Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-17
RADICALS URGE WILD SCHEMES
 BEFORE MOONEY
 MEETING
Field Day for l. w. w. and Socialists in Chicago As semblage to Lay Plans to Release Bomb Plotters
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CHICAGO. Jan. 16.-This was field day for the extreme radicals at the national labor congress called to con slider a program for liberating Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings.
 Practically every principle of the so- cialists and the l. W. W. was urged for adoption in the flood of oratory which occupied both the morning and afternoon sessions. Speakers demand ed the organization of an American soviet. the press and the capitalist class was denounced, and the declara- tion was made that a new day for labor is at hand in which the masses will rule the world.
 Assai American Federation
 Pleas were made for industrial de- mocracy and solidarity of labor. and the American Federation of Labor was bitterly assailed. The radical delegates and the crowd in the gallery loudly cheered the revolutionary senti- ments expressed by the speakers.
 The climax was reached when a moving picture was shown of the Mooney case. One scene showed sol diers carrying an American flag in the San Francisco preparedness day pa rade and there were misses from some of the radicals in the crowd when this was flashed on the screen.
 The committee on resolutions is ex- pected to make its final report tomor- row after which the convention will adjourn. Tonight the leaders of both the conservatives and the radicals were unable to predict with any de- gree of accuracy what the congress would do at it's closing sessions.
 To Plan Program
 The report. it is said, will recom- mend the adoption of the program of the International Workers Defense league for the liberation of Mooney and Billings and make some kind of declaration on the numerous radical ideas suggested for the policy of or ganized labor during the reconstruc- tion period. A telegram was read from Eugene V. Debs expressing regret at his inability to come to Chicago and address the convention because of the conditions imposed by Federal Judge D. c. Westenhaver of Cleveland, when the socialist leader was released on bail after his conviction for violation of the espionage law.
 In the telegram Debs said, among other things:
 Free speech prevails in Russia but is dead in the United States since the world has been made safe for democ- racy. The conservative element has the unqualified approval and support of the capitalist press which can only mean that the conservative element IS true to the capitalist class and false to the working class. l am with and for the radicals.
 Hour for Action
 "The hour has struck for action. Long winded resolutions and humble petitions to corporation tools in public office and corrupt politicians are worse than useless. Mooney is inno- cent and the whole world knows IL. The convention can do no less than demand his unconditional release and issue an ultimatum to that effect giy- ing due notice that if that fails gen eral strike will follow at a specified time and industry paralyzed through out the land. Appeal has been made to their consciences in vain and now ! let the batteries of labor be opened on their profits.
 | 'If the silk hat conspiratOrs and would-be lynchers out on the Pacific coast and elsewhere insist upon war, { let it come. We have nothing to lose | but the gags upon our lips and the | chains on our bodies. Now is the time to prove the solidarity of our class The people are with us in this fight and will stand by us from coast to coast in our determination to rebuke capitalist criminals and maintain our rights as American citizens"
 James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and vice-chairman of the convention expressed the radical view when he said:
 Free Wage Slaves
 There are some things for this con vention to do that is more important than the Mooney case. While Presi dent Wilson is at the peace conference to free the people of Europe he will not forget to do something to free the poor wage slaves at home. We are going to stay here and finish this jot ! if 1t takes all year. If you are good revolutionist you will not do anything to obstruct this new radical move ment. The day has passed when of | ficials can railroad a man to the gal lows because of his opinions
 The speaker was cheered when be