The labor standard., 1919-05-15

holiday and more than A hours per week. With his reinstatement an agreement was secured that insures a Saturday half holiday and double time for work on Sundays and holidays. 'dynamiter,' and we were followed by detectives every place. I took some of them into good concerts, too. They they later arrested us.
 "World- Wide Search For the
 Mooneys''
 "A few days after the explosion Tom and l went on vacation, up in California. We went boating on the river, and he bought a home paper. Then Tom took plunge while I wait ed for him on the bank with that paper under my arm. When he came out and we started for The Willows to get something to eat. I opened the paper.
 "STom,' I cried, look what it says here.' It was there in big headlines, World Wide Search for the Moneys. get excited. You know we were on the roof, and plenty of people saw us.'
 ".Yes. Tom, but it's the carmen trouble.'
 'Then it dawned on us, but we thought we would be set free after half an hour of explanation. We tele- graphed the chief of police and the newspapers that we would leave for San Francisco on the next train. We were not allowed to go into the city, but were met At the next station by automobiles full of detectives and telling how the Moneys were pre- vented from fleeing the country by the clever work of the police. And, mind you, the first words spoken to me by a detective after we were arrested, were, Your husband thought he'd be it when he organized the car men, eh 2" -...-s-.s-s, s ~....,..--
 Slept on Bath Room Floor of Jail
 Separated from her husband, in the jail, Mrs. Mooney was kept for two days in a bathroom, sleeping on the woman likes and needs" Mrs Mooney then told how the testimony was framed up with the aid of a crim- inal from Illinois brought on for the purpose and through the false state ments of a woman of the underworld, who had previously let her uncle go to prison for murder that she was implicated in.
 Picture and Albi Coat
 She S explained in detail where she he the parade and bomb explosion. She exhibited the famous alibi picture taken when she and her husband were watching the parade from the roof of the building in which her studio was located, more than a mile from the spot where the explosion took place. She accused the attorney for the pros ecution of blurring the picture and of trying to keep it from being present. ed as evidence, until the efforts of the defense had had the picture enlarged 2,5OO times until it showed to the min building, proving so she said, they could not have been present at the scene of the killing. She put on the famous "alibi coat'' with the rather large pearl button which marked her out so plainly in the picture.
 @'Saved By the American Flag"
 Mrs. Mooney said that she was saved by the American Flag. From the roof of the building in which her studio was located hung a huge cred the windows of her studio. On this account, MT. and Mrs. Mooney and three other persons who had come to view the Preparedness parade from the studio windows, were forced to go to the roof of the building in order to see the marchers. While on the roof a man with small camera was taking pictures of sections of the parade, and it was in some of these pictures that ple, appeared when the films were developed.
 Bail Reduced to S2,OOO
 "The case against me broke down." said Mrs. Mooney, but for nine months after I was acquitted Jney kept me in jail. It's a wonderful edu- cation to be in jail. l advise you all to try it some time. They've got yet, and they held me on bail of $15,- 900. You see, they didn't want to let ne out, they didn't want you to see me. they didn't want us to hold meet ings like this. But now my bail is only $2,OOO and can come here to tell you the truth.
 Mooney Lived in Hartford
 My husband lived and worked here in Hartford. He went to dances here, and he has always spoken we'll of Hartford. But if that cancer on the breast of California is allowed to spread, it will contaminate you and Connecticut"
 Informal Reception After the meeting in the theatre, an informal reception was rendered Mrs. Mooney and MT. Patterson in Central Labor Union hall, which was attended by many labor men and friends. A delegation accompanied Mrs. Mooney and MT. Patterson to the railroad station when they left the city.