The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 members of a deputized posse, who arrested them beginning on July 12, 1917, in Bisbee, Arizona.

2015年7月12日 · The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of more than 1,000 striking mine workers (IWW-led strike), their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 vigilantes. Striking miners and others being deported from Bisbee on the morning of July 12, 1917.

The morning of July 12, 1917, Sheriff Harry Wheeler and 2,000 deputies arrested over a thousand Bisbee men and marched them to a waiting train. The train carried 1,187 men across to Columbus, New Mexico, and left them in the desert.

2014年4月29日 · Perhaps the most infamous event in Arizona labor history is the Bisbee Deportation of 1917, an illegal vigilante action taken against striking copper workers and the residents of Bisbee. The outbreak of the First World War drove copper prices up and turned the Bisbee mine into a 24/7 operation.

2019年7月15日 · More than a century ago, nearly 2,000 copper miners — most of them immigrants — were deported from Bisbee, Arizona, to the desert of New Mexico. Those who survived the deportation were banned...

2018年8月17日 · On July 12th, 1917 in Bisbee, Arizona, over a thousand striking copper miners–along with regular townsfolk like restaurant owners, carpenters, and exactly one lawyer–were rounded up at gun-point, herded into boxcars, and taken two hundreds miles into the …

2017年10月23日 · The Bisbee deportation highlights a critical moment in US labor history. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, copper was the mainstay of the Arizona economy. In 1917, Bisbee was the largest city in Arizona, with a population in excess of 25,000.