There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday January 5, 1919
Everett, Washington – Trades Council to Send Delegate to Chicago
From the Everett Labor Journal of January 3, 1919:
EVERETT’S ORGANIZED LABOR ELECTS
DELEGATE TO CHICAGO
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Big Meeting of Trades Unionists Last Wednesday
Night at Red Men’s Wigwam.
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Wednesday, January 1, 1919.
The Council was called to order at the usual time by President Gulley.
The Trades Council, having invited the membership of the several trades unions in the city to meet with it a larger hall was necessary and the Red Men’s Hall was secured for the occasion.
Members of nearly all the unions were in attendance and a large meeting was the result.
There were present President Short and ex-President Marsh of the Washington State Federation of Labor, which added zest to the meeting.
Bro. Short addressed the meeting briefly, calling special attention to conditions existing in California growing out of the Mooney case and then discussed the subject of reconstruction. He said the nation had entered the war in a state of unpreparedness and had “made good” in helping to destroy autocracy, but was now confronted by as serious a problem in the reconstruction made necessary by changed conditions. This new problem would tax the deepest thought of the greatest minds in the country and its solution would require all the wisdom, and experience of the people. Relating to the proposed strike in defense of Mooney and his co-defendants he said it was ill-advised. It lacked organization as to its national significance. If there should be a strike it should be confined to the State of California where the trouble lay. Industrially and politically California was so strongly organized by the corporation employers of labor that united effort must be put forth to crush that opposition to the welfare of the workers.
California was the offender and to California should be applied |the drastic remedy implied by a general strike. If a nation-wide strike were necessary there must needs be nation-wide preparation for it if success in the use of this last weapon of labor’s defense be made successful…..
The President (of the Trades Council, Mr. Gully) then announced that the main business of the meeting, the election of a delegate to represent Everett in the Chicago Convention, was the order of business.
The following resolution was introduced:
Resolved, That this meeting go on record that the delegate to be elected to the Chicago Convention, be selected from the rank and file, and demand that he be working at his respective trade at present.
WM. THOMPSON,
J. KEEGAN, Molders 311,
ROY WEBSTER.The proposition brought out general discussion and was adopted by a vote of nearly two to one.
The roll of unions was then called to ascertain their sentiment upon the question of sending a delegate to Chicago, showing that nearly all unions favored taking such action. Only one union opposed it.
Nominations for delegate were then declared in order and the following named:
Geo. E. Riggins, Typographical Union; Carl Overvold, Shipyard Laborers, Riggers and Fasteners; Andrew Hawley, Molders; O. J. Rice, Molders; R. C. Judy, Piledrivers.
The nominees were asked to state their views on the Mooney case, which they did.
The resolution above eliminated the candidacy of Bro. Riggins and a ballot was taken on the four remaining candidates. No candidate receiving a majority the lower two were dropped, leaving the race between Brothers O. J. Rice and Carl Overvold. On the second ballot, Bro. Overvold, receiving a majority, was declared elected.
The meeting adjourned.
[Inset from Coffeyville (Kansas) Union Advocate of December 29, 1918.]
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FICKERT, BY HIS ACT ADMITS HIS GUILT
Charges of murder against Ed. Nolan, one of the defendants in the Preparedness bomb cases, were dismissed by Judge Franklin Griffin last week. The District Attorney, represented by one of his deputies, agreed to the dismissal. Cunha, Fickert’s chief aid in the frame-up, acted for the District Attorney.
The action of Fickert in dropping the charges against Nolan amounts to a confession on the part of the District Attorney that the convictions of Mooney and Billings, and the indictment, of Nolan were procured by fraud. A fundamental part of Fickert’s story of the Preparedness Day outrage was that Nolan made the bomb. If he now confesses that Nolan did not make the bomb, then the story upon which Mooney and Billings were convicted falls to pieces as completely as his indictments against Nolan.
During the trial of Israel Weinberg (who was acquitted in twenty minutes) Fickert, through an assistant, tried to make capital of the fact that two of the defendants, Mooney and Billings, had been convicted. He said in substance:
“If one is guilty, all are guilty. They were all together in the commission of this crime. If this man is not guilty, then the others are not guilty.”
[Photograph added.]
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From the Machinists’ Monthly Journal of September 1916:
From the Machinists’ Monthly Journal of May 1917:
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SOURCE
The Labor Journal
“Official Paper of the Everett Trades Council”
(Everett, Washington)
-Jan 3, 1919
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085620/1919-01-03/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGES
Newsclip re plans for Tom Mooney Chicago Conference
The Union Advocate
“Official Organ of the Kansas State Federation”
(Coffeyville, Kansas)
-Dec 29, 1918
https://www.newspapers.com/image/384820006
Mooney Tom Rena, Billings Weinberg Nolan, 1916 & 1917
https://www.newspapers.com/image/147490633/
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9vHNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA449
Mooney Billings Case, Ed Nolan Resolution, Machinists, Sept 1916
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=FfHNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA888
Mooney Billings Case, Ed Nolan Def, Machinists, May 1917
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9vHNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA455
See also:
Tag: Mooney-Billings Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mooney-billings-case/
Tag: Ed Nolan
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ed-nolan/
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 25, 1917
San Francisco, California – Powerful Coterie Determined to Crush Labor
(Scroll down for links to articles by and about Ed Nolan in Machinists Journal)
From the United Mine Workers Journal: Corrupt Powers in San Francisco Demand Labor Victims
When Redmen Aren’t Red Men
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2014/09/16/when-redmen-arent-red-men/
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