The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-09-08

ranity during the afternoon and
i:.a tocths and concessions did a |
land office business unt i & late hcEf
Fac sports we're pulled off on seized !
u.e time and created great deal of |
inter est TO old and youns Perha; |
the contests which we're mostly en-
jtyed by the grown ups were the |
hnrse -aces and drilh:g contests, |
both OF which drew big crowds. |
The wrestling match at the Princess |
in the evening was attended by q |
large crowd and was most interesting. |
TLe match, which vas between AL
Wasem, the worlds lightweight cham
pion wrestler, and Gus Eisel. the un-
defeated champion from Chicago, re-
suited in victory for Wasem.
The four big dances in the evening
were well patronized and were a
fitting emo to a most successful cele-
6ration and one of which the COM
mittee in charge should feel more
than proud. The big event has
passed into history and will long live
in the memory of all as one of the
biggest and best celebrations ever
staged in any section of Arizona.
Speech of G. w. P. Hunt.
Fellow Citizens
In being honored with an invitation
to address the workers of the Clifton
Morenci-M etcalf district on that day
of the year which is dedicated solely
to labor, cannot feel otherwise than
deeply conscious of the priceless
tribute paid me as Governor of Ari-
zona. These familiar surroundings
and the presence in this audience
before me of hundreds of wellknown
faces, bring distinctly to memory the
incidents of my last visit in this dis
trict, when the wheels of industry
were stilled and five thousand work
singmen were marking a valiant fight
for those inalienable rights which are
guaranteed by their Nations Con-
[stitution. 1t is so unusual for the
Governor of State in which seri-
Gus strike has recently been conclud-
ed, to be on speaking terms with the
workers whose rights were at issue,
that 1 might, perhaps, be justified to-
day in taking a certain pride in this
manifest achievement. Such, how
ever, as l can earnestly assure you,
is not my mental attitude, notwith-
standing any honest satisfaction
which 1 may feel in having exercised
my opportunity, officially and person
ally, to be just to the workers of
the Clifton n-Morenci-Metcalf district in
their courageous struggle for the fu-
ture of Arizona wage-earners and for
the security of posterity. That five
months conflict between employer
and employee did not, fortunately, un-
duly embitter either one faction or the
other, but paved the way, as l be-
lieve, for an era of better understand
jing between capital and labor. You
men who underwent the serious
harships of that contest, stalking your
all upon the integrity and endurance
of your fellows, did not, perhaps, fully
realize at the time that the eyes of
a whole nation were witnessing your
championship of human rights. Even
at this day, when the Clifton-Morenci-
Metcalf strike is rapidly becoming a
memory of the past, it is doubtful
whether you fully realize the magni-
tude and far-reaching Importance of
the precedent which you have set
for the workers of the worlds great
est country to follow hereafter in such
industrial disputes as may develop.
While the successful outcome of
your struggle was not the result OF
any individuals effort, but was,
rather, a natural consequence of un-
; precedented cooperation between the
workers, employers, State officials and
Federal mediators, the originality OF
the methods pursued was due, after
all, to the workmen who contended
!. for their rights amid these scenes
which environ us today. Whereas, a
strike, in the usual accepted sense
of the term, connotes violence on
| the part of the workers, bitter re
prisals on the part of the employer
and disastrous Intervention by public
officials and hired soldiers, the Cliff
ton n-Morenci-Metcalfys strike was scarce
/ ly characterized at all by any o1
these menacing conditions. In the
: first place, it was the workers them
| selves who surprised the nation by
conducting their protest against
: wrongful, Industrial conditions by
: keeping the peace, protecting proper
ty and safeguarding the live cS IN
, offending residents. The Tictor5-
I therefore, and it was victory, vas
! yours, and yours only. The rest q
? lus who were concerned in the strus
/, gle by virtue of the official duties
: placed upon US, deserve credit merel!
for following the dictates of con
e science and humanity by refusing tt
place dollars above the dignity o
I honest toll, and property rights above
t those priceless human rights which
5 must always have precedence in tbs
social equation.
= AS governor of Arizona, l shall
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