The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-11-30
CAPITOL UNEASY
OVER MOONEY
Worried Over Possible Action Of
Labor # Mooney Isn't
Granted New Trial.

tional capital shivers every morning
when it reads it's newspapers. It
sh1vers again in the afternoon, when
the evening editions appear. It's
fright is due to that move of social
threats of labor troubles at home
Everybody points an accusing finger,
at every one less reactionary than
himself and yells "Bolshevik!"
This sudden upthrust of the Mooney
case through the floor of polite So
ciety has just set them off again. The
reelection of Stevens as governor of
California was generally received
here as guaranty that Tom Mooney
would be hanged, and Labor would
learn something Now come the
central labor councils in Seattle and
Norfolk and New York city and a
lot of places in between, talking of
general strike if Stevens does not
give Mooney a new and fair trial. And
Samuel Gompers, yesterday lauded in
every respectable reactionary editorial
column from coast to coast, joins the
deep chorus of declaration that
Mooney shall not hang" It is quite
too much for our upper-class press.
They are going to call Gompers a
Bolshevik too!
Labor Takes Action.
1t isn't Moneys life that worries
them now; it is the fact that the
American labor movement has
reached the point where it takes ac-
ton in its own right, to prevent gross
injustice by the courts. These re-
dictionaries see that when the times
are bit less flush-when the re-
/ turned soldiers and.the returned war
workers have filled all of the best
are impatiently waiting for good jobs
such as were handed out to the first
comers-the vast, irresistible power
of the labor movement may be used to
speed up the action Of congress- That
was done some years before the, war
by the British coal miners, and our
own railroad brotherhoods came near
using the same method in the matter
of their eight-hour day.
Don't Sleep We'll.
So our investment bankers and their
lawyers and diplomats and writer's
don't sleep well these nights. They
are passing around town this story
| which adds to their thrills:
A wounded soldier, weak but de-
termined to start again to earn a
livelihood for his family, applied for
a job at the factory he had left to
go to France. The boss tried to tell
him he was not needed. The soldier
looked the boss in the eye and told
: him that he had better give him a job
right away. He said he had ''gone
through hell'' in the war, for his own
country, and he was not forgetting
that the country was his; he was en-
| titled to job.
The boss became uneasy, and told
| him he would fix it up; there was a
watchman job that could be turned
over to him.
| There was dangerous CLINT in the
eye of the soldier after he heard that
| offer. He began to tell the boss what
he thought of it. and without mincing
words Then he told the boss that
unless he gave him at once a better
Job than the one he left when he
! marched out to var, every one IN that
factory and every one in the COM
munity would hear the story without
delay.
The boss, very much frightened
! gave him the better job, and inlplored
him to keep still. The incident was
reported to the war department, and
caused certain old gentlemen in high
positions there to eXolaim something
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