The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1927, Page 1

“Hands Off China” Mass. Meeting Tonight at Ceiiral Opera House and Royal Palace THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE OR: TION OF THE FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 73. Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. HE decision of the Massachusetts supreme court to refuse Sacco and Vanzetti a new trial is just what might be expected of this organ of capitalism, Despite the almost uni- versal belief that the two Italian labor leaders are the victims of one of the most coldblooded frame-ups in the history of the labor movement, the hard-boiled legal machinery of. capitalism scorned public opinion and forged another link in the chain that is intended to drag Sacco and Van- zetti to their doom. Which should convince even the most naive liberal that justice in cases similar to this one depends almost entirely on the class prejudices of those in a posi- tion to dispense it. . . . pus dastardly conspiracy has aroused labor all over the world as no case has done since the employers of California did their damndest to give Tom Mooney a seat in an elec- tric chair. Even sluggish American labor has been aroused and moved to protest. The officials of the A. F. of L. gave lip service to the move- ment organized to save Sacco and Vanzetti from legal murder, but the capitalists of Massachusetts know quite well that if Green was ae seri- ously concerned with saving the lives of those two workers as he is in mak- ing war on the left wing in the trade unions, the whole labor movement in the United States would be mobilized for a fight that would burst open the jail gates despite the opposition of the capitalists and their lieutenants. * * * HEN, Sacco and Vanzetti were originally framed only the radical wing of the labor movement jumped in to save them from the vengeance of the bosses, But by degrees, thry years of agitation and propaganda it was proven to the satisfaction of even large sections of the bourgeoisie that those men were innocent of the crime charged against them and ‘that their execution would be pure and simple assassination that would re- coil with stunning force on the heads of the perpetrators. Not for the sake of Sacco and Vanzetti or for the sake of the labor movement but out of regard for the capitalist sys- tem, several capitalist newspapers and university professors joined their THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Election Victim | | | | Vincent “Schemer” Ducei Drucei was one of those killed dur- ing the disposition of gangster armies of the rival candidates for Mayor of Chicago. Daily Worker Seen In Action of Court William F. Dunne, J. Louis Eng- dahl, editors, and Bert Miller, Busi- ness manager of The DAILY WORKER, were placed in $5Q0 bail yesterday in Essex Market Court in connection .with the charge of viola-| ting seétion 1141 of the penal code} which is technically directed against | the publication of “lewd, lecherous, | lascivious, and disgusting matter.” | Case To Be Heard April 19th. Judge Brodsky, who presided, gran-| ted adjournment until April 19, when! the case will be continued. | A poem, entitled “America,” by | David Gordon, which appeared in the | magazine section of The DAILY} WORKER on March 12 formed the! basis forthe present attack on the editors of the paper. When summons were served last week by members of NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927 ‘SOVIET UNION DRAFTS PROTEST TO UNPRECEDENTED RAID ON EMBASSY | | {Chang Tso-lin and Imperialists Together Try) to Provoke War, Says German Press MOSCOW, April 7.—The Soviet Union foreign office is draft- ling a note protesting against the unprecedented raids on the Soviet Union embassy in Peking yesterday. | This startling breach of Russia’s diplomatic privileges is be-! ‘lieved to have been instigated by Great Britain. The raids were) | carried out with the full permission of the imperialist powers | who permitted the troops of Chang Tso Linj Manchurian war | lord, to march along a road in the Legation Quarter to the Soviet buildings, according to dispatches received here. Calls England Responsible. That the raids were inspired by England in order “to provoke the Soviets to war” is the opinion of Chancellor Marx’s “Germania,” ac- cording to a wireless report from Berlin. Any other state than Soviet Russia would have declared war un- der similar treatment, declares the “Rote Fahne,” Communist daily. Chang Tortures Captured Russians. Several Russian watchmen who Chang Tso Lin’s troops. Twenty- two Russians and sixty Chinese were dragged away from the Soviet build- ings, property in the Chinese Hastern| Railway offices and the Dahl Bank! was destroyed and valuable docu- ments were confiscated. R. T. U. 1. Lauds Chinese Workers, Congratulating the Chinese labor} movement in its role in the revolu- tion, the Red Trade Union Interna- | tional has sent the