CALIFORNIA'S CONSCIENCE STIRRING
Lewis, Lena Morrow
"They Don't Make It Farming" By Art Shields T> TRMIN G HAM -s great steel stacks give way to tattered homes of share croppers as the motorist beads for the Quit. That 300 mile drive from...
...As Cameron King says: "the citizens of California can acquit themselves of the responsibility of keeping Mooney and Billings in prison by doing all In their power to acquaint the people with the facts in the Mooney ease...
...22nd to the publication of official documents and historic accounts of the case...
...I respectfully submit that you should not hesitate to rectify this wrong as nearly as you can do so by issuing a fun pardon to him...
...Ke is at present lecturing in the United States...
...Every thing that has been said in this letter applies likewise to the case of Warren K. Billings...
...That after all, I. the main thing...
...It certainly should not be employed by the officials charged wtth enforcing the laws...
...chained to the wheels ot moosre/S dustry...
...Thk tag exceeds by many billions the entbe a> tlonal wealth of any nation except tkt United States, England and Franc...
...F. W. Taussig of Harvard, Oswald Garrison Vlllard of "The Nation...
...Vladimir Medem, Karl Marx, Eugene V. Debs, and Norman Thomas were suggested...
...A Methodist deacon gave me the lowdown...
...A very interesting discussion followed...
...12 Mastick-Goodrich S. B. No...
...Below is an analysis of these bills...
...357 65 $30 monthly' 10 years $3000 Counties Mandatory Defeated in House PENN*A P. J. Harris - Amendment to constitution permitting the payment of old age pensions...
...195 70 L. A. CuvlUler...
...The committee's headquarters are at 20 Vesey street...
...40 65 60 $25 monthly $1 a day 15 years 15 years $2500 Counties v State and $1300 Counties a Optional Mandatary Defeated in Senate In committee MARYLAND Amendment to Existing Law 65 $1 a day 15 years $3000 State 1-3 Counties 2-3 Mandatory ..I ASS...
...The esaee raspaet for our laws that leads to the disapproval of tbe actions of those who break them leads me to the conviction that those convicted upon false and perjured tost inn* ij should be pardoned.'* Every item- necessary tn the preparation of Mooney's pardon papers baa been looked after, there is nothing more to be said to tbe Governor...
...Aloes, Crest vs...
...The age at which old people would be entitled to aaatatassee should be 60, and In no case higher than 65...
...Governors Stephens and Richardson served their terms and left the Gubernatorial office with Mooney in prison...
...All girls' teams must be there at 2 p. m. Their schedule is as follows: Arista vs...
...Some of tbe people in our state are absolutely ignorant of the case, they never knew or have forgotten all about the Preparedness Day bomb exp'osion and the charge against Mooney and Billings...
...41 H. A. Telller H. B. No...
...06 J. J. Irwin H. No...
...Governor Young has had the pardon petition papers and all the documents in the case in his once for more than two years now, end it is reported that up to December 8th, 1928, he had not even read the papers...
...Indeed, no reason at an, why Mooney should Be denied the justice which, under oar system, is due even tbe meet degraded...
...Conceding, for tbe sake of argument, that Mooney baa been all he is painted, it la, to say the least, most specious reasoning...
...I got $14 during tbe boom but had to spend it...
...does the right thing when be gets around to ft, why it win be aO right...
...Chief Features of the Old Age Pension Bills in the 1929 Legislatures State and Pensionable Maximum Sponsor Age Am't Pens...
...1 "I believe the imprisonment of men convl-yd on testimony generally regarded as false is herb* daatiauttre to she institutions so dear to the heart af every American...
...e • Meanwhile young children are asking their parents why the Governor does not pardon Mooney and Billing...
...These migratory children do not come under the state compulsory school law...
...for Sunday sports as contributions to public bequest commission...
...As a standard by which bills might be Judged, It seems to "The New Leader" that an allowance of at least $50 a month should be made...
...Gaetano Salveminl, internationally known historian, now in exile...
