The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22


Dollar, steamship magnate, set the
line; at q public meeting he
screamed the bosses challenge:
THE way to break these strikes
is 10 fill the hospitals with strik-
erS
July %, 1916, was designated
Preparedness Day, with q mass
military parade in which every
worker in the city was ordered to
march on pain of losing his job.
MOONEY MEETS
WAR CHALLENGE.
1t was a challenge to the workers
Mooney recognized it and met 1t
with characteristic courage. He
went straight to the heart OF the
open shop forces Of the city and
organized the workers of the United
Railways, a subsidiary of the yici-
Gus Pacific Gas and Electric Com
pany. He led them out on short
but dramatic strike less than a
month before the Preparedness
Parade.
The strike failed. But it threw
the employers into fury of hate.
The command went out: Get Tom
Mooney. And this time don't
faiI!"
Martin Swanson, special detec-
tive and strike breaker for the util-
tiles corporations, tried in vain to
bride Billings and other Of Moo
ney's co-workers TO frame him.
On July %, 1916, the Prepared
ness Day Parade was bombed, kill
ling ten persons and wounding fifty
others. The same day Martin
Swanson moved into the Office of
District Attorney Charles Fickert.
Tom and Rena Mooney, Warren K.
Billings, Israel Weinberg, and Ed
Nolan, all close to Mooney, we're
arrested, held inconmunicado, and
charged with the crime. No at
tempt was made to follow down
clues or seek evidence. Instead, the
Fickert-Swanson frame-up clique,
acting on orders, set about framing
Tom Mooney. ,,#r .., -..a-.
RANK AND FILERs ON JOB.
How they bribed and coached
syphiletics. prostitutes and other
shady characters to identify"
Mooney; how they suppressed evi-
dence destroying their frame-up-
in short the whole rotten frame-up
story is known to workers through
out the world TODAY
Though the A. F. Of l.. officials
condemned Mooney, the rank and
filers began Immediately ag!tating
for his release. How under their
insistent demand for MONEYS free
dom the frame-up was exposed
and crumbled is a well-known story
today.
TIME and again when the CAPT
talists thought they had Mooney
slowed again permanently and the
cesspool of corruption and bribery
covered over, it was protest
that raised the issue OF MONEYS
freedom again.
Yielding unC n the weight Of this
protest, California has been forced
to grant new trial to Mooney on
April 26 on the basis of one of the
unused indictments for murder in
connection with the bombing. If
Mooney ever gets on the stand,
California officials and big indus
trialists know that the whole Of
the frame-up story will have to be
told on the front pages Of every
newspaper in the country.
SEEK TO BAR TRIAL
They will try to prevent this with
every weapon in their hands AL
ready one maneuyer after another
is being made to quash the indict-
ment. AS once the order was:
Get Tom Mooney because he Is
dangerous to u.s." so now the capt.
talist cry is: Keep Tom Mooney
off the witness stand"
Workers, will you permit this2
Then support the International
Labor Defense in its fight to smash
the Mooney frame-up and the
whole frame-up system.
Attend the free Tom Mooney
Conference in your city and help
elect delegates to the Free Tom
Mooney Congress In Chicago, April
30 to May 2.
Demand by wire of District At
torney Matthew Brady of San
Francisco that Mooney be given
this chance to clear himself.
Flood Governor Rolph of Cali
fornia with wires demanding
Moneys freedom!