following message | to the Chinese Federation of Labor: “We view with pride the great! achievements of the Chinese section since joining the International. will develop unceasingly and hand in hand with the revolting peasantry | will. lead the revolution to victory.” The Communist youth of Moscow has formally declared its union with the Communist youth of Hankow and has sent them subscriptions amount- ing to 3,000 roubles. fae ie Soviet Ambassador Protests. PEKING, April 7—The Soviet mbassador has handed a note to the foreign office protesting against the The note complains that INDIA REVOLTS ' Desire to Throttle |were captured during the raid were} |severely beaten and tortured by We! are convinced that Chinese workers | ‘lence against Imperialism; Ha An Kai, the Bomb Squad, they declared that| Violation of Russia’s diplomatic im-| DECLARES CHOSE Will Speak Tonight at | |Hands Off China Meet) “4 revolution in India will follow | the success of the Nationalist strug- | gle in China,” S, N. Ghose, Hindu | | political exile and executive secretary | of the India Freedom Foundation, told | representative of The DAILY | RKER yesterday. Ghose is one of the speakers who will denounce the intervention of the | U. S. and other imperialist powers in | |the Chinese liberation movement at} |the “Hands off China” “mass meet- | ings to be held tonight at the Central Opera House, 67th St., and Third | Ave, and at the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn. Other Speakers The other speakers will include | Richard B. Moore, of the American} Negro Labor Congress, who has just | returned from the, Brussels Confer- | ja | Wo. of the Kuomintang, Student section; William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER; C. T. Chi, who represented the Chinese students at) the Brussels Conference; Dorothy Wang, of Columbia University; Carl WILLIAM E. DEVER. Thompson Celebrates William Hale Thompson and his | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. peer 10 SENTENCE SACCO AND VANZETTI FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘SATURDAY DESPITE WORLD PROTEST |All Political Opinions United in, Demand for a New Trial for Framed-Up Workers | BOSTON, April 7.—Although defense counsel, William @. | Thompson, was delving into all points of law before the sentenc- |ing of Sacco and Vanzetti tomorrow, the Defense Committee in |a published statement frankly announced that “our sole hope now is the public conscience.” The outcome of the various meetings, believers in the inno- | cence of the two Italian workers declare, will result in a huge petition to Gov. Alvan T. Fuller for executive clemency. | “Frisk” Prominent Friends. Several members of the Defense | Committee were subjected to a search |for weapons by police before they en- | |tered a committee meeting last night. ( |Those “frisked” were a number of | men and women prominent in Boston} \life, and the matter was brought to | the attention of Police Commissioner | Wilson today. Death Sentence Saturday. Unless a legal move is madesto in- |terfere, death sentence will be made tomorrow at Dedham court house. * * . Shock To World Labor. Denial of a new trial to Sacco and | Vanzetti by the Massachusetts su-| |preme court for the second time is a | distinct shock to the labor movement. |But it has not taken the defense by |surprise. William G. Thompson, | counsel for the two workers, is pre- | paring a new legal move for their | freedom, of which announcement will |be made shortly, | | The verdict is widely resented, not |only in labor circles. Formerly hos- | tile Boston newspapers are support-| |ing the demand for a new trial. The} |conservative republican Boston Her-| |ald, which came out last fall for a eer ae trial, again repeats its views. | And the still more conservative Bos- |ton Post, refleating the sentiments | of the letters that have been pouring jinto its subseribers’ columns, is also} moved to editorially deprecate the \ verdict of the judges. i. L. D. Raps Decision. Commenting on the refusal of the | Massachusetts court to grant a new | York section of the International La- bor Defense, which has been taking | followers are happily celebrating the! \the most active part in the struggle 4NVESTIGATORS’ OF FUR STRIKE SCORN VOUCHERS A. F. L, Audit Was Only To Discredit Lefts Walsh Brands Post Story False. Frank P. Walsh last night categorically denied the story which appeared in the New York Evening Post yesterday that the leaders of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union “will tell how they bribed police” during the recent strike. Walsh, who is appearing as counsel in the present hearing before Magistrate Corrigan in- spired by a coalition of reaction- ary officials of the International Fur Workers’ Union, labor fakers of the A. F. of L., and active socialists, branded the Post story as a fake and declared that there was, no justification for such a theory. * Testifying yesterday