The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 2

Page Two JUDGE ADMITS SACCO, VANZETTI ATTACKS WEAK Lawyers Finally Get Copy of Decision By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 12.—A copy of Judge Webster Thayer’s opinion denying a new trial to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti has just been received by defense attorneys Moore, McAmorney and Thompson. It contains the startling ad- mission that the murder case against the two young radicals must rest on circumstantial evi- dence. State’s Evidence Shaken. The state’s direct evidence had been badly shaken by affidavits of Lola Andrews and Louis Pelzer con- fessing pe’ and by numerous other affidavits attesting the criminal record or general unreliablitiy of other witnesses. It was further shaken by the affi- davit of an important new defense witness, Roy E. Gould. This witness stood so close to the murder car that one of the bandits shot him thru the overcoat, He got an excellent de- scription of the man and gave his story to the police at the time but was not called by the state. The gist of Judge Thayer’s argument disposing of the Gould affidavit which clears Sacco, was that after all the testi- mony of another eye witness made lit- tle difference—that the state’s case depended on circumstantial evidence. Judge Builds Up Case. Judge Thayer devotes several pages of his opinion to an argument for the piece of circumstantial evidence which he considers the strongest, This is simply the fact that Sacco and Van- zetti gave the police erroneous infor- mation about themselves when they weer arrested. The two Italian work- fimgmen made the explanation after- wards that they were seeking to avoid persecution as radicals—they were ar- rested at the height of the Palmer anti-red hysteria—but Judge Thayer brushed this explanation aside. Yet persecution of radicals had been especially marked in Massa- chusetts! and many arrested workers had adopted the policy of mystifying their captors for their own protection. Thayer Acts Like Prosecutor, Judge Thayer’s long opinion reads like special prosecution’s pleading thruout the 210 pages. There is no dispassionate judicial tone. The man on the bench is ardently trying to get the two men before him for sentence. He meets strong defense testimony by slurring defense council or passing the buck to the jury. The defense af- fidavit, signed by Louis Pelzer, in which this star state’s witness admits he lied when he said he saw Sacco firing is entirely passed over in the text of the certified copy of the opin- ion turned over to the Sacco-Vanzetti attorneys. The judge comes out as a protector of Lola Andrews, arch perjurer and censures Fred H. Moore, senior de- fense lawyer, who got the woman to swear that she had testified falsely under the coercion of the district at- torney when she identified Sacco. Later the district attorney got hold of Lola Andrews ‘again and obtained another affidavit repudiating the one she gave Moore. Judge Thayer in- sists that she is now telling the truth. He says nothing concerning a prior affidavit that Lola Andrews made be- fore the trial, stating that she posi- tively had not seen Sacco at South Braintree. Before Court in January. Again he scolds the defense for what he terms “cruel and atrocious” treatment of a certain Goodridge, an- other star state’s witness who sought to swear Sacco’s life away. The de- fense dug up the fact that Goodridge hhad served two prison terms and had two indictments still out against him. ‘Thayer alleges that the defense has attempted to persecute Goodridge on the basis of his criminal record. He agrees that Goodridge’s testimony had already ben sufficiently impeached at the trial. But the theory of the judge is that the veracity of the state’s di- rect witnesses doesn’t matter 80 much—that the case rests on circum- stantial evidence. So if Sacco and Vansetti go to the chair it will be another victory for circumstantial evidence. The case will probably come befo# the January term of the supreme court. FALL BRINGS NEW INCREASES IN RETAIL COST OF OUR FOOD WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—With the advent of fall the retail cost of food took another jump in 20 cities during September, the highest in- erease,amounting to three per cent, being reported at Bridgeport, Fall River, Mobile and New Haven, the or of labor announced to- nites WORKERS PARTY IN NEW YORK IS PROUD OF ITS ACHIEVEMENT IN FILING 22,000 NAMES FOR TICKET Romp omcscnie By HARRY M. WINITSKY. Campaign Manager Workers Party. NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 12.