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Show EFFORT BEING MADE 1 TO SETTLE STRIKE Governor of Arizona and j Representative of Labor j Department at Jerome. . JEROME, Ariz., May 2S. Assurances that "every effort would be made to hur-j hur-j ry a settlement" of the strike and of union miners demands, and to see that "exact justice was done," were given here tonight by Governor Campbell of Arizona and John McBride, special representative repre-sentative of the department of labor, who addressed a mass meeting hastily arranged ar-ranged by strike leaders. A plea from W. A. Burns, executive : committeeman of the Interna ttona I Union Un-ion of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, checked tonight a demonstra tion by strike sympathizers which threatened serious se-rious trouble for a time. A crowd had started to search for two Mexicans when Burns mounted a pile of bricks, pleaded with the men to preserve order and said that Governor Campbell of Arizona and Colonel James J. Horn-brook Horn-brook of the Seventeenth United States cavalry were witnessing the demonstration demonstra-tion from the windows of their hotel. The governor and -Colonel Hornbrook arrived here at 6 p. m., and wre In conference con-ference with John McBride, special representative rep-resentative of the department of labor, when the demonstration began, following the appearance of men from the United Verde, largest of the copper producers in the Jerome district and one of the twen- . ty mines involved in the strike of union miners, who are demanding recognition of the union. The men were escorted by fifteen armed guards. The crowd followed them from the mine into the Mexican quarter of Jerome, yelling yell-ing and making threats. McBride. who arrived here at noon, had lentrthy conferences with union leaders. Cha rles W. Clark, general ma nager of the United Verde mine, owned by former United States Senator W. A. Ciark, arrived ar-rived here tonight, and tomorrow -will confer with Governor Campbell and Mc-Eride. |