Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-23
&C. or TREASURY AND R. R. DIRECTOR CEN. RESIGNS
Revelations of CrOOkedneSs in
 Frisco Courts
Attempts Were Made to Manufacture Evidence
 Against Mrs. Mooney.

S seattle, Wash. Nov. 22.--James Duncan, secretary Of the Seattle Gen. tral labor council. stated today he had Written Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor.
 asking him to take charge of the un- lon movement toward nation wide strike as a protest against the eXecu-
 tlon of Thomas J. Mooney, convicted /! Of murder
 ! Oakland, Calif. Nov. 22.-Resolu-
 tlons passed by the Central Labor council of Alameda county directing
 the unions under it's jurisdiction to
 take strike vote in protest against 1 the conviction of Thomas J. Mooney, 1 We're telegraphed and cabled last night ! to labor organizations throughout the : united States, Canada. England and
 Australia.
 { The council asked that these or
 ganizations take like action and tha, Monday, December 2 be set as the 1 tentative strike date.
 i San Francisco Cal, Nov. 22.-Rev- | the prosecution of many cases, crin,-
 inay and civil. in San Francisco courts including charge that attempts were made to manufacture evidence against Mrs. Thomas J. Mooney, were contain ed in a report made public here to- day.
 The report as printed here bore the signature of John B. Densmore, dir ector of employment and was ad- dressed to William B. Wilson, secre- i tary of labor at Washington. Mr. Densmore would not deny he made the report but intimated it must come through official sources at Washing ton. Densmore was sent to San Fran cisco some time ago by Secretary Will son to investigate certain government tai affairs.
 Long stenographic reports of alle- ged conversations, obtained by dicta phones. dealt with alleged acts tend ing to involve former justice of the California circuit court, a member of the public prosecutors office and persons who have figured ill cases of national interest. In one instance there is mentioned payment of $410,- 900.
 Mrs. Mooney, the object of the al- legged attempt to manufacture evil dence is the wife of Thomas J. Mooney awaiting sentence of death for murder in connection with the preparedness day bomb explosion here July 22nd, 1916. She was indicted on ten counts of murder She was acquitted by one court. counts were dismissed and she now is on bail awaiting disposition of the other charges.
 More than forty columns of news paper space were filled by the report Many columns of stenographic reports of telephone conservations were re- corded Details of alleged meetings between an official and certain nOtOr- ious characters were given. A sum- mary of facts" was appended to the report, alleging conditions existed that i justified the federal government in taking action to assure to the bomb explosion defendants their rights" Mention was made in the report of
 instructions to make secret" and
 altogether formal inquiry. into the ! Mooney case and the summary of
 facts" given all bore on the alleged
 unfairness of the bomb case trials.
 Densmore's presence in San Francisco for some time generally was known to
 be in connection with departmental
 affairs, including certain immigration
 cases. The report referred to six months of investigation. All the alieg-
 ed irregular incidents recited were
 brought to bear upon the main con-
 clusions as to the writers findings Ill
 the bomb cases.
 Evidence adduced at the bomb trials
 was analysed and the alleged tant on
 the testimony set out Four or these
 bomb cases have been tried. Tn the
 first Billings was sentenced to lle lm-
 prisOnment In the second Mooney
 was sentenced to be hanged. In the
 third and fourth Weinberg and Mrs
 Mooney were acquitted, Four of the
 ten counts against three defendants were dismissed. Mrs. Mooney, Nolan and Weinberg were released on pail.
 Two appeals for new trial were
 made for Mooney by the trial judge.
 President Wilson sent messages to Governor w. D. Stephens which never were made public. Many labor organ
 izations took up the fight to get
 Mooney a new trial. World wide ln- terest finally was shown in the case.
 Summarizing the published today,
 the report said: Practically the whole
 case against Mooney, Billings ana Mrs. Mooney was made to order.
 The conclusions the reports states'
 was reached through direct evidence
 that seemed sufficient and also oy tne alleged facts sadduced in the lnvesu-
 gation tending to show corruptlon. The report alleges that certain tn'nss
 "render it incredible that he (uam- ing an officiaD should either be im-
 martial or honest in the conduct ot 2
 case of this nature; that he is and has