The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1926, Page 2

i eage Two TH BRAND THAYER; ~ «SACCO JUDGE N. Y. World and Boston’ Herald Charge Bias BOSTON, Nov. 3. — The sordid frame-up against Sacco and Vanzetti has reached such a point of rankness and has become so obviously and thoroly rotten that the conservative Boston Herald, which has for years refused to say a good word for the defense, has published a sharp edito- rial against the decision of the court | presided by Judge Webster Thayer, who was also the trial judge, in the case of the two Italian agita- over tors, The court has refused to grant Sacco and Vanzetti a new trial, even in the face of overwhelming evidence and new testimony which proves their imnocence and which has come to the hands of the defense. Charges Bias. The editorial the Herald says that Judge Thaysr returned an opin. | fon which ed the tone of an} advocate rather than an arbitrator.” Tho Herald declares that Thayer over. rode every principle of common sense, ot and even the functions of a judge, im his efforts to minimize the argu- ments of the defense, that, in short, his whole opinion was hollow and fatled to carry conviction World Speaks. Copies of the New York World which have come here display an edi- torial whictt adds to this the follow- ing comment “Judge Thayer had ‘personal motives for upholding the original conviction. He presided at the trial which resulted in that con. the strongest viction; he was roundly criticized, both then and later, for the manner in which he conducted that trial; he himself, in effec went on trial as soon as the rec hearing opened Under such circumstances it is idle to speak of Judge Thayer's impartial- ity.” These comments, is pointed out riends of the defense, are signifi much b bah h ise they show two workers , for in the rs of struggle two innocent se Papers, the Boston Herald in particular, gave any comfort to the defense; nor does the significance lie in their recognition of the class issue which Nes behind the persecution of the two radicals. But it is indicative of the thoro corruption and rottenness of the prosecution, which must be admitted by these newspapers only in the face of the fact that the truth is now universally known among workers. Chicago and New York Protests. lt was announced today that two large protest demonstrations will be held in New York and Chicago in the coming weeks as an expression of de termined solidarity with the two work. ems who are still in danger of legal assassination. In both cities the meet fags will be held under the auspices of Sacco-Vanzetti conferences. Madi- son Square Garden has been secured in New York for November 18, with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, national chairman of International Labor De- ” fense, as one of the chief speakers im Chicago preparations are being made for the mags meeting and ar- rangements are being made to have some of the most prominent labor leaders im the city speak. Teapot Dome Case. WASHINGTON, Nov, 3—The Tea-| pot dome oil case reached the sup- Feme court today. Attorneys for Harry F. Sinclair, Les- see of the Wyoming Nava! oil reserve, today filed with the court a petition for a writ of review of the federal circuit court’s decision holding that the lease was fradulently executed and was invalid. ympat WitLiam M Bure 2 Coolidge threw his complete uP pert to Butler, chairman of the G. | vote tor state it was evident that there w little hope for the ticket leaders were more stressing their patritoism |W. } Senator, who was ousted from the ate a few months ago, rode back in office om the crest of an Iowa republi-| can wave, incomplete returns showed | today. 50,000 over PLUTE PAPERS ms Eight officials of the Carpenters’ Francisco where the carpenters are charged with murder in connection with the death of a scab carpenter, It is the same town where Mooney wa eramarks 6f a repetition of that notorious conspiracy. are pictured above. They are: Mooney, bottom. Magnus Johnson Is Defeated in Race for Minn. Governor (Continued from page 1.) of power and can hold up business} unless, they get what they want. The \LaFollette brothers did not Zimmerman but declared they would write in the name of their favorite.. As the situation stands now the staté machine 4s in the. hands ot Zimmerman with the senate patrow age at the dispogal of the so-callec progressives, The only soefalist candidate in Wis- consin to pull thru is Victor Berger. According to incomplete returns Magnus Johnson, farmerlabor cand» date suffered defeat m Minnesota Since the reactionaries got control of the farmer-labor 1 movement in ¢ as since the concerned with than with putting up a fight for their candidates cee Brookhart Wins In lowa. DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 3. Brookhart, former United en- Brookhart had a lead of more than laude R. Porter, Tames W WADSWORTH The Tammany candidate, R. F. Wag- RP. national committee, who wae de-|"¢* cleaned up Senator Wadsworth, Wig by David |. Walsh, democrat. | New York, G ©. P. leader, Sam and Albert Moore, top; O'Sullivan and John J. Cannon, center; lifornia Openshoppers Try to Frame: -up Unionists for Marder During Frisco Strike| | Union have been arrested in San on strike against the open shop and is railroaded and the case has all the Six of those arrested Christopher Paul J, Clifford and Archibald J. turns from the elections, He asked particularly for detailed reports to show whether the republi- cans had lost control either of the senate or house. It was said at the White House that no statement on the elections f would be forthcoming from the presi- dent. There was no disguising, how- ever, the keen dissappointment felt at he white house over the defeat of Mr. Coolidge’s friend and campaign man- ager, senator William M. Butler, in Massachusetts. . Nellie Ross Defeated. CHEYE ‘E, Wyo., Nov. 3.