El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-04
WObbHeS GiUen
Little Comfort
ByMine O0nerS
Jerome Strikers Are Told
There Is No Work When
Walkout Ends.

Jerome. Ariz.. March A-The fact
that a committee OF miners called at
the News office and announced that
"the strike Is Off has had no effect
upon the local labor situation. The
main companies had announced that
IL they stopped work the stoppage
would be for a period OF about six
months Some there are. especially
among the strikers, who believe the
companies were bluffing. but not so
among those best IN q position TO
know the temper Of the employers,
whose men were stampeded by few
score Of lately arrived "Wobolies-
There have been advanc es from the
men. a large committee OF foreign
born miners lately called upon SUPER
fntendeut Smith OF the United Verde,
with the expression OF desire to re-
turn to work at the wages offered
under the sliding scale. They received
little comfort. They were told that
the company had dismanued its main
shaft for repairs that can hardly be
finished for six weeks TO come. ana
that the rev erberatory furnaces al
Clarkdale were being refined. a task
that viii take at least as long AT
the best, there IS little use in running
furnaces and in taking out ore re-
serves in the face OF a market already
overstocked and al. prices that are not
at all remuneratiVe-. To such men
as care 10 remain. the United Verde
at Clarkdale has offered free use o.
camps Not Idle.
The slack period established by the
strike viii not exactly be IN idle time
in Jerome or at ClarkdaIe. Here there
viii be completion Of the broad gage
railway M the hill and the prepare
Hfrn Of the rHuwnr mart the United
Verde property for steam shovel
operations At the smelter work has
commenced on plans for doubling the
size Of the plant and similarly in
creasing the quantity Of its copper
output There also viii be tnstala-
ton OF a great coal crushing plant
and OF equipment for substituting
powdered coal for crude oil as fuel
for the reverbe ratories. The United Z
Verde Extension viii finish Its tun-
mel within a month, work done By I
contract, and thus viii be saved an I
immense amount Of pumping. X has I
some work to do at its smelter at 4
Verde. also.
Green Monster Closed
Green Monster has announced sus-
pension for an indefinite period The ]
Shannon property at Aeager Canyon ]
eight miles from Jerome, has been |
shut down, though only Indirectly be- I
cause Of the local situation but IS eL- I
pected to remain closed till happier I
conditions prevail in the copper mar i
ket and in mine labor and material 4
costs Gadsden and Verde Combina-
tion remain at work, spurred on By /
hopes Of early development OF ore /
bodies Jerome Verde probably VIII 1
determine TO keep closed. though this /
may not be definitely settled for a /
month to come. In the meantime the i
pumps win keep in operation. The 4
Gadsden and Combination pump crews 4
remained on the job during the strike /
period
Men Leave Camp.
It is believed thatSabout 1000 idle 4
men have left the camp already, de-
spite warning by union organizer Nc
Closkey that 10000 men are without I
work in southern Arizona and that /
there IS no better place to 60. Yet 4
the families appear 10 have decrea sed /
very little. for the schools have fallen 4
off only Is in attendance. Mine man
ayers assert that the unemployment
has come through the local action and
that IN the southern camps most Of
the worthy discharged men in one
mine have been taken by others, while
a returning soldier never is turned
away.
Members OF the 7. ". W. who re-
main active in Jerome. are being given
zoe days each for vagrancy. Some
Of them have been found alien
enemies and have been handed over
to the federal authorities Il Is safe
TO state that the mines viii not re-
sumo as long as ''Hooblies" remain In
jerome