The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-04
TOM MOONEY ISSUES APPEAL TO SAVE DAILY WORKER


the American imperiaiss fifteen years ago as part of
their policy of crushing the working class in order
easily to plunge the toing masses into the world war;
Today, the ruling class is and involved in
warke struggles that threaten to elgulf the whole
world, there is series Of the ercest attacks and
frameIps against militant fighters in the ranks of the
working class. Thus the struggle to free Mooney also
fight In defense of all class prisoners, fight to
defeat the lynch campaign against the Negro masses
drive to stop the deportation plots against foregnborn
workers, and part of the fight against the con-
spiracies of the warmongers
The Chicago convention is we'll declaration of war
against the Georgia chain It mobilization of
white workers and Negroes alike for the defense of An
gel0 Herndon, 19year-od Negro boy condemned to die
as slave in the Georgia chain gang 1t further
great strides in organizing the to compel the lib
Grafton of the nine innocent Negro boys framed up at
Scottsboro.
So not alone the misery of Tom Mooney suffering is
years in concrete and steel cell for his loyalty to our
classbut also the desperate misery of 80 millions of
American workersis and must be behind the Gree Tom
Mooney Convention. The organization of the masses
for struggle to release Tom Mooney must not be ubor
dnaed to anything; the fight for the release of
this man who has become the living symbol of the cruel
flying of whole class the living symbol of every ware
cut, the living symbol of every struggle with mass
hunger, living symbol of class victmized by i'm
perlalst war-this fight is and nseparabIe with the
whole struggle of our class today.
Look back across the long years that Tom Mooney
has grown from young man to middle age in prison
LOOK back to 1918 when the first Free Mooney Conven-
ton occurred in Chicago Lots of water has flowed I'M
der the bridge since Them situations have come and
new conditions prevail So convention today cannot be
te as the convention which occurred IL years ago
But comparison is permissible The Mooney Conven-
uon OF 1919 was the most powerful movement of the
working class and of the left wing the trade unions
IN Tact the great and decisive core of the mass trade
unions and other organizations of the working class in
America that has occurred up to the present day
The Mooney Convention of 1919 became menace to tbe
whole OF the open shop movement for the deation of
LABOR at the end of the war; and inevitably became
menace also to the whole of the corrupt
Lewis trade union bureaucracy and the corrupt machine
o qut ana berger OF the Socialist Party, which were
nen the most active agents of the capitalist class in crush
ing the labor movement just they now capitaems
most active agents in the offensive against the working
class In connection with the economic crisis The Mooney
convention OF 1919 betrayed by the cleft agents Of
the Gompers bureaucracy of whom were very
close to the Free Tom Mooney" movement but "cIosen
only for the purpose of defeating it.
But the situation is ripper today The strongest core
Oh the labor movement has already been constructed Tho
advance guard of the working class has already bee
hammered into the steehard organization of revolution