Speech #660051313

Director General Densmore denied that any person connected with the United States Employment Service had anything to do with the Mooney case. This unequivocal denial is contained in the letter submitted signedl by Densmore. He undertook to explain that his presence in San Francisco on and before November 1. 1918. was exclusively to prosecute certain immigration frauds in which indictments had before that time been returned. The investigation of the Mooney case had previously been made. lie says. by two investigators who had been employed in the immigration cases and had discovered an opportunity to present further evidence to the Secretary of Labor on the subject of the fairness of Mooneys trial. The director general says this investigation was practically finished when he arrived in San Francisco in October. 1918. to assist the United States attorney in the immigration trials there. The report of the investigators relating to Mooney was by Mr. Densmore transmitted to the Secretary of Labor. Mr. Densmore states in his letter that he went to San Francisco at that time solely for the purpose of assisting in the Governments prosecution of the defendants in the immigration cases and not at all for the purpose. so universally charged. to investigate the Mooney case. He adds that. unfortunately. this report on Mooney fell Into the hands of a local newspaper. which published it without authority. This explanation. he says. is meant to correct my apparent misapprehension that the United States Employment Service had any activities in connection with the Mooney case.