The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION HE DAY we Entered at Second-class matter September 2), 1928, @; the. Post Office at Chicago, Iilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. EEO 290 ER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL In eects » by mafl, $8.00 per year. Outside s hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Vol. Ill. No. 117. Subscription Rates: Price 3 Cents ‘| STRIKE “OIL!” ‘ napped and later turned over to the Gey SAFER ee | Imerican Consul at NEW vo» * ts, Canton Complains at 8m 148, ’y Seizure of Kerosene ACTIVE Amity. U. §. WORKERS Demand for Investiga- tion Gains Headway (Special to The Dally Worker) Washington, May 26. — After Mus- solini’s vie envoy, Thaon DeRevel, son of an Italian ex-minister of war, began his operation in the United States in order to carry out the avow- ed policy of the fascist despotism to exterminate all criticism on the part of former Italian citizens in France and America, things began to happen in this country. Not only were ‘murderous attacks made on individuals, but, the very riff- raff of Italian immigrants, the spies, provocateurs, adventurers and conspi- Yators of the past suddenly come to life and appear at anti-fascist meet- ings in order to provoke disturbances. Polignani Appears. At a recent mass anti-fascist demon- (Special to. The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, May 26—Thoe American consul at Canton has lodged a pro- test with the Canton government at what is alleged to be the seizure “by anti-British strikers at Kongmoon, 50 miles south of Canton, of 2,260 cases of kerosene belopging to the Texas Oil Company, an American corpora- tion. UNITY GROWS IN SACCOVANZETTI FREEDOM DRIVE Debs Issues Appeal to American Labor A genuine unity of front and action on a national scale, embracing every shade of liberaly radical, and labor stration in ‘New: York. City ‘addreesed opinion, is swiftly developing in the in English by C. BE. Ruthenberg, ex- ecutive secretary ofsthe Workers (Communist) Party, and in Italian by A. Sormenti, well-known anti-fascist agitator and writer, one Polignani known to be an agent provocateur and active in anarchist circles in New York a number of years ago, appear- ed in company with well-known fascists. This creature, Polignani is remembered as the police spy who, twelve years ago, manufactured the bomb that was given to certain peo- ple to explode in St. Patrick’s church. Of course the bomb didnot explode and the police proceeded to try to ex- terminate the group into which Poll- gnani has wormed his way in order to destroy it. Fear Frame-Up. The presence of such well-known spies and expert provocateurs as Polignani, in company with the agents of DeRevel, has caused the Italian Political Exiles League and other anti- fascist organizations to be very wary, as frame-ups and ‘police reids”“always Ww. ke of euch creatures, ~ Engage Private Detectives. In addition to hiring individual spies. and frame-up artists, the bloody Mus-; solini government also engages. priv- ate detective agencies to carry on its nefarious work. One of these nests of stoolpigeons and provocateurs_ is known as the Fiaschetti Detective Agency, operating in the Italian cen- ters in New York and other citie: The fhugs and gangsters employed, by the Fiaschetti agency not only engage in ordinary provocation, but have been guilty of deliberately kidnaping anti- fascisti workers on the streets in broad day light and taking them aboard Italian ships that lay in the harbors of New York. One of the Italian workers opposed to the Mu solini regime in Italy was thus kid- New York police on the charge of stealing some trivial thing so that he may be convicted of a crime which will then give the United States gov- ernment a chance to deport him to Italy, where he will be instantly murdered by Mussolini’s agents. The enemies of fascism are kid- napped and held prisoners while the frame-up is perfected, then when charged with crime they can prove no alibi because their captors will never: admit their part in the plot. Every effort is being made to bring these atrocities to the attention of in- fluential senators “here in order to Protest movement against the pro- posed assassination of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Men leading in the labor movement, socialist spokesmen, Communists, pro- gressives, liberals, anarchists, mem- bers of the Industrial Workers of the World, are all joining hands for the cause of the two Italian workers. Not for years has a single issue so univers- ally attracted the support of men and women active in the cause of progress and freedom and labor as this one. Debs Issues Statement. From his sick-bed in Terre Haute, Indiana, Eugene V. Debs, known to the