Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-24

cedure as accompanies outlawry at-
 tended the closing of the plants. Op-
 portunity was not accorded to tap
 matte out of the furnaces Co finish
 blowing the charges then in the con, verters. Obstacles were raised by the ! Federation against efforts of the com
 panies either to protect their proper ties or Co save them from destruction. ! The Federation stationed pickets in
 and around the plants. These pickets denied entrance even Co officers of the companies, and watchmen regularly
 employed by the companies were run off. The companies were thus forced to accept the situation created by the l Western Federation, and in order to
 meet it in the only way left open, the ! plants were surrendered into the care
 of the Sheriff. As can be seen, the
 Western Federation of Miners had not 1 only directed but also put into opera tion each and every development of
 the strike.
 The companies managers deter mined to appeal to their old employ 1 ees and agreed to meet on Sept 17 committee representing the employ | ees of the Arizona Copper Company | The committee which responded ad-
 mitted that majority of it's members was chosen at meetings of the West ern Federation. It was therefore a Western Federation committee acting under explicit instructions from Fed eration organizers Manager Carmi- chael, of the Arizona Company, told the committee that before a confer.
 ence could be held, the employees would have to send a representative
 body of men selected fairly from the
 ranks of former trusted employees.
 Thereafter meetings organized and
 conducted by the Western Federation
 were held. and committees made up
 in many instances of officers and lead
 CTS of the Western Federation were chosen.
 The mining company managers pre- 1 viously had made it clear that they were eager to confer with committees which were not hand-picked by the Western Federation Word was re- ceived on Sept goth that committees had been named and a joint confer l ence was agreed upon in spite of the 1 fact that the mine managers were con | vinced that they were being deceived [ and the Western Federation was in- 1 deed in complete control. President ] Mover of the Western Federation ar rived in camp from Denver on Sept ! 24 thus finally and effecuaIly putting . the Western Federation brand upon the acts and doings of the strikers and their committees. Mover arranged so- called mass meetings at which resolu- tions were adopted At one of these meetings Federation leader publicly announced that the mass meeting was merely a little orange juice in the castor oil to be admins tered Go the companies by the West ern Federation of Miners.
 A joint meeting was arranged on Sept 26 at which the resolutions a. dopted a, the Federation mass meet ings were read These resolutions called for among other things the adoption of a wage scale which would put the Detroit Copper Company and the shannon Copper Company out of | business permanently and reduce the life of the Arizona Copper Company possibly fifty percent The joint meet ing established the fact that the priv ilege of dealing directly with their old employees was denied to the mining companies; that the Western Fedora tion had complete sway The utiliy of seeking further Go deal with the strikers while the district was in the grip of Federation influence was also apparent
 Governor Hunt arrived in Clifton on Sept 28 in response 10 messages from the sheriff. Hunt was warmly vel comed by the Federation leaders. Subsequent events proved that his presence in the district was in keep ing with a plan to coerce the mining companies into granting the demands of the Western Federation. The mine conferred with Governor Hunt on the afternoon of his arrival. They submitted proof that the Feder- ation was wholly responsible for the strike and that a reign of intimida- tion existed They assured him that as soon as intimidation ceased and the managers were enabled to meet their employees in a direct and
 friendly manner the trouble could be terminated happily.
 The following day, Governor Hunt Eeld a conference with the Western 1 Federation leaders and under their patronage addressed strikers meet ing at Morenci in the afternoon Gov