The labor standard., 1919-05-15
SOWED THE WIND
 REAPED A WHIRLWIND
Million Dollar Flaw and Order Committee" of San Francisco Meets Failure in Attempt to Destroy Organized Labor

SAN FRANCIsCo-The publicit, department of the Internationa Workers Defense League has sent the following communication to al labor papers in the United States This league has solicited and expend. ed thousands of dollars to prove that the Mooney case is a frame-up and that Thomas J. Mooney, personally and his colleagues collectively, had nc hand in the preparedness parade bomt explosion that occurred in San Fran cisco on July 22, 1916.
 Million Dollar Claw and Order
 Committee"
 Little did the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce suspect that the desperate efforts of their million dollar "Law and Order Committee" organized in 1916 to destroy the Labor movement of San Francisco, would result in cementing the solid arity of Labor's forces far beyond the boundaries of California, even of the United States, aye, to the ends of the earth.
 Now a World Issue
 The "frame-up" on Mooney and his co-defendants has become a world is sue, and the insistent demands for justice has become a rallying point around which surges the flowing tide of Labor's growing voice. Not alone in the great industrial centers of the world, but on the very frontiers of ningles with other races, "The Mooney Case" stalks like an ominous Frankenstein threatening. to destroy belief ins the courts, those solemn in stitutions which the overlords of society have chosen to surround with a halo of semi-sacredness, in order that the masses of men may not scru- tinize their inner workings too closely.
 Times move and we move with them!
 Thinking Americans Will Act Americans, that is, those Ameri- cans who think and feel like human beings, who are not satisfied merely to browse like cattle on straws from the capitalist thrashing machine, find themselves to adopt their own means to establish justice where courts have declared themselves bankrupt.
 The trial court presided over by Judge Franklin A. Griffin, the only court that heard the evidence, has declared that the court was imposed upon by fraud and perjury and there fore the Mooney verdict should not stand. The Appellate Court, the Supreme Court of California, and the Supreme Court of the United States do not deny that there may have been fraud or perjury used, but it is their contention that as long as none of the sacred rules of the law books were violated relief could only be afforded by the exercise of the royal prerogative of a pardon.
 An Act of Stupidity and Injustice
 The Governor of California com muted death sentence to life imprison- ment, a crowning act of stupidity and injustice.
 Little did the corporate interests of California realize that Mooney in his living tomb speaks now with thousand voices where he had but one before.
 Little did they realize that Labor the establishment of legal precedents, which if allowed to remain, will make unsafe the life and liberty of any champion of Labor's cause, as long as interruptions men with money enough to hire perjurers can get away with a frame-up.
 Labor's political power is at present. undeveloped, until Labor learns to develop a powerful press of it's own that condition will remain.
 Big Dailies vs. Labor Papers
 While Labor papers may educate one man to use his ballot intelligently, the millionaire owned big dailies will miseducate ten.
 But Labors' economic power is absolutely unquestionable. It is in the hands of Labor iself. If organized on definite clearcut lines, voicing as in a trade movement for hours, wages or shop conditions the opinion of the rank and file, co-ordinating their activities through the instrumentality of central and national bodies, there can be no doubt of it's efficacy.
 Conference in Chicago
 It is to secure the expression of Labor on how to best combat the new peril that confronts Labor through the judicial approval or indulgence in the Mooney frame-up that confer ence has been called for January, IA, 1919, iii Chicago.
 The "Call' has, gone forth to Local Unions, Central Labor Councils, State Federations, and Internationals. No Labor man with his ears to, the ground, listening to the approach of coming events, can afford to ignore the most democratic movement ever conceived in the history of America. He should insist upon having his own voice heard, through instructed dele gates if need be-, thus picking up the gauntlet of big business and f1inging it back in their teeth.