The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government a -” ~ 89 | Workers Party Issues Calli for Fall Elections | The Workers (Communist) Party has officially en- tered the political campaigns for state and congressional elections by proposing a practical program of action for labor. With the widespread discontent and aversion aroused over the flagrant subservience of the Coolidge government to the slightest whims of Wall Street, with the workers being betrayed by their so-called “friends” of the defunct LaFollette movement and with the agri- cultural crisis impoverishing countless thousands of farmers, the time is opportune for effective class action on the part of labor. The following is the statement of the Central Exec- utive Committee: United Front Election Campaign SOx 'So9 Siu, $8.00 per year. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1928, atc PPE ‘With All by mall, $6.00 per year. By JAMES P. CANNON, THE fatal hour draws near for our beloved Com, rades Sacco and Vanzetti. The frame-up witnesses: and perjurers have finished their testimony. The lawyers have finished their argyments. The august courts have rendered their verdict. After ‘six years of suspense and torture the ghastly con spiracy is scheduled to culminate very soon by a cruel death in the electric chair. Sacco and Vanzetti remain undaunted aft2r their long ordeal . They look into the face of death without fear. How heroic and inspiring they are |. and what an example they set before the labor and have been so rade in his own manner of expression puts the idea clear and straight. | Our brothers i know the bloodt which to burn us Not only do their long suffer: chair at the end TO BE ORGANIZED BY WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, i be Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has just issued instructions to all units of the Party urging the immediate campaign to place theMabor ticket on the ballot in 1926 for the congressional and state elections. In connection with this campaign the Workers (Communist) Party will carry on simultaneously a campaign to increase its membership. The whole membership of the Party is to be mobilized im- mediately for this campaign. Efforts will be made to place labor tickets in the field thru farmer labor parties or labor parties where such are in existence in state or congressional districts, In those states and congressional districts where there are no parties in existence, a campaign will be initiated to build up a conference of delegates from trade unions, labor political organizations and other workers’ organ- izations for the purpose of nominating a united labor ticket in these states and congressional districts. Where the.Party, falls either, to place. cgndidates.tn. the figid.they.g Jabor party or farmer-labor party or thru a united front conference, it will nom: (Continued on page 4) HEAVY DEFEAT W PENA, FIGHT Mellon-Coolidge Gang Is Routed (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 19. — After the smoke of Pennsylvania’s most bitterly fought primary campaign had died down and the alleged votes were counted “Boss” Bill Vare of this city had a lead of more than 100,000 over his nearest opponent, Senator George Wharton Pepper, the Mellon- Coolidge candidate for United States senator, ; Pinchot, the reformer governor of the state, running on a dry platform and having the endorsement of the state Federation of Labor, ran a very poor third, polling less than half the vote cast for his wet opponent Vare, who also had the support of many of the leaders of labor in the state, Millions Spent. it is estimated that millions of dol- lars were spent in the campaign for the various contestants. The vast re- sources of the Mellon octopus were thrown behind Pepper, while in Phila- deiphia the scabby railway companies backed Vare, with Pinchot’s support: ers kicking in, with heavy contribu- tions to his caypaign. It is openly chafged that Vare’s machine stuffed ballot boxes and otherwise stole votes to roll up his big majority in Philadelphia and it is pos- The biggest news of the year j for our readers. — * TRIKE Oil ‘ANE NOVEL Ube ated -0 SSS MILL STRIKER WILL SPEAK IN RACINE TONIGHT Mass Meeting Will Be Held in Union Hall , , Gpecial to The Daily Worker) _RACINE, Wis., May 19. — The need for rélief of the Passaic strikers grows greater and greater. The strikers have with their appea ers, the people, writes Comrade Let us make th rade ring aroun¢ clarion call to their voices in movement! After the supreme court rendered its decision refusing them a new trial, Comrade Van- zetti wrote to the International Labor Defensé: “IT am and will remain to the death for the emanci- pation of the working class!” P ; The two Italian rebel workers know the issues involved in their case better than all the ahd lawyers. They know it is for the crime of golid- arity that their lives are to be sacrificed. Comrade Vanzetti says in the same letter: “It is a long time that I wanted to write to you to tell you that I appreciate your solidarity. I am one of the old guard who appreciate and approve the solidarity BRITISH PRESS (=i os ASSAILS CHANG'S, 4 TERRORIST RULE Regrets Evacuation of Peking by Kuominchun (International Press-Correspondence.