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Show MICHIGAN MINERS DECIDE TO SUBMIT TO OPERATORS Waive Recognition of Union and Surrender Sur-render Cards in Order to Obtain Work in Mines. ,,- i ti.p strike of the Houghton. Mich -HP ---'";, . lH1,,per miners in upper M. M -a ne to an end Monday as a . esult o referendum vote taken among u U1,mbers of the Western t edeu tn n ,f Miners. The slnke had be n n ,-,ect since last Ju!y "hen 1... I'O" I,,,,, according to tigures of the ted eration demanded belter wages and workings conditions and recognition of the federation. After the canvass ol the referendum vote on Monday by the district board u- the Western Federation of Miners, Secretary llietela gave out this state- nient . . -Complving with instructions ot the district board it was decided not to give anv separate ligures from each of the local unions. Total vote cast in favor of calling off the strike throughout the district, 3.104; total vote cast in favor of continuing the strike, 1.63G; total vole, 4,740." Managers of the mines have announced an-nounced that they will re-employ all men who have not been guilty of violence vio-lence as soon as they give vp theii membership in the Western Federa tion of Miners and places can be found for them. The present working forces are near ly equal numerically, mine managers say, to what they were before the strike. At the time the strike begat there was a shortage of miners, and it is said that most of the striker-will striker-will be employed as rapidly as they renounce the union and underground working conditions permit. |