Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-25
WODBLY GRAVES HAD CHRONICLE
 OF BAD LUCK
Organizer Who Tries to Gain Foothold in Bisbee Meets With Small Comfort; Talk Shows Disloyalty

Quite the nerviest proposition en- countered in Bisbee in many months was Thomas James Graves, an Eng lishman. who regardless of the fate | that had met his ilk last July, attempt ed to gain a foothOld here for tho ''wobblies' once again. When he was taken into custody in May on a charge of vagrancy he admitted freely that he was an I. w. w. organizer, had no Liberty bonds, no war savings stamps and no intention of aiding the allied governments in the prosecution of the war As a result of this statement. which was duplicated when he took the witness stand in his own defense. and because he had not worked a day during the several weeks he had been here, Graves was found guilty as a vagrant and sentenced to 75 days on ibe county road gang. He took an ap- peal to the superior court, posted q cash bond and then left, no one knows whither. He said his reason for being an l. w. w. was to spite the ruling class" and repay Bisbee for the de- portation of last July
 Graves left behind him, in the hands of the police, mass of literature, stamps for dues. six hour" stamps, souvenir" card cases and similar supplies of his unenviable calling. Among the mementoes of his visit here as a little, red-backed note book in which he has jotted down from time to time happenings connected with the wobbiy element which appealed to him forcibly. Apparently he was gloomy minded cuss and liked the tragic side of things. Certain it is that one would have far to look to find more gloomy calendar of events than he has chron- icled
 The first page, sample, says:
 Feb. 10-Saw-----a scab and proud of it.
 Feb. (no date)-Fifty-five L W. W. arrested Sacramento.
 Dec, 1917-One hundred sixty-s.X I. W. w. arrested.
 July 12, 1917-One thousand two hundred I. w. ". deported from Bis bee to Columbus, N. NJ.
 Feb. 12, 191S-Haywood 9st on S15 900 bonds
 Feb. 24-I. w. w. meeting he.a fin Bisbee; first after deportation.
 Feb. 21-Dave McGonigee given or der to leave town before 23d of Feb. by Judge Thomas.
 March INV. Moore raided, lost all supplies.
 March 19-M. W. Porter raided, lost all supplies.
 March 26-w. N. Johnson tarred and feathered.
 March 2S-William Moore, N. W. Porter and G. J. Graves get warnings.
 There the diary ends and in further pages the book is devoted to addresses and numbers, apparently those of members who were paying dues. or who he intended to approach for mem- bership. Apparently there were few of these, however, as the notatiOn5 are few in number and scattered.
 Even had Graves wished to do so lie could not have denied his vocation as a commission signed by Big Bill Haywood. who now is on trial with 100 other wobblies for violation of the espionage act, authorized him to or ganize for the I. w. w. There also were one or two receipts signed by IT, lN-hIACh Ol lAOChAAf AOA AAAChSt sent to the office there of the Nj. NJ. w. l. U.
 The lengths gone by the wobblies in endeavor to create maudlin senti- ment and class antipathy was shown by the so-called souvenir card cases. On the inner fold, printed in bronze ink was:
 Tn Memoriam to our martyred dead: Hugo Gerlot. John Looney, Abe Rabinowitz. Gus Johnson, Felix Baran. murdered at Everett, Wash, Sunday, Nov ,, 1916"
 With these evidences of attempts of the I. w w. to gain fresh foothold in the Warren district, the officers have been more than ever on the alert to detect organizers and scotch the snakes of the disloyal broad before t has a chance to do harm.
 Graves as not one of the men de- ported from here last July. as far as can be learned.