(74) Deportation of IWW members, Train from Warren, Arizona for New Mexico
Posted April 3rd, 2009 by mwallace
Bisbee, Arizona Copper mine workers suspected of being striking IWW members are marched to the Warren Ballpark and then forced to leave on a train bound for Columbus, New Mexico.
In the early morning hours of July 12, 1917, suspected strikers were rounded up by mining company loyalists and forced to board a train headed to Columbus, New Mexico. The train was turned back when it reached Columbus but then stopped in Hermanas, New Mexico where the men on train were abandoned.
Back in Bisbee, guards were put on all roads to insure that none of those who were deported returned.
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