The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1927, Page 2

Page Two CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) and trots along into the vessel with it. They sing as they work and keep at it from sunrise until sundown for a few cents a day. This is the kind of labor that the capitalist likes, It takes it on the neck with a song. But the Chinese are singing a different song now. VER twenty thousand people gath- ed in Union Square last Saturday ute on to show their solidarity with Sacco and Vanzetti. It was spirited demonstration. There is no in the minds of the American ngclass that their fellow work- ers are not guilty of the crimes charged against them. They are de- termined that they shall be saved from the electrie chair, The Union Square mi ng was a fine testimony to the spirit of unity in the workers when it is called forth by a heart- touching appeal. The action of the socialist party in trying to run a little show of their own hoping to gain a little publicity at the expense of two doomed workers shows that they are stupid as well as false to the workingclass movement. ETWEEN now and July 10th, day set for the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the workers of this country must redouble » demonstrate to the powers that be n Massachusetts that there are mill- ons of people within the borders of the United States that will consider the execution of those two workers plain and unqualified murder. And we must not be satisfied with a com- sutation of sentence. We must make t clear that they shall not rust for the rest of their lives in a prison cell They must be freed, because they are innocent. 5 Phone, EMERS@N 8800, Auto Tops on Wo! Seat Covers ¥ Carp Radtator Covers cin Side Curtains elluloid or Body Trimming s Windows Union County Auto Top Co. ALL WORK GUARANTEED 252 Union St. Near Westfield Ave. ELIZABETH, N. J. Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! | Communist A: ‘and Theory. ; |) Maraian: Leniniet Cow j <option and lnter- cation of all Phe. || ena of Social || | Statistical Materia i Trath about Soviet | Hi Russia. (Taking the Library Size now to 64 p the |, their efforts ; HOW THE UNITED FRONT OF LABOR HATING CAPITALISTS Tosssnds Meet tree THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MOND: AND HIGH SALARIED UNION OFFICIALS WORKS (Continued from Page One) understand that the active, intelligent and organized resistanee to the strang- ulation of American trade unions by efficiency unionism and *1I-love-my- boss” sehemes propagated by the Civie Federation’s agents, comes from the Communists and the left wing. The hardboiled attitude of the coal barons which has compelled the miners to strike to save their union and their living standards is the com- plete proof of the bankruptey of the efficiency unionism policy. The coal barons, in spite of the shameful divide and surrender program offered by President John L, Lewis, are deter- mined to accept nothing but still more complete capitulation, N the face of this attack on the most important union in the Amer- ican labor movement, unquestionably a forerunner of a general drive on the working class, the heads of the American labor movement unite with bor’s enemies to make war on one s most conscious and loyal sec- en in a labor movement which epts American capitalism the beginning and end of all things. this requires some explanation. A united front with churches, bar associations and businessmen, openly constituted for all the world to see, warring on a section of the working class, was tolerated by the union membership during the war. The dire danger in which, according to the Wilsonian theory, democracy stood, was its ex- cuse, HAT reason or reasons prompted the present shameless abandon- ment to concubinage with the Civic Federation on the part of the Militia jof Christers? Remember that Woll jand his crew are not campaigning against Communism in the abstract but that the living standards of some 50,000 needle workers and the liber- ties of their tried and proven leaders are menaced by the attack of the A. F. of L, special committee. Working with the police depart- ment and the bosses, Woll has suc- ceeded in framing-up 11 officials of |the Furriers’ Joint Board. They are | treated worse than the lowest crim- |inals, are denied bail and are brought into court manacled. HY? It is very simple. The Fur- riers’ Joint Board officials won a strike and established the forty-hour week. In so doing they upset labor officialdom’s pet theory (it is also the, pet theory of the bosses) that workers can gain nothing by strikes. There is the second reason that Ia- bor officials of the type of Woll are popular and valuable to the bosses, only when they can prevent strikes and cajole workers