The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-11-09
LABOR TROUBLE IN AR|zONA'S WARREN !. DISTRICT SETTLED
Complete Agreement Reached bS Parties to Conferences; to Be Elf fectiVe Immediately.


 fective Immediately.
 Bisbee, Nov. 6.-Complete agree ment was reached today between the presidents mediation commission, now Investigating labor unrest in the Warren district. The agreement, ratified by the commissioners, headed by Secretary of Labor w. B. Wilson and by representatives of the Phelps Dodge corporation, Copper Queen branch, the Calumet & Arizona Min ing company and the Shattuck-Ari- zona company, will go into effect at once
 On account of the pressing need for the presence of the commission on the Pacific coast, where a serious strike among employees of the Paci- fic Telephone and Telegraph con- pany is threatened, the commission will leave in the morning for San Francisco. Judge Ernest W. Lewis Of Phoenix has been apponted a mediator to go to Jerome and put into effect a similar agreement to that entered into in the Warren dis trict, the Globe-M distrct and the Clifton-Morenci-Me district.
 Secretary of Labor Wilson express es himself as being confident that if the agreement is carried out by all of the parties thereto that it will mark the beginnng of healthy, peaceful relation between labor and capital in the Warren district and all other communities where similar agree ments are in effect"
 The plan adopted follows:
 First-No man shall be refused em ployment or be discriminated against in his work because he does or does not belong to union.
 Second-Grievance committees. rep resentins the employees, selected from men actually in the employe of the companies and by such methods as the employees themselves may agree upon, shall be recognized by the man agement in the presentation of such grievances as may from time to time arise: provided, that in selecting committees all men shall be notified and have an opportunity to vote, and no one shall be eligible to mem Dersh1p on committee who has not been in the employe of the company for at least six months next preced- ing his selection.
 Third-If the grievance committee and the management are unable mu- tually to adjust any difference in dispute, the same shall be submitted to United States administrator. whose decision shall be final and binding on both parties. There shall he two alternate administrators. who shall act whenever from any cause the administrator is unable to act The administrator hereby appointed Is Hywel Davies. and the aiternates are Joseph s. Myers and Judge Geo: w. Musser. When any vacancy oc- CUTS in these positions the same shall be filled by the secretary of labor with the approval of the council of national defense. Tn all cases of in- cividual grievances the administrator shall render his decision within five days after the case is submitted to him and all grievances of general character the administrator shall ren der his decision within 90 days af- ter submitted to him.
 Fourth-When any dispute affecting a workman arises such workman may nave his case presented by a repre- sentative of his own choosing.
 Fifth-The machinery provided in thls order will take the place of strikes and lockouts during the per 1od of the war and no other method for regulating relations between the companies and the employees shall be substituted except by mutual agree ment
 Felix Frankfurter, secretary of the presidents media tion commission ana speaking on behalf of the com mission. stated tonight the commis- % cd
 or the investigations in Bisbee
 When we came to Bisbee we found a normal smelter output. but short age of men in the mines. If was the object of the commission to see that, in the future. the maximum output at the mines maintained in spite Of grievances, just or fancied The agreement will cover that fea ture, and Secretary of Labor Wilson feels that if all of the parties there to will carry it out there should be a he"inning of peaceful labor returns m this and other mining districts effected.
 President Mover. of the Tnterna- tional Mine. Mill and Shelter Work CTS. though not party to the agree ment, has bound his organization to stand it.
 As to past events. the deportatfons on July f2 and others, the commits slon is HOW preparing a report and and will send it to President Wilson,"
 Reference to Deportation.
 BIsbee, Nov. 7.-An official refer ence to the I. w. w. deportations on July 12 was the result of the presi dents mediation commissions visit here. It consisted of letter from Secretary of Labor w. B. Wilson, as chairman of the commission to Sher- if Harry c. Wheeler. who directed