The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 5 1927 Page Five GARLO TRESGA TELLS STORY OF - PERSECUTION OF ITALIAN WORKERS (Continued from Page One) “T had become convinced that some- ups and burglaries to obtain the/thing terrible was happening, though mongy for anarchist \propaganda,|I had not yet learned the facts. We Ravarino attempted to gain the con-|had gotten an attorney for the Amer- fidence of the’ Harlem anarchists and |ican Civil Liberties Union interested. t& find out what they knew of the| “Vanzetti went back to Boston to Balmer bomb. They knew nothing|raise some money. He sent down about it. But the detective continued | $50.” to prowl about their printing plant. | Here Tresca pdused. In the effort to find out whether | Only $50. they had any type corresponding to| “Fifty dollars is a lot of money for that used in the Plain Words leaflet,| poor workingmen to raise in a hurry. Ravarino used to give them orders fer different kinds of circulars. Ravarino Exposed. | “At that time I was active in the defense of men arrested in the red raids. I became suspicious of Rav- atino and wrote to Italy for informe- tion. I found that the friends of En- tree bandits, with a payroll of $15,- 000, do you think they would have had only $50 for a friend who was perhaps being murdered. It is ridi- eulous, : “Ravarino,” he continued, “knew Vanzetti and his group. ‘The depart- rico Malatesta andvether Italian radi-| ment made speéd when they saw an cals knew all about him snd I sub-| effort was being made t) free Sal- sequently exposed him in Il Martello|sedo and Elio. and the New York Call. | Night of Terror. “I am giving this stool pigeon’s| “May 2 was the fateful night. Sal- story in detail because he is the agent |sedo was taken into another room, who is responsible for starting this|by a man who entered in the dark. famous case the world has been talk-| Elia sajd that he lay terrified in the ing of for seven years. | bed. He heard someone enter his own “Getting no ififormation in Harlem|toom. What was about to happen to he. shifted again, to Brooklyn, where | him he knew not but at that moment | Sal-/ there was a crash. shing| “Next morning a guard said, ‘Your two anarchist printers, Andr edo and Robert Elia, were publ “Ti Domani.” | friend is dead.’ Salsédo Asks Help. “As hée was beitig’ taken to dinner “One day Salsedo entered my of-|at noon hé saw the newspaper head- fice, saying, ‘Carlo, you must help|line ‘Salsedo commits suicide.’” _ us. ‘lia has been arrested by the} “Was it a suicide, do you believe?” department. of justice, They didn’t} I asked Tresca. recognize me and I ecaped.’ “Elia does not think so,” Tresca re- “T had just gotten the évidence'on}plied. “He. believes they pitched him Ravarino. ‘That's his work,’ I ex-|out of the window.” claimed. Elia Deported, Dies. “T advised Salsedo to employ Harry| Elia told his story to. Tresca on Weinberger, a radical attorney of| Ellis Island. The department of jus- New York, on the case, before some-| tice was rushing him out of the coun- thing tragic happened to Elia. But|try, a deportee. Their failure to three days later—when we were just |charge him officially with the bomb- ut to formally engage Weinberger |ing they had been accusing him of alsedo came in to say that they|told how baseless was the accusation. had employed an Ttalian lawyer,| He died in Italy'a few months later, named Luigi Donato. a broken man. His fierves shattered, Lawyer An Agent. he could not sleep, he wrote Tresca, “‘Beware of that fellow,’ I said. Arrests On May 5. ‘I doubt i7 he is to be trusted.’ “Donato turned out to be another! department of justice spy. His of- fices were on the fourteenth floor of || The aftermath of the story is well the Park Row building, just below| known. Vanzetti and Sacco were ar- the department’s on the fifteenth. | rested on a street car in Brocton, May “Not knowing that the man who /|5, two days after Salsedo’s death, as had engaged him was Salsedo him- | they were preparing for a mass meet- elf, Donato cunningly asked him if|ing of protest. On their persons they S— knew where Salsedo could be; carried the copy for a handbill for found. the meeting—as Judge Thayer has Salsedo Arrested. ‘himself admitted. *““T am he,’ said the printer. Since then two former department “‘Give me your home address so| agents have sworn that Palmer had I-can get you when I want you,’ said|twelve men on the job, co-operating BDenato. “That night Salsedo was arrested, | the effort to convict them, And each Torture Two Anarchists. jof the twelve believed the two men “For two months Salsedo and Elia| were innocent of the South Braintree were tortured there in the Park Row | murder. | | Always he seemed to be feeling the blows of the detectives, and hearing their oaths and threats. “They, were kept separate at first. Elia @id not know what was happen- ing to his friend till one day when Ke“ was being taken along the corri- dor and through an open door he saw eight men with their coats off work- ing on Salsedo, : “This is the story that Elia after-| wards told me and Attorney Walter | Nelles of the Ametican Civil Liber-| tles Union. Steadfast To Principle. “The two printers refused to tell | LONDON, May 4.