The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-12-24
MINING COM PANY APPEALS ID THE
 FEDERAL COURT
An Order to Show Cause Was issued By Judge Sawtelle and Made Re- turnabIe in Court on Friday, Dec ember 24th.
ANOTHER FACTOR IS
 ,s SEEN IN THE STRIKE
Company Asks for Protection Against Damage By Miners Unions and by Individual Members of the organi- cations.


 TUCSON, Dec. 1S.-After having had their workmen driven out of the Morenci district, where they had gone for the purpose of performing assessment work on 40 claims they own, and after having been warned by the sheriff of the county that he feared violence if they attempted to perform the assessment work, the Detroit Copper Mining company to- day filed in the federal court with Judge Sawtelle, bill of complaint praying for an injunction restraining the Western Federation of Miners at Clifton, Morenci and Metcalf from Interfering with ther representa- lives in the performance of their work referred to. Following the fil- ing of the complaint an order to show cause was issued by the court returnable Friday, December 24.
 A telephone message from Phoenix says that Joe Dillon, U. s. Marshal, had left there for this city and would assemble a group of deputies for the purpose of serving the order to show cause This work will entail consid- erable effort for the reason that in ad- dition to the Western Federation or ganization named in the complaint, a. bout thirty other defendants are nam ed those who had been. active, accord ing to the allegations made, in inter. fering with the efforts of the compa- ny's workmen in performing the as sessment work.
 It had been hoped by the company that the application to the federal court would not be necessary. They had been encouraged to believe by Sheriff Cash of Greenlee county, that the work would be permitted without the workmen being molested and on the suggestion of the sheriff Frank Nc Lean accompanied by several shift bosses went to Morenci from Duncan ready to undertake the necessary work. They were met at Morenci by the sheriff and informed that he had been in eror in telling them that they would not be molested and on the contrary he stated it to be his opinion that if the work was undertaken it would result in violence to their per sons
 The workmen representing the com- pany were then taken to Newtown which is settlement near Morenci, the headquarters in the strike district of the Western Federation of Miners, and were informed by the officers of the unions that neither the Detroit Copper company nor any of it's work men would be permitted, under any circumstances or at any price, to per form the assessment work which was necessary to be done if the company was to protect it's title to their unpat- ented mining claims. The companys workmen then made an appeal direct Iy to the individual strikers but were told that the answer of their organi- zation's officials was their answer
 The complaint filed today sets out H. OSNA1A IhO OOoSl APGlOAA OA I1O LilIAhS claims and describes at length the depredations committed by defendants during the last two months an1 sinoe the strike was called by Guy Miller, the executive committeeman of the Western Federation of Miners A tenn porary writ Of injunction restraining and prohibiting the defendants from destroying or damaging the property of the plaintiff or from soliciting, ad- vising or melting others to damage and destroy their property is asked for, and following a hearing upon the complaint permanent injunction is asked.
 It is generally believed here that the action taken today marks the begin ming of steps which will work the end of the Clifton-Morenci strike. A large majority of the workmen formerly en- ployed by the company are now living at the Duncan refugee colony which has been maintained at the expense of the mining companies and the work men remaining at Clifton, although minority, are now the only hindrance to work being resumed in the district Their alleged acts of depreciation, in