercy from MacNaughton
and will ask none. They believe the
imported gun men are here to kill
them or drive them into the mines
on MacNaughton's terms Nightly
meetings are being held and they are
attended not only by the men but by
the women and many Of enem with
babies in their arms. And then they
are UP before day light to march into
Calumet for miles around to join the
parade at $50 every morning but
Sunday, The Western Federation of
Miners is affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor and is backed by
that body in this war and it will ask
the support of the entire labor move
ment on this continent In this war
Three Cars In the Ditch.
r1Ipftad proce oarod Urira Carrt,a
COATBSyILIE Pa, Sept. 10