The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10

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outrage charged against him has
been SO conclusiVely proved that
only the wilfully and hopelessly
blind and warped can even question
it. Not from his friends, but out
of the mouths of his class enemies
has come by far the most convinc-
ing proof that every bit of evidence
produced against him at the trial
was unmitigated perjury, manufac-
tured and coached by the police
and prosecuting authorities of San
Francisco.
ADMIT PERJURIES
1t was Gocernor Young Of Calf
ornia who officially reported to the
State Legislature in 1880 that his
personal investigation has proved
the prosecutions chief witness, OK
man, a constituencies perjurer. This
Characterization was openly con-
firmed by Theodore Roche, then as
now President of the Police Com
mission of San Francisco and then
as now the law partner of the in
famous Judge Matt Sullivan, whose
lying report served as a basis for
Gov. Rolph's recent decision deny
ing Mooney pardon.
1t was Lieutenant Governor Car
nahan of California who officially
reported to the State Supreme Court
in 1880 that his personal inyesti-
cations and examination of the
prosecution other main witness,
Mcdonald, had proved his entire
testimony to have been sheer fab
rication, - uncovering two police rec
ord statements suppressed by the
San Francisco police for ID years,
which revealed that McDonald's
first description of the supposed
dynamiters made two days after the
explosion in no wise even resembled
either Mooney or Billings.
1t was Judge Matt Sullivan who
himself admitted in his vicious re-
port that the testimony of the two
Edeau women had been totally dis
credited.
1t was j. B. Densmore, Director
General of the U. S. Employment
Service, who officially reported to
Secretary Wilson of the U. S. De-
partment of Labor in 1918, that a
dictaphone he had placed in the
private office of District Attorney
Fickerts MONEYS prosecutor and
Trainer, had disclosed Fickert and
his deputy. Cunha, shamelessly dis
cusSing every detail of the frame
up they had engineered.
1t is the Wickersham Commits
sion, appointed by President Hoo
yer, whose suppressed report, re-
Gently published, officially exposes
the deliberate acts of frame up and
fabrication in every step taken by
the police and prosecution of San
Francisco to hang Mooney and Bill
ingS for a crime of which they were
completely guiltless.
Why, then, in view of all these
revelations by his class enemies, is
Mooney still stubbornly kept jailed
in San Quentin? The answer is
clear to every class conscious work
er, who knows that Tom MONEYS
frameup and Imprisonment is part
and parcel of the whole organized
capitalist campaign to Starve and
enSlave the workers and to terror
ize them by the frame-up, impris-
Onment, and torture of their most
militant leaders. The answer was
made clear again several weeks ago
by the present district attorney of
San Francisco, Matthew Brady, who
himself has repeatedly voiced his
belief in MONEYS innocence, when
he unwittingly let the cat out of
the bag by declaring in an interview
that it would be "pSychologically
dangerous" to release Mooney and
Billings. What a frankly cynical
admission and what a commentary
on capitalist "justice'
The question to them is not
whether Mooney is innocent or
guilty; the point is that it would be
psychologically dangerous" for the
capitalist class to pardon and re-
lease Mooney! Yes, it may be psy-
chologically dangerous for the boss
eS and their lckspittles in public
office and the working class be-
trayers in the A. F. of L. to free
Tom Mooney, but it is every day
becoming even more than phycho-
logically dangerous for them to keep
Tom Mooney longer in that Calf
ornla dungeon. The heroic strug-
giles relentlesSly waged by such mil
liant working class organizations as
the International Labor Defense are
q warrant that capitalist repression
is becoming even more dangerous
for the capitalist class itself. The
swiftly growing class consciousness
OF the workers of California, of
America and throughout the world,
struggling nilitantly and desper-
ately against mass unemployment,
starvation and hideous exploitation,
is making this world not only dan
gerous but catastrophe for the
capitalist class and its reactionary
and reformist supporters.
Tom MONEYS 5oth birthday and
18th year in San Quentin prison
should spur the workers to greater
efforts to force his release from
prison.
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