The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-16
MINERS CROWD
HEARING HALL
Tramp Through the Snow for
Miles to Attend Probe by
Congressional Com
mittee.
EXPECT END OF STRIKE
lslide and Tumble Down Icy Paths Of
| the Hills, After Walking
| Four to Ten
/ Miles.
EXPECT END OF STRIKE
[By N. G. Parke, staff correspondent
Of the United Press

by N. g. Parke, stan correspondent
of the United Press.l
HANCOCK, Mich, fen. 16.-Hope
that in some way--a way they do not
Understandable the congressional inves-
tigation of the Calumet copper strike
will bring an end to all their troubles,
lis bringing nearly 1000 miners daily
to the hall where the probers are
holding their sessions.
Through the severest weather the
upper peninsula has experienced this
winter, roughly dressed Films, Croat-
ians, Italians and Cornishmen trudge
into Hancock early every morning
from mining towns from four to ten
miles northeast. An hour before the
committee met today the snow cap
ped hills overlooking the town were
fairly alive with miners sliding and
| half tumbling down Icy paths beaten
out Of the hillside.
| They do not comprehend and 1t Is
almost impossible to make them .un-
derstand. that the committee did not
come here for the primary object OF
ending the seven months strike. said
IAttorney Kerr, of the federation I'll
miners, today.
They only know that the federal
4 government is more powerful than a
state and that the men who fought
them when the strike started, fought
1.-THE inyesti cation. Neither the attor
|nsys ner the officers Of the federation
iexpect any Immediate effect upon the
4 strike situation as result of the
lprobe" No grand opera audience
ever displayed the keen interest that
has characterized this picturesque as
4 lsemblage of men of so many different
tongues. Chairman Tayior's gavel
has sounded but once or twice to the
call for order and the committeeman
commented today upon the absence o1
the hubub usual to crowded court
room
Though zero weather has prevailed
lin the copper country for more than {
week with occasional drops far below
the zero mark, lower temperatures
have not materially added to the burd
ems of the strikers families, accord
. ing to representatives of the Western
Federation of Miners and the strikers
themselves. Enough clothing ha!
been shipped into Calumet, Houghtor
and Hancock to provide for the I'M
mediate needs, they said and there il
no urgent demand for fuel
. 4
Mother Jones May Testify.
TRINIDAD, Colo, Feb. 16.--Mothe
: Mary Jones, the aged leader OF thu
United Miners now hsld nilitar.
! prisoner at San Rafael hospital viii
be called as witness before the con
gressional Colorado strike probe COIN
mittee if counsel for the miners hav'
their way. Attorney E. P. Costigan
: chief attorney for the strikers, ind
Gated before today's session of tn
investigation began that hs probalbl,
3 would request that she be subpoenae'
: to tell why she was arrested by tn
troops.
The Trinidad part of thu strike In
q quiry will require ten days, 1t is be
( lieved Chairman Foster told tn
: miners the committee would hear al
their vital witnesses but that the
must eliminate unnecessary test
{ mony The miners had prepared I
prod,uce from 400 to 500 witnesse
hers, it is said
The Investigators program is t
hear the miners side first and the
the operators after which they wi
visit the various camps of the soutf
ern Colorado coal flslds and inspee
: the ground where the various battle
between strikers and mine guard
took place.