Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-15
STRIKE IN MEXICO ALLEGED TO
be CAUSING GREAT
SUFFERING.
FIVE THOUSAND MEN
AND FAMILIES HUNGRY
Industrial Commission Appeals For
Aid For Worknen-says Strike Must
Pail Unless Organized Labor Comes
to Assistance Of Miners in Arizona
= and New Mexico.
Especial Correspondence

\
Washington, Jan. 15.-That 5000
copper miners and their families are
being starved into submission by the
great copper mining corporations of
Arizona is the remarkable charge made
by the committee on Industrial rela-
| tons, headed by Frank P. Walsh, who
mas come into prominence because of
| the industrial commission report.
In statement setting forth condi-
lions among the miners, an appeal Is
made to labor to aid the miners. 1t
is declared the miners will lose unless
this aid is given and this "althb their
cause Is just and altho Governor Hunt
has made magnificent record of fair
ness In protecting their rights"
Committees View.
The Walsh industrial relations COM
mittee has this to say:
'The strike is exhausted, and the
miners families are literally starving
at Clifton and Morenci Altho most OF
them are Mexican or Spanish, and able
to live on flour and cheap Mexican
oeans they can not even get these
simple articles of food. A friendly
store-keeper who supplied them long
after their funds were exhausted has
been forced to shut up his place and
go away, ruined.
III the strike is lost, it will be worse
than local victory for industrial
| tyranny and oppression in Arizona. 1t
may mean the political ruin of a gov
ernor and sheriff who have given a
rare and splendid exhibition of Just
and fair administration Of the law.
When the strike began the mine
managers made a sensational exodus
IN order to convince tho public that
the strikers were desperate and law
less and to pave the way for bringing
IN hired thugs and strikebreakers.
Instead Of taking the corporation
program. Governor Hunt sent the ad-
1utant-general of the state militia to
investigate. He reported that strikers
were orderly. that their grievances
We're real, and that all they asked was
conference with the managers. Hunt
then sent militia to Clifton and
.Borenci, not to intmidate and ter
rorize, as In Colorado, West Virginia.
New Jersey. Pennsylvania, and other
states. but to assist the people In
every way possible. Sheriff Cash ap-
pointed strikers as deputy sheriffs and
kept our the companies gunner.
Governor Hunts best service to
| the cause OF law and order, with Jus
tice, was to insist that no professional
gunner or strlkebreakers should be
imported by the managers A large
consignment Of these trouble ma kers
were already on the way. Hunt ordered
them kept out and they have been
detained at a town some distance from
the strike territory, where they are
led BY the mine owners and carefully
watched by officers Of the law. There
has been no violence.
III the strike Is lost, as It will be
unless liberal contributions enable the
men to hold out. Governor Hunts Just
ana enlightened policy will be dis
credited and 1t may be many years be-
Tore another governor or sheriff will
consider it worth while to give the
workers square deal. Governor Hunts
humanity and fairness have earned
MIN the eternal hatred Of the great
corporations that exploit labor, and
their powerful opposition will dog him
thru the rest OF his life Men in pub
Tic Office like Governor Hunt, willing
to risk their political fortunes in the
service Of Justice and humanity, are
rare. Labor can not expect to follow
his lead unless It can show the world
that 1t appreciates this sort Of a gov
ernor and will hold up the hands of an
Official who does his duty"