The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-06
MOONEY STRIKE IS
OFF FOR PRESENT
Workers Defence League Has
Plan for Worldwide
Demonstration.
MEETINGS HERE QUIET
Police Present in Force, but
Have Nothing to Do
But Listen.

TIE proposed national strike as a
| protest against the action OF the Gov
srnor Of California in committing
Thomas J. Moneys sentence to life
/ imprisonment instead Of granting "A
new trial has been postponed for the
present at least. AS q matter of law
/ no Governor Of a state can grant a
| new trial. and the only means by
which Gov. Stephens, could have
{ placed the Mooncy case back in court
: WAS 10 grant a pardon and have
! Mooney tried on one Of the other
( parallel indictments.
The strike was planned for Deem
Der 9, at a time when Mooney was fac
ing death by hanging on December 10.
In announcing the postponement last
night managers of the International
Workers Defence League said the rea-
son was that they now had time to
organize the walkout demonstration
on "a colossal scale" ana would form
branches OF the league all over the
world. They said preparations would
be completed at a national labor con-
gress to be held in Chicago on Janu
airy 4.
Meanwhile the American Federation
OF Labor has not publicly indicated
any warm sympathy with the project
A labor parade in behalf OF Mooney
that was TO have been held in New
York Saturday was called of yester-
day on the ground that this is no
/ time for parades."
I Continued Effort Urged.
! 4 Mooney meeting in Cooper Union
, last night. with Frank p. Walsh, re-
Gently cochairlnan with William H.
Taft OF the War Labor Board, az the
principal speaker. was held under the
auspices of the Central Federated
Union. Not word was said about a
strike Resolutions were adopted urg-
ing organized labor to continue its ac-
tivities for Mooney and Warren X.
Billings. who received life sentence,
and calling upon the Federal authori-
ties TO act Immediately.
Very different from last weeks So
cialist rumpus in and about Madison
Square Garden were this meeting and
& one in Beethoven Hall in East Fifth
street. where the Cooper Union over
flow gathered Not a red flag was
seen, not a soldier or sailor was visible
anywhere, not n speaker was inter-
rupted. Nobody was denounced eX-
cept Charles NJ. Ficaert, tho San Fran
cisco D.str:c. Attorney. his detectives
and the anti-un!on forces Of the Cali
fornia city. The zoo policemen out
side cooper Union and those stationed
twenty feet apart at the back of tho
hal! had nothing 10 do hut listen.
Would Clean Up San Francisco.
IN respect OF District Attorney Flick
ert Mr.. Walsh went little further
than some OF the other Mooney advo-
Gates. At the end Of "A review of Flick
"rts alleged record he said: The
Government of the United States
ought 10 step in now and find the real
sCoandrel. We should start to-day not
only to make Mooney a free man but
to clean up the Nth left In the halls OF
Justice OF San Francisco"
John sullivan, formerly chairman OF
the Contra federated Union. presided
He sa!d: II guilty Mooney will he
punished. Organized labor socks no
immunit!' hut ordinary Justice"
More than So GOO has already been
spent IN the ii - for Mooney accord
ing to W. ID. PATTERSON. New York
representative OF the defence organi-
zation.
BY auctioning eight copies OF a San
Francisco newspaper the front page Of
which was headed "Fickert Trapped
by L. s. .Dictaphone," and by soliciting
contributions Patterson raised $3.50 IS
for the fund.
Frank +. Walsh, who investigated
the whole Mooney business when he