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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION COUNTY HOSPITAL REFUSES MAN, DIES ? GUNMAN BLAMED FOR CALUMET FIRE U. C. TURNS BACK ON DYING MAN THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, x-ggggg Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL 3, NO. 75 Chicago, Friday, Dec. 26, 1913 ONE CENT RDER AT CALUMET IS ON THE OULS OF GREEDY MINE OWNER! And the People of the United States Can't Escape Their Share of the Responsibility Men Can't Get Lib' erty and Justice by Passing the Hat. BY N. D. COCHRAN One of the meanest of human hypocrites is the rich man who pauper izes his fellows who work for him, and then noisily contributes charity to the starving families of his victims. And among such, hypocrites I would give the mine operators and their servile tools, the business men of the Citizens' Alliance of Houghton county, Michigan, first place. There is no thankfulness in my heart for any of those greedly "busi ness" brutes because they are now making a loud noise in the newspapers about trying to help the families of the children who were hurled into eternity in that awful Christmas-eve panic at Calumet. For years the multi-millionaire mine owners have been pauperizing the parents of,:those dead children, by working them long hours and paying them a beggarly wage. And. when their slaves finally got the courage to organize for self-protection and to strike fpt merely, an approach toward justice the masters hated them Jfor it; and they hated most the officials of the Western Fed eration of Miners who carried intq the camp of slaves the gospel of union Ism when both press andpulpit had been bound and gagged by capitalism,