The President's Mediation Commission and the Arizona .Copper Strike, 1917.

The article discusses about the Arizona Copper Strike of 1917. When, at its Annual Convention of 1916, the Western Federation of Miners changed its name to the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, the Federation took its final step in the repudiation of radical unionism favor of respectability. The affiliation of the Western Federation of Miners with the Industrial Workers of the World had appeared to compound the difficulties of the Federation. When the depression of 1907 hit the Arizona copper industry, the Federation had turned to politics with early successes in contributing to the election of a governor and numerous county officials friendly to labor. Rising prices increased the federation's pressure on the copper industry for higher wages. A strike at Jerome, Arizona, preceded the general strike by one month. Negotiations between the International and the Company conducted by John McBride of the Conciliation Service were of no avail. The I. W. W. took no part in the negotiations de- spite a rather large membership in Jerome.