Arizona republican., 1917-07-15
0be MINES of ARIZONA

copper producers of the country at this time going at the top capacity to which it might be possible for them to crowd, as they were in May, they would still be running behind the demands of the country and it's trade. At the present rate 1t will tnel efOre be put a very short time until the government is embarrassed by actual need of copper that it can get only through curtailing shipments to it's allies or cutting off the sup plies of domestic consumers, good part of which, incidentally, is now going into the manufacture of shells and other finished brass products en- ; tering into war usage.
 No survey of the strike situation among the copper mines allows of any other conclusion being formed than that the 1. w. w. propogandists in charge of it are carrying out with much success their avoved intention of creating serious situation for | the government. These federal off cials who have been unearthing asso- citation between the I. w. W. and the i German government may find, are ] now turning more attention to Arizo- ma than ever before.
 Comprehensive likeness 1 GLOBE, Ariz., July 14.-Authori i tative l. w. w. statement this week 1 was that the strike organization had withdrawn 17,000 men from work in the copper district of the state.
 Last week 15000 men were claimed to be out by the I. w. w. officials. The increase of 2,000 men was claimed by reason of the Jerome defection from the mines of that dis trict
 The boast of the l. w w, if true, would mean daily loss to mine, mill and shelter employees in the state of i $6.a00 in wages figuring that the average earned by each man if at employment would be $450 per day. which is an exceeding conservative figure. AS "a matter of fact, under existing schedules and with copper metal average price of East month bringing the highest wages of the present year, the average wage will run considerably higher than $4.50- Figuring that average wage for the number of men claimed to be out by the l. W. W. a total of $2295,0 would be reached for a month
 As a matter of fact, there have at not lme been as many as 15,000 men on strike. Fourteen thousand is probably the outside figure attained during the few days in which Je rome suffered heavy defections from working forces. These were overcome in almost their entirety during the present week. Fourteen thousand oul, however, means an enormous dail;- loss in wages, s63,000, or $1990 600 per month. To this must be added the loss to each man of his daily cost of sustenance for himself and family, if he be married, which will average not l"ssrNan s2 per day, or SS40,000 per month.
 Loss in this and the Miami district per day in wages is running about 5,000. Merchants estimate that they are losing in trade and outstanding bills which cannot be collected be- cause of departures from the districts, probably s15,000 per day, this figure being estimated by some as at least 5000 under actual losses. Loss in copper output, which is chiefly of in- terest to the federal government and its war allies, is S00,000 pounds per day, or 24.000,00O pounds per month. It will require months of reorganiza ton work to get the district back tc that production figure, which had been attained as the normal before the strike, even should the latter end immediatelV