The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-01-13
Instrument in Western Federation
Headquarters Five Weeks Be.
trayed Everything.
RECORDS ARE TURNED OVER
TO PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
Submitted to Grand Jury Investigat-
ing Copper War and Con-
spiracy.

lioughton, MICH, Jan. L. ne
dictagraph, the little instrument
which has played foremost part
in the big exposures of recent years
will probably be the greatest in
former in the settlement of the
Michigan copper country strike
troubles.
The Chicago private detective
agency is now in the strike district,
aud has been since short time
after the strike declaration.
II became known today that y
dictagraph was in the law head
quarters of the Western Federation
of Miners for five weeks last sum
mer, when the seat of the trouble
was Calumet.
Dictagraph Got Secrets.
Angus w. Kerr, enc Of the law
ycrs for the Western Federation Of
Miners; Edward L. Legender an
other of the attorneys; Yanko Ter
2ich, II member of the executive
council of the Western Federation
Of Miners. Charles II. Meyer, prcsi-
dent Western Federation of Miners,
ANA Charles +. Mahoney, vice prcsi-
dent Western Federation of Miners,
held practically all their important
conferences at the beginning of the
strike IN the very office in which
the dictagraph is said to have been
seereted and complete report OF
what transpircd is believed to have
been secured by tho detectives.
4 second dctagraph it is said,
was ,fin the Hancock headquarters
of the Western Federation OF
Miners in the Scott Hotel when
President Mover and the other Off
cials named held their legal confer
ences with Judge o. n. Hilton
chief counsel for the federation.
The detectives were orlginally
brought into the strike district hy
the mine operators. Their reports
arc said to have been turned over
to Special Prosecutor George Mich
OILS, who has charge OF the grand
jury, which is investigating both
the deportation of President Moyef
and the charge of conspiracy that
has been laid at the feet Of the la
Dor chiefs.
II is common rumor throughout
1louehtcn and the entire strike dis ,
trict that this information rcnre-
sents the greater part of he statca
evidence on the conspiracy charge,
Rival meetings were held this
afternoon at the Hallan hall in Red
Jacket, for Western Federation
members, and the other in Laurium,
for Halan workmen, both union and
nonunion. The federation meeting
was attended by several hundred
men and few women. and was ad.
dressed by local organizers, who told
the men the Department of Labor
bears out the contentious of strik =
leaders as to mistreatment OF men
low wages paid and living and work
ing conditions.
Socialist is Elected
At the Laurium meeting thcra
were SEQ men, mainly italians from
kcwecnaw county, Hancock AMI
the South Range points. An at
tempt to make socialistin address
occasioned a row which came near
disrupting the gathering. The
speaker was elected from the build
ing. Among the Federation mem
berS who attended the meeting there
was a strong back to work senti-
ment.
Fifty men came into the district
today for work. Railroad men sav
men are heading this way by tn,
thousands, and they fear there will
be an over supply of labor. In
some quarters 1t is stated that MANY
of the men coming are members OF
industrial trades unions. On Wed
ncsday the Calumet & Hccla expect,
q shipment of 400 men for subsi
diary mines. One mine official de
ciarcd today that a thousand more
men will be put to work in mines
ot the district before the end o.
the week.
The mines last week showed a
great increase in their average dali;
lCnnrludcd nn Cirfh I1ano