Today in labor history Feb 9 Tom Mooney convicted in bombing frame-up orchestrated by Pinkerton

[Omaha Steve]

February 09

Wobblie activist Tom Mooney convicted in bombing frame-up orchestrated by Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was pardoned and released 22 years later - 1917


February 9, 1917 - California labor activist Tom Mooney was convicted for allegedly setting off a bomb at a San Francisco parade. The case of Mooney and co-defendant Warren Billings became a cause celebre for unions, who said they were victims of an antiunion conspiracy. Eventually, convincing evidence of Mooney's innocence came to light and he was pardoned in 1939.

Some 19,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers in Washington state and Oregon begin what is to become a 40-day strike over economic issues - 2000

[leveymg]

1. To this day, the actual Haymarket bomber remains a mystery, as well.

The guys they hanged for it had nothing to do with making or throwing the "infernal device" in 1886.

Same M.O. The Pinkertons were accused by one of the defendants -- Albert Parsons -- of having staged the attack using an agent provocateur.

[pam4water]

2. Very G. K. Chesterton "Man Who Was Thursday". This made me think of Operation Gladio in Italy.

and a couple of other like operations I my steal trap brain forgot about before I got around to posting.