The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-21
\ CONVINCING DEMONSTRATION.

oklahoma Ci'y just now rs affordiuE con-
fin.uE d,muuuutiou OF not only the fllaoy
of permitting 70 police department TO-, become
uuionlzcd, sut the sinister menace that lurl,7
in such a condition. Mayor Walton carly IN
hs administration proclaimed bis attachment
to the idea of permitting an branches of the
public service to unloule ana affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor As a conso-
qucncc oklahoma city stood firm for union
tied police force during that Period when nearly
ovcry other municipality In the nation was bus
ily engaged iu abolshlng unionism from the
public service.
Now It seems the Walton chickens are COM
ing home 10 roost Thcrc has been a strike on
At Oklahoma city among the packing house
workers for several weeks. ~ the strikers have
not tho open protection Of the police authori-
ties, they at least have their secret moral sup
port. In any event II reports to bc crod-
itcd condition exists at oklahoma city
wherein the constitutional rights OF the citlzcns
are utterly ignored by tho officers society en-
ploys TO protect those rights
II would that constitutional rights
recognized as belonging to none but union men,
At any ratio camps OF strikers are permitted
to exist in the vicinity OF the packing plants,
the ''pickets" constantly ON guard here being
allowed to interfere IN any ana every way with
those citizens willing to work In the plants.
Public transports are held up at will entered
and workmen taken therefrom to be buldozcd
and maltreated, An Of this with tho knowl-
edge and apparent consent IL not protection OF
the unionized police force.
And Just the other evening a citizen was taken
from his own home at night conveyed to tho
suburbs and there hanged to a tree. lie was
aha usit ttsga nstto mi Of
fcnse that we have never heard was among
the crimes set down In the statutes. what this
man and others had done--and what others
are doing for there ace many men out of om-
poyment willing to work-was to accept em-
ployment on terms which the union was un-
willing to accept,
All kf this Is in tho capital city OF the state
THE very center OF sovereignty and executive
authority. The presumption is that the police
force OF the city considers It's obligation to tho
union greater than Its obligation to the state
the very condition which every straight thinking
man understood would sooner or later prevail
II the public service was permitted to organize
on union lines and affiliate with the A. T., of L.
Thus we have the amazing and intolerahle
spectacle Of officials pq!d by all the people for
the equal protection OF all, calmly asserting
their right to serve only mere faction at the
expense of the great majority! only cowardce
Of the most dospicahlc kind can explain the re-
tusal of the state authorities to act In the
premises How inconsistent Tor the state to
throw itself into the attempt TO Gust the county
officials of Carter county for their failure to
enforce the sumptuary laws while permitting
the city authorities Of oklahoma city TO
threaten the very corner stone OF existing So
cietyl
walton ana his every subordinate should bo
ouscd from office instantcr, Anarchy OF the
most unadultcratod kind exists In the capital
city.