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CALUMET FAMILIES' FAITH IN UNCLE SAM IS STRONG IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING I I I Ml F iisi These three members of the sub-committee designated to investigate the Calumet strike are on the job. They are (left to right) Representative J. J. Casey, a former stearrifitter of Pennsylvania; Joseph Howell, a mer chant of Utah, and E. T. Taylor, a lawyer of Colorado. The other members, expected in Calumet the latter part of the week, are C. W. Hamlin, a lawyer of Missouri, and Robert M. Switzer, a lawyer of Ohio. (Photograph taken in committee's room at Hancock, Mich.) BY GERTRUDE M. PRICE Calumet, Mich., Feb. 14. Waiting! Waiting! Waiting! That is Calumet! I have just come from the snow buried home of Mrs. Amato Folino in West Hancock, where husband, wife and seven children are eeking out a meager existence on $7 a week for the sake of principle ! ' Almost the only 'food which her children eat is potatoes and corn meal! There is one good suit in the family, she proudly announces. It belongs to the eldest of the little fam ily, a boy of 13! And she points with great delight to half worn shoes, upon the feet of her little girls, which she purchased for 10 cents apiece! But she is waiting! She is only one of thousands of Spartan-like women in this strike stricken copper district, standing shoulder to shoulder with husband miners who are striking and waiting fpr the right of a fair wage, reason able working hours, safer working conditions and consent to carry a union card. "You are tired of the strike?" I asked, as Mrs. Folino invited me to come up close to the stove, near where she sat fondling her youngest, a 2-year-old baby. Her eyes flashed. Her hands moved in that quick, expressive way