The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
INSTALLMENT Is.
The California State Federation of
Labor.

TOR fourteen years Tom Mooney has collected
and compiled data concerning the activities
of the labor misleaders who could have helped
him had they been less craven. Each succeed
ing year brought new data to light, each day
other misleaderS came out in their true colors.
Day by day Tom Mooney has seen the captains
of industry and finance, their political satellites,
the California state officials, and their subser-
Went tools, the labor leaders, strengthen the
hold Of the jailers upon Billings and himself.
One of the most fragrant acts of betrayal oc-
CURED just few months ago. The Marysville
Convention of the California State Federation of
Labor September 1880, refused to demand the
pardon of Mooney and Billings at the most
critical period of the case neither did the Execu
tive Council of the State Federation of Labor
go on record for pardon. No doubt the bat
like labor Gears" were so busy with the agents
of Big Business that they could not, and would
not, consider the demand of the whole labor
movement for the pardon of Mooney and Billings.
1t is very significant that the California State
Federation of Labor, with thousands of dollars
in its treasury, has not donated one cent to de-
fend Mooney and Billings for the past twelve
years; and the California State Building Trades
Council has never given nickel for the defense
of these two men during the entire fifteen years
of their imprisonment
Directly after Governor Young's refusal to par
don Mooney and Billings the foremost labor
leaders" of California formed a Union Labor
Governor Young Club and were zealousy active
in the campaign fol: his reelection. They urged
all Trade Unionists to vote for the jailer of
Mooney and Billings-and the few leaders who
did not climb onto Youngs bandwagon were for
either one or two other major candidates, who
were non-committal on the Mooney-B Billings
issue.
LABO" LEADERS WHO SUPPORTED
MOONEY AND BILLINGS JAILER.
The most conspicuous labor leaders" who CAM
paigned for the denomination of the servile tool
of the corporations, C. c. Young, during the
state primaries were:
Paul Scharrenberg, Secretary Treasurer Call
forna State Federation of Labor
Michael Casey, Vice-President International
Brotherhood of Transfers;
John ODonnell, Secretary San Francisco Labor
Council;
Roe Baker, President San Francisco Labor
Council; Vice-President International BARRIERS
Union;
Frank c. Mcdonald, President California State
Building Trades Council;
John Mclaughlin, officer International Broth
erhood of Transfers Internal Revenue Collector
for San Francisco;
James HOPKINS, Vlce-FreSloent CanIorma state
Federation of Labor;
Theodore johnson, legal advisor San Fran
cisco Labor Council;
George Dixon, Business Agent Of Chauffeurs'
Union;
George Kidwell Business Agent Bakery Driv-
ers' Union.
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR.
The American Federation Of Labor on ma
tional scale, has done absolutely nothing to help
Mooney and Billings. In some instances there
are A. F. of L. leaders whose perfidy equals that
Of the California officials.
During the fifteen years that Mooney and
Billings have suffered in prison because Of their
labor activities the Official Organ of the A. F.
Of L., the American Federationist" never once
printed line concerning the arrests the trials
the convictions, and the demands for pardon
The names Of Mooney apd Billings have meyer
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