The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-10-01
ment of that kind beget loyalty?

ment of that kind beget loyalty?
 There are men who have spent thirty years of their life in the en- ploy or single company, and then after all that time, is it right to have their shack torn down over their heads, be handed $50 for the place that was home to them. Is that their loyalty? a%'-
 Those are the conditions that ex- isted when the Western Federation of Miners came into this district and those are the pleasant relations that existed between the managers and. employees.
 Pleasant relations-when a man has to ask permission of company to go into business, when no man can do business in this district except by the consent of the copper mag mates of this district. They don't be- lieve in too much competition; they want it all so they can charge 100 per cent profit on an article-I don't believe in that sort of competition ' do not believe in it, but I will tell you what I do believe, and I am going to tell you some things that I do not believe.
 I do not believe in intimidation and threats, such as are expressed by this yellow paper (holding up cir aII1o hu oirn T want particularly to remind the au- dience and I want them to under stand how much is involved in this question. I want to say to you there never was criminal, and I am speak ing deliberately and I understand the meaning of my words, when I say there never was a criminal behind the stone walls of a bastile for crime against society that could be compared to the contemplating of that document
 Do you know what that means? Let me read section of this-'When it appears that conditions in this section warrant it and the companies are satisfied that the general senti- ment of the community and their former employees is unanimously in favor of a resumption of operations on the basis of wages and conditions that have prevailed heretofore in this district, the companies reserve to themselves the right to decide whether or not they will again start up their plants
 What is going to change the gen. eral sentiment of this community? Now, what is it that is going to break the resolution of the strikers? What is contemplated by that advice and by that document-hunger, noth- ing else but poverty; when you are sufficiently impoverished to break your spirit, to deplete the treasury of an organization, and your individ- ual powers of resistence, so that you will grovel On the earth at their feet, absolutely begging for a chance to go to work again in the mines of this district. It is a threat to every society in this district, direct threat to every business man and more than threat to every man who has found his living as an employee in the mining industry of this district.
 At this point in the speech of Or ganizer Miller to the strikers, Gov i,, hi companied by a committeeman. Seeing the Governor arrive, MT. Mil Ter called to him:
 Governor, you are wanted over here, right over here"
 The Governor was escorted to the decorated auto by the ushers, where he started to speak some one in the crowd shouted, 'tHurrah for Cover nor Hunt" and three cheers were given. A newspaper reporter and Court Stenographer Shortridge were seated on the front end of the auto truck in readiness to take down the remarks of the Governor. L. Guitterez de Lara, Mexican organizer from Los Angeles, who is here assisting in the strike, was close by to interpret the remarks made by the Governor to the Spanish speaking people. Pres ident Chas. A. Mover, of the Western Federation, was an interested specta- tor, while business men, clerks and deputy sheriffs. rubbed elbows with the men on strike in the crowd of three thousand. Attorney General Wiley E. Jones, who came to Cliff ton the evening previous, arrived on the scene few minutes later and joined those surrounding the speak CTS stand
 This has been a unique strike in many ways and the situation presented