Editing Ahmeek, Michigan (section)

===Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914===
During the watershed moment that was the great [[Copper Country strike of 1913–1914|Copper Country Strike of 1913–14]], Ahmeek was the scene of regular tension and division in the Keweenaw, a key instance being on or about October 6, 1913, when Guy Wilkins, a clerk at the Ahmeek Mine supply office, was assaulted and shot after being confronted by a rogue mob. The strike was the culmination of extensive labour unrest in the area, fueled in large part by unethical treatment by mining companies. The strike brought the once-tranquil and calm [[Copper Country]] to violence, from which it would ultimately not recover. Ahmeek, in particular, saw striking miners fire upon a trainload of [[Goon squad|hired professional strikebreakers]] engaged by the mining companies, as well as the detonation of an Ahmeek Mine smokestack. Despite local officials' complaints about the lack of law and order, Judge Patrick Henry O'Brien, who presided over cases related to the violence, ruled that while the strikers were, indeed, in violation of the law, the mining companies themselves had hardly done anything to lessen the tension and had, instead, acted in ways only increasing "the bitterness and hostility" of the situation.<ref name=":10" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coppercountry.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/today-in-the-1913-copper-strike-12/|title=Today in the 1913 Copper Strike|last=Lindsay|date=October 6, 2013|website=Copper Country History|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Death's Door: The Truth Behind the Italian Hall Disaster and the Strike of 1913|last=Lehto|first=Steve|publisher=Momentum Books|year=2013|isbn=978-1-938018-03-9|edition=Second|location=Royal Oak, Michigan}}</ref>