The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-19
Tom Mooney

The class war furnishes no more illuminating example of the
rottenness of the machinery of soaed justice in this country
than that of the conviction and imprisonment of Tom Mooney for
participation in the Preparedness Day parade explosion in San
Francisco in 1916.
Based upon the criminal desire of huge corporations to defeat
the legitimate purposes of organized workers. vast and intricate
network built up around militant leader of the workers and
thru the Vaccinations of group of political office holders
criminal and vureous the masters they served Mooney and
his associates sent to prison for life Indeed in the of
Mooney only the emency of the President saved him from swift
extinction at the galows.
When the story of the of Tom Mooney fully told when
it is finally chronced by the historians of the labor struggle it
will reveal activity of all the various and extensive motives
which animate mankind in their life endeavo1s; of the peSs
struggle of the classes labor and capital of bribery political
rupton perjury of love and devotion of heroic artist wife and
loyal friends of seadfast holding to class principle of honor
and dhonOr of the highest human aspirations and the lowest
moral depaty The pen of Victor Hugo might well be employed
in telling this story of Mooney which contains in it all the human
and historical elements of great Class War chronicle When at
last the victory the pOetarat accomplished undoubtedly the
Mooney will its rghful place and story and
pictures to mne to wiser and better this dark period of
the struggle of the workers for power
Steadily the foundation upon which Mooney and Billings
convicted being washed away by the tide of time and events
Slowly the hour of their vndcaton approaches Little by little
the evidence dsntegates and turns to emptiness in the hands
of the Prosecutors office For many months Presidential Com
has been sitting the evidence in the Mooney trial One by
one the witnesses whose testimony sent Mooney Nolan and Bill
ngs to prison cells have by various routes reached the point of
repudatng their testimony and conesSg their perjury per-
jury fought but not always paid for r there honor between
theves) by the monster Fcke the Prosecuting Attorney
The latest confession in this from Frank Mcdonald
whose unsolicited confession of perjury made to Frank
Walsh Moneys attorney New York last week According the
statements of Mcdonald his testimony witness the
stand dictated him and reheaed before Fcke again and
again before the trial He knew the victims of this
dastad famep until he shown them thru the cell bars and
told hese the saw In fact all he knew of the
explosion and the perpetrators that he the
street set down suit and walk away from it Incidentally the
$1,000 bibe for his testimony never paid
This confession from the last of that deg ded crew who are
responsible for the conviction and Imprisonment of these labor
should swiftly set in motion the machinery that will open the
prison doors for Mooney and his fellow victims
The working class of America should redoube their efforts in
MONEYS behalf In spite of the cowardy ponuncamento of
Gopers that he Mooney not labor case the workers
al conscious mind will rally to MONEYS defense render
unto him that tardy defense and vndaon which due him. Let
us fulfill this duty to our own