The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1926, Page 1

| The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION ¢ BO x In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. 1so Outside Chicago, by’ mail, $6.00 per year. Vol. Hil. No. 112. ctu Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, th ee * Price 3 Cents Br itish Miner ft Fight for lee and Vanzetti! ‘Appeal | Cabled to Reject “Peace a - the International with Wage Cut : Labor Movement (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, May 20—The government's proposals for a set- The following are the Gutdtanding developments in the Sacco- tlement of the miners’ strike were rejected by the national con- Vanzetti case today: ference of miners’ meeting here today. Th proposals contained provisions for wage reductions. In accordance with their original slogan of ‘Not a penny off the ILL the American workers let Sacco and Van- wreak the vengeance of which they were cheated zetti die because they dared take part in ‘the | five years ago. They have given a few turns to the struggle of the workers? legal machinery of the capitalist state, unwound When the capitalist authorities were ready! to jsome red tape, and declared that Sacco and Van march Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair in jzetti must die. 1921, it was the mighty wave of protest from the Now the workers of this country must speak. 1. A short postponement of workers the world over that halted the execution.|If they declare with a voice of thunder torneys for sentence has been secured by at- “Sacco Sacco and Vanzetti and they are attempting to secure i} pay, not : a minute on the day,” the miners voted to continue the American capitalism .dared not proceed With {and Vanzetti shall not die,” they can snatch these} consideration for a motion fer a new trial on. the gromnds: 6f new | —+ strike. its | exectition” of “élass justice” because, in | valiant working class fighters from the capitalist | eyidence supplied by the confession of Madeira, another prisoner, | é The resolution adopted by the| Rome, Berlin, Paris, Buenos Aires, and the other executions. The capitalist executioners will not) which creates the possibility of going to the supreme court of the delegates declares, ‘We are un-| great capitals of the world, the workers by (the |dare act in the face of a mighty protest by the} Uyited States on a writ of. efror. GET A MEMBER’ -PARTY SLOGAN Membership Drive Will Open on May 30th The Workers (Communist) Party is now mobilizing its entire membership for an intense campaign to win new members for the Party and to bring many of the old members, who were lost during the reorganization period, back into active work in the Party. “Within two weeks every unit of the Party will be mobilized in the most intense drive we have yet waged to win new members for our Party,” de- clared Jay Lovestone, head of the or- ganization department of the Workers (Communist) Party in an interview with a representative of the DAILY WORKER on the organization drive which>spens on May 30. - » “Detailed instructions are now be- ing sent out by the national organiza- tion department to all shops and street nuclei to mobilize every member for this campaign under the slogans: ‘Every member get a member,’ ‘An- chor the Party in the masses.’ This campaign is part and parcel of the drive to rouse the workers to inde- pendent proletarian political action in the coming congressional elections. Every Unit to Be Mobilized. “Special meetings of every Party unit are being called to consider the {Continued on page 3) W.E. D: Stokes Leaves an $8,000,000 Estate NEW YORK, May 20.—W. E. D. Stokes, millionairé hotel owner and principal in many sensational court cases, left an estate approximately val- ued at $8,000,000. It was believed that the bulk of the estate would go to W. E. D. Stokes Jr., son of the deceased financier and the former Cuban beauty, Rita Hernandez de Alba d’Acosta, from whom Stokes was divorced in 1900. Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, widow of the millionaire clubman, was en route to this city from Denver, where she has been residing since her legal separation from Stokes. She was ac- companied by her two children, Ac- cording to her lawyer, Samuel’ Unter- meyer, Mrs. Stokes had asked that the funeral be delayed until her arrival, able to recommend that the mine workers accept Premier Baldwin's proposals for a reduc- tion ig wages which do not at present provide for a decent standard of living.” Stop Check From’ Russia. Sir William * Joynson-Hicks dis- closed in the house of parliament to- day, in answer to questions, that he had‘stopped a check of 100,000 pounds which was sent to the Trade Union Congress by the Russian Trade Un- johs. He said the power for this action he derived from bias emergency powers act. He also said that money was being sent by the Russian miners to the striking British miners. “The govern- ment has been unable to~ intervene ‘in the case of payments in aid of the miners in a genuinely industrial dis- pute,” the home minister said. Hodges Argues for “Surrender.” Frank Varley, a member of the min- ers’ executive described the action of} the general council in calling off the strike, “abject surrender.” Frank C. Hodges right-wing member of the ex- ecutive, in a statement issued yester- day comesto the defense