—The what was expected. By threats and| government has sent a new note to blows the agents of Palmer tried-to|the United States, setting forth its make them confess that they had position with regard to war debts. printed the circular These Words, and| The note was drafted by Winston to implicate other anarchists. | Churchill, chancellor of the exche- “One Gay in the office of William | quer, and is in reply to recent ob- Flynn, chief of the U. S. Bureau of | servations by Secretary of the Trea- Investigation, Elia met his old com-sttty Mellon on the debt question. COLLECTION IDEA rade. Salsedo’s face was badly; The note will be published here to- bfuised, with traces of blood. morrow. =“Sereams came from Salsedo’s P - , réom from time to time. For awhile Mellon Got The Kick. the two men were kept in the same! WASHINGTON, May 4-—A com- roem. Salsedo seemed to be on the munication from the British govern- point of losing his mind. He vomited! ment, setting forth certain views on continually and coughed. He could| the international war debt question not sleep at night. \that are at variance with those re- “All this while the stiolpigeon law- | cently expressed by Secretary of the yer was assuring Mrs. Salsedo that| Treasury Mellon, has been received all would be well and the department|at the ‘state department, it was agents were telling her that he would | learned today. soon be out if she would keep her » enantio mouth shut, Read The Daily Worker Every Day “T met Vanzetti April 26. He had But if’they had been the South Brain- | | with District Attorney Katzmann in! PROTESTS MELLON British | GENEVA CONFAB TO PATCH PLUTE ECONOMY OPENS GENEVA, S$witzetlafd, May 4. The International Economic Confer- ence, whose object is the stabilization | of tottering capitalist economy, open- jed today, with 1,500 delegates, rep- resenting forty-six nations preséft. | Interest at the first session of the | parley was centered less on the open- ling address of former Premier Theu- nis of Belgium, president of the eon- } | ference, than the arrival of the Rus- | ian delegation from Basle. The Sov- et Union has steadily refused to par- | ticipate in Geneva conferences since the Swiss government freed the as- | sassin of Vorovsky, Soviet Union dele- | gate to the Lausanne conference. | Fear European Competition. That the conflicting interests of European and American industrial- ists. will give rise to a number of | | heated battles was indicated at the} opening session at which ‘Americar | representatives, exp¥essed the fear pel Americans to accept fixed moho- polistie pricés on goods.” The truth of the matter is that American indus- trialis particularly the steel niag- nates, fear the competition of the new powerful European cartels. Another point of conflict will prob- ably be the control that European capitalist countries exercise over the export of raw materials—-particularly rubber—from their colonies; while the question of war debts is another that | will arouse heated controversy at the | parley. y Fight Sentence on Roger Baldwin For llegal Assembly TRENTON, N. J.. May 4.—Argu- ments in the case of Roger N. Bald- win, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, John C. Butterworth and others arrested for “unlawful as- sembly” during the Paterson silk workers strike opened yesterday be- fore the New Jersey Supreme Court, Part 1, at Trenton, Justices Gum- mere, Black and Lloyd presiding. The case grew. out of a meeting on a public plaza in Paterson October 6, 1924, when Butterworth attempted to read the Bill of Rights from the constitution, guaranteeing freedom of speech ahd peaceful assemblage be- fore a small group of strike sympa- thizers. The Paterson ‘police inter- fered and the meeting broke up in disorder, seven arrests being made. Baldwin immediately assumed pub- lie responsibility for the meeting and he too was arrested. All were sub- sequently indicted under an old New Jersey act of 1796, now used for the first time in the history of the state. Given Six Months. Found