Hellraisers Journal – Friday January 17, 1919:
Chicago, Illinois – National Labor Convention Convenes on Behalf of Mooney
From The Seattle Star of January 14, 1919:
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-Nation-wide strikes and boycotts will be the weapons used by labor to secure the release of Thomas J. Mooney, according to Edward B. Nolan, San Francisco, secretary of the International Workers’ Defense league who made the keynote speech at the opening session of the labor congress in the Mooney case here today.
Nolan asked the congress to set a definite date for the strikes.
[Declared Nolan:]
Legislation is not forthcoming for Mooney’s benefit. Labor must use its last resort, its powerful economic weapon-the strike and the boycott-to win Mooney his justice. The case has become the greatest question of the nation. We must use the final expression of labor and lay our cards on the table.
To Vote on Plan
Outlining plans to be followed by the convention in its work, Nolan urged federal intervention in California courts thru issuance of habeas corpus proceedings.
[Asserted Nolan:]
The strikes will be voted by a referendum. Local organizations will start the ball rolling by publicity in newspapers and circulars. State organizations will then take the matter up.
Sigmund Schulburg, a San Francisco delegate, denied there was any intention of turning the convention into a political meeting. He declared there were “some radicals” present, but asserted they could not be called “Reds.”
W. F. Dunn, publisher of the Butte, Mont., Bulletin, declared himself in favor of a strike.
[Dunn said:]
There are ten thousand idle in Butte now.
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[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCE & IMAGES
The Seattle Star
(Seattle, Washington)
-Jan 14, 1919
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1919-01-14/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Tag: Mooney-Billings Case
https://weneverforget.org/tag/mooney-billings-case/
Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters Journal
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 1919 to Dec 1920
-by United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada*
https://books.google.com/books?id=iN-fAAAAMAAJ
-Edition of Feb 1919
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iN-fAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA2
“The Mooney Convention”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iN-fAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA30
-Edition of April 1919
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iN-fAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA3-PA2
“Nolan Bomb Charges Dismissed by Court.”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=iN-fAAAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA3-PA17
*Note: the official name of the union as of 1917 Constitution:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112087808785;view=2up;seq=12
Official letterhead 1919
https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/pioneerlife/id/9137/
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Workers of the World Awaken
Lyrics by Joe Hill
Songs of the Workers:
to Fan the Flames of Discontent
(Little Red Songbook)
Industrial Workers of the World,
15th Edition, Oct 1919
https://books.google.com/books?id=vTlRAAAAYAAJ
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=vTlRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA6
If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains.
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation,
Will at their command stand still.