The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 2

SPECIAL TRA! TAKES TOIL TO DEBS RITES Funeral in Terre Haute Saturday N RS A speciai train chartered by the Chicago Joint Board of Amalgamated Clothing Work Union Is taking several hundred Chicago workers to Terre Haute for the funeral of ’Gene Debs to be held from his old home in that city this afternoon, The train is: scheduled to leave the Dearborn St. station at 8 a. m. today. Hundreds of workers, admirers of the old-rebel have reserved places on the train. I. L. D. Sends Delegation. The national committee of Inter- national Labor Defense, of which Debs was a member since its incep- tion, 1s sending a representative dele- gation to the funs The I, L. D. delegation will consist chiefly of its mational committee and include David Rhys Williams, David J, Bentall, the Chicago atto’ James P, Cannon, secretary 0 a I. L. D., Ralph Chap- lin, Rose Karsner, George Maurer, of the Chicago I. L. D., Max Shachtman, editor of the Labor Defender, and a number of others. Unions Represented. Besides g substantial delegation from the Joint Board of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, which initi- ated the journey, there will be dele gations from the Joint Board of the Chicago International Ladies’ Gar ment Workers’ Union, the Inter- national Fur Workers’ Union, the Chi- cago local of the socialist party, and a number of other organizations. On Thursday, when Debs’ body was put aboard a train for Terre Haute, more then a thousand workers gathered at the depot on extremely short notice. They stood in. silent reverence, with bared heads, as the simple gray coffin was placed in the train. At the funeral, which will leave the Debs’ residence at 2 o’clock, the Rev. John Haynes Holmes of New York, for many years a close friend of Debs, will officiate, After the funeral, will be taken to cremation. Debs’ remains Indianapolis | for Seek Volunteer Taggers for ICOR Drive Sunday olunteer taggers for the tag day in \aid of Jewish colonization in. the Union of Soviet Republics are urged to meet this Sunday morning, Oct. 24, at 8 o'clock, at the Icor Office, Room 340, Independence State Bank Building, Roosevelt Road and Kedzie Ave. Send In a sub today! HERBST-KONZERT verbunden mit BALL veranstaltet vom Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs-Verein FORTSCHRITT” Sonntag, den 31. Oktober 1926, 4 Uhr nachm. in der SOZIALEN TURNHALLE 1651 Belmont Ave., Ecke Paulina Str, TICKETS IM VORVERKAUF 50c, | |REVOLUTIONARY LABOR DEVELOPS STRUGGLE WHERE DEBS LEFT OFF (Continued from page 1; tlon of Sacco and Vanzetti, and all variance with the Bergers and the] other class war prisoners. It was this uits, usually resulting in his lin-|Debs that the socialist leadership up with some publication not of-| used as national chairman for its par- ally dominated by the party, Thus he waged his fight for Moyer, Petti-| bone and Haywood, thru the Appeal to Reason, under the editorship of Fred D, Warren, He criticized the socialist party and the A. F, of L.| leadership alike thru the Internation- st Review, ‘He championed se of William D. Haywood dur- ng the Hillquit-Berger attack on the left wing within the party in 1912, | He was chief editorial writer on thé} privatelyowned National Rip-Saw| when, the war broke in 1914, Yet Debs never strove for actual | leadership in the party. He hardly ever attended the party conventions. where policies were formulated. He] was not in attendance at the St. Louis} convention on the eve of American entrance into the world war, that for-| mulated the St, Louis. anti-war proc- | lamation of the socialist party, altho he displayed probably. the greatest erity in upholding it, being among | he first to suffer the governmental | persecution that resulted from it. It| vas as a foe of capitalist war that Debs was sent to serve ten years in the Atlanta prison. It was while Debs was incarcerated in the federal bastille in Georgia that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russig began to radiate its influence thruout all the countries in the world, Pro- claiming himself a- Bolshevik “from the top of my head to ,the agles of my shoes,” Debs, nevertheless, Yailed to keep pace with the rapid devel- opment of tha world revolutionary movement, The workers of the world, including those in the United States, were entering upon a mew era of struggle, using new weapons, and Debs could not understand. So he held on tenaciously to his member- ship in the socialist party, his every groping indicating, however, that he did not feel comfortable and at home in his old surroundings. Instead of allowing Debs time for leisure, study and recuperation, after his trying term in prison, the socialist | leadership exploited him to the ut- most in its futile effort to stay the rapid disintegration of the socialist party following the break with the Communists in 1919, In spite of age, ill health and the isolation cordon thrown about him | thé Russian Revolution and promising to visit the Union of Soviet Repub-| lies; he joined in the defense of the Communists following the raids on the Bridgeman convention; he gave his support to the Trade Union Edu- cational League and the principles for which it stood; he aided the famine relief campaign of the Friends of So- viet Russia, when it was bitterly fought by the socialist party leader- ship in alliance with the Jewish Daily Forward in New York city; he was active in the organization of the In- ternational Labor Defense, joining his voice in the demand for the libera- AN DER KASSE 75c. Wage and a Union, on Cor. Van Buren & Ashland SEE “The Passaic Textile Strike” A Stirring, Thrilling, Thought-Provoking Movie of the Long Battle of the Exploited Textile Workers for a Living Friday, October 29th, 1926 Two Performances—At 7 and 9 p. m. / atthe ASHLAND AUDITORIUM ADMISSION 50c. CARPETS RUGS 2635 W. 2408 W. 1618 W. 1600 W. North Avenue, North Avenue, Chicago Avenue, Rooseve! All Our Work Guaranteed, The Best Place to Buy Your Is at Comrade OSCAR I. BARKUN’S 4 STORES SEMINARY TAILOR CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, III. Phone Linooln 3141 LINOLEUM FURNITURE | \ { Phone Humboldt 4983 Phone Seeley 5500 Phone Humboldt 6941 Phone Monroe 6264 S Woe Call for and Deliver, |ty and editor of its a official organ, the American Appeal. UT Debs is dead, His death strips the socialist party of its last claim to revolutionary honor and in- tegrity. The present counter-revolutionary role of the socialist party is in glar- ing contradiction with the sterling militancy that Debs loyally defended down thru the years, N,V the passing of Debs, living expression of — the pre-war working ‘class movement, this period in the development of the class ruggle in America, of which the so- clalist party is a decaying remnant, also passes, The rising Communist movement is the rightful inheritor of all that was genuinely, proletarian and revolutionary in the old move- ment, It is with full recogfitton of the valiant role that he played in the fn- fancy of American, labor’s struggle for power, that all Commufists join with the ‘millions of toll to do honor to -the workers’ champion laid pros- : | rate by death, Communists bow at) i514), est labor that recégnizes Debs’ giant | Debs’ bier in common with all hon- contribution to the cause of the op- pressed, in the developing conflict between labor and capital in this country, A workers who really honor and revere the memory of Eugene V. Debs, however, will strive to carry forward under new conditions the rev- olutionary banner that the held aloft so nobly for so many years, They will join in turning the page of the »poch that 1s gone and face the great- er struggles of the future umder the standards of America’s revolutionary vanguard, the Workers (Communist) Party, the American Section of the Communist International. Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, C, E. Ruthenberg, Gen. Sec. , THE DAILY QUEEN GETS TO MONEY-BAGS AT NEW YORK FETE Dined y Bankers at Ex-| clusive Club NEW YORK, Oct. 22—Dined yester- day by some 1,000 dress sulted mem- bers of the New York Chamber of Commerce, Queen Marle was the guest on Friday at a luncheon in her honor givenein the New , York Bank- ers’ Club in attendance at which were many of the money-bags that the feted lady hopes wil ‘Toosen up on be- half of the Impecunlous Roumanian oligarchy. In the afternoon the royal party was scheduled to assist Nicholas Mur- ray Butler’s social climbing career by being his guests at’ the Wall Stret owned Columbia University. Then after a 5 o’clock té@ with the heads of the Y. W. C. A} thé Roumanian monarch will be baiiqueted by the Tron and Steel Institute, Schwab's and Gary's organization,<at the Biltmore Carefully Planned. All of which would seem to indi- cate that the queen’s social affairs are carefully planned with a view to throw her into contaet with just those men and institutions it is necessary to consult concerning the financial af- fairs of her oil and blood-soaked. Bal- kan kingdom. Her hurried jttip to Philadelphia to attend the SesquiCentennial seemed to cause her many servants but small inconvenience in handling the fifty trunks that are necessary to hold her elaborate wardrobe, carried in a bag- gage car attached to her special train. Queen Marie has not once been seen with a dress she has previously worn since she left. P: where a veritable fortune must have been ex- pended for the costumes. MUSSOLINI DEMANDS SHARE OF LOOT OF CHINA; ARRIVES LATE PEKING, September 28—(By Mail.)