Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-27


 out begging him to speak, but he
 gracefully declined. It was the
 biggest meeting we have seen yet
 in the park and they seem pret-
 ty solid with US. We dweIt on
 the necessity of going ouI while
 Butte was still on strike and
 while Globe and Miami were
 ready with their demands
 After the meeting one hundred odd applications were filled out and cards issued and another special meeting was held in the hall at which pickets were appointed to take charge of each of the shafts and urge men away from their work The way the bunch volunteered for picket work would make you feel good. Some Of them even insisted on going to the change rooms 10 catch the night shift coming off work. We did not consider it good policy to at- tempt To pull off the night shift, as We were not organized for it, and we were afraid if we tried and did not make a good job of it, it would have bad effect on our work in the morn ing. T sherman went down in all the Queen shafts and talked to the men. The work they are doing under ground tonight is cleaning up and taking out the tools. Several shift bosses are coming out with us. The pump man working at the Shattuck is out The engineers are not to be counted on but we think if We can get them to frame up demands for themselves it will be possible to get most of them.
 "The Mexicans are almost sure bet as We are demanding
 minimum of s5.5o for all top men.
 kimball got hold of good man for organizer among the Mexi- cans and he is on the pay roll. We could not wait to consult you as it was necessary to get i'm mediate action. Six kids, nippers on Sacramento hill, came up to the hall and asked us what we wanted them to do. They said , they would picket all the others and would help with tte Mexi- | cans.
 We wired Sheriff Wheeler to take care of the bootleggers and told him We would give him all the informa- ton we could, so as to put them out of business.
 "Yours For Revolution" Embree "Wednesday, D. m.--As you have already been informed nv phone. the calling out of the day shift this morn ing was a great success. Many men were turned back on the way to the shafts by our pickets, and as each squad had a captain whose place it was to report the number of men who went to work at each shaft, it did not take us long to get a line on them. The total number normally re- porting for work at each of the shafts is 2700. The number reported by our pickets as going on shift is about TAO This would leave just under 2000 men who decided to stay with us. We expect a still better percent age from the night shift. as we havel been drilling them all day and had a splendid mass meeting again at one o'clock in the park. I'll the speak CTS mud diggers.
 Yours for revolution.
 "A. S. Embree. Press Committed" Another letter written by Embree from Columbus, N. M., where he was taken from Bisbee with other men de ported, read in part:
 Fellow Worker: By order of the executive committee I wrote to iIay- wood today outlining the situation here and throughout Arizona.
 ''l vert into detail regarding Your insistence that We include a six-hour demand, showing that such action would iniure Butte as our strike is more sympathy with the Butte movement than for any demands for ourselves. Fur ther, the raw material which in fact composed, and still composes, our main strength cannot grasp the six-hour idea and regard it as a chmera. 1t will require the lesson of this strike and months of educational and organizational work afterwards to get them l. ready for the six-hour struggle. lt must become an ingrained part of themselves and they must see the object and necessity for it as part of the whole revolution ary program before they will be ready to fight for it. i- "The spirit among us is undaunted We consider the strike won and we know we will get back to Bisbee in the near future where we can put the finishing touches on the strug- gle.
 Yours for solidarity strike,
 "A. s. Embree"