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Show SEATTLE UM THREATENS STRIKE ! Issue Is the Mooney-Case; Unions Will Take j Vote. , By AMOclaUd Pre... SEATTLE, Wash.. Nor. 51. By Unanimous vU tha Seattle Central labor tounclllaet night voted tojitrliie on Dm)w unless prior to that tlm, Thomas J M.xinejr, convicted of murder In connection with a ran Kranclsco bomb explosion, bud been (ranted a new trial or given his freedom. free-dom. Immediate referendum lute on the strik, resolution was ssked of all labor union affiliated with tha council. coun-cil. Vot, br tha union, on the strik, resolution will commence tomorrow. Copies of tha resolution will bs wired to other central lattor bodies over the country, asking that similar action ta taken, and the officials of ths American Amer-ican Federation of Iabor are to Its asked to handle and direct the move-. move-. ment In order that th, strlks msy be a general on. Th, 8ee.lt le council ale, imilrt sum. iss.ntis W II liam D. Htephens of California, asking him to rrant Mooney a, new trial, Tuesday night tha Heattls metal trades voted to strike In behalf of Mooney. so that If th, separate unions of th. Central ljibor council support th, atrik, motion, every Industry In th,r.lty employing union labor will bs paralysed should the slrlk, t catted. Alameda Council Alto Takes Action Special Dispatch. ISA! PRANCIHCO. Nov. it The Central "Labor council of Alameda county has adopted) resolutions urging the 10,0 00 workers under Its Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion to call a general strike on I December Decem-ber S In behalf of Thomas J. Mooney, whoso final Judicial appeal waa denied by the United Htates supremo court. Tho resolutions call upon all member mem-ber unions to hold special meetings for the purpose of taking a atrlko vote. Tho action of the council Is said by; Oakland labor officials to bo tho forerunner fore-runner of similar declarations by labor organisations all along tho Pacific roast. Tho resolutions, as made public by W. A. Hpooner, secretary of the council, coun-cil, follow; Resolved, That In view of the knowledge knowl-edge that ta general that Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings were convicted as a result of a eons piracy on the part of corporate greed and treacherous treach-erous public officials, perjury-and fraud fceing used. -tt disgrace and wsahsa or. Einiaed labor, by the Imprisoning of rot her Warren K. Hillings for all the day a of hie natural life and br the proposed pro-posed hanging of Thomas J. Mooney oa a scaffold In a penitentiary: Heeolved, That to date all efforts to give Justioe to the labor movement and the defendants have been thwarted in the courts through the clever use of technicalities; that the appeals of the American Federation of Iabor In convention con-vention assembled, the appeals of International Inter-national unions, the appeals of atate federations of labor, the appeals of central cen-tral labor councils, the appeals of local unions, along with the appeal of President Presi-dent Wilson and millions tho world over, have been Ignored. Resolved. That In tho reasoning of the Central fjaber council of Alameda county. California, tho time has arrived to lay thts entire question before the Individual Individ-ual members of the organised labor move-tn move-tn , for them to express a fitting protest pro-test s gal net the foully plotted executloa of Thomas J. Mooney and the unjust accusing ac-cusing of Warren K. Btlllnga, and the keeping under Indictment of the defendants de-fendants who have been acquitted after the perjury plot was exposed therefore, be It Resolved. That tho Central Labor council coun-cil of Alameda county, at a regular meeting on November It. lttl, assembled assem-bled In the labor temple of Oakland, hereby requests that a strike vote be polled In Ita Jurisdiction at special meetings meet-ings of local unions, ths same to take effect December S, Iffll; aaid strike to continue until real and substantial Justice Jus-tice is given to the labor movement by the freeing of both Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, they having been convicted by fraud ana cooaplracy. It Is understood that ono of tho largest larg-est of tho San Francisco unions Is to hold a special meeting this week to discuss action In tho Mooney case, and l im nrnhahla I Hat 4Kb, mi nal Inn ated by tho rejection of Mooney a final appeal will also bo brought before tho Labor council at Its next meeting. |