The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931 fage Three MARCHERS CONTINUE ON SCHEDULE; NEED FUNDS AT ONCE FOR EXPENSES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) started from Boston Dec. 1 and stayed z:..."! over night in New Haven, came swinging into New York... At was greeted near the city limits by a committee from the New York Councils of the Un- employed and greeted again by “the masses of New York work- rs and unemployed workers at Union Square at 5 5p. m, COLUMN 1 ‘The first section of 19 marchers of Column No. 1 arrived at the city lim- its of New York, on Boston Road, st about 4:30 pm. and was greeted there by a crowd of 2,500, which had been defying all police provocations up to then. The rest of Column 1 Was expected momentarily. ‘The marchers reported that going through Hartford Wednesday they were met and cheered by a crowd of 2,000, although the city authorities had been making all kinds of threats against the marchers. They stopped overnight in New Haven, after being greeted by # mass demonstration out- ae ee of 800. At Bridgeport, first sop: yesterday, there were a thousand demonstrat- ing for'them. At Port Chester an- other thousand met them, and at New Rochelle the masses of unem- ployed in that town marched with them through the city, by their num- hers preventing effective interference ies the police were trying to of- er, Great Reception at Providence. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Dec. 3—The National Hunger Marchers of Column {, arrived here Safely Tuesday night and received a fine reception from the workers of Providence. At the state line before Pawtucket a crowd of about 500 gathered to greet the marchers on their way through to Providence stopover. ‘The police escorted the two trucks . "rtd one auto with the marchers to the Providence-Pawtucket city line where the local police force in its entirety had gathered. Motorcycle Squads with their riot guns were in hiding behind the car barns. Plain- clothesmen, uniformed thugs and the Test of the “watchdogs of the bosses parade to the Memorial Square in Providence. At Memorial Square a crowd of about 1,000 workers had gathered. to hear the: speakers de- parade to the Memorial Square mounce the fake felief, ete; of the. Jocal and federal government and the demands that their own reperesenta~ ‘tives would make on the National with loaves of bread and milk with the words “we demand” above. Delegates from Rhode Island were the speakers. Thomas Harri- ex-serviceman of the 72nd Di- E. F. and the woman del- Mary Beaumont, captain of the Column 1 King and Fred Biedenkapp also sticks of < addressed the crowd. ‘The local government in their at- tempt to break up the Hunger March, tried to terrorize the unem- ployed by sending to the headquar- ters of the Unemployed Councils, In- ‘Spector Francis J. McGovern of the Immigration Department whom the workers gave a good “reception.” But as the activities of the Unem- ployed Council intensified, the Immi- gration Inspector Francis Mc Govern came today with a squad of yniformed police and asked for Celia Becker, the secretary of the Unemployed Coun- cil. The workers present ejected the bosses’ tool from their headquarters. eo ee SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 3.—Here, in the heart of the Anthracite coal region, the city officials and police of Scranton launched a campaign of interference and petty persecution, with threats to arrest the whole del- é@gation of Northern New York and Eastern Pennsylvania delegates mak- ing up Column 2 of the National Hunger March. Column.2 reached Scranton Wed- nesday night, according to schedule, and in spite of all opposition, was fed and lodged by the local workers and the Councils of the Unemployed. Previously, the police department. has issued a permit for an open air mass meeting of greetings to the Na- tional Hunger March, to be held at 4/~p.m. in Court House Square. When the marchers arrived in town at that time, the police announced this per- mit had been revoked. Furthermore, the police declared that any attempt to hold a meeting in any hall in Scranton would result in the arrest of ll the Hunger Marchers. Over 20 workers came to the hall to welcome the dglegation, but were not and methods of the capitalist city govern- ment against the workers and unem-~- ‘ployed workers of Scranton. The statement declared these tactics would ‘The hunger marchers were served a hot meal and then taken to rooming houses provided for by the Scranton workers. This morning the march of Column 2 continued on towards Allentown, where it is to stop tonight, and then reach Philadelphia and join with Column 1, Ei! COLUMNS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 3.