Montana labor news., 1937-09-02

is no such thing as a holy sanctum
sanctorum in the courts. The Ameri-
can people want flesh and blood in
the courts; they are going to treat
their judges as men. They are sus-
ceptible to public opinion. Send
your kilograms and your messages
to the Supreme Court of California
demanding a decision in the Tom
Mooney case, now, right now!
Then, after they do decide, the
case will go to the United States
Supreme Court. l am not going to
go into the issue of the United States
Supreme Court now-the hour is
late-but we have witnessed during
the last year that in the Chamber of
the United States Supreme Court
they removed the big chandeliers
and they have placed instead flying
trapezes, and these gentlemen swing
from n side to the other on flying
trapezesl And the reason they put
flying trapezes there is because the
liberty loving Americans have be-
come aroused against the negative
dictatorship of the judiciary, and the
liberty loving Americans have
deemed that the Supreme Court shall
not be a master of the people, but
the Supreme Court shall be the SER
want of the people of the United
Statesl
So, when the United States Su-
preme Court decides, their decision
will depend upon the people of the
United States. If the American peo-
pie, the progressives, labor, and all
shades of liberal opinion represented
by them, are united, the Supreme
Court of the United States will vote
to free Tom Mooney; but if they are
not united, then they will swing
again on their flying trapezes and
play into the hands of the reaction
aries and vote against the freedom
of Tom MONEY!
But, my friends, far be it from me
to give advice to the leaders of la
Dor, but I make this appeal to all
labor, the C. I. o., the p%rogressives,
the American Federation of Labor:
l appeal to them to unite on this
Tom Mooney issue if they can't unite
in anything else, and in this unity
demonstrate not only by bills, not
only by contributions, but to join
with their economic demands the i'm
mediate release of Tom Mooney
when they take the economic battle
fronts in the future!
As long as it doesn't cost the eco
nomic royalists a penny, they are
going to keep Tom Mooney in Jail;
but once labor in this country serves
notice on the economic royalists that
this thing has gone twenty-one years
too far, that organized labor is not
going to tolerate any further incar-
ceration of labor leaders, that or
gained labor is determined to fight
using the economic weapon of strike
let us not be afraid to use that
weapon of strike to free Tom Moo
neyl
Now, my friends, the best guar
antee against the terror of the re-
dictionaries is the building in the
United States of America of a peo-
pies front. The crisis between the
forces of democracy and the forces
of fascism is at hand. We can no
longer divide by ~sectarian issues; we
can no longer play around with our
petty formulas; we can no longer
afford to divide over difference of
opinion based on philosophical con-
cepts. The danger in fascism is at
our very door, right here in the
United States of America, and I'M
fortunately for us we were not able
to choose the time and place of
battle.
international fascism has declared
war against the forces of democracy
throughout the world. Hitler and
Mussolini have struck their blow in
Spainl The Tom Girdlers, the Lib
erty Leaguers, and another bang,
have struck their blow in Youngs-
town, in Chicago, and along the in
dustrial fronts in the United States
of America. They are ganging up
to destroy organized labor, all kinds
of organized labor; A. F. L. labor,
c. |. o, labor.
You gentlemen have a common in
terest, you leaders of labor; you
must unite to fight fascism in Amer
ical And they are marching steadily
forward Therefore, the only an
swer to reaction is the unity on the
part of all of the democracy loving
people in the United States of Amer
lea, to express that unity on the
Of political and economical
fronts. |,
To build the peoples front will not
be difficult. The peoples front will
be successful against fascism in
for three reasons: First, be-
cause democracy is traditional with
the American people. Second, be-
cause the American people have WV
before their eyes the examples
Of Hitler and Mussolinil Third, be-
cause international fascism has been
at the gates of Madridl