into taking less than they could win. Even gilded 'Civie Federation stool pigeons have to make good. HIRD, there is the fact that in ad- vance of a general attack on American labor, presaged by the of- fensive against the miners, the bosses want to crush all elements which could and would organize labor for successful resistance. offered immunity to convicted work- {ers as the price of giving perjured | testimony against Gold and others, they have scoured the underworld for gangsters whose word is worth noth- ing anywhere except in trial where lies and slander are given preference, they have tried to appear as friends in order to betr iN oR in the history_of the Amer- |** ican labor movement has there been court proceeding of the charac- ter of that staged in Mineola, | history of the American labor move- ment does not contain too many bright spets but until now it has not been blackened by the spectacle of | the heads of the trade unions pro- curing the prosecution of workers for the crime of winning a strike. We repeat again that this is the chief reason why Gold and his com- rades are on trial,. Revolutionary workers who have little or no connec- tions with the trade union member- ship, whose knowledge of the labor movement is academic, who have no m: following, who are unable to give the practical direction necessary to worke: truggles for better living standards, who do not know how to ake advantage of every loophole in the defenses of the capitalists to strengthen the position of the work- ing class, have little terror for the Civie Federation type of labor leader, UT when revolutionists show su- periority over the old type of trade union leader even in the daily strug- gle, then it is something else again. It is then there is real alarm in the camp of the capitalists and their agents. What is to become of Amer- ica if Communist trade union leader- ship ean take the bosses to a clean- ing? Even tho it demonstrates its ability in comparatively small strikes like Passaic and in the fur indust jit is a forerunner of what the futur holds. That future is not pleasing to a labor officialdom which bases its claim to leadership upon the close and friendly relations it maintains with the enemies of the working class and its unquestioning support of the domestic and foreign policies of American imperialism, |"THIS labor officialdom has decreed that Communists and left wing trade unionists who organize, lead and win strikes shall go to jail. The price of liberty, of honor and ease, of a seat high in the councils of | official labor, of patronizing smiles from the hard-faced and soft-paunch- ed dictator of the Civic Federation, is betrayal of the workers, Ben Gold and his fellow workers will not pay this price. That is why they are on trial while the Greens, Wolls, Sigmans, Fraynes and McGradys stand whispering their advice into the ears of the prosecutors to the tune of applause from the Civic Federation and the Union League | Club, |THE “Citizens Committee” which | Woll has organized, undoubtedly | has as its first order of business the | extension of persecutions and pros-/ The Plumbers to Assist | |.ecutions to a broader field than the ‘The | the deeds which made the trade union movement of the United States, They fraternize with the heads of coyporations whose thugs have clubbed and murdered workers fighting for unionism. They have made an un- holy pact with tyrants and they urge the workers to hold up their hands for the manacles. The handcuffs on Ben Gold and his fellow workers symbolize the shackles the Gireens and Wolls would put upon the limbs of American labor. T is not enough, however, to ex- press horror and disgust at the revolting spectacle of the heads of the American Labor movement, try- | ing, with the full cooperation of the | bosses to jail workers who have won | strikes, It must be understood that cooperation in the courtroom springs | | logieally out.of cooperation with the | bosses in™industry, that it is the theory of efficiency unionism carried | to its logical practical conclusion, that it comes natural to labor officials | who are part of the machinery of the political parties of American tm- | perialism. T is this damnable theory and these damnable practices that the Com- ‘munists and the left wing oppose with all their might. | If the rank and file of labor in| America doubts that the Wolls and Greens are leading the labor move- ment to djsgraceful disaster let them know that Ben Gold and ten other workers, mayitled in the Mineola | courtroom as the prosetwtor builds his |case on statements of the heads of the trade union movement, are not on trial. Ben Gold and his fellow workers |are not on trial. It is the right to strike that is on trial, it is the right to organize unions “| free from capitalist control that is on "8 | ‘trial, it is the solidarity of worke {against the stoolpigeons of the Civic | Federation of capitalist government | that is on trial. The Civic Federation—the instru-| | ment of the capitalists—or the Amer-| ican Federation of Labor—the instru- ment of the workers—that is the | issue in Mineola courtroom, | |] T is likewisegthe issue in the whole |* American bor mevement. The }outcome of the Mineola trial is im- |portant but it is not decisive, The question will be decided in the unions, |in the shops and factories—wherever |the shameless policy and tactics of |the Civie. Federation labor agents |runs counter to the interests of the | workers, | The Minepla-xtrial with the Ciyie | Federation in a united front with the | officials of the American Federation | of Labor for the purpose of jailing | every honest worker that the Com- | munists and the left wing are fighting |to save the trade union movement of |America from the clutches of the | capitalists, \Plumbers Helpers Ask | workers who win strikes is proof for | Y, APRIL 18, 1927 - | (Continued from Page One) | the throats of the masses of working | men and women as the pames of| Governor Fuller of Massachusetts; | President Coolidge, who was governor | of that state when the frame-up was | concocted; Mussolini, the bloody | monster of faseism in Italy and other | |prominent agents of capitalism and jimperialism throughout the world | were mentioned, | Cheer Victims of Capitalism, | Every ,mention of the names of) Sacco and Vanzetti and other victims) lof capitalist class justice in this , country was cheered to the echo, Sea of Banners. | Blocks away from the demonstra. | tion the sea of banners carrying de- | {nunciations of those guilty of the persecution of Sacco and Vanzetti ould be seen; ®utbursts of chegring | echoed ‘mu¢h farther; puzzled capitalists slowed up their motor cars as they passed the adjacent | | streets, It had been a very long time | i since such a demonstration was staged | ition as the massacre of workers by These three bishops of the methodist church, George R. Grose, Wallace E. Brown and Lauress J. Birney, are among those who have decided to leaye China because the Chinese do not appreciate such benefits of Western eivil- U, hi 8. battl |in the city of New York. | The spirit of the crowd was mili- | tant, defiant. Hundreds of police-| |men, on foot and horseback patrolled | the outskirts of the crowd, while, ac- cording to reports many detectives |mingled with the demonstrators. On | the opposite side of 17th street motor- cycles with bullet-proof shields were lined up, facing the crowd. But the} masses conducted themselves as | though they were totally unaware of | this show of force, Objected to Sign, Of the many signs carried, only one incurred the wrath of the police. | That was a sign reading “We Demand | the Impeachment of Judge Thayer!” | persecution is a general attack on the This was ordered taken down and the | freedom of expression so necessary to order was obeyed, as it was recog- | the workers; nized that the officer giving the or-| That we stand solidly behind der did not even know who Judge | the movement for a National Confer- Thayer is, Being well-trafned Tam-| ence at which the question of Na- many henchmen they are supposed to/ tional Action could be discussed; protect judges of all stripe against’ 3, That this meeting is whole- open expression of mass contempt | heartedly in favor of a general local for them and their decisions, fstrike movement; Many Prominent Speakers. | AND BE IT FURTHER RE- At one o'clock the general chair-| SOLVED, that we request’ the Gov- | man of the meeting, Robert W. Dunn | ernor of Massachusetts to intervene of the Civil Liberties Union, ascended and give justice to our two persecu- | one of the platforms and was im-| ted fellow workers, who have devoted | mediately followed by the other chair-| their lives to the cause of labor, by | |men, Jack Stachel, I Winokour and| giving them their absolute and un- Morris E. Taft. Announcing the| conditional freedom, purpose of the meeting, speakers! Copies of this resolution shall be were introduced and spoke in five} sent to Governor Alvin T. Fuller,| languages—English, Italian, Hun-' State House, Boston, Mass., to Wil- | garian, Yiddish, and German. | liam Green, president of the American All of the speakers covered some | Federation of Labor, Washington, D. | outstanding phase of the case and'C., and to the labor press. connected it up with the general as- Adopted Saturday April 16 1927. | saults of the ruling class against the ROBERT W. DUNN, Chairman. foreign-born workers; others assailed Demonstrators March. | the general imperialist ravages of, When the Saeco-Vanzetti meeting | the government -in China, Nicaragua, adjourned at 3:30 P. M., New York) | Mexico and the Philippines, showing | witnessed one of the most remarkable | | that the Saeco-Vanzetti case was a/ and spontaneous working class demon-| | part of the general struggle against! strations in many years. For three | despotism everywhere. and a half hours New ¥ork’s east side | | Trial Witness Speaks. was aroused by over 6,000 workers | One of the speakers was Frank J. shouting for the freedom of Sacco and | | Burke, a witness at the Sacco and| Vanzetti and covered the lower end | | Vanzetti trial, who was but ten feet | of Manhattan with their slogans. | away from the crime charged against Cheer For Newspaper. | |the two men, He declared that the| Assembling at the east end of| men he saw commit ‘the crime at| Union Square they marched to the South Braintree on April 15, 1920, | office of the Jewish Daily Fretheit, | were not Sacco and Vanzetti, He was | where they stopped for several greeted with prolonged cheering, | minutes and cheered for Saceo and | Carlo Tresca who, from the beginning | Vanzetti and for the Freiheit. Con-| \of the case has worked tirelessly for | tinuing south they turned into 14th) Vanzetti are innocent of the crime charged against them, and that they | were convicted for their views and| activities in the labor moyement; and WHEREAS, the American Federa-| tion of Labor, at the Cincinnati and El Faso Conventions, branded their conviction as a “ghastly miscarriage of justice”; : THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that this meeting of thousands of workers, gathered in Union Square, | New York, on Saturday, April 16,! 1927, is in favor of all workingclass organizations, regardless of their po- litical differences, uniting their to to free Sacco and Vanzetti who: » broken. | needle trades unions. It will endeavor | Fourth, American imperialism is| to use the machinery that Woll has} getting ready to put the nation on a|set up to jail militants in other ‘sec- | war basis. As usual the preparation! tions of the labor movement with | ST VALUAE <D NEC- H ARY 3 Entrance Into A. F, L. : i into he Se |the release of Sacco and Vanzetti,| Street stopping in front of the} An appeal to all greater New York | spoke and again related some of the Workers’ (Communist) Party head- members of the United Association | outstanding facts of the frame-up, {quarters at 108.- For over 15 minutes | PROBLEM | begins with an attack on the revolu-| especial emphasis on Communist ies ethos tionary section of the labor move-| workers. this count ment—the Communists and the left Labor officialdom has powerful} One singl wing. The only section of the work- issue outwe backing but it has one weakness—its jof Plumbers and Steamfitters has | been issued by the American Asso- | ciation of Plumbers’ Helpers,- urging | the plumbers to take action in their | Displays Electric Chair, |1dth Street between Fourth Avenue | Charles Cline, recently released| and Irving Place was blocked by the from a life sentence in Texas after| assembled workers who shouted and serving thirteen years for participa-| cheered. The representatives in the | radicalism. setae tentold. ing class that is fully conscious of | open adoption of the role of champion | locals so that the plumbers’ helpers ting in the struggle of the Mexicans) building displayed red decorations | the danger to the masses and that|of the bosses’ interests, its brazen | Fade bas ene i ee seria has a practical program which is put| united front with individuals and in-| 7 rt nie: Pee ee oP forward fearlessly. terests which American workers | P°**" Re Hel Littl 2 invasi Ticar: know are symbols of complete reac- | . epers Get. Lite i? HE invasion of Nicaragua, the con-| SOW are sy “ pe ac-| Calling attention to the ‘fact that tinual threats and plots against ei tends 9 widen the breach be- the wage of plumbers’ helpers is $4 Mexico, the participation of Ameri-| tween it and the rank and file, a day, while other helpers in the can gunboats in the Nanking mas- | At the end of the Judas trail which | building’ trades of New York receive sacre—all of these are only prelimin- American labor officialdom is fol-|from $8 to $11, the appeal states: jary skirmishes of American imperial. | lowing is a dungeon and a gallows,| ‘We (the plumbers’ helpers) were tism, As the English say, these little| They are there to imprison and hang| the only unorganized workers in the affairs serve to “blood” our brave/tHe revolutionary elements in the | building trades. As a result we did fighters. Wall Street government| American labor movement. For a/not have any protection that a union dares not undertake a major war| while they may fulfill this function,| offers. ‘The employers took