—Col- umn No. 3 of the National Hunger March moved on yesterday through a heavily industrial section of Ohio, from Toledo to Cleveland. At noon at Sandusky hundreds lined the streets to cheer the marchers. The column stopped there for lunch. At Lorraine, there was a mass meeting of .,500 to greet the marchers. At Elyria, a mass meeting of a thousand greeted the marchers, among them many young workers. ‘The march has stimulated forma- tion of unemployed councils in all three of these cities, whereas none) existed before. Many are joining the councils. - At Elyria, th county sheriff and the police had announced that no march through the town and no speaking were going to be allowed. The Elyria police had tried to get the co-operation of Lorraine police for an attack on the march, to break it up. But the workers were out in such large numbers and were so enthusias- tie for the National Hunger March that all this failed. They waited in large crowds for hours to be sure they were on hand ‘to greet the marchers. ‘Thousands greeted Coulmn 3 in tiona Hunge Mach wee being ?-rerv Cleveland. While the delegates of the National Hunger March were being provided with a meal by the workers of this city, four thousand were as~- | sembling in the city auditorium, en hour before the meeting started. The parade to the mass meeting formd a line blocks long. This morning Column 3 leaves Cleveland, on its way to Youngstown. It stops ovr there tonight, and joins Column 4 at Pittsburgh, Friday. ‘The line of march is: from Youngs- town at 9 a. m., Monaca at 1.30 p. m.; Ambridge at 3.30 p. m. and into Pitts- burgh at 6 p. m. Michigan “Marchers. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (By Mail). —The Western Michigan delegates to the National Hunger March had a line of march of their own, on their way to join the rest of Column 3. ‘They left Grand Rapids Nov. 30 at 9:30°a.m., and held 2 successful mass misting in Tonia, 35 miles out of Grand Rapids, with 200 workers at- tending in spite of the fact that no preparations had been made except distribution of 700 leaflets the day before. At Lansing, state caital of Michi- gan, the Unemployed Council had arranged hot lunches and a meeting to greet the marchers. A strong force of police met the marchers at the city limits, however, and drove all but one of the cars on @ route around the town. Police told the marchers they needed no law to arrest them and that they had or- ders to crush the unemployed coun~ cils in Lansing because they were “causing too much trouble.” This ac- tion is in line with all of Governor Brucker’s attacks on unemployed workers. Last year he had the state hunger march delegates locked up in the ball park and kept prisoners for some time. One carload of delegates got through the police lines and came down to the mass meeting in Lan- sing. The whole delegation is re- assembled and proceeding now with Column 3. COLUMN 4 PITTSBUURGH, Pa. Dec. 3.— When Columns 3 and 4 arrive here Friday, in the National Hunger March, they will have added to them delegates of the mining district south and west of Pittsburgh, which was the center of the big strike during the summer. A second Washington County Hun- ger March was demanded by dele- gates at the United Front Confer- ence in Washington, Pa., that elected ten delegates to the National Hun- ger March. A farewell send-off will beheld at Tylerdale Hall at 1 p.m., Dec, 4.- ” ‘The Conference made arrange- ments for a meeting for the return- ing delegates on the 10th. They will also serve supper in Washington that evening to the delegates. x In the Brownsville section, a per- mit has been obtained for a public meeting and arrangements are made for parking trucks of the National Hunger March delegates, Ten dele- gates are elected from here. From the Allegheny Valley, ten delegates: will come, four steel work- ers and six coal miners. The Avella section sends eight delegates and the Library section sends an equal num- ‘The use of the biggest lot in the Une of march in Ambridge, right WAGE CUTS LOOM IN NEW BEDFORD mills announced This is the first of a series of three articles on the history of the vicious death frame-up against the 60-year old Negro farm hand, Orphan Jones—a frame-up brazen in its savage torture of the worker by the police in order to extort a “confession,” open denial by the courts and the governor of Mary- land of the simplest constitutional | rights such as the right to select his attorney, consult with his attorney; followed by open lynch incitement by leading offeials of the State and of the County of Worcester; with an attempt to lynch the lawyer of the defendant and two investigators sent té Snow Hill by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, an attempt by the