...Of course such pardon win not restore to him the wasted years that be has spent in tbe penitentiary, but it win at least be one step toward rectifying the terrible wrong inflicted upon this "Sergeant Grischa" of America...
...In Pensions Not specified 15 years $5000 . State Mandatory committee MICHIGAN A. Dykstra 70 930 monthly 15 years $4000 Optional M^'NESOTA Georg...
...They stop to talk wtth visitors who enter tbe mill...
...But rd go to Florida If another boom comes," ventured a young Alabama mechanic wistfully...
...They wont come back...
...L. Afos will lecture of "What I saw and heard in Soviet Russia" at the Bronx Center, 1103 Boston Rd...
...Some of it is bottom land that will grow two big crops of corn a year...
...w»a*eu oy tne OKLAHOMA H. T. Knight <fe 6 colleagues H. B. No...
...A plump old man, he crossed his broad lawn and came through the gate tn the green hedge to talk to the travelers...
...That 300 mile drive from tbe Magic City to the water Is through the old south— the old south that retreats before the new as here and there a factory town appears...
...N. J. Night Work Law Remains Dead Letter TRENTON, N. J.—OPT)—No bill to enforce the law forbidding night work by women tn New Jersey's mills and factories win be Introduced in this session...
...kept in prison...
...There's nine men for every nail," advised a friendly Pennsylvania carpenter who was halting at a tourist lodging house in Evergreen, Ala., on his way north from the resort state...
...Dallas...
...Keep out of Florida...
...A colored youth in Greenville who tried to peddle us a flashlight said four acquaintances had jobs in Detroit...
...1913 the gam amounts to 331...
...I watch my mail closely and when it is time tor THE NEW LEADER, me for it...
...A new constitution was adopted and will be submitted to a referendum...
...K. c. Lindeman of the New York School of Social Work, and the secretary is Louise Forgione...
...The young Alabama mechanic had inside dope that the prophet was wrong...
...Most of my best 'niggers' went north during the war to Pittsburgh...
...But the landlady and her daughter and several worklngmen at the lodging house laughed at the threat...
...Such huge payments are not incest...
...55 65 $25 monthly 15 years $5000 State Mandatory In judllcary committee IDAHO E. T. Taylor H. B. No...
...February 25th was just twelve years and a day since tbe death sentence bad been pronounced on Tom Mooney and the Judge stood there to proclaim his judgment as unjust...
...State Preperty Funds to BesMence Limitations Come From Optional or Mandatary Present States ARKANSAS Homer Craig 65 $25 monthly 10 years Surplus funds appropriated for not Confederate Soldiers Pens...
...The faces of all the members beamed with approval and the applause unanimously decided the name of' the club to be "Norman Thomas Juniors...
...In some of the bills proposed pensions would be optional with the counties...
...H. B. 41 & 286 Benj...
...11, 1938, by Milton T. UTten who was a member of tbe District Attorney's office and represented the state m tbe proitiI'isj entitled "Petition for writ of audita querela*,- initiated tn behalf of a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney...
...Meanwhile California citizens go about their dally work, most of them quite indifferent to the fact that two innocent men have languhhed all these years in prison...
...139 70 $30 monthly 10 years $5000 Counties Mandatory Passed Senate Defeated in UTAH Chris Green hagen H. B. No...
...The only reason for keeping them in prison is that they are undesirable citizens, and if they have not committed tbe offenses charged they have been guilty of other activities that justify restraining them...
...103 - 70 $25 monthly 15 years $3500 Counties Mandatory In committee OREGON Lee, Anderson Bronaugn H. B. No...
...Highly respected citizens are reported as uttering this opinion and his continued imprisonment has been justified on this ground...
...My room cost $6 the first night in Miami...
...New York City...
...The club meets on Sundays at 3 p. m. Senior Circle to Hike I Circle 10 Amikos will st-rt Its hiking season at 10 a. m. Members will assemble at 242nd Street and Broadway subway station and from there will proceed to Tibbets Brook Park for a day's outing...
...Lectures Friday, March 8, 8:30—Charles Solomon will lecture on "What shall we do about Crime and the Criminal...
...I've put 11 years in Florida and I'm through...
