The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-07


The I. w. W.. about two month
to make plans "for freeing Tom M,
by the name of Thompson, who is
one of the I. w. w. chiefs, a Unita-
rian minister named Adlard and a
Farmer-Laborite lawyer named Slo-
MIN, and several others of the same
calibre.
mot A Farmer"
The size of Thompson can be
gagged by an incident during the
st. Louis County Farmers Hunger
March. AS the farmers and workers
were lining up to march, Thompson
was asked by workers to join the
parade Thompson replied that he
was not a farmer. When the worker
replied, ST am worker, and there
are hundreds of theirs in the parade,
Thompson was trying to get out OF
earshot, but not before the worker
had addressed the marchers, and
pointing out Thompson, announced
That's the man that is the head OF
the I. w. w. the organization that
Bill Haywood helped to build up
Imagine Bill Haywood refusing to
march with us?"
Rev. Adlard somewhat of a re-
putation as a liberal" was asked to
use his pulpit to aid the Kentucky
miners when they were on strike, but
he, and two other ministers who were
asked to do the same by the Workers
international Relief, refused because
sit might meet with disfavor," from
the wealthy of Duluth. In fact, the
ministers went as far as to consult
with a fake Mayors Unemployment
Committee of bankers and business
men before giving their decision.
Who Is Slonim?
Slonim who Is active in the county
Farmer-Labor party, publicly refused
to buy ticket to attend the mass
meeting at which Mother Mooney
was to appear, because the Interna-
tional Labor Defense was behind it.
Slonim, in the past thought that
the international Labor Defense was
gold enough to take money from
defending workers but now denoun-
ces the International Labor Defense
as "a Communist organization" This
same Slonim was once active in the
Socialist Party.
The three takers mentioned and
others We're in charge of the mass
meeting to "help to free Tom Moo
ney." A representative of the Trade
Union Unity League who was at the
meeting denounced the takers. A
fight ensued and he was elected from
the hall. The treatment accorded
him engraged the workers, and more
three fourths of those present left
the hall.
Help" For Mooney,
The Wobblies organized from this
meeting a Mooney Defense Commit
tee" and at the next meeting of this
committee the International Labor
Defense had representative and again
exposed the leaders of this move
ment. A third meeting was called
by the Wobblies and at this meeting
the floundering Wobblies breathed
their last as far as the Mooney de-
Tense is concerned. One of the Moo
ney executive defense committee sug-
gested a boycott of California fruit
to free Mooney, another suggested a
general strike, but the committee de-
cided that more practical would be
picnic for MONEYS freedom to be
held some time in September. And
until September, the Farmer-Labor-
lite Slonim proposed that mo more
public meetings" be held.
That the I. w. w. and the A. F.
of L. leaders were discredited was
seen fro mthe response given by the
rank and file of the A. F. of L. to
the call for a united front for the
Mooney-Scottsboro cases. The Long
Shoremen'S Union selected a repre-
sentative to attend the United Front
meeting, contributed $40 to the I. L.
D., and had representative speak
at the meeting, by Richard B. Moore
and mother Mooney. The rank and
file fthe Carpenters Union failed
by only one vote to have majority
for the proposal to send delegates
and funds to the Mooney Scottsboro
United Front, but the minority group
nevertheless, sent a delegate to the
meeting. Auxiliaries of the Carpen-
tiers Union and of the Locomotive
Engineers also sent delegates to the
United Front. 1t is significant that
the unions who we're addressed by
representatives Of the international