The labor standard., 1919-05-15

began the operation of independent The corporations, he said, realizing the danger had begun a fight to de- stroy public ownership for they know, pie of California which they un- justly acquired, will some day be re- turned to the people to whom it be- longs, including the power sites. "They realize," he said, "that their day of profit will soon end, they have long sought to exterminate trades unions, for they know the mission of the union is not one of destruction; they know that the trades unions try to hold out hope, tighten the burden of the worker and to give his children an opportunity for their great ad- vantage education" He declared sap the power of unionism and that if possible they would like to give out the impression that those in his audi ence were bomb throwers and terror paredness Day explosion. Censures San Francisco Chamber of
 Commerce
 "The chamber of commerce of San Francisco is guilty of this crime" he declared. "The chamber of commerce fhls4a thn e Sa'ooG,ooo ;, as = fund to, to deser1y held meetings with this purpose in view. At one of these Captain Robert Dollar, owner of the Dollar line of steamships, addressed the members and said, there is only one way to deal with striking stevedores; send ambulance loads to the hospital And at this very moment" MT. Patterson said, 1.-two of these workers were be- ing taken to the hospital. Had any union men or any union officers made such a statement as this they would have promptly landed in jail."
 MT. Patterson charged that while Tom Mooney was organizing the troll ley employees he was trailed by "a gang of thugs" Then he related how the Preparedness Day parade was fGmnE up Msehet Meh sse sseeet posn in san occurred which mang1ed nine people, another one dying in the hospital the following day, while forty, he said, were badly injured.
 "Immediately," he said, "a cry went up-4union men committed that crime although people near the explosion said they had seen 2 man on the roof of the building above the scene of the explosion, while one witness, an army surgeon, and five others, testi- fled that the bomb had come from above" Mir. Patterson declared that it was the work of Martin Swanson, tectfve who had previously tried to frame up Mooney, who worked up the case for the prosecution. "Were the words of the eye-witnesses listened to? They were ignored, while the case was practically taken out of the hands of the city authorities and put in that of this private detective, who, he declared, circulated the belief that the explosion was due to a bomb, carefully made by an expert, which had been concealed in a suitcase and exploded with time clock. t
 Several weeks afterwards, the prosecution found several parts of what they alleged to be the time clock used, at the scene of the explo- sion, although an expert testified that from three different alarm clocks and couldn't possibly have come from one. Of course the prosecution couldn't have put them there," said MT. Pat terson.
 Mooney was convicted" he said, Ion the testimony of Estelle Smith, a prostitute; John Mcdonald, a dope fiend, and on that of John Crowley, who had been guilty of assaulting a small girl in short dresses. This was the evidence on which Mooney was convicted. It could easily have been proven that Billings was not near the scene of the. explosion, but he, too, was convicted"
 At the trial of Mooney, he said, Ox- man, the rancher, who testified