—According to reports which have by the socialist leadership, we find|arrived here Mussolini demands that Itallan influence be extended over the Debs continually declaring himself for |two Chinese provinces Shenshi and Kansu which are particularly rich In minerals, NQUET, PLAY AND DANCE FOR DAILY, TOMORROW Douglas Pk. Auditorium Scene of Revel Tomorrow afternoon at 4 p. m. in the Douglas Park Auditorium, the Studio Players of 826 North Clark street will sent “The Adding Ma- chine” for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER. The story of a white collar slave's trials and tribulations from the time he dug up enuf courage to ask for a raise and was kicked out the door, until he explored heaven and hell, should prove of special interest to workers who have seen’ the white col- lar slave in action and understand his psychology. The Menu. At 7:30 a banquet will ‘be given over which William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will preside as toastmaster. In addition to the in- tellectual fodder that will be provid- ed, there will be some for the in- nards, including beef broth, roast pork or roast beef, salads, coffee, cake and fruit. No sooner will the banquet be over than the guests will adjourn to the dancing hall where an excellent or- chestra will tempt them to use their feet. Admiston to the play ts 60 cents. There will be an additional charge for eating and dancing. Living Newspaper at Gary to Make Initial Appearance Oct. 31 GARY, Ind., Oct, 22.—The first liv- ing newspaper of the Lake county group of worker correspondents will make its appearance here Sunday, Octofer 31, at an entertainment at Workers’ hall, 215 West 18th street, The program will also include reci- tations, music, singing and refresh- ments. It will start at 7:80 o'clock, BRITISH MINERS AGAIN ASK GENEVA COUNCIL TO BOYCOTT SCAB COAL LONDON, Oct, 22--A new effort to tle up the transportation of for eign coal was being made today by the striking coal miners. The executive committee of the miners’ federation met with the gen- eral council of the Trades Union Congress, asking that the railroad and transport unions again consider the possibility of laying an embargo againet handling foreign coal. General Membership Meeting of W. P. in Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct, 22.— A general membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, Local Grand Rapids, has been called for Sunday, Oct. 24, 2 o’clock, at the local headquarters, 211 Monroe avenue, having many important points on its agenda, including: systematic distri- bution ‘of election campaign litera- ture; collection of funds to “keep The DAILY WORKDPR”; as well as laying plans for a DAILY WORKER banquet in November and semi-annual election of the city executive committee. SEND IN A-SUB TODAY TO THE DAILY WORKER, A Speaker From RUSSIA DR. OSSIP WEINSHENK WIIl speak on “FIGHTING DISEASE IN THE U.S. 8. R.” Entertainment and 0 Dance, FOR THE NOVY MIR (Russian Communist news- paper) AT THE WORKERS’ HOUSE 1902. W. DIVISION STREET TONIGHT _AT8 P.M, OCTOBER 23 Admission, Fifty Cents OUR MOTTO"S Q's Quality - Quantity» Quickness U-EAT Restaurant and Lunch Room —, 1232 W. MADISON ST. GRIGER & NOVAK “GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union M 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchebter) Phone H it 2707 WORKER : | Judge’s Delay in Making His Decision Bodes Ill for Sacco and Vanzetti By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. VBE weeks have passed since the 88 affidavits were filed and argu- ments upon them made before Judge Webster Thayer, in the Dedham, Mass., court, demanding a new trial, for Nick Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Still Judge Thayer, who has the power to say “yes” or “no,” claims to be pondering the evidence in the seclusion of his home at Worcester. It has been the age-long practice of the courts to make judicial pro- cedue seem intricate and difficult. This has been ‘true of the Sacco- Vanzetti case as in few others. After six years, these two victims of cap- italist greed still sit in prison, await- ing their fate at the hands of their class. enemies. 