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The Washington times., 1932-04-22

thirty acres Of leveled land
cleared even of turf, laid out for
real estate development.
Take a bit of paper-draw a =,
map for yourself-you may solve
the mystery of that murder moor
as quickly as a district attorney.
On one side, busy highway,
stretching straight, unshadoWed,
through Garden City to New
York. Traffic on that highway
all night, remember. Milk
wagons, vegetable trucks in the
early morning. Petting parties
at any dim-lit hour.
A Swampy Pool
That-on one side. To the
right, third of mile, a settle
ment of large, well-built new
homes. Further off, on the left.
but still within hearing distance.
a group of farm houses.
Straight ahead, on the horizon,
a long blur of trees and dip
in the sketchy earth road where
the land falls, through brush, to
a swampy pool.
Four boundaries, one alone Of
fering concealment and silence
for a murder. In the midst,
those 80 acres, flat as a hand,
bare as a bone. Yet it was
exactly upon that flatness and
baroness, 100 feet from the high.
way, that they were found.
It was bright that night-re-
member? White moonlight. So
white the scanty spears of grass
cast thin, jet filaments OF
shadows on the cleaning earth.
No shade, except that, where a
hunted thing might crawl, or a
hunting thing might hide.
A great, open brightness.
Silence like caught breath
waiting. The moon like lidlesS
eye-staring. Staring as the
clock swung round from 8 to 10
Continued on Page 2, Col. - .
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Mooney Should
Go Free; Says
DQrrOw

HONOLULU, T. H, April %
GN.SD.-"I think Governor
Rolph made a great mistake in
denying a pardon to Tom
Mooney" Clarence Darrow, chief
of the defense counsel in the
Fortescue-Massie trial and noted
as liberal leader, said today.
Mooney is entitled to his
freedom. / don't believe he
had anything to do with the
bombing.
81 think the dynamiting was
a political Offense and was not
involved in any labor dispute.
Certainly the trial judge
and the jurors working for a
pardon know more about the
case than any one else. That
would seem to be enough to
procure a pardon"
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
MOONEY GUILT
SUMMED Up

SACRAMENTO, Calf, April
% G.N.SO-Delving thoroughly
into the entire history of the pre-,
paredness day bombing in San
Francisco. Matt I. Sullivan, legal
advisor to Gov. James Rolph, jr.,
in recommending against par
don for Tol.- Mooney stated flat
ly that no new evidence had been
uncovered that had previously
not been reviewed and rejected.
Sullivan recapitulated his ar
guments against Mooney as fol
lows:
Prior to the bombing, Mooney,
with other alleged radicals, was
publicly opposed to prepared
ness day parade.
MONEYS hatred for the ex-
listing social order impelled him
to plot and carry out the
bombing.
Billings, the tool" of Mooney,
carried the bomb to the main
thoroughfare of San Francisco,
and left it there where it ex-
ploded killing 10 people.
AS one of his proofs, Sullivan
asserted that materials for max.
ing bombs, together with ball
bearings, cartridge shells and
other objects that might be used
to make them more destructive
we're found in the lodgings OF
both Mooney and Billings.
The defense, however, had con
tended that these objects were
"planted."
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
'MYCONSC|ENCE
IS CLEAR SAYS
GOV. ROLPH
California Executive Defends
Verdict in Mooney Case As
"Honest and lust"
SACRAMENTO, Calf,

SACRAMENTO, alif.,
April 20 (I.N.s.).-"The
world will agree, I believe,
that my verdict has been
honest, fair, and just. My
conscience is clear"
Governor James Rolph, jr., of
California, spoke this brief mes
Sage-an epilogue to his dramatic
decision denying Thomas j.
MONEYS pardon appeal-as he
left the capitol at daybreak to-
day by plane for Virginia.
While the governor winged his
way eastward via Los Angeles,
Phoenix, and Ell Paso to attend
a convention of American gov
errors at Richmond, his pardon
verdict was placed in the State
archives, side by side with SINH
lar DEGREES of the three Cali
fornia governors who preceded
him in office.
"JustIy Convicted"
His decision, Governor Rolph
said, was based on thorough
investigation of the entire case
that convinced him that Thomas
j. Mooney was guilty of the Of
Tense charged against him, that
he was justly convicted by the
jury by whom he was tried, and
that the application made on his
behalf for pardon should be
denied"
Attached to the Rolph decision
in the States bullying Mooney file
was the voluminous report of
Judge Matt I. Sullivan, former
chief justice of the California
State Supreme Court, in which
Mooney was bitterly excoriated,
and in which Woodrow Wilson,
Mayor Walker of New York, Prof.
Albert Einstein, and other notables
were caustically referred to for
their misplaced sympathy" in
behalf of Mooney, convicted to
life imprisonment for the Pre-
paredness Day bombing in San
Francisco.
"Whitewash," Says Sister
In grim contrast to these docu-
ments sealing MONEYS prison
fate was a typewriter statement
of bitter invective, left on Gov
ernor Rolph's desk and signed in
feminine scrawl-"Anna Rooney"
It read in part:
"My brother, Tom, is a vic
tim of the class struggle. This
decision has whitewaShed my
brothers frame-up and keeps
him in prison."
Mrs. Mary Mooney. the famous
convict's mother, had approved
this message as she left the
executive office, leaning heavily
on the arm of her daughter,
while a red and white banner,
reading MY son is innocent"
lay crumpled across her breast.
Judge Sullivan, the governors
adviser, declined to elucidate on
his report, which arraigned
Mooney sympathizers, with spe-
cific reference to Mayor Walker
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Alexandria Musician
Loses $4,000 Action

