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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-15
Babe Ruth Not To Be Manager Of N. Y. Yankees

PHILADELPHIA, Pc h., Oct. 15.-Babe Ruth will not manage the New York Yam kees in 1930 The big slug ger identified himself as the right infielder of the Yam kees" with no managerial aspirations at this time. He said he will be a candidate sometime as m n a g CT of some major club, but not now.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-15
French Cabinet Will Accept Naual Bid of British

3 PARIS, Oct. b. The 3 French Cabinet has decid- , ed to formally accept the , British invitation to partici- ? pate in the five power naval , limitation conference in Len
 5 don, tentatively set for next . January. o q oo
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-15

Maddux Airlines of San Francisco has begun to three-daily airplane passenger schedule to Los Angeles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-15

The voice of Big Ben. the chimes in the British Parliament house, has become a trifle hoarse after 70 years, Englishmen complain.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
EQUITY HEAD ASKS
FIGHT Be IN OPEN
Gilmore Invites DisgruntIed
Film Stars to Bring Trou-
bIes Before Meeting.

! BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 27.-A group
| of Hollywood members of the Actors
Equity Association, who are disgrunt-
, led over an attempt to enforce the
closed shop" in the production of
talking pictures. was invited yesterday
by Frank Gilmore, president of Equity,
to bring their differences to an open
meeting of the organization.
Gillmore's statement followed a tu-
multous conference of 80 actors here
last night. in which petition was pre-
pared asking Gilmore to call a closed
meeting for consideration of policies
to be followed between motion pic
ture actors and producers.
Seek CLOSED Shop"
Several members of the association
including Gilmore, have sought a
closed shop" for motion pictures and
at last nights meeting, the session was
thrown into an uproar when actors
who opposed the presidents policy and
who called the conference, were heck
led by supporters of the equity leader.
Gilmore called the meeting one 'of
practically no importance"
"Of course, 1 can say nothing until
the petition which am told was passed
last night, is presented to me-" he said.
Then shall answer every question
raised. understand the petition is
signed by 33 persons. which is a small
percentage, a surprisingly small per-
centage, OF the number of Equity mem
bers in Hollywood.
Signers Of Petition Named.
DiSgruntled members of Equity have
perfect right to bring their complaints
to the floor of an , meeting where
they can be thra' ). in the omen.
I can say that ,ir will respect
any one who tax ..a floor because
/ am In the chair.
Among the actual and proxy sigma
lures of the petition were Conrad Nagel.
Patsy Ruth Miller, Estelle Taylor, Jack
Dempsey, Chester Conklin, Hedda Hop
per, Ramon Navarro, Noah Berry,
Francis x. Bushman. Lloyd Hughes
Los Wilson, George X. Arthur. Douglas
Fairbanks, jr.; Ronald Coleman and
Ogla Baclanova.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Girls Wear
at Savings

(2) G E o r C E T T E
FROcKS, peach and blue;
sizes 10 and IA years. Were
$10.9S. Friday only $3.50.
(D PINK GEORGETTE
FROcK; size IA. Was $7.9S.
Friday only $5.9S.
(3S) JAG ETS AND
KNICKERS, linens and nov-
city checks; broken sizes, IA
to 20 years. Were much more.
Friday only 81.
(s) GIRLS SWEATERS,
fine quality; sizes IL and IA
years. Were $5,95. Friday
only $l.95.
(7) GIRLS SWEATERS,
s1ipover styles; sizes 8 to IA
years. Were $2.9S. Friday
only $1.45.
(24) SILK ENSEMBLES,
pastel colors; sizes 8 to IL
years. Were $5.o5. Friday
only $z.ss.
(2s) GIRLS PIoUE EN-
SEMBLES, with sleevelc7s s or
long sleeve frocks; sizes s to
IA. Were $3.95. Friday only
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Infants Wear
Reduced
(s) PONCEE COATS u;,,

