The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . opportunitycalled his cowboys into play and Win-chesters mowed down Mexicans at everystreet corner. It was at this time that one Americanmining company got in its work and post-ed notices outside of its store at Bisbeestating that the Mexicans were killingthe American women and children inCananea. At the same time this com-pany-store offered guns and ammunitionto every one who would go across the lineand fight. It looked like the first step inthe annexation of Mexico. Many goodminers in Bisbee, who now know better,fell for the bait, and, thinking they wereo
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . opportunitycalled his cowboys into play and Win-chesters mowed down Mexicans at everystreet corner. It was at this time that one Americanmining company got in its work and post-ed notices outside of its store at Bisbeestating that the Mexicans were killingthe American women and children inCananea. At the same time this com-pany-store offered guns and ammunitionto every one who would go across the lineand fight. It looked like the first step inthe annexation of Mexico. Many goodminers in Bisbee, who now know better,fell for the bait, and, thinking they wereout to help the women and children,marched on Cananea. When they ar-rived it was only dead Mexicans that lit-tered the streets, for the cowboys hadbeen given a free hand. But theres another story that isreally a piece of the same tale, al-though it happened years afterwardsin the days when Madero triumphant-ly entered the City of Mexico as presi-dent. Here it is just as Joe Can-non, of the Western Federation ofMiners, told it to me:. AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD LAD-OF THE REDBATTALION,COMPOSED OFMEMBERS OFTHE CASA DELOBRERO MUN-DIAL 242 THE SURVEY FOR DECEMBER i 9 i 6
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