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21 YEARS IN GAOL
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.
You can arrange to stop ashore at home and drive away in your own Vauxhall.
to see collected outside his hotel a huge crowd who shouted in unison one word only, "Muni, Muni."
The journalist, impressed by what he took to be a pro- American demonstration, inquired what this curious Russian ex- He was then told that it was the name of pression might mean.
Californian Labour leader 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, in after 21 years of confinement, to gain his free-
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to you at home and subsequently dom. Last week the Californian Governor kept his promise made at the recent gubernatorial elections, to sign a pardon for his release.
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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 peti- tion for his pardon. Under the heading of The Lawless Enforcement of Law," the Wickersham Commission, appointed by President Hoover to investigate "Law En-
drew up Observance," forcement and Phone 27778/9. lengthy report on Mooney's ense which com
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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 in San Day" parade "Preparedness
killed and Francisco. Nine persons were
• "Telegraph" readers ready
arc
al- familiar with the notorious Caso of Tom Mooncy. In this article. Mr. G. H. C. Bing, a well- known barrister authority on In- ternational trials,
brings the amazing story up to date, with special reference to the applica- tions made for the release of America's "Dreyfus."
TOM
MOONEY
"Guilty
02
innocent, they were not going to let him out."
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 a will be casey dun." Instead, the site, the nature of the bomb Nolan's house
raided, had before the trial made was 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 After long delays. pence with all our neigh- ja tin canister had been seen
the Californian authorities were bours is an ideal that no one falling from the roof of a nearby nounced in a Press release that that she was only present in her the Press.
a "mysterious white powder" "astral body"!
Even at the time of his trial compelled to prosecute Oxman would wish to repudiate. Nor building the police deduced from
mentioned It was not
that the evidence against Mooney for subornation of perjury. need the fact that some nations a cog-wheel belonging to an al- had been found. 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, Mrs, Mooney and Wein- peaceful relationships between bomb concealed in a suitcase. Epsom salt. 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 berg, in which he was to have torial regimes.
however, found.
influence public opinion the bomb exploded he was at been the star witness, had to bo but Mooney and The difficulty arises, however, A private detective, Martin to
home. The prosecution pro- dropped, in international policies, for Swanson, previously in the pay against the prisoners.
two witnesses to Billings, whom he was instru-. None of the witnesses for the duced only countries like Germany 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 The injustice of their im- 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 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 release. The by violent means without any Labour leaders, Warren Billings evidence, stated in an affidavit, evidence was untrue. The other, knowledged. But this did not regard to the rights of other and Edward Nolan, and a taxi- "I could not have identified him Oxman, was, after the trial, secure
if the detective in- denounced by an upcountry Californian authorities felt that peoples. This is an attitude driver, Israel Weinberg. The (Mooney) that makes true Peace im-first four were known to be spector had not turned around farmer, who said that at the they had got two dangerous in prison, and, guilty and said in a low time of the explosion Qxman "Rods". possible. In its place the work enemies of Swanson's. 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 at 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 Nolan and
Will There can be no doubt that hundred adjusted at
that Mooney was saved. Japan overruns China, Italy by annexes Abyssinia. Germany another address by Mooney, the prosecution was aware of Francisco.
Oxman tried to rebut this by world opinion make its pressure Reizes Austria and
secure the Czecho- Billings and Mrs. Mooney, and the unreliable nature of the Slovakia. The League of Nathen 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 plan for World Peace as its Billings in Weinberg's taxi to example, the principal witness to give evidence, objective. It is founded on the democratic virtue of tolerance. The integrity and independence of each nation-however small and insignificant it may be-is to be respected. Violence is no longer to be used by any nation as a means of securing what it considers justice for itself. No
to me
goes back over first to introduce the hand-making now
of finest Turkish thirty-three years.
Until 1922 the name Balkan cigarettes and he was widely known as a leading blender of Sobranie was known only to a Where Everything Turkish, Egyptian, Russian and comparatively small circle of tobaccos. connoisseurs. Since then it has cigarette
ends to be trimmed. business of Albert Weinberg world over.
Incidentally, this firm is re- nation is to be judge in its own these days of mechanisation the
by It is a pretty unusual thing Incidentally, all the cigarette came into the hands of his Disputes
find
without makers are men, who, Mr. nephew, Mr. Isalah Redstone, presented in Hongkong settled in a third-party world to
of Balkan Ingenohl's La Perla Del Oriente experience Redstone thinks, are better at whose forum and Governments agree machinery.
Sobranie and other cigaretto Cigar Stores.
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MACHINERY Is Made By Hand Virginia
In tho year 1922 the achieved a much wider fame the
cause.
are
Lo
be
factory
to abide by decisions so reached. This actually is the case with the job than women. Patent injustices in relation- the new "Sobranle 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 Пn 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. atrength of the whole Com- munity of Nations is pledged' against aggression and anarchic violence.
and cigarettes right throughout
During a recent visit a Press that terrible slump period, but
to representative failed find the Balkan Sobranie people were 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 machines, and these are used, so who always would, buy a high the only one that is workable; said Mr. David Redstone, only priced article and stuck to their and the present unhappy condi- because good hand cutters are guns and steadily refused to tions that prevail universally nearly extinct to-day in Britain bring out any popular-priced are due to its abandonment by and a labour minded govern-lines.
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To-day, that confidence
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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
world. And well they Law and Order has broken cathedral effect is produced. Į the
they arc truly down. Every nation is wasting Only the very best, high priced might, for 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 siftings. that has been so painfully built
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ROWS OF WORKERS
HEREDITARY GIFTS Balkan Sobranio OWCB
ita 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 thoir 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, picking
Weinberg in the early Law and Order, and Peace are out just the right amount of Albert sufficiently powerful to check tobacco for each cigarette, mak-seventies of last century at the the flood of insanity that ing the cigarette and dropping very beginning of the Turkish threatens to overwhelm the it into a wooden trough, from cigarette trade in this country, which it is collected by girls for Mr. Weinberg was one of the
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By Lichty
"L-30
"So they gimme a pardon, cht Well, that's society for you
they teach you a trade, then turn you out where you can't make a livin' at it!"
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