Arizona republican., 1915-11-01

they must do the bulk of their trad ing at the company stores.
 There are numerous allegations made by the strikers that no news paper can print till they are matters of public record. My belief is that the federal investigation to be made by Joseph H. Myers will prove mans of the charges the companies have denounced as ridiculous exaggera- tions.
 Public opinion in the mining camps is decidedly on the side or the strikers. Business and profess sional men, talking privately and not for publication, declare that the men
 have not been paid enough money
 that subordinates have been guilty of abuses and that the mana gers themselves have fostered a system of oppression without parallel in the
 United States
 No matter what the outcome of the present strike is, working con- ditions in the district are almost cer-. tain to be improved. The managers must see where they have made mistakes, and their directors must also be convinced that someone blundered. The companies will adopt a different attitude toward their em- ployes. Already there are signs which bear out this prediction. The
 refugees" who are being fed, clothed and housed free of charge at Duncan are sure. when they return to work, to expect better treatment than they have been accorded in the past
 It cannot be denied that the strik- CTS have run a great many people out of the district. In many cases the objects of their suspicion have been entirely neutral, or even strike sym pathizers The strike leaders have done their best to curb the hotheads and prevent trouble. and they have been surprisingly successful Those who have been placed in positions of authority, almost without exception, deplore whatever little disorder there has been. They realize that the surest way for the strike to be lost would be to start trouble which would make it necessary for the governor to call in federal troops. Federal troops, it is generally be- lieVed, would mean strike breakers.
 The peace officers have been fol- lowing the plan of easing along" the Mexicans, Italians and Span iards. This plan has worked very yell and has prevented bloodshed. Innocent people have suffered but innocent people would have died had real trouble started Deputy sher- ifs have stood by and seen Mexi- cans who had done nothing but talk and sometimes not dore even that escorted down the road toward Duncan. It was rough on the Mex jeans but had the officers interfered riot might have been started. and riot might have meant war throughout the district
 Charges have been made that the news from the strike zone is cen sored by the union. This is utter nonsense. It was true that there was a disposition on the part of the strike leaders to minimize what troruble there was and to present their side of the controversy in the most favorable light to the news papermen. No one ever made any attempt to censor what the news paper correspondents were wiring out and no one except Sheriff James G. Cash ever attempted to prevent the correspondents getting all the facts.
 Sheriff Cash adopted an attitude that probably was never before adopted by a public official, at least not in this land of a free press. One instance will suffice to illustrate this.
 One afternoon Sheriff Cash re- turned from Fl Paso on the 4:O5 train. George L. Seese. manager of the Los Angeles branch of the Asso- ciated Press. and I went to the sher iff's office to learn the nature Of the proposition Cash was supposed to have brought from the mine man agers to the strikers. We were told, l on several visits. that there was nothing to give out. At ten o'clock 1 that night Seese and I made final call upon the sheriff. We asked him straight out if he had brought | any message or proposition from the managers. He replied that he had 1 not Throughout the conversation he frequently reiterated that he didn't know anything" When asked if he lad submitted. or would submit to the men any proposition looking to- ward a settlement of the strike, he ] replied that he had no statement to make. right along?" Seese asked. Cash | turned around and walked into an other room.
 Almost believing that Cash had failed to persuade the managers to | Seese and I went in opposite direc- tions Within five minutes each of l us had learned that at the sheriff's l
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