TOM MOONEY MOLDERS' DEFENSE COMMITTEE. CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON, SAN QUENTIN, CALIFORNIA, 7-16-35. DEAR FRIENDS: ON JULY 27TH, IF I AM STILL ALIVE, I WILL HAVE COMPLETED 19 OF THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE IN THE VILE ATMOSPHERE OF THAT CAPITALIST BASTILE, SAN QUENTIN PRISON. . . WARM PROLETARIAN GREETINGS OF SOLIDARITY, TOM MOONEY 31921

[San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, 1935. Broadsheet, 8-1/2" x 11". With photo images on recto of Mooney dated 1916 and 1935, "before frame-up, and after frame-up. Union label at bottom of recto. Verso with a full-page photo illustration of Mooney in his prison cell: "A CLASS WAR PRISONER FOR 19 YEARS ON JULY 27, 1935 THE VICTIM OF A MONSTROUS CAPITALIST CLASS FRAMEUP. . . ? Very Good plus.

"Known worldwide as the scapegoat of anti-unionists, Thomas Joseph Mooney was falsely accused for bombing the Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco on July 16, 1916. Mooney, a Socialist union activist and organizer, had previously been involved in an ugly strike against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. This put him under immediate suspicion for the bombing even though it was later proved that he was no where near the actual bomb site during the parade. Mooney's wife, Rena, Warren Billings, Israel Weinberg, and Edward Nolan were also tried for the bombing but only Billings and Mooney were convicted. Mooney received the death sentence in 1917 and spent the next twenty-two years in prison despite outrage from around the world and evidence that many of the witnesses who testified against him had committed perjury, especially F.C. Oxman." ["Guide to the Thomas Mooney Collection, 1917-1918," accessed at Online Archive of California.].