—It was on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the stroke of | midnight, that Comrade Charles Krumbein, the organizer of this district, and | Comrade Edward Lindgren appeared at the office of the secretary of state at Albany, and filed over 22,000 signatures to put the presidential and vice-presi- dential as well as the candidates for governor and the entire state ticket of the Workers Party on the November election ballot. The task of putting over our ticket has been an exceptionally difficult one, and the comrades and district office can be justly proud of its achieve- ment. Every possible effort is made by the capitalist class to make it almost impossible to have a class party put its candidates on the ballot and the law therefore, requires that we file at least 12,000 signatures to put our national and state ticket over. However, the Workers Party filed over 22,000 signa- tures instead of the 12,000 required by the law. The laws of the state of New York further require that we file at least 50 signatures from each and every one of the 62 counties in the state and we have filed at least 100 from each and every county. In addition to the above 22,000 signatures filed in the office of the secre- tary of state in Albany, Comrade Harry M. Winitsky, the campaign manager end Comrade Benjamin Lipshitz, the chairman of the campaign committee on outside activities, filed over 31,000 signatures at the office of the board of elections in the city of New York to put on the ballot of this city 20 local candidates of the Workers Party. The Workers Party of this district has filed over 55,000 signatures in the state of New York and we are confident that our candidates will go on the ballot this year. Now that our candidates will go on the ballot and the tremendous task of gathering and filing the petitions is over, the campaign committee is now planning a whirlwind finish for the COMMUNIST campaign in New York. In addition to the open air meetings held thruout the city every night, over 30 indoor meetings have been arranged for thruout the city in all the con- sressional districts, and the committee has also arranged for monster “RED NIGHTS” in each congressional district in addition to the indoor rallies. The first red night was held in Williamsburg, Oct. 10. The second red night was held in Harlem, Saturday night, Oct. 11, where eleven meetings were held with 58 speakers participating, The “RED NIGH” will wind up with a grand rally to be held at 110th street and 5th av€nue, and will be addressed by Juliet Stuart Poyntz, William W. Weinstone and Abraham Markoff, candidates in this district and Harry M, Wicks, Harry M. Winitsky and Rose Pastor Stokes. Red Nights in Other Districts, Oct. 17—Bronx, 23rd congressional district. Oct. 18—East Side, 14th congressional district, Coolidge-Dawes ticket. recent Daugherty investigation. This Fink is now coming forward. with an affidavit which shows that Wheeler and Brookhart bribed Roxie Stinson in order to secure evidence in the Daugherty case. Daniel Steck, the democratic can- didate for senator, is trying to break the old belief here that a demo¢cratic victory in Iowa is as rare as a hen’s tooth. The strategy is good. The demo- crats know that the whole Daugherty investigation is so steeped in political filth and corruption that is not at all difficult to prove that everyone con- nected with it is tainted. All the wit- nesses who were called, the questions investigated, the general atmosphere surrounding the examination—all fur- nish fertile soil for such suspicions and recriminations. It is interesting to note that when the Daugherty investigation was be- gun, an effort was made to have the so-called progressive leader, Wheeler, look into the strikebreaking and spy activities of Burns and the Attorney General. Plenty of evidence was offered Wheeler to convict Burns and Daugherty of the worst charges. But Wheeler spurned everyone who even suggested that the anti-labor activities be examined. Mr. Wheeler did not want to talk about the workers be- cause he felt then he would be open to attack along class lines. Instead he limited himself to whiskey scan- dals, prostitution and debauchery. To- day Mr. Wheeler sems to have gotten into a cesspool himself. New Orleans Traction Ring Tries to Sell Stock Thru Workers (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12.