A jury in Alexandria Corpora
ton Court at 10 o'clock last night
found verdict for the defendant
in the action of Prof. L. B. Ryder.
musician, against the Alexandria
washington buses. in which
he asked for $4,000 for injuries
to his hand which he claimed
were received in a collision be-
tween his car and a bus on Jan
uary az
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
DECISION
'BEW|LDER|NG,'
SAYS OLDER
Famous Editor Points Out
Mooney Jury Favors
Prisoners Release

Governor Rolph'S refusal to
pardon Thomas J. Mooney does
not settle the Dorld famous
Mooneu-BillinqS case in the
opinion of Fremont Older, ia.
nous San Francisco editor, who
for gears has been GctiUe in the
fight to free the imprisoned
labor leader. The case cannot
end. Older declares. until Mooney
and Billings are set free. In the
following article Older sets forth
his reactions to Governor Rolph'S
Uerdict.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Score Feared Dead
In Court COLLdpSe

BASTIA. Corsica, April %
G.N.SD The death toll of Is
taken with the collapse of the
Palace of Justice yesterday was
expected to increase today as
rescuers dug among the ruins for
further victims. Some of the
IL seriously injured were not ex-
pected to survive,
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
LAWYER KILLS SELF

RICHMOND. Va, April %.
Barnes Gillespie, So, widely con-
nected throughout southwest Vir-
ginia, and one of the best-known
lawyers in this part of the State,
killed himself at his home at
Tazwell by shooting himself in
the abdomen with a shotgun. He
had been in poor health for a
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
BY FREMONT OLDER


SerVlce).
SAN FRANCISCO, April %
GINS. ).-Governor Rolph has
announced that in his opinion
and in the judgment of his
adviser, Matt l. Sullivan
Thomas j. Mooney is "guilty
of the offense charged against
him." and "was justly con-
victed by the jury by whom
he was tried"
Governor Rolph's refusal to
pardon Mooney will astound mil
lions of people in every part of
tho world and will convince few
of them.
Jurors for Mooney
The jury that tried Mooney does
not agree with Governor Rolph.
Every living juror has petitioned
a pardon for this man, on the
ground that his conviction was
brought about by the perjury of
John Macdonald and Frank c..
Oman.
Macdonald came to California
and admitted to the supreme court
and to Governor Young that he
was a liar; Oman was 80 miles
away from San Francisco at the
time of the bomb explosion, and
lied in court.
The foreman of that jury has
begged a pardon for Mooney,
stating fatty that without the
testimony of Oman there would
have been chung jury" and
without the testimony of Mac
Donald an acquittal.
Judge Franklin Griffin does not
agree with Governor Rolph and
his advisers. He has written let
ter after letter, begging a pardon
for the man who was found guilty
in his court on perjured evidence.
Is "Bewildering"
The captain of detectives who
gathered the evidence" against
Mooney does not agree that he
was guilty or was justly convicted.
Duncan Matheson has signed his
name to a pardon appeal. He
believes that Thomas Mooney was
unjustly convicted.
The Mooney case is not ended
by Governor Rolph's decision. It
cannot end until Thomas Mooney
and Billings are set free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
'MyManIS in Jail;
|PleaseDoSendMe
Money for Eat
Dear Friends:

