Arizona republican., 1915-10-07
MOVER HERE, DECLINES
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deplorably true, acording to official advices received, that your course of action in absenting yourselves from the scene of the present industrial disagreement, far from removing a cause of disturbance, had quite logi- cally, the effect of rendering the possibility of arbitration, even made remote than it was heretofore, and of consequently engendering an unrest which found it's expressions in minor disorders, terminating, hap oily, without serious injury to life or property, but justifying, for tht time being, the despatching of a small de- tachment of militia to Clifton for constabulary service, in the event that such service should be deemed ad- Visable by the sheriff for the preser- vation of order and the dispensation of justice through the usual legal channels. With a view, moreover, to allaying any fears which might fur ther influence your movements, or cause you concern regarding your property interests, I may advise you that telegraphic information from the Commanding Officer of the guardsmen at Clifton assures me that the situa- tion is well under the control of the sheriff.
 Taking up, at this juncture, your view, as expressed in both your letters of the 30th ult. and your telegram of the 2nd inst, namely, that you decline to confer with your former employees or return to the Clifton Morenci Min ing District until you are assured of the departure of the Federation organ izers, the elimination of the Federation influence and the existence of con- ditions favorable for the resuming of operations, I must, in justice to the whole situation, and in deference to my duty as a public official, respect fully suggest to you that although the first of these three conditions might possibly be voluntarily met by the nonresident organizers, the second one in order, as above enumerated, has to do wholly with such phases of human psychology as are beyond the authority of any individual, while the third condition, the development of events conductive to resumption of mining operations under provisions which you may regard as favorable, is, as stated, of such a vague nature and so dependent on future circum- stances as to be beyond prediction.
 
 companies continued insistence upon those conditions, which are impossible of fulfilment prior to a conference, is a matter of extreme regret to me, since it operates as an obstacle to the free discussion of differences by yourselves and your former em- ployes, and renders an amicable set clement leading to resumed mining Op- erations a subject of conjecture. My regret in this connection is the more poignant for the reason that if only your first condition were at issue, an opportunity for compliance on the part of your workmen would at least assume the aspect of a possibility, for it has come to me unOfficially, that, during the past few days, at least four of the nonresident Fed eration representatives have volun- tarily left the district in which you customarily operate.
 Should you, therefore, waive those two conditions over which there can be no human control at present, and agree to confer with elected com- mittees of your former employees, as reasonable compromise fulfilling in just measure the needs of both em- ployes and workingmen might pos sibly result At all events, some ex- pression or counter-proposal from you would dissipate in measure an