—That dis- reputable old harlot the New Orleans Public Service., Inc., which was oblig- ed a short time ago to change its name from the New Orleans Railway and Light company in order to prevent being run in by Guy Maloney’s men on a “D. & S.” charge, is at it again. Not content with charging the pub- lie seven cents for a ride in the things called street cars, is now un- loading twenty-five thousand shares of its preferred stock on an unwill- fng public and its employes at one hundred bucks a share. Conductors, motormen and track walkers have been pres Jd into serv- ice to sell their friends—not forget- ting themselves. This also saves com- mission to salesmen. Attack Pa. Sedition Law. SHARON, Pa, Oct, 12.—The United Trades Council of Western Pennsyl- vania meeting here, heard representa- tives from Allegheny county savagely attack the Flynn sedition law of the state, especially in connection with the persecution of Farrell Commun- ists. Allegheny county representa- tives, speaking to the one hundred delegates, hurled cutting invectives at district attorney Leroy Rickard for his activities in bringing about the con- viction of the five Communists in Farrell. Subscribe for “Your, Daily,” DAILY WORKER. te > ie Oct. 25—Lower Rast Side, 12th congressional district. WHEELER DODGED THE CLASS ISSUE AND GOT MESSED UP IN CESSPOOL; IOWA DEMOCRATS SCENT VICTORY (Special to The Daily Worker) BURLINGTON, Iowa, Oct. 12.—The democrats are making a big effort to sweep into power because of the notion being spread that many regular republicans will bolt Senator Brookhart in view of his open attack on the In line with this aim the democrats have produced a certain Al Fink with a big story. The story aims to let the cat out of the bag and tell some of the so-fai untold. phases of the FIVE INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN WORK DAYS FOR PHILLY Young Workers Help Party Put It Over (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 12.— Owing to extraordinary circumstane- es, Philadelphia Workers Party branches had to postpone thelr mob- ilization day to Sunday, October 19. Sunday will be the first of five in- tensive days of agitation and propa- ganda that will end up with the huge Gitlow mass meeting in the Labor Ly- ceum, 6th and Brown streets on Fri- day, Oct. 24. On October 19, party members of Philadelphia will be given 50,000 copies of Special Philadelphia Edi- tion of the DAILY WORKER for dis- tribution to be followed within a day or two by a distribution of 30,000 party platforms. The October 19 Red Sunday mobilization day will in- clude the Young Workers League branches who have shown a splendid activity in the campaign. The concert and ball of the city central committee which will take place on Saturday, October 18, at the Eagles Temple, will be a fitting pre- lude to the hardest week of Commu- nist work that Philadelphia comrades had yet undertaken. The excellent concert program which cannot be in- cluded here owing to the lack of space will be a real inspiration to our comrades. The distribution of 10,000 platforms and cards for the Rose Pastor Stokes meeting was a test that convices us that the big distribution will be a real success. Yowls Active. The Young Workers’ League of this city has been an important factor in our campaign work and especially in the industrial work. The splendid co-operation and the astounding ability of these young comrades has been a real contribu- tion to every campaign and move that the party organized in Philadelphia, A special column in the Philadel- phia edition of the DAILY WORKER will be devoted to the activities of the YW. L. A mass meeting of young work- ers has been organized by the Phila- delphia City Central Committee of the Y. W. L. in the Eagles Temple for Thursday, October 30, with Jack Sta- chel from New York a» ene» main speaker, who will be preceeded by local speakers of the Y. W. L. recent- ly developed on the party platforms. 20,000 cards and circulars will be dis- tributed at the shops vinploying young workers to asstre the success of this mass meeting. Open Air Meetings in Chicago. Monday, Oct. 13, lovey ram _— Socauaet Weeeen of ae | THE DAILY WORKER WAGE SLASH IS ELECTION DAY Then Workers Don’t Know What’ll Happen (By The Federated Press) PAWTUCKET, R. I., Oct. 12. —The general wage reduction which employers fave been in- sisting was inevitable has been put off in all but a few cotton mills of this state. In fact the Blackstone Valley mills of the Manville-Jenckes corporation are the only im- portant ones attempting the new policy. Talks of wage cuts hangs in the air but it is very doubtful if the majority of the manufacturers will risk the new program. Wait for After the Election. What will happen after election is problematical but the slightly im- proved demand for cotton goods seems to be giving the unions a somewhat better strategic position. Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers’ Union, told the Federated Press in his Paw- tucket office that the organization is taking in new members every day. He declared that a restoration of the wages will be forced. “We propose,” said Mr. McMahon, “to restore not only the ten per cent but the rest due us from the 22% per cent cut of January, 1921.” The United Textile Workers’ execu- tive is meeting the manufacturers’ propaganda for the alleged economic necessity for a wage cut with five re- butting arguments, which he sum- marized for the Federated Press as follows: 1. During the past year employ- ers have increased per capita pro- duction 25 per cent at the most con- servative-estimate, with an average reduction in overhead costs of 25 per cent. 2. Cost of cotton materials, the most important cost factor in the industry, has gone down more than 30 per cent in the last six months. 8. The entire labor cost in tex- tile mills is only 17 per cent of every dollar spent by the American cotton consumer, 4. Practically all textile corpora- tions have in tlie last few years in- creased capitalization from 100 to 300 per cent by stock dividends, en- tirely taken from profits, ‘without additional investment for new ma- chinery. 5. The ten per cent cut, which means as much to the textile work- ers who average about $18 when on full time represents a cost say- ing of only one-third of a cent a yard, which the consumer does not get. Play with Tariff Situation. McMahon is emphasizing the fact that the manufacturers, now urging a wage cut, control the republican ma- chine which promised the workers full time at high wages after the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill passed In spite of these promises the repub- lican textile manufacturers are now seeking to put wages below the level existing before the passage of the tariff law which protects them from European competition. NEW ‘PEACE’ HOAX IS PEDDLED BY RADIO MEETING Sepeciat to The Daily Worker) WASHINTON, D. C,, Oct. 12.—A new “peace” hoax is being peddled in Washington these days. This time it is not a conference that is being pro- posed, but a real business-like ap- proach is being put forward. The biggest busistess interests con- trolling the radio industry of the com- pany in an air-tight monopoly are on the job to pacify the universe. They are working overtime trying to sell the idea that the establishment of super-power broadcasting stations in the principal capitalist countries of the world will bind the “nations” clos- er and inspire them with a spirit of brotherly love. It is proposed to broadcast the music, politics, the art, the literature of the big powers as a means of pro- moting an international culture and brotherhood. Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, the United States and the South American countries are to be linked. The radio Conference in ses- sion here is working on details of the plan. Soviet Russia has not been mentioned, Nor has it been decided whether stock exchange news and secret treaties and alliance between imperialist powers will be broad- casted, ‘ i Perth Amboy, N. J Notice! If you do not subscribe, you can get the DAILY WORKER « H. Lewis’ news stand, car barn), Perth Amboy, ES SES ase ce Be RI int En a A het BAR SPER ER SE PE Sets A am I I a I A lots ED ER ae nes SAE SS, TATE aera EE RCO JS ERE oi OES 2 SDL PE nl Rr Re a Dc S HELD UP UNTIL || From Their Homes and chwab Drives Miners Into Communist Ranks By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, . ‘ Real more coal miners, with their families, are being driven from company-owned shacks, called “homes,” at Dakota and Barracksville, near Fairmont, West Virginia, capital city of the most brutal white terror dominions of the home state of John “Wall Street” Davis, democratic candi- date for president. Davis does not protest. It has been his job in the past, and may be again, when election day has passed, to aid on the legal side of these ruling class attacks on the workers. Davis is a lawyer. But the yellow officials of the United Mine Workers of America, who are kissing the feet of ‘The Strike Breaker” now occupying the White House, thought this Coolidge could be puaed to break his silence. It would be good campaign stuff! Van A. Bittner, of Pittsburgh, official “red baiter” of the John L. Lewis administration in the international min- ers’ union, sent the telegram to the ivory domed sphinx in the White House, that was to draw a protest from him against the West Virginian evictions. * * * * President Lewis is a political lackey of the Coolidge administration. Lewis wants “The Strike Breaker” re- elected. International Organizer Bittner also wants Coolidge re- elected. He is also for “The Strike Breaker.” But the coal