You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday December 27, 1903
From The Fort Wayne Sentinel: "Striking Miners Evicted."
Meyersdale, Pa., Dec. 26.-The Somerset Coal company has evicted the families of four striking Slavish miners at Pine Hill in the Meyersdale field. Sheriff Coleman was present and the tenants accepted the situation without any show of resistance. The Somerset Coal company took a carload of men from the Elk Lick and Summit mines at night into the Pine Hill mines, which are now being operated. They are also running the mines at Wilson Creek, Listie and Landstreet on reduce wages. The W. K. Niver company is operating both shaft and slope mines at McDonaldton, near Berlin, and their mine at Niverton. The Meyersdale coal company is also running its mine at Wells Creek. There is not a mine that was running on the Somerset and Cambria branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad before the strike order went into effect that is not working now. These places had no organization, this being especially true of the Niver mines....
SOURCE
The Fort Wayne Sentinel
(Fort Wayne, Indiana)
-of Dec 26, 1903
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Saturday December 27, 1913
Hancock, Michigan - Charles Moyer Beaten, Shot, and Deported by Citizens Alliance Mob
Last night at about 8:30 p.m. Sheriff Cruse and a "committee" paid a visit to the Scott Hotel in Hancock. They went to the room of Charles Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners. The "committee" was determined that the leaders of the W. F. of M. should reconsider their refusal to accept any donations from the Citizens' Alliance to the families of the victims of the Italian Hall Massacre. Mr. Moyer remained adamant that donations from the Citizens' Alliance amounted to blood money and that the union would bury it's own dead.
No sooner had this "committee" left the room than a mob burst into the room. They began to beat Moyer and also Charles Tanner who was there with him. A gun was used to beat Moyer over the head which discharged during the assault. Moyer was shot in the shoulder. Moyer and Tanner were dragged out of the Hotel and down the street to the train station in Houghton. At the Houghton-Hancock bridge they were threatened with hanging, and shown a noose brought for that purpose.
The kidnappers put Moyer and Tanner on the Chicago train. Deputy Sheriff Hensley and Deputy McKeever were assigned to accompany the deportees. The deputies wore their Citizens' Alliance buttons right next to their deputy badges for all to see.
The train stopped briefly in Milwaukee, and reporters were able to get the story from Moyer and Tanner. The reporters also witnessed Moyers' "pillow and bed linen were soiled with blood from wounds in his scalp and back."
SOURCE
Death's Door
The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder
-by Steve Lehto
MI, 2006
Photo: Citizens Alliance, Grim Reaper
http://1913copperstrike.blogspot.com/...
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Friday December 27, 2013
More on the Deportation of Moyer and Tanner:
This story was front page news across the nation. The following is a report from the Fairbanks Daily Times:
Members of Citizens' Alliance Resent Riot Story Circulated by President of Western Federation-Moyer and Organizer Tanner Driven from Copper District the Former with Two Bullet Holes in Shoulder-Strikers Refuse Aid from Citizens' Alliance.
...Both of the laborites were handled roughly by the mob, Moyer being so severely injured that he was compelled to go to a hospital for treatment. During the roughhouse in the hotel, the president of the federation was shot twice in the fleshy part of the shoulder, and he also received a scalp wound which required the services of a surgeon. Tanner was battered up considerably, but not to the extent requiring surgical aid.
MINERS THREATEN VENGEANCE
Calumet, Dec. 27.-Intense feeling exists through-out the strike zone as the result of the attack upon President Moyer and Organizer Tanner. Threats of vengeance are made freely made by the strikers and it is feared that much trouble will occur.
SOURCE
Fairbanks Daily Times
(Fairbanks, Alaska)
-of Dec 28, 1913
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Miner's Prayer-Dwight Yoakam and Ralph Stanley
Embedding disabled, but you should not miss this one!!
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from 'neath that cold dark ground
-Dwight Yoakam