advan- until the labor movement has been} But surely as sunlight dispels noxious tage of this by giving us low wages, made even more solidly a part of the| odors will the glaring betrayals of | making us do all kinds of work, work imperialist machinery than it is to-| all the old honest traditions of Amer- all kinds of’ hours and imposed upon day. The furriers’ strike, the cloak-|ican labor by the Greens, Wolls, ete,, US in many other ways that you makers’ strike and the Passaic: strike | dispel all illusions among the work- | know of, jeame after the anthracite strikers|ers as to the part they play in the) Fight For Union. j hud been maneuvered into a defeat| drive of the capitalists against the| “We are now organized in the | by John L, Lewis and a sharp con-| labor movement. | American Association of Plumbers’ trast was drawn between the methods! To believe otherwise is to believe | Helpers and are fighting to become of militants and those of Civie Fed-| that the workers who make up the|a union, and apart of the organized | eration leadership. | ; 3 offici have the Civie Federation become |filiation with the United Association | oles Lbage WHA aboe senlssoapoacon synonomous with the American Fed-|of Plumbers and Steamfitters.” lowing its many expulsion cam- " | a b |paigns beginning in 1928, was un. ¢?tion of Labor, to believe that there | There have been many unsuccess- pa ‘ Past is no spark of working class integrity ful attempts in the past to organize | doubtedly boasting to the bosses of } A 8 f k but h |its suceess in “chasing the reds,’|*¢ft in the American labor movement. | this group of workers, but now they | ‘ ‘ | " >, have a vigorous organization which A | these strikes appeared like a bolt E know better than this, We voted funnimously to go on strike |from the blue and gave them the | Bebb ga y & know that the memory of Home-|.. jlie. There must have been many’! stead of Virden, of Paint Creek, of | With tin plumbers of Brooklyn, as |severe reprimands administered to| Lawrence, of Coeur D'Alene, of ca: |e eee slea that: 9 strike | Sheepish labor leaders in the privacy| Kees Rocks, of Mesaba, of Bishey of | : |of the Civic Federation offices and| Butte, of the A. R. U. strike, of Hay- Want To Enter United, {the Union League Club, | market, of Everett, of Centralia, of| The American Association of | Evidently they vowed to do better | Ludlow of Newport, of the great stee] ; Plumbers’ Helpers is now calling |and were given promises of support.! strike, of Seattle, of the West Vir-|¥pon the members of the plumbers’ | No one can say that Green, Woll| ginia miners’ march, of the dozens | Union to make arrangements to ad- |and Company are not trying to make/|of bloody struggles fought by the, mit them into the United Associa- | good with their bosses. United Mine workers to establish| tion. Fa their union, is dear to the American | “Remember,” say the helpers, working class. “when we get better conditions, it We know that the American work-| Will mean raising the standard of ers revere the memories of the first-|the whole trade, It's a hand be Communist th interpretation To be a Communism : IMPOSSIBE THR COMMUNIST, monthly. SUBSCRIBE: 1 year $2.00, 6 months for $1.00. Foreign countries copies 25 cents. published March, THE COMMUNIS' 1112 Washington Bivd,, Chicago, ML. number Address: A copy for every Party Functionary For every active Communist THE PARTY ORGANIZER First number of a new “monthly, party organiza- tional publication. 10 CEN'i. HEY have abandoned all pretense | * of decency and depending upon the | police forces of Tammany Hall and various obliging prosecuting attor- | American labor movement want to| American labor movement thru af- | |for freedom, displayed a miniature | and a flag with a hammer and sickle |electric chair that was made by one| Which aroused the workers to a |of the “lifers” in the Texas prison,| higher point of enthusiasm. — ‘ Boo Fascism, Going east to Second Avenue they reached the headquarters of the Fascist Soldiers Legion at 12th Street and Second Ayenue,* Then cheers for Sacco and Vanzetti were here inter- mingled with boos for Mussolini, Marching down Second Avenue, the workers displayed copiés of The DAILY WORKER, The Frieheit, The Tl Lavoratore and’ the Il Martello. Several red flags gave the procession a more impressive appearance. Brutally Beaten. When they reached First Street near The DAILY WORKER office, they were attacked by police, many of the workers being clubbed most severely, Reforming their lines they marched to Rutgers Square where they booed the Jewish Daily Forward for its lack of support to the after- noon’s meeting. They then continued their march thru the east side, sing- ing the International, The Red Flag and other working