The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-13
Mooney Speaks Aloud Again


movement of the workers again for the Liberation OF Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings should stir the hearts of every worker
good know that Tom Mooney himself writes that the
present policy that have following past five
will bring justice Billings and Mooneytha appeal
viii largely have be conferred the great mass OF workers.
etc.
These words show that Moneys eyes penetrating the
fog of old sionan illusion with the aid Of which the cap
enmeshed and destroyed champion of the
working class Mooney and Billings and whole class must
thoroughly know that reforms byroduct of class
struggle and not the willing concessions OF benign sVedrVer
Sad Sacco Vanze sacrificed the execuoner
partly because the illusion prevailed among those officially
charged with their Defense that Justice would somehow
capitalist only the evidence convincing
Release prisoners is, like all reforms in capitalist
society, solely byproduct of class struggle.
What all years that have been allowed while
our brothers Mooney and Billings have suffered in prison?
they arrested the entire official trade union
California
p H Mccarthy aer caught taking $4,000 from the bosses
ing troubes Tho thrown the
dency the Francisco Labor Council by the workers for
spring with the prosecutor of Mooneytls official bureaucracy
the active for the hanging of Mooney and Billings
Also the national bureaucracy headed by Gompers for the
hanging the militant labor leaders who had dared to pull
strike against United Railways which the corrupt San
Francisco trade leaders had agreed to protect The
cast party official leaders, with very few notable exceptions
willing accept the hanging Mooney member of the
socialist party, in those first months.
Under those conditions the defense of Mooney Billings
Nolan Wenston and Rena Mooney unavodaby affair
revolutionary workers For three the whole of the mil
liant labor struggle of the workers bound with the
Mooney Billings" defense,
The defense movement movement great
Importance and truly be said that this the first
organized left wing the trade By 1919 the capitalist
press driven to lay the Seattle general strike to this
the trade the release Mooney and Billings
The terrific abors of the revolutionary sections of the
effective the great their class
solidarity with their champions The official A of L. moved
ponderousy from the prosecution take pose of be-
the popular side The socialist party leaders in the end
least formally, followed Gene Debs to the defense
Then the helish mistake made. The movement
stopped and the coWary labor bureaucracy relied
the job
The revolutionary demonstrations Petrograd
in the earlier period saved MONEYS life.
Now the period of Responsibility period when il
usions began s the defense Of Mooney Billings Some
dirty politician of the capitalist class, nice judge
just going do something if you would only keep quiet ere
spectacle gentlemen couldn't do anything while rough working
class mtants making noise among the Samuel
Gopers whied away his entire time from then until
the of being about ready start do something the
workers would only quiet down.
The deliberately sacrificed price
pay the bureaucrats for empty promises.
The Mooney Billings defense fell under this Sitting deadly
illusion This the period which Moneys letter
lasting five years.
The total results of this policy years grey
for the two brave who suffered for now
years of torture
Tom Mooney right to throw to the winds this pol
cultivated and sysematzed tmdity. We repeat
lease of Mooney and Billings will only byproduc
class struggle.
Every worker should gladly spring the Interna
the release brothers. Tom Mooney Quentin prison
and Warren Billings in Folsom.