The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-06

was chairman Of the United States
Committee on Industrial Relations.
was wildly greeted
The working people of the United
States" he said, have saved the life
OF Mooney. 1t was intended to hurl
him through trap and break his neck
a week from tomorrow because he
champloned the cause of the citizens
of San Francisco. The Preparedness
Day bomb murders in San Francisco
were n fiendish crime. but as a prac-
Using lawyer for thirty years as
stand before you tonight believe
Mooney was not guilty and that the
bomb never was in any suit case
placed on the street but was thrown
from the top of n building"
He asserted that "of all the black
and sinister acts that have been COM
mitted in this case the worst appears
in the prosecution of Mrs. Mooney"
Reverting to Mooney, he said:
1T is mp to the American people to
gee that this monstrous crime is
righted and this man is given his lib
erty." He insisted that conviction was
obtained on perjured testimony. He
said that If every New York paper
would publish the facts I'VE will meet
Mooney I'm this hall within thirty days"
He said that no effort had been made
TO frd out who really threw the bomb.
and summarized his opinion in this
way:
THE Mooney case is n sordid story
of blackmail, subornation of perjury
and assaults on human life at the very
foot OF the altar OF Justice"
Adoption of Resolutions.
The resolutions adopted follow:
Whereas the commitment of Thomas
j. Mooney to life imprisonment does
not meet the demand of labor; that
Mooney and Warren X. Billings be
granted new trials, It being our belief
that these men were convicted upon
perjured testimony used by a District
Attorney who acted as an agent for
the anti-labor forces of San Francisco,
and
Whereas the action OF President
Wilson in appointing a commission TO
investigate the case and of Judge
Griffin in advocating new trial
demonstrates that there Is doubt in
the minds of these prominent and pub
lie men as to the just and fair trial of
Tom Mooney, and
Whereas the recent report of J. Il
Densmore, DircCtor-General Of En-
ployment Of the Department of Labor
of the United States, exposes a condi-
ton Of affairs which have existed in
San Francisco many months past, and
which II allowed to continue will con-
stitute n serious menace to the entire
nation,
Therefore be II resolved by this
mass meeting of citizens of New York,
assembled at the call Of the Central
Federated Union. that we protest the
continued imprisonment of Thomas
Mooney and Warren X. Billings. and
urge the Federal authorities to act
Immediately in their behalf, and be Il
further
"ReSolrcd. That we urge the en-
tire organized labor movement Ia con-
TIME rs activities on bqhalS OF these
wronEed men TO the pnb that justice
will be indicated. and the good name
Of our country preserved from the
stain that the continued imprisonment
Of Warren X. Billings and Thomas
Mooney would entail
Good Nature Marks Meeting.
The overflow meeting in Beethoven
Hall, Just around the corner from
Cooper Union, was even more placid
and good naturcd II anything than
the main assemblage II was about
45G strong and might have beer
stronger but for a young man who
came busting around at 1880 TO tel!
the waiting boys" that the commit
tee" had called II of. Some nifty
who heard him went nome. Others
showed up. ana toward $ the doors
were opened.
No seats but plenty Of standing room
could I've had when Rose Schneider
man. Chairwoman. called the crowd to
order. She is president Of the Wom-
ems Trade Union League Of New York.
Not So mlcu as a rod noCktie was con-
spiouous IN tire hall. nor was any khaki
to he seen. Tho only thing red in the
plar" to he seen was a Bolshcvik |. w
w. periodica,, very down on GOmpnrs
and the Colonel ana quite "A few
others, which sold. or rather didn't. at
cents throw.
Tons of sugar for Europe burned.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 5.-Two million
pounds OF sugar destined for Europe
was destroyed to-day, when a big
warehouse OF the Franklin Sugar Re
filming Company, on the Delaware
River front was burned