The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06


rotary of the Tom Mooney Moulders Defense
Committee. This in 1880.
INsTALLMENT Fl
DY process of cajolery, fiattery, and craftiness
ID Kidwel gradually won Mary Gallagher's COM
plete confidence. Constant attention to her
wants, subtle compliments, invitations to the
theatre to dinner, to parties, extended motor
trips convinced Mary Gallagher, who was har-
raised from overwork caused by the many diff
cult problems confronting the defense, that
George was a trusted friend and that his policies
were the most sagacious and should be followed
Thus it was the labor leaders, through KidWeH
succeeded in superseding Tom Mooney as director
of the Defense Committee with following results:
l. The agitation against Governor Young was
discontinued. 1t was Tom MONEYS firm con-
viction that Governor Young had no intention to
pardon him, and that the policy of the defense
should be to denounce him for his cowardice
Mary Gallagher refused to do this, and for
months the work of the committee was at
standstill Finally Tom Mooney insisted that
she either follow his instructions or resign At
last she agreed to comply with his wishes. 1t
was decided that an editorial from the Baltimore
"Sun" March 81 1890, which strongly attacked
the Governor for his failure to pardon Tom
Mooney should be inserted in the pamphlet
Pardon Tom Mooney--innocent" Using every
possible subterfuge, she deferred printing the
revised edition of the pamphlet for many weeks.
Almost all the major California labor leaders
supported the Governor, and it was their advice
that the defense should follow the same policy,
and disregard the instructions of Tom Mooney.
2. Pamphlets were not sent to the voters. The
primary task of the defense to educate all
the citizens of California regarding the frame-up.
That was the main reason the pamphlets were
printed. 1t was the hope of Tom Mooney that
every voter in the State would receive pamph-
let, as he felt that the data thus given the voters
would SO clearly prove his innocence that public
clamor would compel the Governor to issue
pardon. The pamphlet strongly attacked the
Governor for his subservience to Big Business,
so Kidwell and the other labor leaders prevailed
upon Mary Gallagher to send very few to the
voters. This was gross betrayal for Mary Gal
lagher knew that the only hope of Mooney and
Billings to secure pardon was predicated on
the assumption majority of the citizens of the
State would strongly insist that the Governor
pardon them. Obviously, such demand could
only come if there was general knowledge of the
frame-up, and by Withholding the pamphlets con-
tanning this information, solely to protect the
interests Of the labor leaders, the two prisoners
were irremediably injured.
3. Support of the most generous contributor
lost. Aline Barnsdall, the most generous donor
to the Defense Funds, considered the distribu-
ton of the pamphlets of such Importance, that
she donated large sum for this specific purpose
When she learned the pamphlets were not being
mailed to the voters, she withdrew her support
from the Tom Mooney Molders Defense Com
mittee, and organized a special committee in
Los Angeles for the sole purpose of issuing the
pamphlets. Miss Barnsdall assumed all the fin
ancial expenses and mailed thousands of these
pamphlets to the voters before the State primary
No fight against Governor Young during
primary. The morning after Tom MONEYS first
pardon application denied he strongly de-
nounced the Governor. In a statement issued
from the Warden's Office, he urged the voters to
defeat him in the coming primary. Immediately
Mary Gallagher upbraided him, and another SER
ious dispute began regarding the policy of the de-
Tense 1t was Tom MONEYS definite instructions
that the committee devote all its energy and re-
sources TO defeat Governor Young in the primary.
But. this was in direct conflict with the inter-
ests Of the large majority of ths major labor
leaders 50 through aagse R thsS ssESa