Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-23
!. w. w. LITERATURE is
SEIZED BY CUSHING CHIEF
Documents of Travelling
Organizers.
Special to The World.

Special TO The World
CUSHING. Okla, Nov. 22.-Joe
Harris, chief of police of Cushing, is
entitled to a great deal of credit for
his activity in the last few days in
rounding up several /. w. w. organ
izers and travelling delegates.
There seems to be no question in
the minds of Gushing citizens but both
fires at the gins were set by members
of this order; and Colonel Lilley. sher-
iff, feels quite sure that il was the
work of the l. w. w. organizers that
blew up the refinery just north Of
Gushing during the night of the 18th
of this month. killing two men and
destroying a quarter of a million dol
lars worth of property. And this be-
lief is very much strengthened by the
following letter received by the mayor
of Drumright, Okla:
mayor of Drumright:
You and the little ticlScy officers
better look out for the Standard Oil
axident was only u token these rich
people has started out TO break up this
labor move. But we all will die &
go to H before they shall do IL. We
are after all you -. Something
great is going TO happen I'm Drumright.
There Is thousand inside workers now
working & preparing for this great
calamity.
(Signcd) mo FOOL"
The travelling organizers had two
suitcases full of literature teaching
the true doctrine of the order. The
following is copied from pages 104,
los and 1872 of their dogma:
"As n revolutionary organization
the Industrial Workers of the World
aims to use any and all tactics that
,x-iII uat tha raStIltC Gpilnht NNith a
least expenditure of time and energy.
The tactics used are determined solely
by the power of the organization to
make good in their use. The question
of right and wrong does not con-
Germ us
mo terms made with an employer
are final. All peace, so long as the
wage system lasts, is but an armed
truce. At any favorable opportunity
the struggle for more control indus
try is renewed"
"In short, the I. w. w. advocates
the use of militant direct action tao
tics to the full extent of our power to
make good"
"Develop the class spirit of the
workers and drill them to the point
where they Ghe workers) will be able
to seize the workshops and operate
them for themselves, thus compelling
the Rockefellers and other capitalists
to go to work.
"Trns is different from the Socialist
party, which teaches that the workers
are. going to vote themselves into con-
| troll of the government and then use
the government to run the industries.
The /. w. w. fights that idea, because
we know that government ownership
would be essentially the same kind, or
worse. slavery than now exists under
private ownership"
Sabotage" is one of their principal
instructions. In part as follows, on
pages 43 and a.:
"If you are an engineer you can
With two cents worth of powdered
stone or q pinch OF Sand stall your
machine, cause IA loss of time or make
expensive repairs necessary. II you
are u joiner or woOdwOrkcr, what Is
simpler than To ruin furniture without
your boss noticing IL, and thereby
drive his customers away? A garment
worker can easily spoil suit or a
bolt Of cloth; II you are working In q