The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-03-02
Attorney for Operators in
Opening Statement Says
Temper Of People was All
for a Lynohing.
NO TROUBLE UNTIL
FEDERATION CAME In
Terms Made by the Union,
Says Rees, Would Make
Mining of Copper in Mich
igan Impossible.

th1 1Nao'n hANe Ao NNthiNE iAtfulus
houshton, Mich. March 2.--iu his
opening statement for the minc uper-
attrs, Attorney Allen F tces. to-day
told the congressional nKrstIputlns
committee hc believed thar It Cnuries
T. Mofcr had Joined nNnds Nltu cite
liens 800 reoogniziug thr distress of the
sufferers from the Calumet disaster
the stri6c would have been settled
that day
Reicrrug To- the deportation of the
president of the Western Federation
Of Miners after his refusal to permit
the Victims 10 accept outside ald Rccs
said
"Moyer WAS mighty lucky t1at noth-
Ing more serious happened Go him as
Bishop Williams of the Episcopal
church, -emarked whom he heard Of
thg affair u waA evidence of tho
greatest self-rcstraint ever known to
me. For feeling ran very strong
that nighi ana Mover Was fortunate
that you had men OF such restraint Ia
deal with.
ltets sald mat if tine n,csurauon
were "a iudlCml proceeding tho ouct-
ators would rest because of "tht lack
Of any evidence tending 90 show aus
thing Illegal in our conduct"
Reviewing tho important points 0i
the strike. Rccs said.
Allen HgfJtturs ana organizers
came into the copper district Zoo 1909
ana bcgan sowing thc socd uf diseon-
tent umous our employees Th,t sue-
ceedod iu doing so among BE- certain
number of them les matins I'd iut of
promises impossible OFF fIuimenL DO
Hus known tor moro chan % scir shat
the strike WAS inevitable Boa order GO
carry out the plan of the Weucrn
Federation of Mlntrs tu obtain rrcng-
milton cot their union. w6teh wauid
mean the total wrcaklu- of our I'M
dustry for wv rould not continue tu
operate the mines under tho cuuuI-
lions that would ac .mpn.Dd hy the
federation"
Rccs said there were three days or
rioung ANA ASSAULTS 40 the start 0f the
strike before Governor Ferris seut tho
NATIONAL auard t0 preserve order SO
disorder occurred, hc said until tho
mines started under nIp protection OF
ihe mnltlumeu. Tho trims bearing
strike breakers were slut up and
stoned, and uutumo bites contininE
deputies were treated llNcHisr. Tho
attorney mld thHl 90 cuusldershlr
number nf complaints made by strlk-
'rs We're of ih.ngs oegurriuF durnz
The .Wrek beginning December 3 when
Da'lg ana the Jane boss were mur-
drred i'm their beds 1t p1nrsdaio.
"lt was very tens, vcrk Boz s8id.
'for the community was Thoroughly
aroused ly this c0ldhIooded crime
following ON the a.hor mN less acts OF
the strikers"
Mr EgrF rcud into th, record a.
Barge number of letters and trlerrHms
which p1sstd between Governor Fer
r.s ard nutiNes of the conn
pauics to show the efforts made at
CDuHi'HtIUu aud mediation au1 tine
reasons given hT tine companies for
declining tn UreAt with GOO Western
Federation in amy way
Tho reason -et fouh Do use come
puuics for retusius fu trDtt Eith the
federation briefly w.r. ls fniluws
There bad hccu u' serious labor dis
turhanres oft uu. sine ,ar 800 years
until the federation entered the neld
The federation was rc-pou hh FOR
the Coucr d'AIcne iiumesakc ana
either siIncs uhl.h uslr nuTau-
led hy ltNlossncss. riots assaults dr-
.truciion of property ana uluod-hrd.
a Campalru ot violence aud rof
VAS Instituted hy ihe federation aftlr
tIr strike besun in the surlei disc
trict
There has been no Industrial disc
putr between mine oR u,rs and en-
riuyrs bccause of the formcrs know
ledge thai the majority of thclr ONE
untcs hlNc at uo time symputhizrd
with thD purposes of the federation
luI have ueuh anxious iu continue at
work Therefore tho companies could
not recognize tht right of che fcd-
ortuDn to assumc the representation
uf thc employees.
u has been aud win be- tho pwetict
for mine managoments GO confer ircc-
D. with umpimcs on subjects relating
;o improved working conditions ana
pa Intervention has been Or NiH bc
Necessary
MncNaugiitnn un the stand.
James Nuughion general man-
ager OF thr Calumet and HreiH com
nanN witness today before the con-
grcssionai iuyestisation committee