before Magis- | trite Joseph E: Cofrigan, who is in- ¢ |vestigating the charges of police bribery in connection with the fur |His Victory Over Dever | trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, the New| strike of last’ year, Walter M. Cook jand Herman J. Volk, the two social- ist accountants who made the audit |of the books of the Furriers’ Joint the charges were inspired by “a well-| munity. — T' known patriotic society.” | Soviet officials are still unable to re-| Don't Like DAILY WORKER. _ (Continued on Page Two) | The proceedings in court yesterday | eA Ras MES brought out clearly the fact that an|Read The Daily Worker Every Day to free these two workers, said: | Board for the A. F. of L. investigat- “Speaking for thousands of men|jing committee, acknowledged that id women of all shades of opinion,|they had not taken the trouble to (Continued on Page Two) }examine a huge number of receipts | which were presented to them for ex- voices to the demand of labor that Sacco and Vanzetti be given a new trial. The answer of the Massachu- setts. supreme court is an emphatic “No!” Weissberg, of City College. | defeat of Dever. | Ghandi Won't Stop It | One‘of the first announcements of | In discussing the possibility of @/ the mayor-elect was that he would |®™ Hindu revolution, Ghose said that | panish all gunmen from the city. As| * * * 'HIS answer will not be considered final by the friends of Sacco and Vanzetti. And those friends are le- gion. A most serious responsibility rests on the shoulders of the work- ing class of this country. Two mem- bers of their class stand on the threshold of the death chamber. The enemy arm stretched out to drag them to eternity must be paralysed by a blow from the mighty fist of American labor. If there ever was a time when all sections of American organized attempt to suppress The. DAILY WORKER is heing made by| various wealthy and patriotic societies | cooperating with government agencies. Against the paper there appeared, in addition to officer Kelly, a represen- tative of the Bomb Squad, who pressed the charge, a delegation of counsel and officials of the American! Legion, District Attorney MecWitter, | jand Jacob Cash, president of the| ; American Patriotic Society and vice-| | president of the International Tailor-| ing Co. . War Threatens In | Manchuria; Powers Note Also Delayed LONDON, April 7—War threatens | “not even Ghandi’s preaching \of non- | violence could control the 300,000,000 | Hindus who would have seen the failure of India’s passivity and the success of China’s resort to direct action.” Invite Mrs. Sun “Fifty Hindu revolutionists sailed from India last Saturday for China, sent by the Indian National Congress to join the propaganda section of the Kuomintang in Hankow,” continued Ghose. “Hindus are also fighting with the Nationalist Army in China, and one of them is serving as a gen- a Chicago election is decided largely | |by preponderance of machine guns, | political observers take Thompson's | | statement to mean he will exile De- | ver’s gang. Workers Party Has Two Candidates in {Will Rule that Country | STIMSON GOES TO NICARAGUA AS GAL’S AGENT amination. Didn't Look At Receipts. Altho the figures which they final- jy submitted to the investigating sommittee, were accepted as an au- thoritative audit and made the basis for all the charges of bribery during the strike, Walter Cook stated that orris Cohen, the Joint Board secretary-treasurer, handed us some boxes which he said contained* re- ceipts. They were a lot of slips with names on them, but I did not have jtime to look at: them.” labor should stand together regard-| Charge Is Only Excuse, Says Defense | #8 @ result of General Chang Tso | cral, Gold Opposed Cook. less of differences it is now. Those Joseph R. ‘Brodsky, the attorney who would stand in the way of a who appeared in behalf of the de-| united front of labor and all other sympathetic elements could be charged with objectively aiding and abetting the efforts of the capitalists to burn out two proletarian lives in the electric chair. Here is a chal- lenge to labor that it cannot fail to take up. The Massachusetts supreme court has determined to kill our com- rades. American labor must be equally determined that “SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT BE MURDERED!” * * * ILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, for- ‘mer mayor of Chicago, returns to city hall as chief executive after one of, the most’ hectic campaigns ever waged in the Windy City. Thomp- son ts a wet and so:is Dever, but Th>mpwon announced that he would ignore Volstead while Dever declared that he would enforce the law. while it is on the books. Both claimed that they would, give work to the unem- ployed and both were lying conscious- ly and conscientiously. Both ad- mitted that they loved the workers. (Continued on Page Two) WORKER INSURANCE | _ EXPOSE Commencings Monday, April 11th, The. DAILY WORKER