The diamond drill., 1914-01-03
MOYER DRIVEN FROM
COPPER COUNTRY
COMMITTEE REQUESTED HIM TO
RETRAcT HIS ACCUSATION
ACCUSES M'nAUGHTON UNIUSTLY
Moysr Says That he viii Return to the
Copper Country and Win Strike After
he Receivers From his Injury

The intense feeling against Pres.
Meyer OF the American Federati ion OF
Labor eliminated last Saturday night
in his forcible expulsion from the
copper country. Rumors OF the affair
reached here shortly after the occur
rance. Men who came down from the
copper country and were pretty well
acquainted with the occurrance told
the story about as has turned out to-
be the case. Denials and exaggera-
tions are made on both sides but the
bare truth, stripped of all bias, is
that committee OF citizens waited
upon Meyer and asked him to retract
the statement tnat the Citizen
Alliance sent men to the Italian hall
at Calumet TO cry fire and thus
cause the holocaust that occurred
there Meyer refused and they left him
but shortly afterwards he was visited
by crowd from 25 TO 30 and dragg
ed from his hotel to the Copper Range
station at Houhgton where he was
put aboard the train with two deput
les guarding him: in the scrimmsge
between the hotel and tho station
Meyer was hooted at and the suRges
tion Of lynching him was made. he
was shot sometime during the scrim-
mage. when is not apparent. One
man who claims to be conversant with !
the affair says that salt was used. !
The reports from Chicago where Moy
er Is in the hospital are that small
caliber bullet entered his shou lder and
that a bullet WAS extracted therefrom !
Monday.
The committee that waited upon
lioyer consisted OF President Joseph |
Wills of Laurium. President Frank |
II. Schumacher of Red Jacket John II
Rice OF Houghton, James I. Fisher |
OF. Laurium and A. L. Pettermann and
M A. Thometz of Calumet.
Sheriff Cruise of Houghtoa county |
was present and sat through the con
ference. Mr.. Cruise states that he
arranged the conference at the request
of the relief committed of Calumet. !
The committee at first requested that
the conference be arranged at Calumet |
bat Mr. Cruise refused 10 allow this as
ne feared that should Meyer 20 TO |
Calumet, even under the sheriff. |
escort he stood great danger of being |
lynched because OF the tenion into |
which the people had been strung be-
cause OF the refusal OF the Federation |
beads 10 allow the miners 20 take
assistance from the committee. Sher !
iH Cruise insisted that the committee |
TO wait upon Mr.. Meyer should DO a
small one az he 6gured that should a
large one meet him. angry passions
might rise and the sheriff wouldn /
lie able to control them whereas with
a mall committee he could do 80
Moyer refuses, point blank, 20 per
init the giving OF aid 10 fhe sufferes.
The committee issued the following |
report
This committee was named by the
relief committee and they sought 10
trevail upon hIm the imme iiate need
of aid Every effort was met with re-
bull.
The committee told Mr.. Morer OF
the meeting in Calumet December g5
10 devise ways and means OF raising
money to alleviate the suffering OF
the victims that committee 0f
twelve was appointed 10 carry on tho
work that the committee had already
receIved contributions OF upwards OF
k25, 900; that they had spent the day
tn canvassipg the situation aud in
sending out sub committees to offer
assistance to the familius who had
been injured that some OF these COM
mittees consisted OF the leading
women of Calumet and we're OF differ
ent nationalities so ~ 10 reach the
stricken people and talk to them in
their own language
The committees. Mr.. Moyer was in
formed, reported that in every instance
they were informed that no assistance
would be accepted unless il came from
people with q union card. The report
as received from all the committees
were about the same. The stricken
refused absolutely 10 accept aid from
the citizens committee, saying they
had been instructed By the union not
60 accept aid or relief In any manner
from the citizens Many of these
families were destitute in heed ot