Show federation UNDER DAN BAN DF OF MICHIGAN MINE OWNERS calumet hecla company issues statement which will probably end hopes of settlement of strike boston tho calumet decia alining mining company will continue to re fuso recognition to the western fed aeration of miners or to employ its members officers of the company said in a statement saturday night regarding the strike at bleir mines the copper country the state ment said has for fifty years enjoyed industrial peace and our relations with our men have haie been mutually satisfactory we have never neier discriminated and do not now in the employment between those who go 00 and those who nho do not belong to labor organizations we have baie now conever ho ever Never during the pending strike refused and must continue to refuse to give recognition to the western federation of miners or to employ its members for reasons peculiar to that organization the statement severely arraigned the policy of the federation adding the great majority of the em aloyes bavo b ivo voluntarily and spontaneously petitioned us never to recognize this organization or employ its members |