The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-09

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to trial, and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be submitted to the var
ious labor councils on this coast for
their endorsement to be forwarded
I to the officials of the American
Federation of Labor.
The building Trades Council of
Alameda County and District Council
of Carpenters, as well as many other
unions, join in denouncing the Frame
UP which has become as clear as
daylight.
The following letter was written
to Mooney by the famous orator and
statesman, w. Bourke Cochran, who
defended him:
En- Route Overland Limited,
February II, 1917
THOMAS ]. MOONEY,
County Jail,
San Francisco, Calf.
My dear Mooney:
Refreshed by long sleep, and with
all of my intellectual faculties re-
stored to normal condition, / have
reached the deliberate conclusion that
the appalling Judicial Crime COM
mitted against you will never be
allowed to reach the consummation
which induced its perpetrators to
plan it.
| think it can be shown clearly to
all reasonable men that we are in
the presence of another Dreyfus
Case, the only difference being that
the object of the French perversion
of legal procedure to the perpetra-
tion of the very crimes which courts
are organized to prevent, was exclus-
ion (by force and threats of force)
of Jews from the Army; while the
object of your prosecution for a crime
repugnant to every element of your
nature, is to drive laborers from or
ganizing, by killing a man who has
had the temerity to urge some of his
fellows to form unions for their own
protection.
| If we can succeed in making this
clear to the public mind, l have no
doubt that the popular conscience of
America will prove itself as capable
and as loyal to overrule the plans of
the men who are conspiring to en-
compass the destruction of your life.
as the conscience of France showed
itself to defeat the men, who in ad-
Judging Dreyfus guilty of treason,
had succeeded in perverting to the
destruction of Liberty and Character
the very agencies organized to de-
fend them
Depressed as l was when met by
q sense of utter helplessness to avert
a calamity which threatens not mere
ly your life, but the whole fabric of
Civilization (for the whole purpose
of Civilization is protection of life,
which agencies of Civilization are
here conspiring to destroy), 1 prob
ably failed to appreciate the force of
your suggestion when it was made
yesterday.
But now l am convinced that the
justice which appears to haye fled
from the California courts, will be
found to have taken refuge in the
bosoms of the men and women who
constitute the masses of our popula-
tion, and their decision will be en-
forced against the officials who have
foresworn their oaths to satisfy the
malice and cupidity of corporation
employers.
So be of good cheer. Your convic-
tion may yet prove to be the source
OF such judicial reforms as will pre-
vent forever the repetition of the
conspiracy which has had you for its
object; but which has not vet sue
ceeded (and please God it never will
succeed) in making you its victim.
Pray give my cordial regards to
your companions in persecution, and
also to the splendid woman whose
devotion and self-renunciation have
given me new and higher regard for
our common humanity.
Yours faithfully.
/ (Signed) W. BOURKE COCHRAN
q don't know whether Mooney is
guilty or not. We convicted him on
his past record" This extraordinary
statempnt was rnadn h,r I,,,.,..,.....