Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-10
HOW TIE |. W. W. WERE REMOVED FROM THE WARREN DISTRICT BY
 THE AID OE DECENT MINING MEN
c. K Jacobson, FOf Eleven Years Miner Tells Conditions In BiSbee Which Led to the Elimination of the lnvadinu Trouble Makers By the Miners Who Had Sons and Brothers In the War So That Needed Copper Could Be Furnished U S.

patriotic miners during that troubled
 summer of 1917. But he admits
 readily enough his share in remoy-
 ing the l. w. W. menace from the dis
 tr1ct, and if pressed, will tell the , story
 Working shoulder to shoulder with
 Jacobson in his fight to stamp out
 the growing l. w. w. danger before
 ever the strike stage was reached
 was his friend and fellow-miner Tom
 J. White. now Lieutenant White of
 the United States Marine Corps, sta
 toned in the West Indies-then a
 worker in the Briggs shaft in this
 ulstrlct Both men of vision, Jacob
 son and White saw the first approach
 Of trouble, and put their heads to-.
 gether to avert it.
 !. w. w. Deaf to Reason.
 Il tried to talk the invading rad
 lcals out of the strike" said Jacob
 son. told them they were strik.
 ing at the wrong time; that there was
 nothing to their so-called "demands":
 that these could be easily settled if
 they showed any sort of disposition
 toward settlement; that. in short they had nothing on earth to strike for
 But they were deaf to reason. They
 wanted to strike, they had made up
 their minds to strike under any cir
 cumstances, and that was all there
 was to it.
 White and I knew the sentiment or the men in the mine. We knew
 they wanted no strike. We knew
 they were satisfied with conditions.
 They were being paid SC a day. and
 their wages and general working con-
 dltions were second to no mining
 camp in the United States. The men knew this, and were anxious to work for this reason alone; but they hazl also the additional inventive of pro. ducing war copper for the boys at the battle front, among whom were many of their own sons or brothers |
 DespitS all this, the strike was called. Not by the men-if a ballot had been taken, the strike wouId have been lost by over 5 to 1-but by the handful of l. w. w. leaders and agitators-not more than six in number, backed by the invading I w. w. trouble-makers. less than half of whom had even taken the trouble to camouflage their true purpose bv flnding work in the mines. thoueb there was crying need for workers
 The strike was announced by the secretary of the local union of the Western Federation of Miners. if is true-another piece of insidious work on the part of the I. w. w. to give thelr action the appearance of having the sanction of organized labor. But what was the true status in this re- spect?
 Union Men Caught Off Guard.
 When the l. W. W. flooded the district. they came in such numbers ma with such belligerency. ehat SSey soon obtained control of the local lnlon Of the Western Federation of t Miners. Working conditions in the district had been so excellent, and c grievances so few and far between t hat the steady. industrious Warren t District miners had come to take s heir unionism as a matter of course. Not accustomed to banding together or purposes of mutual defense against b aggression or for the making of de- V hands, they were caught off guard " from behind, the I. w. W. S anne in and took control of their t lnion almost before they realized 4 what had happened i:
 Seeing that the local union had I; 'assed under the control of the | W E ": outlaw Invaders. President Mover r alIed for its charter TT WAS AFTER THE LOCAL CHARTER t TAD BEEN REVOKED THAT THE r 1OCAL SECRETARY ANNOUNCED tl HE STRIKE. THEREFORE. OR. e iANlZED LABOR HAD NOTHING il TO DO WITH IT.
 When the strike was called, many W f the men not in sympathy with the W
 w. w. quit work because they did 2 ot wish to get mixed up in the mess ls tuners. mostly men with families to sl rotect, were plainly intimidated. but a Iith no reflection on their courage u 'hey knew the hardened reputation ST the w W. sabots, and felt that d hey could not afford to jeopardize nose dependent upon them by open u offence to the apostles of violence. e
 A man could not stay on the h ence' in those days He had to be p lther with the blatant, boastful I ei z. w. or against them. cl vote Would Have Thwarted Strike. T Had the men been given a chance gt ballot. there would have been no tf trike. the baffled parasites on the u cdy or labor would have retired from CT le district defeated. and all would ave been well. But the men were ot given that chance. It is one thing el oppose a strike by the orderly. ra gal means of the ballot; quite an. W ther thing to stand out against a bl .rike after it has been called.
 White and I knew that the vast W la1ority of the men not working were dc cting against their own best judg- bl lent. their own desires. even their re VII patriotism. We determined to by at them together for a meeting. aC 'hite was working at the Briggs in laft | at the Southwest We do VI