Excerpt from Strike in the Copper Mining District of Michigan: Letter From the Secretary of Labor Transmitting in Response to a Senate Resolution of January 29, 1914, a Report in Regard to the Strike of Mine Workers in the Michigan Copper District Which Began on July 23, 1913 During the first two days of the strike there was much rioting, occasioned by members of the federation attempting to prevent nonunion men from going to work. Sixteen men employed by one of the companies were injured and taken to the company's hos ital. The sheriff of Houghton County called on the governor of Michigan for troops to quel disorder. The governor ordered troops to the district and they began to arrive on July 25. Within two days the whole National Guard of the State, over men, had arrived. They encamped in tents on the property of the various companies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.