Bisbee daily review., 1915-10-24

suit in peace.
 "We have seen conditions much worse instead of better. We have seen the state militia sit idly by whilst men upon peaceful errands have been driven out of town. Our trusted employees have been scorted from the district by deputy sherifrs who claim they are powerless to afford l protection. We have been the West ern Federation of Miners maintaining the shutdown ordered by their lead CTS. preventing any resumption o' work except upon conditions which they dictate
 50 long as this state or a~a;rs ex. ists, discussion involving the various demands must necessarily be discon ! tinued.
 "The way to resumption Of wor which you so much desire, has been 1 pointed out in our letter of October | s. 1915. addressed to the governor, an | excerpt of which is set for the above. We restate the position taken by us at the previous conference and which proposition we intend to mainta-,. ! First. that under no condition will we | consent to be dominated by the West | ern Federation of Miners under what ever name or title it may assume.
 Second. when the employees have to work on the same conditions as existed prior to the strike and nor. maj conditions have been restored, the companies will be glad to discuss with their employees, as they have al- ways been willing to do, any griev- ances or other questions winch the employees wish to take up with them. | (Signed) "The Arizona Copper Con- pany Ltd. By Norman Carmichaei General Manager.
 "The Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, By Nj. II. NC Lean, General Manager.
 Shannon Copper Company, By J. W. Bonnie, General Manager
 With unvarying persistence, the de
 structive influence of the Western | Federation of Miners has attended leach development in the situation
 which the Federation agitators forced
 upon the community that is now stricken. It has not been possible un- lti the present time, when the details
 of this amazing conspiracy against industrial peace in Arizona have at
 last been laid bare, to acquaint the lpubic with a complete record of the
 case.
 The recently concluded conferences between the mine managers and strik-
 CTS committee supplied the final links Of evidence which prove that the , Western Federation's sole object was
 to force it's organization upon em- ployees, mine managers and the state
 of Arizona At these conferences, the
 Federation's demands invariably were
 woven into the issues to such an eX' , tent that the mine managers were . powerless to act in the interests Of |, their old employees,
 The public cannot entertain a clear |, ! conception of the situation without l knowledge of conditions which pre-
 vailed as far back as the early Eight ies. when the Clfton-Morenci District
 was opened.
 Mexicans were in a large majority v there at that time and they secured y a large part of the employment to b' !, had Only by utilizing this cheaper " class of labor were the mining com 70 panies enabled to undertake work il
 the district Ore bodies were smal i in comparison with those of othe 'I camps in the state and scattered owe 's wide area Today, the Morenci min l CT can deliver only two and a hal II to three tons of ore for his days work u In camps more recently developed am Ie in which the introduction of more ( as conomic methods of extracting an .e handling ore is possible, six to ten ton le of ore per day Is the average per mar
 At the present time, the average grad l' of ore mined in the Clifton-MorenS 70 district is continually falling Thi ne results in higher costs per pound ( .s copper
 te Secret agents for the Western Fe, it' eration of Miners entered the distri, 'v early this year when on account ( he the European war. the companit ye were Confronted with the necessity 5s- striving to aid their employees in ti
 face of decreased output This wl in. necessarily attended by a reduction 'p. wages. The shannon Company Ina fly been compelled to shut down entirel eK The Detroit Company, seeking 10 zee void the suffering bound to resu iat from a shutdown. employed as maI
 men as possible. cutting down q ry, hours of work for individual workm' Iu- in order to increase the number Ike (Continued on Page 9