(S) PONGEE COATS, with
shocked yokcs; sizes | and
2 years. Were $5.95. $3.s5.
CID WALKING DRESSES,
of fine sheer voile; sizes /. 2
and 3 years. Were 2.o5.
Friday only $l.sS.
(23) HANDMADE GER
TRUDES, of soft muslin;
sizes 6 months to 2 years.
Originally 81. Friday only Soc.
(ls) BOYS LINEN SUITS,
sizes 2 to S. years. Were SIS.
Friday only $2.s5.
(I3) IMPORTED LINEN
SUITS, sizes 2 to 4 years.
Were $3.50 and 81. $l.9s.
(24) INFANTS BLAN-
KETS, blue and white. Were
SOC. Friday only 2sc.
CID INFANTS FINE NET
BONNETS, sizes Is to Is.
Were $298, $3.98 and $4.oS.
Friday only $l.9S.
(3S) INFANTS ORGAN
DIE BONNETS, greatly re-
duced. Were $l.95 and $2.95.
Friday only $l.50.
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Daytime Frocks
Greatly Reduced

(l4) DRESSES, printed
linene in rose. Were 7oc.
Friday only 49c.
(13) UNIFORM DRESSES,
white nurses cloth and broad
cloth, detachable buttons,
broken sizes. Were $1.79.
Friday only 7sc.
(25) u FOR M S AND
DRESSES, white and stripes; !;
broken sizes. Were $l.20.
Friday only. 79c.
(55) DRESSES, rayon.
charmeuse, tissue gingham
and lawn; broken sizes. Were
$l.80. Friday only $l.29.
Third fiOor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
DUE MONDAY, JULY /.
DUE TUESDAY, JULY ..
OUTGOING STEAMERS.
ChTE VN1r. nNHxr

SAILING TODAY.
| City OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
i Sasaporack--Copenha
Thuripgia--Cobh and Hamburg.
Dresden-Cobh, Cherbourg aud Bremen
San Lorenzo-san Juan and santo Domingo
Monterey-Havana. Prosreso, Vera Cruz and
| American shipper-London.
| Aconcagua--Valparaiso.
Berlin Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen
| Olympic -cherbourg and Southampton.
Lempira-Pnerto Cortez.
| Haiti-St. Thomas.
SAILING TOMORROW.
/ Hjelmaren-Accra.
i Einar JarI-Porto Coiombia.
| Portuguese-SantoS.
Sud Uranguayo1-Bnenos Aires.
caisaricHNorth Cape cruise.
| Santa Inez-Puerto Colombia, Cartagena,
ststendam-Plymouth. Boulogne and Rotter-
sonts Grandemoenes Maple: and oisraItar
AmOr-Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
SAILING SATURDAY, JUNE 20.
! Eastern Glen-Capetown.
| Excellency--Genoa.
Ellenor-Santo Domingo.
| Pennsyivsnian~Pa Coast
Lancastria-West Mediterranean and Nor
Caledonia Belfast and GLASGOW.
Eranconia,.N9rth H, Cape cruise:
Southampton.
New -Cherbourg. Southampton and
RelianceMNorth Cape cruise.
San Francisco.
Porto Rico-San Juan.
: FL SalyaOOf-PuPrtO Colombia. CnrfageUa
Cristobal. Corinto, Mazatlan and San
Fort ST; Georee--st. Johns and Halifax
Oscar II-Christiansand. Oslo and Copen-
! Toloa--Havana. Cristobal and Port Limon.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Southampton.
Belgeniand- Plymouth. cherbourg and Ant
BaiticAcobh and % Iiverpool. d Ao'aon'
Huron-santo Domingo City.
| Mayari-Puerto Colombia.
SAILING MONDAY. JULY 1.
/ France-PlymOuth and Havre.
| SAILING TUESDAY. JULY 2
! California Mediterranean cruise.
Laconia-Cobh and Liverpool.
Providence Deisada' Lisbon, Naples,
Ryndam-Plymouth. Boulogne and Rotter-
| coilmbus-Plymouth. cherbourg and Brem-
Edison-Piraeus.
Magallanes-Havana
SAILING WEDNESDAY. JULY 3.
| Laconia--Cobh and Liverpool.
Cameronia---Moville and Glasgow.
| Carmania-Plymouth. Havre and London.
| Fort Victoria-BeImuda.
unRsholm--Gothenburg.
] President Harding-Plymouth, Cherbours
and Bremerhaven.
Mexico Havana, Progreso, Vera Cruz and
Homeric~ ~cherbourg and Southampton.
1 Yoro--Kingston.
Santa Marta Kingston, crlstobal Carta-
|. Eena, Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta.
/ :, Maracaibo.
DomInica--St. Thomas.
Estonia--Pfraens, Constantinople and Con-
/ htRnza.
SAILING THURSDAY. JULY L.
4 De Grasse-HavFe.
/ Santa Barbars-- Havana, Panama Canal
Callao and Valparaiso.
! Muenchen ~ Southampton, Boulogne and
BremeThayen.
coamo = San Juan and santo Domingo
City,
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Reductions on
Underuear

