Bisbee daily review., 1920-05-09

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) which Wootton was found not guilty, Struckmeyer and Cleary still have faint hopes that, if the prosecution is kept up long enough, it may be possi- ble to get one conviction. In such an event the damage suits which the two attorneys have drawn up for their SIS clients will be a little stronger than if they were tried without any of the deportees having been convicted.
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 Kennedy and Struckmeyer seem to be having little trouble, however, in swinging the state federation of la bor into line with this plan. Although the name of the federation has been prominently used in frantic endeav- or Co convince the public that the de- Io.tation was blow at organized la bor and not at the I. w. w.. there are many union men throughout the state who fail to understand just why the state federation. which is affiliated with the American Federation of La Dor. should be so eager to take up arms with the extreme radical and l. W. w. element that also is crying for more prosecutions in spite of the out come of the Wootton trial.
 Appeal to Board
 The county attorneys refusal to ac- cept outside legal aid or funds for the prosecution of the cases has non- plussed the Phoenix element that prof. fered them, according to advices from the state capital. They refuse to give up hope, however, but have adopted milder form of persuasion. In the last edition of the Arizona Labor Journal an article appears asking the Cochise board of supervisors not to try to stop the county attorney from spending county funds in the further prosecu- tion of the deportation cases.
 Messrs. CIeary and Struckmey
 CT, it is reported, are perfectly
 willing that Cochise county tax
 payers funds be used as the cats
 paw to help pull their chestnuts
 out of the fire, although extreme
 ly disappointed because County
 Attorney French, of whose legal
 ability they. seem 10 entertain
 doubts, refused 10 accept the offer
 of the aid of an outside attorney
 of national repute."
 The first of the damage suits filed as the result of the deportation were recorded at Tombstone on July 6, 1918. On that date 2i1 deported men record ed suits for S20.000 damages each, naming as defendants many prominent residents of the Warren district and Douglas. The 212th man, William $. Cieary. asked for damages in the amount of S75,000 During and imme- diately after the deportation C1eary was looked upon with mingled awe and respect by the l. w w., and their sym pathizers, but his stock fell consider ably below par shortly after the de ported men were released from the custody of army officials at Columbus, N. M. Most of the men floated to va rious parts of the country rather aim lessly but Cleary headed for Holly wood. Calif., donned natty summer clothes. rode around in high-powered automobiles, lived life of luxury and ease and. by this showing, incurred the wrath of many of the fellow workers" who failed to appreciate one of their number stimulating the habits of the hated "capitalistic class" Cleary is said to have reinstated himself in the good graces of the radicals, however, by the vigorous, although unsuccess- ful, manner in which he aided in the defense of William D. Haywood and other l. W. w. leaders who were tried and convicted in Chicago in the sum- mer of 1918 for conspiring against the government
 Struckmeyer has always stood well with the radical element and after the deported men reached Columbus, was one of the first men from outside to visit them and help them arrange plans for evening up their score again q the Warren district.