Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-22

TOT days had been busy spreading threats and intimidation among women and children in various neighborhoods of the district were among the de- tained in the morning, but were not placed aboard the deportation train. The women were under surveillance after departure of the train and con tinue to be watched, along with all about whom there is any doubt. A number more men were gathered in after the train left and others con tinue to be picked up, many deputy sheriffs being assigned to keep watch and investigate all reports sent in to the Protective association, Work mems Loyalty league or the sheriff's headquarters direct, as to suspicious characters or threats heard. The spir- it dominating the movement in the beginning is none abated and is eX- pressed in determination that the city and district. shall be restored to entire freedom from intimidation and of all disloyalty to country, by word of mouth or in any other way.
 That no grievance existed among the employees of the mining companies of the Warren District, who have al- ways paid the highest wages in Ari- zona, and during the last two years the highest wages paid to miners in large bodies in any mining division of the world, and who have provided i'm proved working conditions and facili- ties regardless of expense as fast as science has shown the way to these, appears to be amply proven by the | fact that the moment intimidation was removed in the district hundreds of men who had not been working dur ing the alleged strike period, and who had not been taken in custody, rushed to the mines to put in their applica- tions for unemployment. These men were not out in sympathy with any of the demands made upon the com panies by the I. w. w., which were as follows:
 First:-Abolition of the physical ex- animation. Second:-Two men to work on machines. Third:-To dis continue all blasting during the shift. Fourth men to work together in all raises. Fifth:-The abolition of all bonus and contract work Sixth: To abolish the sliding scale. All men underground a minimum fiat rate of s6 per shift. Top men s5.5O per lcI,s No ir,,ir1 1afi inn against members of any organization.
 Upon the issuance of these demands, managers of the mining companies of the district published statements that the demands represented subterfuge; that they would not be given consid- eration coming from the l. w. w.; that the grievance committees of the men at work for the companies would be heard at any time with any sug- question or request, as had always been the rule.
 As previously stated, I. w. w. pub lie speakers in advance of the strike call and thereafter made no conceal ment of the fact that they did not in- tend to abide by any settlement of the strike that might be made, even should all of the demands be granted, 1 but to immediately follow any set clement that might occur with anoth- CT strike call, to be enforced under continued intimidation, carried to any extent that might be necessary That this attitude was earnest. finds proof in the course followed at Jerome, June was followed less than month later by another l. w. w strike call. The first settlement was brought about through the mediation of Judge John Mcbride, acting for the federal government. Its terms were of posi- i tive character in provision that the settlement should have life during the balance of the war period. It's viola ton was accepted throughout Arizona as proof positive that no agreement negotiated by the federal government would be binding upon the I. w. w., as, indeed, it had itself proclaimed. The second strike call at Jerome was settled by deportation of the I. w. w. ringlleaders by aroused and indig nant authorities and citizens. many of the latter miners, who refused to long CT tolerate intimidation at the expense of national and community welfare. The same spirit prevailed that later actuated the Bisbee movement, which in fact received encouragement from the Jerome action.
 The effort for statewide paralysis of he copper industry in Arizona which | reached its climax in results with so- called labor strikes prevalent in June in Jerome, Bisbee, Globe. Miami, Cliff ton and Morenci was started in No vember last with strike under snap call at Ajo of the same kind as prac- ticed by the I. w. w. in Bisbee, Je- rome, Miami and Globe. In Clifton and Morenci there was a vote, but an answer that had been made by the mining companies and that might have been satisfactory to the men in set clement of the demands they had