The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-30
MOONEY CASE LAGS WHEN OFFICIAL IS
 LAX IN PROMISES
Matters, Forgets About Duty to Labor Men.

life promises of a politician, who on more than one occasion displayed his concern over victims of injustice by expressions of cheap sentirnentality Towering into headlines in the kept press, have collapsed utterly in the case of District Attorney Matthew 1. Brady. After repeated, forcefui pro- testations of his belief in the inno- cence of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, after continued denunciation of the frame-up ring perjurers who tried to send Mooney to the moose and succeeded in sending both Moo- ney and Billings to prison for life, District Attorney Brady does-noth- ing.
 Despite his stinging, verbal rebuke of combined efforts of the frame-up ring and the motion picture interests to have witnesses perjure themselves, to intimidate jurors in order to ob- tain freedom for Fatty" Arbuckle, the scab actor; despite his bitter yer bal complaint that ''to try poor man is easy; to try a rich man is hard, " the district attorney of San Francis co county, after repeated demands for action, has not lifted his finger to ob- tain the freedom of two victims of the anti-labor ring in whose innocence he declares he believes and who obtain ed trial he would mot accord even a yellow dog" District Attorney Brady has done-nothing
 District Attorney Brady is the same public official who, when apparently outraged at the methods pursued by the interests in "Fatty's" behalf dur ing the manslaughter trial, turned to a newspaper reporter and inquired out loud:
 Gan you tell me how I can join a bomb-throwing organization? I mean an organization more violent than the l. w. w. I believe in dynamiting when I see such efforts to pervert justiceW
 Before the Arbuckle trial began early in November. Brady informed representative of several labor pub lication that he had in his desk a memorandum that he would submit to Governor Stephens stating the facts of the perjury conspiracy against Mooney and Billings engineered by his predecessor in office, ex-District Attorney Charles M. Fickert He de clared, however, that he had not com pleted the report but that he would attach the afhdavits made by John Draper Hand, policeman, and othe, affidavits. Immediately after the Ar buckle trial, Brady promised at the time, he would submit his report tc pardon. The state courts had already | decided there was no legal remedy for the framed labor leaders and the case was up to Governor Stephens for action.
 The Arbuckle trial was called and as it progressed, Brady delivered him self of his sentimental phrases abou the poor and the persecuted ane 1 showed that rich defendants have ar easy time of 1t.
 l The trial was concluded and Brady was asked about his report to thu governor. In three or four days, he promised, it would be ready.
 The Mooney defense, reading th' snug chant about the Howard stree
 'shack convicts and the Hotel St Francis festival of crime, watched tht period slip by and again Brady wa: asked for his report.
 At the beginning of the next week
 Brady promised. The next weel
 dawned and Brady began to grow un
 certain. He had misplaced McDon
 aids affidavit somewhere, he explain ed, and did not know when he would
 have the report ready. The matte
 was pressed and Friday, December 16
 was fixed for the time that copy o
 the report, which Brady had declare'
 he had in his desk month previous would be ready finally.
 Friday, December 16, or more tha
 five and half years after the frame
 up, the report of district attorne
 who believed Mooney and Billings in
 nocent was still uncompleted. o
 this occasion, Brady declared he wa
 crowded with work and that "the tail l end of the Arbuckle case" was oc
 cupying his hands.
 Again the appeal is sent out to o1 ganized labor for whom Tom Moone and Warren Billings struggled an 7 for whom they have been railroade to the tolls, that the only real hop of getting Mooney and Billings out ( jail rests with the labor movement. l Perjured testimony the organize