Arizona republican., 1917-07-11
OLD DOMINION DECLARES IS NOT TO COMPROMISE WITH
 1. W. W. ELEMENT AT GLOBE
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 GLOBE, July 10.-There will be no compromise between the Old Dominion company and the strikers, Walter Douglas, president of the Phelps-Dodge corporation and a director of the Old Dominion company, declared tonight before leaving on his special train for Douglas, Ariz.
 There will be no compromise be- cause you cannot compromise with a rattlesnake,' MT Douglas said
 That goes for both the Internation- al Union and the Industrial Workers of the World" he added quickly
 This is a part of nation wide propaganda and the alleged greviances are only talking points for that propa- ganda. The Industrial Workers of the World say any concession made to tehm by the operators at this time IS not binding in the future and at best is only temporary. It is against their principles to make any agreements with the mine owners and they say the ultimate concession is the turning over of the mines to them and the abolition of the wage system.
 T believe the government will be able to show that there is German in fluence behind this movement These . with it now. There is money behind this movement and brains far bigger and more capable than Big Bill Hay wood, who is the only American I know of mixed up in this Industrial Workers of the World business. The organizers spend money like drunken sailors and there is d general belief it is German money"
 MT. Douglas said the strikers had no real grievances and added that the men had a grievance committee appointed by themselves to consider any such. He said the companies would be glad to give up the hospitals at any time and added that the Arizona compensa- ton law had caused soldering on the part of the men who were seeking com pensation.
 He said conditions were improving rapidly in Bisbee, that a deadlock eX isted at Clifton where the Spaniards from the Anarchial provinces of Spain controlled, and said the way for the Industrial Workers of the World or ganization to be handled was for the individual communities to run them out.
 1 Because the Industrial Workers of | the World strike is part of a natlonal movement for the betterment of the | conditions and the abolition of the wage system, Industrial Workers of the 1 World leaders here have declared they cannot participate in the strike media ton conferences which are being held 1 by representatives of the state and i federal government.
 The Industrial Workers of the World, according to their leaders here, has 1 taken the position that this strike Is national movement and that they | can treat only with the mine owners direct and they refuse to consider any I efforts at reconciliation which does not come direct from the operators or owners of the mines in this dis | trict.
 | In addition, the l. w. w. leaders | have informed the mediation board
 that a permanent settlement of the strike situation here cannot be reached until satisfactory settlements have been
 made in the other metal camps of the
 country on the basis of the Miami scale and they even go further and say this Miami scale will be increased
 later
 What effect this declaration will have
 upon the present mediation plans for
 a settlement of the strike in the Globe
 Miami district is problematical The l conciliators, who include Governor
 Thomas Campbell, eX-Governor George w. P. Hunt, representing the presi-
 dent, Judge John Mcbride, federal mediator ahd Lieutenant Colonel A. G.
 White, U. s. A. reported satisfactory progress following the conference Sun
 day with the joint committee of the l Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers or
 ganization. which affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The conference with the l. W. W. committee yesterday was less satis- l factory, and closed with the declara- tion that the strike would have to be
 treated nationally and not locally.
 This has raised the question of what
 action the Mine. Mill and Shelter l Workers union will take should a sat | sfactory settlement be made with that organization. If the members of the unions affiliated with this body should return. local labor leaders say the l. W. w. strikers will not permit them (Continued on Page Two)