The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-09-06
zoo PARTICIPATE IN
UFL DEMONSTRATION
AT TEMPLE, TUESDAY
TOM MONEYS
MOTHER DIES
AT s., SUNDAY
Her Fight on Behalf of Son,
Framed by Bosses Weak
ened Health

100000
SAN FRANCISCO. Calf, Sept.
3. = Tom Moneys 85-year-old
mother died here suddenly last
night at the Mission Emergency
hospital of a heart attack.
Mother" Mooney, as she had
become known to millions of work.
ers throughout the world as a re-
suit of her years Of activity in the
fight for her sons release. was
rtricken at her home. Neighbors
telephoned the hospital where she
died a short time aftsr her arrival.
When her son John, a streetcar
conductor, and kel daughter, Anna.
arrived at the hospital, they found
thfir mother dead.
Tom Mooney UnnOtified
Tom Mooney, locked for the night
in his cell in San Quentin prison,
was not notified by Warden Holo-
han Of his mothers death. and the
prison authorities stated that he
would not be permitted TO leave
S the prison to attend her funeral.
e Ever since the frame-up ana nm
e prisonment of her son Is years age
Mother Mooney has worked day
d and night in the defense campaign
;, to force his release. In 1882 shs
, made a national tour on her sons
behalf, and later spoke in score:
/ of European cities in England
> Germany, France and the Soviet
II Union.
t. Was in PlemtywOOd
IL She spoke in PlentHwood in tn
L summer of 1882. A large crowd
5 filled the Farmer-Labor Temple t.
hear Mother Mooney and Richar'
Moore, of the International Labo
D. Defense. But all these activitie
d. weakened her waning health.
70 Earlier that year she made a
ie effort to place the facts regardin
IS her sons frameup before Presider
at Roosevelt. but he refused the age
De woman an interview. One {
Roosevelt's secretaries informe
r Mother Mooney that he would in
81 form the president she had calle'
r. Mother Mooney Stricken
It was during this tour that 81
was stricken with blindness viii
in Chicago. She later recovere
n her eyesight.
- Lac in 1882, when Mother Mo
- ney was chosen a delegate to Il
D congress Of the International R
N Aid in Moscow, the State Depar
ment refused to grant her a pas
port. Following a storm of pr
tests, however, the State Depar
ment reversed its stand and graz
or ed the pass port, and Mother Nc
ney sailed for the congress on O
% of that year.
While in Europe she stirred b
masses of workers by her movil
appeal for the freedom of her 81
aoo Almost daily during the past
la years, Mother Mooney has ma
tho the trip from San Francisco to S
o,,t 9uentin prison in Raphael to vi
- her son. During these years S
was able to see her son only oN
the barriers of a prison receipt
- room.
y She was a real proletari
- mother, one whose life was a c.
EN- s1 tinuous struggle. even before
an frame-up of her courageous S
eco during the height of his organi
'aiu ion activities in San Francisco
81 Mother Mooney came to
ny United States from County M;
M in Ireland while yet a girl a
'on' settled with her folks in Mt. He
90 oke, Mass. Later she mar
Bryan Mooney, coal miner.
'ued hey moved to Indiana.
rom Worked In Mills
VA When her husband died /;
Mother Mooney was left with tn
rOm children, she ratified off her d
,,i1ii husbands mining tools in order
Aur- bury him. Then leaving India
al she returned with her children
i0r Mt. Holyoke and went to work
the paper mills, sorting rags In
wen der to support her little famil.
was Besides her work in the m
we che did washings in her
q TO hours" Tt was In Ne. Holyoke
ern- Tom, her oldest son. learned
trade Of IRON moldinR. His fash
to death cut his schooling short,
e Of Tom was IS wears old when
they mother helped him get Job !
for foundry as an iron molders app
tice.