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., April 27— (By Mail)—Even the English newspa- | pers in Peking are compelled to ad- mit that the population of Peking and | surrounding territory is subjected to} all possible violence and plundering by the forces of Chang Tso-Lin and Wu Pei-Fu and it regrets the evacua- tion of Peking by the Kuominchun. | ment, found it very much to his in- OveF 14,000 toilers trom the out: terest to insist upon drastic measures | skirts of the town terrorized by the | go, the suppression of the general | Mukden plunderers assembled before | strike and who now is one of the lead-! the gates. of the town. ers in the attack upon the living! Shao Chang-Shi, editor of the Pek-| standard of the miners—which if ac-| ing “Tschen Bao,” an organ of the|complished—will result .in ..bigger| liberal professors and intellectuals, | poyaities for himself afd his brother was executed without a hearing or capitalists. | trial. The high command of the Muk- Pa eae aah ee AON ed ¢ den army declares that the executed man was accused of Bolshevist propa- FURRIERS ASK \ . | ganda, and such an accusation could not be punished in any other woy. This act of terrorism has caused the greatest indignation amongst the | students, intellectuals and workers in the capital. A shortage of food is making itself felt in Peking. The bourgeois press fears hunger riots and calls upon the high command of the Mukden army to take extraordin- ary measures to supply the popula- NEW YORK; May 19.—An appeal to more than 31,000 labor groups thruout | the country was issued today by the! striking fur workers in this city, ask-| ing their fellowworkers for financial help in the great strike which is now! in its 14th week.» Every local of every union has received an appeal for con- tributions to help the furriers in their NEW YORK, May 19.—The great | struggle, partictilarly for a forty-hour united labor demonstration being | week. — LORD GAINFORD. One of the richest coal owners in England, who as a member of parilla- tion. Bl6 GROWD WILL PACK MADISON SQUARE IN GREAT 40-HR, DEMAND Secretary International Labor Defense. setts intends to do them finally to death. Vanzetti| in his letter: “They are preparing the fire on monstrous conspir comrades brought back to “life and freedom.” Time is pressing! Precious lives are in danger! Swell the protest! Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! sible that his agents. were active in jother parts of the state. Vare Strong in Pittsburgh, The proportions of Vare’s victory and the conditions under which it was won, places him very close to the un- disputed leadership of Pennsylvania republicanism. He very nearly took “the Mellons’ own bailiwick from them, losing Pittsburgh by less than 20,000 votes on the face of incomplete re- turns. Vare can now take his place alongside such political leaders as Governor Al, Smith, in Néw_ York; (Continued on page 6) The Future Belongs to the Yout now been out over four months fight- ing to get an increase in wages and a shortening of their hours. The strike of these workers followed an attempt on the part of the Passaic mil-owners to slash thei? low wages 10%. Tonight Nancy Sandowskt, one of the most active pickets in the strike, and Fred G, Biedenkapp, national secre- tary of the International Workers’ Aid, will speak on thé Passaic strike at the Union Hall, Wisconsin St.,,at 8] being shown in labor circl o'clock, The meeting is being held} te under the auspices of the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid. THE YOUNG PIONEERS Are Celebrating the Opening of the Campaign for the Mi LENINIST YOUTH CAMP pana! § & prepared under the auspices of the furriers’ general strike committee for Madison Square Garden next Saturday to begin a nation-wide campaign for the 40-hour week is attracting the support of many unions and other labor organizations int ity. «This will be the first labor demon- stration to be held in the new Madi- son Square Garden and the inte: great crowd to participate in the demand for a universal reduc- tion of hours, There are more than 10,000 fur workers still on strike in this city, and their determination not to make any settlement unless they are grant- ed a forty-hour week is being met ‘by the manufacturers’ claim that they will make no settlement except on the terms of the former ‘agreement be- tween the union and the employers which expired on February 1 this year, The strike shows every sign of con- tinuing for a long perigd, and the fur workers are preparing, financially as well as in their strike organization, for such a lengthy: fight. | lidarity with all.” Our brave com-| n prison have no illusions. They) hirsty master class of Massachu- alive.” they understand the reason for ing and sacrifice with the death} of it. 1, “Only the revolutionary work- can give us life and freedom,” Vanzetti. hese words of our imprisoned com- 1 the world. Let us make them a the workers everywhere te~ raise such a mighty protest that the y will be defeated and our GOSSIP DEMANDS T.U. C. EXPLAIN STRIKE FINISH Printers Get Raw Deal in New Contract By CHAS. ASHLEIGH (Special Cable to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, May 19. — Alex Gossip, secretary of the National Association of Furnishing Trades, has addressed a letter togthe Trade Union Congress demanding a conference of all union executives immediately to hear an ex- planation from the general council of the conditions under which the gen- eral strike was called off. The papers are now publishing nor- mally. The agreement between the printing workers and the newspaper proprietors is a step backward: work: ers must not hold shop meeting dur- ing working hours and strict observ- ance of agreements is made “ a mat- ter of honor.” Teeth Drawn. The agreement also states, “there shall be no interference with the print- ing of newspapers and no interference with the employers’ right to employ, promote and dismiss.” A prominent printing trades militant unionist told me today, “This draws our teeth,” Last Sunday the only paper appear- ing in its normal size was the “Sun- day Worker.” It printed twice its regular run and was sold out, Dockers’ Backward Step. The agreement signed by the dock- ers is also a backward step-as the junions undertake not to strike in the future without full warning to, the bosses, thus depriving the men of the advantage of a lightning strike. Some Railmen Out. