The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-04
MONEYS FIR eedom
In Handsof Workers
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the workers is growing. Following the
demonstration Tuesday of 10000 San
Francisco workers, demanding the
immediate release of Mooney, 10000
workers in New York Wednesday
night shouted their resolve to spread
the fight for MONEYS and Billings
release and to expose the nefarious
scheme of Walker and the boss class.
They declared their determination to
bring to the workers the role Of the
socialists and A. F. of l.. takers in
backing up Walkers move to cover
up and blur the class issues In the
Mooney case.
Hundreds of working class organ
izations, A. r. of l.. locals, Will pre-
pare and pass resolutions speeding up
the fight for the release of Mooney
and Billings, and exposing the trick
cry Of the California bosses, Walker
and the socialists in attempting to
gag Mooney and victirnize Billings.
Fiekert Twists Again:
Former prosecutor F1ckert, who
himself did the actual framing up on
behalf of the California bosses, is
sued statement Wednesday denying
he had said Mooney was not guilty.
He stated he did not ask for Moo
ney's pardon, though the entire capt.
talist press had published his letter
in which he approved Walkers plea.
Walker and company are doing
everything to create Illusions that
Mooney will be pardoned, in order
TO stop the mass movement for
MONEYS release. AT the same time
they strive TO get Mooney to re-
nounce his ties with the revolu-
tionary working class. But the &C
tons of Walker, Rolph, Fickert, etc,
prove still further that only the
working class, acting In huge mass
es, can insure MONEYS release.
That that capitalists are far from
a solid front on the question Of re-
leasing Mooney, even on the basis of
Walker and Rolph's scheme, is shown
in Fickert's latest letter insisting that
Oman and Macdonald were not
plain liars.
At the same time Senator John
Hastings and Frank P. Walsh, both
of whom are part of the Walker,
group, made special visit to Moo
ney after the hearing before Gov
ernor Rolph. The purpose of the
hearing was not stated, but the
capitalist press leaves no room for
doubt that the aim was on the part
of Walker to get Mooney to turn
his back on the working class, to
accept gag-rule freedom, to retire
and withdraw from the class strug-
gle.
The New York Mirror said that
the basis of the promise that they
seek to get from Mooney is that he
will retire to private life, quietly"
and that he will not "hold himself
out as victim Of the rich"
The New York Times admitted
that the purpose Of Hastings and
Walsh was "of getting Mooney TO
commit himself to the statement that
he will not indulge in radical activi-
ties if he was released"
This is precisely what the telegram
Of Dunno, Foster and Minor warned
Mooney against. 1t shows UP more
and more the fact that the capitalists
Of California, aided by Walker, the
socialists, Hoover, and the A. r. of L,
seek to break the Moo
ney case from its class bone and
sinew; they seek to gag Mooney; they
seek to bury the case in obscurity
and whitewash this ferocious frame
up, and to throw the guilt on Bill
ings.
Why s Monthsf
The fact that Governor Roiph has
set the date for the decision ahead
Tor three months shows that the CAPT
talists of California do not intend to
Tree Mooney--unless forced TO by
growing working class pressure and
that in the meantime, they intend to
bring a heavy barraee against Moo
ney in an effort to blackjack him into
accepting their policy.
The position OF the Communist
Party asaa Mooney shopld no4 rely