guilty, Baldwin was sen- | \tenced to six months in jail as the | | instigator of the meeting. The others were fined $50 each. Appeal to the higher courts was taken immediately. Nation-wide interest in the case has | been evoked for three reasons. It was | the first case of “unlawful assembly” | ever to be tried in New Jersey, and one of the very few in the entire his- | | tory of this country; it involves the | whole legal status of the polica con- trol of strikers’ gatherings; and in ‘this instance the case was tried with- out a jury, without record of facts, and the decision was rendered with- out any opinion by the judge on the law or the facts. Baldwin and his associates ate represented in the supreme courts proceedings by Rosenktans and Ro- senkrans, Samuel Untermyer and Samuel G. Smoleff, J. Vincent Bar- hitt submitted the brief for the state |of New Jersey, | Baltimore, May 4.—Baltimore had a new mayor today, William F, ‘Broaning, a republican. cone to'Néw York from Boston to see avhat could be done to free his friends, Salsedo and Elia, He came | to'my office. 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SIGMAN FORCING SACRIFICE SALE. OF STRUCTURES Would Sell Joint Board Bank Stock Too That the Sigman clique is ready to | destroy the value of the union build- ings, belonging to the membership in | its efforts to gain control of the union was pointed out by Julius Portnoy, | |secretary-treasuret of the Joint) | Board, in a statement cornmenting | ‘upon the foreclosure proceedings be- | |gtin against the Joint Board and lo- jeal building by mortgagees. | “The Sigman clique is now attempt- | ling to take possession of the Joint Board and local building that were | built by the hard earned money of |the rank and file,” he said. “When {the cloak strike began in July, 1926, the Joint Board and the locals bor rowed money from the International | Union Bank. It gave as collateral the | | tock of the buildings, which it de- posited through Hillquit, with his | \clerk, Frederick F. Umhey. At the} {same time Hillquit gave the Joint} Board 4 letter in which he promised | ‘that the collateral would be returned | at any time it was demanded. “After the Sigman betrayal of the | strike, the International Union Bank | threw all its resources at the disposal | of the Sigman clique. Sigman at- {tempted to raise a loan of $85,000 on the Joint Board building, and when we stopped this we found that ail of ¢ |the papers concerning the buildings {had been transferred to Umhey’s | | name, in violation of our agreement | with Hillquit. Hillquit then sued the | | Joint Board for $105,000. He de-! ;manded judgment against the Joint | | Board building proposing, with the | |help of the courts, to take possession jot it for Sigman. So far the courts have not granted him a judgment. i Didn’t Méct Payments. | “Although Umhey has transferred |the ownership of the building to his | | name, he has failed to make the mort- | | gage payments when they fell due, | | thereby forcing the mortgagees to| |foreclose. The Sigman clique knows | ‘that if the buildings are sold in ate-| | tion, they will lose at least half of their present value. The equity which |the International Union Bank has in | the buildings will be reduced by half. | But Sigman, of course, does not care | if the bank suffers so long as he ean | destroy union property, just as he! destroyed union conditions in the | shops. \ | Rob Joint Board of Bank Stock. | “Sigman is now making another ef- fort to crush the Joint Board by his | double dealing. They infermed us last Saturday that they are preparing to | sell 75 shares of stock in the Inter- national Union Bank which the Joint | Board owns as well as stock which the locals own. The purpose of this maneuver is clear. At present the | Joint Board controls the majority of jthe stock in the International Union Tank, and Sigman seeks to remedy \this situation by getting possession jof the steck, which fs also in the | hands of Umhey.” | The Mutual Life Insurance Company | has begtin foreclosure proceedings tion to Help Revolution | CAP UNION HITS REAL CHINA AlD Resolution But No Ac- (Continued from Page One) “What reason was there for a frame- up? Wh of friends. There h had been straightened out and the In- FURRIERS’ PEACE TALK PERSISTS ,had not given to the press the stories of the , they were all the best) police, been a dis-| to keep this part ¢ cement during the strike, but that because thi of the effort bribery charges of They had 1 S ew it would be » interpreted as an attack on the 7 ternatio Forriers’ Union, the) lice”. j . a American Federation of Labor and, “At