Insurance expose will run daily. If you've been wondering where the nigger in the insurance woodpile was you'll find out by following this startling attack on Wall Street graft and corruption. “Ought to_ start another insurance in- vestigation,” says a well- known editor. And it will. 1 \fendants, in arguing for the dis-| missal of the case, pointed out that those making the complaint were not interested in the charge of publish- ing “lewd, lascivious or salacious literature,” but that they were simply using this section of the code as an excuse for an attack upon The DAILY WORKER, because it criticized American institutions. This charge was substantiated by the fact that representatives of the patriotic so- cieties sought to introdtice into the case cartoons and other materials of a radical character, critical of the U. S. Government and capitalist in- stitutions. Irked At Radical Book Publishing. District Attorney McWitter asked for adjournment of the case on the ground that he wished to have more time to investigate the post-office rules and regulations in connection with the distribution of the paper. He also sought to draw The, DAILY WORKER Publishing Company into the case, apparently seeking to in- volve the right of this company to publish other radical publications. Repairing Window; - Worker Is Killed Slipping from a_ window ledge which he was repairing, William Cromley, sixty, of No, 2423 Jerome Avenue fell to his death yesterday. Iman Maher of Highbridge station summoned Dr. .Shorda of Fo Hospital who pronounced Cromley dead. Ferdinand Now Improving. oinf's health sossinaly to: ROpMOat do- ‘3 ac cording to an official it there this afternoon declare. |Lin’s raid on the Soviet Union em- bassy compound at Peking. A serious hitch has also occurred in reference to the three power notes to the Cantonese government. The Japanese are opposed to the British demand in the note, that the Can- tonese leaders should salute the flags of the three powers as one of the acts of reparation for the Nanking out- rages. Advices from Peking to the foreign office indicate that Chang Tso Lin may have exceeded the limits of the permit granted him by the dean of the diplomatic corps in Peking, both as to places and persons pointed out as objectives for the raid. Violated Immunity. According to diplomatic usage, the dean of the diplomatic corps has authority to authorize Chinese ac- tions within the settlements, and while the U. S. S. R. has renounced her rights of extra-territoriality in China she retains the ordinary rights of inviolacy for the embassy itself. The state department denies any responsibility whatsoever for the raid. A cable from American Min- ister MacMurray at Peking says that the Netherlands minister, who is dean of the diplomatic corps, gave permis- sion to the Chinese troops to enter the general diplomatic compound to search a Chinese bank building and offices of the Chinese Bastern Rail- way, where Communistic propa- gandists were said to be meeting. The Dutch minister will make a formal protest to the Chinese au- thorities for violating the immunity of the diplomatic compound, in which the American minister will join, it was indicated. Prosecutors Get Raise. ALBANY, April 7.—The salaries of the district attorneys of Kings and Queens Counties will be increased to $20,000 a year under two bills ap- proved today by. Governor Smith. The National Congress, in addition to sending Hindus to China for train- ing, has invited Mrs. Sun Yat Sen and’ two other prominent Nationalist leaders to India. They will arrive soon and initiate a propaganda cam- paign. England dares not bar them from entrance for fear of rousing the masses to violent retaliation.” - Medical Bill Vetoed. ALBANY, N. Y., April 7.—Gov. Smith today vefoed the Jenks bill, which would have permitted licensed osteopath to perform minor surgical operations. Read The Daily Worker Every Day “Talk and Look” Phone Perfected Here Yesterday Every man ran in a room here today and watched the facial ex- pression of Secretary Herbert Hoover as he talked over long dis- tance telephone from Washington to President Walter S. Gifford of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company who was at the New York end of the wire. It was the first formal demon- stration of television—“seeing over the telephone.” Hoover could be seen and heard, distinctly, and at the same time. An equally marvelous demonstra- tion of “seeing over the radio” | was then given. The audience saw the room in which they were sit- ting connected with the telephone company’s station, located at Whippany, N. J., and within a few seconds were seeing and hearing at the same time a radio perform- ance transmitted by television from Whippany. Passaic Election As American Colony WASHINGTON, April 7.