court to force the I. L. D. attorney out of the case, and finally insistence by the court of bringing Jones to trial on Dec. 8 in Cam- bridge on the Eastern Shore, where armed lynch gangs of rich farmers have been hunting militant Negro workers for days, searching the jails for Negro prisonrs, i By BILL BRENT (PART ONE) Orphan Jones is a Negro. That is the outstanding charge against him and in all the publicity given his case the boss owned newspapers have never let their readers forget the fact for a minute. That he is 60 years old and has been working all his life; that altho under a workers’ system of government Orphan Jones would now WAR THREAT TO SOVIET UNION GROWS | (CONTINUED FRom PAGE ONF) were so anxious to shut out the Soviet Union that they carefully re- frained from invoking the so-called Kellogg Peace Pact, although in 1929 when the Soviet Red Army defended the Siberian masses against the at- tacks of White Guard elements from Manchuria, Stimson quickly invoked the Kellogg Pact against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, as a signatory of the Keliogg Pact, could not hive so easily been shut out from.considera~ tion of the Japanese seizure of Man- churia if the Kellogg Pact-had been invoked. And the presence of the Soviet would have spoiled the plans of the imperialists fur the division of China and war on the Soviet Union. So the imperialists refused to invoke the Kellogg Pact against Japan, but began holding secret con- ferences of the League Council in Which the seizure of Manchuria by the Japanese and the persistent cam- paign of provocation against the So- viet Union were given full support by the United States and otber im- perialist powers. The League Council now ettempts to prove that the Soviet policy of holding aloof from the Manchurian tion and of 1eiusing to be pro~ voked into var, is the main danger to peace in the Far East. The New York Post dispatch declares: “Holding atof from the League Council’s Sino-Japanese delibera- tions, unrepresented upon the pro- . posed inquiry commission either by membership or by assessors, as Is accorded the two disputants, Soviet Russia is decidedly an unknown quantity in the whole Far Eastern problem, it was said today by an eminent authority.” Germany; Italy Demand Share In. A strong bid for a share in the im- perialist loot in China was made yes- terday by the German and Italian delegates to the secret conferences in Paris of the League of Nations Coun- cil. The Italian and German gov- ernments demanded representation on the League Commission to inves- tigate China, appointment of which is called for by a resolution offered by the Japanese with the backing of U. S Ambassador Gen. Dawes. ..... The Italian demand was prac- tically conceded to, but the German demand was met with the retort that since Germany had lost her colonies and privileged position (extra-terri- torial rights) in China, she had no interests to protect in that country “and should therefore be excluded.” This answer by the League Council shows the real nature of the com- mission, the true purpose of which is to complete the partition of China, as Africa has been partitioned. Ger- many, however, has been welcomed into the anti-Soviet front. Sharp Clashes Develop. Within the imperialist agreement for war on the Chinese Revolution and the Soviet Union, a sharp clash of interests continue. While United States objections forced a temporal! retreat in the Japanese plans for establishing their hegemony over all of China, it becomes clearer daily that Japan has not surrendered these plans. There si a sharpening clash between the Japanese on one hand, and the United States, Britain and France on the other over the Chin- chow area, from which the Japanese were forced to retreat a few days ago. ‘The Japanese are demanding that the so-called neutral zone proposed to be established around Chinchow be under the control of the Chinese puppet government set up by Japan in Mukden. Japan is adamant on the demand that she be permitted to use her troops in this area when- ever she considers Japanese interests threatened. And, under the pretext that the Nanking government is carrying on hostile troop movements be retired and comfortable, but under the capitalist system Jones has until now been compelled to work in the fields ten hours a day and ten cents an hour in order té get his food; these things are never mentioned by the boss controlled press. But not only did Jones had to work for 10 cents an hour. His boss, a rich white former wouldn't even pay Jones his full wages. He didn’t want to pay kept him there without anything to eat and without anything to drink him for a rainy day on which Jones couldn’t get; much done. Jones stood up for his