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Show UNION LABOR-GIVES LABOR-GIVES CHALLENGE Houghton. Mich., Jan. 8. Accept ance of what union labor regarded as a challenge marked the close of the hearing which Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris gave today to representatives representa-tives of the mining companies involved in-volved in the copper strike. A L. Peterman, a representative ot the Calumet A Hecla, called the governor's gov-ernor's attention to discrepancies be tween the company's and union's statistics sta-tistics on the strike situation. He pointed out that the rigures re gardlng the number of men employed were at variance and added that the companies were willing to submit to an actual count of employes an3 would throw open their books as a source of information if the union would do the same. . Claude O. Taylor, president of the Michigan State Federation of Labor, promptly- said that the unions would do the same thing. Governor Ferris gave no indication as to where any such procedure would be adopted. It has been known however, that he has in estigators under un-der James Cunningham, state commissioner commis-sioner of labor, and presumably these men have gone already into that phase of the situation. oo |