Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-10-02
HUNTS STATEMENT
ON STRIKE MATTER
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in their earnings. Added to the fore
going reasons for complaints there
were other sources of unrest varying
considerably in their Importance, but
IN most instances capable of being re-
NEEDED through comparatively slight
effort on the part of the companies.
Considering the situation in the Cliff
ton-Morenci district, as a whole, il is
in my opinion that some of the diff
culties existing are not only worthy
of attention and adjustment but will
have to be adjusted before any har-
monious conditions of employment
and mine operation can be established.
"Inasmuch as I went to Clifton
merely in my official capacity as gov
ernor and with a view to eXerting my
best efforts toward mediation and ar
bitration. leading to such concessions
on both sides as ordinarily precede
the resumption Of operations in case
of this character, ] specially directed
my attention and endeavor toward the
bringing about of a conference be
tween representative committees of
the working men and the company
managers. After considerable discus
sion with the people directly concern
ed. i'm both sides of the controversy,
/ pointed out the apparent impossible
itv of ending the present deplorable
situation for the best interests of all
people concerned i'm the absence of
any negotiations between the working
men and their employers. Since on
reaching Clifton I found something of
a deadlock existing and it was OBJ
/ served that no attempt whatever was
being made, apparently, by the com
pany managers to invite further i'm
! terviews with workingmen's commit
/ tees for the purpose Of discussing the
basis of a compromise. I proposed
1 the formation of an arbitration com
mittee to consist of three elected re-
/ personalities of the striking work
men Zone from each company involy-
ed the three mine managers or their
designated agents and a seventh ar
bitrator in the person of some disin.
/ terested citizen participating I'm Meth
err side of the controversy. who should
be designated by the governor. Al
though a number Of representative
workingmen to whom ! preached this
proposal were heartily in favor o
the plan. was unable, i'm my inter
views with the mine managers, to oh
tain the assent of the latter to The
holding of any further conference
prior to the workingmen's complianc,
with certain conditions, embracinl
notably the retirement Of federation
officers and leaders from the Clifton
Morenci district and the dissipation
as the companies representatives are
. wont TO express, of the federation in
iuence in the strike zone. It was il
brief. conveyed to me by the com
; panies' managers that no conclusiv
arrangements for a conference coulD
'be entertained by them until they thr
managers, should have an opportuniU
to observe for an indefinite perio
subsequent 10 the voluntary retiremen
of the organizers from the district
the spirit, prevailing sentiment and at
, tendant conditions existing among tn
workmen who are now remaining ur
. employed for the purpose of securin
the alhviation of certain grievance
. which they deem intolerable. Ina.
much as the company managers wer
so insistent upon the absolute recaI
of all Federation Union leaders, an
p upon the elapsing of a certain indefr
I lite interval for observation o fcond
! lions after such leaders departure a
) to be obdurate toward the proposal
t advanced with a view to attaining O
D least a discussion of the points of di
j. ference, existing between the workins
s men and the companies, / necessaril
felt constrained TO spend no furthe
S time and effort in trying to achiev
e an impossibility pending such chang
e of sentiment on the part of the en-
p ployers as would render the Who'll
d situation amendable to considerable
y in the light of reason Believing as
d do, after my investigation that Their
is a marked degree of justice I'm som
" OF lnt utuduuS " men tine " OF hlli'
q are making and feeling convinced tina
r no self respecting body of workme
e would submit to such humilIating con
l. ditions as the mine managers have 10
S sisted upon, preliminary TO confe
d ence. it becomes evident as / beliey
t. that both sides must await such deye
Z opments as shall render arbitratio
] possible
II What the trend of these deyeloI
ments may be it is, of course, impo
- sible to predict but in view of IN
extraordinary order and indispositio
d toward violence. which exists anon
s. the striking workmen of the Clifton
r Morenci district, / do not as yet oil
% serve any reason for serious appr
IL hension It is, of course, eXtremel
/, deplorable and unfortunate that sue
a a situation has developed i'm one
N the states most prosperous and li
Id orally endowed mining districts
IL nearly as can be readily observe
lie however the present crisis is cor
Is bination of long years of disconten
due. as ! said before, in some Il
% stances to causes of such easily reI