Another Chance for Tom Mooney
Another Chance for Tom Mooney Famous Fra me-Up Case Now Goes Up to the U. S. Supreme Court Trill': Mooney case may at la>i j get before the United States! Supreme Court. After more than...
...In the field of naturalization the new legislation has already passed...
...The next step is to bring into action the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provides that "No state . . . shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law...
...That Mooney and Billings were framed and sent to jail on purchased and perjured testimony, is common knowledge, admitted by the ten survivors of the jury that convicted them and the judge who sentenced them...
...Henceforth duplication of lost papers will cost no more than $1...
...The Naturalization Aid League is now making an intensive campaign in the unions and other fields for the purpose of naturalizing the workers^ The League has its main office in the Forward Building and also a branch office in the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street It is a source of satisfaction to those who have worked for the benefit of the alien that the efforts of the social agencies and other liberal-minded elements are bringing favorable results at Washington...
...A process involving the lives of human beings thus becomes a game with rules, the object being not justice...
...After her husband died, Mrs...
...For many years prior to July 1, 1929, the price of first papers was one dollar and that of second papers four dollars...
...It does not matter if the applicant had lived in this country for twenty or thirty years...
...State Secretary William Plampin said that a meeting with not much more than one hundred present may not seem much to Socialists in larger cities, but all were pleased with the response because there are only a handful of Socialists here...
...There were brief and touching ceremonies after which the body was taken to the Fresh Pond Crematorium where it was cremated...
...A year or so ago the trustees of the Meyer London Memorial Fund decided that a Socialist and Labor Library ould be the most appropriate monument to the deceased comrade, and Joined forces for that purpose with the Rand School, whose valuable eolsction of books, pamphlets and periodicals forms the nucleus of the Memorial Library...
...The committee on immigration ' conditions has already handed in ', its report...
...Feigenbaum, born Matilda Kaminska, at the age of 68, at a sanitarium in Ventnor, N. J. The funeral was held Sunday at the Workmen's Circle Memorial Chapel in Grand Street...
...if he or she is not an American citizen no relief is given...
...a daughter, Mrs...
...It happens, however, that proof* of the fact that the testimony Was purchased and perjured did not come until after the trial had been completed, and under the California law appeals and reviews cannot consider anything except the technical correctness of procedure and the admissibility of evidence already in the record...
...Labor unions, branches of the Workmen's Circle, the Socialist Party and other organizations will be represented, addresses will be made by spokesmen for different aspects of the movement) and a bronze tablet will be unveiled in honor of the loyal comrade and brave fighter who died eight years ago next month...
...Death from angina pectoris came lo Mrs...
...The Socialist Party, the Workmen's Circle, and the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund cooperated...
...Newly discovered evidence or proof that evidence accepted in good faith was in reality false cannot legally be considered...
...Your anniversary edition was very valuable," Comrade Plampin writes...
...I wish every member in Texas h; ' it...
...It is plain that under the new fees all workers should avail themselves of the reduction in cost immediately to secure their citizenship papers...
...There was music, group singing and entertainment...
...A committee of prominent leaders in social-service 1 fields was appointed to investigate the whole question of immigration | and treatment of the alien...
...San Antonio Also Celebrates May Day CAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Despite a heavy rain and the fact that San Antonio boasts all too few Socialists, a large audience turned out in celebration of May Day in this historic old city...
...In spite of widespread protests from liberal and social services agencies, the practices became worse, until toward the end of the Hoover administration the treatment accorded the alien was positively outrageous...
...Raymundo Chavarria, of the Mexican Branch of Local San Antonio, and C. W. Tanner, of the Colored Branch...
...The main speeches were made by A. W. O'Connor and F. W. Hubbard of Local San Antonio...
...The President signed the bill last week and the provisions of the new law are as follows: The cost of first papers will henceforth be only $5, as will the cost of second papers...
...In other matters, such as widows* pension, peddlars' licenses, scholarships for children, etc., the question of citizenship is a vital one, In a great many industries, either special preference is given to those with citizenship papers or those without papers are absolutely barred from consideration...
...By Henry Fruchter IMPORTANT improvements in * the matter of naturalisation, both as to price and procedure, have become effective as a result of new legislation just passed...
...Working men and women not yet citizens, no matter what their race or nationality, may secure information and aid without cost from this vitally important organization...
...Her heart, however, was steadfastly with the Socialist movement, and almost on her deathbed she carried on the fight Only a few days before her death her description of the martyrdom of the Austrian Socialists was so touching that her physician, who had no connection with any radical movement, was moved to send a check to the fund for the Austria* workers...
...That amendment, supposedly designed to protect the then newlyemancipated Negro slaves, has been used by a curious perversion of Its meaning by courts to protect the "rights" of corporations (which are in legal technicality "persons") not to be deprived of "property"—that is, living wages to workers—without "due process of law"—that is, by labor organisations through strikes...
...The meeting was held in a hall filled to overflowing...
...The previous conditions were so eruel that even the slightest improvement in the procedure is Etsjaagas by all concerned...
...Alvjn Scheuttig, of the W. S. A D. B. Fund...
...Mrs...
...It is known by those familiar I with conditions that the strict enforcement of the immigration law has brought immeasurable and often unnecessary hardships upon immigrants and those dependent upon them...
...In the cases of those who were living in this country before June 29, 1906, the cost of first papers is only $2.50...
...But, of course, such relief is limited to those who are citizens and residents of New York for at least ten years...
...Thus he was thwarted in his attempt to show up the perjured testimony...
...At the same time steps were taken to improve conditions affecting natural| ization procedure...
...Mooney was indicted on two counts, for the murder of two of the victims of the San Francisco bomb...