(1OO) BOYS ATHLETIC
UNION SUITS, cross-bar
muslin with waist attach
ments; sizes 2 to II years.
Were 69c. Friday only 49c.
(50) WOMEN'S VESTS,
cotton knit with built-up
shoulders or bodice tops;
broken sizes. Were 29c. Fri
day only 19c.
(SO) WOMEN'S COTTON
KNIT UNION SUITS, loose
and tight knee styles, with
bodice top and built-up
shoulders. Were Soc. FRI
day only 3Sc.
Third Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Vacation Coats and
Dresses at Friday Savings

(20) Misses Coats of kash-
mere and velveteen; black,
blue, grey and tan; sizes IA
to Is. Were $l6:50 to CO
$1975. Friday only. -. VO
(22) Women's and Misses
Summer Coats, of fiat crepe,
flannel, georgette and kash-
mere; sizes IA to 20 and SO to
AZ. Were $l6.50. Friday Gil
only .............
(15) Women's and Extra
Size Coats of kashmere and
bengaline, sizes SO to 40 and
a. to 501z. Were SIS Ga
and $3s. Friday only VA1
(4 Sports Coats, orchid
basket weave, smartly tai
lored. Sizes 16. 18 and 40.
Were SIS. Frid a.y CIT
only ...............
(25) Junior Misses Coats,
smart models of kasha and
tweed. Brown, black and
blue: sizes IS to IL. Were
S10.95 to $12. Fri GO Dc
day only. @O'6O
(35) Junior Misses Coats,
youthful styles of kasha and
broadcloth; blue, tan and
black. Sizes 13 to II. Were
SIS and $l6,50. Gil 0E
Friday on1y..... @AA'AO
(25) Women's Flat Crepe
and Georgette Dresses, ideal
for vacation and town wear.
Sizes Sc to 46. Were C01
$35. Friday only. VA
"a w m ms Printed
Ensembles, long or short
jacket styles; sizes SO to AZ.
Originally SIS. C19 E0
Friday only. PAHsOV
(l) Black Ceorgette Dress,
full pleated skirt and bead
trimming; size SO. cor
Originally $3.50. Fri. VJO
(l5) Flat Crepe and Geor-
gette Frocks, mid Summer
styles, in midnight blue,
green and grey; sizes SO to
AZ. Wefe $35 to COT E0
$3.50. Friday. ~As sOV
Women's and Misses,
Evening star., 1929-06-27
tore-Wide Thrifty Friday
and You Save at Least $50
Mail D. orders Acceped Advertise dArchad
Colored Parasols

(228) Brightly colored parasols
that little folks adore; also (32)
strongly m d e jump IT,
ing ropes; were 25c. i ~
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27

(25) Misses Dresses,
checks, georgettes and fat
crepes; light shades; sizes IA
to l8. Originally Gin
$l6.50. Friday only. -. @AV
(7) Misses Ensembles, fiat
crepe dresses with Schiffley
embroidered coats; sizes IA,
10 and 20. origi- S12 r.
.'nally SIS. Friday y pAO.sC
CD Misses Chiffon Frocks,
with taffeta casino jackets;
uneven hemlines; sizes IA and
Is. Originally SIS. G10 *
Friday only. VAOssO
(3) Misses Dance Frocks,
maize and mint taffeta and
surf green fiat crepe; uneven
hemlines; sizes 16 and
18. Were $l6.50. Fri C19
Qdy
(2) Misses Chiffon After
noon Frocks, buttercup yell
low; slightly soiled; size 16.
Originally SIS. G10 E0
Friday only. 01A.JU
(l0) Misses Taffeta Coats,
three-quarter length. collar
less or twin and triplet collar
styles. Originally GO E0
SIS. Friday only. ~OsOV
(3S) Junior Misses Dresses,
crepes, georgettes and prints;
red, blue, tan and green; sizes
13 to II. Were Ct or
$16.50. Friday only Qss sOO
(40) Junior Misses Dresses,
crepes, georgettes, organdies
and prints; some with jackets.
Summer colors. in sizes Is to
IL. w ere %95. ca CE
Friday only. @1eAO
(l5) Junior Misses Dresses,
crepes, georgettes and prints;
blue, red, tan. green and
maize. Sizes l3 to GE A6
II. Were $40. FRI. pOs1O
go Sport Dresses, plain and
printed silks, navy georgette
and Cd 3-pc. knitted suit /:
sizes 16 and IS. C1Q TX
Were SIS. Fri. VAOssO
N shops-seeond Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Summer Brassieres