miners want to know what they are getting out of it. They want to know how the million coal miners of the nation are benefitting thru this alliance of their high- est officials with the “open shop” administration in Wash- ington. Bittner is in West Virginia for the Lewis administration. He has to show some results. A telegram from Codlidge, the republican, protesting aaginst capitalist misrule in demo- cratic West Virginia, would help. Bittner, in his fondest dreams, saw republican votes sprouting everywhere in the mining camps. It would also help in the coming referendum in the miners’ union for the election of international officials. But the White House was as silent as ever. Coolidge’s brain refused to function as Bittner had hoped. Labor officials are accepted as bootlickers. But they must never ask favors. f They are given a kick in the face occasionally, to keep them in their places, If they are very, very good, under these circumstances, they may get a cheap meal ticket, in the shape of a government job. ’ But they must never ask favors on behalf of the work- ers, not even to keep themselves in the good graces of the rank and file of their respective unions. That is treason to the capitalist master. The coal miners of West Virginia may starve. Their children may sicken and die, under the open skies, with win- ter coming on, with no homes and no work. But Coolid; remains silent. When he speaks it is only on the side of the mine owners. The coal mines at Dakota and Barracksville are owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, headed by Charles M. Schwab. Schwab is typical of the American capitalist class. Bethlehem, Pa., Schwab’s home town, is a typical American industrial hell. Coolidge is silent because he is for Schwab and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He can afford to remain silent because he knows the deputy sheriffs of West Virginia will do their duty, as interpreted by the mine owners. The coal miners are being driven from their homes © because they object to a wage cut. Schwab is trying to slash wages fifty per cent. This huge wage cut is in viola- tion of the union agreement signed at Baltimore by the Schwab interests. . But wage contracts are only pieces of paper, to be torn to shreds by the mine owners, whenever they wish. Only the workers must consider wage contracts “sacred” and never violate them. F ° * ° a For 61 years, since 1863, the coal miners of West Virginia, thru their toil, have been sending forth coal to the rest of the world by the hundreds of millions of tons. They dig coal in 51 of the 55 counties of the state. They labor in one of the largest continuous coal fields in the world. The Fairmont field is one of the richest. West Virginia stands only second to Pennsylvania and Illinois in production. But it is the label “non-union” that is put upon most of the coal produced. It is put there by the mine owners, successful in their long war against the mine workers. But the coal miners of West Virginia, dispossessed, out of jobs, hunted by mine guar ight on. Their record is one of the most militant in America’s labor history. They will build their economic power, thru their union, in spite of Coolid, bootlicking lackeys, Lewis and Bittner. They will achieve their 100 per cent union, like the coal miners of Illinois. They will see the need of class political action. They will realize, more and more, in the days to come, like the coal miners of the Ruhr, in the valley of death between France and Germany, that their interests demand that they join the Communist ranks, . * 2 ° Miners of West Virginia! Let the days of begging favors from the mine owners and their political puppets pass! | Stand erect and fight thru your union, and your party, the Workers (Communist) Party, for the seizure of all power. Only in this way can you achieve your emancipation. Shop Collections Show Fine Results (Special to The Daily Worker) © NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Subscription Iists of the shop collection drive, when they arrive at campaign headquarters look like dirty, greasy, crumpled piers of paper, but each carries a story of its own. List No. 20,843, returned by Ed Sonntag, bs well covered with names and carried a total of $22.10, Herman Gund returns List No. 16,441. He has made a collection among the workers employed by the Fleishman Cake Baking Co. the total of which is $10.50, ‘The Amalgamated Clothing Workers are »,w employed at part time. Thelr earnings are not large but List No, 20; J8 brings in $8.80 from the fifteen workers employed in the Pinchuk Brod, shop. , This collection was madé by Max Novick. ae ther lists come