Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-08

| Tn Tact, so strong IS tne SenllInSnl WHICH ila been aroused against the l. W. w. tha acts of sabotage or even words com mandatory of any of the principles O the l. w. w. are going to be fraught witt danger To illustrate, two or three mer professing to be labor union members bu probably l. w. W's also have come to l. Paso and, in mingling with other unior men, have aired l. w. w. opinions. It i: gratifying that in each instance these mer have been peremptorily ordered to change their tactics immediately and have been forced, if not to change their views, at least to keep them to themselves.
 If the government can help the farmers eliminate the l. w. w. from the grain fields long step will have been taken toward checkmating the evil organization. If it has been very strong among farm laborers 1t has been strong also in the logging camps of the Pacific northwest where timber for ships and for airplanes Is being cut The cutting of spruce, however, Is now under the direction of colonel of the signal corps and 10000 draft men are about to be sent into the spruce forests to do this work It is therefore evident that in this important part of the timber producing industry the l. W. W. Is to be eliminated for the draft men will not cherish any l. w. W. views
 If there are any l. w. w. in the shipyarda or the munition plants, they are keeping we'll under cover Those industries have not suffered from their malice. If they could be driven out of the mines, the task of eliminating the l. w. w would be req sonably we'll completed It may be that the mining states of the west will undertake that task, now that there is sedition law, by encouraging the arrest and prosecution . of l. w. w. as seditious persons for hardly an l. w. w. but could be convicted of se- ditious acts or utterances or both
 Much depends, however on the attitude of state governments toward the 1. w. W. menace It Is unfortunate that in Arizona, which the l. w. w. is making a battle ground, sort of place for last stand a refuge in time of storm, the administration is, if not friendly, at least not bitterly hos tile to the l. W. w. If Gov c. w. P Hunt were to issue an emphatic denunciation of the l. w. w. as reasonable, criminal or ganization and urge all county attorneys to cooperate with the department of justice investigators and the United States district attorney in obtaining evidence for the con viction of every l. w. w, the fight would be half won before single malefactor was arrested. But he will not Gov Hunt does not smite the l. w. w. with mailed fist. He strokes 1t with a soothing, gentle hand
 The governor seems to think the hun dreds of Industrial Workers in Arizona those same men who tied up copper pro- duction when the government needed the metal so greatly for war purposes-were brought into the state by the mining com panies in an effort to discredit union labor. But even if he believes that to be true, Gov. Hunt could then do nothing which would more completely confound the mine oper- ators than to make 1t impossible for the l. w. w. to thrive in Arizona Nor could he do anything more helpful to the cause of genuine union labor than to lend his aid to eliminating this pernicious organization, one of whose aims Is to wage a secret war against the Western Federation of Miners, directly and the American Federation of Labor indirectly as the letters introduced at Chicago show plainly Thus if the gover- nor is patriot, friend of the state as a whole and staunch upholder of organized labor, as he says he is, the consistent thing for him to do would be to smitte the l. W. w. between the eyes before it can have another chance to foment strikes in the copper mines.