Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-29
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the guarantee vouchsafcd by the con-
 stitution of the United States and the State of Arizona. By sheer force oi arms this conscienccless mob of cop per company thugs violated, at one and the same time, the sacred tenets of our republic and the sanctity of the American home. With all the
 brutish abandon of the unconscionable Hun, they dragged husbands out oi
 their wives embrace, ruthlessly dis engaged the arms of little, terrified ! children from about their fathers necks, thrust mothers and sons apart, wives and daughters of honest work
 ing men. In this execrable manner. without a vcstige of justification or legality, nearly 1 200 unarmed work l ing men were driven at the point of a gun from their homes to the public square, later to be hcrded, like so many beasts of the field, into freight cars and transported into the deserts of an adjoining State.
 ! But the most astounding feature of it all-it was done under the pre-
 tense of ' patriotisml Witness the | gleeful eXurberance of the Bisbee Daily Review, copper company news paper. on the day after the deporta- | tionS:
 Without precedent in this or any other country, or any other age, was the occurrence of yesterday. It marked a golden date on the calen- dar; date when the law-abiding people of the community, the men and women who are responsible to their city. State and nation, rose in their mighty wrath and drove from their midst the 'wobbly.'"
 l am certain that the I. w. w. was not determining factor in the strikes that have tied up the copper mines during the past four months. standing struggle between the forces of legitimate organized labor and the forces of organized business domin- atcd by the copper companies. Sol far as lawlessness is concerned the chief role of the I. w. w. has been to serve as camoufiage
 Later on in his review of labor conditions the governor declared that sensational newspapers and speakers have been largely responsible for the mystery thrown about the I. w. w. and for the publicity which has been given the organization.
 Coming down to the purposes for which the legislature is convened the governor recommends legislation providing machinery for permitting Arizona cantonments to vote for can didates for federal and State offices; the establishment Of a moratoriuni ''so that no Arizonan in his coun- try's service will suffer civil penal ties: to insure against want all de- pendcnts of those citizens who en- ter upon either naval or military scrv~ ice; to provide funds for the care of all .Arizonans who return from the front wounded or sick; to give credit to officers and enlisted men in the old national guard for continuous service; to give the State council oi Defense legal status and to provide funds for its maintenance and penal tics for violations of its mandates. The Arizona council of defense, Gov Hunt said, has somehow failed to convince tho public of its non partisanship, probably for the Suffi- cient reason that the executive com mittec consists of members of sim gle political party in the ratio of about three to one"
 The governor recommends legIsla- tion authorizing the investment of State funds in Liberty Bonds and the money of State savings banks ini farm loan bonds. The teaching off 100 per cent Americanization in the public schools is recommended and the establishment of a teaching pro gram which shall include such pa triotic plans as have the approval of the federal government"
 Military training for every boy in every high school; the compulsory teaching of the English language to lorcign-born adults: the use of school houses as community ccntcrs for such I classes and for the promulgation of patriotic doctrines and the funda | mcntals of Americanism: the employ ment of teachers under a i2-nonth | contract: better sanitation and living conditions for the workTncn in the | great mining camps; the protection of tho dairy industry of the State: i ratification of tho prohibition amend i mcnt: ratification of the woman sui irage amendment ii if passes con gross during the life of the special session: compcusating Thomas r.. 1 Campbell. who was governor de facto of Arizona during the contest which l lasted through 1917. for his serv- ices: exempting obscrvatorics from taxation In conclusion the governor urges that the business of the lcgis-
 ature be dispatched with "all possi- ble promptiiude and with maximum results" WAR SESSION OF