Arizona republican., 1917-07-14
GOVERNOR WOULD STRIKE HEAD
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Deportation Not Solution of Agitator Trouble in State
 Says Chief Executive to
 Rotarians at Luncheon

If the l. W. W. menace strikes this community before these troublesome times have passed, instead Of rounding up mob of these undesirables let the proper peace officers, acting under the law, take care of the heads of this movement. For, when the head is gone. the tail ceases to rattie."
 Thus Governor Campbell summed up his ideas as to the reception Phoenix should accord any delegation of dis turbers of the peace that might descend on the city, in speaking at the monday luncheon of the Rotarians yesterday.
 Throughout the meeting there pre- vailed the air of seriousness of men of combating an impending cataStro gathered to consider ways and means phe. The words of the governor, speak ing from first hand knowledge of the situation, fell on eager ears, and his every Announcement of the Industrial Workers of the World was greeted with hearty applause
 Frankly confessing that he has just about reached the limit of his resources in dealing with the situation through out the state the governor called upon the loyal thinking citizens of the city to bend their energies to the utmost in helping to come to a satisfactory and acceptable solution to the trouble. He condemned the practice of deporting undesirabes as not only futile but dangerous, in that it was sure event. ually to unload number of danger ous men on communities too weak to handle them.
 In touching upon the results of these labor agitators the governor said, Do you know that right now there are 15,000 mine mill and smelter workers thrown out of work in the state of Arizona? That there are 5000 cars standing idle, loaded with ore? That 75 per cent of the copper production of the state is stilled. which means daily loss of over million and one half pounds of copper?
 Perhaps these facts are not new to you, but you do not know that at sev- eral sessions of the l. w. w. which I attended, these men gloried in the still ing of this industry They will tell you with candidness amounting to inn pudence that it is their p-IrpoSe to kill 100 per cent of the copper production.
 These men won't enter into any con- tract. When asked at Globe if they would return to work, should their de- mands be granted, they replied that they would return to work only when the same demands were granted to every mine, mill and shelter work in the United States Asked if they didn't have any patriotic feeling to which thev were subservient, they replied, Hell, noi we take no interest in this war; we will do all we can to defeat it. Let the copper barons go to the front, and let us run the mines.
 The governor then declared that the federal government had representa- lives on the ground and that Washing ton was in close touch with the situa- &I,sr. 41T@ gram he had received from President Wi son in reply to one he had sent. The presidents wire is as follows:
 Secretary of war has instructed General Parker to send officers to Ari- zona at once to report to him condi- tions there with a view to cooperating in the maintenance of order.
 Meantime, may I not respectfully urge the great danger of citizens talk ing the law in their own hands, as your report indicates their having done. l look upon such actions with grave ap- prehen;Son. very serious responsi- bility is assumed when such precedents are set.
 (Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
 Now the question is: What are you going to do about it; what am I going to do about it? Frankly, gentlemen, I need your help now. I need your con- fidence more than you realize. But l do know that, gathering these men up and deporting them to various parts of the country is not the solution of the difficulty The objection to this method is that eventually, these men finally will be thrust upon the weakest com- munities, the very ones that will be un- able to cope with them. What l do be- leve IS that, the federal government should step in and take charge of the intelligent leaders of these agitators.
 q can do nothing but turn these men loose under the present conditions. To declare martial law would be, in itself, 2 simple thing but it would do no good. I have no troops at my command for the Arizona troops are in federal ser vice. I can only refer to the federal authorities and express my willingness to cooperate with them in every respect"
 Governor Campbell then closed his