az Brassieres of swami and
brocade. in various lengths with
ribbon or self straps; 90
originally 81. Friday. AOC
Third Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Sixth Floor Bargains

(f5) Pottery UNI
brella holders; were p 40
$2.49 Friday ......
(15) Pottery fruit or
flower bowls; were 81 1.49 OR~
Friday ...............
(50) o-pc. berry or
cereal sets; were 3oc. IQN
Serving trays,
glass bottoms; were p ~
$L95, as is.......
(4) Trays with par
titions for glasses: 0R
were $2.95. Friday 0o
Sixth Floor ~
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Summer Furniture

(2) Cozy Nooks-combines table,
2 benches. and canopy; were $45.
Friday, $3.50.
0) Lawn Umbrella Set, with 4
chairs and table; was $40. Friday,
$49.50.
CD Lawn Umbrella Set; was $74.
Friday only, $44.50.
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
BOYS Wearables

(77) Boys shirts, sizes 12N to
14IA neckband-(o) wash suits in
combination materials; sizes and
4 years-(9) belt sets; ~
were SOC and 69c. Friday, Ill
Street Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Dolls, Ropes, Toys

(185) Slightly shopworn rag
dolls, children's jump ropes and
garden sets; hoe, rake and F.
shovel; were 10c. ....... ~
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Valencia Tableware

(23l pcs.) Valencia silver-plated
tableware, including spoons, butter
knives, sugar spoons and F.
tablespoons; originally 1Oc. OC
Street Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Housewares Reduced

100) Odd pieces: Scales, gas
irons, floor brushes, busters, cherry
seeders, window refrigerators, sew
ing baskets, bath room
fixtures, etc. Originally 40c
$l,25 to 81 so. Friday only, A0~
Sixth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Clearance Gage Hats

(50) Straw-and-s;'k hats made
by Gage, and trimmed with very
tailored bandings; tan and Sd
pastel shades; originally $5. I'd
Second Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Mems and Boys Shorts, 45c

Good quality material neatly checked or striped in
wanted colors. Well tailored sizes 80 to So.
Evening star., 1929-06-27

(548 pcs.) French fryers, busters,
squeezers, cookie presses, crumb
sets, canning racks, enamel tunnels,
cereal jars, dust pans,
waste baskets, towel bars, Rc
ETC.; originally 49c to 98c, A0
Sixth Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
SilkLingerie Reduced

Odds and ends of rayon and cot
ton underwear, including chemise,
bloomers and slips;
broken sizes; were 99c. h0c
Friday only ........... Wv
Third Floor
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Curtains, Panels, Sets

(o2) Ruffled curtains and cot
tage sets, and net panels; one of
a style; slightly damaged, :, ST
were $1.4O to $5.o5. Friday, i
Fifth Floor
The daily worker., 1929-07-30
MIuocece Not Enough The Case OF Mooney and Billings

and Billings and failed to recognize
them. That was before they were
properly coached. Peterson swore
that when he accused Mrs. Edeau of
making conflicting statements, she
said that while she was at Stuart
and Market streets, her astral body
had been present at 721 Market
street.
Suborning To Perjury.
Letters written from Oxman to a
friend of his, Ed Rigall, of GRANVILLE,
ILL.,, were turned over to the defense
by Rigall after he got scared. They
were proposition that Rigall come
out to San Francisco, be coached by
the police and Oxman, and testify
against the rest of the defendants.
Rigall swore that Oxman. confessed
to him that the latter was not in
San Francisco at the time of the
parade. He was not useful against
the other defendants.
Oxman's history, probed into, was
one of crime.
Estelle Smith, the principal wit
ness against Billings, has this year
1920 made affidavit that she false
ly identified the defendants out of
fear of the police who had her rec
ord as woman of the underworld.
The case against the five arrested
thus completely collapses.
The case against Mooney was alb
solutely smashed the year he was
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