the time you made this re Cotnmittee,” the yeactionities in con-|*¢cord’,” so Woll cle a earn SE ey tea igh trol of the Cloth Cap, Hat and Mil-|0f Peace and harmony oF Jon, vag Ben Seaver cee linery Workers Union at yesterday’s sized over and over agai A i a Walt i session of its convention, absolutely there possibly be any frame-up? _ “No, as: the swer of both retuned 16 affiliate: with: the ¥ | When questioned as to why he had Frayne and Woll. tee and helo gight Gia Luther! sked witnesses “What do you know) Woll tried to contend that the com- a ake an } about payments to the police?” Woll! mittee never made chee tack on the workers of Chin They passed a resolution expres- stated that he had heard rumors of payments to the police and to re- nent | these rumors.” that is endorsed by the American) “wwe, Mr. Schachtman (president Federation of Labor that has for its! (6 th6 tnternational) told me the po- purpose the freeing of the Chinese Hee were bethed.” people and workers”. h Woll aid Schachtman also suggest- One of the delegates, Anna David, /eq the reporters were bribed, and it demanded action and not “sym-| was in an effort to clear the report- pathy”; other delegates pointed out! org that various witnesses were ques- that Chinese workers wanted help,|tioned, Schachtman, the instigator find they did not care whether it/ of this story of alleged bribery of the came trom the A. F. of’ L. or Com- | notieg, told members of the commit- munists. I. Feigold, who had intro-|teg.so Woll said—that he heard duced the resolution proposing affili-| apraham Goodman, attorney for the ation with the “Hands Off China”) union, say he would pay money to the Committee, spoke at length on the) police, When Schachtman testified sudden reactionary stand of this during these bribe hearings, he abso- union which has always been one of | jytely denied that Goodman had made the few progressive units in the| any such statement American Federation of Labor. Give Lie To Schachtman. “For years, d Feingold, “the! S¢hachtman was also accused of capmakers and milliners always dif-! making a “misstatement” testi fered with the A. F. of L. in prine-!ing that the expulsion of the Jo iple, The union was class consci-| Board had been based on e report ous; the A. F. of L. never was. Now! of the A. F. of L. investigating com- all of a sudden, our union thinks | mittee. This was Schachtman’s con- that only what the A. F. of L. en-' tention when he was on the stand. dorses is good and right. Why this Yesterday, the holy frfo, Woll, Mc- change? It must be because we have |Grady and Frayne, said this was not lost our class consciousness.” true. Protest A. F. of L. Sloth, Hugh Frayne, after several min- A number of the workers pointed utes’ questioning on this point, re- fae Mies! ce tna? ca ta out that if they waited for the A,|*teed to answer yes or no, as X< F. of L. to start any movement in whether the report was the basis of behalf of China they would wait for: | the expulsion. “The Joint Board was expelled ac- ever. (Yet th makers chos n : wait Pika than’ affiliate our i | cording to the constitution of the ing organization working for union,” said Frayne. “It would have | happened anyw: McGrady informed the court that} the real reason for the expulsion was that the Joint Board owed the Inter- national forty thousand dollars (sic) in back per capita tax; and also be- cause they issued counterfeit dues stamps. Never Issued Stamps. This showed McGrady a little bet- ter prepared with explanations than the others; but it showed him ignor- | anit of the facts, for the Joint Board : never made any stamps at all. When that the union had favored a Labor| ¢h6 International refused to supply Party, yet the A. F. of L. has opposed 'the regular dues stamps, the Joint this. Another delegate asked, “Was| Hoard printed special books marked the A. F. of L. acting in the interest | “Temporary Dues Book”—“To be ex-| of us workers when it suspended ot changed for regular book of the In-| union for several years during the | tgpnational Fur Workers’ Union.” Ap- jurisdictional fight with the United | parently it was for this that the Hatters?” Joint Board was expelled. Ge : “Why did you not charge bribery Vee ase bi egtopen lot the police? Why did. you net Miss Joanetto Heilbrun, 26, a erip-| charge misappropriation of funds?” ‘ple, committed suicide by jumping Attorney Frank P. Walsh asked each irom the sixteenth floor of the Sheél-| witness as he was permitted a short ton Hotel yesterday. Jeech of cross-examination. And China’s workers.) “What did the A, F. of L. ever do for the workers of Nicaragua, for| the