The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-09-24
END IF LABOR TROUBLE
 Is NOT YET IN SIGHT

The strike of the employees of the Arizona, Copper Co.,, Ltd the Shannon Copper Co., and the Detroit Copper Mining Co.,, inaugurated in the Cliff ton-Morenci district upon the order of Organizer Guy Miller, member of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners, has now been in effect for two weeks.
 The mines, mills and smelters of all three companies are idle and it is estimated that as asresult of the walk out of employees, not less than six thousand workingmen in the district are idle.
 In many ways the strike now on in this district is different by con- parison with the conduct of labor troubles in other mining camps in the west during the past few years. It is remarkable for the fact that there has been no disoredr and do violence. Every day, since the inauguration of the strike, has had the appearance VI 0uAQdJs anu IAO OnAy uuSuSc1 sight has been the mass meetings of employees held almost daily on the plaza in Clifton and the plaza in Mo rienci, at which time speeches have been made by the organizers, the prin- cipal speakers being Guy Miller, Geo. Powell and Lara.
 When the employees of all the companies quit work on Sept, Il and F, and the companies became aware of the fact that they were unable to continue operation, instead of attempt ing to protect their properties from violence. or wanton destruction, the three companies turned all their property over to Sheriff Cash and requested him to protect same and withdrew their own watchmen from khs properties For the past ten aays all minipg proverty, in the dis. trict has been in charge of the sher- If of the county, who has appointed his own deputies for police purposes and up to date this policy has worked admirably.
 Again another feature of the strike in the Clifton-Morenci district is the decision of the mine managers not to attempt to operate any property in the district by importing professional strike breakers.
 On the other hand. the enployec= on strike. and the organizers who .lre d..ccting the strike, as well as the mine managers are imbued with the idea Chat. each side to the controver- sy can depend upon square deal from the peace officers of the dis trict, nothing more and nothing -less. and are governing themselves accord 2nbIy. The speeches of the organi- gers during the present week have been temperate. The mine managers are waiting to receive joint com mittee of employees. providing such committee eomes.ywith credentials as representatives strictly of company employees and are not asking for rec ognition of the Western Federation of Miners now or hereafter. In sum- ming up the situation at the time the Era goes to press it may be said that the first two weeks has been occu- pied in the holding of mass meet ings, the election of joint commit tee, representing all employees, and the interchange of correspondence be- tween the various mine managers and their committees, in an endeayor to arrange for conference in man. ner requested by the mine managers dn a statement issued to employees under date of September 17th. At this time the conference has not yet been satisfactorily arranged.
 The Beginning.
 The present strike had it's origin on September 11th when the three managers of the district, Norman Carmichael, general manager A. c. Co.,, Ltd; Milton Mclean, general manager D. e M. Co.; J. w. Ben nie, general manager Shannon Cop per Co.,, each received a communi- cation from committee, represent ing their own employees, requesting . meeting to discuss wages and work ing conditions, also requesting in the same communication that MT. Guy Miller, member of the executive com mittee of the Western Federation, be present at such meeting.
 The only reply received from the communication the same date was from Milton Mclean, of the D. M. C. Co. who was in his office when the communication was delivered. His reply was to the effect that his com pany would have no dealings with representatives of the Western Fed