The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-13

report at this time, and intimates that it was colored in favor of the strikers. MT Shaw's statement fol- lows:
 After Secretary Wilson's speech in Seattle it was to bye expected that his subordinates would make a re- port which would be highly colored in favor of the strikers.
 "The publication of the report Is also well timed to assist strike lead CTS in arousing false sympathy through misrepresentations So far as it concerns information given by the company. the report could have been published months ago. if there was any genuine desire to have the public know the conditions under which the men worked.
 Extracts from the report which appear in the papers, if accurately quoted, contain many misstatements.
 Since December 1 an eight-hour day has been in effect underground and in all places where work is con tinuously conducted for twenty-four
 hours. All other employees have a nine-hour day. The companies in which l am interested did not post notice that the hours of labor were
 eight and three-quarters.
 Directly after mentioning the Cal umet and Hecla Mining Company's
 name, it is said that two men made affidavit that at the point of a gun
 they were compelled to go from Su- perior to Calumet and then to work at some other camp These affidav- it's are false, if they relate to any ac- tion on the part of either the Supe-
 rior or the Calumet companies. We have evidence of false affdavits se- cured by the Federation
 The report states a number of strikers have been killed and others injured in the use of arms in the pos session of Waddell men This con. victs the Waddell men before their trial. The record of those killed 70 date is as follows:
 1.-Two strikers, who are said to have resisted deputies; one striker who was connected with the brutal mur-
 der of Deputy Pollock. On the oth-
 CT hand, three non-union men were shot to death while lying in bed and hundreds of men whose only offense was 8, desire to go to work have been
 attacked and so cruelty beaten they required medical attention at our hos pitals"
 The statement refutes the charge
 that the Quincy Mining Company led prospective German miners who
 could not read English and believing | there was no strike, denies that the | Calumet and Hecle employs half oI | the miners in that region, and con tinues:
 "The report states that the profits
 have been extremely large, namely S121 100000 in dividends It proba
 bly, would be interesting had the re.
 port stated that in addition to the dividends the company has paid for labor, supplies, lands and taxes roughly, an additional $220,000,000.
 "The report is grossly unfair when it states that so-called strikebreak- ers' have been or are being import
 ed There was serious shortage of labor in all the mines for year pre-
 vious to the strike and to make up this shortage and to take the places
 of the men who have left the district we have employment for hundreds of
 men who will receive wages and
 work under conditions as good. if not
 better, than in any mining district
 in this country We hope that the
 men now coming into the district
 come there to stay, and if they prove efficient workmen and law abiding
 citizens, I can give them assurance of their jobs during the life of the mines, with plenty of chance for ad- vancement. Our general manager be- gan working for the company in the seventies, when he was less tha 20 years old. Just previous to the strike the company had in its employ l,60O men who had worked for the com.
 pany between fifteen and forty years,
 and italso had in it's employ 400 men who were the sons of these 1,6O0 men. These are the kind of men the company wants. and it cannot afford to and will not employ me who wish also to work for Mover and the West ern Federation of Miners"