workers of Mexico, against! American imperialism? What did they do for Sacco and Vanzetti until years of agitation had been carried on by the progressive workers? As an illustration of the fact that the capmakers and milliners had in the past followed policies of their own, regardless of the stand of the A. F. of L., J. Salzburg pointed out ieee Ot each one made various excuses for | this, saying “It was not our business {to rhake charges”; “I deemed it un- ‘important; I did not believe they had bribed the police.” | During questioning of Miss Holden, Frayne’s stenographer for eighteen years, it was brought out by Walsh | that she had not transcribed her notes |for several days after each hearing; | and that frequently she had not filled | in figures for many weeks after the time they were given. She then got the figures from the report of the | | two socialist auditors. She acknowl. | édged that the figures said to have | againet Local 2, allegeing non-pay- tment of taxes amounting to $1,501.05. |The Bowery Savings Bank, holder of | |the first mortgage on the Local 9, | ‘has begun foreclosure proceedings al- | leging non-payment of $500 due on! jthe principal, | | Supreme Court Justice Aaron Levy | has appointed a receiver for the Joint | | Board Building upon request of the jestate of Sophie Benjamin, holder of | |the second mortgage. The receiver | \is Max Herbst. | With thirty-six miles of vdoded| lands in Atlantic County, New Jeteey, | reduced to a charred and blackened | waste, the forest and brush fires which have raged since Sunday night, were | |reported completely under control! | yesterday. | GIRL COMRADE WANTED | to share a small apartment with a piano, Calli Newtown 2290. Ask for Miss Rosella, Book Shop Announces its removal to 106 UNIVERSITY PL. (One block south of its formeér lecation) Telephone: Stuyvesant 5015, {been given by Isadore Shapiro, chair- | |tman of the Joint Board in his testi- | |mony, had been filled in weeks af- | |terward from the auditors’ incomplete | | report. Both Frayne and Woll declared HELP WANTED Volunteers to help with clerical work are needed constantly at the office of the Joint Defense and || Relief Committee, 41 Union Sq. | Room 714. | MR. PIM PASSES BY “So full of dramatic re- pose— So neatly written— So frolicsome— against the police, but Walsh brought forth a copy of the report and read }sing sympathy with the Chinese | - P libatation tdovemant but they re-| Porters from the newspapers. from it the committee’s own words salved i aaty pests ao “tmovement |. “Name one person who told you that they “were convinced” money had been paid by the Joint Board to the police during the fur strike. Not only did Woll deny that he had promised to show members of the Joint Board the minutes of the in- gation committee’s proceedings, but he declared the Joint Board mem~ bers had never asked to see them. Yet every member of the Joint Board who tes’ d told how Woll had promised show th their testi- mony and then had never kept his promise, Wolls Lines Statement. t the close of his testimony, Woll gave a long ac of th of the Investi how it had operated. He de s sessions had not be made cs t Board, be- as requested by the Joi he feared the matters to be i iid bring discredit on the Am Federation of Labor and the ers’ Union. He claimed that both the International and the Joint Board had been allowed to haye their members present and the close of the hearing were fied it had been fair and imps Woll declared that John dent of the Central Trad Labor Council “is in full with our report. He when it was made”, Yet Rye fied that he had heard no c of graft r @ against the px As the hearing closed Frank Wa id to Woll: “My clients say you framed this thing id k; ur clients are lying”, replied Woll. “Well, they same thing about you’ i Walsh. Indefinitely Adjourned. The hearing adjourned “sine diem” yesterday morning. It wil not be resumed until some time after May 22rd. Cuban Butcher is On Way Back to Havana icago yesterday for Cuba via Cin+ cinnati after a 48-hour visit. He ex- pects to reach Cuba May Big News NORTHAMPTON, Mass., May 4.— President Coolidge’s milk man died today. Phone: Drydock 8530. FRED SPITZ The FLORIST 3 SECOND AVENUE Near Houston. FRESH CUT FLOWERS DAILY Fresh and Artificial Flowers Delivered Anywhere. SPECIAL REDUCTION TO LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. “NATURAL FOODS” Sundried Fruits, Honey, Nuts, Brown Rice, Whole Wheat, Mac- aroni, Spaghetti, Noodles, Nut Butters, Swedish Bread, Maple Syrup, Tea and Coffee Substi- tutes, Innerclean, Kneipp Teas. 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