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N the early days of the Russian revolution, when the Allies still thought that Russia could be persuaded to continue the war, President Wilson sent a dis- tinguished journalist as an unofficial ambassador to St.
Vauxhall Petersburg. The first night after his arrival he awoke
If you are going home on leave, this must interest you.
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to see, collected outside his hotel a huge crowd who shouted in unison one word only, "Muni, Muni."
took to be a pro- The journalist, impressed by what he American demonstration, inquired what this curious Russian ex- pression might mean. He was then told that it was the name of a Californian Labour lender who a little while before had been sentenced to death for supposed participation in a bomb outrage.
This man, Thomas J. Mooney, his sentence commuted to life delivered imprisonment, is after 21 years of confinement, to gain his free- to you at home and subsequently dom. Last week the Californian Governor kept his promise made at in Hongkong,
the recent gubernatorial elections, to sign a pardon for his refense.
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Of Mooney's innocence there is no doubt. The judge at his trial, and nine of the ten surviving jurymen, signed a pcti- tion for his pardon. Under the heading of "The Lawless Enforcement of Law,"
the
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drew up forcement and Observance," Phone 27778/9. lengthy report on Mooney's case which com-
pletely vindicated him.
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This section of the report was sup- pressed. However, by a vote of the Senate, President Hoover was compelled to produce it, and it is from that suppressed report that the following facts of the case are taken.
ON the afternoon of July 22, 1916, a bomb exploded during a pro-war Day" parade in "Preparedness
San Francisco. Nine persons were killed und
→ "Telegraph" readers aro al- familiar
ready
with the notorious case of Mooney.
Tom In this articlo, Mr. G. H.
C. Bing, a well- known barrister
authority on in- ternational trials,
brings the amazing story up to date, TOM MOONEY
"Guilty or
with special reference to the applica-innocent, they were not going to
tions made for the refenso of America's "Dreyfus."
Was
let him out."
Even at the time of his trial compelled to prosecute Oxman.
and
forty wounded. Owing to the the actual scene of the explosion. of the supposed meeting with only haf to say you saw me on Appeasement or Peace? failure of the police to examine To substantiate this theory. Mrs. Mooney to adjust the bomb July 22 in San Frisco, and that
the site. the nature of the bomb Nolan's house
Instead, raided, had before the trial made a will be easey dun.” THAT WE SHOULD live at was never determined. Though and the District Attorney an- statement to the police saying the friend handed this letter to peace with all our neigh-a tin canister had been seen nounced in a Press release that that she was only present in her the Press. After long delaya the Californian authorities were bours is an ideal that no one falling from the roof of a hearby a "mysterious white powder" "astral body"! would wish to repudiate. Nor building the police deduced from had been found. nced the fact that some nations la cog-wheel belonging to an al- It was not mentioned that the evidence against Mooney for subornation of perjury. have adopted forms of Govern-arm clock found near the scene ment very different from our by a souvenir-hunter that the analysis had shown that the was insufficient. Since his con- own be by itself an obstacle to explosion was caused by a time "mysterious white powder" was viction what little evidence there By such methods was has been shown to be
THE cases against Nolan, peaceful relationships between bomb concealed in a suitcase. Epsom salt.
Mrs. Mooney and Wein- our democracies and their dicta- No parts of a suitcase were, of Press publicity the District perjured. Mooney had a strong
Attorney and Swanson were able alibi to show that at the time ber in which he was to have toriul regimes,
however, found.
influence public opinion the bomb exploded he was at been the star witness, had to be The difficulty arises, however,
A private detective, Martin to
home.
but Mooney The prosecution pro- dropped, in international policies, for Swanson, previously in the pay against the prisoners. court-les like Germany
None of the witnesses for the duced only two witnesses to Billings, whom he was instru- and of the Employers' Association, Italy and Japan insist on decid- was given charge of the case prosecution was able to identify prove that Mooney was ever on mental in convicting, were kept ing for themselves what they by the District Attorney, and he any of the prisoners in an the scene of the explosion. One, in prison.
One of MacDonald, in 1921 made a The injustice of their im- consider their due, and definite-advised the immediate arrest of identification parade.
confession that his prisonment was universally ac- ly set about reaching their goals Mooney, his wife, two other them afterwards, recanting his sworn
their by violent means without any Labour leaders, Warren Billings evidence, stated in an affidavit, evidence was untrue. The other, knowledged. But this did not release. The regard to the rights of other and Edward Nolan, and a taxi- "I could not have identified him Oxman, was, after the trial, secure
an if the detective in- denounced by upcountry Californian authorities felt that peoples. This is an attitude driver, Israel Weinberg. The (Mooney) that makes true Pence im-first four were known to be spector had not turned around farmer, who said that at the they had got two dangerous Oxman "Reds" in prison, and, guilty possible. In its place the world enemies of Swanson's.
and said in a low time of the explosion becomes an anarchy, where Swanson's theory was that the voice, 'This is your man, this is was lunching with him and his or innocent, they were not going wife nt their farm, some to let them out. It was only by Might alone determines right. bomb had been manufactured Mooney."
miles
from San the pressure of world opinion Japan overruns, China, Italy by
and adjusted at There can be no doubt that hundred
Will that Mooney was saved. annexes Abyssinia, Germany another address by Mooney, the prosecution was aware of Francisco.
