The sun., 1918-07-29
MOONEY MUST NOT
KANGAROO DECLARE
Dudley Field Malone Stirs Pro-
test Meeting at Car
negic Hall.
CHARGES LEGAL FRAMEUP
"Anarchists Red Cross" Makes
Contribution to Fight for
New Trial.

Heat that reduced asphalt pavements
to the consistency Of putty and drove
all indicators of great enough wealth
to the seashore or the mountains for n
lungful Of fresh air, failed to stihe the
enthusiasm OF the 1000 or more labor
unionites who attended the national
Mooney day mass meeting in Carnegie
Hall yesterday afternoon.
After the meeting was well under way
there was much stripping Off of coats
and vests, welding Of fans and hopping
or brows, but there was little II any i'm
pairment In the crowds vocal energy.
There were five solid minutes OF cheer
Ing when Dudley Field Malone arose TO
deliver the principal address, and there
were more minutes OF cheering when Mr..
Malone declared that the "perjured pros
ecution and conviction OF Tom Mooney"
had provided Germany and its allies
with material to support their lying con-
tention that America does not really be-
lleve in democracy.
THE testimony said Mr.. Malone,
was proved to be perjured. The side
walk and the house at the scene OF
the explosion only slightly dented by
the bomb, were dug up with crowbar and
plckaxe under direction OF District At
torney Fickert in order later on to sup
port the District Attorneys contention
OF a dynamite explosion: and yet by
judicial intrigue outrageous technicality
and capitalistc corruption every consti-
tutional and legal right has been per-
verted and Mooney is in jail in the
shadow OF execution.
An Aid to German Propaganda.
THE denial Of speedy justice In this
case and similar perversions OF Justice
elsewhere are striking more CHASTITY
blows at the millions OF our men fighting
and dying in France than Germany with
all her power can inflict. They give
color to the contention of the lying Ger
man propaganda that our men are not
fighting for democracy abroad, since de-
moc-acy IL so notably denied American
citizens at home. But the millions OF men
in the trenches can fight on with supreme
confidence in the democratic purpose Of
the United States. for the working men
| and women Of this nation will never let
Tom Mooney hang"
The Mooney case. In Mr.. Malone's
| opinion, offered conclusive proof that
this country's judicial procedure needs
| to be "cleansed OF corrupt technicality
from top to bottom" Two things. how
ever. Mr.. Malone thought, gave hope OF
better conditions in the reconstruction
period after the war. One was the Rus
sian revolution and the other the eco
nomic. social and political programme
Of the British Labor party.
According to another speaker. Joseph
p. Barondess, a former member of the
Board of Education. private detectives
, were employed to follow the tales
| men from among whom the jurors were
selected in the Mooney case and to re-
! port upon their Willingness or unwilling
ness to find a verdict for the prosecution.
| Those talesmen concerning whose will
lingness to convict there was any doubt
were discharged from the panel, he
| added.
1.-THE District Attorney of New York
county" the speaker said. admitted 10
me that he saw the report of the detec-
tive agency and took note of the marks
| alongside each jurors name"
Talk of Frameup Cheered.
| There was another wild outburst from
the audience when the speaker intlmated
that the bomb explosion which led to the
conviction of Mooney might have been
part of frameup to put organized la
Dor in a bad light Such attempts had
been made before. he said. During the
| recent garment Ill tnlS CITY, ne
| added, a man came to his Office and pro-
posed to him that he plant bombs In six
OF the buildings housing garment MAX
| ing concerns.
! 1T went out and called in the police"
declared the speaker, but much to my
/ surprise they didn't arrest the man who
made the proposal"
Charles Nicholson of the International
Machinists Union. who acted as chair
man OF the meeting. declared that the
repriete granted by Gov. Stephens of
California, staying MONEYS execution
untilsDecember 10. was merely "a little
bone" thrown out for the unionltes to
nibble on. Organized labor. he said,
would not be satisfied with a reprieve.
but would continue to fight until Mooney
! was either pardoned or a new trial
! granted.
| Anarchist Red Cross Gives S2S.
Resolutions calling upon Gov. Stephens
to grant a new trial and thanking Pres
! ident Wilson for his interest in the case
were adopted and a collection was taken
up which Melted the Mooney cause
$726.67 Mr.. Malone started the dona-
| lions with contribution of $50. He
next emptied his pockets OF all the spare
change he had, retaining enough for his
carfare home and invited his audience
to do likewise. For some reason or
other the challenge was not accepted.
A contribution of S25 was made by a
hitherto unknown organization calling
| itself the Anarchists Red Cross OF New
York"
The meeting ended with the exhibition
Of moving picture film built around
the Mooney case and the reading OF a
telegram from Samuel Gompers. presi-
dent of the American Federation OF La
Dor, pledging the continued support OF
the federation in the fight to secure a
new trial for Mooney.
The meeting. arranged by the Central
Labor Union of New York city. was one
of 500 similar gatherings held in various
parts OF the country in the course of the
day. A committee OF eighty labor union