of the gen- *) eral councit'y uction labor leaders of a “disposition to fly away from economic facts.” The dockers in Glasgow and Man- ‘chester have fixed up their dispute |, they were valiant and militant by aousing’ some | « tens of thousands marched to the Americaut fém- bassies to raise their voices i’ protest.” ~Meeco and Vanzetti are alive today eae the international labor movement took up the fight to save them from the capitalist executioners. The capitalist executioners who have purs Sacco and Vanzetti thru all these years because workers’ interests, think that the workers have forgotten Sacco and Vanzetti, that they can tow workers. ed The fighters for sthe Mobilization of the workers for Sacco and Van- zetti is the great task of the day. resolutions, demonstrations must expre: termination to save them not only from the exe- eutioners but from further capitalist persecution. Workers Mass meetings, the de- (Communi ) Party pledges its entire strength to the mobilization of the workers to save Sacco and Vanzetti. “Sacco and Vanzetti shall not die!” GET THEM OUT! and returned to work. The docks at}, Middleborough, however, are still tied |”, up. The Swansea docks are also clos- ed due to a local strike of workers on the Great Western railway. Refuse to Return to Work. The railroad unionists are display- ing heir dissatisfaction with the num- ber of men left unemployed by the settlement.. Among other bodies of strikers. who have not yet returned are a considerable number of flour mill workers in Liverpool and Man- chester. Reports from Wales indicate that suffering among the miners is acute. In spite, however, of the hard condi- tions in the mine field there is no talk of accepting a reduction in wages. The sentiment among the men is strong for holding out until they win. Riff Fighters Start Fighting Again After French Begin Attack (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, May 20.—The Riffs have started a counter attack in reply to the French offensive begun yester- day by the French, according to Te; ‘ports today from Rabat. Tay SEND IN A SUB! * Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before Don’t waste your breath, put it on} you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you paper. can have your bust. OLGIN AND WEINSTONE TO SPEAK FOR LENINIST YOUTH CAMP MAY 23| (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY.—A-real chance to live for one afternoon in a chil- dren's world is offered by the Young Pioneers here for their May 23 affair. This is no ordinary affair. Its main purpose is to serve as the opening wedge in the campaign which the Communist children are conducting for their summer Leninist Youth Camp. The camp life this year will be enriched by the attendance of the childrep of the Passaic textile strik- ers, Big things will happen at the af- fair, Besides a musical program M. Olgin who spent some time in the Sov- jet Union will speak on the work and life of the Pioneers in the U, S. 8. FIGHT FOR THE FORTY-HOUR TR, William Weinstone, general sec- retary.of the Workers (Communist) Party and Sam Don, district organizer of the Young Workers (Communist) League will also speak. «The biggest attraction of all will be the offering of two snappy, pro- labor playlets by the children, “Why?” and the playlet “School Days.” These playlet have thrilled large audiences of workers thruout the country and more than a thrill can be expected when they are offered by the liveli- est bunch of all—the New York Pio- neers, There will also be children’s dances and the Children’s Symphony Orchestra will play. The affair takes |place on Sunday afternoon, May, 23, in Webster Hall, 119 Bast 11th St. DAUGHERTY OUT ON $5,000 BAIL IN GRAFT TRIAL (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 30—Harry M. Daugherty, formerly attorney-general of the United States, pleaded not “| guilty when arraigned in federal court here on an indictment charging him with “conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment of its rights and, functions.” The indictment had been returned by a fedearl grand jury investigating the transfer of stocks on the Amert- can Metals Company, seized during the war by the alien property custod- ian's office. Daugherty’s plea of not guilty was made thru his counsel, Max D., Steuer, Daugherty was held in $5,000 bail, which was immediately furnished, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. MASS MEETING AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SATURDAY, MAY 22, AT 2 P.M ONIPAGE 5 The biggest news of the year for our readers. » STRIKE ANEW NOVEL Uhlee Roles (e) ©. SCHACHTMAN, President of the Furriers’ International, WM. GREEN, President of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. === |GQOLIDGE SIGNS WATSON-PARKER RAILROAD BILL (Special to The Daily Worker) WASH! ON, May 20. — Presat- dent Coolidge today signed the notori- ous Watson-Parker railroad bill, which automat y abolishes the railroad labor board and up legal machin- ery for efor company unionism upon all the omds of the United States, abolishes the strike weapon in prac because it places strikers in the position of being in contempt of court, a charge on which they may be sentenced to jail without trial, The strike-breaking president, in commenting upon the bill, said it marked “a forward step in relations between capital and labor.” The rank and file of many railrdad labor organizations are beginning to make their protests heard as the full meaning of the conspiracy between the officials of their organizations and the railroad managers against them becomes known. Conferences to Be Formed. 