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Show DEW TRIALS ffl ! LiCfi LEADERS Salt Lake Tribune: Coincident with , a nation-wide expression of protest . made by various labor organization.5 j throughout the country yesterday . against the prosecution and convlc-j convlc-j tion of Thomas J Mooney. against . whom sentence of death was pronounc , ed for alleged conspiracy in a bomb i explosion in which ten persons were . killed during a preparedness parade ' in San Francisco, July 22, 1910, 200 j answered the call for a "citizens' . mass meeting" held yesterday after , noon at Unity hall. The following . resolutions were adopted. "Resolved by this citizens' mass meeting of Salt Lake City. Utah, as sembled this eleventh dav of .March. 1917, that we demand of the state of California t grant Thomas J Mooney and Warren K. Billings a new and impartial trial by jury comprising members of the working class. "Be it further resolved that this assembly as-sembly upholds and supports the ac-. ac-. tion of the Salt Lake City Federation of Labor in their resolution adopted March 9, 1917, recommending tfie general gen-eral strike and placing of all California Cali-fornia products on the unfair list as a means whereby the workers will use their economic power, which is practically prac-tically the onlv powerful weapon whereby they may secure justice for jour imprisoned victims. "And be it further resolved (hat we recommend an inlern.ittfimi t - . .... . 1 .1. . l (lay May 1, 1917, as an appropriate and fitting day for all organized labor and those in sympathy to fold their arms, stop the machinery of production produc-tion and distribution and make it a 'day of mighty protest in behalf of Thomas .j Mooney and his co-de-fendants this to be the workers' pre-liminary pre-liminary movement to secure justice. Drastic Action Hinted. "In the event the capitalist powers of California and the heads of this nation na-tion refuse to act and restore to the! workers their constitutional rights we I recommend that the proletariat of this nation call a convention to be held at i some central point in the United! States for the purpose of outlining more drastic measures for future ac-j I tion. Let the slogan be, 'Give us lib- erty or give- us death" Copies of these resolutions were sent immediately to the president or the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, the , governor of California. President Wilson, Wil-son, chamber of commerce, San Francisco, the American Federation of Labor. Washington, D. C . and the heads of the four railway brotherhoods. brother-hoods. Urges Solidarity. Preliminary to the adoption of the ' resolutions speeches were made by several members of the local labor organizations. Letters were read ' from labor leaders in differpnt parM of Hie United States, pldfiins their support of Thomas .1 Mooney and I his condemned ro-prisoners. Mr. Jamison talked on the principle that in unity there 13 strength and said that if the demands of the labor I unions were to be listened to the men musl present a solid phalanx and fight shoulder to shoulder. |