Arizona republican., 1919-02-14
FOUR ARRESTS FOLLOW CLOSE
 IF b|C MINES
 NEAR JEROME
Unemployed Number 6000- More Than 18,000 Affect ed-Too Few Men Report For Work To Comply With Company's Ultima tum-Shut Down 3 to 8 Months.

JEROME. Ariz, Feb. 13.-Four new arrests were made here late today by department of justice agents, but no disorders were reported as result of the order of the United Verde and United Verde Extension Copper com panies closing down for a period of from three to eight months.
 Men from the 3rd United States in fantry still are patrolling the streets and guarding the mine entrances.
 The four men arrested today brins 1 the total held by federal authorities to | eleven. Seven men arrested by city officials as traffic Instructors and trespassers have been delivered over to the department of justice agents. who are Investigating their actions since | coming to Jerome.
 Jerome District Closed The copper mines of the Jerome dis trict closed down this morning for period, the managers said, of from three to eight months, following troubles which started last Monday
 when the miners and other workers, with tributary population estimated
 at 1S,000 more are affected.
 No disorders have been reported so
 far, but ? men of the 3rd United
 States infantry, under Lieutenant John
 Sellers, are patrolling the streets with
 bayonets fixed and guarding the ap- breaches to the mines.
 This morning marked the expiration
 of the ultimatum issued to the men
 by the United Verde and United Verde
 Extension, the two largest properties
 in the district, that if a ufficient
 force was not on hand today to operate
 the mines and keep the smelters going,
 they would close down indefinitely or oI. r
 Last night union leaders, at a big
 mass meeting, urged the men to go
 back to work and observe the union
 ruling that no strike would be de-
 clared, and work would be continued under protest till the arrival of Fed
 eral Mediator Hyweu Davies now on
 his way here
 Too Fsw Ready to W-rk . The United Verde management in formed the unions that if 250 under
 ground miners reported this morning the mine would remain open. Only 1S2 men came on duty. the great majority 7 being machiniSts and engineers. with q. F bare sprinkling of underground D workers
 l The shut down in the Jerome dis ( trlct is practically complete A few oH the smaller properties are hoping D to reopen when the present trouble s blows over. but the managers of the l large companies assert they will abile
 by their promise to keep closed at least |; for six months
 The present trouble developed Mon ? day mornin with the 75-cent wage
 cut. The unions decided not to strike, Q but to have the men work under pro- l test till the federal mediator could
 arrive. Mass meetings were called. the n police said, by l. W. W. agitators. and 7 a general strike was declared despite c the union decision. Then followed ar T rests Of street speakers and alleged . lraftlc obatructors till. up till this 9 morning. 42 men had been lodged in ] jail.
 l To Be Better Camp e The mine owc-ss say the workers e Were intimidated by less than o5O . radicals; the men assert the operator
 broke their federal agreement by map-
 ing the wage cut. They also object D to the arrests of he past three days. | Following the losing down of the < mines Tn the Jeror<e district this morn . ing, Assistant Gereral Manager Robert f E. Tally of the United Verde. one of
 the two big producing properties of : the district issued statement in = winch he charged the men with having t allowed themselves to be influenced b,- V a handful of agitators.
 a We have done >ur best to make the
 position of the United Verde Conner g company plain,' said Mir. Tally. .'Tha ,. men have been deplorablv week -kneed o They have let a handful of l. w. W. Q and other agitators tell them what 10 | do. Now the time has come for a A show-dow The mines and smeIters $ are closed from three to eight months. n When they reopen. Jerome will be :, n different and a better camp" g. Mover is Sorry s DENVER, Feb. l3-"I am sorry to | hear of the action of the copper opera . s tors in closing their mines in tho
 Jerome district" eaid Charles II. Mover ,f president of the International Union of q Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers today r put l have hopes to believe that the = shutdown of the mines will not last as
 long as they predict, for l know that
 member of our board of directors
 IS on his way to Jerome with Federal
 Mediator Davies and I believe he will
 have influence enough with our men
 to secure the return to the mines ol
 the number of men asked by the pro r ducers.''