please give me some money
TO eat while my husband is in Jail,
please have a heart to send some
money. Got two children, the
baby Is small and nobody comes
to see me. Six months I don't go
and See my husband / haven't
got no money to go and see my
husband.n ,. ~
This is a letter from Mrs. Sam
Bentto, wife of a prisoner framed
on charge of manslaughter while
defending himself against the at
tack of body guard of one of the
leaders of the United Mine Work
ers OF America. Arrested in 1929.
Benito was only sentenced in 1892.
For from six to twelve years, Benito,
locked up in the Pennsylvania East
ern State Pcnitenitary will be I'M
able to hcfp his wife and their two
children, Micael and Jennie. Again
and again Mrs. Benito writes in to
say that she can find no work,
and that the International Labor
Defense stands alone in helping her.
We must carry on this work. You
VIII not let this family Of a class
war prisoner starve. Give to the
Prisoners Winter Relief Campaign,
tell your friends about this easel
Send all contributions to the Inter
national Labor Defense, 80 e. 18th
ST., Room 430, New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
Restoration" How and
For Whom?

HOW promptly the A. F. of L. leadership responds the
Ii needs and instructions of capitalism and its captains!
In Cincinnati Green breaches restoration OF the damaged
capitalist system
The order of the day from Wall Street and it's govern
ment to President Green the Executive Council of the
split the militant movement
Councils within the F. Of L. itself there the rank
separate purely thereby
siaS Ths mass ePPe ITp pt leaders Understand very
revolutionary implications of the mass struggle for federal I'M
acquaint Of F. OF members with the fI
s 9 0 9 f nd argsn tbem to defeat this new flank
attack the working class a whole
The opening speech Of President Green to the convention OF the
msrSsn Federation Labor n4% IN 0@ G64 b naf maze
Executive Council 10 n from d pT0m Of 0p oppIp 10 a
compulsory enacted by the state legislatures
On the surface this appears to be an soanee and undoubtedly VIII
peculiarly cunning treahery the 1916
million gnsmpoye the part r T sn mpT s sGTG ns
to call state legislature ito enact this form OF
legislation create public opinion for Immediately
n of te whole scheme is to divert the mass struggle for federal
unemployment hundreds of A F of local unions have
movement 'v would be stranded
designed to check and demon
ae e s low o d ti o1roant enav among members
of l. the building trades unemployment
the Hoover administration
ty Of freeing the federal government
principal policies Of the F Of Bureaucracy carry the open
present acute crisis MS one has received special blessing @
says after his discussion OF unemployment insance when he
that would make vau
the restoration impaired capaistc
the F. of l. executive
combine with reaction support OF system class
lowered the standard
working class by at least 10 cens and which
o assail the working all fronts
bureaucracy
unions with the special and serious task of quickly
it membership whole
pec this Of those Communists working in the A. F. OF L. Com
Relief
Cincinnati
the and will struggle
to
deralu unemployment by the bureaucracy.
the moment the the reactonary political
content of this sabotage and its consequent defeat The beauats
allowed behind
puy unemployment enacted into by state legislature
allowed split the The A F. of
struggle federal
restoration the "captasc
that the American working class what the
muni advocates fights for Militant all
against the capitalist onsenot restoration but the overthrow
Support the National Hunger march,
those millions unemployed!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

"You want this nigra?' he asked.
Pearson shook his head.
Il reck'n it might cause a iii
trouble" he began.
Il understand" Ramsey said
icily.
"Mr. Deerin's willin' to let the
boy CO." Nichols announced.
IF get my advance back" the
planter interrupted. IF you love
him so much I'll return him to you
for what he's cost me. He's a God
damn total loss anyway"
LESS what he's already earned
working" Ramsey suggested. What
is the balance?"
II don't carry my books with
mel'
VERY well, sir. If you will send
me a statement Of his account
with the contract he signed, I'll
send you check for the balance
due you."
81 hope everything's settled now,
gentlemen, an that there's no
hard feelins," the sheriff said
cheerfully.
Deering turned on his heel and
walked out.
What about the chaseea" 1Fieis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

would stink in that heat. I had
planned to notify you the first
chance got and have the coroner
hold an inquest. am ready with
my witnesses any time it suits
you"
pEARSON stirred uneasily in his
chair.
Deering glanced at him and
smiled.
well, new that I've reported it,
must be on my way. viii you
be good enough to give me my
nigger?"
'@This nigra, who you say is lazy"
Ramsey said mildly, cannot be of
much use to you. I imagine he
would not be very happy going
back to your farm now. Would it
not be better if you released him?"
I'm not releasing him That
nigger's going to work out his adj
vance"
Then I must insist, Sheriff, that
you hold this nigra as material
witness in the charges against Mr..
Deering"
Nichols shook his head in Devil
derment and pulled Deering aside,
whispering to him with emphatic
shakes of the head.
Ramsey turned to Pearson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

