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Show 4i THE MOONEY FARCE J REPEATED 8Ijr I "labor pnrty" acquitted Thomas &M' Mooney and associates from oil con- 1 j iiictfon with picparcdncss parado ,JfcL bombing. Ditto with the attempted &H&, Scattlo revolution. Now ditto a "la HH Ikm Jury" acquits tin- Ccnlralln I. W. H . V. who shot down tlio returned scr- MHLV lce men on patriotic parade In tho IS- main sheets or Contralla. Tho Ccn- HBfc-' Iralla labor council has Joined with IEf the .Seattle labor council In pausing K n resolution upholding tlio findings EML. ., "t ""' laboi Jury nL tlio Monlesano HK- trial which declared tho accused I. sHe V. W. not guilty, condomncd tlio "V'H ' tilal iih unfair, declared that tlio I. i,ff W. V. hall had liocn raided by tlio IjB Legion before a shot wan fired, and B iiBBerted that tho accused I. W. V. $H should have been fully acquitted. JjjH What Is worso tho labor Jury wub ' uuidu up of leu men selected from 'bH H, tho onirlal representatives of labor. iHb fedenilloiiH on the ParlNc coast. The' jHV -.erdlct of acquittal h) the labo'r Jury ( flT wn iiminiiiioiis nfttu hearing all tho -R tesllmoii and rulings of tlio court. Uh 'Wli.v should such labor leaders com !;&' mand respect? bH Tho six men who signed tho ver dict nro: John 0. Craft, Seattle met-nl met-nl tindcs; 11. tV. Thrall, Contralla, icprcscntlng the Tacoma lodgo of the Urolhcrhood of Hallway Trainmen; W. J. Ueaid, Tacoma central labor council; Otto Newman, Portland, Oro., central labor council; Thco, Meyer, Kvcrctt, Wash., central labor council, and P. K. Mohr, Seattle cen-irnl cen-irnl labor council, who acted as tho foi email. j A ''labor Jury" Is a hand picked hunch -of radicals who sit In tho court room and bring in a verdict entirely en-tirely separate fiom the legal and olllclol Jury. They claim to represent repre-sent labor but honest and loyal wolk men cannot back such n program. Tho ofllclal Jury verdict was guilty in tho Centrnlla case. |