...Just why the Governor feels it is necessary for him to read every word of the entire transcript ot the trial and every line connected with the case Is hard for some people to understand, but as Judge Griffin says—"it Is his conscience that has to decide the matter, and if he Anti-Fascist Committee Formed in New York To combat what are termed "the misrepresentations of Fascist propaganda in the United States" and to furnish "accurate Information about the Fascist dictatorship in Italy," a group of nationally prominent Americans have banded together in New Tork in a new organization, the "American Friends of Italian Freedom.'* Among the organizers are President William Allen Neilson of Smith College, Charles Edward Russell of Washington, Prof...
...151 70 $240 a year I year State Mandatory In committee OHIO J. T. Anderson H. B. No...
...Yet it is only part of tlx bej income of the American owning ess...
...said a landlord to us as we lunched by tbe road...
...revenue reports, about 70% of the toil...
...Charles M Plckert'a sncceascr in office...
...An appropriation of 925,000 is rccpjcswcL This bin would create a commission of 11 of whom only two would be appointed by the Governor...
...Bab ing allowance for a 70% increase ta *, cost of living 1929 dividends and bttaaa win buy about 90% more goods and ay* rices than those disbursed in 1913, a in terms of 1913 dollars the cash IssBja in the investing class has rone m tat...
...DELAWARE Edw...
...TDividend and interest paymecis tj 1938, according to the departineut, k. taled $5300,416,000, a gain of txm...
...I cant pay any money like that...
...It is to study the entire subject and report to the 1930 Legislature...
...California's Conscience Stirring Judge Who Condemned Labor Leaders Leads In Plea For Their Release From Prison By Lena Morrow Lewis A great hearted man is never aihtmert ^* of his tears, and Judge Franklin A. Ortffin stood unabashed before tbe vast assembly In the K. of C. Hall in San Francisco as bis stalwart form shook with emotion and bis eyes filled wtth tears while he discussed tbe "Mooney case...
...Most southern Negroes work longer than that for less...
...District Attorney Brady, writing to Governor Richardson Sept...
...Readers of The New Leader should study the bills np in their state legislature and take steps individually and through their organizations to further the measures and to Improve those which are inadequate...
...728 Huge Increases in the pure hating Bay er of the idle rich have resulted...
...503.794,000 in cash income...
...Crrsz...
...Sunday, March 10, 8:30 p. m.—J...
...A reuwuap tion of the national income in fswrl the millions who produce the wealth *» afford a market for the product* rstl go tar toward stabilizing prosperftr...
...opened one of its 10 new cotten mills In the quiet trading center last month and country people from southern Alabama were flocking in for jobs...
...Of course, the practical and immediate value of such bills la worth little...
...I. Glenn H. B. No...
...Authorizing cities and towns to use money received frcm 11 ;e.^-c...
...10 T. M Wright . H. B. No...
...On this question ot keeping a man in prison because he has a 'bad reputation' Judge Griffin writing to Governor Young on January 28th, 1928, says: Spiking very frankly, it seems to me that the great obstacle in the way of Mooney's pardon has been his alleged bad reputation...
...Moreover, such a doctrine is more dangerous and pernicious than any Mooney has been accused of preaching...
...E. C. Lindeman, chairman, says: "The American people are unaware of tbe subtle influences which are at work among them to make dictatorship appear beneficial, not only for Italy but for other nations...
...Mandatory In committee CALIFORNIA Daniel C. Murphy Sen...
...Chums vs...
...Sunday, March 10, 5 p. m.—Esther Friedman will lecture of "Whither Mankind...
...Innocent or gnflty...
...5fi owning class is today enjoying csaaZ ably more than 3 times the nneaasswB come of 1913...
...Prof...
...During all these twelve years that Mooney has occupied a cell in a California penitentiary...
...In other words he has been denied real justice because the opinion seems to be prevalent that he is a danaarons man to be at bun* and therefore should he...
...a shaggy mule by a wretched stable near by, or sometimes a shaggier Ford...
...274 F. X. Bernhardt men 65 H. B. No...
