The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-08-10

strike. Now, we have another great struggle. Not only are we in strike in this camp but our brothers in Globe and Miami are on strike-and our brothers in Bisbee, you know what happened to them. In Jerome the strike was won some few weeks ago. and I tell you brothers that these strikes, as the strikes in the past, are going to be won by the workers; the times in which the master class were imposing on us are past and gone. Now, the times have come in which the working class has begun to inn pose conditions upon the master class For instance, right here in Arizona, the political situation is against the working man: despite that, the work ing man has not been shot yet as he used to be in the good old days and working men will not be shot and this struggle is going right on and we will see after awhile that in place of hav- ing here federal mediators we are go- ing to have here men that will con- pei the companies to settle affairs and victory will be ours because the hands of the clock never will go back. The times of slavery are gone forever; even darkest Russia is free country. Darkest Russia is a free country; Mexico is free country and the United States is going to be more free than it has ever been. n.-Ap- plause.
 MT. De Lara addressed the conven- tion in Spanish, after having made the above speech in English.
 J. L. DONNELLY, President of the Arizona State Federation of La- Dor next addressed the convention as follows:
 Fellow delegates and ladies and gentlemen, I would like to preface ing few words in relation to the nation and of the State. We are tous periods in the history of organ ized labor. We all known that the principal people who brought about the present world cataclym and the world war are also the economical masters of the nation that are in volved in that war. Because of that fact it stands to reason that they will use every means in their power to arrive at the desired end. One of the ends is this, and the principal one-that the workers shall not alone fill the trenches and fight the battles of the various nations but they shall also furnish and furnish as cheaply as possible the munitions of war. The munitions of war might be said to be everything that is made in the way of tanglible wealth. Therefore it goes without saying that absolute compliance and general submission to be economic masters is the whole program. Thus we find today in this country. particularly in the mining
 industry a desire on the part of the mining companies to produce their commodity or output as cheaply as possible and at the same time thus derive as great a benefit and profit from it as possible. The workers are tteir own needs and they are striv- ing to secure greater portion of the producet of their toll or the out put of those companies than they have in the past. A bitter fight has been engendered; the companies on the one hand tell the workers that they will close down and not resume operations until they see fit and until their workers are submissive and apply to them individually for the opportunity to produce again. I ad mire their grit, I admire their nerve. but I do question their general knowledge of the situation and their good judgment. Let me say to you that for 40 years Russian plutocracy sent men and women who were of rebellious spirit and desired to better thcIr conditions in life-they sent them to Siberia: but, years later these men and these women 'eturneo masters of the nation again Alp plause.
 uue tion the irigment of | craZeG plutocr ,oy and the employer who will go to the limit of pushine working men and women into subG'Hs - to resume operations. I Questi.,n .: n'r judgment because it means this sub merge ,he legal a,'d the open straight fJrn's I'd organizations of mel and wo men who have got together for the prri csc of bettering their conditions and the next step $ a secrated mova- menr wEich is very dangerous 9 say tie least, to sIy nation or cou1- try, snd claim that the work;IG men a. d women of nation ThG t'v to tetter their C. ]. i,Ions oD'HI sn1 aEone board in the manner IS eX. cmplifled by the American Federation of Later have perfect ri ,ht to do so, and when the plutocracy take snch lights away from the working nc, and women they are doI.ig scme- thing that is very dangerous to that C .Intry, and they can be pointed o1t as being the least patriotic among the whole nations people. and the working class of that nation, as in all nations. stands out as the patri otic people and the safe-guarders of human liberty. The momentous per iod that we gre living in at the pres ent time is fraught with great dan ger to this republic because of the arbitrary attitude of the employing class of the country. This is not bit of imagination in my mind; it is taken from practical experience. When you see the legally elected and properly constituted authorities Of Somc Dartioular paOpra Dhica1 piooo