The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

y - MADE
There az tines hs SAID phloso-
p.icauy. wae1 yo1 have 70 act
r-ici-y sn5 cs-not follow tbe legal
-etboa Va ha6 the precedent Of
~ torets-hers who threw the tea
-, Boston Ea~5or.7
Es sid his --igrr phantly, having
got -ne ides. % DOUBT from The Bos-
to- Transcript editorial, which recog-
-lzi-g -he New England precedent in
sabotage. called -he BisDee deporta-
lyr "Bisbee's tes party Both he
s1o the Transcript forgot that one
cass was thai q trade II 2 comno6-
ny the other that Of the rights Of
~ oppressed people.
The Loyalty League" admitted
Ny Ruth. was formed u extermin-
az The ! ". W
Al the business houses in Bis
Dee display in their windows cards
announcing tha- they are members
u the Citizens Protective League.
The league Is not voluntary by any
means Various forms Of coercion
nave beer used 70 bring persons into
Il The newspapers have been print
i-g the names Of those VINO be
lorgs1. Finally, they printed a
o-ackered the list q those who didn't
belong. Chsutteurs VINO operate at
-oe railroad station were hailed be-
fore -he kangaroo court" and told
they rnugt JON The Protective League.
Several VINO refused were ordered
CT u town. 4 garage owner re-
fused 70 join and the owner Of his
building which was On land owned by
the mining company elected hin.
Bisbee l. Proud of Itself
The BisDse represented by Ruth
is me BisDee that prepared an elab-
ors-e funeral IN honor II Orson P.
NcRae, one u lis faithful gunner
killed July z. 4 military" burial
!. WIS Hundreds marched 70 the
cemetery. Posted II stores and banks
II the town today are cards read
NJ, Contributions received here for
rne Orson ?. McRae monument fund"
Thus does the Bisbee that pays
tribute u The Copper Queen honor
lis defenders,
NcRse was shot as he was enter
ing The home Of Z striker on the
morning of the deportation. "A gtrik-
e. named Brew was killed, and il
was said that he was the man who
sh0- McRae- Brew received a
burial conducted almost surreptiti-
ously. Thes were the only ones
. reported July Y, but there are
skeptics in Bisbee who are con-
WINGED the coroner's records d not
show al Of the victims.
4 slim, genial woman in a photog-
rapher's shop who sold visitor post
caro- pictures Of the deportations,
pointed 70 picture of the "bull
pen"
"See," she said, smiling, "across
the road there is the office building
II the Calumet and Arizona Mining
, Company, and you can see the ma
chine gun on the roof"
As though office buildings embel-
Hshed with machine guns and strik-
ing workmen in "bull pens" were
merely interesting novelties.
That's how the dominant part of
Bisbee feels. It is proud, inordin-
ately proud. In the McRae funeral
the town extolled and applauded it.
self.
Company Overrides the Governor
Governor Thomas Campbell, after
Wylie Z. Jones, the attorney general,
had experienced great difficulty in
making an investigation of the Bis
bee Kidnapping, made a trip to the
town the first week in August to
see what he could do. 1t was the
day after the kangaroo court" had
refused admittance to the town to
the committee sent there by the
state federation Of labor.
From the Copper Queen railroad
station (El Paso & Southwestern
ne went to the Copper Queen Hotel
(also owned by the mining com
pany The governor promptly held
conference.-the Of them-with the
committee that comprised the "kan-
CARGO court" and with attorneys for
the Copper Queen and others of like
position. In the lobby of the Cop
per Queen Hotel he could be seen
that night greeting this business
man and that gunman with, "Hello,
BILL" and receiving in return a