The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-08
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ATSANFRANCISCO
March With Red Flag;
Tumultuous Cheers
For Communists Z

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. T.
Eighteen thousand workers, making
the largest mass meeting here in Is
years, marched into Civic Auditorium
yesterday afternoon and launched a
renewed struggle for the freedom of
Tom Mooney. They damned the
balconies, platforms and aisles and
cheered twnultously for every call to
action by the speakers.
They stayed in the hall from 1880
am. to $50 pm. They listened with
bated breath to the tensely dramatic
testimony of Callicotte, under the
skillful questioning of Theadore
Dresser, who now reached the climax
of his cross-continental dash to aid
Mooney.
Marched With Red Flags
Delegations we're present from all
California towns as far away as Los
Angeles. Five thousand marched with
red flags and placards, Free Tom
Mooney" and Vote Communist"
from the waterfront. Other process
sions from around the city followed
red flags to the Civic Auditorium.
AS the marchers paraded around
the hall all those previously assem-
bled rose and cheered for Is minutes.
Leo Gallagher reused the meeting
to a fever pitch with his dramatic
recital of the points in the frame-up
of Billings and Mooney.
Steffens Calls for Communist Vote
Lincoln Steffins, famous for his
writings and particularly for his in
vestigations of graft in American
capitalist politics, got powerful oYa-
ton when he declared:
Tom Mooney now has his first
real chance for freedom with the
masses of workers led by the Com
munist Party which has thrown its
full force behind him." Steffins
then appealed, amidst wild accla-
nations, "Vote for Foster and
Ford!"
The crowd cheered with enthusi-
asm the greetings to this meeting
and to Tom Mooney from the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of Germany from the Communist
fraction in the German Reichstag
(these were signed by Clara zetkin),
and from the Communist Parties Of
Great Britain and France.
For an hour the crowd listened in
hushed attention to the detailed pub
lie questioning of Callicotte by
Dresser. He brought out how CALI
cote was hired by two men, neither
of whom was Mooney or Billings, to
place the suitcase which must have
contained the bomb that killed ten
in the Preparedness Day Parade, on
July %, 1916, and for which they
framed the strike leaders, Mooney
and Billings.
Refuse to Cross Examine
The San francisco District At
torney, Captain Of Police Cough, and
Chief of Police Quinn had special
representatives present, but these,
seeing Callicotte's story unaSsailable,
refused to question him in public.
Sam Darcy, Communist district or
ganizer, spoke particularly on the
way in which the Mooney frame-up
was handled by city administra-
ton which acted as the agents Of
the employers against whom Mooney
had been leading strikes. He told
also of the long history of treachery
to Mooney by the AFT. leaders in
California and elsewhere.
Tried to Suppress Evidence
Attorney Goodman of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense wildly exposed
the investigation" by San Francisco
police agents of Callicotte immediate
ly after he made his announcement
of hitherto concealed evidence in
Portland, Sept 26. Goodman told of
the frantic but vain efforts made by
these police agents to suppress or dis
credit the Callicotte confession, :