Thomas J. Mooney ephemera collection. 1917-1938.

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Thomas J. Mooney ephemera collection. 1917-1938.

The trial, imprisonment, and attempts at freeing Thomas J. Mooney, California union organizer, for a bombing at the Preparedness Parade in San Francisco, July 22, 1916, in which ten people died and forty were injured.

13 items ; 61 x 43 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958436

Yale University, Law School Library

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Mooney Molders' Defense Committee.

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Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942

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Thomas J. Mooney was born on December 8, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Indiana and Massachusetts. A molder by trade, Mooney first came to California in 1908, permanently settling in San Francisco in 1910. There he became involved in the work of the Socialist party and various labor organizing activites. In 1916, Mooney and Warren K. Billings were wrongfully convicted of the Preparedness Day bombing of July 22. Mooney's plight became a cause amongst labor until his eventual release and ...

Billings, Warren K., 1893-1972

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Laborer and union organizer. From the description of Papers of Warren K. Billings, 1899-1973 (bulk 1920-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014443 Biographical Note 1893, July 4 Born, Middletown, N.Y. 1906 Moved with family to Brooklyn, N.Y. 1908 ...