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ing along the copper range1of the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan between the Calu-

ing along the copper range)of the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan betWen. the Calu-
men and Hecla Copper Co., the Com
:. cath Copper Co., the Quincy
Copper Co., ct al, and the Western
Federation of Miners. In amount OF
capital invested and number OF men in
Volved, this tsrike is the most impor-
tant OF the present year We point
with. pardonabe pride to the fact that
this corporation has been selected by
Sheriff James A. Cruise, of Houghton
County-the storm center of the
strike-to aid him in maintaining the
integrity of the law. We are now en-
gagged in policing the lob square
miles of territory contained in Hough-
ton County. We are safeguarding the
property, the lives and the homes OF
80,O98 men, women and children OF
Houahton county against overt acts.
The Western Federation of Miners is
doomed to inevitable disaster and de-
feat in the Upper Peninsula of Mich
igan. We make this prediction at this
time, and if you follow thsetory of the
strike as it appears in the daily news
papers and particularly in the. Boston
News Bureau, the we'll known financial
organ, which has as pecial correspon-
ldent on the ground, your will seeVthat
our prediction will be fulfilled daily.
We are sure of Debating the Western
Federation Of Miners i'm this operation,
because we have met and defeated
them before. Last year when the agl-
tators of this unish sought to paralyze
the "copper" industry of Nevada and Utah
we were retained by the Utah Copper
Co., and the Nevada Copper Co, and
broke the great strikes at Bingham
Canyon, Utah, and at Ely and McGlll,
Nevada. We ask you to watch the
progress Of the present strike, because
we know it will be triumph for law
and order, triumph for the mine
lowners, and will furnish still another
leyidence of the success we have always
met with in breahng strikes. We ask
you to judge by results.
Judged by theiro /WH standard
"results"-the WaddeH<Mahon Corpor-
alton is a most successful institution.
Every large employer who wishes to
crush the manhood and life out OF la
Dor ought to employ the Waddell-Ma-
hon gangsters. l highly recommend
them. But in recommending them and
in hosting also for the Ascher Agency,
II wish to call attention to certain Pc
Iculiar practices which, according to
1.-THE confessions of the men themselves
were INDUCED in by representatives OF
these agencies, and that not without
orders from above.
Those who recall the details ofslthe
Michigan copper strike will remeber
1.-THE hideous story that floated out of the
Calumet county toward the latter end
lof October, 1913. This tory gave the
impression that the strikers had dyna-
mited or attempted. to dynamite a
trainful of mine guards, and that the
defenders of law and order had snatch
ed the burning fuse from the track just
in time. The confession of Henry Bat
ter, an Ascher man, Eliminates this
point. Here are the essential parts
of it.:
Upon arriving at the copper coun-
try" said Batter, "about an hour or
so before getting to the end OF our
destination, a party named Louis Cohn
land Mr.. Gleason also employed by
Ascher agency, got on the train, and
latter they were on the train about ten
minutes, Mr.. White came to me and
said to give each man on the train a
revolver and a riot stick and two
rounds of ammunition, as they expect
ed some trouble UP the line-to be dy-
namited. About three-quarters of an
hour after the train-that is ten feet
before the train, the rail was dynamit-
ed"
@. twas the train at a standstill
whom If WAS dVn9mifad 2o
A. I'VE were going very slow and it
came to a STOP"
@. Did Captain White, as I under
tand you to say. tell you that the train
was to be dy1amited?"
A. Most Hkely we weuld be dyna-
mited." - !
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