The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
A. F. of L. Leaders Betray
Tom Mooney

Mary Gallaghers promise that the Defense Com
mittee would disregard Tom Moneys orders.
She absolutely refused to have the defense
print special leafet containing the editorial OF
the Baltimore Sun" and resolution passed by
the Typographical Union of MERGED California,
which declared that the unions should make the
demand for a Mooney Billings pardon cam
paign issue, and asked all the friends of Labor
to defeat Governor Young whom they branded
as unfit for the high Office he held. 1t
is certain the labor leaders did not wish such a
leaf1et circulated-they were doing their utmost
to help the jailer of Mooney and Billings.
5. Follows insidious advice of labor leaders.
Mary Gallagher positively refused to issue a
statement to the voters in the name of Tom
Mooney Molders Defense Committee asking all
the voters in the name of the Tom Mooney Mol
ders Defense Committee asking all the friends
of Tom Mooney to defeat Governor Young. In
stead on advice of Kidwell and his friends, she
gave the press a statement to the effect that
Tom Mooney would prefer to see Governor
Young reelected because of his long study and
familiarity with the case, and that if new Gov
ernor was elected, there would be another long
delay until Governor Young's successor had stud
led all the evidence" This was deliberate mis-
representation Tom Mooney never authorized
such statement. He knew that it was import
ant that Governor Young should be defeated as
object lesson to his successors, who might also
be minded to disregard the wishes of almost the
entire labor movement
Governor Young denied Tom MONEYS apph-
cation for pardon July 8, 1880, and five days
later, July ID, Paul Scharrenberg, Michael Casey,
John O'Connel, Frank Mcdonald, John Nc
Laughlin, George Kidwell and most of the other
major labor leaders endorsed Young for re-elec-
Cxo1lo oIco
that these men had never sincerely helped the
defense, but she was so under the influence of
Kidwell and others, that her judgement was
warped BY aiding them she totally disregarded
the best interests of the Defense Committee.
John Mooney, Toms brother, attacked Paul
Scharrenberg on the floor of the San Francisco
Labor Council Immediately after the first par
don denial. Mary Gallagher knew that soon af-
ter Governor Young denied the pardon, Sclar-
renberg announced he would support him. and
that John Mooney was justified in his defense.
Her experience during the early days of the re-
organization of the defense proved that
Scharrenberg was bitter enemy of Tom Mooney
nevertheless, shestrongly condemned John Moon
! ey for publicly telling the truth
6. No efforts to secure funds without funds
there can be no defense. September d. 1880, Mary
Gallagher took trip East and attended the
Transfers as a guest of George Kidwell She did
not even make a request that this very wealthy
International Union give donation to the de-
Tense. Neither did she ask that resolution de-
handing the pardon of Mooney and Billings be
passed by the convention. AS Secretary of the
defense it was her duty to make at least two
requests Was it because she was in the COM
pany of the virulent enemies of Mooney-Daniel
Tobin, Michael Casey, John O'Connel and John
McLaughlin-that she failed to do her duty?
A few days after the Cincinnati Transfers
Convention, she visited Clarence Darrow in Chi
cago. He promised to introduce her to some
wealthy liberal minded persons who might be in
duced to donate funds for the defense But the
constant companionship and poisonous influence
OF Kidwell and other labor leaders so undermined
her interest in the defense that she did not even
make an effort to visit Mr.. Darrow's friends
]. Defense Committee Disrupted. From June
to December l, $780, there was such constant
and serious disputes concerning the policy of the
Defense Committee that its activities were par
ayzed. During this very critical period of the
case, Tom Mooney did not know that the labor
leaders had secured strong ascendancy over his
trusted Secretary. He did not know about George
Kidwell. He did not know that Paul Scharren-
berg was in close consultation with Mary Gal
lagher regarding the defense policy. Neither did
he know that she attended meetings of the San
FrAnciso Labor Council In the company Of Schar-
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