The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-10-01

worthy of attention and adjustment, but will have to be adjusted before any harmonious conditions of em- ployment and mine operation can be established.
 "Inasmuch as I went to Clifton merely in my official capacity as Governor and with view to exerting my best efforts toward mediation and arbitration leading to such conces- sions on both sides as ordinarily pre- cede theresumption of operations in a in case of this character, especially directed my attention and endeavor toward the bringing about of confer ence between representative oommit- tees of the workingmen and the com pany managers. After considerable dis cussion with the. people directly con. cerned in both sides of controversy, I pointed out the apparent impossi- bility of ending the present deplorable situation for the best interests of all people concerned in the absence of any negotiations between the work ingmen and their employers. Since, On reaching Clifton I found some thing approaching a deadlock existing and it was observed that no attempt whatever was being made apparently by the company managers to invite further interviews with workingmen's committees desirous of discussing tho hocic of O oou,pr0mico nroDocad the formation of an arbitration com mittee to consist of three elected rep their designated agents and a seventh arbitrator in the person of some dis resentatives of striking workmen Gone from each of companies in Ivolved) the three mine managers or tinguished citizen participating in neither side of the controversy, who should be designated by the Governor. Although a number of representative workingmen to whom preached this proposition were heartily in accord with the plan, was unable in my in- terviews with the mine managers to obtain the assent of the latter to the holding of any further conference prior to the workingmen's compliance with certain conditions, embracing notably the retirement of all Feder- ation officers and leaders from the Clifton Morenci district and the dis sipation, as the companies represen- tatives are wont to express it, of the Federation influence in the strike zone. It was in brier, conveyed to me by the companies managers that no tconclusive arrangements for con- ference could be entertained by them until they, the managers, should have Ian opportunity to ooserve for an in- definite period subsequent to the vol untary retirement of the organizers from the district, the spirit, prevail ing sentiment and attendant condi- [tions existing among the workingmen who are now remaining unemployed for the purpose of securing the ale vation of certain grievances which they deem intolerable. Inasmuch as the company managers were so insisteht upon the absolute removal of all Federation union leaders, and upon the elapsing of certain indef- mite interval for observation of con- ditions after such leaders departure as to be obdurate toward the propo- sals advanced with view to attain ing at least discussion of points of differences existing between the workingmen and the companies, I necessarily felt constrained to spend no further time and effort to try to- achieve an impossibility pending such change of sentiment on the part of employers as would render the whole situation amendable to consideration in the light of reason.
 Believing as I do, after my inves- tigation that there is a marked de gree of justice in some of the de- mands which the workmen are making and feeling convinced that no self-respecting body of workmen would submit to such humiliating conditions the mine managers have insisted upon preliminary to a con- ference, it becomes evident as I be- lieve that both sides must await such developments as shall render arbi- tration possible.
 What the trend of these develop ments may be of course impossible to predict, but in view fo the extra ordinary order and indisposition to- ward violence which exists among the striking workmen of Clifton Morenci district, I do not as yet ob-