The Bisbee Deportation of 1917

What  happens when a corporation, the sheriff and citizens are all in collusion to do something “wholly illegal?” The giant Bisbee Deportation of July 12, 1917. It was the second deportation of mine workers in Arizona that month. Phelps Dodge, the giant mining company, was then headed by Walter S. Douglas, who had vowed to break every union in every mine in Arizona. So on July 5, 1917, when miners in Jerome, struck the Phelps Dodge mine there—union members of the Industrial Workers of