Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-08
RIGHT HAND 0F MITCHELL
 Is GIVEN
AFFAIRS OF MINE WORKERS PRESIDENT HAS BECOME
 PART OF HIMSELF.
INVALUABLE ASSISTANT
Carries All the Data of Miners Union h Her Mind-A Drill Wee to the Pumping Process-Can Give Out Less in Same Length of Time Than Mitchell Himself.

Indianapolis, April 7.-visitors to the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America in this city, when business calls them there in the ab- sence of President John Mitchell, are Secretary Wilson always refers them to a woman when information is want ed which would naturally come from the president of the organization.
 It seems to me an unwritten law of the Mine Workers that no one shall presume to know, much less to tell, anything that should be known and told, if necessity for telling it exists, outside of his own special department.
 The secretary, for instance, deals in figures and never discusses policies. The editor of the Mine Workers Jour nal, the official organ will tell when any particular event happened and will courteously give access 10 the files of the paper. But when lnfor- 1nasion is wanted outside of the mere details there found, the inquirer is referred to the secretary for any off cial report that may have been made on he happening, although the e liter may be in possession of every material fact connected with it.
 Mir. Mitchell shapes the policies "f the organization, in connection with his lieutenaDts, but he alone Viii speak of them. The members of the executive board may have been in conference with him, may have dis cussed the policies agreed on, or may even have suggested them to the pres ident of the organization, but It is Mitchell, and Mitchell alone, w7en he is at headquarters, who is eni-lei 1o ] speak about them. He may speak 1 for himself, or like Secretary Wilson 1 in his absence, he may reSe- tie iD- quirer to the young woman who cccu- 1 pies a seat at a desk ne IT hiln Wben | this is done the information is always forthcoming.
 The young woman is Miss EIiZabe th l Morris. and she is recko lai 2 seconi 1 PiSclQSAl Ot Sl-S liiH Nf bs hNio VI salization. oua1.:v, sne holds he ! place of private SC ,-s.ary to -the pres 1 ident, but she has been wi;1 Mitchell so long in that ca2ia,-y, has lecome so familiar with the wor1 Of the ur- ganization, its past, its present and it's future policies; has assisted e.- rate rially in forming them ant Is depended upon so much .or advice ard Girect:on when the real leader CT ibe union is absent that 1t Is ques': lDie T any one could fill her pia2e. That Iio ere could fill it so we'll ia cor cs lei on all sides, for she ca.r.es in her n'hd all important data concerning Be creaDi- zation, and s ,I-9t1,!y reference book on any po:at on ahich ln.orma- ton is wanted.
 Miss Morris was :: cle-k n the @f- flee of the Mine Wo KOS when Mitch ell was electsi preside II. Al 1igat she studied shofsland ani .ylewri.- ing. Mitchell hau beer identified with the organization for years, but there were many things he wanted to kDOW hAcu GS tOOh laC AC&A VaSA he asked where certain data could be found he discovered that Miss Morris had it in her mind as well as neatly transcribed in her books. .Compari- sons with the books showed that she was remarkably accurate; and she was promoted to the place of private secretary.
 Soon Mitchell began to depend upon her more and more. He found her judgment good and her advice practi- cal. and he began to trust many of the important affairs of the office to her. There were details into which he hadn't time to go, and these fell to her lot for position. Much of the cores pondence of the office was disposed of by her. and when he had leisure to re- fer to it he found that her replies to letters of inquiry, her requests for in- formation from subordinates, and her correspondence even with operators ergarding troubles in the mines were as much of expression of his own ideas as il he had dictated them in- stead of merely indicating their gen eral scope.
 Miss Morris is 2s years old. She has studied Mitchelrs methods to such purpose that she is practically re fection of him. She doesn't know anything when it is advisable from her point of view to be ignorant, and she knows everything when it is ex- pedient to talk. She is never dis courteous. never out of humor, but she is a dry well to the pumping pro cess and can give out less fin the same length of time than Mitchell himself.