Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-29
MINE OWNERS BLAMED.
Charged With Responsibility for Panic
 in Italian Hall.

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-An appeal to con- gress to investigate conditions in the copper country of Michigan was made today by the Chicago Federation of Labor, in resolutions which directly charged owners of the mines and their agents with being responsible for the tragedy of Christmas eve, when 72 children and adults lost their lives
 The resolutions also charged that Houghton county is under a govern ment by gunnen by orders of the mine owners, and that Charles Fl Mover, president of the Western Federation of Miners, was assaulted shot and driven out of Hancock by thugs and gunmen.
 The announcement that the Western Federation of Miners will concentrate it's strength on the copper strike was made by Lanco Terzich, a member of the executive board. Every member of the board, he said, plans to go to the copper mining region next week. We are going to win that strike or break up the organization" he said. "As soon as MT. Mover is able he will be back there as the leader
 Charles H. Tanner. auditor of the Western Federation, who, with Mover, was escorted from Hancock, stirred the fire against the Citizens Alliance. We have ample evidence" he said. Half a dozen will testify that the man who called FireH in Italian hall wore a. Citizens Alliance button"
 Violence Advocated.
 Emmett T. Flood, national organizer of the American Federation of Labor. was the only speaker directly counsel ing violence
 Meet them with their own weap- ons,'' he urged. eff it is known that the state and county government will v1nT crfv- # !, CT the constitution, every man who goes to the strike region should have his own protection with him"
 John Fl. Walker. president of the Illinois United Mine Workers, urged that relief was to be found in the bal lot Barrett O'Hara, lieutenant gov ernor of Illinois, and Claude Taylor, president of the Michigan Federation of Labor, also spoke.
 It was at the conclusion of the speeches that the resolutions were adopted The resolutions related the conditions of labor of the miners, de- clared that representatives of both state and national governments after investigation, had found that the min CTS had a real grievance, and conc1ud- ed:
 Resolution to Congress.
 Resolved That the assembled citi- zens of the United States appeal. as a last resort, to the congress of the Unit ed States to investigate conditions in the copper country. of Michigan, to the end that the people of this country may know the truth and that all citi- zens may be protected in their rights guaranteed by the constitution
 There is only the remote chance that the wound in Charles H. Movers back will prove fatal, it was said tonight. Probably within ten days he will be hack in the conner C0IJDfT-U of Njchi gan, directing the strike, as presi dent of the Western Federation of Miners
 Optimistic news of his condition came from St Luke's hospital when the sl1iagraph showed that the bullet was embedded in the muscles of the left shoulder. Unless blood poisoning develops the bullet probably will be allowed to stay where it is unless the investiga tion of the shooting demands that the calibre of the bullet be asoertained In order to trace the man who fired it.