The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-24
CONDITIONS
SATISFACTORY
Federation Still Remains Chief
Issue of the Strike"
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zation that is not affiliated with the
W. +. of NJ. Would local organiza :
tion be sufficient To protect their inter-
ests and give them benefits. Attorney
Rees replied; Il believe with II local
organization. without national sup
port, We can get along tremendously
and better conditions 10 a greater en-
tent would prevail. We could run our
mines with harmony and confidence OF
our men,"
Congressman Casey; Then | take
ii that the operators mean the eXter-
mination of the union?
Attorney Rees: THE w. II. of NJ.
must be eliminated-it can not be per-
mitted TO continue as a factor in our
district"
This closed the subject and monot-
onous taking of testimony was re-
sumed
The first witness was Margaret Fa-
zekas the fourteen year-old girl Of
Wolverine, who was shot in the head
during demonstration at Kcarsarge
on Labor Day. as result of when
she was confined in the Calumet Pub.
lie hospital four and a half weeks.
| Before her direct examination began.
it was brought out that the father of
the girl has been away since the
strike and that the mother took the
child with her on picket duty.
The girl was injured during a charge
on deputy sherifrs, the facts of which
are familiar to the public.
In the cross examination by Attor-
| ney MacCormack. ii developed that
| children, many Of whom We're younger
than the witness, were made to work
at the head of the parade; that the
parents placed them in the front rank.
IL was also brought out that the pa
rade naturally was a picket and thai
that the strikers were blocking a road
leading To a shaft. The witness could
not remember anything after she was
shot. though she insisted that no shots
were fired or rocks were thrown at the
deputies.
The next witness was Isaac Rauha-
IA, an elderly man of Red Jacket The
witness said that while walking from
his house to the east end of Pine street
on the evening of August |, he was
struck on the shoulder with club IN
the hands of soldier. He said he
saw number OF men running and
also number of soldiers i'm which di-
rection he also ran. He said three OF
the mounted soldiers rode up To him.
riding over the sidewalk and one of
them struck him, knocking him down
and rendering him unconscious from
the blow
Concluding his direct examination,
he said that the soldiers were drunk |
all the while they we're in town.
In the cross examination by Attor- |
ncy Pepper Rauhala said that he had
just returned from Houghton when he |
saw the commotion i'm the street. II
was also brought out that his curios- |
ity resulted in his slight injury.
At this point the witness was asked |
if the soldiers were not friendly to the
strikers i'm their Sunday parades.
Judge +. y. Taylor asked the attor-
ney to define the difference between n |
Sunday or a week day parade.
The representative Of the Guard dis |
tinguished between picketing aud pa
rades for the benefit of the congress-
man from Arkansas.
Chairman Taylor: do YOU mean |
the soldiers were not being used as
strikebreakers? Attorney Pepper: Il
never heard Of such Il thing before"
Congressman Howell: Were they |
not protecting the mines and lives of |
people,
Attorney Pepper: THAT is the pol
icy of the state of Michigan"
Charles Waisanen of Franklin told |
of soldiers and deputies breaking up !
the strikers parades on oct. 80 AMI |
Dec. IL. Waisanen said he attempted |
to run away from the melee and in |
climbing over "A barbed wire fence that |
his clothing caught. While in that po-
stion a soldier administered healthy |
Whack.
In the cross examination IL was
brought out that these parades were
always held shortly before and after
the ment went to work and in the vi
cinity OF the shaft houses.
Congressman Swtzer took the wit
ness:
Q-What was the object Of YOU men
around the shafts?
Ave wanted to show them there
was "a strike on.
Q-What was their object in collect
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