The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1918, Page 14

i a: 4 A a WIFE MAILS 2,000,00 TO SAVE TOM MOONEY’S LIFE 0 BOOKS THE SEATTLE STAR ‘This is the little partor in the Mooney Mat, fitled with pamphiets as are all the other rooms. Mooney’ wife (standing), his mother (seated) and two volunteer workers are mailing appeals to organised labor to save Mooney’s life. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18,.—This is the story of Rena Mooney. It tells the fight Tom Mooney's wife is making to save him from execution on the San Francisco bomb charge. But—it strikes to the very core of the American family circie, and carries to all happy homes the splintering message of a devastated home. It gets a hold on the heart, some how or other, in away no other chapter in the records of American labor does, and seems likely to be- come the classic love story of trades from every American state, from England, Australia, New Zealand. Russia, everywhere, The letters are filed alphabetically, states and territories. In the corner notation—the nacne of the letter's writer, the date received, the pur- pose, if for pamphlets the amount enclosed, and the numbcr of pamph lets mailed. Her only recreation is planning the things she and Tom will do together when he gets out. She accepts no invitations. Her explanation ts: “I'll [save it til Tom gets out. I don't want to enjoy anything he doesn't share.” On the walls of her little, cluttered “office” are two pictures, of her according to of each envelope is Rena Mooney’s ing friendly volunteer workers come and go and talking to them, you can- not find anybody who is willing to give evidence of having seen Rena Mooney cry, Some there are who “think” or “seem to remember” that they have seen UNSHED tears in her eyes when she showed them the | plotures of her studio, but they are not willing even to take oath to that. Werks Day and Night If Tom Mooney doesn't hang it will be because labor's voice is #0 loud that President Wilson ts able to use It to force the retrial he haw twice formally asked the state of California to give the man believed by union workers the world over to sion, Rena Mooney | studio as it was in the days of her San’ Francisco's leading teach- freedom. Rena Mooney looks at| , Amd. !f labor's voice te that ers of music. | these pictures often, and likes to) pos, ‘ a pe ‘Her classes were overflowing. In show them to her helpers. Obvi- th in and hy out, one class she had 38 pupils. One| ously, the studlo was the apple of | unti’she had mailed 2,000,000 of her best pupils, a boy just enter-) eye. } aaspinae. te erat tabor onion ing his teens, had given exhibitions | It contained four pianos—a large in the United States and a ms at the San Francisco world’s fair as|Tand and three uprights. Only two! Sodty of the unions in several @ musical prodigy. are there now. | ¢ . loreign countries. lent. On her library found the poets, the ? i ° & & shelves were and the economiste— Pate Hegel, Liebknecht. , Played for Tom, — and planned with him for a hapiper home together in the world they were working “for, and used to talk to each other bout. © Rena Mooney was arrested with her husband. She was kept in jail 22 months. She was acquitted and the same evidence on which he is now sentenced to be executed December 13. Immediately she gave up all her time and strength to the task of saving him. Slaves and Smiles geen cagise of the pomphiot mailed practically hese with her own hands. She has made herself a slave to a job which ordinarily would have been a year’s work for a room- ful of men. “Why shouldn't I smile?” she asks. “See the wonderful friends I have made. I would have been helpless without them. I am going to win. Tom is innocent. In a few months he will be free. We shall take up our lives where we left them—richer and better for our ex perience and stronger in our knowl edge how to serve.” Anyone who looked at Rena Mooney, neat, trim, quiet, would feel she must have sensitive tastes and love beautiful things, for her life was the life of an artist. On her workdesk is a telephone book with a cover of decorated cloth cleverly pasted on it hecause she could not stand the sight of the ugly, pencil-marked pastboard back. But it is a pitiful thing. Be- cause Kena Mooney lives in pov- erty and almost squalor, and surely no telephonebook daint- ily covered can blind her to it. Her ttle flat is‘on a San Fran cisco side street, Bray st. in the midst. of the homes of the poor. From the et the building does not n inviting’ place to live. 1 is worse There is almost no furniture. Tt rooma are filled with -box pamphlets, stacks tnail sacks full of to go out, express pac phiets, wrapping mat tables on which to wor In that flat, Rena Mo rm Mooney’s mother li h There is a and place to sleep, but that the two wome as much time and p y and sleeping as most Jaually Mooney’s wife hours of the 24 to the work of m ing pamphlets, to save him. Mriends come in to work with her in the evenings. They about mid. night. Then Ken: y spends a couple of hours at her bookkeeping. | During her 22 monthe tn jail she began ‘her system of filing all her voluminous mail. Bhe used old boxes, designed for transplanung flowers, as her filing cabinets. She still uses them, Not a cent has gone into office equipment. Gets "Thousands of Letters the Es to forget. But, um wait around the “~_|FIVE ARE DEAD AND MANY HURT IN LYNCH RIOT WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Nov. 18.