rights and when he didn’t get his pay he quit. Jones’ boss was rich but he didn’t make all of his money by cheating his workers. He was a politician besides and got graft. One day the boss and his whole family were found dead. ‘The police didn’t waste any time in- vestigating the racketeering in which the boss was engaged in order to find out who might have killed him. No indeed. They immediately remem- bered Orphan Jones and they arrested him for the murders. And they say that Jones must have killed the boss because the boss had cheated him. Of course they don’t really believe that Jones did it but the police will be criticised if they don’t arrest some- body and here was a good opportun- ity to get rid of this worker, this Negro worker, who didn’t “know his place,” who argued about wages, who might make a lot of trouble later on when wages get still lower, when there attempting to lay the basis for a new attack against. Chinchow. But while a Mukden dispatch reports a huge concentration of Nanking troops in Chinchow, official reports from the British and French observers give the lie to the Japanese. Both the British and French declare that the Nanking government is making no plans to defend Chinchow, that there are no troop movements in the area. Strength of Chinese Soviets Grow. ‘The admission made in the Scripps~ Howard. papers.on Wednesday of the growing mass threat to the traitor- ous Nanking government, is further confirmed in an article by George E. Sokolsky in yesterday’s New York Times. Sokolsky admits that the strength of the Chinese Soviets and the Red Army is growing. The Com~ munists, he says, are. strengthening their position in the Yangtse Valley. He admits that mass dissatisfaction with the Nanking government is spreading rapidly throughout China, and that there Js.a “‘rise of the Com- munist Party of China in Kiangst, Hunan and Hupeh.” Threat To Soviet Union Grows. ‘The Japanese continue to rush more’ troops” into’ North Manchuria and the zone around the Chinese Eastern Railway, on the pretext that the Chinese General Ma Chen-shan is preparing a drive to re-capture province. A Mukden dispatch reports @ clash between Ma’s forces and the forces of Chang Haipeng. Chang is admitted by the dispatch to be friendly to Sbodesin Prepare for Ky. Coal Miners’ Convention (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) some of the Bell and Harlan County miners. Their latest racket is relief. Credentials have been drawn up that read as follows: “Pineville, Ky., November 25, 1931. To Whom it May Concern: Greetings. This is to cer- tify Brother is duly authorized to solicit aid for the needy miners and their families of Harlan and Bell Counties. Anything that you may give will be greatly appreciated. (Signed) .Robert Childers, Chairman of Relief, Secretary L. U. .255; Ben Williams, International Representa- tive, U. M. W. of A.” Two UMWA seals are on the credentials to show how official and dignified the d= entials are. But the seals are fake! This is because there is not a single UMWA local functioning in Harlan or Bell Counties. Dead 12 Years, Ohe of the seals reads: “United Mine Workers of America, Local Union 4461, Rim, Ky.” The Rim. Ky., mine has been worked out for 12 years! The other seal reads: “United Mine Workers of America, Local Union No. 1255, Wallins Creek. Ky.” This is funnier still, becauge the Walins Creek miners never had a UMWA local of their own, but from 1918 till June, 1931, belonged to UM WA charter was returned, and all the Walins Creek miners are now mem~ bers of the National Miners Union. So the two locals that the UMWA claim in Bell and Harlan Counties are, one at a mine that has been closed for 12 years and the other a local that has never existed. UMWA Gives No Relief In spite of the fact that UMWA offiicals have toured the country for relief for the Kentucky miners, the men in many cases being out $3 and $4, and thousands of dollars collected, not one cet has ever been given to any of the mienrs or to any of the kitchens. Nor has any food or clothing ever bee given to the starving miners ahd their families. ‘Tried SeHl-out When the miners of the Glendon mine, Arjay, Straight Creek, Ky., re- cently re-struck the mine because the company violated their agreement, and refused to cut for the miners’ checkweighman, William Turnblazer, district president of the UMWA, ‘Tsitsihar, capital of Heilungkiang. is more unemployment and starva-| tion, when the bosses begin to push the workers into the new world war that has already started in China, ‘Turtured and Tricked into “Con- fession.”