Arizona republican., 1915-10-07
Not Here to Talk With Hunt-Will Admit No Brand Connected With Strike, But Says He Will Visit Jerome Soon
LABOR LEADER IS
 LOADED WITH CARE
Governor Gives Out Copies of Letters to Mine Man agers, Urging Meeting Attacks Hysteria of IT, responsible Press

Arriving late last night from Cliff ton. Charles F. Mover president of the Western Federation of Miners, brought word of no developments in the strike situation that has tied up the Greenlee copper camps. He was extremely tired when he got here and although he consented to see a representative of the press for mo- ment he would not discuss the strike at any great length. But he did say that personal business had brought him here
 T did not come to see Governor Hunt" he replied, in answer to a question touching on the cause of his visit. T shall go from here to Je- rome. and if I go hack to Clifton, it will be after my visit in the north
 The fact E. W. Bennie. the manager, whose presence here for conference with the governor was thought to have prompted MT. Movers visit, was unknown 10 the federation leader. He did not appear surprised at the change in Pennies plan. He knew of the presence here of Major Donkers- ley and Sheriff Cash. but would not admit that he was concerned with it.
 
 bowed down with cares.
 Governor Hunt, knowing of Movers coming made no comment, but inn piled that if the federation chief sought it, he could have an inter- view. Tn conversing with the press representative concerning the strike yesterday. the governor agreed to give out copies of the correspondence' T,1H mine managers.
 Governor Hunts reply to the mine managers letter of September 30. urging the control of the district by by the Western Federation of Miners as their reason for not conferring on october ?. giving reasons for their departure from the strike zone was made public yesterday. and follows:
 October 5. 1915. Gentlemen:
 Your letter of the 3Oth ultimo. ! which. in accordance with your yer hal assurances during our last in terview at Clifton. was presumably | intended as a reduction to writing ! of your orally expressed attitude i toward the industrial situation in the ] Clifton Morenci Mining District, ! promptly received my considerate at | tention. but my reply thereto. as or iEinally prepared. was rendered inap- | plicable by the receipt, on October 3rd, | 1915, of your telegrams formally ad- | vising me of your hurried departure ! from Clifton and of your implied in | tention of remaining away indefinitely, thus precluding the possibility of any further conference with your former | employees pending the withdrawing of b. ern Federation of Miners from the troubled district and the establishing of conditions favorable for the re- sumption of operations.
 As a prefae to such statements as will hereinafter follow, it is per missible and appropriate that I, as governor. should direct your attention to the fact that according to official advices in which I must place re- liauce. your hurried and spectacular departure from Clifton. your subse- quent establishing of headquarters in an adjoining state, and your assertion that such action was deemed neces- sary for your own protection was wholly unjustified by conditions af fecting your welfare and safety in the Clifton Morenci Mining District prior to october 3rd. As the Chief Ex- ecutive of this state. and in view of such advices as have been furnished by the civil authorities of Greenlee county. l cannot admit that your al- legged apprehension for your personal safety in Clifton or Morenci had any actual foundation other than in your own state of mind a condition, of course. which could with difficulty be removed through any agency at my It appears, however, most
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