The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04


am enjoying better health today
than have for many years; you
are the real cause Of it, for in your
wonderful work of arousing and in
spring the workers to greater eff
forts in my behalf and your super
human efforts of cooperation with
the International Labor Defense in
their campaign for my freedom and
that of all working class political
prisoners is nothing short of mar
velous.
"All who see or hear of your
work are amazed at what you are
doing and how you do it in your old
age. You have by these tours en-
deared yourself in the hearts of
millions of workers all over the
world: they love you and sympa-
thize with you in your great suffer-
ing and struggle, and glory in your
fidelity and devotion to me and the
fight for my freedom. They shed
tears in your presence-that is their
way of paying you homage. Stay
with it, Mother Dear, you will be
one of the real factors in arousing
that great mass of Slumbering work
ers to militant revolutionary action
in my behalf and also in behalf of
those poor little children of black
skin that have been sentenced to
be burned in the electric chair in
Alabama.
This may be the last letter you
will get from me before you leave
on your greatest of all your lifetime
efforts in my behalf. Mother Dear,
I envy you in the opportunity that
is now before you-an opportunity
of service-the like of which seldom
comes to any human in a lifetime
and my fervent prayer-wish and
hope is that you will not hesitate to
seize it-avail yourself of it imme-
diately and without hesitation.
Grab it eagerly, for in it is your
greatest possible hope of doing that
one great thing for me that I know
you want done and are willing to
help-gain my freedom.
Dear Mother, the ocean trip will
do you good-it will rest you-it will
be treat for you such as you never
before in all of your life enjoyed and
at it's end, you will see sights that
you never before ever dreamed OF
seeing. Where you have seen hun
dreds cheering you and struggling
for working class freedom, you will
gaze upon tens of thousands.
You will see the greatest sight
human eyes ever laid eyes upon in
Moscow, on November 7th, the 18th
anniversary of the Russian Revolu-
ton, where two millions of human
beings-as workers all-will gather
in Red Square before Lenin's tomb
along the side of the Kremlin Wall.
There you will see the body of Lenin
-lifelike as it was the day he died
back in 1924. (. Lenin is more re-
sponsible for the success of the Rus
sian Revolution than any other liv-
ing or dead human and were it not
for the revolution I would not be
alive today and you would not now
be struggling for my freedom--that
is why you MUST go to Moscow with
a letter from me to the Russian
workers thanking them for me for
their efforts in my behalf, that
saved my life.
Il am asking the good comrade
who is to be your companion abroad
to take along with her and read to
you on the boat a book written by
one of the worlds novelists-a Rus
sian-MaXim Gorky. His book,
Mother" will give you a picture of
the land you are about to see. 1t
will help you to a better under
standing of it and its people-who
fifteen years ago were as backward
in development as the ireland you
left go years ago.
Bon Voyage, Mother Dear, with
all my love to you and your good
comrades and companions.
Your loving son.
tom MOONEY"