—Presi- (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, | Simon E. Bambach and Simon Smelk- | inson, ‘the Workers (Communist) Party, Local Passaic, has issued a | statement of its demands. | It raises the issue of the exclusive | }use of union labor on all municipal | | work who should aid the union rate | of wages. It demands that the city} establish an unemployment bureau | |in which the local labor movement | shall participate. Free Rent for Unemployed. It requests a moratorium on rents | for families of the unemployed and | compensation for those who cannot secure employment, It demands the right to picket and strike and asks for the abolition of injunctions in labor disputes, also opposing the use of police against strikers. It reads in part as follows: | “The campaign for the election of five commissioners on May 10th has begun. You are confronted with plenty of candidates, and the question is, which will best represent your in- terests? “The majority of the people of Pas- saic are workers, The biggest in- dustry is the textile industry. Passaic has just gone thru a textile strike of over a year, in which the mill- owners demonstrated that they owned the city government and can use it against the strikers. Mayor McGuire, director of public safety; Abram Preiskel and the other commissioners served the mill-owners on every oc- easion. We had clubbing$, arrests, the breaking up of picket lines, trampling down of men, women and (Continued on. Page Two) dent Coolidge tod selected Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war in the by Secretary of State Kellogg. The announcement was made after Kel- the president at the White House. The idea back of Stimson’s mis- sion is to present to the American controlled Diaz government certain views of the administration which cannot be handled through corre- spondence, and to obtain first-hand for the president and secretary of state. “Representative of President.” Stimson’s appointment was an- nounced by Secretary Kellogg in the following statement: “The honorable Henry L. Stimson, of New York, former secretary of war, has consented to make a trip to Nicaragua as a representative of the president, at the suggestion of the secretary of state, in order to take to our minister, Mr. Eberhardt, and to Admiral Latimer, certain views of the administration which cannot con- veniently be taken up by correspon- dence, and in order to get informa- tion from them as to the entire situa- tion in that country to bring back for the use of this government, which they cannot very well give us through correspondence. For Future Action. “This suggestion has been pre- sentel to both Mr. Eberhardt and/| Admiral Latimer, who concur in it as an effort that might be helpful in| securing information on which this government can more _ intelligently base its future action. “The strife and bloodshed that is children’ underfoot by mounted po-fgoing on in that country is a matter lice, water hose, gas bombs and all!of great regret, and the necessity for (Continund an Page. Five) Cook said that the Joint Board ac- lecounts showed $556,174.17 had been paid out in strike relief. He reported to the investigating committee that _N. J., April 7—Entering | Roosevelt cabinet, to make a personal | this amount and some other items the local political campaign with two) svey of conditions in Nicaragua.|were “not accounted for.” . District candidates for city commissioners, | Stim son’s appointment was suggested | Attorney Brothers asked him whether the boxes of receipts presented to him might have been vouchers for logge and Stimson had conferred with | this money. He said yes, but he did not have time to look and see. Cook acknowledged that Ben Gold had | objected to him as auditor because of his known socialist bias. “Too Much Trouble.” Volk made the same sort of state- ment about the accounts. “We did \information of ‘Nicaraguan affairs | not have time to go over everything,” \he said. “They handed us receipts | arranged in alphabetical order. They wanted us to receipt for them each | morning and return them in the same |shape each night. That was toc much trouble. We did not have | time.” Yet on the work of these two “ex- pert” accountants, the furriers were “exposed.” Cook repeatedly referred to the “so-called” cash book and “what were presumably strike re- ceipts.” This whole job of investi- gating was purely a business propo- sition he told Assistant District At- torney Brothers who conducted the questioning. His personal attitude toward the members of the Joint Board did not enter into the matter. | Hugh Frayne, New York organizer |for the American Federation of |Labor and a member of the fur in- | vestigation committee, was the first |witness called yesterday morning. His testimony revealed the fact that |Edward F. McGrady was frequently absent from the committee meetings, and also the fact that the charges of jalleged bribery of the police were made on the basis of notes jotted |down by Matthew Woll—not from j|any stenographic record of testimony. Several times Mr, Frayne men-- (Continued, an Page Two) » i