The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927 Consider Judge’s Acts | THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except. Sunday 63 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68,00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 Address ali mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J, LOUIS ENGDAHL )} WILLIAM F, DUNNE f BERT MILLER | . Business Manager | Entered as second-class rail at the post-office at New York, N, °Y., under) the act of March 8, 1879. | _ — | rates on application | A Few Facts the President Did Not Tell the Latin-Americans For the second time in less than two weeks President Cool-! idge has publicly discussed Latin-American relations. On Tues-; day evening he addressed the Pan-American commercial con-! ference at Washington and stressed the economic dependence of | the Southern republics upon the United States. He particularly | emphasized the fact that this country takes from Latin-America | more than it gives, that their exports to the United States far overbalance their imports. } With flimsy sophistry Coolidge informed the delegates that | the balance of trade is in their favor. He did not, however, in-| form them that the principal beneficiaries of this favorable bal- ance of trade are not the inhabitants of their countries, but pre- cisely those Wall Street magnates whose heavy investments in Latin-America enable them to realize extraordinary profits off} their exploitation. Neither did he teil them that much of the imports to the United States from those countries consist of raw /| material for industries in this country, thereby stifling the de- FEARLESS DEFENSE OF PRINCIPLES Described by all readers as “one of the most amazing documents which has ever figured in a criminal case in Massachu- or for death is on Governor Fuller’s desk today. In a fearless plea in which the principles of anarchism held by them are not governor that Sacco and he do not ask mercy or pardon, but full justice. : “Governor Alvan T. Fuller,” concludes the eloquent docu- ment, “we have been in prison seven years, charged with a crime we did not commit, awaiting a fate that every day came nearer and nearer. Perhaps you can imagine what that has meant to us. meant, ta’ Suevo's wife ‘and. children, CUT counsel Would not see what he and to Vanzetti’s father and mother 88 doing.” and family at home in Italy?... {| _The district-attorney is also accused “And yet we ask you not for mercy | of misleading the jury in discussing | We do not impose | the evidence pertaining to the cap| but for justice. : their sufferings of our own upon! found at the scene of the crime. which you. You cannot justly consider|the prosecution contended belonged to their suffering or ours as a ground| Sacco. All this evidence broké down for your official action, except that suffering may seem to you a reason for giving the most careful and un-| prejudiced consideration to the two) grounds of our prayer—that we are ea and that our trial was ne aa edthiat ddantion anavter, sas . | ture, or death, as had happened to our Ree Hea enon abridged | peiend Salsedo, and other friends at | i 5 “We, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nic- | ee sot pena ane Fei os ola Sacco, confined in the jail at Ded- | * . #3 ham under sentence of date after | first declaration of innocence. conviction of the crime of murder in; The Statement then takes up at the first degree, hereby pray you to| length the contention that the trial exercise the power conferred upon|was unfair, “certainly unworthy of | in the government’s case, leaving only ‘consciousness of guilt.” Conscious of Being Radicals “The only guilt we were conscious of was the guilt of being radicals in “Consider the nature of some of} VANZETTI'S PLEA FOR JUSTIGE = © accrtets.ie vee |of-the judge to check the district-at- | |torney’s unfair cross-examination of | | both of us, especially Sacco; the re- |fusal to interfere with the methods | employed by the deputy sheriffs to \secure additional jurors; the refusal | |‘to separate the two cases so that Sac- | eo might not be injured by associa- | | setts,” the 7,000-word petition of Bartolomeo Vanzetti for justice! tion with a man who, before the same | | judge and by. methods equally repre- | | hensible, had been previously convict- | ed of another crime of which he was {only admitted but expounded, Vanzetti deliberately. warns the | innocent; the constant suggestions to | the jury of patriotic duty as contrast- ed with our pacifism, cosmopolitanism, {and refusal to be drafted to fight; |the contemptuous manner and tones | of voice shown by the judge to Sacco’s counsel, Mr. Moore; the repeated de- |eisions of discretionary questions | without the presence of a stenograph- er (to,which our counsel objected) so} that the record would not show all that occurred.” Samples of Discretion i “These are but few samples of the | discretion exercised by the judge. | Among the worst