Bring On Your Worst and Best' Cries Mooney
Shoaf, George H.
•Bring On Your Worst and Best' Cries Mooney Hj George H. Shoaf CAN FRANCISCO. — Tom sMooney's insistent challenge that the state prosecute him to the bitter limit, and the state's admission...
...Brady written in 1926 to Governor Richardson in which he said if all the evidence that came to light after the original trials, and outside the trial records, could have been considered by the Appellate Court undoubtedly a new trial would have been granted...
...WILLING TO OBLIGE "Dear Chief," wired the head man of a German village to Adolf Hitler, "please send us a couple of Jews to persecute...
...The parade will proceed through Forsythe Street to East Broadway, to Worth to the City HalL Con-1 tinuing its march, the unemployed will go down Broadway to Wall Street...
...Attorney's possession...
...Take your seat," interrupted the court, but Gallagher refused to be silenced...
...Bring on the best and the worst you have against me," exclaimed Mooney, who acted as his own attorney...
...The districts most particularly responsible for this increase are Verviers, Antwerp and AthTournay...
...Tom sMooney's insistent challenge that the state prosecute him to the bitter limit, and the state's admission it had no evidence to convict, constituted the climax of the latest attempt to expose the frame-up which has kept Mooney in prison for nearly seventeen years...
...BELGIANSOCIAUST PARTY STILL GROWING •yHE General Council of the * Belgian Labor (Socialist) Party submitted a voluminous illustrated report to the ordinary annual Conference held May 27th and 28th in the Maison du People in Brussels...
...The attack was unprovoked and has created a roar of protest in New York...
...These are the witnesses whose testimony effected ay conviction in my first trial...
...Later, the crowd, to justify this brutality, took the Socialist placards and tore them, turning their attention once again to the defense of the Great Plutocracy...
...I want the opportunity to demonstrate this in open court...
...Events moved swiftly thereafter...
...Alton Kastner received a gash in the back from the bayonet of a Legionnaire...
...I want all the evidence available to be brought here...
...Another comrade, Saul Travin, was slugged with the butt of a rifle while prostrate on the ground...
...In arranging the demonstration It was decided that no political or other banners shsll be carried...
...The report thowt that during 1932 the membership increated to 568,191, a$ against 559,085 at the end of 1931...
...Comrades Sandy Parker, Sam Mednick, Horace Berman, Isidore Gross, Santiago Cordova, Irwin Zauderer and Saul Parker, organizer of the party branch, were cornered and beaten with rifles until unconscious...
...Attorneys for the defense, however, arc seriously considering the presentation of the case to the Supreme Court of the United States on the theory that Mooney's continued imprisonment is in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment...
...Appeals to the police by the Yipsels for protection brought no response, New York's finest calmly standing by and watching the clubbing, even allowing Fred Siems to be beaten while talking to them...
...As they approached the war monument in the square, the Yipsels continued picketing with such signs as "Refuse to Fight," "No More War," and "Capitalism Brings War...
...All the other witnesses are available...
...I insist that District Attorney Brady be called to the stand to tell why he refuses to prosecute me...
...I have stipulated that where witnesses are read and cannot be here, their testimony be produced here, particularly that of Frank Oxman...
...John McDonald is in the East, but is willing to appear...
...Thereupon Mooney read a letter from Mr...
...Ten young comrades were peacefully picketing Mitchel Square at Broadway and 168th Street, prior to Memorial Day services by contingents of the National Guard and the Veterans of Foreign Wsrs...
...interesting statistics are given on the voting in the elections which favored the Socialists...
...This was decided at a conference of 200 delegates representing about 300 organizations which met in the Rand School Auditorium last Saturday...
...This request was denied by the court...
...The tragedy of this case," continued Mooney, "is that although the District Attorney declares the evidence at his command is not sufficient to obtain a conviction in this trial, this same evidence was sufficient for four Governors of this state and for the Appellate and Supreme Courts to hold that I should stay in prison...
...Since that trial they have been proved to be perjurers, and their testimony has been completely discredited...
...At this point the prosecution moved for an instructed verdict of acquittal...
...Kastner and Travin, together with a Legionnaire, were sent to the hospital for treatment of their injuries...
...Mass Meeting to Protest Attack On YPSL's A MASS meeting has been called ^ to be held at 170th Street and Broadway in the evening of Saturday, June 3rd, to protest the brutality of American legionnaires in attacking Yipsel pickets on Memorial Day...
...With considerable heat Mooney cried: . "I wish to resist this motion...
...I know why, hut I want the world also to know why...
...One banner at the head of the parade will carry the names of ths unemployed organizations that participate and other banners will bear only the names of each group...
...If I am not guilty of this charge, inferentially I am not guilty of any other charge, including the one on which I was originally convicted...
...Mooney wants the world to know he has been framed by the public officials of San Francisco— by the police and by the District Attorney...
...If it is sufficient for that it should be worthy for the consideration of this jury...
...A committee representing the unemployed will present the demands of the unemployed to ths Board of Estimate which meets to consider relief appropriations...
...Banged about by rifle butts, the Yipsels dropped their placards and resisted...
...We ask an order for documents in the District...
...The only other banners carried will carry short slogans relating to ths demands of the Jobless, such as payment of rent to the jobless, relief for single men, anion wsges for emergency work, representation of ths unemployed on relief boards...
...The groups represented were the Workers' Unemployed Leagues, Workers' Commit lee on Unemployment, and the Association of the Unemployed...
...In less than an hour he was back in San Quentin peeling potatoes for the officers' mess...
...pUESDAY morning, June 6, is the date of the unemployment demonstration, beginning with a parade at 10 o'clock which will assemble promptly at Forsyth and Houston Street...
...Every effort Is being made to make this an impressive demonstration that will compel more satisfactory consideration of the needs of the hundreds of thousands pf workers out of work in Greater New York...
...The fight was carried on all over the square, despite the fact that the militiamen were armed and greatly outnumbered the young Socialists...
...Upon the arrival of the armed and uniformed men, however, the young Socialists were charged with guns and bayonets in a glorious revival of red-blooded Americanism...
...The attitude of the crowd gathered to hear the platitudes of the orators was entirely listless as these courageous Yipsels stood by with their placards...
...Estelle Smith and her mother are in Oakland...
...We are anxious to comply with your orders to persecute the Jews, but we haven't any in this town...
...Mooney was remanacled and taken to a waiting automobile...
...Defense Attorney Leo Gallagher supplemented Mooney's demand by saying: "We want this to be a real trial...
...But the court was adament...
...Mooney requested that District Attorney Brady be snbpoenaed in order that he might be examined as to his real reasons for not submitting evidence in this trial...
...The report also deals in detail with the political events of the year 1932, including the Parliamentary elections of November 27th...
...With its announcement the case ended...
...The two Edeau women are close by...
...A prepared verdict of acquittal was handed to the foreman of the jury, who signed it in behalf of his fellow jurors...
...Most of the group were slugged into unconsciousness, some hit with rifles while they were prostrate on the ground...
...In the meantime street meetings are being held throughout the city near relief stations at which the demonstration will be advertised by speakers and handbills and leaflets are being distributed from house to house...
...The real reason why the prosecution presents no ease ia that the witnesses hsve been discredited...
...Wall to Broad and then to Battery Park where a big mass meeting will be held...
...If the state is willing to perpetrate and perpetuate this infamous injustice," he shouted, "and is not honest enough to call its own witnesses, then the defense wants to call them...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 22
