Arizona republican., 1917-05-27
STRIKE NAY MEA|! LESS TAX INCOME
 FOR WHOLE STATE
fsneciaI to The RepubIicanl

TUCSON. AriZ., May 26-The strike vote successfully brought about at .er- ome this week through the combined efforts of Western Federation and L. W. W. agitatoTs and their followers has produced a confusion of ideas among labor leaders, while in other cncles, particularly those concerned in the fin ances of the state and the standing it shall maintain in point of loyalty and undiminished industrial effort during the war period. considerable wonder has been created.
 II has been felt in realty, banking and large agricultural taXpaying cir Cles that the high activity of the mines and the great volume of taxes they would continue to pay in excess of or dinary. normal years, together with the fact that Governor Campbell is keep ing the state out of the expense of a special session of the legislature, and the large appropriations for war pur- poses which in a good many of the states have fallen mainly into the handS of politicians, with no apparent results of as much importance in effective or sanitation as have been secured in Arizona through the unsalaried efforts uf its leading citizens in the defense council, would operate to the end of more money in the state treasury by fal than in any previous year. It has been felt that this would represent the big
 Sest possible sort of a preparedness step and tend to give Arizona in the ultimate summing up larger power to add the national government than pos sessed by any other unit of the cOun- try. population considered. with the minimum in burden placed upon peo- pie of the state by internal taxation.
 If the Jerome plan is to be followed up. however as the 1. W. W. and some other agitatOrs are promising, indus trial activity is certain of some crip- bling in the state and consequent de- crease in tax receipts from the one big source-the output of copper metal. Should the agitators carry the move ment to the extreme they propose and bring every copper producing camp in the state 10 d shutdown, there would be practically entire cessation of tax income from the biggest source that Arizona has and the state government find itself badly hampered in meeting its actual obligations. Should there be any prolonged interference with income from the copper mines and industry in the copper districts the income of the state would be practically at a stand still and the necessity for extraordinary Y~ra ~''r0~ to raieo the trcrea~ a~od fnr1s required in the war period would be un
 s-..'i4Usioie- -Auuvtt tO UnIs would De Lne stress ocCasioned by the presence of many thousands of unemployed in des- titute circumstances and the cessation herewith of the present large incomes enjoyed by the trade centers of the mining districts and the state at large.
 While these things are bothering those interested in the finances of the state some Of the labor leaders at least and all of the conservatives in the ranks of labor are worrying about the increased activities of the L ". W. and the facility with which they apparently take the leading part in strike move ments when it comes to the show down. Their utilization with the Fed er2tion agitators at Jerome is con- oeded to have won the strike vote the foundation for which the l. W. W's had been constantly engaged in, fol-