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...over, who declare the guilt of Mooney & Billings never had been established. They say the State's evidence was falsified by officials who wanted to get the agitators out of the way. This evidence rested entirely on the testimony of two men, one F. C. Oxman and one John MacDonald, who presented themselves after huge rewards were offered for witnesses of the bombing, and after police already suspected Mooney & Billings...
Since the trial, State's Witness Oxman is proved to have been at Woodland, Calif, at the time of the explosion he said he saw. State's Witness MacDonald, whose testimony was garbled to say the least, went to Trenton, N. J., became a waiter there. In 1921 he signed an affidavit that he had seen the bombing but not Mooney & Billings, that he only identified them when told to by the police. After the trial, the presiding judge, Frank Griffin, declared the conviction of Mooney was "one of the dirtiest jobs ever put over." The foreman of the convicting...
...what the wage will buy in the place where the worker works. Already there is anxious talk among statesmen that if Mr. Ford's program of "standardized living" goes into effect at his European plants it will provoke a social industrial revolution. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald was said to be on pins & needles lest the Ford survey soon to begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more in one of those English cities than in the other. Inevitably such proof would rouse the British Labor Party to all kinds of imperative demands...
...step with the bankers? Yet they came out last week in favor of the scheme of two men he had called "political blackmailers" the week before. Can Liberal Lloyd George remain a Free Trader now that Liberal M'Kenna has climbed on the tariff bandwagon? As for Mr. MacDonald, acutely conscious was he last week that, concurrently with the bankers, the economic committee of the Trade Unions Congress adopted a resolution favoring the tariff wall. All England seemed to have become suddenly tariff-conscious...
Responding for the MacDonald Government, Labor Lord Parmoor dryly observed : "I do not think any legislation in connection with the Treaty is necessary except ratification, and. ratification will not come before this House [but before the House of Commons...