Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-12-27

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Amplifying his talk with reporters
at Milwaukee, Meyer said that Jas
McNaughton, manager of the Calumet
and Hecla, passed the mob in his ma
chine, and was at the railroad station
when the mob arrived. McNaughton,
the mine leader said, searched him in
the station while two armed men held
him and tok pocket book containing
valuable papers.
There was mob of about IS per
sons bowling and making threats,
Meyer asserted. McNaughton, he said
instructed the two guards to stay with
him until he was safely away.
He said that he would return to the
copper range at the earliest possible
moment and that Governor Ferris, in
his opinion, should declare martial
law in the strike section.
Meyer was put in lower berth In
the front of the car and Tanner
bruised from kicks and with a badly
bruised and swollen left eye, was
placed in the next berth
The two guards, each armed with
two pistols in holsters, according to
Moyer Tanner and Edmonton Kraft,
the porter, took seats across the aisle
and remained there until Claiming.
Mich, was reached at 2 a. M.
"The guards told me and the CON
ductor, George Harris, that they were
rising With Tanner afd Meyer to pro-
tect them from further molestation,
said the porter, Kraft. Kraft said
that Moyer did not protest, and Meyer
confirmed this.
"The conductor and train crew
could see what was happening |
didn't need to tell them," said Meyer.
Two hours before the attack Meyer
had completed plan for settlement
.oe the strike.
1T was to the effect that the presl'
dent of the United States and the gov
elnor of Michigan should appoint five
or seven arbitrators to settle the
whole thing, and that the strikers
should return Immediately to work,
explained Meyer.
AS the train drew near Chicago
Tanner assisted his companion to
dress in the berth. Victor Berger,
who accompanied them from Milwall
iee, assisted Meyer from the train. On
the platform, he was surrounded bv
newspaper reporters and photograph
ers, and he stood supported by Tan
ner, while photographs were taken.
In the name of common sense
shouted Berger, give him rest; get
him to bed,' and he Joined in the es'
cort which protected Meyer on the
way out of the union station.
Meyer, through Tanner, sent sever
al kilograms, among them one 10
Ernest Mills, of Denver, wEo SAID:
Hell go back" Meyer replied tnat
Mills was right, and thai the strik-
ers would w;n.
Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. Ell was
attacked by about 25 men in my room
at the Scott hotel in Hancock, Mich, |
last night at about S:34 o'clock. struck
over the head with the butt of re
volver, shot in the back, dragged |
through the hotel and streets and put |
on a train and told to leave that coun- |
try forever said Chas. II. Meyer, |
president of the Western Federation !
of Miners, during his stop here, on /
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train
while en- route to Chicago. /
Mr.. Meyer occupied his berth. and
his pillow and bed linen were stained /
with the blood from wounds in his
scalp and back. He was good natur-
ed despite his wounds, and said that
after they "got healed up in Chicago,
he would return to Calumet and fight
those mine owners to the last"
"At $50 o'clock Sheriff Cruise and
about fifteen other men came to my
room to ask me about arrangements