The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-10-08
EFFORTS BEING MADE FUR CONFERENCE
 JOINT COMMITTEE DEBATING PROPOSITION

ganizers of the Western Federation who had ordered the strike, should depart from the district, and that the Western Federation influence should be dissipated in order that the man. agers might treat with the employees as such and not as demanded by the Western Federation of Miners.
 Governor Hunts Letter.
 Gov. Hunts reply to the mine managers letter of September 30, urging the control of the district by ! the Western Federation of Miners as their reason for not conferring or October 2 and giving reasons for their departure from the strike zone, which was received in a telegram from Fl Paso, was made public in Phoenix and in part is as follows:
 October 5, 1915.
 Gentlemen:
 Your letter of the Both ultimo, which in accordance with your yer bal assurances during our last in- terview at Clifton, was presumably intended as reduction to writing lof your oarlly expressed attitude toward the industrial situation in the Clifton -Morenci Mining District promptly received my considerate at tention, but my reply thereto, as or iginally prepared, was rendered inap- plicable by the receipt, on October 3, of fnI oo11 od- vising me of your hurried departure from Clifton and of your implied in tention of remaining away indefinite ly, thus precluding the possibility of any further conference with your former employees pending the with drawing of the nonresident organiz- CTS of Western Federation of Miners from the troubled district and the es- tablshing of conditions favorable for the resumption of operations.
 Taking up, at this juncture, your Iview, as expressed in both your let
 tiers of the 30th ult., and your teie- gram of the 2nd inst, namely, that you decline to confer with your for
 mer employees or return to the Clifton Morenci mining district until you are assured of the departure of the Feder-
 ation organizers, the elimination of
 the Federation influence and the eX. iistence of conditions favorable for the resuming of operations, must, in Justice to the whole situation, and jQ rdeference to my duty as public official, respectfully suggest to you that although the first of these three , conditions might possibly be Volun, tarily met by the nonresident organ
 izers, the second one in order, as
 above enumerated, has to do wholly . with such phases of human psyche ilogy as are beynod the authority O. any Individual, while the third condi tion, the development of events con !, ductive to a resumption of mining :, operations under provisions whicl you may regard as favorable, is, al , stated, of such a vague circum :. stances as to be beyond prediction I need hardly assure you that you . companies continued insistence upol : those conditions, which are impossi ble of fulfilment prior to conference is a matter of extreme regret to me since it operates as an obstacle t the free discussion of differences b, yourselves and your former em : pioyes, and renders an amicable sci
 tlenent leading to resumed mining OF = erat,ons a subject of conjecture. M . regret in this connection is the nor poignant for the reason that if onl :, your first condition were at issue ar opportunity for compliance on tn
 part of your workmen would at leas $ assume the aspect of a possibility se for it has come to me unofficially ', that. during the past few days, a = least four of the nonresident Fet
 eration representatives have volu1 tarily left the district in which yo
 customarily operate.
 IF Should you, therefore, waive thos a 1.-two conditions over which there ca e be TO human control at present, an T. agree to confer with elected con m lm.ttees of your former employees, (. V nave heretofore suggested, som
 reasonable compromise fulfilling in d just measure the needs of both en in ployers and workingmen might DO h. silly result. At all events, some e, m press;on or counter-proposal from yo = wou1d diSSinate in a measure a o. otherwise deadlock and afford a bas Ia on which plans for a conference coul d at least be discussed.
 h. It is, of course, understood in tn a connection, that my own services z IT. mediator are offered freely to bot