is the manner and substance of hig decision on our last motion, in which he betrays his real animosity toward us; makes numerous | | statements of fact-agreed by the dis- trict attorney himself to be true; con- |fines attention to the confession of Madeiros, which was but the starting point in the proof of our counsel of- fered that the crime was committed by the Morelli gang, and passes over in silence almost all of the 60 affi-| davits which. corroborate Madeiros, | |making a finding of fact against us | which, since it could not be shown to |be corrupt or irrational, was final. | And yet we are informed that the; |Dover Road” | Road.” | produced Milne’s “The Lucky One” | “Mr. Introduced Milne Vogue Here | “Mr, Pim Passes By” was the play that really introduced the Milne vogue to America. One of two of his plays | had been presented in this country previously but none of them had suc- ceeded in arousing any great atten- tion, ,“Mr, Pim” was an immediate success and the following season saw the production of at least half al dozen. Milne plays. Among them} were “The Truth About Bladys,” “The | and “The Romantic | | Since “Mr. Pim” the Guild has also | and “Ariadne.” “Mr. Pim’ Passes | By” has remained the most successful | of all the Milne plays. And strangely enough, now in its revival, it has! scored. an even greater success than | when orginally produced. Star By special arrangement with the} Somerset’ Maugham’s comedy at the of “The Constant Wife,” Theatre Guild, readers of The DAILY WORKER. will have: an opportunity |}—<——____--_—_-__— to see the Milne comedy at special| Mrs. Dalton. rates the entire week of March 16 to|, Next week's program of plays to 21 inclusive. Tickets on sale at The | be ivan at the Forrest: by the Span- DAILY WORKER office, 108 East | 8h Art Theater will be as follows: 14th Street. “The Cradle Song,” Monday and | Friday evenings; Sierra’s “Angela | Maria,” Tuesday evening; Sierra’s |“The Royal Peacock,” Wednesday and Thursday evenings; Shaw’s “Pygma- By . jlion,” Saturday matinee and evening. “The Field God,” by Paul Green who | | Maxine Elliott theatre. | Broadway Briefs |leader of the Morellis, a ,robber by | |you by the constitution of Massachu-|the tradition of even-handed justice | " 3 s x | | profession, easily obtained his parole, | won the Pulitzer prize with his play | \this country. | rs velopment of native industry. Since his speech was prepared in advance, a set speech, with | ne opportunity for questions, the delegates remained silent. But it they are anything else than plain tools of imperialism they must have thought a great deal about the close connection between the economic supremacy of the United States about which Coolidge boasted and the political depredations that are being carried out in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua and about the recent Kel- logg attempt to terrorize the Calles government in Mexico into yielding to the demands of the oil, mineral and land bandits of Regardless of the thoughts upon American imperialism that might have passed through the minds of his hearers at the Pan- setts publicly to investigate all the | which your race and your country pro- | facts of our cases and set us free! fess to respect.” i from that sentence, if the findings| will so dictate to your understanding ; and conscience, Continuing, the statement says: We deem the faculty | “No argument, no explanation, no of compassion to be one of the high-|¢xcuse, can ever blot out the facts | est of the human attributes, but he justice, and this is the reason why we have not used the printed form pro- vided for petitions of this nature. It contains the word ‘pardon,’ which we are unwilling to use, although our counsel has assured us that it does convey the idea of a confession of |we are asking not for mercy but for | who believed us innocent, was deliber- |utely perverted by the prosecuting ‘ officer; or that our cross-examination, | and especially the cross-examination re| that the testimony of Capt. Proctor, | | of Sacco, as to radical views, friends, | |and publication, was designed to ex- |cite the utmost prejudice and hostil- |not necessarily mean forgiveness or|ity against us at a time ‘when the | Public wind was most abnormally ex American congress, we are sure there are thousands of workers | guilt. But we wish the utmost pos- | Cited against such men as we are; or \that it was admitted by the judge on | in those countries that perceive an apparent contradiction in the! attitude of this country toward the southern countries! and its attitude toward China. In China the United! States has to maneuver for supremacy against the intrigues of | Great Britain and Japan, hence a long-distance policy is pursued) that has as its aim the gaining of advantages over its formidable} imperialist rival on the battlefield of world history. There is no such menace to its supremacy in the southern republics, so the policy is one of open terror and