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Show JOQIY.FMS JUOCjJ BIFFIN Jurist Has Been Active to Secure Condemned Man New Trial. Governor Stephens Will Meet Deputation to Discuss Dis-cuss Case. SAX FRANCISCO, Nov. JtL "1 favor the demonstrations which arc being: held in my behalf," said Thomas J. Mooney in a statement today from his cell in Sun Quentin prison, where he is awaiting await-ing execution on December 13, following convictton-of murder in connection with the preparedness day bomb explosion in San Francfsco, when ten people were jtJPldted in July, 1016. f "The bigger these demonstrations are, the better I like them." "I want a new trial before Judge Franklin Griffin," Mooney added, "as I believe he logically is. the "Judge best tjualifled to try the case." Griffin was the trial judge in the .Mooney case and sentenced him to death. Judge Griffin lias since been active in at) effort to obtain for Mooney a new V trial. Workers Take Action. Officials of the International Workers' Defense league, the organization conducting con-ducting the Thomas J. Mooney defense, today declared approximately 500,000 workers In the Unitod States and Canada . have taken action favoring a strike on Mooney 'b behalf. The Brotherhoods of Railway Trainmen Train-men and Locomotive Engineers are preparing pre-paring for demonstrations in fourteen southern states, to be directed from Atlanta, At-lanta, Ga., and mass meetings of workers work-ers will be held on December 5 to plan demonstrations in New York and Now-ark, Now-ark, N". J., the defense league has been advised. Strike actions, it was said, had been taken by unions in Seattle. Atlanta, Birmingham, Xew York, Brooklyn, Newark, New-ark, Boston, Portland, Ore., Tacoma, Oakland, San Francisco and elsewhere. Will See Governor. ' . SACRAMENTO, Nov. 26. Following a conference today with State Labor Commissioner Com-missioner John P. McLaughlin, Governor William D. Stephens authorized the announcement an-nouncement that lie will meet at his offices of-fices tomorrow a committee of ten from the Kan Francisco labor council for an informal discussion of the case of Thomas J. Mooney, under sentence of death for murder in connection with the San Francisco Fran-cisco preparedness day bomb explosion. 0 In extending an Invitation to the com mittee Governor Stephens declared the disruss'fon will not be public and neither newspaper reporters nor attorneys shall bo pft'scnt. Oil Workers' Decision. T-;l PASO, Texas. Nov. 2'L Resolutions Resolu-tions declaring in favor of a general strike mid tieup of the oil industry in the event of the execution of Thomas J. Mooney, under sentence of death in connection con-nection with the San Fmncisco preparedness prepar-edness day bomb explosion, were adopted today by the international Association of ; Oil Fields, Gas Well and Refinery Work- era of America. Notification of the ac- , TV" t'1-"1 waa telegraphed to President Wll- son and to Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson. The oil workers' association, , which was chartered last June by the : American Federation of Labor, Is hold-ing hold-ing its first annual convention here. Forty local unions, representing California, Califor-nia, Oklahoma. Louisiana. Texas, Kan- ; sas and Wyoming, aro represented. I |