Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-06
|. W. W. IN TULSA
RA|DED BY POLICE
Eleven Men Arrested at Local
Headquarters" on West
Brady Street.
THE CITY DECLARES "WAR'
Will Arrest Every Man Known
to Belong to Unamerican
Organization.

War on the |. w. w. was declared
by the city of Tulsa last night when
a squad of detectives. led by io-
lice Captain Wilkerson, descended on
the local headquarters of the organizl-
tion and arrested every man in the
room. Eleven were taken into GUS
today. None of them made any ut
tempt TO get bail and they were
placed In the city Jail. Charges of
vagrancy were placed against them
and they will be arraigned before
Municipal Judge Il. u. Evans this af
ternoon.
Mayor J. II. simmons was at police
headquarters when the prisoners were
brought in. He made no comment.
Those arrested gave the following
names and ages: John McCurry. 20;
+. NJ. Boyd, SO; John Doyle, As; Joe
French, 33; j. II. Hill, "a; Gerard
Johnson, 26; Bob Mcdonald, %; John
Fitzsimmons, "a; Charles Walch, 81.
Hill neatly dressed and apparently
intelligent, is a pressman, n member
OF Tulsa Printing Pressmen's union
and has been employed at a local Job
printing plant. Mcdonald, also neatly
dressed, is Il local plumber. The
OtntTS are nOn-TeSluentS. lHty St!c
Various addresses. Most of them were
uncouth in appearance. The secretary
of the organization was among those
arrested. lie insisted on turning out
the lights and locking the front door
before going to the police station.
The headquarters is large ground
floor room in the Fox building facing
on Brady street, just few feet from
Main. Copies OF solidarity" the
/. W. W. organ, and samples of Sc
ditious literature were hung about the
room. Yellow curtains were placed
at the front windows yesterday for
the first time. When the officers
walked into the room at O'Clock the
men were seated about the place,
playing cards and reading, and the
secretary was receiving dues from
some of them and placing stamps In
their membership books. Photographs
of the funeral of "martyred' l. w.
w. were on display, and marked "75
cents each"
Boosted of Membership.
The men admitted in each instance
that they were members of the /. w.
w; they said so boastingly. They
offered no resistance and avoided any
argument with the officers. At police
headquarters they were searched.
They had very little money on their
persons one by one they marched
from the sergeant's desk to the cell
house, with heads erect, sneers on
their faces and looking for all the
world like martyrs" marching to
their doom.
There was much speculation last
night as to whether any attorney in
Tulsa would risk attracting the con-
tempt of loyal citizens by appearing
in court today to represent the de-
PENDANTS. Whether or not their ad-
mitted membership in the l. w. w.
will be considered proof of their guilt
on the vagrancy charges pending
against them could not be learned
last night.
Regardless of the outcome of the
cases" said Captain Wilkerson. we
are going to arrest every man who is
found lettering about the l. w. w.
headquarters. If they get out of Jail
and go back there we will arrest them
again. and again and again. Tulsa
il not big enough to hold any traitors
during our governments crisis. and
the sooner these fellows get out of
town the better for them"