The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-08-11
TVE|TMOE BEGS AID IF ARIZONA
 LABOR

six years at LeaVenWOKn, put WuO was afterwards discharged by the | United States court of appeals, came to Tucson from San Francisco and | appealed to the convention of the Arizona State Federation of Labor | this morning for money to assist 1n defraying the bills and the future costs for the defense of Schmidt and Caplan, alleged participants in the dynamiting of the Times building. Judging from the applause accorded the distinguished union leader, his mission will be suciessful.
 Mir. Tveitmoe has been engaged for 25 years in San Francisco In the propaganda of unionism. In order to properly impress the delegates to the convention with the justice of the cause of Schmidt and Caplan, he made a speech of two hours duration in which he reviewed the entire his tory of the dynamiting trials of Cali fornia and Indiana, including his part in them, attempted to prove that the McNamaras had been tortured into a confession, and characterized the union men convicted in the fed .eraI court at Indianapolis who are still in prison as industrial prison CTS of war"
 Believes McNamaras Innocent
 Whether or not his audience en- tirely agreed with him in his inti- nation that the McNamaras are in- nocent, could not be judged, as there was no applause during these per iods of his speech such as he aroused by orthodox union slogans and vitu- peration of capitalists, but President B. T. Wilkinson of the Federation, when asked by a Citizen reporter s4 ,1iA among union labor in Arizona that the McNamaras are innocent, replied that it is, that he understands the whole world thinks so. It is interesting to note what per centage of Arizona's population, granting that President Wilkinson is correctly informed, agree with Tveit- moe. The membership of the state federation is about 10,600 of whom 7,6O0 have been added since the last convention in Tucson last fall, and of the increase, 5000 men are miners in the Cliften-Morenci-Metcalf dis trict, the scene of the last strike. Of these 5000 members large per centage speak and understand only the Spanish language-they are Mexicans.
 The population of Arizona may be reckoned at 275,00O. Deducting 25,- 900, who are Indians, and taking 5O,O00 for round numbers as guess at the total unionized population they are twenty per cent of the white population of the state. It is to this minority that Governor Hunt yesterday pledged his special assis- tance in the next legislature.
 Tells of "Third Degree"
 Mr. Tveitmoe brought alor with him a husky chap by the rar1e oi G. F. Grow, a strike leader of Los Angeles, who recited his experiences with the third degree during the in when, to quote Tveitmoe, the attempt was being made by the officials tC Hasten the crime upon unioI labor"
 An appeal has been taken on be half of Schmidt, who was convicted of murder in the first degree and sen to life Imprisonment while Caplan's case resulted in a mistrial according to Tveitmoe.
 He added that s4O,O0O has beel spent in their defense, while tn, county of Los Angeles has spen $120,000. Union labor is in deb to the banks and to friends for de fence funds, he said. Tveitmoe i returning to San Francisco tonight His official position is secretary o the California Building Trades Coun Gil.
 "Open Shop" Danger
 MT Tveitmoe opened his addres by assuring the delegates that ther is no danger of the "open shop, which he says is misnomer ant means non-union shop, in San Fran cisr in spite of the recent agitation by the opposition.
 The visitor from the coast, wht looms up like Scandinavian freight er, is a forceful and slxilIful speake and his story, even when listened to ss q partisan and passionate at tenDt ;o shift odium for the dy nami'ing era from these convicte, tc .ile agents of the United State Steel Corporation and it's subsidiarie is absorbing entertainment.
 Business of Morning
 Former Judge Fran k J Duffy c Nogaies, candidate for the suprem court, was a visitor at the convention
 Among the resolutions that wer offered at Secretary French's des this morning were:
 By F. s. Bridges of the mining an smelting union of Morenci, askin law making examination by an qualified physician in the state, SUI ficient to secure credentials for en ployment in mining camps. It set forth that the physical examin; tion required by the companies being used as a black list against ol men.
 By the Morenci Mine, Mill an Smeltermen's Union and the Metca Miners Union, seeking the initiatio of law which will 'in some degre take from the copper barons the mo- archia1 power of dictating the bus ness, social and moral opportunitie of thousands of people," The unio1 in question, 1t Is set forth, have bee denied the right to build a unic meeting house on the company land and that the company owns a of tho land where such a houaa nipl