The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-06-07
HUNT S|DESTEPS- CARMICHAEL MAKES REPLY

V0NIUJIIILIl have the laws of the State upheld, and that you failed to have peace and order maintained.
 The mere statements of certain in dividuals that they were not molested is but puerile and totally made quate defense.
 You question my authority to ac-l curately describe the Clifton-M Morenci deportations because I did not my self witness them. May I respect fully ask if you were present at the Bisbee deportations, which you de scribe with such blood-curdling de- tails, or how did you get your infor- nation?
 Stepping aside with you for a mo- ment to discuss the immaterial and irrelevant matters introduced by you for the obvious purpose mentioned earlier in this letter:
 You refer to the ignominious flight of the managers and their residence in another State. I have no donbt that our action caused you chagrin, as our escape to a State where life unmolested was possible, called pub lie attention to the obstacles to peace obtaining under your regime, and denied you the contemplated pleasure and satisfaction of incar- cerating us as your guests at public expense in a place where, like crim- l inals, we would have been subject to gubernatorial visitations without recourse to the protection of the law. But why ignominious? Is it not as honorable to ride on locomotive as | in a private car?
 If you were in gaol and wanting to escape, would you consider it l ignominious to get out through the window if you couldn't get out through the door?
 | Does not the very manner of our going reflect discreditably not upon i the managers but upon the lawless conditions obtaining in the district at the time, under which peaceable citizens were not permitted to come i and go as they pleased; does not this fact alone cast back in your teeth your insinuation that my description i of conditions was exaggerated? , You refer to your executive policy at that time, and again you take to yourself the credit for having prevent ed the introduction of hired strike breakers and would-be assassins into the Clifton-Morenci district, when all the time the public knows, and you know yourself that there was never any attempt made by the companies fto do any of those things; in fact the very reverse, for the managers, acting upon instructions from head quarters, publicly announced at. the outset that no attempt would be made to operate, no strikebreakers or | policy was strictly adhered to through out. Nay more, did not the managers, being denied the common right under the law of providing their own watch men to protect their companies prop erty, accept the conditions under duress and meekiy turn everything over to the Sheriff and pay him large sums of money for guarding it, for the very object of avoiding cause for disorder or violence? And any credit | for the fact that no bloody massacre occurred, the possibilities of which you apprehended, was due not so much to any precautionary measures which you inaugurated, as to the 1 policy announced and practiced by the l companies, and because these mana gers withdrew themselves and staffs from the neighborhood so that no col OF could be given to any rumor that they intended to try to break the strike, hence in laying the f1attering unction to your soul that your policy prevented the companies from do- ing certain things they themselves had publicly announced they would under no circumstances do, you clothe yourself in peacock's feathers and place a halo round your head, to I,s s4I, %I,@ foD I~ These facts were never ascertain
 ed by the impartial investigator"
 who visited the district and who
 wrote up your story in certain east
 ern magazines and journals, investi- gators who showed their impartiality
 by neglecting to ascertain the con- panies' side of the case, hence they could only repeat that catching
 refrain about wonderful governor who would not permit certain peo- pie to do what those people had pre-
 viously and continuously declared they had no desire or intention of
 doing.
 i If ever there was a labor dispute in which the employers used every
 possible means to avoid giving cause for .bloodshed or disturbance the 1915
 strike in this district was that one,
 while imported agitators, uninterfer-
 ed with, were addressing the strik- CTS, advocating that they seize and
 string up the managers.
 T As far as peace and quietness in
 this district were concerned, the con-
 trast between conditions during the
 1915 strike and those which obtained
 throughout the three months strike
 of last year, when another was gov s-Ix of yy0T
 creditably on the manner in which
 you gave effect to the policies of which you boast.
 You refer with condemnatory em-