...The organization, which has been in existence for 29 years, has assisted over 160,000 in securing citizenship...
...After more than seventeen years of kicking around iu the state courts of California, where it was the foothall of a peculiarly lo - type of reactionary ]K>litics, there is a real possibility that the merits of the case may at last he heard by judges who are not looking for nominations and election in the slate of Sunny Jim Kolph...
...Mrs...
...Benjamin 1 Feigenbaum, herself a veteran Socialist worker, died May 4th ifter a long and painful illness...
...And any improvement likely to be made toward a more liberal treatment and interpretation of the law will prove a boon to tens of thousands of immigrants awaiting the chance tq be admitted to the country...
...After July 1, 1929, during the Hoover administration, the price was suddenly increased to $10 for first and an additional $10 for second papers...
...Feigenbaum appeared ' to lose all interest in living and failed rapidly...
...Born in Warsaw December 6th, 1865, Mrs...
...With the Roosevelt administration and the appointment of Miss Perkins as Secretary of Labor, a i new and more sensible policy has been introduced...
...If the United States Supreme Court sustains itself in the latter case (and reverses itself in the two other cases) it will be possible judicialy to determine what everyone in the United States—except (officially) the courts have long known about the shameful Mooney and Billings trial and convictions...
...Also in the cases of those who can* not actually prove the exact date or manner of arrival the cost will be $10 for registration, instead of $20, the previous charge...
...Others who addressed the meeting were H. Shoor, president of the Workmen's Circle...
...1'lampin made the welcoming speech...
...The constitutional provision designed to protect liberty was thus used for decades to destroy liberty, and It took years of agitation to Win legislation legally to set aside that perversion of the meaning of the amendment...
...In latter years, however, especially during these hard days of the depression and widespread unemployment, citizenship becomes an important an indispensable factor in the life of the worker...
...It is a curious commentary upon American legal processes and class justice that the only remaining hope for belated justice for two hideously wronged men lies in an obscure provision of the Constitution originally designed to cover a wholly different contingency...
...Up to the present the committee's report' has not been translated into actual legislation by Congress, but the hope is strong that a number of such recommendations will be turned into actual law...
...In later years, however, attempts have been made to have notoriously unfair trials in state courts set aside by the Federal courts under the interpretation that accused had their lives and liberty placed in jeopardy "without due process of law," that is, by unfair trials...
...Rebecca F. Zametkin, and four grandchildren...
...Through the support of the fund, this collection is being enlarged and steps taken to Increase its usefulness to the movement NATURALIZATION IS MADE EASIER BY NEW LAW The following article is by the Director of the Naturalization Aid League, an organization established and maintained by the Socialist movement of New York and several of its auxiliaries for the purpose of aiding working men and women of all nationalities in securing American citizenship...
...Sha was a worthy wife of a great man," Abraham Cahan said, summing up her career in a short and affecting memorial speech...
...The attempt failed in the Leo Frank case and the Sacco and Vanzetti case, but it succeeded in one appeal in the Scottsboro caSe...
...In former years, citizenship was a matter of personal preference, a luxury, so to speak, involving merely the right to voting...
...The funeral was attended by Intimate friends and comrades In party, labor and Arbeiter Ring circles...
...There was not the slightest humanity in the treatment of immigrants, deportation proceedings were started on the slightest provocation, and wholesale roundups of aliens were made with a brutal disregard of human decency and constitutional rights...
...It contains excellent ; recommendations for humanizing ' the treatment of aliens admitted \ at Ellis Island, and makes important suggestions for amending the " practices affecting the admission of prospective immigrants...
...Curiously enough, however, the prosecutors refused to prosecute and he was acquitted by default on the second count while serving a life term on the first count—both crimes being identical...
...Feigenbaum is survived by two sons, William Morris Feigenbaum, associate editor of The New Leader, and Henry...
...Convicted on One count, he sought trial on the second in order to be able to prove the valuelessness of the evidence that convicted him in the first case...
...Even a mere duplicate of lost first or second papers involved an expense of $10...
...Recourse, therefore, was had to a legal subterfuge...
...Benjamin Feigenbaum, long one of the editors of the Jewish Daily Forward, was noted for his indefatigible work as a scholar, teacher and editor and in political and industrial agitation and organization since 1891 in New York and before that in an active revolutionary career abroad, London Memorial Library Will Be Dedicated May 23 On Wednesday evening, May 23, will be held the ceremony of dedicating the Meyer London Memorial Library of the Rand School, at 7 East 15th Street, New York...
...In New York State, for example, there is an old age pension law which entitles all those who are in need and are over 70 years of age to a definite monthly sum of relief...
...a half, Mrs...
...In the Hoover administration, the whole matter of immigration* and naturalization was handled in an extremely reactionary and unsympathetic manner...
...In her later years, she devoted herself almost entirely to the welfare of her husband, Benjamin, who was seriously ill for the fifteen years prior to his death and had to be waited on hand and foot...
...A good deal of literature, including all The New Leaders, was sold, an.' other pamphlets and leaflets given away...
...Especially during the regime of Secretary of Labor Doak were the most eruel injustices practiced against the alien...
...Feigenbaum lived subsequently in Antwerp, England and since 1801 in the United States, actively participating in the Socialist movement wherever she went...
...The members of Tom Mooney's legal battery are preparing to bring the case to the attention of the Federal courts under the p.ovisions of the fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as the only remaining legal means of having the perjured testimony that gent Mooney and Warren K. Billings to jail- for life judged on its actual merits...
...Benjamin Feigenbaum, 68, Dies After Long Illness SURVIVING her famous vet- ¦ eran Socialist husband by only ' i year am...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 19
