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Show ORGANIZER BEATEN BY MOB. Western Federation Organizer Ejected ' From Copper Field. Copper Hill, Tenn. Guy E. Miller of Denver, organizer for the Western Federation of Miners, was seized by a mob as he returned from a meeting near here Saturday and was taken to the outskirts of the town, whipped and ordered to leave. J. A. Jones, Miller's local assistant, was taken from his room in a hotel, marched through the streets at the head of a crowd and forced to swear that he would leave town on the next train. He left. The trouble arose when citizens and members of trades unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor La-bor objected to the attempt of Western West-ern Federation of Miners to gain a control of the labor situation in the copper fields near here. Miller had led the effort to organize the mine workers in opposition to the United Mine Workers of America, who have been supported by what is said to be a majority of business men in the Tennessee copper fields. |