2. James P. Cannon, secretary of International Labor Defense, jhas today sent out instructions to immetttetymicate he Tormatton | @REAT SAGCO-VANZETTI | PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK MAY 26TH cts of Sacco-Vanzetti conferences. All labor, radical, liberal and sympathetic orga ¥zations are to be invited to senc§ representatives to these local conferences. The is International Labor Defense will EW VOR May, Sie: Wenge protest mass meeting against the execution of death sentences upon Sacco and Vanzetti will be held at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., on Wednesday, May 26, at put before these conferences a proposal for a complete’ program 8:00 p, m. The Chairman will be of action to mobilize and register the protest against the legal mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti. 3. A million leaflets on the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The speak- Sacco and Vaizett? are iinder patties hips thes Megs Bork ‘ . 4 elly, Luigi Quinteliano and other yrinted t H i 4 e i ar d a. ant aGonal. J abor speakers. in Italian, Spanish, Rus- defense for nation. wide distribu- sian, etc. Admission is free. All tion under the caption, * workers in New York are asked to and Vanzetti Must Not Die! 4. Mass meeting of protest for Saccon and Vanzettf are under way in the following cities: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Portland, ‘Seattle, los’ Angeles, waukee, Washington, Baltimore, Denver, Kansas City and others, Appeal for World Aid. 5. International Labor Defense has appealed by cable today come and add their voices to the de- mand for the release of the frame- up victims, Sacco and Vanzetti. to labor organizations thriout the world for demonstrations” of ii- ternational solidarity with Saceo and Vanzetti. The short s in the prononncement of sentence granted the two framed-up Italian workers gives a greater possibili#® than was to be seen before of organizing a tremendous nation-wide movement of protest and demonstration in their behalf. The confession of the prisoner Madeira reveals more of the perjuries and false evi- dence which has for some time been exposed by the attorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti as part of the conspiracy to railroad them to prison for their labor activities in bebalf of the shoe workers of Massachusetts. The general expectation among those who have followed the developments of the case since its origin six years ago was that_the supreme court of Massachusetts would grant the appeal on the basis of the evidence marshalled by the defense. Hope in Huge Protest. The action of the court, in refusing a new trial, therefore sur- prised many. Hope for the lives and freedom of the two workers is now placed in a huge moyement of protest thruout the country and in the rest of the world that will demand their release or at the least an honest tfial. The International Labor Defense, in co-operation with other bodies, is now busy organizing such a movement, and it is expected that in a short period of time the proposed Sacco-Vanzetti confer- ences will be functioning in the most important centers of the coun- try. The spreading of.a million copies of a special leaflet, together with the significance of the tens of thousands who will attend the | mass meetings no win the process of being arranged, is certain to | forée the issue clearly before the workers of the United States, World-Wide Demonstrations. , | Of additional importance is the appeal sent to labor defense organizations thruout the world to demonstrate. their solidarity. 1A few years ago similar, demonstrations, took place in most of the European ‘and Latin-American countries and forced American authorities to hesitate for a while in their legal murder plans. It is expected that the demonstrations this year will be of an imposing nature and bring home to American ofiicials the international con- cern Which the planned exeeution of Sacco and Vanzetti has created among the workers in every corner of the world. TWENTY KILLED IN University Students San Fraticiseo, “Mil HASSLOCK POWDER FACTORY EXPLOSION MANNHEIM, Germany, May 20.— A terrific explosion destroyed the famous powder factory at Hassloch. It is believed that twenty persons are dead, The Hassloch factory is one of the largest in Germany. SPEAKERS: BEN GOLD, Chairman of the Furriers’ New York Joint Board. . Council. SIDNEY HILLMAN, President of the of Amer Amalgamated isiiTiay Workers . AND OTHERS representing New York - een invited to + JOHN COUGHLIN, Sec New York Trades and Labor Oppose Dry Act Repeal CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 20, -— Uni- ity of Cincinnati students voted nearly five to one in favor of the na- tional prohibition act in a campus referendum on the Volstead law, Of the 256 students who cost ballots, 165 favored the present prohibition, act, 60 favored modification and 31 were for repeal. < Auspices of the Gen- eral Strike Commit- tee of the New York Furriers’ Union, sup- ported by wide seo: tions of the N. Y. 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