Arizona republican., 1915-10-02
Governor on Return from Clifton Declares COndi- tions Too Arbitrary, Such as No Self-respecting Man Would Accept
OUTLINES WHAT HE
 FOUND AT CLIFTON
Apparent Deadlock at Min ing Camp Due to Refusal of Operators to Deal With Representative Commit tee of WOrkmen

Characterizing as humiliating the conditions laid down by the mine man. agers of the Clifton Morenci district preliminary to a conference, and that they were such as no self-respecting workmen would submit to. Governor Hunt yesterday expressed the belief on his return from Greenlee county that further developments must be awaited before arbitration will be a possibility
 The governor stated that he would not return to the district unless noti-
 tied by the sheriff that he was unable to handle the situation, and that If he did return he would take troops with him ard settle the strike. President Mover, he said had been advised would leave the district yesterday and that Organizer Powell of the Miami union had already left. The governor said:
 While the fact that I returned from Clifton only this afternoon and found awaiting me numerous matters requir- ing immediate attention naturally pre- cludes me from making today any statement of length concerning the in dustrial situation in Clifton, I may briefly summarize the most salient features of the strike in the Clifton Morenci district
 "On my arrival in Clifton last Tues day. I authorized the announcement that would welcome any presentation of facts regarding the cessation of operations in the mines which might be forthcoming from either the company managers or the workmen. Following this announcement interviews with the managers of the three leading mining @N, resentative delegations of workmen were speedily arranged, and during these and succeeding interviews ex- tending over the period of several days for which I rmained in Clifton, the managers were on a number of occasions, encouraged to make com prehensive statements concerning the events which led to the present un- fortunate crisis and regarding their at titude toward propositions relative to the obtaining of an amicable adjust ment of difficulties. It is conservative to estimate. furthermore, that during my comparatively brief stay in the Clifton -Mprenci mining district fully six hundred workingmen from the vari- ous departments of the mines called on me and gave me much interesting and uSeIul information regarding the con ditions which preceded the shut down. l Much of the testimony was recorded by stenographer and will be carefully i reviewed during my extended consid- | eration of the strike situation.
 While the different interviews in | dicate quite conclusively that there ! were numerous working conditions ob- 1 Iected to on the part of the workmen. 1 the greater part of existing difficulties l seems to Have centered firstly about4 the lowness of the wages paid as com | pared with those prevailing in other l mining districts of the state and sec | ondly, the absence of any uniform scale ! IS applied to different kinds of labor 1 especially are the last mentioned con- 1itions observed in connection with the Copper company, partly for the |
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