Talk:Thomas Mooney

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I question the NPOV of this article. Mooney was framed up by the bosses for being a trade union activist.

I too, question the NPOV of this article. It seems to have been written by a lot of old lefties who are totaly convinced of his innocence. "Husky longshoremen", "he visited his mothers grave" - this is Com- er, progressive pamphleteering, not scholarly research. Could we at least see the case against him, as argued before the Supreme Court, which upheld his conviction in 1937? I have added this fact to the article; If anyone removes it, I would like to know why. 170.170.59.138 (talk) 05:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

"Suspected dynamiter" section

I just finished touching up every other section of the article, but I've run out of time for this section, which is seriously disjointed and in real need of editing. It reads as though several different editors inserted their contributions without paying much attention to the overall results. I'll try to check back when I have time. Cgingold 00:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

"Many" believe that he was convicted of a crime he didn't commit? Who are these many, and why should we believe them? He was found guilty in a court of law. The "many" should at least be identified. 65.202.140.140 (talk) 11:09, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Novel based on Mooney

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In the Guardian article of 21 Apr 2018 titled "End of the American dream? The dark history of 'America first'", Sarah Caldwell makes reference to a novel based on Thomas Mooney. Here is the quote ...

In 1920 Upton Sinclair published a furiously satirical novel called 100%: The Story of a Patriot, inspired by the case of a radical, Tom Mooney, who was sentenced to hang for a 1916 bombing on charges widely viewed as spurious. Sinclair’s novel is told from the perspective of Peter, “a patriot of patriots, a super-patriot; Peter was a red-blooded American and no mollycoddle; Peter was a ‘he-American’, a 100% American ... Peter was so much of an American that the very sight of a foreigner filled him with a fighting impulse. Peter fully believes that: 100% Americanism would find a way to preserve itself from the sophistries of European Bolshevism; 100% Americanism had worked out its formula: If they don’t like this country, let them go back where they come from.” But of course, knowing in their hearts that America was the best country in the world, they didn’t want to go back, and it was necessary to make them go.

Has the author of the Mooney article any interest in pursuing this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tofindya (talk • contribs) 05:14, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Anarchist?

Their efforts, however, were unsuccessful, and the blame was pinned on two labor militants, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings (neither of whom was an anarchist)...
— Anarchist Portraits, p. 204

Thomas J. Mooney is neither an Italian nor an anarchist, but an American citizen and an organizer of labor in San Francisco.
— https://books.google.com/books?id=vtqBCJqh0RgC&q=thomas+mooney+anarchist

Removing the category from the article for now, but open to other sources

(not watching, please {{ping}}) czar 19:59, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Badly written article (Alibi Clock)

This has to be one of the poorest articles I have read, in which some time and effort was put into the article.

This article has a picture and explanation of "The Alibi Clock in Vallejo" at the end, with absolutely NO reference to said clock or its significance in the body of the article. That's really terrible writing and editing, IMO. Montju (talk) 13:04, 3 October 2023 (UTC)