Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1905 — AFRAID FOR THEIR LIVES [ARTICLE]

AFRAID FOR THEIR LIVES

flattened Miners Quit Work Because They Fear Violence from a Gaag of Strikers, Duluth, Minn., April 14.—Nine hundred men have left their work at the Chrisholm, Clark, Glen, Leonard and Monroe-Tener mines at Chisholm mines, telling Captain R. J. Mitchell and M. H. Godrey, superintendents of the underground and open pit properties, that they will return when assured that they will not be shot down by striking miners front Hibbing, 300 of whom had visited the mines. The men here are earning from $2 to $4.20 a day for eight and nine hours’ work. and are not at all In sympathy with the strike movement. Sheriff Bates has been called upon to protect the mines, and It is said the next move will be to call upon Governor Johnson to send out several companies of the state militia.