Montana labor news., 1936-02-20
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APPRECIATION

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when they presented it to the court
that convicted US.
We have proved that they deliher-
ately suppressed and concealed vital
evidence that would have e~onclusively
established our Innocence.
This hearing is of vital importance
not because there is much hope the
California State Supreme Court may
grant my writ, but because It IS the
final step in carrying the case forward
to the United States Supreme Court
where there is real hope for favorable
action.
We know with positive knowledge
that the Supreme Court Of California
itself has from the beginning been part
and parcel of this monstrous frame-up.
Judge F. w. Henshaw, Justice OF the
California State Supreme Court for
more than twenty years, was driven
from the bench in shame as a result OF
disclosures brought about through the
Mooney defense. He accepted a bride
of about half a million dollars for his
decision in the Fair VIII Case. The
Densmore photograph report disclosed
Justice Henshaw as the intellectual
guiding evil genius in the Mooney
frame-up.
The California State Supreme Court
in the 1880 hearing on Warren K. Bill
ings application for a pardon, declared
that there was no frame-up, that ali
the perjurers told the truth in 1916, and
their later %recantations and confessions
of perjury were the result Of the con-
nivance OF our defense committee.
The minority opinion OF of its
members, Justice William H. Langdon,
constitutes the greatest indictment ever
written Of any Supreme Court majority
opinion.
The California State Supreme Court
represents the same powerful financial
and industrial reactionary force that
framed US because OF our loyal devo-
ton to the trade union movement. That
Court still carries on,
Judge Henshaw, Detective Swanson,
Jury Foreman MacNevin and Chief OF
Police White Of the Pacific Gas and
. Electric Company are all dead. But
3 the living frame-up crew will spread
e their poison through the newspapers OF
e the nation during the month OF Feb
ruary, crying out anew for blood.
The unspeakable c. M. Fickert, for
mer District Attorney by the grace OF
f the United Railroads, who was going to
D use Tom MONEYS gallows as a cam
S paign platform for the g%overnorship in
1918, now a d~erelict, will be washed and
dressed for his part and dragged from
his long and well deserved oblivion
j., once again to serve his God--Mammon
His chief assistant, Edward A. Cunha
/ who was to succeed him as District
Attorney as a reward for his part il
the foul frame-up will again help him
with all the venom and cunning OF his
poisonous hatred.
Steve Bunner, Lieutenant of Police
| in 1916, who coached perjurer Oxman, is
now a retired Captain Of Police with
one hundred thousand dollars in his
bank account, for which he gives nc
explanation to public officials now in
vestigating charges of police graft and
extortion. They dare not prosecute
: him, fearing he may tell all he know,
about the Mooney-Billings frame-up.
Charles Golf, in 1910 a sergeant, now
a captain Of police, is daily doing
everything within his power to seal the
frame-up forever by refabricating the
necessary evidence to hold together the
foul conspiracy against US.
7 These trainers are tenaciously de-
/. Tending their foul conspiracy and are
renewing with all the vigor of their be-
ings the rankest accusations against us
|: to becloud the real issues. No~ de-
pravity will be too low for them to
, stoop to in justifying the dastardly deed
: that has robbed us of the best years OF
our lives.
James Brennan, assistant under
Fickert and active prosecutor who
railroaded innocent twenty-two-year
old Warren K. Billings to the peniten-
tiary for life, last year introduced into
the California Legislature a resolution
calling upon the Governor to commute
our sentences to time served, thus
branding us forever as sex-convicts,'
"time-expired f%elons,' Convicted muir
ders." That cowardly, tricky maneu-
yer would have ended forever any hope
Of Tedressing this monstrous wrong ii
court,
Il is only through the splendid sup
port that you have given through these
years that we are still alive and fight
ing for freedom and yindication. 1t is
only through your generous, loyal, fl.
~nancial help that we have been able tc
continue exposing this frame-up to The
world.
We need funds desperately to carry
through the present move we are max.
ing. We must Immediately prepare Z
complete transcript of the hearing pro.
ceedings of over fifteen thousand page
to enable my attorneys to prepare theii
brief for the United States Supreme
Court. We are compelled to pay fol
that transcript, the California Suprem,
Court having refused to pay such ex.
penses for US. | know you will de-
your utmost to strain a point at thii
time to give US desperately needed fl
nancial assistance. With your contin.
ued aid | know we shall crown oui
struggle with victory. Without you
aid we are helplessly lost.
With profound proletarian apprecia.
ton of what you have done for m,
through these many desperate years,
send you warmest fraternal and mihtan
trade union greetings