South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-27
MOYER SAYS He WAS SHOT
THEN DRIVEN OUT Of TOWN
President of Western Federation of Miners Disappears From
HoughtOn and Shows Up at Green Bay Wisconsin. Goes
to Physician to Have Wounds Treated Then Proceeds to
CHICAGO.
Statement by Charles II. MOyer


al Green BAY. Wis:
Charles II Tanner and my self
were brutally assaulted i'm my
room in the Scott hotel at Han
cock last night. I was shot in
the back and dragged more than
one and onC-half miles through
the streets Of Hancock ny a mob
OF WadelI-MahOn thugs and
city alliance men: put on a Mil
Waukec train and threatened
with death il I returned. Please
say for me that the cause 1 rep
resent il well worth the suffering
l have undergone
The strike Is just begun.
Cause OF the strike il Just, and
the men will win.
(Signed) Charles H. Meyer"
GREEN BAY. Wis. Dec. 81
Chas. II. Meyer. president OF the
Western Federation of Miners step
per from n Chicago, Milwaukee 4 -.
Paul South-bOund passenger train
here Saturday and with his head
partially bandaged. was directed To
the office of "a surgeon for treatment.
Mr.. Moyer stated that he had been
shot nj badly maltreated in his
election from the copper country last
night as a result OF the strike there
which has kept the country in an un-
settled condition for five months and
had its elimination Christmas eve ia
the fatality resulting IN the death OF
y persons.
Several men attacked me in the
dark" explained Meyer. They fred
on me from the dark. beat me terrib-
", dragged me more than a mile
through the streets of HOughtOn,
threatened to hang me and then put
me on board train for Chicago.
had just been IN conference with a
committee of I > men who called with
Atty Pederman. who represented the
Calumet * Hecla Mining Co.
The committee had not been gone
from my hotel more than four or FIVE
minutes and / had just stepped out
side the building when a mob Of I
have no idea how many men. sur
rounded me. ] was rushed through
Hancock and across the bridge into
Houghton After I had been beaten
and threatened with death and
wounded by a bullet fired from some
where in the dark. my two chief tor
menters dragged me aboard the train
and remained with me until We
reached Channing Mich. about .
O'Clock Saturday morning"
Meyer declared he would return To-
the Calumet district in a few days. lie
left at noon for Chicago.
CALUMET, Mich. Dec. e7.-
Meyers deportation was the direct
result of the refusal OF the families
stricken by the Christmas eve disaster
TO accept relief from a committee,
majority OF whose members belonged
to the Citizens alliance. an organ.
ization combating the i've months
strike Of the federation.
1t was stated TO the relief commit
tee that the federation had forbidden
its members TO accept any portion Of
$3.50 raised for relief of the panic
victims. A section of the COMMITTEES
thereupon was delegated 20 confer
with Pres. Mover and arranged TO
confer with him at a hotel in Han
cock.
Session a Lively One.
The session there was warm. The
Citizens alliance men told the union
executive that his attitude was against
all dictates of humanity. They de-
manded that he retract statement
credited TO him saying that the cry OF
fire" which started the panic was
raised by a member Of the alliance.
Meyer il was said. refused 20 make
retractions satisfactory 20 the COM
mittee.
A short time later. he and John
Tanner OF California. an organizer OF
the union, were observed on a street
car going from Hancock 60 Hough-
ton.
Just across the bridge connecting
the two towns and distant about 400
feet from the structure is the depot
OF the Copper Range railroad. There
il was noticed that Mover and his
companion boarded "a train bound for
Chicago They were accompanied
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