The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-02


don to San Francisco by the Golden
Gate, some the protests of the world
against the Infamous Fickert-Swan
son-Koster FRAME-UP gang, which
rushed five innocent workers to the
foot of the gallows because of
their loyalty to labor.
These protests come, not from the
workers alone, but from the most in
telligent men of every grade of life.
From George Bernard Shaw, the
great Irish satirist, to Father Tim
Dempsey, the papular Irish pastor
of St. Louis; from Mayor Curley of
Boston to Dr. McNutt of the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
come protests of equal sincerity and
disgust at the murdeous tactics used
by the Fickert thugs to disrupt the
trades union movement of San Fran
cisco.
The protests which follow speak
for themselves:
Frank p. Walsh chairman of the
Industrial Relations Committee and
Vice President of the American AL
lance for Labor and Democracy
81 have been overwhelmed with the
thought that such 4 travesty upon
justice could take place within the
borders of our naticn. Unless the
real heart of America is aroused,
Tom Mooney will be foully murdered
on the sharp edge of legal technical
ity. Was it not MONEYS fellow
countryman who left as a part of
the splendid heritage of his noble life
this thought:
There never was legal wrong
but led to the laws Disaster
The master shall drop the whip and
the slave shall enslave the mas
ter
Lovers of liberty everywhere must
demand a new trial for Mooney and
his immediate release on bond If
San Francisco does not willingly
right the monstrous wrong, let proud
America erase the fifty smear from
the bright escutcheon of jurispru-
dence. Free the victims of the
San Francisco Chamber of Com
SCORING FOR PRESS
William Marion Reedy distinguish
st. Louis editor and publicist): "The
charges of frame-up are so positive
and sweeping that one feels that
justice will miscarry if these men
are not given new trials. The great
body of damning charges made by
the labor people should be thorough
ly sifted The ignoring of the mat
ter by 1.-The daily press-'the palla-
dium of our liberties to JUS
tify the designation hurled at it by
labor-'the capitalistic press"
Hon. w. Bourke Cochran famous
Irish leader and noted attorney:
"After having read the transcript of
the Billings case I became thorough
ly convinced of the absolute inno-
cence of all the accused. | have
reached the deliberate conclusion that
the appalling judicial crime commit
ted against Mooney will never be
allowed to reach the consummation
which induced its perpetrators to
plan it. | am convinced that the
justice which appears to have fled
from the California courts will be
found to have taken refuge in the
bosoms of the men and women who
the masses of our popua-
tion, and their decision will be en-
forced against the officials who have
forsworn their oats to satisfy the
malice and cupidity of corporation
BELIEVES MEN INNOCENT
Daniel Murphy president of the
California State Federation of La
Dor): 81 believe as strongly as
any man can believe that Nolan and
MS co-defendants are as innocent as
thev possibly can be. The prose-
,uting officials of San Francisco
nave deliberately attempted to get
for their own aggran-
lizement. They have said, in effect,
hat if these men were not guilty,
hey should be hung, anyhow"
Robert f. Ford (editor of the Irish
World): "The life of organized la
DOR is imperiled as much as the life
of Tom Mooney. If he goes to the
3caffold, the first skirmish will be
won by the great interests in their
war to dominate our government and
destroy the liberties of the American
people. They must be defeated in
The first battle, Tom Mooney must
not be made the victim of Oxman's