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Show Chicago Federation Considers the I Mooney Question jfl CHICAGO, April 17 The Chicago Federation of Labor has called B conference con-ference to be held here next Saturday ilfl to prepare for carrying out tho pro- tflfl gram agreed upon at the National jjll Mooney Labor Conference held In Isl Chicago last January to obtain either H a new trial or freedom for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, now lm serving life sentences in a California 9I prison for participation in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bomb out- The program adopted at the January congress was to appeal to President Wilson for relief and if this is unsuc- juM cessful to call a nation-wide strike of labor July 4. Sifl The International Workers' Defense league reports that of the unions voting vot-ing on the strike- referendum 95 per cent of the member.ship have appro -led the program. Delegates from middle mid-dle west cities will attend the conference con-ference here Saturday. jfefl |