Weekly journal-miner., 1918-10-16
BAR ASSOCIATION TAKESSWAT AT
 MOBILES
ATTORNEYS SET FORTH THEIR STAND AS TO HANDLING CASES FILED BY ALLEGED SONS OF PERPETUAL UNREST.
CFron Wednesday,. Daily.)


 association are not at all in sympathy with any movement or organization which smacks of Wobblyism, and that the attorneys do not hold in great esteem any member of their frater- nifty who will accept the task of de- lending the so-called disciples of trea- son when the latter see fit to bring court actions is evidenced by the phaseology of set of resolutions which was passed at a meeting held at the Superior court room in this city on Monday last.
 It will be remembered that several months ago. at the time the action of John Stanfield against the United Verde Copper Company ct al was fil- ed. members of the bar association en masse volunteered their services free of charge to the defendants in the case, it being the opinion of the law vers that the court action was clean cut case of persecution of the county officers. copper firms and leading citi- zcns of the county who had had a hand in the job of chasing a party Of alleged Wobblies out of Jerome in Tulv. 1917. At the time that meeting
 
 of the attorneys was held. commit tee consisting of Messrs. F. s. Clark, Robert E. Morrison and A. H. Fav- our. was named to draft a suitable set of resolutions which epitomiZed the sentiments of the organization re- garding the Wobbly situation as it Dertained to actions in the local courts. The meeting of Monday was called primarily for the purpose of listening 10 the resolutions which had been prepared for the occasion. The text of the resolutions is as follows;
 WHEREAS. it has been establish ed in countless ways. particularly during the recent trial in Chicago, that the I. w. w, both as an organi- zation and its members individually comprise persons who are thorough Iv disloval and hostile to the United States and are seeking in the most contemptib1e and venal manner to obstruct war industries ands destroy war necessities, thereby lending aid and comfort to the wicked and re- lentless German autocracy. and.
 "WHEREAS. inc actions. policies and purposes of the I. w. w. have been the same since its organization ands were the same during July of 1917 in Jerome, when law-abiding and peace-loving citizens of our coun- trv, state and county were constltut- ed 2 posse of peace officers to en- force and uphold the laws of our country and 10 protect the dignity Of the community. and aid in protecting from intimidation loyal and law abid- ing organized union men in their em- ployment in the operation of the great copper industry ot the Jerome district. and.
 WHEREAS. said citizens did en- force the law of our land by ridding the community of numbers of I. w. w. and svmpathizers, and such act was with the consent and sanction and approval of the body polite of this county and the citizens Of this community. and,
 WHEREAS, it has been held from time immemorial that any per son committing a crime against so- ciety has no standing in a court ot law for injuries that may be done to- him personally while in the commits sion of said crime, and in our opinion the plaintiffs in two actions now pending in our Superior Court. bas- ed upon alleged damages which two of these disturbers of the peace sui fered by reason of their criminal ac- ton. come within that class, and that their cases are without any sem blance of merit or justice, and, .
 WHEREAS, the plaintiffs in those actions are represented by att torncys F. (. Struckmeyer and l.. R. Whitney, and if said attorneys are members of or sympathizcrs with the I. w. w. association or in any man ner directly or remotely affiliated with the said organization, we be- iicve it is our duty as officers of the couRs of this commonwealth to register our condemnation of such attorneys and of their selling or giv ing their services to clients of that character and lending their aid to such an organization.
 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Northern Ari- zona Bar Association go on record as unalterably and unequivocally op- posed to the I. w. w. organization | or any of its tenets or beliefs and that this association and its members do everything within their power to stamp out the I. w. w. and its un- lawful, seditious and reasonable doc l trines, and,
 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED ! that we, as an organization and as in dividual members of the bar, refuse to associate socially or professional-l , ly with any attorney who is affiliated with the I. w. w or its members or who IS prostituting the legal profes- sion by counseling and advising the organization Or its members as such. or are dcsecrating the courts of jus tice by representing such plaintiffs in unwarranted, groundlcss and scandalous law suits. as in our opinion these two pending arc"
 POLITICAL WAR HORSE