The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-22
PREACHER FAVORS'
MONEYS RELEASE.
SAYS IT is DISGRACE TO
CALIFORNIA THAT HE IS
IN JAIL TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Pot
is disgrace to the state of Cali
fornia that Tom Mooney is in prison
today and the responsibility rests
with the people of California"
This ringing denunciation of the
attitude of this state toward man
whose innocence has been proven
| beyond all question of doubt, was
hurled in the teeth of the gang that
is holding Mooney and Billings in
prison. by Rev. DR.. Charles n. Lath-
rop in recent address in Grace
| Cathedral, this city.
DIR. Lathrop, who spoke on Social
Service in the Church" is former
San Franciscan.
At the last general convention of
the Episcopal church, a department
of Christian social service was found
ed and ne was called to take charge
In his address DR.. Lathrop made it
clear that so long as he is head of
that department it will be a going
concern. At the outset he declared
that "unless it has a message for
every Individual soul in the church,
the church has made a mistake in
instituting such a department"
Before he had concluded he had
made his meaning clear by deliver
ing the message that it is up to the
people of the church and the people
of California to see that Justice shall
be done to Tom Mooney and Char
lotte Anita Whitney.
Miss Whitney, a prominent club
woman and social worker of Oakland,
Calf, was sentenced to from one to
fourteen years under the criminal
syndicalist law some time ago. The
Supreme Court of California recently
upheld the decision and it is now
being appealed to the United States
Supreme Court.
Continuing, Dr.. Lathrop said:
Il wonder if the people of Cali
fornia realize that they are being
criticised in this country and in
Europe because those principles have
been overlooked or lost sight of
in two instances that are very much
before the world today?
"Will Irwin, in his book, The
Next War says there is much criti-
clsm abroad on account of the con-
tlnued incarceration of Tom Mooney
After Mooney had been convicted
other evidence was unearthed which
showed that that conviction was un-
Just. 1t was so convincing that even
the judge who sentenced Mooney to
the. penitentiary said that he ought
to have new trial.
"And yet there is incarcerated in
one of your prisons today a son of
God because the laws of your state
interfere with the carrying out of
Justice 1t is a diSprace q dicoraca
to the state and to the people of
California. And the responsibility
rests on you to do your part to see
justice done.
"And in this connection must
mention another case, although it
pains me to do so, because a woman
is involved, a woman who has been
closely associated with social service
work. | refer to Miss Charlotte
Anita Whitney, who faces fourteen
years in the penitentiary because
she was a member of an organization
which is forbidden by law
DO you realize that if this law
had been in existence when our
| church was first founded St. Peter
and st. Paul would have been in
generated, because they were the
first communists?
May suggest to those in author
ity in California that they must
realize it is possible, by evading
their responsibility, to put them.
selves in the same category with him
who has been held up to execration
because he suffered the crucifixion
of our Savior"