The Calumet News (Calumet, Mich.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,545 issues from 1909 to 1914, published in Calumet, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Calumet News, of Calumet, Michigan, first appeared in 1907. It was a relaunch of the Copper Country Evening News, founded by Frederick MacKenzie (1832-1902) in 1892, and then owned by the Mining Gazette Company which controlled the Daily Mining Gazette in nearby Houghton. The News was an eight-page daily published each afternoon (excluding Sundays).Like its predecessor, the Calumet News was effectively controlled by the mining interests in Michigan’s Copper Country. This would become particularly important as the paper reported on the Copper Strike of 1913-14, led by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM).
The strike, which lasted for nine months, was driven by the miners’ dissatisfaction with their wages, working hours, and the recent introduction of the one-man drill, which resulted in significant layoffs and drastically reduced family incomes. The miners from the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, the largest on the range, first struck on Wednesday, July 23, 1913, basing themselves at tje Union Hall on Sixth Street in “Red Jacket” (as modern Calumet village was then known). On Saturday, with Michigan National Guardsmen arriving on Governor Woodbridge Ferris’ orders, the Calumet News carried statements from both the mining companies and union side-by-side. But the banner headline read: “Order Complete Martial Law if Rioting is Renewed.”
As the strike continued into the fall of 1913, the mines were able to operate with a small number of workers who crossed the picket…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Calumet, Michigan, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress