BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

FOUR MEXICAN STRIKES
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started by a night shift May 31, 1906. The strikers
marched about the company's property, calling out the
men in the different departments. They met with success
at all points, and trouble began only at the last
place of call, the company lumber yard. where the parade
arrived early in the forenoon. Here the manager, a
man named Metcalf e, drenched the front ranks with
water from a large hose. The strikers replied with stones,
and Metcalfe and his brother came back with rifles.
Some strikers fell, and in the ensuing battle the two
Metcalfes were killed.
During the parade, the head of the Greene detective
squad, a man named Rowan, handed out rifles and
ammunition to the heads of departments of the company,
and as soon as the fight started at the lumber yard
the company detective force embarked in automobiles
and drove about town, shooting right and left. The
miners, unarmed, dispersed, but they were shot as they
ran. One of the leaders, applying to the chief of police
for arms with which the miners might protect themselves,
was terribly beaten by the latter, who put his
entire force at the service of the company. During the
first few hours after the trouble some of the Greene
men were put in jail, but very soon they were released
and hundreds of the miners were locked up. Finding
that no justice was to he given them, the bulk of the
miners retired to a point on the company's property,
where they barricaded themselves and, with what
weapons they could secure, defied the Greene police.
From Greene's telegraph office were sent out reports
that the Mexicans had started a race war and were massacring
the Americans of Cananea including the women
and children. Consul Galbraith sent ` out such inflammatory
stories to Washington that there was a flurry