workers in every land, writes to the International Labor Defense: “I am not now in condition to take up my work, but I am up only that I may speak my word for Sacco and Van- zetti. ~It has been on my conscience ever™since that brutal verdict was handed down by those cold-blooded capitalist. judges in Massachusetts. One. would think that ¢he workers wor ris Spontaneous, unanimity ioe eee to resent in- famous outrage Wits nOtmree less than a vicious, assault upon the whole labor movement.” é With this letter, the old fighter for labor and freedom, encloses an appeal to American labor which is a ringing call to action, and.sounds the tocsin for the fight to give Sacco and Van- ‘zetti their life and freedom. Urges Thousand Brotest Meetings. “A thousand protest _ meetings should be called at once and ring with denunciation of the impending crime,” says his appeal. “Arouse ye toiling millions of the nation and swear by all you hold sacred in the cause of labor and im the cause of truth and justice and all things of good ‘report, that Sacco and Vanzetti, your brothers (Continued on page 2) NO PEACE SIGNS IN STRUGGLE OF BRITISH MINERS Clynes Condemns Gen- eral Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 26—The coal strike, (Press Service of International Labor Defense) HE supreme court of Massachusetts has spf en at last and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Ni¢ola Sacco, two of the bravest and best scouts that/ever served. the labor movement, must go to the chair, The decisoin of this capitalist judicial tri is not surprising. It accords perfectly wi tragical farce and the farcial tragedy of the e trial of these two absolutely innocent and fully persecuted working men. i" The evidence at the trial in which they Were charged with a murder they had no more to do with committing than I had, would have cOny no one but a “foreign labor agitator” in the phobic madness of the world war. In any G case the perjured and flagrantly made-to-o tsetimony, repeatedly exposed and well knowh the court, would have resulted in instantan acquittal. Not even a sheep-killing dog but only, “vicious foreign-radical” could have been cony under such shameless evidence. Sacco and Vanzetti were framed and doom from the start. Not all the testimony that have been piled up to establish their inn beyond a question of doubt could have saved in that court. The trial judge was set and | movable. There must be a conviction. It was so ordained by the capitalist powers that be, an had to come. And there must be no new granted lest the satanic perjury of the te and the utter rottenness of the proceedings app too notoriously rank and revolting in spite of: conspiracy of the press to keep the public ance of the disgraceful and damning facts. - Aside from the disgustingly farcial na the trial which could and should haye e' fifteen minutes in that master-class com refined malice and barbaric cruelty of italist tribunals, high and low, may be read insufferable torture inflicted thru six long izing “years upon their imprisoned and victims. : sits Jt would have been merciful fo the last é in comparison had they been boiled in oil, burmed at the stake, or had every joint torn from their bodies on the wheel when they were first seed as prey to glut the vengeance of slave drivers, ‘who wax fat and savage in child labor and who never forgive an “agitator” who is too rigidly honestito be bribed, too courageous to be intimidated, and too defiant to be suppressed. And that is precisely why the mill-owning, labor- sweating malefactors of Massachusetts had Saeco and Vanzetti framed, pounced upon, thrown into a dungeon, and sentenced to be murdered by their judicial and other official underlings. I appeal to the working men and women of America to think of these two loyal comrades, these two honest, clean-hearted brothers of ours, in this fateful hour in which they stand face to face with their bitter and ignominious doom. The capitalist courts of Massachusetts have had them on the rack day and night, devouring the flesh of their bodies and torturing their souls for six long years to finally deal the last vicious, heart- less blow, aimed to send them to their graves as t red-handed felons and murderers. Would that it were in my power to make that rtrial judge and those cold-blooded gowns in the ‘Too Much Charleston,’ FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1926 SACCO AND VANZETTI An Appeal to American Labor ‘By EUGENE V. DEBs. higher court suffer for just one day the agonizing torture, the pitiless misery, the relentless cruelty they have inflicted in their stony-hearted “judicial calmness and serenity” upon Sacco nad Vanzetti thru six endless years! Perhaps some day these solemn and begowned servants of the ruling powers