Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-17
ORGANIZER OF |. v. v. COMES TO
INVESTIGATE TAR PARTY" JAILED
Police Grab Wencil Fran
elk Five Hours After
He Lands in Tulsa.
NINE YEARS ANARCHIST
Steps Traced Thru Arizona,
Kansas City, North
Dakota Troubles.

Wencil Francik, for nine years n
memtcr OF the J. w. w. and recently
named member of that organiEa-
tons committee on membership, came
TO Tulsa yesterday to organz. IA cam
paign Of retaliation for the treatment
accorded II members of the |. W. w.
one week ago last night when they
were taken from the police and tarred
and teathered.VWithin five hours after
he had arris ed in the city he had been
placed under arrest by Detective Car
micheal had been "mugged.' con
fessed to being a prime mover in ].
w. w. activities in this state and had
refused point blank TO make any
statements until the /. W. w. attorney.
johnson, had been appealed TO-,
"All / want to say" he declared
after he had been arrested and taken
to the police station, 'is that we want
to know what you Americans of Tulsa
are going to do about tho treatment
given the members-of the i. w. w In
this city last Friday"
After being taken to the police sta-
ton where a Bertillon description OF
the prisoner was completed, an In
vestigation of his past record was de-
veloped from reports at police head
quarters.
L. W. w. For Nine Years.
For more than nine years Francik
has been n member of the ]. w. W.,
having Joined that organization In
Portland, Ore, in the early part of
1908. Since that time he has been
many times in police records and nc
was among the 100 !. w. w. members
arrested in Kansas City during raid
on their headquarters there, many of
whom were whipped and run out of
the city During the Bisbee, Ariz.
miners trouble E'rancik was a well
known agitator IN that section, but
when confronted with this statement
declared that he had left Bisbee be-
fore the clash which resulted in sew
eral deaths. He also admitted to the
police that he was in North Dakota
during the harvest season, one year
ago. when fires destroyed the grain
crops there, but he was emphatic in
his declaration that he left before the
/. w. w. members began their reign
Of terror thruout the wheat section.
Admits AffiIiation.
tF'rancik, who is a bohemian de-
clares he was born in Cedar Rapids,
80 years ago. He was elected n mem
Der Of the committee on organization
for the Oil Workers Union. affiliated
with the /. w. w. at a recent conven-
tion held in Omaha, and that on Octo-
ber IS he was ordered to come south"
and organize in this section. He was
busily engaged in organization work
IN Ponca City and Usage Junction, ac-
cording TO the record in the hands of
the police, and he was in Augusta last
Friday on the day II Of his fellow
members were taken from the police
and after being tarred and feathered,
were driven from Tulsa with the lash j
Came TO Investigate.
He declared that he came TO Tulsa
to Investigate" the treatment accord
eh the l. w. w. members, because II
happened in my territory" Under
arrangements Francik receives a sal
airy Of $3.50 u day and travelling ex-
penses, and during the past three
weeks has made good use Of the latter
item as he has made several visits be-
tween Augusta, Kan, and Tulsa. When
arrested Francik Dor, n receipt re-
ceived from one of the I. w. w. mem
bers recently mobbed, and also a note
showing that he had disposed of all
furnishings which had been used In
the l. w. W. headquarters in the New
Fox hotel building, but Of which he
had disposed since arriving in Tulsa.
This organizer is being held by the
police and both city, county and fed
eral officials will make thoro
investigation of his activities in the
past several months, as no doubt Is ex-
pressed that he is one Of the prime
movers in recent activities Of the l.
w. w. members which has resulted in
property damage in this state