Housing In The Michigan Copper District At The Time Of The 1913 Strike: The Memo Book Series #3 -- From Strike Investigation by The Committee of the Copper Country Commercial Club of Michigan – 1913

By Copper Country Commercial Club and Richard Buchko

During the infamous Copper Country strike of 1913 rumors and misinformation were rampant - on both sides of the issue. A group of about 500 business leaders, who formed the Copper Country Commercial Club (something like a Chamber of Commerce today) decided to investigate the conditions, issues, and activities surrounding the strike, in the hopes of providing an objective set of facts which might lead to a quicker and better solution. Certainly you can imagine that the drastic reduction of income among miners and the company had a profound impact on the businesses of the city, so it was in their best interests to see it end, quickly. One area of information which had likely never been studied before, was the housing of the miners. As of July 1913 there were some 14,000 miners working in the Copper Country, and they all needed to live somewhere. The situation described by the Copper Country Commercial Club suggests that of the many issues causing trouble between the miners and the companies, housing was not one of them. In most cases the rent being paid was less than two days wages out of a month - a condition many of us would love to share today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1547195991
• ISBN13: 9781547195992
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.1" x 4.0"