! Mooney, especially, and also Bill
ings, Weinberg, Nolan and Rena
Mooney were interfering consider
ably with the war program.
They Organized.
Tom and Rena Mooney were or.
ganizing labor. They were particu-
larly active among the street car
men. They had built a card cata-
log of all street car workers, and
were conducting systematic, person
al agitation. They led street car
strike just before the preparedness
parade in San Francisco, July %,
1916. Labor opposition, fighting the
employers orders to their workers
to parade or be fired, had cut the
numbers predicted for the parade to
one-fifth. The employers were wild
about it.
This was only the elimination of
a long period of strikes, many of
them resulting in clashes of more
or less violence, in which the united
bosses, the chamber of commerce,
had raised a fund of a million dol
lars to bring about the open shop.
The C. of C. had made several
attempts to "get" Mooney. They
had indicted both Mooney and Bill
ings for blowing up an electric pow
er transmission tower 10 miles from
San Francisco. At that time, Mar
tin Swanson, ex-Pinkerton man, and
chief detective for the United Rail-
roads of San Francisco, offered
Billings immunity and 5000 to help
frame Mooney in this case. He
made an offer of $4,000 to Israel
Weinberg to testify that he had
driven Mooney to the scene of the
explosion in his taxi cab.
The refusal of these two insured
that they would be included in the
next frame-up against Mooney.
Fickert a Company Man.
During the preparedness parade,
an explosion at Stuart and Market
streets, probably by a provocateur,
killed ten persons and wounded for
ty more.
The district attorney, Charles M.
Fickert, himself United Railroads
man, elected to dismiss graft indict-
ments against Pat Calhoun and
other heads of the company, turned
the whole case over to Swanson,
placing Captain Duncan Matheson,
chief of the city detectives and his
whole department at Swanson's dis
posal.
No attempt was made to find out
who committed the crime; all clues
at the scene were destroyed by the
police, and Tom and Rena Mooney,
Israel Weinberg, Warren X. Billings
and Edward Nolan were arrested and
charged with murder.
The trial of Billings came first.
The only valuable evidence against
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

convicted. But preparations for
MONEYS execution went right on
until the revolutionary workers OF
Russia took a hand.
Since then the history of the
Mooney-Billings case has been
one of sporadic attempts to release
him. Judge Griffin's appeal for
freedom or a new trial for these two
workers has beer ignored by three
successive governors of California
The present governor is reading a
several hundred page book giving all
details.
He will order the release if he
thinks enough workers are deter
mined enough to have it. The mere
fact that Mooney and Billings are
a thousand times proved innocent Of
the crime with which they were
charged, has had and will have lit
tie to do with it. There's a convic-
tion, and the law does not have to
release its victims merely because
the conviction was the result of q
frame-up, a proven frame-up, blast
ed with the Indignation of all who
have Investigated it.
In the Gastonia case, we must not
have conviction, or if one is
brought about, there must be nc
Slackening in the increasing drive
against the death penalty, and fol
unconditional release. These 23 tex,
tile workers are as innocent as Moo
ney-but look where Mooney is!
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

AS far as / am concerned, can't
claim to have discovered the ex-
istence of classes I'm modern society
or their strife against one another.
Middle-cIass historians long ago
described the evolution of the class
struggles, and political economists
showed the economic physiology of
the classes. / have added as a new
contribution the following PROPOSE
tions: ~ that the existence of
classes is bound up with certain
phases of material production; -
TINT the class struggle leads neces-
sarily to the dictatorship of the
prOletarint; 81 that this dictatorship
is hut the transition 10 the aboli-
tiOn of all classes and to the cr2-
alton of a society of free and equal.
Marx.
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

