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Hellraisers Journal – Friday January 3, 1919
Justice in America: for Capitalist, for Working Men.
From The Liberator of January 1919:
-Boardman Robinson on Justice for Capitalists
-Boardman Robinson on Justice for Working Men
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From the Duluth Labor World of December 28, 1918:
ARIZONA JUDGE DISMISSES CASES AGAINST
WORKING MEN DEPORTERS
We have heard frequently that some persons in the United States are too big to be made to answer for their crimes. We hate to believe it to be even occasionally true, but what are we to think about the Bisbee deportation cases? A federal judge has just acquitted each and every one of the defendants accused of this despicable crime. So far as this case would determine special privilege is free to raid any peaceable community in the United States and assault and carry off its law-abiding citizens. Not a pleasant thing to think about at least.
At the will and in the interest of the copper trust over 1000 peaceable persons were dragged from their homes at night in Bisbee Ariz, packed into foul cattle cars and run out into the desert. After much suffering without food and water in the hottest season of the year they were rescued by the federal government.
Then began the second part of this amazing eye-opening episode in our history. Instead of making arrests of those guilty and protecting these innocent persons from lawless elements the government established an internment camp for them. It thus acknowledged that the copper trust was sovereign. Then when the newspaper comment died down, the government forced these people out of the internment camp [by?] cutting down the food. The wronged men had the alternatives of going back home at the mercy of the triumphant mobbists or making their homes elsewhere and sacrificing their property in Bisbee.
Now a federal judge has dismissed all those accused of the crime. Evidently we are supposed to be so foolish as to believe the criminals in an open, boastful act of this kind can not be found. They can be found very easily and quickly if the supposed forces of law and order want to find them.
The only way to keep up respect for law and order is to enforce law and order, not only against a part of the people but against all the people who step over the line. The censorship of the kept press and driving papers out of the mails that tell the truth about such incidents as the Bisbee outrage, will not maintain law and order. Confident in their ability to escape punishment for crime, the special interests have repeated their mobbing activities in many parts of the nation against organized workers and organized farmers. These crimes are continuing because the war which ended over a month ago was only a superficial excuse. And to the everlasting shame of American officials before their own people and before the world, they can point to no case in which mobbists have been brought to justice.
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From the Everett Labor Journal of January 3, 1919:
LET THE CHAMBER FOLLOW SUIT
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“The Mooney case is in no sense a conflict between capital and labor.” We quote a large Eastern daily, echoing the words of California’s governor.
That depends. If Mooney is guilty, the ease is plain murder. If Mooney is NOT guilty, he is the victim of a shocking conspiracy on the part of unscrupulous enemies, and Mooney’s only known enemies are the members of a certain small set of what is loosely called capital, represented by the managing clique in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
The trial judge before whom Mooney was convicted, Judge Franklin A. Griffin, is not satisfied with the fairness of the trial. Repeatedly he has advocated a new trial for Mooney since the evidence of perjury came to light that discredited the chief witness against Mooney.
Labor is not alone in demanding a new trial for Mooney. From pulpits and editorial sanctums all over the country the same cry has been raised: “Justice for Mooney.” The President of the United States twice has lifted his voice with the warning that injustice to this convicted labor agitator would interfere with American success in foreign diplomacy. Courts have refused to interfere on the legal technicality that the trial was fair so far as the record shows; that the new evidence came after Mooney’s conviction. Governor Stephens can pardon Mooney and order his retrial on another indictment, when the new evidence can be weighed. But Stephens has done nothing but com-mute Mooney’s sentence to life imprisonment-which William Marion Reedy, the famous editor of the St. Louis Mirror, calls “the crowning injustice to Mooney,” and “a farcical perversion of justice.”
Organized labor planned a mammoth “protest strike” this month, but in the public interest this has been called off.
We suggest that, equally in the public interest, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, or some equally responsible spokesman for organized capital, take a hand in the Mooney matter and petition the governor of California for a conditional pardon and a new trial.
If a new trial proves Mooney guilty, let him suffer the consequences.
If innocent, let him be freed.-Seattle Star
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones re Tom Mooney and Courts
Steel, Correspondence, p186, MJ to JHW, Dec 16, 1918
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ2xAAAAIAAJ
The Liberator Internet Archive
-March 1918-Oct 1924
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/
The Liberator
(New York, New York)
-Jan 1919
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1919/01/v2n01-w11-jan-1919-liberator.pdf
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Dec 28, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1918-12-28/ed-1/seq-2/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1918-12-28/ed-1/seq-4/
The Labor Journal
-Published by the Everett Trades Council
(Everett, Washington)
-Jan 3, 1919
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085620/1919-01-03/ed-1/seq-2/
See also:
Tag: Bisbee Deportations of 1917
https://weneverforget.org/tag/bisbee-deportation-of-1917/
Tag: Mooney-Billings Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mooney-billings-case/
Tag: Boardman Robinson
https://weneverforget.org/tag/boardman-robinson/
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Which Side Are You On? – Tom Morellos/The Nightwatchman
Across this great old Nation
Tell me what you gonna do
When there’s one Law for the rulers
And one Law for the ruled?