The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-03
RESOLUTION ADOPTED By THE
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF IA.
Dor IN MASS MEETING At THE
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, ILL.,, ON
MARCH rs, 1917, WITH $4,000
PEOPLE At THIS DEMoNSTRA- :.
TON.

Whereas, on the END day Of July.
last, in the city Of San Francisco, an
explosion at the corner of Steuart and
Market streets, while preparedness
| the killing of some eight or ten per-
sons, and grievously injuring many
others, and
Whereas at the trial recently con-
cluded of Thomas Mooney, indicted
with others for having deliberately
and wickedly caused such explosion.
! 1t was charged by the district attor-
hey that this heinous crime was the
result of a widespread conspiracy ex-
tending over the United States, having
| for it's object the overthrow, de-
struction and subversion of our en-
tire political system by discouraging,
obstructing or defeating all measures
that might be undertaken by the ma
tional government, to place the coun
try in a condition to meet effectively
aggressions by foreign nations, or to
prevent injury from domestic VOL
ence, and by assassinating President
Wilson, Governor Johnson of Califor-
mia and other high officials, state and
federal:
/ Whereas, said Mooney. was convict
ed although no evidence whatever of
such conspiracy was adduced against
! him, as appears by the official record
OF. his trial, and
Whereas, such conspiracy, if it ex
lists, must be a source of grave peril to
our national security, and
Whereas, the conviction of Mooney,
on it's face, is solemn judgment that
such conspiracy actually exists while
at the same time the failure to offer
the slightest proof of it leaves it's exis
tence matter of legitimate doubt, and
Whereas, in these troublesome times
it is manifestly the first duty of the
! federal government to ascertain be-
yond all doubt whether our security
as a nation is in fact menaced by a
wide spread conspiracy to prevent it
from utilizing all its resources of men
and money for the defense of our ter
litory or the maintenance of our right,
and
Whereas, it was testified under oath
in said trial that the whole prosecu-
ton of said Thomas Mooney was a
wicked conspiracy to destroy him and
TO discredit union labor of which he
was an active advocate, deliberately
planned by police agents of certain
corporations whose non union en-
ployes the said THOMAS Mooney had
attempted to organize for the protec-
ton of their industrial rights, and
Whereas, it was also testified under
oath on said trial that long prior to
OF the said corporations had offered
100000 for testimony. whether true
or false, which would implicate said
Mooney in other transactions, alleged
to have been unlawful, and
! Whereas, all this testimony was
wholly contradicted through the per-
sons by whom these offers had been
made and this conspiracy planned,
and who were actually present in
court during the trial, and
Whereas, the good name and credit
OF organized labor throughout the
country and the safety of the country
itself alike require that the whole
truth concerning this explosion be
made clear and beyond any question
to all the world and
Whereas, the federal government is
the only authority capable of prose-
cutting effectively nation wide in.
quiry which alone can determine final
ly and beyond question whether a con-
spiracy actually exists to subvert our
government and impede or defeat
measures which it may deem neces-
sary to our national security; there
! fore, be ii
| Resolved. that the federal govern
ment be and 1t Is hereby requested to
institute a thorough search and in
vestigaton of this explosion and a
fun inquiry into the causes that pro-
duced it, and be it further
Resolved. that If such an inquiry
be undertaken, organized labor will
aid 1t by every resource at its dis
posal, to the end either that confid-
ence will be fully restored in our cit
izenship by complete refutation of
the grievous aspersions cast upon il
by the conviction of oMoney; or else,
If the conspiracy charged by the dis
trict attorney of San Francisco be es-
tablished, that effective measures may
be taken by the government to defeat
its nefarious purposes, and at the
same time organized labor may be af-
forded an opportunity to disassociate
itself from criminals who will have
been proved to be not merely unfit for
its membership, but to have richly de-
served the heaviest penalties that the
law can visit upon perpetrators Of a
crime wholly unparalleled and most
inconceivable in wickedness
Sincerely and respectfully yours.
r. X. MEYERS,
'Seap Secretary,
l.. F. BENNETT,
President.