Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-28

be disturbances at that time? To keep
the inner circle In power. To see that
the right kind OF officers and execu-
tive committee were elected.
"If YOU go to the bottom Of the
Western Federation OF Miners, you
Will find that the same trouble that
broke up the big insurance companies
was responsible for the trouble the
federation leaders have got into, and
that was too much money in the treas
my.
TEN MEN NOW DO WORK
ANY one who remembers the work
In the Couer dAlenes In the early
days, and what was done here re-
Gently, will see the difference. You re-
member that when the mill at Ward
ner was blown up just before the
fol- nation OF the inner circle In 1899,
the men all took part. About 1000
went to see Boyle explode the dyna-
mite. There was no secrecy about II.
There's where they got into trouble,
Tho bullpen was filled and a score or
more went to the pen. Now one or
two employed by the inner circle do the
wcrk and get away.
And they slung the money around In
gobs. That's how Orchard got into
GERS getting rich and hundred dollar
bills floating around, he thought he
would take a turn.
MOVERS RECORD AS A LEADER.
"Boyce was shrewd, able fellow. UNI
scrupulous when he wanted anything.
but the boss, Meyer, / have known for
number Of years and was responsible
for getting him into the presidency.
When ! knew him first, he was a cow
boy In Kansas working for the Driscol
brothers. Then he turned to railroadlng
ana was yardmaster for the Burlington
road at Deadwood He was discharged
and he told me, blackllsted by the road
The next thing he was working in the
Horseshoe smelter at Deadwood | don't
think he worked month in mine. He
soon got into trouble and had to get
out.
"Moyer led a mob against some peo-
rle that they Jill not like and marched
them out OF town Harry Collins. of
the White House, of this city, was run
out by the Meyer gang but he came
back and got damages Con Green,
who was almost blown up by an in
fernal machine at Deadwood the other
night gave Meyer his first job in the
mines.
HOW MoYER BECAME PRESI-
DENT,
There was q strike I'm the Kansas
coal fields, and Meyer was chosen TO
organize the miners, and that's what
gave him his first lift. He was a mem
Der Of the executive committee from
Deadwood, and, when Boyce married
and got mine OF his own and retired,
Meyer was chosen president to prevent
a break in the Federation. Colorado
and Montana got into fight that
threatened 10 wreck the organxa don,
and so It was decided to take man
from some other district, and Meyer
was the man least known.
HAYWOOD HITS HIGH PLACES.
when Maher. the secretary-treas-
urer. was elected TO office in Silver
Row county, the gang put Bill Hay
wood into the job. He was from the
Occur d'Alenes. He mined a little and
leased good deal, but he was mostly
an asitator. The trouble with him
recently Is that he has been hitting the
high places"
slLvERToN MINERS VOTE $4,000.
A Silverton, Colo. special 20 the
OregonIan says: Miners union No.
26, Western Federation of Miners. to-
right passed resolution voting $780,
900 in cash to aid the fight to free
Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone and |
other Western Federation men charg- |
ed with the murder of ex-Gov. Steun- |
onberg, and also pledged more funds |
by borrowing money on their hall here |
and by subscription II need be. Siz-
zlng resolutions denouncing the arrest |
OF the union officials were passed"