Weekly journal-miner., 1918-06-12

l HclpS-DOuSG NMOICIClD. I,OE OOo
 Ray Con. Copper Co.,. S,l00,000 Sasco Shelter GA. $. & R.) ,4OO,OO0 Shannon Copper Co. ... S02,0O0 Shattuck-Ariz. Copper Go. S4l 1000 United Verde Copper Co. 6,575.OO ! United Verde Ex.... 4,l00,000 A. s. & R. Copper from Ari-
 zona ore, Fl Paso plant. 100000 Dom Ariz. Copper Co.,. 264, ,507 Miscellaneous custom ship
 ments ............. 5OO,OOu
 Total production in May 76,zll ,507
 Refute I. w. w. and Hunt The figures of Arizona production at this time are of particular inter est and information because they give emphatic disproof to claims made by the l. w. w. defense in Chicago and in the recent message Of the governor of Arizona to the special session of the legislature set ting ID that deportations of last summer and policy since pursued in refusing employment in the copper mining districts to l. w. w. and other known pro-German propagan- distS was camoufiage used for the purpose Of putting competent men of union affiliations out of the State.
 Only Idlers Disposed Of
 The increased production of metal notwithstanding the draft and the withdrawal of many skilled men to government contract work at higher wages in other parts of the country establishes that the men put out of the State last summer and since, di- rectly or by being given to under stand that they could not get employ mert because of their pro-Gcrman associations, were not competent workers, much less loyal men, but for the most part buns and vagrants or tEc 1. w. w. ranks who occupied their time while employed in the cop- per districts by building disaffectioh among workers instead of earning their pay. The benefits attained to industry through getting rid of them are plain in the higher copper output, attained with a lesser number of men in most of the districts.
 Improved Conditions
 Included in causes for the higher production of copper is freedom oi the workers in the industry from dis turbance and worry on and off shift at the hands of pro-Gcrman agita- tors who a year ago were keeping them in q state of uneaSineSs and un- rest with unccasing arguments, threats and forecasts of trouble; and because among all loyal employers and employees there IS greater real ization of the necessity made by the war period for their maximum en- dcavors, in the course of which they have come shoulder to shoulder in buying Liberty Bonds and on com- mon footing in the ranks of Liberty Loan, Red Cross and war savings stamps drives. {
 Copper Costing More
 Notwithstanding employment oi fewer men in most of the districts. . due to draft and the attraction Of higher wages on government con tract work, and the output of more copper the latter Is nevertheless cost ! ing higher in every district m the State than a year ago. The advance . of 25 per cent in freight rates will add further to costs, which have steadily gone up as supplies have ad- vanced 10 new figures.
 Thousands of Owners
 Although few Arizona producer. have reduced their rates of dividends 10 the more than 75,000 share owners in the properties, reductions are prob ably but a short time ahead. In pro- tccting the securities of the investors and the profit earning wage of the worker, the copper producers have been obliged to draw upon the sur plus accounts created in high metal price days. Current earnings on 23H cent metal have not been sufficient to pay, in other words, the divi- dcnds established when copper was around 2S cents any more than they have been equal to paying the worker the dividend he gets with his wages 2E cents above the market price or the metal al 23[, cents. It was the Arizona operators, nevertheless, who on a 20 cent rate of pay for the workers when the metal price was hrSt fixed, the operators making t clear that on less wage the Ari-. zona workers could not earn a fair, profit. Since then, the Arizona operators have been dcsirouS of a change in the copper price that would permit putting wages higher
 Wobbly Removal Did It
 Reviewing the general situation, 1t Is plain that harmony and closer un- in all ways exist between employers and employees in Arizona ( han in many years, as the increased [ copper output tells, and that removal ; ,i the Wobblies and their sympathiz- , 'rs is largely responsible. They were , Inc thorn making the trouble, regard css of what their champions through , 'ithcr transformation, ignorance or , yiliul purpose to aid the enemy may ,ay.
 It's For Guns and Shells
 And Arizoua's copper is for the guns and shells needed in unchecked low to combat the Hun tide II nearly half of all the lvailablc copper at that and is rel .uurCc that the kaiser has spent . '