The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-26
ATTEMPT STIFLE
VOICE OF MOONEY
Prison Warden Threat;
Plan Mass Congress

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.-In
their attempts to stifle the rising
thunder of protest against the con-
tinued Imprisonment of Tom Mooney,
the California bosses are now threat
ening TO hold him incommunicado in
San Quentin Prison in order to COM
pletely cut off Mooney from the
masses of workers and intellectuals
who are rallying to the mass fight for
his release.
Warden James B. Holollan said
yesterday he was considering such
action. He declared he had received
many complaints, "some from high
government officials, concerning the
flood of Mooney propaganda being
circulated, by the mails and other
means under MONEYS name" He
declared he would not have San
Quentin prisoners issuing political
pronunciamentos to the world. The
only way to stop it, it Sc rs, is for
us to forbid interviews With Mooney"
The toiling masses n .lSt answer
Immediately this threat 10 hold Moo
ney incommunica0o! Rush protests
to Gov. Rolph of California ard to
Warden James 3. Holohan at San
Quentin Elect delegates for the Free
Tom Mooney Congress in Chicago
April 30l Strengthen the mass fight
for MONEYS freedom:
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. pa call
for a Free Tom Mooney Congress, to
which representatives of workers Or
CARNATIONS all over the country are
invited. to be held in Chicago, April
90 to May 2, was issued today. The
International Labor Defense is sup
porting this Congress, and has called
en- all its districts, sections, and
branches, not only to elect delegates
to the Congress- but to bring the call
to all other working-class organiza-
lions throughout the country, to Sc
cure the election of delegates.
Following is the test of the call,
issued by Tom Mooney himself,
through the Tom Mooney Molders
Defense Committee:
II hereby issue today, Jan. 81, 1888,
this call for a Free Tom Mooney
Congress. to be held at Chicago, April
so to May q 1888, under the auspices
Of the Tom Mooney Molders' Defense
Committee, to plan the final fight
for my freedom. I appeal to every
A. F. of L. union-local, district,
state and national in its jurisdiction;
to the railroad brotherhoods, and all
other labor unions; to all working
class organizations-political, eco
nomic, defense social athletic, fra
tarnaI or cultural; and to all liberal
organizations sympathetic to the
workers, to elect two delegates from
every local, lodge, Or section to at
tend this congress.
Fight Wage Cuts, Hunger
Labor in the United States is be-
ing showed headlong into state OF
peonage which even the coolies and
chattel slaves never knew, while a
few international bankers are becom-
ing the uncroWned kings OF the
world. Because fought such condi-
lions with every fiber of my being
and was framed by the enemies of
the working class for doing so, be-
cause I have become the symbol OF
labor struggling for its rights, the
fight for my freedom can become the
center around which the workers will
rally in their desperate struggle
against unemployment, wage-cuts
and starvation.
THE Free Tom Mooney Congress
will link my fight with every strug-
Gle of the workers. Now is the time
when there is desperate need to IN
tensify the fight for the freedom OF
all class war prisoners, and against
the ruthless intimidation and terror
ization of workers regardless OF race,
creed color or nationality. Every
worker with a spark of militancy or
revolutionary purpose or the small
est speck of self-respect, who is not
slave, who has a drop OF red blood
flowing in his veins, must now fight
for his very life and that of his
women and children. 1t is your duty
and responsibility to take part in this
struggle.
Governor Rolph, tool OF the labor
hating bankers and industrialists,
had decreed that I die in prison.
This decision is deliberate and in
solent challenge to the entire labor
movement. This challenge must be
met. 1t can and will be met by the
Free Tom Mooney Congress. The
time has come when all organiza-
tions fighting for my freedom must
be welded into the widest possible
united front, whose might and
agressiveness will serve notice on my
trainers and jailers that my con-
tinued Imprisonment will no longer
be tolerated
ELECT your delegates to the Free
Tom Mooney Congress!
"On to Chicago, April 80 to May 2,
1888.