Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-19
FULL REPORT OF REGENT MEETING
 HELD IN PHOENIX
Investimation Shows That No Reliable Proof Was Shown Where 1. w. w. Were Knowingly Being Elm ployed.

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 over what they considered to be charg
 es of employment of I. w. w. in vio | lation of the wishes of the federal
 government, mining men of the state oonverged upon the executive com mittee of the state council of defense at the capitol building Wednesday and demanded a thorough sitting of
 the reports upon which the committee
 based a resolution last week in which it was said that reliable reports were
 in its hands to the effect that em- ployment was being knowingly given
 i. w. ". in the mines.
 Besides the executive committee
 there were present to meet the min
 ing men representatives of organized
 labor. The latter. who had assumed
 the gathering of information for the
 council. following the introduction by
 Dwight B. Heard of the reports cur
 rent upon which the executive com
 mittee based its resolution, presented
 letters from various secretaries o1
 mine unions in several districts and also presented verbal statements, in
 which it was declared that I. w. w.
 were employed and a list of some twenty names submitted in corrobora- ton. In none of the statements, how ever. was there affirmation of ether tf an belief that the mining companies in some instances knew the men to be I. w. w The entire testimony
 in this respect boildd down under questioning of the mining men 60 the admission that all of the reports were gossip and nothing more and that reliable information did not exist.
 Such summary was made of the matter by Federal Administrator Davis shortly before adjournment was taken at 1 o'clock, when he was asked to express his view of the matter as de velcped in the meeting. Tt is nothing but a gossipy situation" the admins tIator declared. He said, however, he felt that the getting together might not have been in vain, as it had en- ahled closer lOokin from both sides and might be productive of a better general understanding. This state ment followed a declaration made by G. H. Dowell, spokesman of the min ing men, who declared in response to the statement of a labor leader that lnC dSlGtlAl6Al MlNu OCOlCNalN Ol l-I- bor Wilson's commisson was not being lived up to by the mining companies, that the mining companies were ab solutely living up to the agreement, in both letter and spirit that it was working well and that with the as sistence of organized labor in the state it would continue to work well.
 Demand of labor leaders to know whether there would be agreement 70 a meeting between the mining men and organized labor representatives to settle differences was answered with the direct assertion that the agree ment with the commission of Sec retsry Wilson had removed differ ences, that they did no. exist and that any meeting outside the request and conduct of the federal .administra- tors would be a direct slap in the federal face and g violation of the agreement. Judge Davis subsequent remarks indirectly upheld this atti- tude
 Outcome of the session amounted to of the executive commit tee of the council of defense from che position that reliable" information was available to support the gossip of employment of l. w. w., assertions to the contrary and of known trans portation of I. w. W. into the state to undertake employment having been riddled during the morning by brief questions tersely put by the mining men. The assemblage of the mining men to demand the proof of the inti- nations in the resolution was, there fore, conclusive in its result in bury ing the falsehOod and in clearing the of much general insinu atiOn that has been going around. to- gether with clearance of the boards of reports that differences existed be- tween employers and employees in the state.
 Mining men in attendance on the were L. s. Gates, c. NJ. Col w. B. Gohring, Julius Kruttschnitt. Jr., NJ. Curley. J. w. Bennie A. T. Thompson. NJ. H. Nc Lean, George Kingdom, J W. McLen- non. c. E. Mills, G. H. Dowell. Nor man Carmichael G. w. Mcbride, Rob ert F. Tally, J. E. Curry.