New-York tribune., 1919-01-15
/. ". W.'s Put
Out of Mooney
Aid NJ eti1l g 6,
Labor Conference Votes 10
Unseat All Uultra-Radicals Is
From Gathering at Chicago
Cochran Flays the Courts
Says California Case Is Boil
shevik Propaganda and Is
Handicap to the President
Staff Correspondence

StcG Correspondence
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-Ultra radicals,
who hope to use the Mooney labor con-
terence as the means of starting a ma
tlon-wide Bolshevik movement and an
independent Western Federation of
Labor, received setback this after
noon when E. D. Nolan, secretary of
the Mooney Defence Committee. who
was presiding, ruled that delegates
from Socialist, l. W. W. and other
radical bodies would not be seated
This ruling was sustained by a viva
voce vote after bitter debate, which
at times threatened to end in a free
Tor-all light. The radicals failed to OBJ
tain a rolcall or division of the house,
and in consequence are now charging
that they were "steam- -rollered."
Tomorrow, they say, they will renew
the fight when the rules committee re-
ports, and predict different result.
The fight between the ultra radicals
and those who purpose to limit the
meeting to consideration of MONEYS
case lasted all day, with an hours in
termisson while w. Bourko Cochran,
of New York, talked In this talk Mr..
Cochran pleased both sides by criticism
of courts in general and those Of Cali
fornia in particular and won radical
applause when he declared he was not
afraid of Bolshevism.
Can Be Stayed ~ Justice
81 do not quite know what Bolshe.-
ism is" saiG he Ii it be what the
word literally significs-a movement
of the majority-I am not afraid Of it,
! have never known the masses to be
swayed by anything but love Of JUS
tice"
President Wilson's declaration that
Bolshevism in Europe can be stayed by
food, but not by force, Mr.. Cochran
said, did not quite cover the case
"Bolshevism." said he, "can only be
stayed by justice"
The Mooney case, he said, was the
most powerful Bolshevik propaganda,
Because Of it, he said, the United States
had ceased to be venerated by op-
pressed peoples abroad, who, throwing
off the shackles of autocracy, did not
past, but to new experiments in gov
eminent. This, he asserted, was due to
alleged failure of the courts to have
the same law for rich and poor
The convention was late in opening
this morning, owing to Nolan and other
leaders having spent most of the night
trying to work out plan by which all
extraneous matters may be kept out.
"We have" said he on reaching the
hoi1 H<loto ,oI t1o+ ,l,o
would use the Mooney case as a
clothes line on which to hang all the
radical linen be shown that they must
find some other clothes line"
John Fitzpatrick, pres ident of the
Chicago Federation of Labor. drove
this thought home in calling the dele
gates to order. Slated to be perman-
ent chairman. he declined to be even
temporary chairman and consented
only to welcome the visitors
Can Advance Labor Movement
"This meeting" said he, "can shove
the labor movement miles ahead. 1t
can shove the labor movement back
many years. 1t can do Mooney lot
Of good. 1t can work him the greatest
injury"
The first storm broke when Fitzpat-
rick introduced Nolan as chairman. A
delegate from Seattle led the fight, de-
claring "we have not come here to be
told what to do We're here to do
things
Fitzpatrick resumed the gavel long
enough to pound the objectors down
and permit Nolan to explain the tonta-
tive programme of the meeting. This
involves, he explained, the fixing of a
definite date on which, as a last resort,
general strike may be had to force
Moneys release. This, in effect, calls