Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-12-27
sOrrOwful Services "a Be Kela
in Six Churches Of Copper
Mining Town Tomorrow.
sTALWART sTRTKERs
TO CARRY c0FFINa
Hen VIII Bear Bodies Of LiE.
tie Children Through Che
Streets; stubbornly Refuse
Eon-Union Aid.

fny Leased Wire 20 EEcnfna TEnrnE4.A
Calumet, Ailch.. Dec. Evidences
as 10 the identity of the men who Lass
night solsed Charles w. Meyer ana
John Tanner officers of the westssn
Federation % Mipora and sent thcA
out OF the copper strike district, wnN
gathered BY local officers of the une
ion today. They announced that nn8a
erai members Of the ssksdnannlnr'' an@
pedition had been recognised ard fha0
affid&Vits a. 20 their identity had been
obtained from residents OF Hamrorns
II was generally believed that theaa
sworn statements would Be- made tfin
basis OF WARRANTS for arrests but das
cision on this point WAS reserved,
pending she arrival here Of Claude oe
State Federation of Labor. who waa
summoned from Crnnd Rapids AZ coon
as the forced departure of Meyer be-
came known.
Much OF she activity AZ union hanee
quarters was conferred on plans 9oR
tho funerals of some seventy Victims
of the Christmas eve panic ~ Z unarn
hail. six local churches WIN ho fha
scenes cf funeral rites tomofrow. tina
serpicos being divided According 81
the nationality and religious beliefs oa
the victims. A few Of the dead VIA
not be burled uutll hunfanfa nnA fefhs
ere ShO iuurneye8 ~ W4ottrn States
TO find oEpioyment, can arrive heres
Arrangements have boen made for
n Joint proceasl1h 10 fr,e uslnoierF.
whore ono hundfId members Of the
federation today dug graves On fota
purchased by tllo union. All tho Noa
man Catholics viii be buried fn Ona
section Of the cemetery and the Pro-
tessants 0f an adjoining plot. Wholhar
there win be any speaking AZ the
graves has not been determined, a.
President Mover had this pheno oc
the plans IN charge and the local un-
Ion officials had nat been informed on
his action IN this regard.
Hearses VIII convey tho bodies of
sixteen adults 20 the cemetery but the
cofflns containing those OF half
hundred children who were killed N
the panic Will be borne through tha
streets on shoulders of ssalwart atrih-
era. -Four nen have been deloenlad
70 perform this service for each hitla
casket
The local union officials announced
that the entire federation memberBhip
from Ishpeming nud NeRaunee IN thB
iron mining district Of Mchfgan would
attend the funerals. special trnin
Il expected 10 bring these men TO Cali
umet tomorrow.
Accounts Of Moyer's deportation ohs
tainable today differed m some re-
apecta from those available during the
excitement last Night. Then n wna
said that three men escorted the union
executive from the ecots hetel IN Han
cock across the bridge % the COunar
Range railroad station IN H0uRhtcn.
Today's accounts generally agreed
that fifty 0r more men went into the
hotel and that crowd ol several hun
dred awaited them At the railroad
station. The affidaviis given the En~
ion officials stated that Meyer was 1T
orally drAgaed from his room ana
through the stfaats. There wRR aisu
information here uhet two shots had
heen fired ana that some members %
tho e3ectment committee carried huge
~ whips which they placed with core
siderably frequency on Meyer. The
manager OF tho hotel said that when
the intrudcrs left there Meyer was
uninlured and was walking uprishss
No shots we're fired 81 the hotel. he
SAD and there WAS no struggle or 9TH
ca evidence of disorder within ltH
wallis. Ele said ~ number Of men'a
went TO Meyers room.
First word OF the whereabouts af
the federation president came 20 CaI-
umet IN Associated Press dispatches
from Green Alay, WIS. Theae were
followed By a telegram from Meyer
himself In which he told the local ofp
ficcrs 60 carry out plans previously
agreed on and aak them 90 tell tho
rank and file Of the strikers that hiq
removal 70 Chicago neeG not dlucours
age them.
Employees Of the Waddeu- Mahon
corporation, and local members Of the
Citisens Alliance. denied Meyers
charges AZ 70 the Identity o. his aa~
sallants. only three men employed
by the corporation In question ara in
the strike district now One Of thona
was Ia bed suffering from the effects
Of being caught in a Jam when ne
waE attempting % rescue atFlkeF2
children from the Italian hall disaster
and the other two denied they were
m any way concerned in the dcpo7ia-
ton.
The Citixens Alliance has no formal
Organization and al men approached
on she subject to-day said they WtfA
totally Ignorant of the hapnonInNr &C
Hancock Efforts 10 set an authnfia
ltative atatemens from nny one pets
son met with failure hosh nare. OBJ
Hancock ana In ficuEhtou
The relief committee which ycnleFa
day tried Nalnly 90 Fire aMny t140an
today called on William Richard M0aA
81 the local union or tno federation