File No. 763.72112/324
The Copper Country Commercial Club to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
The Copper Country Commercial Club, representing a district producing 230,000,000 pounds of virgin copper annually, more than 60 per cent of which is exported, desires through your honor to file a normal and most incisive protest against the action of Great Britain in detaining vessels bearing copper from the United States to neutral, foreign countries and the putting of unwrought copper on the list of absolute contraband. The Copper Country Commercial Club desires to impress upon you the absolute injustice of this discrimination against one of the most important of all American mining industries which is already sorely handicapped by European war conditions and which vitally affects the welfare of more than 60,000 high-paid American miners.
G. L. Price , Secretary