The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-28
OUSTED FROM CALUMET
WITH BULLET IN BACK

cover unless the wound is infected
and serious complications set in. An
Xray examination was to be made
late tonight.
Mover said tonight that he hoped
he had been shot accidentally
Il don't remember much of what
happened after the mob piled into my
room at Hancock" he said. but they
began kicking and beating me and
then some one pounded me on the
side of the head with a gun, guess.
The gun must have exploded and sent
the bullet down my back. would
hate to believe any man would desire
to kill me-
Victor Berger met Meyer and Chas.
Tanner, auditor of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners and the second vic
tim of the alleged assault, at Mil-
waukee and accompanied them to Chi
cago where big delegation of local
leaders followed to the hotel.
Apparently exhausted, Meyer lean-
ed on the arm OF an easy chair and
in low voice repeated his story OF
what happened in his hotel room at
| Hancock, Mich, to the crowd of la
Dor chiefs and newspaper men. Oc-
tasionaliy he was seized with viol.s
ent fit of coughing,
1.-TWO hours before that mob attack
ed me I had submitted a new plan
of arbitration to the mine owners in
the Calumet district he said. Our
first plan that the owners rejected,
4 called for an arbitration commission
4 OF Ave, two appointed by mine owners,
two by the miners, who we specified
i should not be members of any of the
local unions or of the Western Feder-
alton of Miners, and the fifth to be
chosen by either the president of the
, United States or the governor OF
Michigan. The new plan suggested
| that the dispute be submitted to an
l arbitration committee consisting OF
: five or seven members and selected BY
; the president and the governor acting
e together
In submitting this new proposal tc
+ the mine oSsners, Meyer said he caai
+ led their attention to the fact that he
e was making this second appeal during
! the holiday season, and on the eve
a of the funeral of the victims OF ths
Christmas celebration disaster thai
o shocked the mining country.
: "At about the time thought m,
U appeal should have reached the min'
8 owners. Attorney Pederman for thu
o Calumet and Hecla Mining company
g Sheriff Cruise and fifteen other mel
i, entered my room. They demandes
g that | issue statement advisln'
is families Of the panic disaster to as
cent the donation Of the Citizens "a
c. lance. refused them and told then
o organized labor was able to care TO
,f ITS own. ] do not believe they coul
o. have gotten out of the hotel when tn
r. mob attacked me, beat me and draf
Id ged me to the depot
lg THE two men who kidnapped m
Id admitted they were Sheriff Cruise
DEPUTIES" said Meyer, and whe
e. they stopped at winona. Mich, an
IN had DR.. Storey treat me, they tol
so the doctor to send the bill to sheri
Cruise"
st Meyer smiled when told that sheri
ok Cruise had denied knowledge OF tn
he alleged kidnapping and assault and ha
nd charged that the story Of the assau
.al was a frame up to arouse syr
er pathy for the miners cause.
,is q honestly believe that Cruise WI
ur in the hotel or just leaving 1T whe
.ot these men entered my room, sa
is Meyer The talk about man hayir
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