Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-27
BEATEN BY THUGS,
MOYER DECLARES
President of Federation of
Miners Wears BIoodstained
Bandage About His Head.
ON HIS WAY TO CHICAGO
ABOARD A PULLMAN CAR
Strikers in Calumet, Mich, District
Charge Leader Was Kidnapped.
Bitter Feeling Aroused.

Bitter Feeling Aroused.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, December PIT
was attacked by about twenty-five men
in my room at the Scott Hotel in Han
cock. Mich, last night at about S:3,
O'Clock. struck over the head with the
butt or revolver. shot in the back,
dragged through the hotel and streets
and put on a train and told to leave that
country forever said Charles H. Mover.
president OF the Western Federation OF
Miners during his stop here on the train
while en- route to Chicago
Mr. Meyer was confined 10 his berth.
and his pillow and bed linen were soilcd
with blood from wounds in his scalp
and back. He was good natured, despite
his wounds. and said that after he got
healed up in Chicago he would return
TO Calumet and fight those mine owners
to the last
and about fifteen other men caine TO nv
room to ask me about arrangements for
the burial OF the poor persons who met
their death in the Christmas catastrophe.
They remained about fifteen minutes and
left after | had told them that the West
ern Federation of Miners and the labor
organizations of the country could and
would care for its own unfortunates.
Grabbed by Ruffians, He SAYS.
within four minutes-before the COM
mittee of citizens could leave the hotel
fifteen thugs burst into the room. / was
standing at the telephone at the time and
was putting in CALL Charles II. Tan
lier OF California. travelling auditor for
the Western Federation of Miners, WAS
with me.
Several grabbed hold of mo and held
me while another nsan came up from be-
hlnd and struck me with the butt of his
revolver on the head. Then there was q
report of gun and felt a piercine SON
sation i'm my back T do not think fhat
any one shot me deliberately. / think
.nat the gun used in hitting me on the
mead was discharged during the action.
Ihen two men got hold of my arms
ana dragged me out of the hotel Down
the street We went When two men
became tired, two other huskies took
mold OF me. and although / was on nv
1eet part of the time, yet for blocks L
1t IS little more than a mile to
Houghton. where the mob took me-
All the while they We're pulling be
along the others were yelling. Lynch
him and Hang him and calling me
the vilest kinds of names.
accuses company Ohcial.
when We reached the station james
McNaughton. general manager and
vice president of the Calumet and Hecla
mines, drove up i'm an automobile He
rushed up to me and said:
You get out of this country for
ever IL you ever come back I'll hang
YOU
Then he continued to abuse me i'm
" last
was thrown bodily upon it, Two
men who claimed to be deputy sheriffs
got OH. They took me into the sleeper
and soon after Mr.. Tanner was brought
In He. too, had been assaulted in the
room and forcibly taken to the station
'One of the deputies handed the con-
ductor our tickets and said that we were
going to Chicago. The deputies stayed on
the train until we had passed over into
Wisconsin.
somewhere on the trip doctor was
called To dress my wounds. He was sum-
moned by one of the men who said they
We're deputies and he told the doctor to
send the bill to the sheriff at Calumet
In order to prove my case got state
ment from the DOCTOR
Physicians Statement.
Mr.. Meyer then reached into his coat
and pulled out two sheets of paper upon
which was written this statement:
Charles III. Meyer was treated by me
for gunshot wound in the back, appar-
emily superficial in nature, and lacera-
tions of the scalp.
CSignedD u W STORY. NJ. ID.
(Countersigned wv. b. HENDLEY,
Deputy Sheriff"
Mr. Meyer said that he was going to
stop in Chicago just long enough TO get
fixed up" and then he would go back
to Calumet to lead the fight of the strik-
ing copper miners. He said that his fed
GRAFTON was bound to win
Il have never said that a member OF
the citizens alliance caused the panic at
italian Hail." said Mr.. Meyer. when ask
ed to his statements. There were
twenty-five men who would swear that
they saw man wearing citizens al
lance button rush up the stairs, stick his
head through the door and yell Fire.
I'VE can take care OF our own people.
We have fought their battles. We have
fed them while they We're hungry and
clothed them when they Were cold. Now
we can bury them. We ask no help from
others.
THE labor organizations OF the world
have come forward in fine shape. We
have now about $4,000. and IL will reach
$4,000
Does Not Implicate Deputies.
Mr. Moyer would not say whether any
of the men who attacked him were in
the Sher1m'S party which had talked with
him Just a few minutes before. He said
that he did not recognize any of them as
the same.
But he said, II cannot understand
how the deputies happened to be at the
station waiting when the mob got there.
Neither can | understand how il was
they had Chicago tickets for Mr.. Tanner
and myself nor how the ycould summon
a doctor and tell him to charge the treat
ment to the county unless the sheriff
knew all the time that the attack was
going TO take place
Moyer limited that he thought the sher-
iffs conference was simply ruse To aad
out whether he was alone or not, and il
il would be safe for the others to attack
him.
Although Mr.. Meyers bandages and
bed linen were bespattered with blood, he
did not appear to be in any pain, re-
ceived reporters cheerfully and talked for
nearly twenty minutes.
Former Representative Victor Berger OF
Milwaukee entered the car upon its ar
rival here and was greeted warmly by
Mr. Moyer. He invited the injured man
I'd his home and assured him that ths
Milwaukee socialists would go to the aid
of the Calumet miners.