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Show DIFFER OVER NEW I0NE TRIAL Butte Car Employees Oppose; Op-pose; New York Work-, ers Approve. BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 5. The Butte Street Car Kmployees" union refused today to-day to adopt a resolution demanding a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney, serving serv-ing a If f c term at Pan Quentiu, Cal., prison for murder growing out of the San Francisco Preparedness day bomb explosion cases. Members of the organization organ-ization said the union did not recognize the Mooney case as a labor controversy. XEV YORK. Dec. 5. A new trial for Thomas J. Mooney. convicted of murder mur-der in connection with the Preparedness day parade bomb plot in San Francisco, was demanded in resolutions adopted tonight to-night at a meeting held In Cooper Union under the auspices of the Central Federated Fed-erated union to raise funds in his be-halt. be-halt. Similar resolutions were adopted at an overflow meeting. Both sets expressed .dissatisfaction tnat Mooney a de.ai.n sen i tence had merely- been commuted and ! urged "the entire organized labor move-! move-! menf to continue its activities in his ; behalf. j Among the speakers were: Frank P. j Walsh, former joint chairman of the 1 war labor board; V. J. Patterson of the !ian Kranrisc j Brotherhood of Carpenters ! and Joiners, and officials of the New i York union. I The committee which arranged the I meeting had announced that it was "not ! a gathering of i eds, but merely a trades : union affair.'' so that although the 1 streets outside the ball were densely j crowded, the police, reinforced by naval ; and provost guards, bad no difficulty in preserving order. |