Tom Mooney - STREETCAR STRIKE, JULY 1916 - Nineteen Sixteen

Sep 21, 2026

Bibliographic microform target record describing the preserved original material related to Tom Mooney, framed in connection with the 1916 streetcar strike in San Francisco. The text includes technical microform data (35mm film size, 10:1 reduction ratio, date filmed) and outlines a narrative summary spanning Europe’s wartime context, labor unrest, and the preparedness day bomb outrage in July 1916. It further details the 1917 trial scene, prosecution statements, and witness testimony.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages9

Reading Time14 min

AccessFree to download

Original Material as Filmed-Existing Bibliographic Record

Restrictions on Use

Technical Microform Data

Narrative Summary: 1916-1917 Events

The Trial and Witness Testimony

97-84209-16Dreiser,Theodore Tom Mooney [San Francisco] # COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET ORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD RESTRICTIONS ON USE: eproductions may not be made without permission trom Columbia University Lbraries. TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILNI SIZE: 35mmREDUCTION RATIO: 10:1 DATE FILMED: 10-3-97 TRACKING\#: FILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA. TOM MOONEYZ BOxBy THEODORE DREISER Gift STREETCAR STRIKE,JULY 1916INETEEN SIXTEEN.The world in flames.Eu- rope a gigantic Moloch drawing toilers by the millions into its insatiablemaw.Wall Street,alarmed at the possible loss of its loans to the Allies,prepares to hurl America into the conflict.Speeches,parades,"prepar-edness." GLS The world of Labor begins to stir—groping its way through thebloody horror of the war.Czardom trembles at the cry of millions for"Bread and Peace!"The smell of revolution in the very air of Germany,Hungary,Italy.Strikes and threats of strike in America. 1955 In San Francisco young Tom Mooney,Irish,a fighter,quietly atwork among the street railway workers.Meeting with them in theirhomes,laying the basis for a powerful Carmen's Union and an end tothe intolerable conditions forced on them by the United Railroads.($2.50 they got,for a ten-hour day in 1916).Young,this Tom Mooney,but already a leader in his own right.The United Railroads know it.The Pacific Gas and Electric Company know it.Fleishhacker,Dollar,the real rulers of San Francisco know it.That is why they tried fourtimes to frame him in the 1914 electrical workers strike and times with-out number in the years that followed.They are out to“get”TomMooney no matter what the cost.Then fate takes a hand. 9 0EC Up Market Street on July twenty-second comes the"PreparednessDay”parade organized by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce andboycotted by organized labor.Mayor Rolph leads it.It is just six min-utes past two o'clock.Suddenly a terrific blast at the corner of Marketand Steuart Streets.Dust and smoke in the air.On the ground the tornbodies of two score spectators.Eight of them dead.The PreparednessDay bomb outrage is history.A made-to-order opportunity for theframers of Tom Mooney.They seize on it with both hands. Martin Swanson,labor spy par-excellence and special agent for theUnited Railways and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company,is on thejob.Only three days before the explosion he had called Warren Billingsto the office of Mr.Cantrell,executive property manager of the PacificGas and Electric,where he offered Billings $5000 and a job to swear FICKE:RT AND SWANSON COACHING MCDONALD Mooney into :ail on a framed up charged of dynamiting.Swanson failedthat time.He will not fail now.Warrants charging Mooney,Mrs.RenaMooney,Billings,Ed.Nolan and the taxi driver Israel Weinberg withmurder are is sued by District Attorney Fickert.They are arrested. The yello w press is on the job.Passions are whipped to white heat.The stage is set. Fickert is on his mettle.Word has come down from the top thatMooney must swing.A slip-up on this job will be tough on the man thatmakes the slip.Swanson and his aides work overtime helping the de-spicable Fick rt "prepare"his case.They labor hard in a frantic searchfor"reliable witnesses."They threaten,bulldoze,bribe,but when thetale is told they have but four“witnesses”ready to swear Mooney's lifeaway at the behest of the United Railways and the Pacific Gas andElectric. "The Cas:of the People vs.Thomas J.Mooney."The monotonousflat voice of tie bailiff rolls out in the close air of the dense packed courtroom the mo ning of January 3,1917.The most famous trial in laborhistory is uncer way. Assistant Prosecutor Cunha opens for the state: “...A number of people were killed outright,and others badly

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What restrictions apply to reproductions of the original material in this record?

Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries.

What technical microform details are listed for the film?

The record lists a 35mm film size and a 10:1 reduction ratio, with a date filmed of 10-3-97.

Which major events are described in the narrative summary?

The narrative covers wartime labor and revolutionary unrest, the July 1916 Preparedness Day bomb outrage in San Francisco, and the subsequent 1917 trial in the case of the People vs. Thomas J. Mooney.

Sep 21, 2026

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