Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-18
VOTE STRIFE JULY 4
To L|BERATE MOONEY
Labor Unions Dec ide 10 Tie Up
All Industries Till Plea
Is Granted.

Chicago. Jan Is a general strike
of organized labor designed 10 paralyEc
every industry IN the country beginning
the Fourth of next July. was decidcd
upon Yesterday hv the National hoard oi
Congress as 4 means ~ obtaining new
ttial for Thomas ] Mooney and Warren
billings. II Federal intervention and
every other means adopted To- procure
the dcsucd ichcf fall
The convention authorized the ralsln
oi a fund uf 81 900 600 Ia carry on q
campaign at education "a hhcratc the
labor leaders and 10 promote the pro
posed general strike II l~ planned 20
hnunce tho movement tn lcyNIng IN as-
sessment ~ - cents On each member II
organized lahpr IN the country.
The convention, which concluded its
tour-daN session last night and adjourned,
also adopted a resolution CmhodvlnR a
Declaration ot national policies affecting
lalm which demands that the people 81
Russia and Germany IT, permitted 10
work out then own dcstinN that Amcil-
can trpops hc withdrawn from Russia,
that all polItleal and industrial prisoners
receive the Same consideration rs prls-
oncfs oi war. and proclalming the dawn
ol ncW day for true Democracy IN
winch the nights of labor shall he fully
recognized
The convention adopted the program
recommended hv the International Work
eTr Delensc League a. Obtain the lib
cration oi Mooney and Billings This
was presented 10 the delegates lu the tnal
report ., the committee On resolutions
u provided that committee ut hVc
labor representatives he named to 80 TO
Washington and ash President Wilson and
members 81 Congress ter Federal inter-
vcntIon.
Chairman Edward ID Nolan named hc
following committee q undertake tho
work
John Iltzratuck. prcsldcn, a the Chr
osgc Federation of labor
Alexander How At president 81 the
kAnSa1s district, United Mine Workers of
AmcrirA
MARTIN r1ynk. prrsldert of the
a>hington distinct nited Mine Workers
ut America
D. tndersnn Washington. u g,
v.rc-prr>,i ni u the International AsSu-
eAtirl :. Nlachnt-ts
AnIr y Iui~cth, san FranciSco. presi
dent ~ thr International Scamcn | mon
7 hc committee Viii ASK that a speciu
assistant | ntcG states attorney general
- .Alif t0tftA t.t tftfAs-lA AlNs fttt. .t~fh tN
NonutA and Billings 4, hahras corpus
precccd.nE> or other means IN order that
tnCl MAY l.,Nr ucR triais ~ i court ont
SIDE q tllatula.
II" Legislature 81 0'ahiornia VIII n,
asked . pas, law which VII enable the
courts = thai state Il grant ncv TRIALS
M .aSts when convictions are uhtaInrd
/, lsr!area evidences IL other fraudulent
means
Il thosr means fad. then organized
iahor vii hc asked - call The general
strkr lhc pian Of the International
" orkcrs Defence League j. kat the
general strike Will not IL called unless
every other means to free the men shall
falI.
The report - the resolution On the
Mooney ease Mad d. part
our committee realizes at this time
that the grave industrial and economic
power II labor may i'll the last ANALYSIS
have Il =, invoked III order 10 demon
fratr u the hostile and antl-lal,or IN
tcrcsts that the lahor movement of
NiucHca j, determined that rea and sub
.lantta. !.,uc, sial. hnall! preVal. N the
Mooney case
nug eammIttc, tAkc> the position that
III, program should 5, worked out and
exhausted step hv step. until there Is no
rcgMunIpl doubt among he lahoriug
massC, That there Is ~ other solution
leif, and that solution Wll then lie IN the
Use % tho strkc weapon.
W. therefore submit that no sporadic
-'rik, lot properly organized VII hc ii
Nall,
our committee recommends that
ihc taking al i strike vote commence
lt tic earliest possible a4te. and that
4, vote shall bp IA and taaulated on
ar before June !, and that III. date far
general strike - ect for the Fourth II
July 1919, tho dAy q American Iudc-
pendcnce
| hc American Federation Of Labor
elll he asked 10 indor,c the general
.trtks al ~ heat annual convention
b' Mooney cas- program res4lte
u hcry debate lasting tyc holrs 10 the
'oursC 81 which radical delegate or
posed sending committee IT, Wash
ngiun u ask Fedora intervention. and 7
demanded that the dat oi the general 7
tr,Ac bc 50 iot MAY tn, con erya- I
lves finally succeeded over Tho Boz
.hcVl-t element n having thc c9muitte.
'Upurt adopted by q vote ui more than
W. u one Ia the discussion President
\ ~un name Wa- hi-.ed and .Iull
8 Il referred 70 "a th. Master Hol-
iat
Later William ~pooner d Oakland.
al paid a Tribute Is President Wilson
~ il- sympathetic attitude TOW ard IL
io ana thC convention bN rIsIng Vot..
Ntcndcd thanh. ~ the PrcsIdcn, tor
II, efforts 10 obtain Mooney rcle..s,
" lham hobb,, oi Boston. sand hat
abor had often becI damned ia N cor
ldsrcd stiIkee and I'll warned n. Iaa-
cai- that th, MoOncN sirik, might fall
d wa, called Tor May without -uHg-
lcnt thine properly ~ crganIzt tLo move
nenf
i Nicholson 81 Cleveland. Morn,
irauu u New York. ana otAer- spoke
q suppor ol the commute rcpor
hartman Nolan was compelled h
dlourn q, convention under tho gave.
vcr the loud protests ~ the radical
Ieiegates, wha wanted 10 stay and pass
thcr resolution,
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