class songs. When+ they again reached First Street and Second Avenue, they were clubbed by the police and their lines It is quite significant that on two occasions when the workers wanted to show their approval of The DAILY WORKER, they were brutally beaten. Arrest Worker. Onee again they started to march northward at Second Avenue and 7th Street. Patrolman Thomas Hall tore a small picture of Vanzetti off the hat of Samuel Faseonia, one of the workers. When Fasconia objected, Hall started to hit him with his club. When the other workers protested, the reserves were called who again beat up the workers, , After marching for a few more blocks the parade ended; it was one of the most dynamic militant workingelass demonstrations staged in a long time. When brot to night court, Fasconia was held without bail charged with disorderly conduct. Latin-American Workers Ask Release The Venezuelan Labor Union, representing organized Latin-Amer- ican workers in‘the United States, last night sent the following tele- grams to Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts: “We most vigorously condemn the sentence pronounced upon our fellow- workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartol- omeo Vanzetti, Every step in the trial has been taken in a hysterical atmosphere poisoned by prejudice against them because of their defiant In the name of common justice we call upon you for their pardon or for an unbiased trial.” WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTT | This made a profound impression | | upon all those able to see it. | | Among other speakers were | Forrest Bailey, director of Civil Lib-.| |erties Union, Bishop Paul Jones,! | Leonard Abbott, James P. Cannon, | | Secretary of the International Labor | Defense; Scott Nearing, Paxton Hib-| |bon, M. G. Olgin, McAlister Coleman, | | Carlo Tresea, H. M. Wicks, one of | the editors of The DAILY WORKER; | | Enea Sormenti, editor of the Ttalian | |Communist paper, I] Lavoratore; | | Louis Hyman, Bert Wolfe, director | of the Workers’ School; Rebecca! |Grecht, R. B, Moore, William W.) | Weinstone, Richard Brazier, A, Ra-. muglia, Lena Chernenko, one of the | leaders of the Passaic strike; Charles | | Kiss, Editor of “Elore,” Ludwig Lore, | jand James Walsh, | Many Slogans Displayed. | Some of the slogans, among the | many that were displayed on placards | held aloft were “Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti,” “Massachusetts Jus- | tice Wants Saceo and Vanzetti Murd- | ered; They are not Guilty,” Persecu- | tion of Workers Must Stop!” “Work. | ers’ Solidarity Will Save Sacco and) | Vanzetti,” “Today It Is Sacco and | Vanzetti; Tomorrow Who?” “Stop the | Legal Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti!” | Other cards ecarsied excerpts from the famous speech made by Vanzetti in court when he hurled defiance at the miserable puppet Judge Thayer, | just before sentence was pronounced upon him, | The following resolution was ado) ted, after being read simultaneously {from all four platforms and on a signal from the chairman, Robert W. Here’s class organizations in its SPE name, Organizations will be per inch, How To greet the workers of the world The DAILY WORKER will print the names of individual workers and all workin, CIAL MAY DAY EDITION, Here’s How Much Individual names will be printed at the rate of $1.00 per given a special rate, of $1.00 Here’s When— { line fighters—men and women—who died in battle with the bosses’ agents that the labor movement might live. | neys and judges who know where the orders come from, are trying to jail | Communist and left wing workers $1.00 a year. oe The WORKERS PARTY ee after having failed to drive the qe graves of these heroes of the 1113 W. Washington Blvd, masses Of workers away from them, American workingclass are being CHICAGO, ILL. Th labor leaders have employed | desecrated by Greens, Wolls, Sigmans | all the devices of government info:gn-| and Fraynes, They spit upon the} ers and industrial spies. They Aave | pages which chronicle the history of | “Brother plumbers, we ask you again ave you going to keep quiet or are you going to fight with us to help us get into the United Associa- tion?” The American Association Plumbers’ Helpers has already organ- ized a large proportion of the work- ers in this city. of Dunn: WHEREAS, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two champions of labor, have been sentenced to death in the electric chair; and WHEREAS, the overwhelming evt- dence in the case has convinced labor bodies and disinterested people J throughout the world that Sacco and All greetings must be mailed at once to reach The DAILY > WORKER before April 25, All greetings arriving lator will be printed in following editions. SEND GREETINGS TODAY =~