—After two years of feminine rule in two states of the union, the nation will be without a woman governor after Jan. 1 next, “Ma” Ferguson has been eliminated in Texas, and the electorate of Wyo- ig failed today to return Nellie Taylor Ross to the Chief executive- ship of the state. * Waterman Beats Sweet | DENVBER,* Nov. 3.—Charles W. | Waterman, republican, today was ap- | parently elected United States Sena- tor from Colorado over former gov- ernor William E. Sweet, democrat. Waterman’s margin will approximate 10,000 plurarity. . *. . | California Anti-Voistead. | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 3.—Repeal Jof the California state prohtbition | total of $20,000, upholsterers E DAILY WORKER UPHOLSTERERS | FIGHT WRITS Fighting for Union in Openshop Town HARTFORD, Conn, Noy. 3.—Faced with two injuctions and suits for a local union 85 of Hartford, Conn., enters its fourth week of strike -for union conditions and recognition. Goldman Bros, has already signed with the union but two of the largest manufacturers ~~Acme Upholstering Co, and B. Dwor- kin & Co,—have secured injuctions forbidding picketing and are suing the union for $10,000 apiece. Hight strikers have been arrested and charged with contempt of cour! under the injunctions The union is requesting’ the dissolution of the in junctions and hearing will be next week in ‘court. Hartford ‘Central Labor Union has promised financial aid and help if securing a favorable settle- nent, encouraging the strikers to arry on their fight. Two Years Activity. For two years the upholsterers of Hartford have been trying to build 1 union, The mamiifacturers did all they could to smash the organization. Active union men were fired and the employers tried to force yellow-dog | contracts on the workers, These at- | tempts all failed and now the entire | industry of Hartford is tied up. B. Dworkin & Co, has a shop in Spring- field, Mass., which has been pulled out, | crippling this firm which has fought the union for years, The Upholsterers Intl. Union is giv-, ing organizational and financial help to the Hartford strikers, Other local unions of the city are showing in- terest in the strike because Hart- ford has been one of the cities where openshop interests have tried hardest to keep out ynions. The Hertford Courant—Coolidge Republican paper whose editor died récently—runs fre- quently full page ads of apenshop concerns, labeling them as such and runs in addition special openshop news—or propaganda from the Natl. Mfrs. Assn. and similar bodies. BOSSES REFUSE TO DEAL WITH DATE STRIKERS Negro Women Again on Picket Duty With the bosses of the Maras and Company date-stuffing factory refus- ing to grant any of the demands of the 150 negro women strikers, mili- tant picketing was resumed Wednes- day morning. At the conference between the em- ployes and the strikers the bosses de- clared they would not make a settle- ment until the strikers went back to work under old condiffoms. They in- timated then that settlements would abor Must Glean Some Wisdom From Election IN HARTFORD) for Struggles to Come By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, F American voters have decided to vote republican, the greatest graft exposures will not turn them from their course. This has been shown again by the huge majorities run up by the two republican senators-elect, Frank ‘L. Smith, in Illinois, and William 8S. Vare, in Pennsylvania. The voters were not bothered, it seems, by the fact that the public utility multi-millionaire, “Sammy” Insull, dumped hundreds of thou- sands into the Smith-Republican campaign fund, while the Mellon in- terests gathered in a total reaching into the millions in its effort not only to elect Vare, but to maintain a stranglehold on the republican state organization in Pennsylvania, This is’ but a repetition of the in- difference with which the voters generally viewed the “Teapot Dome” ofl scandal. The Coolidge admin- istration, from Cal down, wallowed, “up to its very eyebrows in one of the choicest revelations of politica) filth this nation has ever seen. But this did not prevent the Coolidge administration from being over- whelmingly re-elected in 1924. To be sure the democrats were caught covered with the same slime, but credit for most of the corruption went to “the Ohfo gang,” the crew of political bandits gathered about Warren G. Harding while he was president and later attaching itself to Coolidge. It is clearly to be seen that some- thing more than skimming the slime off the surface of the open sewers of capitalist thievery is necessary to get the masses of the voters, the workers, into action in their own in- terests. It must go deeper than the so-called “wet and dry” issue that both the old parties use extensively for campaign purposes, Some inkling of a conscious effort on the part of the workers to strike for their own interests at the bal- lot box was shown in Massachusetts. Here the leader of the “open shop” interests in the textile indus try, the multi-millionaire, Senator William M. Butler, was defeated for re-election, in spite of every effort of President Coolidge, also of “the New England gang,” to put him over. ‘ Butler was the living personifica- tion of “wage cuts.” When 10 per cent cuts in wages were inaugurated in the mills, Coolidge became fright- ened and sounded a warning. But the mill owners told hint to mind his own business, they wer satisfy- ing their own hunger for profits as they say fit and they didn’t want any interference from Washington. Discontent in the Maccashusetts’ mills did not flare into another Pas- saic. The grip of the ruling class terror was too secure for that. Bui dissatisfaction did manifest itself at the polls. The first returns coming in from the mill districts of New Bedford, for instance, showed the tide turning against Butler-Coolldge rule in Massachusetts. But it turn- be made when the bosses “were ready.” The conference ended in a deadlock. The stirkers received the news calmly and evidenced their determina- tion to maintain their fight until oe union has won. Antone Johansen of the Chicago Fea- eration of Labor is directing renewed activities, aided by the Women’s Trade Union League, The strike is now in its fifth week. It was called when the Maras Com- pany posted wage reductions that would bring the workers’ scale below a bare subsistence level. The women Dem- | am ment appeared assured tod: | atmos returns from Los Angeles, the Coolidge rota beg fake “Dry” stronghold showed that Washington, Nov. 3 —President | ) precinets complete gave’a majority Coolidge arose early today to get re- Fok 7 710 in favor of the repeal. } Renee } SENSE G. O, P, Senator from Kentucky de ii feated by A. W. Barkley, demoorat. ’ formed a union and are now fighting for recognition of their organization | 4s well as increased wages and better working conditions. Georae Hiwitiiams Harry B. Hawes, democrat, settled the political life of George H. Will- ba ed only in favor of his democratic opponent, David I. Walsh, equally a tool of the predatory interests,althu he serves better the railroad than the textile interests. Labor at the polls thought little of Sacco and Vanzetti, its two champions in prison. Altho Butler was booted out of office and Coo lidge thereby kicked in the shins, nevertheless, the republican govern- or Alvan T. Fuller, who refuses to pardon labor’s prisoners after know- ing full well of the dastardly frame- up against them, is kept in office by a majority of 180,000 votes. In an effort to make political cap ital for the 1928 campaign and to hide its own crimes, the democrats will raise the cry of “Slush!” in the J.W, Herrero Republican senator for Oklahoma whose aspirations to reelection were; Cari Hayden, democrat, beat Senator from Mis-[dashed by the victory’ of Elmer|Raiph H. Cameron, republican, in Thomas, democrat (2. next congress and fight the seating | of Smith and Vare. It should be an interesting strug- gle as it it must reveal, not so much the corruption of the electroate in order to put this or that candidate into congress, but instead expose the use of money by the great cor- Porate interests to finance and con- trol the old political parties. The subsidizing of the capitalist parties is thus shown to be, not merely an incident, but quite the regular thing, in season and out of season, on the theory that the control of the smallest precinct is the beginning of the fight to win a national election. The republican party can have but one defense in Pennsylvania and Illinois. That defense has already been advanced by Senator-elect Smith and he will no doubt vigor- ously adhere to it in his effort to retain his seat in case his right to it is challenged. Smith will make an effort to line up the republican party machine in support of his style of defense, even demanding the support of the sanctimontlus “Silent Cal” Coolidge. The Federated Press correspond- ent at Washington states that Smith says, in effect, to Coolidge: “You were nominated and pro- | moted and elected by the wool trust, the steel trust, the aluminum trust and a lot of other special interests that fatten on the tariff. You knew they would demand payment thru a tariff gouge of the masses of the people, and you gladly accepted their help. After you were elected you paid the price. That fs to say, you made the public pay the price to these trusts. Now when I get $200,000 cash from Sam Insull ana Studebaker and other public utility millionaries to buy my nomination to the senate, when I am the heac of the state commission that fixes the tariff the people must pay their utility corporations, what moral dif- ference is there between you and me?” Thus Senator-Elect Smith will ar gue that itis good form, in capitalist politics, to collect campaign funds from the interests the old party can- didate expects it to serve after election day. Smith asks: “When the president of the Unit. ed States is a candidate for re-elec- tion does he resign because the steel trust, the sugar ‘interests, the national wool trust and other big financial and industrial companies interested in the protective tariff contribute to the campaign fund of the republican party? You know the president has arbitrary powers to lower or raise the present tariff rates 10 per cent if he thinks the economic conditions warrant such action.” In fact, it is pointed out, this is a sharp reminder that Coolidge did exercise his arbitrary power to help the sugar trust in 1294, and he “go. away with it.” The picture should therefore be » little clearer to the workers and farmers of the lanl. 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