MOONEY AND BILLINGS REFUSED EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
MOONEY AND BILLINGS REFUSED EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY LABOR LEADERS DENIED LIBERTY BY GOV. YOUNG Were Convicted of Murder In San Francisco Bombing Case In 1916 WERE VICTIMS OF FRAME-IP.' IS...
...k To make dividends possible for this \ncreflfed capitalization, workers are Ipeeded up and every attempt at unionization in these unorganized plants Is feasted that interest rates are assured, MILITARY COURSE IS HELD OPTIONAL WASHINGTON — Attorney General Mitchell ruled that military training in the land-grant colleges Is optional...
...and were sentenced to life terms in the state prison...
...I feel highly honored in the greater service to which I have been called for the establishment of the principles involved in our case...
...Big Profits Are Shown by Amer...
...however, in 1923, under authoriza-ion of the Wisconsin legislature made • j!'r-:v irainintT nn optional curse and ie Department *l Interior, which Hii-••.nif'• federal fund, used hv lard-rant ?is, sustalr • ate action...
...Mooney was at one time offered a parole, but declined to accept it, stating that going on parole would be an admission of his guilt...
...The average citizen pays little attention to this pyramiding as he reads that these corporations are paying a low rate of interest...
...The present two-for-one split - up means that his 195 shares are doubled and he now owns 390 shares, instead of his original 100 shares...
...C. C. Young announced Tuesday that he declined to pardon Mooney...
...In 1929 he was permitted to buy at $125 a share one share for every five of his Common B shares...
...Political and civic leaders throughout the nation have urged executive clemency for the men since John McDonald, principal state's witnesses in the case, admitted in 1921 that he had given false testimony at the trial of the two labor leaders...
...The 195 shares, given to him without coot, had a market value of approximately $40,000 the day the split-up was announced...
...Now our friends can proceed," he said, "to the task of bringing about our final and ultimate vindication...
...The man now owned 195 shares...
...Friends of Mooney and Billings havf charged that they were victims of ? "frame-up" on the part of governmen officials working with forces in Sar Francisco which Mooney and Billing: had fought as active leaders in the Trade union movement...
...Mooney declared, when informed of the ~gbvefhdr's decision, that he was •neither discouraged nor disheartened...
...The man then owned 175 shares of stock...
...If a man owned 100 shares of American Tobacco Co...
...Mooney and Billings were convicted of murder in connection with the bombing of a Preparedness day parade in San Francisco on July 22...
...The Mooney-Billings case will immediately assume an international aspect and it will not quiet down until both of us are free men...
...The University of Wlscon->n...
...Freedom has again been denied to Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings...
...Most of the land-grant colleges, during 'be 68 years of their existence, have •nsidered that military training was < mpulsory...
...The number of shares Issued In the form of stock dividends arp never referred to...
...declared a two-for-one stock split-Up and increased the annual dividend rate 20 per cent...
...and the state supreme court ruled against Billings Saturday...
...stock in 1920 he was given 75 additional shares of a new stock known as "Common B." which cost him nothing...
...Tobacco Company Stocks Pyramid Over 10-Year Period Revealing Huge Profits of Large Corp...
...NEW YORK—The American Tobacco Co...
...and that he is girding himself for "the coming fight that will eventually bring freedom...
...YOUNG Were Convicted of Murder In San Francisco Bombing Case In 1916 WERE VICTIMS OF FRAME-IP.' IS CLAIM Prominent Figures In U. S. Joined In Pleas To Give Pair Their Lost Freedom I Special to The Progressive) LOS ANGELES...
...Such announcements are rarely commented on, but if they are analysed they reveal the immense profits of monopolistic corporations...
...During that year common sold for as high as S235 a share...
...The decision upholds Secretary of the Interior Wilbur...
...Again I repeat, fate has once more smiled upon me kindly...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
