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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION CLAIMS EMPLOYES FIREMEN UNABLE TO WERE TOLD TO EAT AT GET TO BODIES IN ST. HENRICVS LOUIS FIRE RUINS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, sggjgBy Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. -T Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail. 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 137 Chicago, Tuesday, March 10, 1914 ONE CENT WITNESSES THROW SPOTLIGHT ON WADDELL-MAHON TACTICS Former Strikebreaker Tells Congressional Committee of Gunmen's Actions at Calumet Told . To Stir Up Trouble. Startling evidence as to the tactics of the Waddell-Mahon and Ascher gunmen, employed by the Calumet mine owners, was gitfen. before the United States Congressional Commit tee, which is investigating the great Upper Michigan strike. Henry Batter, a former Ascher Agency strikebreaker, told an inside story of the manner in which the gunmen dperated when he was called to the stand today when the commit ters met in the Hotel LaSalle. Batter said that when he was shipped to Calumet from New York by the agency he was given instruc tions to stir up trouble by persecut ing the miners. He was told to go to any extent in order to provoke the miners so that they might be routed. "I was shipped to Calumet with ten other men by the Ascher Agency," said Batter. "We were given to understand that we were- to go among the strikers wherever they congregated and encourage them to commit acts of violence, so as to give the militia and deputies cause for dis persing them." Batter was called as the first wit ness today in place of President Chas. H. Moyer of the Western Federation