OILS smiled.
David looked up pleadingly.
please, Mist Ramsey, I do@n
wan tub mex no charges. I'd lax,
tub go wild you, sub, please"
That's alright, David" bel
smiled. I'll take you with me-"
OFF FOR THE CITY
Ramsey brought the boy TO The
bus station i'll the adjoining county
seat and gave him ten one dollar
bills.
1.-THE Americas bus leaves this
afternoon Take it and transfer
there for Macon he advised. lit
has q large nigra population anf
you can work there. There's
pretty rich nigra there, too, who ]
good to his race. Maybe he'll heys3
you. I'll see Dee and tell him T
saw you out of the county"
Continued Tomorrow
FREE AT LAST-SO HE
THENKS-WITH MONEY IN HIS
POCKET, WILL DAVID Sue
CEED IN REACHING THE CITY?
OR WILL HE AGAIN FALL INTO
ONE OF THE NUMEROUS TRAPS
THAT THE SOUTHERN WHITE
RULING CLASS SETS FOR NE
GROES ALONE ON THE ROADS?
DON'T MISS TOMORROW,S M
STALLMENT!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
COPPER TRUST
TRIES TO DISRUPT
MASS FIGHT FOR 9
Wants Scottsboro Case
Handled by Reformist
Groups

HANCOCK, Mich, Nov. 2l.-The
tremendous partial victory won by
mass pressure in the Scottsboro Case
and it's possible effects on the miners
are worrying the local copper trust
newspaper, the Evening Copper Jour-
nal.
In an article in its Nov. Is issue,
the Journal tries to make it appear
that the International Labor De-
Tense had nothing to do with the
ScottSboro case. 1t peddles the fam
tastic lie that "the Civil Liberties
Union took up the Scottsboro Ne
groes' fight" further declaring that
'the Civil Liberties Union having
carried an appeal to the Alabama
supreme bench and lost, turned to
the federal tribunal OF last resort" "
Ridiculous Lie.
The Journal INDUCES in such a
ridiculous lie when all the world
knows that the Scottsboro boys and
their parents rejected the policy Of
the white and Negro reformists Of
dependence on the Integrity" and
fairness" Of the bosses lynch courts
and turned instead to the 1. L. D.
and its militant policy of mass de-
tense. 1t knows that the 1. l.. D.
policy won the reversal of the lynch
verdicts in the U. S. Supreme Court.
The writer of the article in the
5ournal admits that the State De-
partment attempted to disrupt the
mass defense campaign in Europe.
He refers insultingly to Mrs. Ada
Wright as "the old Negro nanny
IN speaking Of her defense tour of
Europe, and states:
"The State Department, taking
hand, succeeded in getting her de-
ported successfully from Belgium,
Czechosl0vakia, Austria and Bull
saria. This advertised her crusade
to such an extent that the expected
septUplc eiectrocution promised 10
cause repercussions throughout the
world
Thus while attempting TO deny the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS-Inspecor S. w. Thornton of
Georgia, knows his the urerous
chain system that masters capitalists and planters
maintain oppression the Negro
people To stle protest socald
chain sometimes Georgia Prison Com
mission Above carbon ordering inyi-
CATION III Georgia prison impartial
ports which Inspector Thornton supplies indicated
below report another complete white
wash, ending with attack
complained
symbolic the whole
struggle o Negro white toers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
BEN GOLD TO TOUR COUNTRY

In accordance with the decisions
of the National Convention of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union to strengthen the districts and
help them prepare struggles OF thous-
ands OF needle trades workers for
better conditions, and against betray-
ais Of the Socialist and A. F. of L.
trade union bureaucrats. the National
Secretariat Of the union at its last
meeting decided that Ben Gold is to
begin a tour in the early part of De-
cember. Fl is TO visit the Coast.
Chicago, 81. Louis, Kansas City
Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Bal
tbn0re and other centers.
CWrade Gold will bring the mes
sage OF the New York furriers, their
achievements, and gains recently
1880 81, -.yxSxsEE, ,s4fa, 4. ,e \. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
China Express" Will
Be Shown Turnout us.

NEW YORK.-At the office Of the
Garrison Film Distributors, (729--
7th Ave0 1t was learned that 100 show
ings of "China Express" have been
arranged with the International
Workers Order. The Two, by ar
rangement with the Garrison Film
Co., will tour this world-famous film
thruout at least 100 cities, towns and
villages during the next four months.
This tour will mark the first ex-
tensiye use of 16mm (sff,all size for
small portable projectorsl by work
ers organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
NetVP ambhlet on
Fifteen Years of
the Soviet Union
FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE SOVIET
UNION. A new pamphlet pub
lished by the Friends of the So
Wet Union. Price cents.

FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE SOVIET
UNION. A new pamphlet pub
lished by the Friends Of the So
Wet Union. Price S cents.
THIS pamphlet gives an excellent
L picture of November Z, 1917, and
the events following this memoir
able date up to the present time;
the seizure of power by the Boil
sheviks, the fight against counter
revolution, the imperialist armies
of invasion and the White Guards
are briefly and dramatically des-
cribed. Then follows an account
Of the restoration period and the
Inauguration Of the Five Year
Plan in 1923. The highlights of
the achievements of socialist con-
Struction, the Improvement in the
living conditions of the workers
and peasants, the Iteration of the
formerly oppressed minor nation
alities, the vast Improvement in
the position of women, and great
care given to children in the So
Wet Union aye clearly demonstra-
ted by facts and figures
The pamphlet is well illustrated
with photographs from the Soviet
Union covering the entire period,
and tables are given of the indus
trial, agricultural and cultural adj
vance.
This is the only pamphlet which
has appeared in English of pop
ular nature covering the period
since the Revolution. 1t is 80 pages
and sells for cents, with discount
to organizations. 1t can be had
from the Friends of the Soviet
Union, 80 E. 18th St., New York
City, or from the Workers Library
Publishers, Box 148, Station o, New
York, NJ Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

munist Party in the United States,
the defender of the rights of the
Negro masses, the leader of the
working class in the struggles
against hunger and imperialist war"
OAKLEY JOHNSON, Secretary of
p" the American Committee Against
War, and recently fired from the
College Of the City of New York
for revolutionary activities, issued
the following statement:
You have a right to refuse to
Starye, said j. Louis Engdahl on
the occasion Of that great demon
Stration against hunger that took
place in Union Square on March
s, 1880. You have right to de-
fend yourself from the attack of
the bosses. The workers have a
right to fight for their lives"
DEMONSTRATION
That mammoth demonstrat ton
was the first demonstration I had
ever seen in my life. 1t was tt.e
first time I had ever felt the So
lidarity and the power of the
working masses. And it was the
first time I had ever seen J. Louis
Engdahl.
II was In the very center Of
the mass Of $4,000 workers who
crowded that day into Union
Square at the call of the Commu-
mist Party. L stood within thirty
feet of Conlrade Engdahl as he.
simultaneously with five other
speakers on other PLATFORMS adj
dressed that vast crowd.
II will never forget that his
toric demonstration, for it is from
that moment that I date my real
swing to the Communist ranks.
And will never forget that pic
ture Of Comrade Engdahl, calling
on American workers to fight for
themselves and their own class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

role Of mass pressure on the lynch
courts in forcing a reversal of the
lynch verdicts, the writer unwittingly
admits that it was this mass pressure
and the fear of the capitalists of
'repercussions throughout the world"
that forced the U. S. Supreme Court
to order a new trial for the innocent
Scottsboro boys, even while at the
same time pointing out to the Ala
bama courts how best to carry out
the legal lynchinga -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
FOR SOLIDARITY
OF NEGRO AND WHITE

Long live the solidarity of Negro
and white workers which the self
sacrificing activities of revolution
aries like Comrade Engdahl have
helped to cement. Long live the
memory Of Comrade Engdahi en-
shrined in the hearts of the whole
working-claSsl Long live the Com
mlnisL international and our Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

Sheriff Dan Nichols, Deering hreIing and forced
to turn hack to the courthouse While Nichols tries
to persuade Ramsey to give up the boy, he summons
Deering and Shay Pearson the white planter ON
whose farm Davd'S father, Dee Jackson, is shsc0-
crOpper Now read on:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24
AUGUST 9TH, 1881.

Nj. S. p. Thornton,
MD edSeville Co
lou VII to the State Highway Camp County
BlaSsvt1e,
BY "r.Archer, brother Of
1t reported that VIZ. Archer
Also make full Investigation this.
The Commission desires these matters be
fully investigated Impartial report be
by
aHs PRIsoH coSIssIoE or GEORGIA
Sc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-24

THE STORY SO FAR: After escaping from
the slave farm of the powerful white planter Jim
Oeering, where Negroes are tortured and sometimes
murdered, David Jackson, Negro lad. is being
driven to the next county by Ramsey, planter who
has come to his aid, when they overtaken by