The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

writ of habeas corpus to the sun
RENE court of California, is an in
spring example of how a WORKER
should face the court.
His statement cuts throuqb oil
the legal technicalities. the fine
hair-splitting, and the web of nor
jury which has been used to keen
him in Jail 10 years for a crime |
the world knows he did not corr |
nit. Tom Mooney knows he is a
political prisoner. He knows and
the world knows that he is kept in
jail by the state of California and
it's courts because he is a militant
fighting trade union man. And he
stood up in court on September Is
and raised that issue. threw it in
the teeth of the California sun
RENE court, which has been IRVING
to cover it's infamy with legal
mumbo-jumbo.
/ atom was wonderful on the
stand. After 10 years thew can't
bow his head!" writes his brother.
John Mooney, who was in court
during the hearing.
The portion of the record repro
duced below was stricken from the
record. To the court, officially. it
is now "as though it had never
happened, and Tom Mooney had
never said it." But Tom Mooney
got it across just the same, an1
no eXpunging can wipe out the
militancy of Tom Mooney, labor's
martyr, from the hearts of his fel.
low-men.
The International Labor Defense
which has always and consistent,
supported the struggle for Moon
| ey's freedom, urges all union mer
7 all people who want to see Ton
= Mooney freed, all those who cal
r be stirred by this declaration O
/ faith in the working class, to voic
< their demand for Tom Mooney
! release in resolutions from thei
union locals, ard from every OF
4 ganization, to the California stat
: supreme court, Sacramento, Cali.
a From the transcript of test
l. mony (before expunging from tn
= record of these remarks):
l. Frank P. Walsh: One momen
v I desire to make an objection I
If that specific question.
v, Referee Shaw: The objection W;
t. made and overruled.
'e Mr.. Walsh: l desire to add tn
N to it: that it would have no tel
in dency to prove anything in tn
,e case whether he was in favor
a craft union or a vertical union
The Referee: Well, we viii fiji
II out.
'e Mr.. Walsh: Very good.
o. Tom Mooney: A. My purpose
+, the holders Union, as one of
nf members, was to make that uni
,Ic effective, strong, powerful, to he
he it's members and to also help eve
as other worker, either organized
in other unions, Or unorganized, !
&C the pupose of the labor movemt
TO through federation is to organ
,fs all workers; and l felt that
Molders' Union, as it stood today
a craft union-and the rapid
o e dustrial development that was tt
u, y ing place, required that if the M
'TTo ders' Union was going to be eff
't tive in protecting it's members, t
IN it had to become an industrial
- ganization and organize every n
,xa working in an industry rather t
e.. one craft. For illustration,
a make my point clear, in the F
90 plant, there is every trade II
involved in the manufacture of
tomobiles, and if the molders
lail out, they are fighting a great
TVS ant of a corporation; they have
Int chance to win. Where, if all
are employees in all the Ford plant
hey out on strike in an industrial
lief ganization, they all have cha
in but one of them going out tc
ere and next week another union
and ing out, they have no chancC
nay gainst that kind of opposition
hey was my purpose to organize
axe only the holders Union, but
ven mately every worker, into an
eep ganization based along indus
Irty lines where they work; that
vel. were to meet the growing in
ore: trial and economic developmeI
OF the country. That was my
con- pose in the holders Union.
De Prosecutor Cleary: @. You
.ne not agree with the formula
'O Ou ga fair days work for a
|. .9I I" days pay" did you?
Of A. l don't agree with t
y u There is NO such thing as
.,,4o days work for a fair days p
obiv @. Wasn't it your purpose
opt desire to change the Mold
Not Union from one that fought
~. ~ higher wages and better CO
~ tiOns into one which would
49, 49,. to overthrow our govern
fo"r and cOnfiscate the ndustrie
-hare our country?
must A. The prupOse-the ultll
have purpOse-Of the working
all down through the ages
MIR is their historic mission
MP control themselves. The his
Z, is mission OF WORKERS al L.
E IN through the ayes mas "e ),
RAM ately we shall live in a SO
ARE that there will be no ella
51cH there will be nothing but v
HEY ers; and that is my prupG1
You bring that abOut-that cl
YOU will be abolished and all W
workers.
@. That indsutry will be
fiscated by the workers?
A. 1t doesn't matter ho0
II h. hr.l