The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-01-11
MRS. MOONEY VISITS
h.. HOME OF MRS. BEUM
Wives of Two Minnesota Iron
Workers Meet and Discuss
Plight of Husbands.

Mrs. Fred j. Mooney, wife of the
Duluth iron worker, is still visiting
with her sister in St. Paul and it is
expected she will return to her home
in this city the latter part of this
week.
Mrs. Mooney went to Minneapolis
early in the week to carry some news
to a little home there, where two
women, in tears, sat with hands
clasped, talking brokenly Of the sud-
den blow of fate that took their hus-
bands away to prison and broke up
their families.
Mrs. Mooney visited the home Of
Mrs. Charles N. Beum. She went
at Mr.. Beum's request to take mes
sage of consolation to his wife. The
word that prospects Of obtaining the
freedom of their husbands, for the
time being at least, through the rails
ing Of the required bail, brought the
first ray Of hope to them.
Brought Word from Beum.
Mrs. Mooney had parted from her
husband in Indianapolis only a short
time before, when the federal officials
came to take Mr.. Mooney, Mr.. Beum
and the other convicted iron workers
| to the Fort Leavenworth prison.. Mr..
Beum had shaken Mrs. MONEYS hand
! at parting and had asked her to step
off in Minneapolis and go out to see
Mrs. Beum and tell her to keep up
| a stout heart. The two women
mingled their tears when they met,
for although they had not known
each other before, theirs was a mutu-
al utilization. Mrs. Mooney went first
to the larger house at 1855 Pleasan,
avenue S, where Charles N. Beum
lived when. he was here and where
he transacted much Of the business
of the office Of secretary Of the
| Building Trades council. But the
Beums do not live there now, but in
a smaller: house near by on Forty
was so familiar a place in Official
labor circles is vacant now, with un-
trodden snow on it's veranda and
blank, staring windows.
Hard to Part.
! MY husband is innocent" Mrs
Mooney said. 1T was pretty hard tt
part. I am not only his wife and the
mother Of his children, but I knew
all of his affairs and did much of hi!
work as secretary of the Duluth loca
of the International Union of Bridge
and Ironworkers and We were com
panions in every sense. have no
heard from him since We parted il
indianapolis, but will probably heal
soon: I suppose he is in the Leaven
worth prison now. I understood Their,
will be no restrictions on correspond
ence, and of course I am writing t.
him. There were 18 other women
wives or mothers Of the men on tria
that were in the courtroom at Indian
apolis during the last three weeks o
the trial. I was there every day.
my husband was brave about go
ing away, a good deal Drawer thai
I was, guess. I said to him: Fred
there are good many friends tina
have stood by you all. through this
and if there is anything that yo1
want to say to them say it to m
now +: -
He said to me, I am innocent
He took my hand and said: If
were possible for me right now t.
get free and have all this troubl
over with, and go back home will
you and see the children, and if
could get it all over by saying I an
guilty, could not do it.. I woul,
have to go right straight to prison
| first. for I am innocent"