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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday November 18, 1913
Calumet, Michigan – Eighteen Women and Girls Arrested
From the Duluth Labor World of November 15, 1913
WOMEN AND GIRLS ARRESTED AT MINE
———-Eighteen Charged With Violation of Injunction
at the Mohawk Property.
———-CALUMET, Mich., Nov. 13.-—Eighteen women and girls, strike sympathizers, were arrested at the Mohawk mine today, charged with violation of the injunction prohibiting abuse or intimidation of workers. They were cited to appear before Circuit Judge O’Brien on Nov. 24.
William Teddy, prominent strike leader, was arrested on suspicion of being connected with the dynamiting of a house in which mine guards boarded at Centennial Heights, Tuesday morning. The investigation of attacks on mail trains carrying imported workmen, is progressing quietly. Eleven arrests of strikers have already been made. The gunmen are losing no opportunity to harass the strikers.
[Emphasis and photograph added.]
From the Michigan Miners Bulletin of November 15, 1913
-Secretary Wilson Scores Copper Companies, Annie Clemenc Found Guilty:
[Secretary of Labor, William B. Wilson, former Secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, spoke at the Seattle A. F. of L. Convention this past week. Secretary Wilson’s stated in part:]
There can be no mediation, there can be no conciliation between employer and employe that does not pre-suppose collective bargaining, and there cannot be collective bargaining that does not pre-suppose trade unionism.
[Speaking of the determination to investigate the earnings of the copper companies, [Wilson] said:]
And the little bit of confidence that I am today going to give you is an advance statement of one of the items in that situation: that the largest corporation engaged in production of copper in the Michigan district was organized in 1870 under the laws of the state of Michigan; that the face value of its capital stock is $2,500,000. The shares are $25 each. They were purchased at $12 each, so that the actual investment is $1,250,000. From that time until one year ago, the last fiscal report that we had, a period of 42 years, that corporation declared in dividends $121,000,000 on an investment of $1,250,000; and made re-investments out of its earnings of $75,000,000. Nearly $200,000,000 of actual net profit in a period of 42 years on an investment of $1,250,000, and then they not only protest against meeting committees of their workmen, but refuse to accept the good offices of the department of labor in negotiation for a settlement of the difficulties.
The statement of Mr. Wilson regarding the value of stock, and of the dividends paid by this company was somewhat a surprise to those who heard his remarks, and it was the consensus opinion of all present that such a rich company could well afford to pay a living wage and maintain decent living conditions in their numerous camps on the upper peninsula of Michigan…
Thursday morning the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette published a portion of Mr. Wilson’s speech together with an interview held with superintendent McNaughton of the Calumet & Hecla Mining company in regard to Mr. Wilson’s statements. The doughty superintendent makes a very feeble answer to Mr. Wilson, his strongest point being in calling Mr. Wilson a liar…
Annie Clemenc Found Guilty
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The case of Mrs. Annie Clemenc of Calumet charged with assault and battery (pushing an insulting scab off the sidewalk), tried in the circuit court at Houghton last week, resulted in her being found guilty as charged. The incident occurred at Calumet during the early days of the strike, and had it occurred at any other time would not have received passing notice, but during these turbulent times, a scab, being a very precious article must not be disturbed. Mrs. Clemenc has been under bonds since her preliminary hearing which will be maintained until she receives her sentence in January. The names and addresses of the twelve men finding her guilty are as follows:
Frank Berling, Calumet
Thomas Carney, Hancock.
John Edwards, Portage.
Nicholas Fink, Portage.
John Hannon, Osceola.
Wm. W. Jeffery, Franklin.
Joseph Kasper, Schoolcraft.
Marlin S. Pentecost, Calumet.
John H. Richards, Portage.
Simon Sleep, Calumet.
Henry Warmington, Osceola.
James Wilson, Calumet.[Tuesday November 11, 1913, Annie Clemenc Leads Splendid Parade:]
From the Miners Magazine of November 13, 1913
-Waddell-Mahon Corporation Takes Pride in Its Nefarious Work:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Annie Clemenc, Die Behind Flag, Mnrs Bltn, Sept 16, 1913
-per Comstock p42
https://books.google.com/books?id=0-FGAgAAQBAJ
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Nov 15, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1913-11-15/ed-1/seq-1/
Miners’ Bulletin
(Official newspaper of the
Western Federation of Miners
in the strike zone of Michigan’s Copper Country)
-Nov 15, 1913
Copy in possession of JR
The Miners Magazine
(Denver, Colorado)
-Nov 13, 1913, p4
Waddell-Mahon Corporation “Boasting of Their Shameless Vocation”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112043506416&seq=412
See also:
Tag: Michigan Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/michigan-copper-country-strike-of-1913-1914/
More on Big Annie, the Joan of Arc of Calumet:
Strangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula
By Arthur W. Thurner
Wayne State University Press (August 1, 1994)
From page 343, footnote #44 of Chp 7:
People v Annie Clements [sic], Circuit Court, Houghton County Courthouse, File No. 4276 (in which record she signed her name as Ana Clemenc).
Annie Clemenc
& the Great Keweenaw Copper Strike
By Lyndon Comstock
SC, 2013
From pages 192-6, a list of the members and officers of
The People’s Slovenian Women’s Lodge of the SNPJ of Calumet
(Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota = Slovene National Benefit Society)
President 1910-1914, Ana Clemenc
More on James McNaughton, general manger of Calumet & Hecla Mining Company:
The outcome of the strike vote in Michigan’s Copper Country was: 9000 miners in favor of striking out of a workforce of 13,000. The strike began July 23, 1913:
The reaction of the owners was swift. Their leader was James McNaughton, the $85,000-a-year general manger of C & H who lived in Calumet and directed the company’s operations. He said, “The grass will grow on your streets before I’ll ever give in.” He added that he would teach the miners to eat potato parings.
SOURCE
Big Annie of Calumet
-by Jerry Stanley
NY, 1996
Photo: Tumult & Tragedy, Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Strike
http://www.1913strike.mtu.edu/…
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