The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-12-14
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year ago" he meant the kind that
We're reported in the Duluth papers
at the time of the Two Harbors ex-
plosion.
Mooney Was Ever Fair.
Every labor man in Duluth who
knows Fred Mooney can testify to the
fact that he has long been an advo-
cate of. permitting union iron work.
ers to work on local jobs done by
firms that were unfair to the inter-
national union, provided of course
only union iron workers were en-
ployed on such local Jobs.
Officer Youngberg, the former iron
worker who went to Indianapolis to
testify for Mr.. Mooney, stated that
he always found him to be fair and
square. In an Interview with The
Labor World he said: Il have worked
on jobs with Fred Mooney and many
times when non union men were en-
ployed as helpers, and members Of
the union would make protest to
Mooney he would instruct them to let
the matter go; that there were no
union men to take their places and
it was not the business Of the union
to delay the work.
The readers of The Labor World
may be interested In the detailed tes-
timony given by Mr.. Mooney at the
trial as published in the Indianapolis
News. We reprint it as follows with
out comment:
From indianapolis News.
Fred Mooney, former financial Sec
rotary of the Duluth local Of iron
workers, and defendant in the dyna-
mite conspiracy case, went on the wit
ness stand in federal court today.
MONEYS cross-examination was con-
tinued in the afternoon.
Mooney is the author of a letter
sent to John J. Mcnamara, Aug. 3,
1910, Or just after Ortie E. McMani-
gal had dynamited unfair work" of
Heyl & Patterson, at Superior, in
MONEYS jurisdiction. Aug. /. In that
letter, Mooney sent newspaper clip
pings about the explosion, and said:
I'VE had some real dynamiters
here the other night, not the kind
that were here year ago. The dam
age was not great, but it was luck the
landed where it did or the whole
bridge would have come down.
Matter of Information.
The Duuth iron worker explained
that he sent the newspaper clippings,
quarters, just as he sent clippings of
anything that might be of interest to
men engaged in structural iron work,
he said. He had seen also about a
year before information that there
had been a report Of an explosion at
Two Harbors, but that he could not
get definite information, and looked
on the story as a fake
Explaining his letter of August 3,
1910, Mooney said he had seen in
the newspapers the accounts of dyna-
hitting at Superior, which iS just
across the river from Duluth, and
that the morning paper said the
damage was heavy, but the afternoon
paper said it was slight. One of the
papers, as he remembered it, said
something like "Dynamiters at Su-
perior.' he said, and as evidently
this explosion was not on par with
the reported one at Two Harbors the
preceding year, he had written, I'VE
had some real dynamiters here
Denied Completely.
Mooney denied any completely in
dynamiting plots, said he did not
know James B. Mcnamara or Ortie
McManigal, and had heard Of only
two or three other explosions in addi-
ton to the one at Superior. Mooney
strongly denied that he had assisted
in raising a defense fund for ]. J.
Mcnamara, and it was only after hard
efforts and repeated questioning that
United States Attorney Miller, on
cross examination, succeeded in get
ting Mooney to admit that he had
paid the 50 assessment to the inter-
national.
Mooney Sent Clippings.
Mooney testified that he sent clip
uings from newspapers containing an
account of the Superior explosion,
and of a reported explosion at Two