Oxman tried to rebut this by world opinion make its pressure seizes Austria and Czecho-Billings and Mrs. Mooney, and the unreliable nature of the
securo the. Slovakin. The League of Na- then taken by Mooney and evidence it was presenting. For writing to a friend asking him sufficiently felt to
"You will release of Billings? tions advances a very different Billings in Weinberg's taxi to example, the principal witness to give evidence. plan for World Pence as its objective. It is founded on the democratle virtue of tolerance.
Nolan
to me
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The integrity and independence A FACTORY WITHOUT making
of each nation-however small
and insignificant it may be-is
to be respected. Violence is no
longer to be used by any nation MACHINERY
as a means of securing what it considers justice for itself. No.
cause.
over
By Lichty
first to introduce the hand-making now
goes back of finest Turkish thirty-three years. cigarettes and he was widely Until 1922 the name Balkan known as a leading blender of Sobranie was known only to a Where Everything Turkish, Egyptian, Russian and comparatively small circle of cigarette tobaccos. connoisseurs. Since then it has. Is Made By Hand Virginia
In the year 1922 the achieved a much wider fame the ends to be trimmed. business of Albert Weinberg world over. nation is to be judge in its own IN these days of mechanisation the
Incidentally, this firm is re- Disputes are
it is a pretty unusual thing Incidentally, all the cigarette came into the hands of his to be
in Hongkong by to find A factory without makers are men, who, Mr.nephew, Mr. Isaiah Redstone, presented settled in a third-party world
machinery.
Redstone thinks, are better at whose experience of Balkan Ingenohl's La Perla Del Oriente. forum and Governments agree
Sobranie and other cigarette Cigar Storea. to abide by decisions so reached. This actually is the case with the job than women. Patent injustices in relation the new "Sobranie House" the It must have needed a deal ships are to be remedied by premises now occupied in London of pluck and confidence to adhere GRIN AND BEAR IT peaceful means in an atmos-by A. Weinberg, manufacturers to their policy of only making phere of mutual understanding of the famous Balkan Sobranie and selling high quality tobaccos and goodwill. The united tobaccos and cigarettes.
and cigarettes right throughout! strength of the whole Com-
During a recent visit a Press that terrible slump period, but munity of Nations. is pledged
representative failed to find the Balkan Sobranie people were against aggression and anarchic one single piece of machinery convinced that there were plenty other than the tobacco cutting of smokers who would still, and This programme for peace is the only one that is workable; machines, and these are used, so who always would, buy a high and the present unhappy condi- said Mr. David Redstone, only priced article and stuck to their because good hand cutters are guns and steadily refused to tions that prevail universally are due to its abandonment by nearly extinct to-day in Britain bring out any popular-priced the nations that pay lip service and a labour minded govern-lines.
ment will not allow foreign To-day, that confidence in to its tenets but in practice be-
tobacco cutters to be imported. themselves has proved to bol tray ila principles.
We have sought appeasement The absence of the noise of justified, for their brands are and selling to an infinitely greater with the militarist aggressive machines is noticeable, nations by yielding to their de-added to the general cleanliness extent than ever before and a they are sending them all over mands. The whole fabric of and speciousness, almost
And well they Law and Order has broken cathedral effect is produced. the world.
for they are truly down. Every nation is wasting Only the very best, high priced might,
violence.
its substance in preparation for tobaccos are used in this factory, beautiful tobaccos. the calamity of another World and pretty nearly every particle War, which threatens to destroy of dust is removed from it by
all the values of the civilisation successive slftings. that has been so painfully built
up,
ROWS OF WORKERS
HEREDITARY CIFTS
owes its Balkan Sobranie reputation to the hereditary gifts of one talented family, who Are we to continue this sur- Every process is done by hand do all the blending themselves, that family do not render? It is perhaps not too and it is quite
a fascinating and what late even now to return to the sight to see the rows of cigarette know about tobacco seems hard-
with their fingers ly worth knowing. League of Nations, for even to-makers,
The firm was founded by Mr. day the nations that stand for working like lightning, pleking Law and Order, and Peace are out just the right amount of Albert Weinberg in the early sufficiently powerful to check tobacco for each cigarette, mak-seventies of last century "at the the flood of Insanity thating the cigarette and dropping very beginning of the Turkish threatens to overwhelm the it into a wooden trough, from cigaretto trade in this country. world.
which it is collected by girls for Mr. Weinberg was one of the
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"So they gimme a pardon, ch! Well, that's society for vore
they teach you a trade, then turn you out where you can't make a livin' at 4t1"