Arizona republican., 1917-07-19
SCORES OF MINERS DAILY RETURNING TO THE BISBEE
 DISTRICT SEEKING WORK
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BISBEE, July 1S-Miners are com ing into Warren district at the rate of fifty a day to find work in the mines and mills of this copper camp 1 They are coming from Globe, Miami, i Texas and Oklahoma, Michigan and other sections and are applying for | employment after being examined by the investigation board of citizens ! here
 | Every precaution is being taken by Sheriff Harry Wheeler and his 150 active deputies to prevent any active | I. W. w. leaders from getting back into this district and finding employ ment underground where they could | start labor agitationS. Every road and trail leading into this district is picketed and tonight the deputy sher- ifs at the outpost stations were told l by Sherifif Wheeler to use every pos ! sible vigilance to prevent the return of men classed as undesirables and 1 to personally conduct all suspicious person stO the dispensary where the ! investigation board is in session all dayy long. The sheriff also warned the guards against permitting any liquor l to be brought into the camp by boot leggers,' saying that "whiskey was as bad as the 'wobblies' for stirring up l trouble.'
 Five thousand placards warning I. w. WIS away from this district were printed today and are being sent to every poStoffice railroad station and mining camp in the state, and to Col umbus, N. M, where the I. w. w. de- tention camp is located. The wording of the warning was practically the same as the warning issued by the sheriffs office yesterday and placed in all of the stores. The new warning notice was signed by the Citizens Protective association and the Work mems Loyalty League
 Deportations of men held to be "un- desirables" were fewer today than at any time since the roundup July F. < Not more than six men were told to leave the district today, includ- ing three men who admitted they were members of the l. w. w. and refused to work.
 The deliberations of the inVeStiga- tion board comprise one of the most unique features of the situation here In a large room on the second floor of the dispensary building, a commit tee of citizens, mining company repre- sentatives and officers examine every man suspected of being a member or sympathizer of the I. w. w. move- ment or who is a stranger in the dis trict.
 |. Three men were examined this after noon, Narcisso Rodriguez, Mexican citizen and secretary of the Mexican section of the l. W. w. organization here, occupied the greater part of the afternoon with his original ideas of economic questions and in telling his connection with the l. W. w. move- ment and. the recent strike. He admit ted being an l. W. W. and secretary of the Mexican branch. The hearing of the case ended by the Mexican ask ing whether he was to De sent to Col umbus, Cananea or jail. He was sent to jail pending deportation.
 $. Peterson, a Norwegian, was next examined and after answering all of , the questions satisfactorily, and ad- mitted he had joined the l. w. w. and had gone out on strike, he joined the
 Workmens' Loyalty League and was f permitted to return to work. Lowe 1, Philbrook, a carpenter, was also per mitted to remain in the district
 Sheriff Wheeler tonight denied he 3 had anything to do with the censor , ship which was applied to all news stories sent out from here over the
 Western Union wires July F. T believe 1 was doing right when I ) took the action and I did not care 3 who knew about it." he said.
 T knew nothing of the censorship
 until 1 was told of it after the round
 up had been completed. I was too
 busy that day to keep in touch with all phases of the situation and 1
 had nothing whatever to do with the
 action of the censorship
 The censorship was said by the
 manager of the Western Union here
 to have been ordered by Captain H.
 H. Stout and Robert Rae of the Cop
 per Queen company.
 An Associated Press staff corre-
 spondent made the rounds of the
 picket outpost camps tonight with
 Sheriff Wheeler in his automobile a and saw the extent to which the sys-
 tenn for guarding the camp against the return of the I. w. w. members I has been carried. On every road and T trail there is a guard camp consisting Q of a white wedge tent and a lookout 1 station. On the divide, 5000 feet . above sea level is a camp guarding $ the road which runs to Tombstone :. Six men guard this road night and | day. Every automobile is stopped, in l spected with electric flash torches
 and the occupants questioned Sig 3 nals are then flashed from hill to hill (Contnued on Page Two)
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