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 The Copper mine workers in Michigan, comparing their earnings with those of the Copper - mine workers in Montana, found that in Michigan the rate of pay was much less than miners earn in Montana, where the Western Federation of Miners was strongly organized. While the average earnings er shift of mine workers in Michigan are less than the average of suc workers in Montana the shift hours are longer in Michigan. This is true especially of trammers, timber men, and track layers. 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.