88 Attorney William -G./ Thompson, Jawyer for Sacco and Vanzetti, showed the simplicity of the legal reasoning that should logically re- sult in the granting of a new trial, when he said, in addressing the court, the following: “I am going to ask Your Honor to make two rulings. f “One is that if you were sitting as & committing magistrate, and with the evidence which we have brought here against the Morelli gang, that they were the men who committed the South Braintree mur- ders, you would be obliged as a mat- ter of law to hold them. “The other is that if the evidence we have brought here were placed before a petit jury it would as a matter of law be compelled to hold them, if the evidence is believed. “If you make these rulings, you will be obliged to order a new trial for Sacco. and Vanzetti.” Ae, An avalanche of testimony was poured into the court room at Ded- ham placing the guilt for the South Braintree crime directly on the heads of the Morelli gang. It showed that even the department of justice suspected tle Morelli gang before it decided on the frame-up against Sacco and Vanzetti, Any individual, of average intel- Hgence, enjoying the slight gift of DETROIT Meeting Auspices: ALBERT WEISBORD Leader of the Passaic Strike ’ will speak for the first time under the auspices of the Workers Communist Party at the Final Election Campaign apa Me, being able towead, or to listen at- tentively while being read to, a& was the case with Judge Thayer, could not help but decide in favor of a new trial for Sacco and Van- zetti, Such a) decision could have been rendered in the brief space of time that it takes to enter this action into the court records. But Judge Thayer has waited five weeks. And he continues to wait and wait, while two workers sit in prison innocent of the crime charged against them, on which they have been sentenced to death, ; oe Attorney Thompson told this tem- porizing judge: “If the government; had gone to New Bedford and had talked with Policeman Jacobs and the inspector, es we said, they would have arrest- ed the Morellis. And if they had got the evidence against the Morellis that we got, and your honor had been sitting as a committing magis- trate, you would have held the Morellis on that evidence.” Attorney Thompson also said: “It is also a question whether, in view of the practices shown to be in use between the federal officers and the district attorney, the dig- nity of the state and the courts can be maintaintd unless a new trial be granted.” Attorney Thompson then pointed out: “A perfect dilemma exists in this case: If Madeiros was at South Braintree, on th8 evidence shown, Sacco and Vanzetti could not have been there; if they were there, Madeiros could not have been there.” Perhaps Judge Thayer is trying to solve this dilemma in order that justice may .be~ cheated and Sacco and Vanzetti fed to the electric chair as “the New England gang” de- mands. It will, of course, take some, time to write such a decision, justitying this crime against the working class. Delay by Judge Thayer in handing down his decision bodes no good for Sacco and Vanzetti, nor for the working class.” DETROIT MILK AND BREAD FOR THE TEXTILE STRIKERS’ DETROIT STRING QUARTET (of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra) STEFAN KOZAKEVICH, Baritone — Ukrainian Chorus in a great GALA CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 26, AT 8.P. M.,° MAJESTIC THEATRE ‘Woodward near Willis—Detroit, Mich, ADMISSION:+-75c., $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. Tickets In advance at 1967 Grand River\Ave, At Box Office on day of performance. AUSPICES: Detroit Conference for Relief of Passalc Textile Strikers “EUGENE V. DEBS” - MEMORIAL LECTURE BY Percy Ward TOMORROW (SUNDAY) ~< | _ Two-Thirty AUDITORIUM BUILDING - RECITAL HALL’ 431 S. Wabash Ave. Readers of The DAILY WORKER are invited CHILDREN Chicago, Ill.. Tharsday, October 28th, 1926, at 8 p.m. at CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE "i 67th ST. & 3rd AVE, fl A BRASS BAND WILL PLAY REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC Other Speakers are: BEN GITLOW—Candidate for Governor WM. W. WEINSTONE—Candidate for Congress 20th Dis. A, TRACHTENBERG—Candidate for Congress 14th Dis, JACK STACHEL—Chairman. ' Admission 25 Cents ee WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY DISTRICT WM. F. ei, DUNNE Editor of The Dally Worker will be TOASTMASTER at the unusually staged DAILY WORKER BANQUET EVERYONE of prominence in the radical la- bor movement in Chicago and vicinity will be present.” DUNNE There will be a speeches, good fun and a spectat dinner.of splendid food. - Banquet at 7 p.m. SUNDAY OCTOBER 24th, 1926 DOUGLAS PARK AUDITORIUM 3202 S. Ogden Ave. (At Kedzie) “The Adding Machine” An unusual play of the Adventures of+a White-Collar Slave on Earth—In Heaven—in Hell! will be presented at ~ 4PM. ° by the |. STUDIO PLAYERS Bring your wife and children— take your neighbors, to see the play—(Admission 50 Cents) STAY FOR THE BANQUET (at 7 p. m.) and + 3 the ged Be DANCING. beginning at 9 p. m. Spend the afternoon and evening EAT, DANCE AND ENJOY YOURSELF | ie ae SUNDAY at the ‘ " DOUGLAS PARK AUDITORIUM Xa