The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-26


ses are trying their hardest to
hide the California Confession
as they tried in the past to suppress
and destroy the photographs proving
that Mooney was 9O66 feet away from
the scene of explosion; as they tried
to suppress the confession to perjury
on the part of every stool and pros
titute they bought to help hang Tom
Mooney.
1t is to the credit of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, that now leads
the worldwide struggle for Moneys
freedom, and its alert representatives
in Portland that the Callicotte con-
fession is now an added page in the
history's volumes on the Mooney
frame-up.
Even the bosses themselves make
no other pretense for keeping Moo
ney buried alive in San Quentin save
that he is a dangerous radical. In
the working class language, it means
that Mooney is an incorruptible mill
tant fighter in the toiler's ranks. It
is this fact that makes the whole out
fit of the American Federation of
Labor misleaders, MONEYS sworn
enemies and jailors In his last de-
cision of April 20, denying a pardon
to Mooney, Governor Rolph with I'M
limited cynicism. revealed clearly
that he denies the pardon because
of MONEYS militant labor record. AS
militant fighter Mooney threw in
to the teeth of his jailors his reaction
by stating, "This decision proves the
utter impossibility of any militant
worker ever securing justice at the
hands Of capitalist courts,
governors and other politicians"
He continued to keep his faith IN
the toiling masses by calling upon
them to "close the ranks and raise
louder than ever the demand that the
plunderbund of California let go their
victims"
AS in the Mooney and Billings case,
so in the Scottsboro the bosses re-
sorted to the vilest frame-up methods
to burn to death the innocent Negro
boys of Scottsboro, Alabama. The
Scottsboro case is part of the savage
oppression under which the Negro
population has groaned since they
were chained in slavery to the Amer
lean shores so that the white ruling
masters may wallow in luxury and
idleness.
Today the Negro masses under the
leadership of the Communist Party
and the International Labor Defense
are stirred to depths in efforts to
break the chains of national oppres-
sion. Mob and legal lynching, jim
Grow and acknowledgements. The
white American working masses are
beginning to rid themselves of the
vicious poison of white superiority
pumped into their brains from very
childhood by the common enemy of
the white and black workers the
boss class. In every appeal addressed
to the workers, Mooney does not fail
to stress that in their struggle for his
freedom they must also fight for the
freedom of the Scottsboro boys.
The International Labor Defense
supported by the black and white
workers succeeded three times in
staying the executioners' hands pre-
pared to snuff out the lives of the
Scottsboro boys, as 1t succeeded in get
ting a new trial for Orphan Jones
and as it has now obtained freedom
for three Negro workers in the WASH
ington, D. c., Logan Circle case. The
International Labor Defense is arous-
ing the black and white workers to
continued mass pressure to compel
the U. s. Supreme Judge Court to
grant new trial for the Scottsboro
boys which must see the smashing
of the brutal frame-up. II exposes
their political maneuvering to post
pone the decision till after the cleo
ton in fear of the masses reaction
to murderous verdict.
California Workers. Fill Civic
Auditorium on Nov. s.
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