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 – Friday November 29, 1918
Sacramento, California – Life of Brother Mooney to be Spared
From the San Francisco Chronicle of November 29, 1918:
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Governor, in Decision,
Refuses to Recognize
Case as Representing
Clash of Capital and Labor
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ACTION INFLUENCED BY
APPEALS FROM WILSON
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Convicted Man No True Friend
of Working Class,
Statement Says;
Matter Decided on Merits
—–Sacramento, November 28,-The death sentence of Thomas J. Mooney was commuted to life imprisonment today by Governor William D. Stephens. Mooney, convicted of the Preparedness parade bomb murders in San Francisco July 22, 1916, was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin Prison December 13.
In announcing his decision governor Stephens asserts the case does not represent a clash between capital and labor. He characterizes as “absurd” propaganda that would make Mooney appear as a martyr to the cause of labor, and indicates that this action was influenced by two telegraphic appeals from President Wilson which urged commutation of sentence for international reasons….
