The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-16

be one. Shortly after the combined
corporation sleuths of San Francisco
set out to FRAME Mooney, Swanson
came to Weinberg and offered him
$4,000 to participate in the FRAME
UP. Weinberg refused to consider
the offer, and when it was repeated
a second time he again refused.
Swanson then sneered at Weinberg,
'T'll get you yet" and after Vein
berg was arrested Swanson laughed
at his victim and told him, 81 told
you, Weinberg, that I'd get you
and / did," Now Weinberg goes
to trial because he has been straight
and loyal to Labor. Incorruptible
and sincere, Weinberg stands out in
striking contrast to his prosecutors.
He overtowers them as the mighty
oak of the forest stands above the
prowling beasts of the night.
epson SALTS" PROSECUTION
NEXT
We thought that the Rena Mooney
trial killed the EPSON salts theory
on which Ed D. Nolan was indicted.
Whether it did or not, Ed Nolan
goes to trial on November 9th.
When he was indicted, it was on the
'personal request" of District At
torney Fickert. Then the news was
given to the public that quantity
of EPSON salts was found in the
basement of his house and that he
constructed "the bomb" out of this.
In the hysteria Of the moment,
when the Chamber of Commerce was
bowling at the top of its voice,
Lynch them, lynch them," the un-
thinking public took Fickert's word
for it and thought that salts was
in reality the material out of which
"the bomb" was constructed.
After a while the absurdity of the
deduction seeped into the dour intelli-
gence of Captain Of Detectives Dun
can Matheson and he joined in the
popular clamor that Nolan be re-
leased on bonds. Nolan was easily
released on $3.50 bonds on each count.
But Fickert and Swanson was re-
luctant to altogether free their VIC
tim and they both boasted to an
ex-official of the Defense League
that "Nolan was the man they want
ed to get" The previous three
trials have not developed a single
word of testimony which could in
criminate him, except that they made
a laughable effort during the Rena
Mooney trial to prove that EPSON
salts was in reality an explosive.
They produced kid "EXPLOSIVE
EXPERT" and he faithfully testi-
fled to the deafness of the salts.
The defense put on real explosive
expert of over twenty years expert
ence, who had already been put on
the stand by the prosecution, and he
laughed the salts theory to death.
A few days later millionaire club
man offered to prove that the salts
was stored by his wife's nurse in
Nolan's house and that killed the
case against the machinist.
Now they announce with flourish
of trumpets that they're going to
hang Nolan, and the prosecutor is
announced as being none other than
Lynch Law" Ed Cunha, who told
John A. Fitch of the New York
Survey that "The whole gang should
be lynched" and that che wouldn't
lift his finger to get new trial for
Mooney even if he know that every
state witness had perjured himself"
The selection of Cunha as prosecutor
seems to indicate that Nolan's life
will be demanded solely because of
his activity in the Labor movement
of the Pacific Coast, and that evil
dence will be neglected in the case
to the inclusion of all the class
prejudice that Cunha can conjure
up and shout to the jury.
1t will be interesting to watch
developments.
The Oakland World has just pub
lished a stenographic report of a
lecture on the whole FRAME-UP de-
Iivered in New York by Nolan. 1t
is the most comprehensive exposition
of the subject turned out yet and
may be had post free for two
cents and half per copy.
POLICE DEPARTMENT WATCH
ING PROSECUTION
The universal distrust of the
FRAME-UP gang has extended to
the heads of the San Francisco po-
lice department Detective Sergeant
Tom Furman has been watching the
progress of the Weinberg case since
it started Prosecutor Ferrari and
his chief, Fickert, got extremely net
| tied the other day. They went to
Chief of Police Whites office in a