The evening herald., 1918-02-27

shelter Tor two days. At HermanHs
the dcportcd men were abandoned
hy the guards who had brought them
aud they were left to shift for them
selves Tho situation was brought to
the attention of the war department.
and uu July IS tho dcpurtecs were
escorted hy troops To Columbus. y
NJ. where they were maintained by
the government uutil the middle of
september
CO. According 10 an army census.
uf the dcpurt,d men 1893. wcr, native
born Americans. iG> were citizens.
a. wrr" registered under the solcc-
tive Hrtft law, and i3a were mar
ricd. pf the foreign born, over 20
nltiuuaitics wrr, represented. in
Guiding 'll British. - ScrhiIus and
l,9 Slavs. Germans and Nustro-
Iuurarians ,othor than SlJysi were
comparatively few
c., The deportation was carried
out uuJor thr sheriff OF Cochisc
county % was formally decided up
pu 10 o. meeting of citiycus ON tie
night CO.. JuN o. participated u hy
On, wuuarcrs and other officials ut
tho copper queen Consolidated Min
ing GO. ,phcp-- Dodge Corporation.
Cooper queen division, aud the Calu-
met a Arizona Mining Co Those who
planned and directed tho deportation
purpuscly ubstuincd from consulting
about their plans either with the
United states attorney in Arizona, or
the law officers uf the state or Couu.
Is or their own lc,,al advisers
CSp IN order to carry the plans for
the deportation into successful exc
cutiou. the leaders in the enterprise
utilized the local offices of the Rcll
Telephone 60. aud exercised on at
tempted tu rNcrcisc censorship over
parts ol interstate connections os both
the telephone and telegraph lines In
order 90 prevent any knowledge of
the deportation reaching the outside
world
90 The plan for the deportation
and its execution are attributable -
the belief in the minds of those VINO
engineered 10 that violence was con.
tcmplatcd d., the strikers aud syn
pathizcrs with the strikers who hnd
come into the district from without.
that HE and property would be hse-
cure unless such deportation was I'M
dcrtIkeu, and that the state was with
out the necessary armed forces To pre-
vent such anticipated violence dud to
safeguard life and property within
the district This belief has no iusti-
ficution m the evidence ir support
of IL presented hy the PARTIES who
hurhurcd IL.
GD Neither such fear on the part
Of the lcaHrrs of the deportation as
10 anticipated violence nor evidence
iustifyiur such fcur was ever com p
muuicuted to the governor OF the
state of Arizona with view tn re-
ucwiug the request Tor federal troops.
based upon changing conditions. nor
were the federal authorities In fact
ever appraised that a change OF CON
ditions had taken place I'm the district
from that found hy the Investigating
army officer To ca1 for or warrant
the interposition of fedora. troops.
tb The deportation was wholly
illegal and without authority Ia law
either state or federal
t2i Following the depurtntiun ~
the l2th ir the language of Gov.
Campbell, uf Arizona, "the consttu-
tiunul rights uf citizens ana Others
have been ignored 10y processes not
pruvihed hy law. Wa. by deputy
shcritfs who refused persons admit
lance into the district ana the pass
ing of Judgment by q tribunal with
out legal Jurisdiction resulting n
further dcporfauons
b3l immediately after the first de,
portatiou, and until late in August
| the function Of the local Judiciary
was usurpcd hoy body which tu all
iut"nts and purposes was vigilauc,
committee having no authority what
| over in law 10 caused the deportn
| uun ot large numbers of others -
: far AS this committee is concerned ~
activities were abandoned at the re'
quest Of the governor of Arizona hate
! iu August
| bb Among thusc Who We're de
! portet from tho district aud who
| thereafter were arrested in seekinl
' entrance into II were several Who were