The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-04-28
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SHOULD INVESTIGATE.
Conviction Of Thomas Mooney
and Disclose the Real
Conspirators.
BY DANTE BARTON.

NEW YORK. April 2G.-Never did
an unfair prosecution of labor leaders
get a quicker exposure than in the
collapse of the frameup against Tom
Mooney and his fellow victims in San
Francisco. Never did a. terribly
wrongful conviction get swifter con-
domination. The proof of perjury to
convict Mooney has been made public
to add to all the other known mis-
deeds that were done in determina-
ton of the enemies of labor to lynch
him-to lynch him in the name Of
the law.
And set remember that Tom
Mooney is still in the shadow of the
gallows! Remember that the same
interests that tried to send him to
death have not yet loosed their hold.
The conspiracy to get him" and
to put. him out Of the way for good
has collapsed so far. as proof of it
and public knowledge of it is con-
cerned. But the San Francisco COM
bination to crush labor does not care
for proof, in the newspapers any more
than in the courts, if only it can get
it's victims. Those prosecuting Off
Gals and moneyed interests that are
in that combination will frame up
any new story that they need, or
coerce and bully any witnesses who
obstruct their purposes. Can they
still do this and get away with it ?"
Are they strong enough to do, in the
light of publicity, what they were
doing when they were able to sup
press the facts?
Was Offered Bride.
The man, r. E. Regal, has told of
the perjury by which the false case
against Mooney was framed. He has
shown the letters tempting him also
to commit perjury to bolster up the
prosecutions case. Police officers
and others have told the public how
they were prevented from Investigate
ing and finding ont the real facts in
the bomb explosion of Preparedness
Day." MONEYS innocence and that
of his fellow labor leaders have been
unansWerably esta blished in fact
But what about the legal processes
that have already been SO perverted
and misused?
The men who used the law to kill
Tom Mooney should be prosecuted, as
doubtless they will be. Labor (not
only on the Pacific coast but through
out the nation) is aroused to prove
that now and henceforth it shall be a
dangerous thing to try to "discredit
the labor movement" by trumped-up,
false prosecutions Of labor leaders.
The, labor mass meetings for
Mooney in Chicago and New York
and other cities have sounded the
right note in demanding United
States government investigation into
this whole bomb affair and into tie
conspiracy against the labor men.
The federal government can lawfully
do this, since it was charged by the
prosecutors of Mooney that the bomb
explosion was only part of a general
conspiracy to kill the CHIEF officers
of the nation and state.
Now let impartial investigation dis
close the real conspirators and the
conspiracy! Let labor get this whole
business Exposed to the sun and the
air." so that, not only the innocent
men now facing the gallows shall be
set free, but the habit which vindic-
tive employers have of dragnetting
la Dor leaders into false prosecutions
and false convictions shall be stopped
definitely and for all time.