The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31

>. "A.
The impoverishment of the
masses was never greater.
Misery and starvation stalk the work
ing class. Mortgage debts and ruin
GUS market prices are deepening the
enslayement Of those remaining on
the land. The last pennies of the
nest egg laid aside by the middle
class for the rainy day have been
reached. War again is in the air,
Struggle Grows Sharper.
AS illusions fade the mass strug-
gle against unemployment and star
walton grows with increasing sharp
ness. Hunger marchers, bonus
narchers, farmers demonstrating
against foreclosures, city jewellers Or
ganizing in mass struggles against
eyictions and for food supplies for
the starving unemployed, simultsn-
eously Negro liberation struggles de-
veloping among the debt-enslaved
black sharecroppers and toiling mas
ses at once supporting and strength
ening the struggles of the working
class; foreign born workers fighting
against deportation, colonial people
in Tampa, Florida, and elsewhere,
militantly struggling against ruling
class white nationalism-these are the
acts now crowded upon the American
stage.
The stage is set for the successful
struggle for the freedom of Tom
Mooney, by this rising tide Of work
ing class struggle, Negro liberation
struggles, the struggles of the colonial
peoples in America for the freedom
of their home land. The coordina-
ton of these struggles, their unity
around the struggle to free Tom Moo
ney, is the ony guarantee of its sue
cess. Preliminary conferences-local
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES canvas
Yassing-this is a part of the pre-
paratory work to be done. Tom
Mooney can be freed. This victory
can be won. But only by relentless
struggle, This united front must be
created to crown the Congress with
success. The success in the mobiliza-
ton Of an irresistible mass move
ment can free Tom Mooney.
What Victory Means.
Who can measure the value of such
q victory? Tom Mooney-the sym
Dol OF working class oppression--freeI
The struggles Of the working class
would be raised TO the highest politi-
cal level yet attained. New impetus,
new driving forces, new will to strug-
gle will be developed. 1t will assure
an indefinitely greater mobilization
for the struggle for all class war pri-
soners, all working class issues. Even
the struggle for the Congress itself
assures this and more, it strengthens
the other struggles.
For seventeen years Tom Mooney,
valiant fighter in the class struggle,
has been kept behind the prison bars.
His "crime" was that he sought
through the organization of the
working class to better prepare it for
the struggles against just such mass
unemployment and mass starvation
as now mock it on every side-indes-
cribable poverty in the face of indie
scribable wealth. For that "crime"
he never could have been convicted.
A murder charge was, therefore,
framed around him.
The cynical hypocrisy Of those in
power-they staged a World War
Preparedness Day parade in San
Francisco TO dupe the workers (whose
wages they were cutting, whose lives
they were distorting) into an active
acceptance of mass murder-the i'm
perialist war-launched to patriotic
tunes
With indispensable yiciousnesS
they instigated the murder of limo
cent workers in their Preparedness
parade. They utilized this murder
to strengthen their hold upon the
masses and to induce the workers to
accept their "holy" war. They pre-
pared this Preparedness parade MUIR
der as a basis for framing those who
opposed their savage attacks upon
the working class, Tom Mooney was
one of the foremost opposers, in San
Francisco, of the most dangerous OBJ
jectors TO their entire rnurderous pro-
gram. They arrested him. Tom
Mooney innocent was condemned to
death by the guilty
Protest of Russian Workers.
Tom Mooney was saved from death
by the protest demonstrations of
Russian workers before the American
embassy in Petrograd, The temper
of these demonstrations forced the
American government to move.
In the introduction to the Mooney
Billings Report suppressed by the