may have to atone for their revolting crime against innocence in the name of justice! They have pronounced the doom of their long suffering victims and the press declares that the last word has been spoken, I deny it. There is another voice yet to be heard and that is the voice of an outraged working class. It is for labor now to speak and for the labor move- ment to announce its decision, and that decision is and must be, SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE INNOCENT AND SHALL NOT DIE! To allow these two intrepid proletarian leaders to perish as red-handed criminals would forever disgrace the cause of labor in the United States. The countless children, of generations yet to come would blush for their sires and grand-sires and never forgive their cowardice and poltroonery. It cannot be possible, and I shall not think it possible, that, the American workers will desert, betray and deliver to their executioner two men who have stood as staunchly true, as unflinchingly loyal in the cause of labor as have Sacco and Van- zetti, whose doom has-been pronounced by the im- placable enemies of the working class. Now is the time for all labor to be aroused and to rally as one vast host to vindicate its assailed honor, to assert its self-respect, and to issue its Nicaraguan Revolt Suppressed by Aid of U. S. Battleship (Special to The Dally Worker? is WASHINGTON, May 26—The revo- lution in } gua which caused the United States to send the cruiser, Cleveland to Bluefields to protect American inte s is “practically ended, cording to a dispatch to the state department today from Ameri- can Consul McConnico at Bluefields. The rebels have been routed and are in flight. SIMON PETLURA AS KILLED BY JEW IN PARIS Anti-Soviet Ukrainian Terrorist Dies (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, May 26—Simon Petlura is dead. The counter-revolutionary gen- eral who terrorized the Ukraine dur ing the anti-Soviet drive of 1918-1919, met his end at the hand of Samuel) Schwartzbar, a Ukrainian Jew. Pet- ura was shot and killed on the Boule- vard St. Michel in the Latin Quarter.) Schwartzbar said he killed Petlura because he was “A demon with the blood of hundreds of Ukrainians, especially Jews, on his hands.” Petlura was driven from the Ukraine by the victorious Red Army in 1920, at the time of the war with Poland Since then he has been in Paris and other western capitals, associating demand that in spite of the capitalist-controlled courts of Massachusetts honest and innocent work- ingmen whose only crime is their innocence of erime and their loyalty to labor, shall not be mur- dered *by the official hirelings of the corporate powers that rule and tyrannize over the state. . It does not matter what the occupation of the Worker may be, what he is in theory or belief, what union or party he belongs to, this is the su- preme cause of us all and the call comes to. eac of us and to all of us to unite from coast to coast in every state and thruout the whole country to protest in thunder tones against the consumma- tion of that foul and damning crime against labor in the once proud state of Masachusetts. A thousand protest meetings should be called at once and ring with denunciation of the impending crime, A million letters of indignant resentment should roll in on the governor of Massachusetts and upon members of the house of representatives and the senate of the United States. It is this, and this alone, that will save Sacco and Vanzetti. We cannot ignore this duty to ourselves, to our martyr comrades, to our cause, to justice and humanity without being guilty of treason to our own manhood and outraging our own souls. AROUSE YE TOLING MILLIONS ‘OF THE NATION AND SWEAR BY ALL YOU HOLD SACRED IN THE CAUSE OF LABOR AND IN THE CAUSE OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE AND ALL THINGS OF GOOD REPORT, THAT SAC- CO AND VANZETTI, YOUR BROTHERS AND MINE, INNOCENT AS WE ARE, SHALL NOT BE FOULLY MURDERED TO GLUT THE VENGEANCE OF A GANG OF PLUTOCRATIC SLAVE DRIVERS! fed Se SY ae SP I IO N. Y. to Buenos Aires CAPMAKERS RAISE Doctor’s Verdict in force an investigation of the disgrace-| now in its fifth week, shows no signs ful assistance rendered Mussolini and | of settlement. Neither the mine work- his agents by the state department} ers or owners are making any steps Death of Mrs. Plath Fliers Off for Miami and the department of labor, SEND IN A SUB! oie oe BEGINNING JUNE FIRST , TUESDAY lb Be sure to read the first installment of this grip- ping story of the Califor- nia oil fields. towards breaking the deadlock. The miners are holding grimly on with what support they can get from the rest of the labor movement in Britain and contributions from abroad, Funds Come In, Funds are being received