The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-11

back in her music studio with her devoted little pupils. Rena Mooney
 walking the streets of San Fran cisco despite the perjury gang. the
 Oxmans, the Rosters and all their | gunmen.
 Oh, what glorious victory. | But
 The acquittal of Rena Mooney
 wasn't an acquittal after all. She
 was hurried back to her cell and as soon as Fickert recovered his breath, he called the reporters to- l gether and told them that the ac- | quital meant nothing to him. "Il hang her yet" he told them. There are seven more indictmenst and can try her again and again. Is there enything more Illustrative of the frame-up? "They should be strung up without ceremony the | enraged Cunnha shouted a few weeks ago. 'I wouldn't lift a fin ger to save Mooney, even if knew that every one of my witnesses com mitted perjury"
 The Chamber of Perjury held a l mass meeting a few days after the boys and Rena Mooney were arrest ed and sought to fan the indigna tion of the people into a iynching. 1 The bought press roared their ap- proyal and spurred on the mob spirit. but the quiet determination of the fearless unionists of San Francisco defeated the scheme and 1 gradually the people decided that the mere arresting of ehe unionists did not indicate their guilt.
 But again and again the mob spirit has raised it's head, not among the mass of the people, but in the office of Charles Marion Fickert. the abject tool of the corporation beasts of California.
 F'ickert now announces that he'll ge. a jury of women to try Rena Mooney the next time They'll not be so squeamish about hanging her, he thinks.
 Perhaps that's why Fickert's wife mother and their bunch of cronies made a vaudeville show out of teh trial last week.
 The prosecutors mother and wife sat immediately behind Rena Mooney, laughing at the plight of Rena Mooney's sister and the aged mother of Tom Mooney. Their gigg- ling glances met the eyes of Mrs. Hammerberg every time she looked down the court room. The suffering of Rena Mooney was matinee for them.
 Such a jury would indeed hang Rena Mooney. Not 'alone would they retrun a hanging verdict. but they would be perfectly willing to carry out the sentence with dagger. gun or rope.
 It must have been women such as these that Fickert had in mind, when he told the newspapers that he'd hang Rena Mooney the next time with a jury of women.
 The notable feature of the trial was the cross examining of the diff ferent members of the perjury ring by Attorney Ed. Mckenzie, mem Der of Local No. 6 of the Electrical Workers Union.
 His aggresSiveneSS and determin- ation to get at the truth angered the prosecution so much that Judge Seawell repeatedly fined him. When Sadie Edeau was breaking down on the witness stand under McKenzie's fiery cross Seawell saved the situation by declaring recess of court A few days later Mckenzie told Seawell in open court that he wasn't giving Rena Mooney fair trial The remark cost Me Kenzie $50.
 After the victory, Mckenzie gave the following interview to "Orga- nized Labor:
 The simple truth triumphed over perjury, corruption, bias and intol- erance. The acquittal of Mrs. Noon ey morally is a conviction of Wit ness Oxman and Prosecutor Fickert. The trial of Mrs. Mooney has been the most disgraceful trial ever had in an American court room. There was no evidence, nothing but cor ruption and prejudice. Had she been convicted under such circum- stances the consequences to the Am erican people would have been far