* The police tied Jones in a chair, they put @ spotlight in his eyes, they else did the killing. But Jones wasn’t lynched then. The International Labor Defense, an or- ganization of white and Negro work- ers, with branches all over the world, stepped in and by mobilizing the white and Negro masses for militant protest compelled governor Ritchie to have Jones brought to Baltimore, with a large population of Negro and class-conscious white workers. Even Governors are afraid of the workers when the workers are organized to- gether. Boss Press Admitted Torture of Jones for 21 hours; a whole day and a whole night. But they didn’t let him sleep either. They questioned him and every question carried with it a kick or @ blow in the face. They broke a policemen’s club over his head. When. he was so exhausted that he didn’t know what he was doing they got him to sign a paper which he couldn't read. The paper was a confession ‘Then they got a mob together and were about to settle the whole busi- ness forever by a good satisfying The mob was composed of rich far- mers and storekeepers of the neigh- borhood and of the officials of Snow Forged Circular New Hoover Provocation (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ing the latest brazen provocation against the marchers. It brands as a lie and a forgery, and a clumsy forgery at that, what purport to be circulars issued by “The Communist Party of America,” calling for armed insurrection, No worker here seems to have seen the circulars, but what the paper says are their contents are published in the Washingtony“Eve- ning Star” of Dec. This paper says: “Circulars were being issued to- } day about th> Capitol purporting to come {rein the Ccnimunist Party of America calling upon fellow workers, “Jack anc white; to crgan- ize your forces and prepare te take by force of aimis tne mines, ‘mills; factories, farnis, railroads, etc:, and run all these things in the interests of the wurkers under Communism. ‘The poster closes with the ‘cry ‘Down with the U. S. Government and all its racketeers.’” ‘The Communist Party has issued no call for armed insurrection in America, and the circulars betray ig- Norancé of the name of the organ- ization, which is not “Communist Party of America,” but “Communist Par'y of the U 8S. A.” The termin- ology is also that of a capitalist ‘| seribe, not that of the workers who make up the Communist Party. Plot To Attack March. The Washington Arrangements Committee points out that this is but the latest attempt to lay a basis for, and excuse beforehand, the armed at- tack on the National Hunger March which the Hoover administration hopes for. The committee points out that the 1,500 marchers are coming as elected delegates from the masses of unemployed in every big city of the country, and from many small ones ,and that their purpose is not to lead an armed insurrection, but to lay before Congress and the president ihe demands of the 12,000,900 jobless and the militant, organized and un- organized workers of America for unemployment insurance at full wage rates and immediate winter relief of $150 cash for each \ bless werker, and $50 more for each depend vt. The committee demands the right to march through the city streets for the National Hurger March, the right to meet in national conference, the right to be fed and housed at government expense and to present its demands on Congress and on Hoover. Torture Phillips. ‘The 14 demonstrators who went to the White House last week to demand housing and feeding of the National Hunger March delegates and were ar- rested and sentenced to six months each, are now on $500 bail each. Bail and the appeal of the case is in the hands of the International Labor De- fense. One of them, the 15 year old boy, Bill Phillips, refused to be finger printed when taken to jail. Mayor Peak personally directed an assault on him by the police in which he was tortured into semi-consciousness by police putting chains around his hands and ankles and then twisting the chains. He was also bi beaten up by police, Even now, his hands are numb, . NEW YORK.—The Bronx Coliseum meeting of over 10,000 here Wednes- day night passed a resolution de- manding freedom for the Washing- ton demonstrators, and denouncing the torturing of Phillips and the forging of circulars to lay the basis for an attack on the Hunger Marchers. eo rushed in to try to sell them out. They tried to get the men to tear up their NMU cards, and join the UMWA, promising all kinds of fine agreements with the company. But the men were wise to their long, crooked record arid one fell for their porn cain poo ye Ming Ine of baloney and not one joined inte atieeh Decerubge 2, |ncand Chinchow, the dapenees amp! and tome « Reanguizenia,! the UWA, ‘ THE FIGHT FOR ORPHAN JONES Hill, Md., where all this happened. | No doubt the grafters who had done the murders so they would not have to divide their