The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-12-31

tractors in Greenlee county could be found to take the contract to do the assessment work on the claims. On being asked by the court to state the names of some persons who would take such a contract he said that he could not specify names.
 Do you think that responsible men in the district would take the contract and would be permitted to do the work regardless of whether they employed men in the district or | brought in men?" he was asked by ] the court.
 i Tt would depend on whether they paid them the wage scale formerly paid by the company or the wages demanded by the strikers, he re- piled.
 i Sheriff Cash was asked why he advised Mir. Mclean of the company that to bring in men to do the as- sessment work would result in vio- fence.
 The issue between Mclean and the srtikers over whether the latter shall be permitted to do the work arose from the fact that the company proposed to pay the men the old scale and the strikers wanted them paid higher wages,'' he said.
 The court asked Sheriff Cash whether he could protect men brought in from the outside to do the assessment work. T could prob ably not protect them with my pres ent force of deputies,' he replied. Attorneys for the companies at tempted to show that the sheriff was partial to the strikers. A pass issued iby one of his deputies asking strik- CTS not to molest the bearer who was shown him. He said that this was the only such pass issued that he knew of. He admitted that he had refused to appoint twenty-five 'neu- tral'' deputies to be paid by the con- panies saying that the board of SUD- Iervisors advised him not to do so.
 Sheriff Cash was asked if any of the defendants had objected to the company doing the assessment work
 '1 do not know he replied. q am sure that there will be violence if men from Duncan and the strikers got together" he added. There will be violence if the men from Duncan
 are brought in,'' he replied in an
 swer to a question by the court.
 Isn't it fact that there are troops there to protect the company
 from any violence" MT. Kearney asked. There are about 60 members of the militia there now" the sheriff replied.
 And the captain of the militia is
 now busily engaged in drilling tre !strikers?'' asked Mr. Ellinwood
 He is,'' was the sheriff's reply.
 Isn't he drilling the strikers for t-Is rurpcse of resisting any attempt to bring men into the district to do , this assessment work to operate the properties" asked MT. Ellinwood ? , No" said the sheriff. He is merely doing it as a pastime
 The strikers are not drilling with
 guns, are they?" asked MT. Kearney No, they are drilling on the old
 dump said the sheriff
 f On further questioning by MT. , Kearney, the sheriff denied that she men had guns hidden away.
 G. A. Franz, Clifton merchant and deputy sheriff under Cash was , placed on the stand by the defend i, ants after the noon recess. He said he would take a contract for the Detroit Copper company at this time and said he had offered to do so bu he was leaving for St. Louis tomor TOW and would not. want to agree tC
 superintend it and that Dell M. Pot / ter had offered to take the contract for doing the Arizona Copper con, f pany's claims at $115 per claim anc . that he offered to do the work or 23 claims for this company at $15( | a claim, and donate $50 on eacf : claim to buy food for the strikers f Franz testified that it would be l like waving red flag in bull: Y face to bring in men from Duncan 2 to do the assessm ent work and tha , the companies had agreed with the D sberiff's office not to bring in strike l. breakers.
 Joined Federation. : MT. Franz testified on cross exam
 ination that he joined the Wester1
 Federation of Miners three days ago ' He said Potter could not complett Il his contract because the company SC g Ilected the most unpopular man il + the district with the strikers to dt I the work.
 e Franz said he recalled that a e least three strikers had been ar l. rested for disorderly conduct. H. Il teSt1ned that the western FederatlOl l. of Miners had not ordered any mel
 deported from the district or tha e none were taken out by the sheriff l. on their orders. He claimed tha
 the hundred deputies selected by tn l. sheriff were not selected because o l. their sympathy with the strikers. H z said that only five men were takel .i to the jail for their protection. H hot %Io . go in there and do the work at tn
 old wage scale but in his view if tn . company paid $10 day to men O
 assessment work he would onl t have to do S100 worth or ten day: l. work.