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70 American man-of-war has its eyes on the city. The captain in command, the United States consul and the representatives of the American and British oil companies are watching, working and waiting.

The German-paid Industrial Workers take advantage of every event to incite the labourers, the poor peon puppets of the ruthless leaders. They are paid and inspired by German influences, as even Herr Mueller, the Austrian consul, acknowledged. When the governor of Arizona, for example, shipped several hundred disloyal miners out of his state the following appeal was printed and scattered through the streets like dirty snow;

The Union of Port Mechanics having knowledge that 2,000 striking mine workers of Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A., have been deported to the Hermanas Desert, New Mexico, being thus compelled by force of rifles and machine guns to desert their families, who remain there by the lawless work of the enemies of the working class in the most frightful misery and suffering the greatest privations:

For this reason this Union, in a spirit of humanitarianism and companionship, PROTESTS and CURSES this action accomplished by the steel kings, and publishes its discontent publicly against all who act arbitrarily, restricting the right of