loot with Jones’ boss any more were also there anxious to hang Jones so that he would not be able to prove in Court that somebody All the boss class newspapers told | how Jones had been beaten by the Police. The boss class was perfectly willing that the workers should know how the police treat prisoners they want the workers to be afraid to get arrested, afraid to protest against starvation and unemployment, afraid to demand unemployment relief, afraid to protest against the new world war which the boss government is preparing against the Soviet Union which is a workers republic; they want the workers to be afraid to pro- test on account of what will happen to them when they are arrested. But the International Labor Defense, which is the workers themselves but organized together so as to be power- ful, began to protest against the treat- ment of Jones. Then the police got afraid and denied that there had been any ‘‘third Degree” used on Jones. But lots of people saw what happened so now the police say that they only beat Jones every time he called them liars. And of course Jones told them they were liars every time they told him he was a murderer. Anyway Jones was in hospital next day in the jail from the “questioning.” Continued To-morrow) | | | | } Mooney’s Freedom tn Hands of Workers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONY) the workers is growing. Following the demonstration Tuesday of 20,000 San Francisco workers,’ demanding the immediate release of Mooney, 10,000 workers in New York Wednesday night shouted their resolye to spread the fight for Mooney’s and Billings’ release and to expose the nefarious scheme of Walker and the boss class. ‘They declared their determination to bring to the workers the role of the socialists and A. F. of L, fakers in backing up Walker’s move to cover up and blur the class issues in the Mooney case, Hundreds of working class organ- izations, A.) F. of-L. locals, will pre- pare and pass resolutions speeding up the fight for the release of Mooney and Billings, and exposing the trick~ ery of the California bosses, Walker and the socialists in attempting to gag Mooney.and victimize Billings. Fickert Twists Again- Former prosecutor Fickert, who himself did the actual framing up on behalf of the California. bosses, is- sued a statement Wednesday denyin: he had said Mooney wes not guilty.’ He stated he did not ask for Moo~ ney's pardon, though the entire capi- talist press had published his letter in which he approved Walker's plea. Walker and company are doing everything to create illusions that Mooney will be pardoned, in order to stop the mass movement for Mooney’s release. At the same time they strive to get Mooney to re- nounce his ties with the revolu- tionary working class, But the ac- tions of Walker, Rolph, Fickert, etc. prove still further ‘that only the working class, acting in huge mass- ¢s, can insure Mooney’s release. That that capitalists are far from a solid front on the question of re- leasing Mooney, even on the basis of Walker and Rolph’s scheme, is shown in Fickert’s latest letter insisting that Oxman and MacDonald were not plain liars. At the same time Senator John Hastings and Frank P. Walsh, both of whom are part of the Walker: group, made a special visit to Moo- ney after the hearing before Gov- ernor Rolph. The purpose of the hearing was not stated, but the capitalist press leaves no room for doubt that the aim was on the part of Walker to get Mooney to turn his back on the working class, to accept gag-rule freedom, to retire and withdraw from the class strng- gle. The New York Mirror said that the basis of the promise that they seek to get from Mooney is that he will “retire to private life, quietly,” and that he will not “hold himself out as a victim of the rich.” The New York Times admitted that the purpose of Hastings and Walsh was “of getting Mooney to ‘commit himself to the statement that he will ‘not indulge in radical activi- ties if he was released.” This is precisely what the telegram of Dunne, Foster and Minor warned Mooney against. It shows up more and more the fact that the capitalists of California, aided by Walker, the socialists, Hoover, and the A. F. of L, officialdom. seek to break the Moo- ney case from its class bone and sinew; they seek to gag Mooney; they seek to bury the case in obscurity and whitewash this feroctous frame- up, and to throw the guilt on Bill- ings. Why 8 Months? ‘The fact that Governor Rolph has set the date for the decision ahead for three months shows that the capt- talists of California do not Intend to free Mooney--unless forced to by growing working class pressure—and that in the meantime, they intend to bring a heayy barrage against, Moo- ney in an effort to blackjack him into accepting their policy. ‘The position of the Communist ‘Party Wat Mooney should not xely Reports from Six Districts Already In on Daily Worker Campaign Plans {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) are doing to prepare the |ground. for the Daily Worker subscription campaign We have heard from I 4,6, 7,8and10. 