Sunday April 8, 1906
Boise, Idaho - George H. Shoaf Reports for Appeal to Reason
Saturday April 7, 1906
Pocatello, Idaho - Steve Adams Searches for Cache of "Greek Fire"
Saturday April 1, 1916
Indianapolis, Indiana - John M. O'Neill Address Convention of United Mine Workers
Wednesday March 28, 1906
Boise, Idaho - W. F. of M. Officers Now Confined at Ada County Jail
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Saturday March 24, 1906
Boise, Idaho - Wife of Charles Moyer Believes He May Die in Ada County Jail
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Wednesday March 14, 1906
New York, New York - Socialists and Trade Unionists Rally to Defense of Moyer and Haywood
Two thousand Socialists and trade unionists, watched over by one thousand bluecoats, gathered in the city of New York last night to protest the arrests and attempted judicial murder of Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood, officers of the Western Federation of Miners. One of the speakers was Mother Jones who stated:
We stand in the dawn of the world's greatest war...It will be the war between the robbed and the robbers, and the robbers will go down. When they talk of hanging Moyer and Haywood, now why didn't they talk of hanging the men who shot down innocent working men in Virginia? Why don't they talk of hanging the commercial pirates who are murdering the little children in the mills of the South?.....
If they force us to shoot they will find that they never struck such a band of fighters as the American workingmen.
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Tuesday March 13, 1906
From The New York Times: Socialists Rally Behind Moyer and Haywood
From the Times of March 12th:
SAYS SOCIALISTS MUST ARM.
----------Ex-Mayor of Haverhill Wants Them to
Fight to Save Moyer and Haywood.
A appeal was made at yesterday's meeting of the Central Federated Union By John C. Chase, Former Socialist Mayor of Haverhill, Mass., for co-operation with the Socialists in protesting against the punishment of President Moyer, Secretary Haywood, and other officers of the Western Federation of Miners, who were arrested in connection with a number of murders, including the assassination of ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho. These men are now in jail in Boise City. Capitalists and corporations were denounced impartially by Chase. He said that the unions at a meeting last Thursday decided on a perpetual agitation on behalf of the imprisoned men and asked to attend the first conference to push along the agitation which will begin in the Grand Central Palace to-morrow. Referring to Moyer and Haywood, he said:
If these two men are hanged, and if any man in this body, or any other body of the kind, is not then willing to shoulder a gun and fight for his class, he is a coward.
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Sunday March 11, 1906
From the "Rescue Edition" of the Appeal to Reason: Debs Issues Call to Action
Down the center of the entire front page of Saturday's edition of the Appeal, Comrade Debs issues a call to action to protest the attempted judicial murder of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners.
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Saturday March 10, 1906
From the Montana News: Comrade Debs Speaks, Warns Plutocrats
From this week's edition of the Montana News:
Debs' Stirring Message.
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Calls Working Class to Prepare for Action
to Prevent Judicial Murder.
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What I have to say about the latest and boldest stroke of the plutocracy will require but little space. It is not talk that is wanted but action.
The issue is clear. There can be no mistake about it.
The labor leaders that cannot be bribed or bullied must be ambushed and murdered. That is the situation in a nutshell. How shall we meet it? In just one way. We have got to fight.
Another Haymarket attempt will precipitate a revolution.
If murder must be committed it is not the working class alone that will furnish the victims this time.
Moyer, Haywood and their colleagues are absolutely innocent. The writer knows them to the heart's core and will stake his all on them.
The only crime they are guilty of is that they are unswervingly true to the working class, and the working class can do no less than stand by them to the finish.
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Friday March 9, 1906
From The San Francisco Call: "Boise Suspects Are Indicted"
The Call of March 8th reports on developments in the murder case against the officers of the Western Federation of Miners:
BOISE SUSPECTS ARE INDICTED
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Caldwell Grand Jury Returns Bills Against
Moyer and His Confederates
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Attorney for Prisoners Announces That He
Will Ask for Trials Immediately
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