The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-13

sponsibility as sheriff of this county.
| All arrested persons will be treat
ed humanely and their cases examin-
ed with justice and care.
1 hope no resistance will be made
for l desire no bloodshed. However.
l am determined, If resistance is
made, it shall be effectively over
| come.
Harry c. Wheeler.
Charges Victim of Outrage.
Chicago, July 13.-W. D. Haywood,
secretary treasurer Of the Industrial
Workers of the World, last night de-
clared that the attorney general Of
the United States is investigating
what he termed series of out
RACES against the /. w. W.. and
branded as absolutely false the rum
ors that German influence and Ger
man money are behind the copper
mine strikes in the west.
THE deportation Of l. w. w. mem
bers from Bisbee yesterday was an
outrage" said Mr.. Haywood, "and
only one of a series. want to deny
emphatically that German money,
German influence or time mo-
tives are behind the western copper
mine strikes. And / want to say
tAoS IllC ILdIIOhS VIII AFFECT
the general situation. They cannot
mine copper with machine guns or
dig it with bayonets". 49, ~
Senator Thomas of Colorado re-
Gently made sthe absurd statement
that German influences were behind
our movement. 1t is not German
influence but simply an effort to get
living wages and just working con-
ditions for our miners that is behind
the strikes. ., 81. s... ..
No Connection.
THE strike at Bisbee is, of course
in sympathy with the strike at
Butte, Mont. Both were called by
the Metal Miners Industrial union,
component part of the /. W. w.
There is no attempt, however, to tie
up the copper mines of the United
States just because we are at war,
and there is no connection between
the l. w. w. efforts in the harvest
field situation and the mine strikes
so far as I know. The mine strikes
would have come at this time, war
or no war. The cost of living has
gone up and the demands were nee
essary. o~ -. Zee ~e.
All Citizens, He Says.
las far as yesterdays outrage at
DASuCC Is rLuS 111Sn WIN
were deported were citizens of Bis
bee as we'll as those who deported
them. In fact, they were the men on
whom the life of the town depended.
The mob there simply formed and
went from house to, house and
rounded up all men who refused to
go to work, method by which the
businessmen of the town evidently
had determined upon to end the
strike.
This is but a continuation of
series of outrages that have con-
tinued for more than a year, begin
ming with the copper strike on the
Mesaba range in Minnesota.
Mr.. Haywood called attention to
deportations and attacks on 1. w. w.
members at Kansas City, Detroit,
Duluth and Everett, Wash.
Are Being Investigated.
"These cases." he said, "have
been taken up before the attorney
general and are now being investi-
gated.
Mr.. Haywood said the demands of
the miners at Bisbee were for a six
hour day, six day week, Sc a day
minimum pay, abolition of the sys-
tenn of physical examination at the
mines and equal representation on
the hospital boards.
'AII of these demands" he said,
''are justified by the working condi-
lions OF miners who labor far under
ground in hot pits amid smoke and
gases"