Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-25
coNsTABULARY NOT USED IN
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. Oh, NO!

Why the state constabulary or so
called rural police?
Why should organized labor be sc
opposed to the proposed state police
These and various other questions
are being asked as the fight for and
against the proposed bill progresses
senator Dunlap says the farmers want
state police 10 patrol the rural dis.
trict. that it is not intended To be
used in industrial disputes and in or,
der to throw smoke screen" over
It's real purposes amended the bill
that in case OF labor trouble would
only be called into that district upon
orders of the chief of police. mayor,
sheriff, county officials or the COVER
nor to which the manufacturing or
employing interests faxed" pro-
test to weaken labor's fight against
the bill.
Did any farmer or farmers organi-
zation originally ask Senator Dunlap
&c introduce such a bill? No. The
state constabulary bill was fostcrcd
by an organization whose real status
is hard to discover, namely: the State
Patrol This said State Patrol has
and is spending unlimited money for
propaganda and lobbying for this bill.
Is this said State Patrol farmers
organization? No. Then who is back
ing it financially? 1t is hard to cor
rectly answer the latter question but
We might go back to the primary cam
paign OF the last election. review some
incidents and draw our own conclu-
sions. During that campaign man
representing the so-called State Pa
troll solicited funds in Champaign
county in interests OF Senator Dun
laps campaign. Did he go to the
farmers to solicit these funds? No.
But he did go to the members of the
"0pen-Shop' employers association in
Champaign and Urbana and ask for
financial assistance.
II this is farmers police for the
rural district as Senator Dunlap
would have the farmers to believe,
why did not this man solicit funds
among the farmers instead of non
union employers?
This same man approached news
paper man and asked the support OF
tne paper in the cause he was repre-
sentlng and was asked this question
on every dollar you spend in this
cause you expect to get that dollar
back and seven cents besides for in
terest. Who is back of this move
ment You represent and in what way
40 you expect to get your money back
Win INTEREST," To which question
the man replied it was "nobody's bus
mess and departed. Readers. draw
your own conclusions as to the State
Fatrol and who ii represents.
Does organized labor want moi
rule? No.
lhen why oppose a state police for
.he rural districts when it is not to
oe used in industrial centers except
upon call OF the local officials or gov
efnorY The state eonstabulary fol-
pa.rollng the rural districts is but q
suoterfuge. Its organization, training
quahheations and equipment clearly
snow II is meant as force to be used
N industrial disputes and not to catch
speeding autoists or the robber es
.dplng in a high powered machine
through the country districts. In q
recent article published by the Cham
paign County Farm Bureau on the
s'ate police, 1t stated that they woult
not De equipped with motorcycles OF
autos so that they might catch the
SpeeGers and high powered machine:
~hicn the robbers will soon be escap
Jug IN over Illinois hard roads. bu
instead will be mounted, as the horse,
oah De trained to be of great assist
anee IN riot and mob duty in town.
sna cities. Yet, readers, these sam,
.allh bureaus plead that this is an or
easiIatlon for protection of the farmel
nno nna MS Wife and not weapon TO b,
ss tseu IN industrial disputes. Sound,
ianny, doesn't 1T?
now can horses be trained TO as
S,se IN riot duty? The answer 10 tbi,
question can be answered bv an Incl
Hsnt Sra IN pennsylvania. which bv III
"ay was not furnished by a labor ma,
organization, but told the writer b,
sa-o ye witness a few years ago be
i was ever thought an attemp
nois eslaohsh mounted police in Mi
= g's would be made A strike was 81
He OF the industrial cities of IN