Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-12
Attorney General, Quoted as Saying Protective League Was Waging War on Un- ions, Declares Rumor Un- true.
SILENCE BROKEN BY
 CHIEF LAW OFFICER
Thorough Investigation of Conditions Prevailing in This Camp Is Made by Gov ernor Campbell.

\ 'ARCHY does not rule in the War ren district. as l have been erron- eously reported as saying. and
 desire to so state in justice to the
 people of the district" declared Wiley E. Jones last evening when asked for a statement as to whether he had said that anarchy did rule in the Warren district" Attorney Gen. eral Jones. who is here investigating local conditions, made the first state ment tor the press since his arrival in Bisbee and denied several other state ments accredited to him.
 Friday evening the attorney general with the governor. was asked to appear before special meeting of Warren District Trades assembly. The gover- our appeared first and listened to the statements of members and soon left. Attorney General Jones then appear ed. Yesterday morning it became nois- ed about on the streets that the attor- ney general had made several state ments about local conditions.
 Unions Not Attacked
 Among other things the attorney general was credited with making a statement to the effect that the Citi- zens' Protective league was using the movement against the l. w W. as a cloak to put out of the district every labor organization affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. In answer to a question as to whether he made such a remark the attorney genral said:
 T have never heard it suggested that the Citizens Protective league was endeasoring. at this time. to put any union organization out of the War ren district"
 Jones was reported as having said that he knew all of the six commit teemen who were appointed last week by the Arizona Federation of Labor at Clifton to investigate conditions in Bisbee and that he knew they were good union men.
 Il am only acquainted with Bert Davis" said Jones in commenting on the report He was one of the six committeeman for the Arizona Fed eration of Labor. do not think they are members of the l. w. W. but I have no knowledge on this point I advised that this committee. as rep resentatives of the Arizona Federation of Labor. be courteously admitted to the Warren district"
 Neutral on Deportation
 Attorney General Jones denies. also. that he ever acquiesced. or made statement that he acquiesced. in the from Bisbee on July F.
 Tt is unnecessary for me to state that 1 did not acquiesce in the depOr- tation on the 18th of July, as my re- ported protestations are too well known"
 When asked whether, as he was re- ported as saying before the trades as- sembly, that he would "endeavOr' to restore a Republican form of govern ment in the Warren district by bring ing in troops" Mir. Jones said:
 T made no such statement As to whether troops will be brought into the Warren district, the matter is not in my hands. Governor Campbell is in the camp making an investigation for his own information"
 Confer With Sheriff
 Governor Campbell and Attorney General Jones conferred with Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler at the latter's office yesterday afternoon. The three off,