The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-17
War Department To
Care For Men
Driven From Arizona
Governor Of New Mexico Acts
Under Request Of President
and War Department Orders
General Bell To Hold Them
At Columbus .
ASSOCIATED Press BY q. 8. Naval Com.
municafion Rarvical

Ell PAso, July 1l-GeneraI Bell
commander Of the Southern Depart
ment last night received orders from
the war department TO care for and
maintain the /. W. W. leaders and
strikers and agitators who we're forei
bly, deported from Bisbee, Arizona. IL
is instructed TO have them taken Ia
Columbus, New Mexico, from Her
manos and held in camp there. They
are not to be military prisoners, the
orders say, although adviees from Her
manos last night said that they had
been arrested" by the sheriff and
deputies.
Hermanos dispatches received yes
terday afternoon and last evening sait
that the twelve hundred I. w. w. agi
.tatofs deported from Bisbee, Arizona
who have been marooned there, after
being turned back from Columbus, will
reach that city nevertheless. They
have already been placed under arrest
by the state authorities and win be
transported TO Columbus, there to be
held Under guard until their final dis
position is decided upon. ~
President Expresses Anxiety ...a
This is in accordance with the re.
quests of President Wilson made TO
the governor OF New Mexico, whicH
nsked that steps be taken to preserve
order and to prevent any armed clash
between the citizens and the agitators
In order to prevent the l. W. W. men
from scattering and provoking further
trouble, the governor issued an order
sor the wholesale arrest yesterday, tn,
order being carried out last night
when the sheriff with fifty deputie
and accompanied by the district at
torney arrived there. Cd. 81.
The agitators will be taken to
Columbus and viii be held by the
state, pending federal action. Federal
officials, acting under President Viii.
sons orders, are cooperating with the
state officials. The men will be put
into camp at Columbus and treated hu-
namely. 'sa| u
The men themselves have appealed
to the President and to the secretary Of
war against the treatment they say
they have received, but no reply has
been received from either official The
men are now being fed by the army,
however, General Bell, Recommending the
southern Department, having sent here
\ truck load Of provisions. The tenn
porarf camp they. are nov. occupying,
has been made sanitary, under the di
reetions of the sheriff, and the men
have settled down TO await further i'm
Jtruetions as to what they must do.
Among the deported ones is William,
B. Clearly, well known attorney poll,
tician and labor agitator who has been
the counsel for unionists and strikers in
Arizona for a number of years. He IL
the unofficial head of the party and
acts as spokesman. The twelve hun.
lred deported men are nearly all
miners, with sprinkling of small bust.
ness men. ,e..'.. ", IT,. ."E. z .
Are Taken From Homes E.E
According to what these men tell, the
,itizens Of Bisbee, armed, visited their
homes and boarding houses and march
ed them for three miles to. the Warren
railroad station, where they had a
freight train waiting. The deporteTs,
ia addition to the rifles and guns they
rarried, had a machine gun mounted on
an automobile, with which they drove
NO htHthtEb blElhC
dong the road. stasr5 5.
Train Heavily Guarded ItE
The train was heavily guarded when
IL pulled out for Columbus and until il
reached there after being turned back.
AT this point the guards entered one
If the cars, cut it loose from the train
and pulled out, leaving the deported
mes stranded, without food, without
money and with no engine TO take their
rain away. .l~ ,is.sa s.t
President Wilson, in his message TO
the Governor, after asking that the de
ported men be taken care Of temporar
ly, saidI Meanwhile there is great
LANCER if the citizens take the law into
their own hands. look with grave
upon such a possibility
II was learned from the deported
men that the demands of the strikers
are aimed to bring about recognition
by the companies of committees ap
pointed by the unions, privilege OF
union organizers on company property,
on the. hospital boards
and the discharge of non.union miners.
SEATTLE, July l3--United States
Attorney CLAW Allen said today that