The Arizona copper camp., 1917-07-07
GOV. CAMPBELL
BREAKS BLOCKADE
Drives Truckload of Pro
visions Through Lines Of
Armed I. w. WIS and
Austrians Who Wou | d
Wreck o D Mine by Starv-
ing Men Off Pumps.

GLOBE, July 6.-Four troops of the
Seventeenth U. S. cavalry, with a ma
chine gun company, arrived here on
Thursday night from Douglas to take
charge of the situation caused by 1.
w. w. strikers, who for four days
openly defied authority and estab-
lished a reign of terror in the district.
The troops were sent by order of the
war department, which has ordered
sweeping investigation of the situa-
tion here.
Since last Sunday afternoon, when
the l. w. w. strike was called, vio-
lence, intimidation and terrorism have
reigned here. The local authorities
soon lost all control of the situation,
the sheriff and his deputies being out
numbered ten to one by the armed L.
w. w. strikers, most of whom were
Austrians. The rough stuff started
Sunday, when men were dragged from
trucks taking them to work, their
lunch baskets kicked to pieces and
their shirts torn off, The next day
American citizens were stoned by
Austrian strikers, who beat several
miners severely for not obeying their
strike order, the men escaping more
serious injury only after they prom
ised to remain away from work.
The most serious feature of the
trouble has been the refusal of the
l. w. W. strikers to permit supplies
to be taken to the men operating the
pumps at the Old Dominion mine. If
the pumps were to stop for five hours,
the mine would be flooded, catas-
trophe that would mean no produc-
ton of copper for at least year.
The 1. W. w. strikers were deter
mined that no men should remain at
the pumps, and established an armed
blockade of the property.
Campbell Breaks Blockade
This condition had prevailed for
two days when. Governor Campbell ar
rived early Wednesday morning, COM
ing at the request of the war depart
ment, together with Major Chas. M.
Bendell of the Seventeenth cavalry.
The governor, walking ahead of
truck loaded with provisions for the
men at the pumps. passed through
the line of foreign strikers without
opposition. He promised the strikers
that he would bring back from the
mine the armed guards at the o. D.,
and he kept his word. There was no
violence, but a second truck-load of
bedding and mattresses for the men
working the pumps was stopped and
turned back.
Mcbride Arrives
John Mcbride, federal conciliator,
who was largely instrumental in set
tling the Jerome strike in manner
satisfactory to the men and the oper-
ators, and who settled the recent
strike at the Tooele smelter in Utah,
arrived at Globe Thursday afternoon.
He is in conference with the men, the
operators and the governor.
BISBEE, July 6.-With more men at
work than at any time since the
strike started, and many returning to
work every day, the l. w. w. strike
at Bisbee is on the wane. The char
ter of the local miners union has
been revoked by President Charles
Meyer of the organization because OF
the fact that the strike was called by
the l. w. w. and mot called by bona
fide labor organization" The Miners
Loyalty league has a membership of
1000 members, pledged to continue at
work for the duration of the war.
Wages are high, conditions were
never better, and there is a general
feeling in this district that the trou-
BILE here, as well as in other districts
of the state, has been caused by a
small group of foreign-paid agitators,
who have nothing to lose and every
thing to gain from the crippling of
the copper industry.