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Imprisonment. Then GOmpers
was satisfied.

Imprisonment. Then Gompers
was satisfied.
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The labor leaders of California
are even more guilty than the
capitalists. Paul Scharrenberg,
secretary of the California Fed
Grafton of Labor, is supporting
the infamous Young for govern
or-the man who declared that
Mooney should be in Jail on gen.
eral principles. Scharrenberg has
a $3,OOO-ayeaF state job. We
must confess that he is not as
cheap a traitor as Judas. tho
Judas has it all over Paul in the
matter of honor. Judas went
and hanged himself because of re-
morse The typical American Ia
Dor leader has only one regret
and that is that he has only nne
soul to sell, but he makes up for
that deficiency by selling ii as
often as purchaser shows uD.
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Perhaps the universal cOnvic-
tiOn that Mooney and Billings are
innocent may force the begOwned
hangmen of the California su-
preme court to set their victims
free. But we doubt it. Mooney
and Billings doubt it. The Schar-
renbergS the Greens and the
WOlls are with their iailers. They
are busily engaged protecting
Hoover from the wrath of the
farmers and workers he has be-
trayed with false promises. They
are busily engaged backing
mOanrchist revolt against the
Soviet Union and finking on ev-
cry progressive in the trade
union movement. They are afraid
that Mooney and Billings, TUNED
loose among the American work
ers. would fire them with the
spirit of struggle. They prefer
to have them behind the bars.
Only the collective. militant ac-
tlOn of the masses can open the
prison gates for them.
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And the Socialists! What is
their role in the Mooney case?
When Mooney and Billings were
on trial. the Socialist Party of
California made vicious attacks
on them. They were too "red."
Now they are trying to cash in
politically on the frameup. Just
now a copy of a socialist paper
was laid on my desk. 1t is the
Schenectady IN. Y.) Citizen, II
comes IN an envelope with the
return address of C. NJ. Ripley.
Efficiency Engineer for the Gen
eral Electric Company, non-
union trust. There is a lot about
the Mooney case in it but it is
the mOuthpiece of the Power
Monopoly plant IN Schenectady.
Shades of Karl Marx and of Eu-
gene V. Debs! 1t is some conso-
lation to know that the efficien-
cy socialist engineers do not take
Lenn's name in vain, and that
MS successor Leon Trotsky still
lves TO pillOry the renegades.
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Now for the happy ending. Sir
John Clynes, His British Males
TVS Socialist Lord of the RoyaI
Prlyy, is having a royal time at
tending the Duchess of York.
who is awaiting the delivery of
a royal brat, in the highlands of
scotland John no longer cares
about those germs of the new So
city that are born within the
shell of the old, but he is anxious
tnat the expected royal bambino
should emerge safely from the
Duchess's royal womb Tradition
insists that His Maiesty's RovaI
rOtbOy of the day, must watch by
the royal bedside to make sure
that no plebeian child be subst;-
tuted for the royal result. Holm
tnSe socialist, agrees that if the
monarchy can't be good il must
De madulterated. It would he
lust too bad if John got ON the
loD too late. 1t was one of the
towards who said to the daugh-
ter of the Earl of Warwick. when
Sne spurned his proposition - "a
nmgs bastard is a houses pride y
we might have better K;v :e
rne socialists were not so nsrt;en