...Aloes...
...Members of other circles are Invited...
...The friends of Mooney are waiting anxiously for Governor Young to act...
...12 70 $5 a week 30 years State tax of not 1-2 mill per dol-specl- lar of taxable fled property Mandatory In committee Hearing held INDIANA J. J. Nedjl C. M. Gray S. B. No...
...And it's only eight hours...
...Socialists At Work," win soon spread over two pages at least...
...Delegates from the Newark Juniors reported that increased membership during the three weeks since their organization has compelled division Into two groups, one meeting Sundays at 11 a. m. and the other at 3 p. m. in the same headquarters, 190 Belmont Avenue...
...225 70 $1.50 a day Creating a comi 15 years nission of I $3000 Counties to Investigate the subject ax Optional id appropriate In judiciary committee I $10,000...
...I equals about 60% of England's *wl| and more than 75% of the wealth i Prance...
...It's a rich mans playground...
...an this evidence of Mooney's Innocence Is compiled in a 33 page pamphlet and distributed among the registered voters of the state of California...
...112 70 H. B. No...
...at 139 Sumner Ave., Brooklyn under the auspices of the "Lee, Amis" Seniors...
...Youth vs...
...In the history of court procedure we know of no Instance where a trial judge has rendered such untiring service in his work of trying to right a great wronj don- a citizen ot tbe state, as has Judge Griffin...
...Debs...
...Young lads are passing judgment on their fathers for condoning the continued unjust imprisonment of these men...
...Young Circle News (The Young Circle clubs haze been formed by the Workmen's Circle to provide children of its members an opportunity for social and intellectual contacts in an atmosphere sympathetic to the ideals of the labor tnozemeit.} Juniors Adopt Constitution Tweny three delegates from Junior Circles to Greater New York and vicinity attended the Junior Executive Committee monthly conference Sunday March 3rd...
...a • To help on with this good work...
...The measure Is aimed at employers' practises in bring, ing children from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland into the state to work...
...I could have gone too," he said, "but I hare a steady job here driving a truck at $3 a day...
...They get S3 and $4 a day up north...
...The world is coming to an end in 1928," warned a Baptist minister in Evergreen, calling on the people to repent...
...153 70 H. B. No...
...The Labor World of San Francisco devoted Its entire issue of Feb...
...IS, 1939, says: *T believe no person that permits himself to analyse tbe sttnstinri entertains any doubt that Mooney and Billings were convicted on false testimony...
...selected a name...
...The Old Age Pension Bills The Measures Proposed—Their Shortcomings TPHE American Association for Old Age Security, 104 Fifth avenue, reports bills creating old age pensions introduced in 21 state legisloturea...
...The boys' teams must report at 3:23...
...Some are ready to concede that while Mooney may be innocent of this particular charge, yet nevertheless be is a bad actor and it is better tor the state to keep him behind bars since they have him there...
...The secretary, Mildred Zinderman, was instructed to communicate the club's tribute to the Socialist leader...
...The bus listed below should be weighed in connection with these minimum demands and in resolutions and letters to their sponsors all deflcienctea should be pointed out...
...I hope and tract that too great wrong done Mooney, of whi~£ Z was unwittingly a part, win now without delay, in so far as this great state may accomplish it, be remedied...
...This village was in its first historic change as we passed through...
...That book ain't true...
...the pardoning power of the Governor becomes part of the judicial machinery of tbe state to enable tbe person so unjustly convicted to obtain his freedom...
...Hope that the department...
...says Josephine Brouer of Salt Lake City...
...The only tenants of mine that make any money, make it selling whiskey...
...In such instances as the Mooney case says Attorney UTten...
...1,777,236,000 to $3,461,000,000 in a* course of 16 years...
...83 65 $25 monthly 10 years not specified Counties Optional In judiciary committee ILLINOIS R. G. Soder-strom H. B. No...
...This often repeated picture falls on the driver's eyes like a stereotyped pattern as be passes through the farm sands of central and southern Alabama...
...Basketball Tournament The Junior basketball tournament will start March 16, at the Washington Irving High School gymnasium...