daily from Europe and Russia. The rank and file of the other British unions are do- ing their best to aid the million min- erg still out. The miners themselves, altho great suffering reigns in some sections of the Toal fields, have given no indication of wavering. , The effects of the coal strike are everywhere apparent. The coal short- age is now becoming acute. Train service is severely curtailed. Clynes Condemns Strike. The right wing labor leaders, Mac- Donald, Thomas, Clynes and others, are condemning the use of the gen- eral strike in speeches in and out of parliament. In a speech today, J. R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal in the labor cabinet and one of those responsible for calling off the general strike, con- demned the general strike a6 an in- dustrial weapon. . Cook Still at It. A. J, Cook, the miners’ secretary, continues his attack upon the general council of the Trade Union Congress for calling off the strike at the time the workers were showing their great- Too much Charleston was declared to have caused the death of Mrs. Ber- nice Plath who fell dead in the office of the Burnham Oil Company where she was employed as a stenographer. Mrs. Plath recently won several prizes in Charleston contests and over-exer- tion in these contests was given by physicians as the cause of her death, Cry of “Bolshevik” Is Scored by Jane Addams “The Russian revolution, far more than the world war, has colored Ame: ican thought in the past few years, said Jane Addams, prominent social worker and director of Hull House, Chi- cago, in a recent speech, “A member of Congress once $100,000 FUND TO FIGRT BOSSES Union Seeks to Gain 40- Hour Week (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 26—(FP)—Union capmakers aretraising a $100,000 fund to meet any passible emergencies in New York, Philadelphia, or Chicago. Workers in the New York market are | giving employes their demands for the new agreement—including the 40-hour week, N. Y¥. Amelgamated Gives Striking Furriers $25,000 Strike Relief (Speciat to The Daily Worker) on Long Flight South CHARLESTON, 8. C., May 26-— Bernardo Duggan and his’ two com- panions, piloting the seaplane Buenos Aires on a New York-to-Buenos Afres flight, hopped off here early today on another leg of their journey which will take them to Miami, Fla., after spend ing the night as guests of naval offic- ers here, Duggan expected to reach Miami about 2 p, m., but strong head- winds along the coast may delay the Buenos Aires somewhat. Volcanic Eruption in Japan Takes Big Toll (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, May 26—The thige flood-tide of molten lava, boiling water and vol- canie mud that swept down the sides of Mount Iwo and Mount Tokachi, Hokkaido Island, left besides a path of desolation, a large toll of dead, in- NEW YORK, May 26—Announce- ment that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers is giving $25,000 to striking tur workers of New York is welcome news to the 10,000 still out at the be- ginning of the 15th week of the fight for the 40-hour week and other im- provements in conditions. jured and homeless. One hundred bodies have been recovered so far, One hundred are seriously injured. More than 1,000 are still missing and 500 are homeless, * A report states that the village of Biyet with 200 inhabitants was de- molished and the villagers buried in congressman replied, ‘That this was 4 the lava stream. The eruption was y Lenin, sitting in Moscow.’"| Come to the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting] preceded by three explosions, the last Jane Adda that welfare work- Van|.of which broke the crater and started [tne lava on its course of death, / asked me who wrote the proposed child labor amendment to Ahe constitution. 1 told him it was writ- ten by a university rae professor, ‘I am re “dane Addams liably informed,’ the with Russian exiles and sharing their Nationalist. Prior to the revolution Petlura was an officer in the ezar’s army. During the revolution in 1917, at the head of Ukrainian nationalist forces, com- posed largely of petit-bourgeoise, rich peasants and Galician prisoners of war, Petlura led a struggle for Ukrain- ian, power in numerous campaigns, the objective of which was Kiev, BSCR SM WOQNeee. fs At times he was at the head of fairly formidible forces, at qghers he was the leader of small roving bands who lived on the country and sacked villages, this counter-revolutionist . operated with his bands in the Ukraine, there was constant warfare marked by num- erous massacres and “pogromis’ of the Jewish population, of which Petlura became the éymbol. % Killed by a Jew, his death can be characterized as a fitting sequel to the many he caused in the days of the counter-rev@lution. We need more news from the shops and factories. Send it in! ROCHESTER, N, Y, LABORERS WORK TO UNIONIZE JOBS Hod Carriers and Build- ing Workers on Strike By SOL HOROWITZ (Special to The Daily Worker) ROCHESTER,.N. Y., May 26.