The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-09
Famous Mooney Lived Waterbury Years Ago
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(Continued House" on South Main street, dur ing his two years stay in this city. Mrs. Deans was known as "The Claywash House." because many of the moulders from the foundry made their residence there. At the time Mooney worked here, he was making moulds for the fam ous Pierce Arrow cylinder, which is described as the best of the era. An incident by which several Wa terburians recall the exact time of Moneys residence is the Jeffries- Johnson fight of July 4, 1910. Mooney was here at that titme and won several dollars on pool, arranged by employees of the foun- dry, based on the number of rounds the fight would last.
 Came From HOIyOke When Mooney came to Waterbury he was fresh from the Dean Foun- dry at Holyoke, where he learned | the trade of coremaker. Shortly after he left the Holyoke plant, a strike. tied up production there for lengthy period and attracted wide spread attention.
 Now 56-years-old and in good health despite the lengthy contine- ment, Mooney looks forward to , many years of freedom and life all future years to be given over to labor's cause.
 Only 27 when he lived in Water bury, Mooney has undergone many narrowing experiences in the ap- proximately 30 years since he left this vicinity.
 Never Dreamed of Future Little did he dream as he waltzed pretty Brass City damsels about the Buckingham dance floor that so many years of his life would be spent in prison-and that perjured testimony would cause the bars of legal confinement to spring up about him.
 And when he left Waterbury, about 191G, for the express purpose of following the axiom of Horace Greeley and Go West Young Man" he would have soon retraced his steps had he realized what San Francisco held in store. Because of his many acquaint- ances here it is deemed possible that Moneys labor crusades might one day bring him back to this vicinity. He would be sure of rousing well come and a friendly handshake in Waterbury-the town he left in 1910 to make good on the coast. His fame is national, but the price of that fame is more than Mooney, with all his love for labor, or any other man with similar ambitions, 1, would care to endure.
 Mooney Is Resting San Francisco, Jan. g = U.P0- Thomas J. Mooney rested today that wanted to hang him 22 years ago.
 He was blamed then for the 1916 preparedness day bombing which took 10 lives. Yesterday 50,000 per- sons cheered him along Market street, on which the bomb exploded.
 He was in seclusion at his modest home, waiting for a physical exam ination tomorrow. It will determine, to some extent, how actively he can carry out his pledge to devote his energies to unifying labor and seek ing the release of Warren K. Bill ings, also convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the bomb- ing.
 Although he suffered stomach ul- cers in prison and received a special dict, Mooney said he expected to live 25 years longer. He went with out noticeable fatigue through the pardon hearing of Saturday and its excitement which sent Governor Culbert L. Olson, who had not slept for 48 hours, to a hospital with nervous exhaustion. The governor was ordered to rest for several days. Attends Celebration
 Mooney, after he received his ln- conditional pardon, went to bar becue celebration Saturday after noon, a mass meeting in his honor that night and walked up Market street Sunday in the parade in his honor.
 The parade ended at the Civic Center where labor leaders, legisla- tors who have been interested in his case, and Mooney spoke.
 His speech repeated earlier att tacks on the interests which, he contended. railroaded him to prison for the bombings.
 Reiterating statements made be- fore and after his release, Mooney urged that the fight made for his freedom should now be turned into new three-fold program for labor. He said that Billings must be freed; that warning forces of labor must unite: and that fight must be waged against Fascism which he said was already at work in the