—Five known dead and a score or more injured, five of them seri- ously, was the toll early today fol lowing a night of rioting resulting from an attempted lynching. Troops rushed here shortly after midnight apparently have the situation well hand. Police believe others may have been killed. an early hour today, efforts of the home guard and police to restore order being unavailing prior to the arrival of the troops. Mob Storms Jail The mob formed Sunday after- noon and stormed the jail, seeking la negro charged with shooting J. E. Childress and Sheriff Flint and attacking Mre. Childress With difficulty the police drove the mob out of the jail after the negro sought had been wounded. Home guards were then ordered the negro shot was not the man wanted and by nightfall the mob re- formed and marched on the jail. Fire. companies turned hose on the rioters. Firing followed. The mob overpowered the guard and again forced entrance to the jail. After an hour the mob left, apparently not finding the negro. Rioters then scattered over the | city, breaking up into small groups. FOUR MEN MAKE DARING ESCAPE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18.—Two military prisoners, disguised as lieu- tenants, were at large today, follow |ing a daring escape from Alcatraz |island late yesterday. ‘ They are L'Estrange Bach, of Portland, and Carl J. Zirker, of Los | Angeles, both serving terms for | petty thefts at Camp Lewis. Rifling | the lockers of two lieutenants, Bach and Zirker boldly walked aboard a U. S. tug, mingled with other of. ficern aboard and disembarked at the Presidio. BOISH, Idaho, Nov. 18—Scaling prison wall, with the aid of a 25foot rope, braided from yarn fur nished inmates by the Red Crons out Later a report circulated that! delicate woman, former artist and student, in sordid surroendings, un |der the pressure of penury, to save | the labor leader whose sentence | played a part in the international complications of the world wa: NO ARGUMENT — ON WAGES, IS | DECLARATION NEW YORK, Nov, 18.—The manu facturers “do not intend at thin time | to enter into any wage controversy” with organized labor, as this is a | question that must be solved in the (Se the indomitable fight of the H. Barr, of the National Founders’ association, declared in a statement | made public here | Barr issued the statement in reply | wet Gompers, of the American Feder jation of Labor, that labor will not | permit wages and hours of work to 0 back to a prewar basis. “If any man, or set of men, as sumes to think the manufacturers in. tend at this time to enter into any wage controversy, they are quite mis | taken,” said Barr. “On the contrary, | the present time is one when all pow sible constructive energy should be utilized for co-operation, and not for strife “Perhaps the country can maintain its industries and secure itx share of world trade on an eight-Hour work basis. If s0, well and good.” Barr also declared that the manu facturar is unquestionably more great common industrial problens |than those individuals and organiza | tions whose principal efforts are confined to vituperation and reduc | tion of output.” SWISS ASK FOR ACCESS TO SEA | (Special to The Star by N. EB. A) LONDON, Nov. 18,—Exit the time worn joke about the "Swiss navy” if Switzerland's new sea plan goes thru It in said to have been laid before American and French bankers. The pian is for a ship canal from Geneva to Marseilles; later extended from Geneva to Basle, connecting the North sea and t literranean, Kerensky Kicks on Passport Refusal | Star by N. E. A) IN, Nov 18 Alexander y, in @ letter published, in a adon paper, protests against the Tot etiatine\aeeikina tae ahd efusal of the Britixh government to Harry Hilton and Fred Geo ssporta to return to Rus 4 trom the Idaho state prison | %% ‘mmodiately. The government George was under a life sentence for murder and Hilton was sen tenced to spend from five to 15 years in the penitentiary for rob- bery. Lens Mayor Visits His Ravaged Home (Special to The Star by N. BE. A) PARIS, Nov. 18—When M. Basly, mayor of Lena, retur to the rav- axed town after the allies captured it from the Germans, he was able to recognize his own home only by remnants of the garden surrounding it. Searcely a stone remained stand: ing of the $100,000 town hail, which based ita refusal on the “declared de termination not to interfe internal politics of Russia. “It ia high time to recognize the erated. and restored central Deny wovernment,” Kerensky Go to Bed Early | (Special to The Star by N. KB. A) | LONDON, Nov. 18. “Working in overcoats is the latest fashion in | Britain, Girls in many government jand private offices leave their coats and furs on from the time they leave | home until they return at night. At | Wilton, Somerset, all the people in In these boxes are thousands of |had been built just before the war,| the town held a patriotic rally and letters from all over the world— jand not even dedicated agreed to go to bed early to save coal reconstruction period, President Wm. | “deeply concerned in working out the | Mooney flat for several days, watch: ||) } | ‘| | | Firing continued up to/to the announcement made by Sam f) Te in the} | to Help Save Coal | STORE HOURS 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. THE BON MARCHE For years The Bon Marche has specialized on Suits, Coats and Dresses at $25.00. Bon Marche val- ues at this price were known far and wide—a splendid reputation was es- tablished for these $25.00 wearables— Then came the rise in prices — prices rose and rose and rose—it was diffi- <2 cult to obtain good apparel at $25.00. 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