Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-11

escape. would you consider il ignU- minious to get out through the win dow if you couldn't get out through the door?
 Does not the very manner of your going reflect discreditability not up- on the managers but upon the lawless conditions obtaining in the district at the time, under which peacable citi- zens were not permitted to come and go as they pleased; does not this fact alone cast back in your teeth your in- situation that my description of con ditions was exaggerated?
 You refer to your executive policy at that time. and again you take to yourself the credit for having pre- vented 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 never was any attempt made by the com panies to do any of those things; in fact, the very reverse. for the mah- agers, acting upn instructions from headquarters, publicly announced at the outset that no attempt would be made to operate, no strike-breakers Or gunmen would be introduced, and this policy was strictly adhered to throughout. Nay, more, did not the managers, being denied the common right under the law of prviding their own watchmen to protect their com panies' property, accept the conditions. under duress and meekly turn every q hn eh arif 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 mas sacre occurred. the possibilities or which you apprehended, was due not SO much to any precautionary meas ures which you inaugurated, as to the policy announced and practiced by the companies, and because these man. agers withdrew themselves and stans from the neighborhood so that no color could be given to any rumor that Jhey intended to try to breal; the strike, hence in laying the fattering unction to your soul that your policy prevented the companies from uoing certain things they themselves had publicly announced they would under no cir cumstances do, you clothe yourself m peacocks'feathers and place a halo round your head. to which the facts do not entitle you.
 Real Facts of 1915 Strike
 These facts were never ascertained by the impartial investigators" who visited the district and who wrote up your story in certain easetrn maga- zines and ournals, investigators who showed their impartiality by neglect ing to ascertain the companies side of the case, hence they could only re- peat that catching refrain about a wonderful governor who would hot permit certain people to do what those people had previously and continuous ly declared they had no desire or in tention of doing.
 If ever there was labor dispute in which the employers used every pos sible means to avoid giving cause for bloodshed or disturbance the 1915 strike in this district was that one, while imported agitators, uninterfered with, were addressing the strikers, advocating taht they seize and string up the managers.
 As far as peace and quietne9s ii thiSt district were concerned, the con trast between conditions during the 1915 strike anu those which obtained throughout the three months strike of last year, when another was gov , ernor, certainly does not reflect very ; creditably on the manner in which you gave effect to the policies of whic!: you boast
 You refer with condemnatory en- phasis to our refusal to arbitrate, a most misleading statement. What we did do was at the very outset to state