The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-16
A. F. of L. Leaders Betray
Tom Mooney

feat this law. After the Legislative investigation
of the P. G. & E and the Power Trust, Nc
earthly had to resign as leader of the labor
movement. Clever as he was, he could not give
valid explanation for the $4,000 given him to
influence the labor vote.
And it is such contemplate creatures as P. H.
Mccarthy that put Mooney and Billings in prison
and keep them there!
A. w. BROUILLET-DOUBLE-C ROSSER.
The amazing treachery of the president of the
San Francisco Labor Council at the time of
MONEYS and Billings arrest, is still more I'M
believabe than McCarthy's. 1t must convince
the readers of this pamphlet that the two framed
workers were deliberately betrayed by the major
California labor leaders. A. w. Brouillet, the
president of the San Francisco Labor Council,
was brilliant young worker who had rapidly
risen in the ranks Of labor. He had studied law,
was considered capable attorney and besides
the presidency of the Labor Council he held the
important position of prosecuting attorney for
the State Board of Pharmacy. Immediately
after the arrest of the bomb defendants Brouil-
let asked to act as one of their attorneys and
he agreed to act as associate counsel. All the
facts in the possession of the defendants were
given him and a few days later they were
founded to hear that Brouillet had withdrawn
from the case. Why did he withdraw?
1t was soon known that Charles M. Fickert
had asked Brouillet to have conference with
him, and it was shortly after seeing Fickert that
he withdrew as associate counsel for Mooney
and Billings. A few days later defense counsel
became aware that Fickert had come into pos
session of facts known only to the defendants
themselves and-Brouillet. 1t was soon certain
this arch-betrayer was violating one of the most
secret ethical canons of the Bar.
The defense had secured the story of volun-
tary witness, a known drug addict which would
have seriously impeached the statements of
White" ReanS, a drug clerk. The principle
prosecution witness John Mcdonald, claimed
ReanS corroborated his allegation that he was
in certain drug store on the afternoon of the
parade, and that he had told the drug clerk
he witnessed the bonbers place the bomb at
Steuart and Market Streets before seeing the
police. This voluntary witness, as a user of
drugs knew that Reans was dope peddler";
that he was illegally selling narcotics that he
was falsifying the records of the drug store;
and that he was deceiving the State Board of
Pharmacy 1t was the wish of the defense that
Brouillet, member of the State Board Of Phar-
macy, should secure the necessary evidence
proving Reans was a trafficker of drugs Had
Reans been arrested as "a slope pedder" his
testimony corroborating McDonald's would have
been valueless. Broullet betrayed these facts to
Fickert, and it was impossible for the defense
to mpeach Reans.
Brouillets connection with Fickert became SO
obvious that on February 49, 1917, Vance Thomp-
son, then editor of the Coast Seamens Journal"
charged on the floor of the Labor Council that
there is secret wire between the Labor Coun-
Gil and Fickert's office" Broullets animosity
toward Mooney and Billings was so overt that
when the Labor Council passed resell ,ticn.
March 81, 1917 declaring its belief in MONEYS
innocence, he strongly dissented few months
later, August II, 1917, he wrote an open letter
to the San Francisco Bulletin" stating Mooney,
Berkman, Billings, ct al. coterie ave done more
to discredit labor than any single agency know
OF 80. When the bomb cases we're first
discussed in the, Labor Council I took the posi-
ton they were not labor cases. ;"
Is it any wonder that when Oman was ar
rested for perjury, Fickert, who had raid this
contemplate creature for his perjured iesti-
mony, but who was now compelled to prosecute"
him. wrote to the Labor Council that ne would
be pleased to- have the cooperation Of A. w.
Brouet as an associate in the prosecution"
of Oxman?
To Be Continued
Mooney refers to the enterprise in state capt.
talisrn by which 1t was proposed that the state
Of California would run the electric power of