in, but there are too many to be dealt with individually. he campaign committee is badly in need of funds now. We cail on holder of a list toyfinish his shop collection and turn It In now, ' IN THE SKIES, WORKER LEARNS All Promises Forgotten After Publicity Stunt By SYDNEY WARREN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 12, —Here’s the story of how a worker was buncoed out of a bungalow he was supposed to have won in a building fair con- test promoted for free advertis- ing Lisa tees by the British Col- umbia Manufacturers’ Associa- tion. About a year ago this organi- zation started a campaign to sell British Columbia products by offering a bungalow worth $5,000, as the first prize in a lottery contest. Two Bits a Throw. A 25 cent ticket admitted the holder to view an exhibition of canned fruits, bricks, tiles, wood veneers, bottled pickles and other displays of gastro- nomic and artistic value. The ticket also entitled the person to a chance in the lottery. For $1 four tickets of admission and five chances on wigning the bungalow were given. Under certain conditions the winner of the bungalow also would receive a piano and $500 in furniture. It looked good to everyone in Van- couver and most of them bit—some to the tune of several dollars. D. G. McDonald, a purser aboard the Canadian Pacific steamer Prin- cess Alice, was among those who bit and when he came into port one day and was told that he was the lucky man and had won the $5000 bungalow and in addition the piano and $500 in furniture, he felt that either he was re- ceiving his ‘heavenly reward or at least that his planets were exceed- ingly well-aspected, speaking in the manner of astrologists. For some days he had no peace. He was announced as the winner in the local Brass Check Press and his pho- tograph appeared with several inter- views from a bevy of sob-sisters. A few days after the furore McDonald received an invitation to attend a ban- uet to be given by the British Colum- bia Manufacturers’ Assn. at which he supposed he would be formally presented with the prizes he had won. But such was far from the casé. After the eats, the chairman, J. A. Cunningham, president of the associa tion, broke the news to McDonald gently. He prefaced his remarks by saying that he didn’t wish them to get beyond the four walls of the ban- queting room and then bluntly told McDonald that, so far as getting the .| bungalow, he thot he had won—but, well the association was financially hard up and that he would have to wait for his bungalow until it took the shape of a mansion in another world, Forget Their Promises. McDonald then asked the secretary of the aggregation of business pirates what about the piano and the furni- ture he had also won and was in- formed that the firms that had offered to provide these articles as prizes had decided, now the publicity was over, that it was hardly necessary to live up to their promises, certainly not profitable; the excuse offered was that if they gave these articles they exposed themselves to a violation of the laws against lotteries. This happy thot only came after weeks of free advertising. The association in an outburst of generosity then suggested that Mo Donald buy a lot in the expensive Shaughnessy subdivision and that the association would bu{ld him a house on the lot for $10,000, putting in their materials at wholesale prices. Me- -)Donald asked what about the $5,000 bungalow he had won but at the ques- tion the asggciation lost all further interest in In order to sper for time the mem- bers of the association assured Me- Donald that they would individually, if necessary, mortgage thelr properties to see to it that he was fairly dealt with. Shortly afterwards the organization went out of business—before McDonald could take legal action. Moans Departure of Ancient Customs of . . New Mexico Indians — SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, ~ “A hundred helpless Indian tribes are caught in the net of the U. S. Indian bureau,” John Collier told the Indian Defense Association, Collier denounc- ed the recent attempt to Mill the reli, gion of the Pueblos, and the constant drive to substitute American cus! for the ancient tribal life of the In. dians, Witter Bynner, the poet, who is in San Francisco after a long s0- - Journ in New Mexico, says that the tribal habits and traditions of the aborigines are being slowly disinte- grated by officials greedy for the na tural wealth owned by the tribes. All the Indians of California are backing a festival in San Francisco th ceeds of which are to go to in northern counties, , of which are said to be starving, j yee pledge their names andy, \ 3 .