The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-07-06

asking Mcdonald to see if he can
do it with his sleeves rolled up.
Since the sensational downfall of
Oman, Mcdonald and Estele Smith
are the prosecutions main reliance.
And the defense attorneys were rude
enough to impeach both Mcdonald
and Mrs. Smith.
How Perjurers Are Pampered!
The attack was vigorous. To the
establishment of every one, Mcdonald
admitted that he had been boarded
and housed by the police practically
every day since the bomb exploded
eleven months ago today, at a prob
able cost of $500 or $4,000. To
Mcdonald was propounded a long list
of questions for purposes of i'm
parchment. Four men swear that
Mcdonald told them Of the enor-
nous shares of the $4,000 reward
that he expected to receive as soon
as his testimony sent the prisoners
to their DEATH The same four i'm
peaching witnesses swore that in the
first trial that Mcdonald told them
he would ego East on the cushions
as soon as the men were convicted
with plenty of change in his pocll-
cts" and one of them testified that
the witness said 6 seems like in
dream that l saw that fellow with
a suit case" 1t will be remember
ed that of the six persons who have
at various times testified to seeing
a man place a suit case at the crime
scene Mcdonald is the only one who
identified Billings as the man. All
the rest of them swore that it was
a tall dark foreigner.
Impossible Evidence!
Despite the lightning-liko rapidity
with which the State contends that
the defendants appeared in the three
widely separated localities, they must
have stopped many times to change
their clothes. For the States five
most vital witnesses invest the de-
PENDANTS with enough different cos
tunes to stock small department
store, Estelle Smith swears that
Billings wore a purple suit. Sadie
Edean says he had dark brown
suit. Mcdonald says dark brown
suit. Peter Vidovich says Gil
lings wore an extremely light
grey suit with black stripes.
Sadie Edeau says he had on a felt
fedora hat. Vidovich says cloth
hat, positively not fedora. Es-
telle Smith says Mrs. Mooney wore
cerise waist, very short jacket
and white hat. Mrs. Mooney ap-
pears in the alibi photograph in a
long coat and black hat
Peter Vidovich says that Billings
stood beside him and that he is pos
itively five feet nine or ten inches
tall when he saw him. Billings now
measures five feet four and half
inches.
Holland Labor Protests Against
''Frame-Up"
National Arbeids-Secretariat,
Amsterdam, 18th May, 1917.
To His EXcellency, the Ambassador
of the United States of America,
The Hague.
EXcellency-The undersigned, chair
man and secretary respectively of
the National Labour Organizations
of The Netherlands and of a num-
Der of declarations and unions repre-
scented in said organization, having
heard of the grossly unfair trials
during the past year at San Fran
cisco, which trials ended in the
contemplated judicial murder of
Brother Mooney and the certain
martyrdom in prison of Brother
Warren X. Billings, do protest with
all our soul against such villainous
perversions of American justice.
We hope for the honor of the
great American people, whose gov
eminent has just entered the world
war on behalf of democracy and
the rights of small nations, that
they will prevent the murder and
martyrdom of men, whose only
crime was that they were fighters
for the rights and freedom of the
workers of America.
In the names of thousands of or
ganized workingmen of The Neither
lands, the undersigned protest against
the trials, instituted in the name of
justice, against Brother Mooney, his
wife, w, X. Billings, Israel Vein
berg, Edward Nolan, and beg your
excellency to communicate this, our
protest to your government.
For the National Labor Organi-
zation of the Netherlands