...ate into tbe coffers of tbe eaJZ ruling class Is revealed in the D.T4* pertinent of commerce review of dW|S| and interest payments in 19361 Ckaaa and the other mythical multmolBnasX of ancient history would turn grata S envy at the thought of such nssjX wealth constantly pouring in yj3M exploitation of minions of warns...
...52 T. A. E. Cantwell H. B. No...
...P. Anderson H. B. No...
...Delegates from the "Norman Thomas" Circle were also seated...
...Total dividend and interest psyaasj for each year since 1913, as reportel tj the department, were: Dividend and Interest Parmeati *' 1913 $1,777,236,000 1921 S3.341JM«B 1914 1.786.376.000 1922 2J»,7JU» 1915 1.865.112.000 1923 3,585jl«m 1916 2.135.028.000 1924 3,S40M|S 1917 3.389.140,000 1925 4,077J«J$i 1918 2,724.732.000 1926 4 MS, tl jag 1919 3.189.168.000 1927 4,751,141 |B 1920 3,414.876.000 1928 5.890,41649) Total......$52.503,94ji In 16 years tbe workers have provsW the owners of stocks and bonds with tft...
...Norman Thomas Circle At their second meeting the fourteenth junior circle, meeting at the Bronx Center, 1103 Boston Rd...
...But I want to sell it or lease it because I cant get the tenants...
...Bat since the technique of law procedure has taken tbe ease out of tbe bands of tbe court, by virtue of tbe Constitution of our state tbe pardoning...
...Black or white children play barefoot in the sun sad grownups wait in the shade, waiting for the cotton or corn growing season to open...
...no place for a workingman...
...power of tbe Oovernor is permitted in behalf of a citizen who has been unjustly and unlawfully condemned...
...28 65 (35 monthly 15 years not specified Counties Mandatary In rrrnrnttiee i WASHINGTON Wm...
...to provide the country with needed eB> ital Today the financial world umnftj admits that there is a surplus of mcte...
...907 E. J. Skelly H. B. No...
...166 70 70 tl a day 91 a day 15 years 36 years $3000 State $3000 State and Counties Mandatory Optional In committee on public charities and corrections » • CONNECTICUT Oscar A. H. Dannenberg H. B. No...
...Ten years residence in the state should be a sufficient and sole qualification...
...374 000 over those recorded for the am ceding year...
...58 70 $300 annually 10 years not specified Counties favorably from committee NEW YORK Love-Miller S. No...
...A bill has been Introduced to forbid employers to hire little children to work tn tbe berry fields and other vocations when they should be in school...
...TEXAS T. A. Holbruck H. EM No...
...Akron and Cleveland...
...Nelson S. Spencer, former president of the City Club, is treasurer...
...according to intern...
...E. Nordlin & 4 colleagues Sen...
...seeking investment and ,a ?hcrtiMd consumer purchasing power...
...Many Alabama colored men are in Michigan, working for Henry Ford, General Motors or other auto manufacturers...
...Otherwise it Is similar to the Antin bin...
...The Governor has promised to take up the case and carefully examine all the documents as soon as the legislature adjourns...
...Not one Republican assemblyman approached by the Consumers League was wining to sponsor the measure, although tbe senate has twice passed it...
...The committee's chief adviser is Prof...
...Judge Griffin has beseeched three Governors to pardon him on the basis of unanswerable proof that Tom was sentenced on perjured testimony and that not a single shred of reliable evidence now stands against him...
...The chairman is Prof...
...Abraham Schwimrcer will lead...
...One member argued that "the club ought to be named after the living and that she knew ot no more inspiring Socialist leader, whom all loved, than Norman Thomas...
...went.to an upper class representtaf til than 1% of the country's total pepaation...
...Since this Issue appeared we have received a copy of a letter sent Governor Young on Feb...
...You have a fine, wen balanced publication...
...In committee $22 monthly 10 years $5000 State Mandatory on Judiciary This bill is part of a comprehensive social insurance law and is based upon the con-\tribu;ory principle...
...265 women 60 H. O. Kahan H. B. No...
