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Show MANAGER BARS ALL STRIKERS ' ' j No Copper Miners Wttl B Taken Back Unless Union Card Is Renounced, Houghton, Mich., March 3.- UAA long as I am general manager of the I Calumet and Hecla Mining company- 7 no Btrlker will be taken back to yvorH unless he gives up hie membership lit the Western Federation of Miners,'' declared James McNaughton today be fore the congressional investigators. "The Western Federation and its' members as such have tried in everV way possible to put the mining companies com-panies out of business. They stopped our business, they interfered with non ! union men going to work and caused riots. There are a great many stri kers who wouldn't be taken back under un-der any conditions." He said the federation taught a i "gospel of hate." Mr. McNaughton explained the system sys-tem of company houses, rented to employes at $1 a room a month, including in-cluding repairs, water and garbage 1 , removal. The houses owned by the 1 Calumet and Hecla are appraised at i $981,500. The income from rents last year was $61,863 and the expendlturs for repairs $61,22S, the witness said. Pensions Given Employes. "' Pensions are given employes who have been in the service twenty years or more, after they reach the age 'H ' 60. The amount ranges from 9 to $36 a mqnth and extends over a peril od of five years. McNaughton admitted that it was the company's policy not to employ J men over 40 years of age, even though they had formerly worked for the. company. The officials felt, he said, thatmen should give tho company at . least 20. years' service If they were retired on a pension and If they were taken In after forty they would reach the retiring age without having served serv-ed that long. ' Denies "Black List." I I McNaughton denied that a "black I list" was maintained by any of the , companies with which he was connected. con-nected. Ills general instructions, to mine bosses, he said, was that If a man was discharged from one mine 1 It was not the affair of any other ) mine. He read the record of one j man who had been re-employed several sev-eral times in the same mine after he had been discharged for Inebriety. . Asked if he had ever heard of a man buying a job in the mines, w.It-ness w.It-ness said: "There was such a case years ago. where we found a mine captain had accepted money through an Intermediary Interme-diary and he was promptly discharg- ( ed. Subsequently another captain was charged with having received money for giving a man work but his accuser could not produce the proof and no action was taken." Outlines Welfare Work. McNaughton outlined for the committee com-mittee the welfare work being done by the Calumet and Hecla for its employes em-ployes and their dependents and told of the system of the free fuel distribution distribu-tion among the poor. 1 In reply to the charge that no 'ylrst aid to the injured" was maintained in the mines, McNaughton said 200 men had been detailed to learn the "first ald," when a mine rescue car was here in July. 1912. He thought such a car should bo kept In the district dis-trict at all times. ' The witness denied that the mortality mor-tality from accidents was greater in-these in-these mines than elsewhere and quoted quo-ted figures to show that the percentage percent-age of deaths was less than In the Montana and Arizona districts. ; Three Shifts impracticaDio. Questioned on hourB of labor, McNaughton Mc-Naughton declared It was lmpractlc able to work three eight-hour shifts owing to the time required to send men and supplies up and down. H did no$ think men employed by his company ever had been required- to work actually more than eight hours a day. Under the new system they go down and come up partly on the company's time arid partly on their own. The witness said the company was not interested in any store and tfee; j men were free to trade wherever they wished. McNaughton was still under direct , examination when the committee, recessed. re-cessed. nn |