Show I J M M i if CONGRESS f CONGRESSI i HK I 1 j l Labor hor of W World orl Represented Represented Represented at Meeting Held in Behalf of Convicted Union Leaders Report By fly Associated Press Preas 14 More 2 CHICAGO Jan J G J than 1000 d delegates legates practically ever every inter- inter union and central labor Organization in ill the co attended at- at wed tended the national labor congress congressI h t I h here re today which was called by the tho International Workers Workers' Defense league to adopt definite plans for obtaining k ki tt W trials for Thomas J. J Mooney t sand aad Warren K Billings now serving i terms for tor murder In connection w witH the San Francisco preparedness 1 parade bomb outrage July 22 1916 That the radical labor element was well wen represented was evident by the fa fact t that every mention of a general strike to enforce the demand for tor new trial for tor the convicted men was enthusiastically en en- z cheered DELEGATE IS OUSTED The meeting began with a row over the election of a presiding officer inthe inthe in m the course of ot which one delegate was ejected from the hall John FItzpatrick president of ot the Chicago o Federation of Labor called the tho meeting to order and Introduced E E. D. D Nolan olan of ot San Francisco treasurer secretary-treasurer of the International International Workers Workers' league as permanent chairman There ThEro were protests from half halt a dozen delegates delegatE's against this action They Insisted that the delegates should be permitted to elect their own chairman Finally It was de decided decided decided de- de that Nolan should act as temporary temporary temporary tem tem- chairman and that the selection selection selection tion of ot a permanent presiding officer deferred until after the formal or organization organization organization or- or of ot tho congress Nolan then explained the purpose of ot the meeting and told of the unsuccessful unsuccessful unsuccessful efforts made to obtain new trials for tor Mooney and Billings THREE PROGRAMS lie He suggested three programs for consideration One was to appeal Jo o President Wilson for federal inter inter- Another was to demand the enactment of ot necessary legislation to tomake tomake make malte possible the setting aside of ot verdicts in criminal cases where it is shown conviction was based on perjury perjury perjury per per- jury and the last was for a general strike He lie expressed the belief belle that the general strike should not be used until every other means had failed He asserted that a referendum vote should be taken by organized labor before a general strike is called Nolan Nolan Nolan No No- lan said the fundamental rights in involved in- in vol ed in the Mooney case were as important to labor as the questions being considered at the peace council council council coun coun- cil in Paris W. W Bourke Cockran of ot New York for tor Mooney was to address i ii the meeting in the afternoon i I |