Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-10

brick Bisbee: John HelnuUCk, MINER |
[ DWELL; John Hughes. Bsbee miner; |
Wallace Brewer. department store
shoe buyer, Bisbeei George Medigo- |
witch, grocer, Blsbee; Fred Sandtper, |
Lowell, miner; James Boyle. Lowell, |
miner; James Mandon. miner, Lowell; |
James Boyd. miner, Lowell; Alexander
Nichols, MINER LoWeil; George Scott
miner. Lowell; Albert Kroner, miner, |
Bisbee; Barnum Williams, teamster,
Lowell; Ned White, miner, Bsbee.
Oscar Wagner. miner, Bisbee, member
A.. Il, F.; N ID. Nayarette Lowell,
miner; Jess Toland. Lowell. miner;
George Scott, Lowell, miner, Il. Sal
mon, Bisbee. miner; Ernest Hughes,
Warren, miner; John Scott, Warren,
miner; James Glason, Lowell, miner;
John Sutherland, Warren. miner;
Burrell Slaughter. Lowell, miner;
William Toland, Bisbee. miner; A. NJ.
Sinclair, Lowell, miner; Oscar Gilman,
Lowell miner; w. p. Sims. miner, Bis
bee; John Rainey, miner Bisbee;
James Colford, Lowell, miner; George
McGhee, Bisbee; James Nichols,
rancher, Bisbee,
. 1,1S6 Persons DepOrted.
Ever since the morning Of July 81,
III WHtll lgAOO AAllhN VOL mel y anu
their alleged sympathizers were for
chilly driven from Bisbee, the deporta-
tions have been a source of discussion
in this state and throughout the west.
The United States grand jury indict-
ed twenty-five of the most prominent
men of Arizona, copper company Of
Gals, county officers and private citi-
zens, following the deportations on
charges of conspiracy to deprive pri-
vate citizens of their constitutional
rights. On December 3, last, Judge
William w. Morrow. of San Francisco,
sitting in the United States district
court at Tucson, quashed the indict-
ments when the trial was called. The
United States government Immediately
appealed from Judge Morrow's deci-
sion and today the case is pending in
the supreme court of the nation.
The men involved in the charges
brought by the federal government in
clude Walter Douglas of New York
City, president and general manager
of the Phelps-Dodge corporation, own
ing and operating the Copper Queen
Consolidated mines and the Copper
Queen smelter at Douglas; Grant II.
| Dowell, general manager of the Cop
per Queen Consolidated Mining COM
pany; H. II. Stout. superintendent OF
the Copper Queen smelter at Doug
las; Robert Rae, auditor for the
Phelps Dodge interests in the south
west; william II. Brophy, formerly
general manager of the Phelps-Dodge
Mercantile company and now prom
inent Red Cross official in France;
Maj. John C. Greenway, a mining en-
gineer, now a major in the United
States engineer corps in France, and
Harry C. Wheeler OF the United States
army, former sheriff of Cochise coun-
| ty, Ariz.
Wheeler Accepts Responsibility.
Harry Wheeler was sheriff of Co
| chise county at the time the deporta-
| tons took place. In June, 1918, wher
he was in France as captain in the
| United States army, he sent cable.
| gram to Bisbee accepting sole respon-
| sibility for the deportations. which he
| declared were made to rid the com.
munity of members of the Industrial
| Workers of the World, who, he al.
| legged, were interfering with the gov.
ernments war program by hamperine
! the copper output.
The deportations grew out of the
! strike of copper miners called in the
| Warren copper mining district or
| June rs, 1917. The strike was called
| by the Industrial Workers Of the
| World and was not sanctioned by the
| International Union of Mine, Mill and
Smeltermen. The demands of the
strikers included increased pay, Sc o
| day for underground work and IS and
| a hpif for CIIcfapn t1ynrlf n 81 x hp,
| day and improved working conditions
The strike continued in force unit
| July IL, when the deportations tool
| place. Unknown to any of the strik.
/ ers, preparations had been made by
| Sheriff Wheeler and his associates
| The first streaks of daylight haC
scarcely begun to show in Bisbee wher
| the blast of a whistle was heard. Run.
ming through the streets in the semi
| darkness, armed with revolvers, tn,
! deputies Sheriff Wheeler had sworn il
as officers of the law, assembled ant
began their tasks. All persons who
could not give satisfactory accoun
| of themselves and who would no
promise to return to work in the mine.
were seized and marched to the Bis
| bee baseball park, where they wer,
| confined In stockade until the round
| up was completed at noon.
| Two Persons Killed.
| During the deportation, two person.
were killed, member of the commit
tee Of citizens being shot in attempt
ing to compel the deportation of on
workman and the workman in turf
being killed by the committee. Whei
the roundup had been completed tn
prisoners were loaded into cattle car
and freight cars and taken first t.
Columbus, N. M, and later the trail
was hauted back to the desert station
of Hermanas, dozen miles west o
Columbus. During the trip the de
ported men alleged they were given n,