Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-07

mineral resources of Mexico, at the invitation of the Mexican government, ' have suffered heavy property losses, personal injuries and indignities, and in many cases hae suffered death. It asked that the State Department take more vigorous action to bring about protection for American citizens in Mexico.
 Formulated in Friendly Spirit during a recent visit to Bisbee, MT. Douglas stated that it was formulated in spirit entirely of friendship to the present Mexican government, it's Pur- pose being soley to call attention to the destruction of property and lives of American mining men by Mexican i bandits, with a view to stopping fur ther such destruction.
 The resolution regarding the gold situation has for it's purpose the stin- ulation of gold poduction which, says the resolution, is decreasing steadily. It recommends that congress improve roads in gold mining districts, so as to make the mines more accessible and gold producers be given S10 bonus for every ounce of gold used for pur- poses other than coin making, the bonus to be derived from an excise of $10 on each ounce of metal used for art and manufacturing purposes:
 Tennessee Governor Denounces Reds One of the most powerful addresses before the convention was by Cover nor A. H. Roberts of Tennessee, who urged the deportation or imprison- ment of all reds"
 After every great war there has been crime wave" he asserted. Tt is the duty of every American citizen to fight mob propaganda. We have in this country today dangerously large element which does not believe in the ownership of property. We find men who are trying to tell the working man that he has no right to work un- less he belongs to some certain or ganization.
 ~I believe that the people of the United States have made up their minds that they are not going to sur render one hairbreadth of their rights under the Constitution.
 Tt is useless to try to pet viper and make good snake out of it, and it is just as useless to try to reason with or try to coax the radical Bol- shevist, I. w. w, and other Red to be a good citizen.
 We need a new definition for trea- son. and this definition should be broad enough to permit us to gather up this Red menace and send these disturbers back to the countries they came from.
 What we are fighting now is a gov ernment of class and hatred-call it anarchy Bolshevism or industrial un- rest as you will, but it is the same principle that might make right that was fought to political finish on the battlefields of France.
 The one thing most needed is a re turn to the teachings of the founders of the Constitution of the United States"
 Pez Charges Class Hatred
 
 member of the United States emer- gency fleet commission, declared in an address before the convention that the radicals have raised the red flag above the red, white and blue" Piez stated that radical members in the American Federation of Labor, all though in the minority in that organi f,.Il lai fe create diseontent and to develop sus- picion and class hatred" He advo- cated compulsory arbitration in rail ! road disputes, as provided in the Cummins bill.
 Would Incorporate Labor Bodies { Labor organizations should no long CT be exempted from lesIsIation enact | ed to safeguard the public against ex- tortions by combinations, urged Piez. This stand was also taken by BuIkeley Wells of Denver, president of the ! Mining Congress, who advocated i the incorporation of all labor organi- ations so that they might be held re- sponsible for their acts.
 Representative James G. Strong of Kansas urged that America SnOuld "vaccinate all foreigners with Ameri- canism. and if it does not take, send them back to the lands from which they came"
 ' Governor Fred D. Gardner of Mis- souri declared that if labor disputes are not settled before production is hampered to any great extent the public will step in and settle these dis putes through exercise of the machin- cry of government, with it's sovereign powers vested in the American peo- pie. He intimated that this course was contemplated by the state of Mis- souti. and pointed out the example of Nsnsss where the coal mines have been taken over by the state courts