We are free, truly free, when
we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody
in order to be able to lift
a piece of bread to our mouths.
-Ricardo Flores Magón
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 9, 1906
Report from Bisbee, Arizona: “Agitators” Threatened with Arrest
From today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
AMERICAN MINERS FLEE
FROM MEXICO
—–Mexican Authorities Threaten Agitators
of the Strike With Arrest.
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WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS IS BLAMED
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Those Killed in Recent Riots Have Been
Buried Without identification.
—–BISBEE, Ariz., June 8.-As a result of the strike at Cananea, Mexico, mines of Colonel W. C. Greene, last week, the American miners in the camp will be very few in number in the future, it is believed. They are crossing the line in droves, and several hundred have arrived in Bisbee during the last forty-eight hours.
Threatened With Arrest.
On Thursday the Mexican authorities sent a man through the mines notifying all American miners that those who were under suspicion of having agitated the trouble at Cananea and had openly sympathized with the striking Mexicans would on the following day be placed under arrest. The result was a general exodus of Americans.
Western Federation Blamed.
It can be reliably stated that the American authorities believe that members of the Western Federation of Miners at Cananea secretly encouraged and abetted the strike and members of this organization were the first to receive the notice to leave.