Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1911-10-12
Strike-BreakerS Are
 Brought to Yuma

In box cars and any other old cars nine strike breakers were brought to Yuma yesterday and are being fed and housed in the cars at the yards here.
 This action and the looks of the gang the s. P. company krs seen fit to send to Yuma, disgu ted every body who saw them, and c~used round house foreman T. E. Erie. ana night foreman T. A. Cawley to quit and join the ranks of the men who are out.
 And right here the Examiner wishes to say that the men who are out here in Yuma, battling for their rights and for better conditions, deserve the sym pathy and help of every decent citizen of Yuma as long as they are peaceable and commit no acts of violence
 They are men, most of them, who have been in Yuma for years; many of them were born and raised here
 They are home men. Their fight is Yuma's fight, so far as moral support and belief in the righteousness of their cause is concerned
 Always, when decent, lawabiding men are struggling to better condi- tions, to advance wages to a more lib eral, living plane, there are always so called strike breakers to DC found.
 But never in the history of indus trIal fights. has this paper ever known of respectable or decent man who engaged himself as a "scab" or a "spotter."
 Generally they are from the lowest order of huran beings. Gathered from the slums, imperious. to reason or to trying to better themselves.
 And if the men of Yuma who are now on strike, continue their present peaceable, law-abiding tactics, they are sure to have the support of the community and will eventually win their fight for the betterment of work ing conditions
 If the best the s. P. can do is to send in a bunch of nondescripts, huddled in box cars, fill the town with "spotters," and surround the whole with ring of special policemen, then they had better go out of business.
 The Yuma crowd is a law-abiding, peaceful one. They have no thought Of because they know they would immediately lose the sympathy of the public.
 They have peacefully called strike to better themselves, and cer- .ainly they have right to so do if they wish. That is their right under the grand old constitution of the United States so long as they abide ny the law
 Certain it is, that the decent ele- nent of Yuma wants neither strike breakers nor spotters in our midst, md the business men and citizens ,HOu1Q S00 IO It JudL IuCoO SOulIy dIC reated as they deserve-with the cold shoulder of disapproval.
 Certainly the better element of Yu- na hopes the men will win their fight, ,ut equally certain, it wants them to win it without one act of violence to mar the good name of the Own.
 Too often, when strike bre akers and spotters are imported, soi e one of hem commits some act that is then aid to the door of the strikers, and in his way a corporation very often turns sympathy away from the men.
 The Yuma strikers are we'll known, md they should take means to see hat every spotter and strike breaker s carefully watched to see that no tets of this kind are committed here.
 With this surveillance and careful conduct on their own part, they should win the recognition they are fighting or. But it should always be remem- 'ered, they must be peaceful.