Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-07
CONDITIONS IN
 GALLUP BLAMED
 TO L.W.W. FORCE
Investigate m of Labor Troubles In Coal Camp Re veals Same Influences at Work as Created Trouble Here.


 Investigating labor troubles in New Mexico are of the opinion that the same men and the same methods and objects involved in the labor trou- bles at Bisbee and other Arizona camps are responsible for the recent trouble at Gallup. and that serious results for New Mexico were avoided only because of the prompt action of the new company. the Gallup-Ameri- can. taking over the Victor American properties last July. This company, being one of the Jackling group, sim ply refused to sign any contract rec ognizing the union. The men refused to go to work and vacated the com pany houses, which were immediate ly filled with outside workmen and the act headed off an attempt to tic up many mines and smelters of the southwest by shutting off the coal supply. The result is that the union mines have been having constant trou- ble with their men and the Gallup American is producing more coal than all of them together.
 It is also believed that large num- bers of members of the l. W. W. have joined otber unions and are secretly working to destroy them. so that the union men will turn to the I. W. w. There is strong evidence of the truth of this belief It was of record that when the sheriff of Mckinley county. with the assistance Of the county council of defense, depcrted over 30' agitatOrs, a large number of l. w. ". documents were removed from those deported. including the red eards folnd and from the work be- ing done by the agitators in the dis triet, 1t is plain that the same system Is being carried out in other places. and was the dependence of the l. W. ". leaders in the Bisbee trouble, which resulted disastrously for them because of the patriotic action of the citizens of Bisbee and Douglas.
 The loyal citizens of New Mexico realize that the full operation of the coal mines of this state is necessary to keep going the mines and smelt- CTS of Arizona and they have been naL aASOrf fc move to encourage disloyalty. An at tempt to start trouble at the coal camp of Madrid, Santa Fe county, was blocked when the Spanish-Americans 1 1t work there declared themselves for !, the union, for many betterments in conditions and wages, but voted to put off their demands until after the <ar. and at the same time called upon {, all of their race to make good. They i seem to realize more strongly than | heir Angio-SaIon neighbors the dan | gers which threaten their sons sent | b war in the draft and the volunteer and in some of their com | it is positively dangerous to | wen suggest anything calculated to disturb tbe government or to cause | my falling down in munitions or war | They almost unanimously 1 support the people of Bisbee in the deportation matter. and the reports of heir wanting to strike at Madrid be- ,auss of the deportation of certain az tators from Gallup were certainly ex- lggented for the purpose of intimi- lating the governor into ordering the nsn returned. All the men talked to bout the matter say they did not sars and heard of no strike talk over hat matter
 One Of the Gallup deportees has 'rosght suit for damages. and has included Managing Director John H. ,ully as 6 defendant, who was not here at the time of the deportation, md knew nothing of what was going 'n until afterwards. It is considered o be q good joke here because it is aid Sully went immediately to Gal up with the intention of firing" his responsible and found hey were absent also. It seems that one of his mine guards were depu- ' sheriffs and the sheriff ordered hem to assist him. which they had 0 do under the state law. It is un- that the Bisbee deportees Ire workang in harmony with the seilup deportces ia an effort to se- us . use vhr-f eHh Se used ss 6 're>edeHt