...In view of the demonstrated fact that Mooney was tried and convicted unjustly and upon perjured testimony...
...Alabama Power Co...
...I am convinced that such reasoning is* most insidious and ultimately most destructive of the very institutions that the law abiding people prize...
...A Catholic priest wrote it 400 years ago and put It in the Bible himself...
...445 State and In committees $1 a day is years $3000 Counties to Mndatory on Finance and share equally Ways & Means Same $1 a day 15 years $3000 Counties Mandatory committees In committee 15 yecrs $5000 State Mandatory on Ways and $50 monthly Means Also a resoluion providing for the creation of an investigating legislative commies!on to study the problem and appropriating $20,000...
...Since 1930 the incase las, ing to tbe owners, of stocks sag toe*, has increased 73% while compared se...
...I'd like that $10 a day stuff.'' "Nothing in it," retorted the Pennsylvanlan...
...Bronx...
...Ignatius McCarty, the man who placed the dictagraph In District Attorney Fickert's office and secured much of the data which appears in tbe Densmore report, points out that Tom Mooney'a bad reputation has been fastened on largely by the enemies of organized labor...
...These ex-farmers are not yet broken to factory rules...
...Marco...
...The constitution states that the "name of this organization is the Junior Section of the Young Circle League" and "the aim Is to provide youth an opportunity for physical, social and intellectual development in an atmosphere sympathetic to the ideals of the labor movement...
...Their schedule Is: Arista vs...
...An tin S. B. No...
...The preacher gets that world coming to an end business from the Book of Revelations,'' he said...
...An that remains California wtth tbe facta In the case...
...This greatly excess the increase In the spending power *> farm, mine, railroad and factory weds...
...A tiny cabin shows on a naked field, the shingles working out...
...at 3510 Church Ave., Brooklyn, under the auspices of the Flatbush Seniors...
...They dont make It farming...
...102 70 $1 a day 12 rears $3000 Counties Passed N3YV JEF.SEY D. A. Spair H. B. No...
...The committee will answer pro-Fascist articles appearing in the press and magazines with facts taken largely from Fascist sources...
...Wray and 21 Colleagues S. B. No...
...Both groups were admitted to League membership...
...In announcing the formation of the committee...
...T got 6,000 acres of fine land," he said...
...This bill provides for the creation ot an unpaid commission of fifteen to be made up In equal parts from the Senate, Assembly and live to be appointed by the Oovernor...
...In this letter ha states that hie investigation proves beyond a doubt that Mooney was convicted on false testimony...
...The proof of the perjured testimony, the demand of the Judge and an the living jurors who voted tor Tom Mooney's conviction, tbe Attorneys of the Prosecution with the exception of Flckert, of whom Ignatius McCarty says: "No one could listen as we did for nine months (by means of the dictagraph) to conversation and hear the ravings of Plckert and not be convinced that Mooney was the victim of a frame-up...
...Our committee, composed of Americans wholly out of sympathy with dictatorships of every sort, intends to combat the misrepresentations of these pro-Fascist forces In America...
...67 !-«— 65 $25 monthly 15 yearn not specified Counties Mandatory Passed Senate Defeated in House ' WYOMING Thomas Gibson 65 $30 monthly 15 years not specified Counties Passed Unemployed Get 52 Billion In One Year By Leland Olds WHAT an extraordinary fig*, ot be...
...J. A. Rosenfleld...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise ot New York, and Edward Keating, editor of "Labor," Washington...
...There's never been anything," said Tom Mooney one day while we were talking with In San Quentin, "like the way Judge Griffin has thrown judicial dignity to the winds and come out so earnestly In behalf of my vindication and pardon...
...The services of spe-Oitffists have been secured for that purpose...
...140 Mignery S. B. No...
...Dividend and interest payment!, tC 1928 would have supported from ll,iev 000 to 11>,000,000 persons in working ess families at the standard permitted kfactory wages...
...Arcs, Chums vs...
...174 70 Providing that all monies or property escheating to the Comiicnvreiith be paid to the Public Bequest Commission...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 8