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL They know also where the} s power lies that can save them. In the hour of their desperate need they turn to the labor movement NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents LS TO WORKERS ur Strength for Sacco and Vanzetti | Vanzetti, Facing Death, Reiterates Loyalty to Labor Bartolomeo Vanzetti, whose case and that of his co-worker Nicola Sacco, had just been decided adversely on appeal to the Massachusetts state supreme court, and is therefore, slated for immediate execution, has appealed to the workers of America and the rest_of the world, thru International Labor Defense, to come to their aid. “They are preparing the fire on which to burn us alive,” Van- zetti says in his letter to International Labor Defense. “Only the workers, the people, can give us life and freedom.” Remains True to Faith. In his appeal, Vanzetti reiterates his revolutiona faith and “I am and will remain to the death for the emanc¢ tion of the workers, for the elimination of every oppression, exploitation and in- justice!” International Labor Defense is arranging mass meeting and demonstrations in a number of cities and an appeal has been issued to the labor or- ganizations thruout the world to again assert their solidari- ty with the two victims of the Massachusetts frame-up. Bartolomeo Vanzetti | “The only thing that can save Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti now is the protest of the workers,” said James P. Cannon, the secretary of In- ternational: Labor Defense. “The workers must realize that. it is not merely the two lialian revolutionaries who stand in jeopardy in Massa- chusetts. The real blow is aimed at the organized labor movement of which they are the devoted exponents. We reaffirm our complete solid- ity with Sacco and Vanzetti after the decision of the supreme court. Time is press- ing. Quick and energetic ac- tion now is necessary.” The letter of Vanzetti to the International Labor De- fense reads as follows: Sketched in Massachusetts State Prison May 1, 1924, by Lydia Gibson. “Dear Friends of the International Labor Defense: “On April 80, 1926, I received twenty dollars from the De fense Commitee. They are yours. And previous to that date T had received other $20 from you, thru the Defense Committee. I have also regularly received your bulletin since its first issue. It is a long time that I wanted to write to you to tell you that I appreciate your solidarity. [ am one of the old guard who appreciate and approve the solidarity and have been solidarity with all. “If I delayed so mugh itis because 1 was embarassed to write to you on account of our different views on very delicate and important matter, which | would, or rather, which I shall not hide to you. But the last stabbing of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court does not give me time enough nor breath enough to discuss things. They are preparing the fire on which to burn us alive. Only the revolutionary workers, the people, can give us life and freedom. I said the above because 1 felt morally duty bound. So that it only remains to me to r that I appreciate your solidarity to me and to the other polities prisoners, and that I am and will remain to the death, for the emancipation of the workers, for the elimination of every op tice, pression, exploitation and inji “Fraternally yours, “BARTOLOMEO VANZETTL” The national office of the International Labor Defense has sent instructions to all local organizations to’ c¥ncentrate all energy and activity on the Saeco and Vanzetti case. J. P. Cannon, secre: tary of I. L. D., said today: “Everything depends upon speed and united action, There is not an hour to lose. The most effective action, now is big mass meetings, petitions and telegrams to the governor at Springfield, Massachusetts. All forces must be united. The railwaymen are still striking in [The workers must not allow the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti to be some coal areas such as Nottingham- shire and Yorkshire. When the South- ampton dockers resumed work, “blacklegs,” retained by the com- panies, were attacked and several wounded, Communists’ Trial. Tomorrow, a number of prominent Communists who were arrested under | the “Emergency Act” are scheduled to | appear in court for trial or sentence. | They are, Robert Stewart, secretary of | the Communist Party, Marjorie Pollitt, | wife of Harry Pollitt, Communist lead: | er now serving a sentence in Wands- worth prison, George Miles, Sadie and (Continued on page 2) the sacrificed,” SENATE ORDERS SWEEPING PROBE OF GRAFT IN THE PENNSYLVANIA ’ PRIMARY ELECTION HELD TUESDAY WASHINGTON, May 19.—George Wharton Pepper, defeated candidate for the republican nomination for United States senator from Pennsylvania, who entered the senate just in time to cast his first vote for the seating of the notorious crook and grafter, Truman H. Newberry, who corrupted the republican voters of the state of Michigan, faces a charge of Newberry- ism, himself, as the aftermath of the wild orgy of debauchery that was (Continued on page 6) ey With a Big Our program will include the fol- Pioneer Dancing Class. 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