him was that of Jack Mcdonald, a
dope fiend; Estelle Smith, another
morphine maniac and a former pros
titute whom the police had told they
would send to prison if she did not
identify Mooney and Billings; Mol
lie and Sadie Edeau, against whom
the police had records. The Edeaus
evidence was that Billings stood on
roof above dentists office at 721
Market street, a mile from the scene
of the explosion, preparing to throw
the bomb from it at the parade, with
the two MONEYS standing on the
sidewalk below, in the area of ex-
plosion to direct the act. They then
said the MONEYS and Billings went
down towards Stuart and Market
streets where the explosion really
took place.
Billings got life Imprisonment.
Evidence wouldn't have mattered; ;
the jury was made up of police stool
pigeons, selected. by tamepring with
the wheel of chance by which jurors
were drawn from the venire.
Tempered With Evidence.
Before Moneys trial, which was
next, it was discovered that the
original negatives of a picture taken
during the parade, showing Tom and
Rena Mooney on the roof above
Rena's music studio, could be forced
away from the prosecution files.
These originals showed street clock
with the time 1853 to 2:04. In the
Billings case Mcdonald had placed
Mooney at the scene of the explo-
sion from LAP to 2:04. No matter
the useful Mcdonald testified
against Mooney in the Mooney trial
and put the time of MONEYS pres
ence at Stuart and Market streets
at much earlier = earlier than he
could have arrived if the Edeaus saw
him at 721 Market street when they
first said they did.
But a new witness appeared-"the
honest cattleman" Oxman from Ore
gon appeared on the scene and be-
came the star witness against Moo
ney. He testified he saw Weinberg
drive Mooney, Billings and Nolan to
the scene of the explosion, and saw
them place suitcase there and drive
away, the suitcase of course being
the deadly bomb. This testimony
dove-tailed with the Edeaus, after
they changed the time of seeing
Mooney and Billings, but contradict
ed McDonald's in the Billings case,
for he said something about car,
and reported the two victims as
walking up the street with the suit
case.
Mooney was convicted February 9,
1917, and sentenced to be hanged
May II.
Rena Mooney was acquitted July
26, Israel Weinberg on October 81,
The daily worker., 1929-07-30

and indictments against Nolan, held
nine months in Jail, were dropped,
over two YEARS after his arrest. The
evidence against Mooney and Bill
ings was evidence against all of
these or none; if one was guilty all
were guilty; if one was innocent all
were. But logic means little in a
frame-up: the United Railroads
wanted to hang Tom Mooney.
Perjury Exposed.
Exposures of the perjury commit
ted by the witnesses began before
the Mooney trial and caused some
of the Billings case witnesses to
drop out.
/ On February 7, Mcdonald volun-
| tarily made affidavit his entire tes-
/ timony was false and that he COM
mitted perjury out of fear of the
police.
When the United States entered
the war, Wilson and the state de-
partment were very anxious to have
Russia keep up the fight. A giant
demonstration of workers in Petro-
grad (now Leningrad) besieged the
American ambassador in his palace,
demanding the release of Mooney,
and the provisional government rul-
ing in the spring of 1917 also anS-
ious to make Russian workers fight
the Germans, appealed to Wilson to
remove this irritation. Labor all
over the world was beginning to do
the same. Wilson sent commits
sion to investigate, which reported
that Mooney, Billings and the others
were undoubtedly innocent. The ex-
ecution was postponed until August
%, then to December 13, and even
tually commuted to life imprison-
ment. The Chamber of Commerce
couldn't bring itself to actually set
free these strike leaders, no mat
ter what international or war poll
cies were imperilled.
Fickert Exposed.
The department of labor investi-
gator, Densmore, planted a dicta-
phone in Fickert's office, and be-
sides considerable amount of juicy
graft evidence and humorous scan
dal surrounding Fickert and his
aides, it recorded him fixing the
prosecution witnesses in the cases to
follow Moneys. 1t was the final
touch needed to smear the whole
prosecution as a mere frame-up
body, operating at the orders of and
in the interests of the Chamber of
Commerce and the United Railroads.
Chief of Police Peterson of Oak
land (then captain in the army
testified after the trial of Mooney
that the Edeaus' first story to him
was that they were at Stuart and
Market streets instead of 721 Mar
ket street and saw men with the
bomb, that they were shown Mooney