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In Mooney Case (CONTINUED F |t0 furnish the capitalists ‘of Caliser- |nia with excuses to attempt to get | them out from under oe Mooney do they say? What-did nd Mr. Walsh say? is is a case of perjury! Theycreate the impression, arid’ say in so many words, that Mooney fs in jail because two perjurers, Oxman and MacDonald, swore falstly agatnst Mooney; and as one of the lawyers said—“fooled the whole state of Calt- fornia!” And they say these two liars are responsible for the trapris- onment of Mooney and Billings. Is this the Mooney case!? Of course not! Mooney and Billinis were put into jail at the instigation, and un- der the instructions, of the capital- ists o fCalifornia, and with the sup- port of the capitalist class of the United States. This is not a question of some isolated case of perjury. This is a frame-up by the capitalist class of California and the United States to destroy these militants and to set them as an example for every other militant working-class fighter in the country that militancy will not be tolerated. We are not going to allow any sueh impressions to go unchallenged sbout the Mooney case such as Walker and Walsh seek to build up. What else aer they undertaking to do out there in California? You read in your papers how they tried to dise tinguish between Mooney and Bill- ings. They are trying to make ft appear as though Billings is guilty and Mooney is not. Are we going te allow them to say this? No! T want to say to the capitalist class, M PAG ONE) or those who may be interested in listening, that if they try to put. this across, if they try to make Billings the goat, that the Billings case will become a bigger case and a harder one for them to handle than-—-the Mooney case ever was. As the National Hunger March goes to Washington, as our Huhger March passes through hundreds of industrial towns and cities, they will demand, and the workers everywhere will demand, the uncorditional re- lease of Tom Mooney, ard the un- conditional and immediate release of | Warren J. Billings. on capitalist spokesmen who do not seek his freedom but an effort to clear the capitalists of the responsi- bility for this dastardly frame-up is now proved up to the hilt by the lat- est’ dévelopmients. "The call for strug- gle on the part of the workers for the freedom of Mooney arid Billings now rings out more clearly than ever as the only means of forcing the prison gates open. One of the glaring features of the case is the admitted fact that Gov- ernor Rolph of California knows and is convinced that Mooney is innocent, but, working with the capitalist forces who jailed Mooney, he refused to re- lease’ Mooney and Billings except in accordance with the wishes of the California exploiters. An editorial in the San Francisco Examiner saying that “if Governor Rolph does release Mooney, he will always be known as the California governor who had the courage to do what he knew was Tight”, shows that Rolph knows that Mooney is innocent. ‘The fourteen workers delegates in San Francisco, who were arrested at the State Building when Governor Rolph was maneuvering with Walker to switch the real background of the ‘Mooney case, were to present the fol- lowing statement, but were arrested before they had an opportunity to do 80: “The delegation of 15 workers pre- sents in the name of various working class unions, fraternal and political organizations, consisting of over two hundred thousand members, and backed by the whole working class, the following demands: 1, the immediate and unconditional Ga release of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K, Billings. “2. The immediate and uncondi- tional release of the seven Imperial Valley prisoners, Oscar Erickson, Lawrence Emery, Danny Roxas, Braulio Orozco, Eduardo Herrers, Carl Sklar, and Tetsuji Horiuchi, now serving five-year sentences in San Quentin and Folsom prisons. “The toiling masses of the United States supported by the whole world working class, charge the American boss class with the crime of. the frame-up of Mooney and Billings. As @ result these two workers have been in prison for over fifteen years. “The Criminal Syndicalism Law, under which the Imperial Valley prisoners were convicted, aims to drive underground the Contmunist Party, the leader of the working-class. 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