Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-25


hold an open air demonstration meet.
ing when the state police dispersed
the crowd by riding into the gather.
ing and the horses we're so trained to
back into the people Kicking" Sow
eral men, women and children were
seriously injured by this humane" POI
lice force. Do We want that kind OF
police force In Illinois?
In the accompanying illustration we
have an illustration OF this same kind
OF so-called rural police as they have
in New York State Tiny home state).
This picture shows the methods Of
arresting union man at Albany, N.
Y. during the present strike OF the
employees OF the United Traction Co.
When the strike was called the trac-
ton company Immediately imported
strike-breakers and gun-men whose
duties are to start something so that
an injunction may be secured or the
union men all arrested and It's orgAni-
sat1on ffixrurt1d -.---s srlss-4p4, "a AxraN~t.-i.
happening In Albany today and the
pictures show the results.
What is gunman? The casual
reader asks what labor calls gun
man. Employing interests have or
ganized detective" agencies in all
industrial centers who will send men
to your factories and attempt to break
UP the unions and in case a strike will
furnish guards" to guard your prop
erty and then when they arrive In
town about the first thing they do Is
plant a bomb" somewhere, destroy
some property and then swear that
some member of organized labor did
it or else stand on street corners, in
suit women and girls, start an argu-
ment with some sympathizer. follow
1t up with blows and then shoot two
or three citizens so the employers or
officials will call for the constabu-
larry to come in and prevent the
laborers from peacefully picketing or
the men from holding a meeting and
in that way breaking up the union
and force the men to submit to
any kind of deal the employers
might wish to give. Incidents similar
to these happened in Champaign dur
ing the street car strike OF 1919 when
the local company imported some SO
or more gunmen, but before they had
time to accomplish their purpose
Mayor Tucker ordered them of the
street cars and out OF town. But be-
fore they left they confessed to doing
, considerable of the depredations
charged to the union men on strike.
Ii has become so d;stasteful to the
citizens of city TO have the military
units called to their city for riot duty
that now the employing interests
would substitute mounted police
and in order to receive no opposition
from the taxpayer would call 1t a
state police for the rural districts
to protect the farmer and his wife.
They tell us the cost is small, only
about 100000 per year as proposed In
1 Illinois. The state police Is like an
auto as to expense, it's not the origi-
nal cost, it's the up-keep. In Pennsyl-
vania they started like here on $780,.
900. but last year it ran past the mil
/ lion dollar mark
/ Mr. Taxpayer and Farmer. think
well before you endorse this move on
/ the part of those who would protect
the rural districts" If you will wipe
out for good all such organizations
known as detective agencies, such, as
you find advertised on page 81 OF your
local telephone directory, stop the en-
ployer from importing these gunmen
and you will find that industrial riots
win cease and the rural district will
I not need a state constabulary for pro
eetion.-Contribute