New-York tribune., 1918-11-25
Socialists Predict
Glass s Conflict if
Mooney Is Hanged
Ruling Class VIII Die m
Same Rope, Says Speaker
in Harlem
Gompers Is Ridiculed
German Red Flag Praised
Shooting of Kaiser and I.;.h.
Indemnity Asked
Gompers Is Ridiculed

The assertion that the local pol.,.
vik labor element is endeavoriny ;.
turn the present Mooney case agitatio,
to uses of its own received the at.s,
ton of speakers yesterday afternoon ..
Mooney protest meeting, held undsr
the auspices of the East Harlem Ap;t..
ton Committee Of the Socialist uar+v
at the New Star Casino, Park Avenna
and 107th Street.
At the entrance to the hall bn,o
huge sign: "Red Flag -Verboten-Hs,.
Won Hulen," while throughout tbs
meeting pleas for the life of Moonev
sentenced by California courts to bana
! December 13, were mingled with Do.
nunciations of the capitalist class and
hints of brewing revolution.
"If the ruling class in this country
is so stupid as to hang Tom Mooney.s
cried William Karlin, Socialist Assem-.
blyman, ION that same rope they will
| hang themselves"
go to it, o Masters" he added. "Ws
need new martyr blood. It's up to you
You start it. Well finish It,"
Blames Capital Class"
"The capitalist class has decreed thas
Mooney must be silenced," declared
George r. Kirkpatrick, one-time Social.
lst candidate for the Vice Presidancv
the United States. "Such man a.
Mooney, they say, talking 10 such audi.
ences as Mooney could get to-day. must
die before the soldiers come home"
Samuel Gompers, who is now en-
route to Washington, avowedly to lead
the fight for MONEYS life, was fre.
ouently referred to - always in the
most disparaging tone. "The Rip Van
Winkle of the labor movement" Mr..
Kirkpatrick called him. References to
the Russian Bolsheviki and John D.
Rockefeller, jr., also abounded, the for.
mer never failing to elicit thunderous
applause from the two thousand or
more Socialists in the hall.
Suppose John D. Rockefeller, jr,
had been convicted as Tom Mooney
has" demanded Mr.. kirkpatrick. upon
the testimony of admitted plug-uglies
and perjurers, would the Supreme
/ Court spit in his face?"
NO" roared the audience. And the
audience likewise declared that the
Supreme Court would not spit in the
face of the son Of Theodore Roosevelt
or j. P. Morgan, or in the face Of ar
editor Of any one of number Of New
York daily newspapers, were any OF
them In similar plight.
Praise for Red Flag
But because it's Tom Mooney, labor
leader" shouted the speaker, "they
say, Run the knife in deep, spill his
blood, overawe and cow labor. Butcher
him and the Gompers crowd will lie
down. Butcher him and labor speakers
will tone down their talks That's
what they say"
Simultaneous praise mounted high
for the achievements of the red flag
in Germany, Austria and Russia Au-
tocracy to-day was declared by one
speaker, Henry Fruchter to be at its
crest right here in America. A pos.
sible split between British and Amen.
can financiers was mentioned as tht
menace of tomorrow. The retention
of American soldiers abroad ito keel
down the new order" was denounced
and a collection was taken up 70 hell
hundred and twelve dollars and eighty
hundred and twelv edollars and eighty
eight cents was collected for this pur
pose.
Finally, after the shooting of the
Kaiser by American troops and absten-
ton from the levy of heavy indemni-
ties upon Germany had been advo-
Gated, a strong plea was sounded Ia
make to-night's Socialist meeting at
Madison Square Garden the greatest
Mooney protest assemblage ever cob.