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Show : TANNER SCORES MINE OWNERS i . Operators, Citizens Alliance, ! Houghton Grand Jury, Mili tia and Governor Assailed. I Lansing, Mich., Jan. 29. The mine owners of the Calumot region, the Citizens' Alliance, the Houghton grand jury, the Michigan militia and i Governor Ferris were assailed today 1 by Charles H. Tanner, auditor of the "Western Federation of Miners, In an i address which he delivered before a conference of delegates representing every union affiliated with tho Michigan Michi-gan State Federation of Labor. Tanner said there were from S000 l. to 9000 union men still dependent on the Western Federation of Miners for cloth and food. He declared many of these men were men of large families, fam-ilies, some comprising as many as li children, and he urged tho Michigan union laborers throughout the state soliciting funds from union men or men friendly to unions, to be spent in i caring for the men out of omploy-! omploy-! ment. ;; Tanner made the principal address, j The keynote of his remarks was a ' plea to provide sinews of war, to I continue the industrial fight. The : principal business of the conference t was to decide on tho best method of obtaining the money. Tanner charged the Citizens' Alliance Alli-ance with responsibility for the disaster disas-ter at Calumet on Christmas eve, and said evidence to .that effect would be produced before the congressional investigators. in-vestigators. Warned of Black Christmas. "Nobody believes tho ijersons responsible re-sponsible for the tragedy 'intended to kill any one," ho said. "They did, however, want to break up that celebration. cele-bration. More than one union man had boon told that the union men 'would have a black Christmas.' "But the Christmas eve tragedy is only ono of a sorieB of tragedies. Union Uni-on men have been shot. Deputies, at the dirqetion of the mine operators, have entered tho homes of union men, turned the occupants out, smashed furniture and shattered windows. "The Houghton county grand jury is a farce. Composed of mining superintendents, su-perintendents, members of the Citizens' Citi-zens' Alliance, and Jim McNaughton's chauffeur, it acted as the unions expected ex-pected it would act." Tanner and Dan Sullivan, another speaker, asserted that Governor Ferris Fer-ris had been partial to the operators during his Investigation in tho strike region. |