The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-09-21
MINE MANAGERS OFFER ID RESUME
 OPERATIONS

UPEMIIUNS Wages to Be Paid in Conformity With Agreement Entered Into Be- tween Government and Copper Producers, Which As Fixed For This District Are at 25c Per Pound aRte ci Companies Sliding Scale. October 1st is Date Fixed for Resump tioon Provided Sufficient Men In District Are Available and Signify Willingness Under Conditions cf Working Agreement Dated March, 1916
 The following notice was issued by the A. c. Company, Ltd, for publi- cation just as the Era goes to press and similar notices from the Shannon and Phelps Dodge Company were also issued.
 Notice:
 The Arizona Copper Company, Linn, ited, desires to inform it's employees now on strike, those who are at pres ent working, and others, that it will reopen it's mines and resume opera tions in other departm ents on Oct ober 1st, 1917, provided sufficient men are available and signify their willingness to work under the condi- tions embodied in the Working Agreement entered into between the company and it's employees, dated March, 1916.
 Wages will be paid in conform ance with the agreement entered in to between the Government and cop per producers, dated Sept. 20, 1917, by the terms of which for a certain period the price of copper is fixed at g 1-2 cents per pound, and wages, as applied to this district, are fixed at the 25c rate of our sliding scale. This company further intimates that provided sufficient men willing to work under the above conditions are not available to justify resump- tion of operations it will be con- pelled to disband it's present organi- zation and close it's mines, for an in definite period.
 Norman Carmichael, General Manager Clifton, Arizona, Sept. 20, 1917.
 Decar1u& that no good can come from further hearings or investiga- tioIs in the matter of labor disputes mibe operators of the district this week refused the arbitration propo sition submitted by citizens com imittee The reply of the managers was transmitted to the committee this week, copy of which was for warded To Governor Thomas E.. Campbell
 The reply was signed by Norman Carmichael Of the Arizona Copper company; J. W. Bonnie, general manager of the Shannon Copper com pany, ana NJ H. Mclean, general manager of the Phelps Dodge Cor poration, Morenci Branch.
 The reply is as follows:
 We have given careful considera- tion to your suggestions presented to us on the seventeenth instant, and looking toward a solution of the pres ent industrial difficulties which for some timc past have disturbed this district.
 We deeply appreciate the disin- terested motives and public spirit which prompted you to make them, and will always welcome sugges- tions from the good citizens of the district, intended to promote its best interests.
 Merits Are We'll Understood
 Our recent industrial history in this district is well known to all of you and need not be recounted. The causes and events of the present strike are likewise known. They have been thoroughly investigated and reported by representatives of the federal government who have en- deavorei i'll vain to bring about ar adjustment The merits of the whole situa ton are wells understood, we think, by all interested parties. Ne good can come from further hear ings and investigations.
 ''The present state of our national affairs, appealing with equal strength to the patriotism of opera tors and employees. would prohibit any action on our part tending to prolong unnecessarily the present un- fortunate situation to which your suggestions refer, but the points in issue in this strike, in view of eX- isting conditions and past history cannot nor can any of them be de termined by arbitration satisfactorily to the parties directly interested.
 Thinos Not To Be Arbitrated
 "We cannot, for instance, arbitrate the right to determine whom we shall or shall not employ. which is implied iu the demand for the adop tion of the seniority rule in our op erations, nor can we arbitrate ou1 right to let contracts in the mines or elsewhere. or to secure the per formance of work by any just or law ful means.
 Further we would call your atten ton to the fact that compliance witf the request would be tantamount tC recognition of the unions. to which we cannot agree. From our expert ence while operating under a sign ed agreement with our employees it is a foregone conclusion thai the findings Of any board or arbi traitors would be binding upon the companies only. Under the circum stances. we are therefore. obliged tC decline your suggestions
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