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Show IBe RETHIAL IS DEM10ED BY j .NEW YDHK LADOH j Speakers Declare Prosecution Prosecu-tion of Condemned San Franciscan Was Delib- erate Scheme. ' NEW YOUK, March 'J. Orutized labor of New Vork City u nil tin; Mt-t.ro-politfiii district unit(-d to'iay in oon-flfMininff oon-flfMininff the corivirtioii and s'Titi'iifft to di-alli of Thomas J. Moonoy, as a t ' ' niofistroii-s injiistirp, " ami in dornaiul-y dornaiul-y io for I hi Man Francisco labor It-snler & "'W trial for t ho nart lio is alleged to havo taken in the " pntf-arrd m-sa r day" bnnib explosion, July I'JUi, in i which ten persons wero killed. H Amid cluiers, resolutions wuro adopted at a mans meeting in Union 8fptare, t ' (dinraeterizinjT Moonny's prosecution as lih; iiiiii ui a conspiracy so iiaraiit t that it has been denouneed by the ; ju'Itfo who presided nt the trial and by tho attorney general of tho state who asked the supreme court to rovoke it." , Determination to seek intervention J1 ly both tdate and federal authorities p in Moonny's belialf was registered in i : - in the resolutions. A com in it tee "representative "repre-sentative of our entire ei t izeiihipj " is to be appointed to briny then to official offi-cial attention. Details Case. W. Hourke Cock ran, chief counsel for Mooney, ri-tailed what he termed his client's "persecution at the hand.-; of! conspirators who are opposed to or-nani.fd or-nani.fd labor on the Pacific coast." 1 ' .Shall this heinous crime against civilization be permitted to bo consummated consum-mated " he deiriamied. ' ' No! Never! ' ' -honied the niore than -l)U persons who had a.sscm bled. As soon as the California supreme court certifies to the trial court its decision of March 2 to refuse a re-trial of the ca.-.e, 'Jock ran indicated a mo-) mo-) ion will be made asking that Judye I j ri J'fin, who sen ti-nced . oo ney to be handed, shall nolle the con vie t ion, because be-cause ' ' 'J here is abund.'int evidence that the testimony was admittedly perjured. per-jured. ' ' Cuckran said there is a law giving the lower court authority to do this. Should t lie request be refused, he declared, de-clared, Jud'e (iriJ'fiu would be "taking shelter behinfi a miserable technicality," techni-cality," which would show the judicial judi-cial system of California to be "more mindful of technicalities than of human hu-man life. ' ' The meeting bnan with the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." The ' platform was decorated with an American Ameri-can flag. Charles 0. Shay, international president presi-dent of the Theatrical Stage Alliance, presided in the absence of James P. Holland, president of New York state federation of labor, who was said to havo been unexpectedly called to Albany Al-bany on legislative matters. j in; merlin wns uniiui uic au.jiH'w of tho Central Federated Union of New York and vicinity. During the addresses women wearing ribbons labeled "The New York Council Coun-cil for San Francisco Labor Defense" circulated through the crowd collecting money which is to bo used in furthering further-ing Mooney 's fight for a new trial. Shay said "the Mooney frameup" was the most "flagrant miscarriage of justice in the court records of this or auy other country." Anton Johannsen, J. Goldstone and Selig Schulberg, labor organizers who come from San Francisco to attend the meeting, reiterated the. charges of Mooney 's supporters that his conviction was based on perverted testimony and trickery. . . Text of Resolution. The resolution read: Organized labor in the city of New York, convoked by the Central Federated Fed-erated union at a mass meeting in Union square, March 9, 191S, proclaiming pro-claiming its allegiance to the government govern-ment and its attachment to the constitution con-stitution of the United States, records re-cords its solemn conviction tha,t execution exe-cution of a capital sentence, pronounced pro-nounced upon testimony admittably perjured, by any state of this union would discredit the whole judicial system of this country and would be a national calamity greater than j.he bombardment of our cities by a hostile hos-tile fleet. Organized labor pledges untiring efforts to avert a peril so portentous to this land of its love and loyalty. While this country is waging the mightiest war ever undertaken by civllfzed men to establish justice throughout the world, the sincerity of our purpose would be gravely impeached im-peached if an innocent man were strangled by our own judicial machinery, machin-ery, which is organized and established estab-lished for the expressed purpose of protecting innocence. The conviction of Tom Mooney has been shown by subsequent disclosures to be the result of a conspiracy so flagrant that It has been denounced by the judge who presided at his trial and by the attorney general of the state, who asked the supreme court to revoke It, a request which has been denied upon grounds that showed the judicial system of California to be more mindful of technicalities than careful of human life. New Trial Urged. A commission appointed by the ' president of the United States, headed , by the secretary of labor, has urged upon the authorities of California that a new trial be granted the defendants in the Interest of elementary justice. Believing that the noble, unselfish efforts of this country to extend the j dominion of justice nbroad will be retarded and imperiled if our own courts, organized to enforce justice at home, become agencies to perpetuate perpetu-ate monstrous injustice upon citizens entitled to the protection of our laws. We do hereby resolve that organized organ-ized labor urge upon authorities of the United States and of California the Imperative necessity of taking effective effect-ive measures for vindicating in this country the justice which we are ( seeking to establish throughout the world by the prompt liberation of Tom Mooney from the peril of death in which he has been placed by perjury per-jury and conspiracy. We do further resolve that the Central Cen-tral Federated union be requested to appoint a committee representative of our entire citizenship for the purpose of presenting these resolutions to the proper authorities and for the taking of all other steps that may be deemed necessary to make them effective. Execution Not Fixed. SAN FRANCISCO, March 9. No date has been set for the execution of Thomas J. Mooney, whose conviction for murder recently was upheld by the California supreme court. His counsel still has about two weeks to file petitions for rehearing, re-hearing, but announcement has been made that no such petition wiU be tiled, and that Governor William D. Stephens will be asked to extend executive clemency. clem-ency. The governor has not disclosed the text of a letter sent him by President Presi-dent Wilson In connection with the case. |