—After reepated efforts to come to an agree- ment with the contractors, the Hod Carriers and Common Laborers Union here, over 800 strong, went on strike demanding the recognition of their union and a five cent an hour increase in wages. Picket Construction Jobs. All construction jobs are being picketed by the strikers with the re- sult that hundreds of non-union men have joined the ‘strikers’ ranks and are being taken into the union, Magliozzi Erasmo, president of Ital- jan Local No, 370, told The DAILY WORKER correspondent that prac- tleally all the laborers in Rochester have joined the strikers’ ranks. There was no difficulty encountered by the union pickets to induce non-union men to join the strike. Negro laborers have responded readily. “They prove ex- cellent pickets,” the reporter was told. Altho no other crafts have joined the strike, it is definitely understood that union men will refuse to work on jobs where scabs or police are used. Boss Threatens Picket. The only trouble thus far encounter. ed occurred when mason contractor, working on St. Andrews church in Portland Ave., threatened to pull a revolver on Harry Devin, one of the strikers. This was reported to the police at the St. Joseph station, who arrested Kircher on the charge of carrying a concealed weap- on, He was released on $100 bail, Union Issues Appeal. The union issued a city wide appeal to all hod carriers and common labor- (Continued on page 2) Joseph Kircher, ile MeN TA, rather vain hopes of a return to power. | Thruout the four yaérs that | KRIM GIVES UP LONG STRUGGLE IN MOROCCO Surrenders to. France After Spring Drive (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, May 26.—Official announcement has been received from Fez, French Morocco, that the Riff war is over and that Abd-el-Krim has surrendered. French and Spanish mil- itariste are jubilant over their victory as they consider themselves superior strategists because of their dirty tac- tics of pretending to talk peace terms with Krim and then opening up a | fierce drive with every means of ter- |rorism jyst at a time when many of the tribesmen had begun to cultivate their land for this year’s crop. During all this time both French jand Spanish were concentrating all javailable forces in Morocco prepara- tory to the spring drive. But in spite of all preparations the losses of the \imperialist forces were staggering and | victory was only achieved at a tremen- dous sacrifice. May Not Mean End. In spite of optimistic announce- ments close observers are of the opin- {ion that the surrender of Krim, while jhalting the defensive struggle for a |time, does not mean that the Rifflans |are subdued. The foreign office announced that Abd-el-Krim arrived at Targuist at 11 {o'clock today and asked for French |protection. He will be transferred to | Fez temporarily. Abd-el-Krim released all Spanish prisoners as well as French before he | surrendered. Against Great Odds. | For five years Abd-el-Krim has lead his tribesmen from the Riff highlanis against the Spanish armies, armed and equipped with the latest devices of warfare, while the Riffians have had only such war material as they could capture. For nearly two years the Riflans have opposed not nly the (Continued on page 2) MAC SWINEY IS ELECTED HEAD OF SINN FEIN |Succeeds DeValera Who | Has Withdrawn e (Special to The Daily Worker) | DUBLIN, May 26—Mary MacSwiney, sister of the martyred Lord Mayor of Dublin, Terrence MacSwiney, and leader of Irish republicans, has been elected president of the executive council of the Sinn Fein. She suc- ceeds Eamon De Valera, who seceded from the Sinn Fein De Valera Policy Defeated. | At the last convention of the Sinn | Fein, the political organization of the | Irish republicans, Eamon De Valera’s | policies were defeated. He proposed that republicans enter the Free States parliament, providing they doy not have to take an oath to the English king, and work from within. The forces opposed to this policy, led by Mary MacSwiney, won the verdict of the “Ardeish,” the convention, by large majority. “Sons of Destiny.” De Valera and his followers there- fore withdrew. They have organized a new republican organization called the “Fiann Fil,” the sons of destiny. er re per renee. » GET IT ‘SATURDAY! A full page of cartoons on the week’s events | BY HAY BALES “South America Thru the Eyes of a Communist from the United States” BY HARRISON GEORGE “Why Are Foreign-Born Workers Persecuted?” BY THURBER LEWIS Get these features in | Saturday's issue of the NEW MAGAZINE OF THE DAILY WORKER