The daily worker., 1931-12-03

lying WlIAleSSeS, OAlldAl dliu MhCOOd~
aid.
Oxman and Macdonald.
Boiled down to its most essential
points, Walkers speech contained the
following:
There can be no controversy
about the resume, almost, of the
testimony of Oxman and MacDon-
aid that Thomas J. Mooney was
convicted. Can there be any doubt
about tn eresume, almost, of the
life of Oxman that his testimony
was unworthy? Can there be a
scintilla of confidence left in the
mans testimony that would justify
any one to deprive a man of his
inalienable right?"
Walker then quoted letter from
William v. MacNevin, foreman of
the jury who convicted Mooney on
perjured testimony. MacNevin says:
"Oxman and Macdonald were willful
and deliberate perjurers and that
their testimony given before the
court and jury in the Mooney case
was wholly false"
Who Was Back of Them?
All of these facts were known to
the capitalist court authorities, 10
Charles M. Fickert, district attorney,
who prosecuted Mooney in 1916, to
the judge who sentenced Mooney, to
the capitalists behind the Mooney
persecution. These facts, and more,
have been pointed out by the revolu-
tionary working-class press thou
sand times.
But what is Walker hiding?
Walker in his speech deliberately
covers up the fact-a fact that the
class conscious workers In their dem
onstrations backed by millions of
workers during the past Is years
have shouted from the housetops-
that this perjured testimony was
manufactured at the order of Charles
M, Fickert, acting for the California
bosses, whose object was to deal q
blow to the militant workers by jail
ing Mooney and Billings.
The Real Forces Tn the Case.
Walker, Walsh and Shapiro shouted
Justify, at the top Of their lungs about
the perjury Of Oxn1an and MacDon-
aid, the better to hide the class forces
behind these two insignificant liars;
to hide the real forces that put
Mooney in Jail and still keep him
there.
Walker In his speech, In q fur
ther attempt to whitewash the can
italist iailcrs and manufacturers
of perjured testimony, In order to
hide the class roots of the Mooney
frame-up, did his best to clear
Charles M. Fickert, district attor-
ney Of California, who headed the
Mooney persecution on behalf Of
the boss class Of California.
Walker quoted letter written
by Fickert, In which Fickert justi-
fies MONEYS conviction by say
ing: II had confidence In the
truthfulness of all evidence ad-
duced at the trial" Yet at that
very time the revolutionary work.
ers were tearing the lies of Oxman
and Macdonald to shreds. Flick
ert, and the whole capitalist class
Of California, knew tbecause they
had bought and paid for IT. that
the testimony Of these witnesses
were deliberate lies brought out for
the purpose OF legally numbering
two radical labor leaders.
Fickert, finally, in order to help
Walker, Walsh, Shapiro and the capt.
talist forces behind them, leading
from the A. r. Of L. officialdom up
to President Hoover and the House
OF Morgan, play their game OF trying
to clear the skirts OF bourgeois DEM
ocracy and demagogy, ends up in his
letter by asking for MONEYS par
don, saying 1T would be to the best
interests Of the state that executive
clemency should be granted to
Mooney"
Now that the whole frame-up is
exposed, now that millions of work.
ers are rallying behind Mooney and
other class-war prisoners, battling
against the rotten capitalist system,
Fickert, the jailer of Mooney for the
capitalist class, repeats. the phrases
of Walker and says sit would be to
the best interests of the state"-to
thebest interests of capitalism-to
try to clear up the dastardly jailing
Of an innocent working class leader.
Despite all this admission Of
frame-up, there is no guarantee, ex-
cept the determined action of the
workers, that Mooney and Billings
will be freed. Governor Rolph has
put the decision over for month.
Meanwhile, every kind Of pressure
will be brought against Mooney to
have him attack the workers. and