Tulsa Outrage

Its inaugural members were J. Burr Gibbons, Robert M. McFarlin, Glenn Condon, H. C. "Harry" Tyrrell, and Lilah Denton Lindsey.

Carter Oil Company and the Tulsa Police Department blamed the IWW for the bombing based on testimony from private investigators hired by Carter Oil Company and the Tulsa Daily World publicly blamed the union for planning a "reign of terror" in the state.

Federal investigators who had infiltrated the Tulsa IWW found they were "doing nothing or planning nothing directed against the Government" and that there was "no talk of violence.

"[2] After the bombing, the Tulsa Daily World escalated its rhetoric, writing that the solution was "a wholesale application of concentration camps.

On November 6, Home Guard member W. Tate Brady assaulted E. L. Fox, the owner of the building the Tulsa IWW rented for their headquarters.

"[2] The trial began in front of Judge T. D. Evans on November 8 with the prosecutor largely ignoring the charge of vagrancy and instead asking the defendants about their loyalty to the government and support for Liberty Loans.

[1] On Friday, November 9, the Tulsa Daily World published an editorial entitled "Get Out the Hemp" which wrote: Any man who attempts to stop the [oil] supply for one-hundredth part of a second is a traitor and ought to be shot!...

or its twin brother, the Oil Workers union, gets busy in your neighborhood, kindly take occasion to decrease the supply of hemp.

[3] "After each one was whipped another man applied the tar with a large brush, from the head to the seat," wrote the Tulsa branch secretary.

"Then a brute smeared feathers over and rubbed them in ... After they had satisfied themselves that our bodies were well abused, our clothing was thrown into a pile, gasoline poured on it, and a match applied.

"[1] Harlows Weekly, another Oklahoma newspaper, justified the anti-German sentiment behind the attacks by referencing the ongoing war effort.

The group would disband shortly after when member S. L. Miller shot and killed a Tulsa waiter for "disloyal statements" and three weeks later organized the beating of an alleged adulterer.