The Cotton Factory Times. — 1920-11-19 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

VOLUME XXXII.  No. 1,839.  back of the Mooney frame-up originally, and has sines contested every move to demolish the frame-up. Big Business will not sit idle and allow Von Brinken. Crothers, and Pickering to publish proof that Mooney and Billings are the , victims of a frame-up. . . . Tom Mooney's particiration in a stele against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and his subsequent attempt to organise the platform men of the United Railroads Laid the foundation for the frame-up. These two corporations are the most powerful in San Francisco. Their political influence extends to almost every department of the municipal government. They are repre-ented in the exclusive clubs where judges, high and low, congregate after court hours. Their Lackeys are in the forefront of the movement to make the war veteran a defender of wrong and reaction and a tool of corporations. The ramifications of, the Mooney frame-up forces extend all through the commercial, poliitical, and social life of San Francisco, some men being active participants, some the unconscious tools of the framers, others silent but conscious abettors." And so scepticism is felt as to whether even the "Bulletin" will stand the pressure that will he exerted against ik This scepticism tells its own eloquent tale. Yet, murder will out. "Truth dashed to earth shall rise again; the eternal years of God are hers." If the guilty person or persons can be I laid by the heels, Mooney's vindication and releafe ttzust irrecitablyr foffow, wnaCever any frame-up gang may say or do. The matter may end in that way, or Mooney's innocence may be thoroughly established short of the guilt being brought home to the actual criminals. The latest information concerning the heinous business has come this week by cable. It is to the effect that a full confession that Mooney and the others were convicted by "a gigantic conspiracy from first to last" h rus been made to Mayor Rolph, of San Francisco. by Policeman Draper Hand, who assisted in the villainy. This confession, of course, is perfectly in line with the theory that the explosion was the work of German agents, The commission -of the dent' would present the opportunity to the conspirators to incriminate and hang, if need be, a few Labour agitators who were making themselves somewhat of a nuisance. To save their own skins the conspirators may now be expected to move heaven and earth to discredit the policeman's story. We shall see. However, outside the interested ring few can now pretend to believe in Mooney's guilt. That he and Billings should, after all that has transpired, be still in prison in a gross scandal, a shameful reflection on justice, and an offence to mankind at large. There are worse places than Old England yet!  how the cotton trade could manage its own affairs better than any Government could possibly do. The latest manifestation is a miserable confession of failure, or rather of unwillingness to deal with a problem far less menacing and threatening. People are overcome with its "diffieulties." and hands are thrown up in mo.7k despair when confronted with a scheme which presents nothing more in the way of difficulty than is presented to people every day of their lives. Henceforth we should entertain a much less favourable opinion of the formative genius of our cotton employers' leaders did we not think that their failure to evolve a contracting-out scheme was due rather to considerations of expediency and an absolutely unrealised conception of their duty to their vrorkpeople.