New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-19
STRIKERS LACKING IN
PATRIOTISM; LOOKING
TO SELFISH INTERESTS
Clifton Copper Era)

N>i''CH >CPPSi go
The Federal Commission, headed
by Secretary, of Labor Wilson, will,
arrive in the Clifton Morenci district
some day next week and the Amer.
lean citizens of the District will be
delighted to honor them. The Com
mission will find the citizens OF Green
lee as loyal, as patriotic and as
sacrificing in this critical period
through which the nation is passing
as those elsewhere in this country
and ready and willing to do, their
j"bit".
District Not Producing
Unfortunately, however. the Com
mission will find an idle district.
Instead of this district supplying the
"copper" industry of the country with
24,O00,00O pounds of the necessary
brown metal during the past three
months, not a single pound has been
furnished.
The Commission will further find
that at least 95 per cent of the A
mcrican citizens Of this district, in
lcluding American employees of the
three large producing companies
were opposed to the strike in its
inception and are at this time OPP
posed to its continuance.
Increase In Pay Offered
The Commission will further find
that in order to avert the strike,
two of the producing companies of
the district offered an increase in
wages, taking into consideration the
increased cost of living in the dis
trict due to war prices.
The commission will further find
that a representative of the Depart
ment of Labor wired the employees
of the district to await his coming,
in an effort to conciliate the differ
enccs, before walking out, and that
this request was refused, and finally
the Commission will find that no or
ganization OF grievance committee in
the district is willing to assume the
responsibility of calling the strike
but the responsibility is laid at the
door of a prominent labor leader of
the state who is no longer with us.
Wage Farmers Loss Great
Unless we mistake not the Com
mission will discover that hundreds
of thousands of dollars in wages have
been lost the country has been de-
prived of millions of pounds of cop
per, and the producers have suffered
in profits, damages to their property,
and irreparable losses because of a
flare up on the part of the alien Gle
ment of our population in an i'll adj
viScd, hasty, AND uncallcd for strike
which has crippled our only indus
49, caused American citizens to
leave their homes; brought heavy
citizen in the district and Il heavy
expense to every taxpayer in the
county.
No Regard For Patriotism
Under these cNasperating condi-
tons and trying times the patriotic
American citizens have remained
patient and law abiding. Our Ameri-
can young men have marched be-
fore the local exemption boards,
waving all exemptions, eager to
serve their country, even at the sacri-
flee of their lives, while these same
aliens rode through the district in
automobiles with only one thought
urpcruost-that Of securing eXemp-
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