The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-12-31
land Proceeded To DO"
Him, Says Meyer.
MINE FEDERATION PRESIDENT
Blames Owners For The Fact
Of His Being Wounded
And Deported.
OPERATORS REFUTE CHARGES

Chicago, Dec. 27.-Charles II.
Meyer, president of the western
Federation of Miners, who Is now
the central figure of the copper NIL
ners' strike in the Calumet region,
arrived in Chicago to-day with
graphic account of the dramatic In
cident in which he was shot, mobbed
and deported from the copper dis
trict. He collapsed soon after his ar
rival as the result of his wounds and
was taken to st. Luke's Hospitai.
When Meyer arrived on Chira-
go. Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
train his head was swathed In pan
dages, his clothing torn and his LETT
chandler torn and strained. A bullet
was in the muscles of his back, near
the left shoulder. He was taken to
the New Gault Hotel, where he Ia
ter collapsed from weakness ana
loss of blood.
DR.. William Harsha, who assumed
charge of the case at the hospital,
said in a bulletin that Mr.. Mover
condition was serious, but with
small likelihood of becoming critical
unless complications were met in ex-
tracing the bullet. An X-ray pho
tograph will be made tomorrow
morning. The location of the bull
let, DR.. Harsha said, would deter
mine the manner of operation for
its removal.
The physician declared that Mr..
Meyer would not be allowed to
speak at a labor mass meeting
planned by Chicago labor officials
for tomorrow afternoon to protest
against the treatment given him in
Hancock, Mich, Friday night by sew
eral men said to have been armed
gangsters in the employ of some OF
those opposed to the striking mi
ners.
N his arrival in Chicago, Mr.
Meyer was accompanied by Charles
H. Tanner, of Los Angeles, auditor
of the Miners Federation, also said
to have been a victim of the mob
and Victor l.. Berger, the Socialist
leader, of Milwaukee, and former
Congressman.
Mr.. Meyer claims he was shot
beaten, threatened with death ant
dragged through the streets OF Han
cock, Mich. He blamed the MINING
companies which are involved il
K the strike which has been in prog
4 ress in the Calumet copper distric
n for the past five months. He assert
ed the attack upon him followed hi
refusal to retract a statement he hat
made that the Citizens Alliance hat
n deliberately plotted the panic whicl
caused the deaths of seventy-fiv
persons in Italian Hall, at Calume
last Wednesday while the familie
of the striking miners were celebrat
ing Christmas.
a Dispatches from Calumet sal
N that Meyers story had been inves
NJ tigated and found to lack confirma
N ticn. In the dispatches 1t wa
claimed that no shots were fired Il
N Hancock and that no one saw Moye
.& dragged through the streets.
M When asked what was the motiv
& of the attack on himself and MI
VA Tanner. Meyer, with a wave of hi
hand shouted:
1.-The mine owners want to get ri
"a of me. They believe my presence 1
.@ the district will win the strike"
|1 Asked as to his plans for the II
ture. Meyer said:
M 81 am going back to Calumet da
IS after tomorrow. l am going to wi
\ better wages and better living cor
ditions for those miners. The al
n <tack on me only shows the calibre G
|the mine owners. am going to as
the Government to protect me, as
am entitled to protection under tn
Constitution. I have tried to b
fair with the mine owners"
In HIS story of Friday nights a
legged attack at Hancock. Moys
said
Il was in my hotel when con
anittee from the Citizens Alliance
M organization fostered by min
bwners--called on me and asked m
10 retract the charge that repr'