bloody intervention—as in the| case of Nicaraguas—in order forcibly to throttle any vestige of self-government. / : Again, the Chinese masses may see in the present American attitude toward jfs weaker neighbors to the south, a picture of their own futuye, if American policy triumphs in China. It is to hoped that in their fight against British imper- “sm the inese masses will generate sufficient force to be “K + smash the sinister power of American imperialism 1s Only waiting an opportunity to repeat in that part of the World the atrocities it now inflicts upon its unfortunate neigh- bors in the Pan-American union in order to establish and main- tain governments that do the bidding of the banking and indus- trial magnates whose aim is to exploit the whole world. | . Instead of a Pan-American union subservient to the United | States the peoples of Latin-America should create a union of | southern nations AGAINST American imperialism, an anti- inperialist bloc that will drive from their shores the invading hordes of the gunmen of Wall Street and all its other political agents. ——_—_—_—_ United Against the Farmers President Coolidge has appointed as executive head of the reorganized federal farm loan bureau Eugene Meyer, Jr., a demo- erat. The appointment was made at the suggestion of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. Thus republicans and demo- crats are united in manipulating the machinery designed to im- | pose still greater burdens upon the already heavily mortgaged farmers of the country. The farm loan bureau aids the small bankers, subsidiaries of the great banking combines, to enmesh in their web the farmers of the country. The farm loan bureau is the medium through which the banking oligarchy enslaves the farmers so that they will toil only for the enrichment of the parasitic Wall Street gang. The gov- ernment places money for Joans at the disposal of the banks in the agricultural territories and enables the bankers to obtain a much higher rate of interest through various shady devices with-| cut risking a cent of their own capital. The spectacle of democrats and republicans working hand in| hand in a conspiracy to fleece them ought to impel the exploited} farmers toward a class party of labor that will defend also their interests. Any special farmer political movement will sink into the futilities of agrarianism, but as a part of a great labor party the} farmers can fight against their progressive degradation that has | been proceeding uninterruptedly since the close of the world war. | | | } | } Woll’s Slogan—Rule or Ruin! Matthew Woll, field general for the reactionary officialdom | of the American Federation of Labor, who has been conducting the union-wrecking campaign against the representatives of the rank and file of the Furriers’ and International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unions, now threatens with expulsion the whole Inter- national Fur Workers’ Union because the pressure of the rank and file seems to be forcing them to talk peace with the left wing leadership. If persistent rumors of peace conferences conducted ‘“unof- ficially” are correct it is indicative of some semblance of respon- sibility to the membership on the part even of the right wing International officialdom of the Furriers’ Union. It was un- questionably the low trickery of Woll that caused the fight against the left wing to be launched after a successful strike in which the demands of the rank and file were realized under left sible clearness and prétision on this point and are unwilling to risk being misunderstood. Fearless of Prejudice. “Our counsel has warned us that Ise ground stated by the dis- ttorney that he desired to as- |ecrvain whether we were really sin- leere radicals, or only pretending to \be radicals. Proof has been furnished the fa trict, | chauffeur.” | agents.” what we have to asy may deepen the| 2nd never contradicted that at the | prejudice against us; but we are fore- |very time when the district-attorney | mostly concerned to save what n0| wa: offering this reason to justify the | human power except ourselves can| cposs-examination, he had received | deprive us of, our faith and our dig-| fun information from agents of the nity, since we have already been de- federa! department of justice abovt prived of almost all of what men can our views and asseviates, and that, we deprive. men. | were on the list of men to ba watched “We have been told that Your Ex- cellency stands and has always sto |for honesty in public and private life | jas you understand it, and that you have a mind free and not in legalistic bonds. So, since the nature of each human being is common with the fun- damental natura of mankind, and consequently the sentiment of justice is fundamentally common to all men, we can safely speak to you as man to man, notwithstanding deep differ- ences of opinion which divide us. |as radicals. In overruling the objections made | by our counsel to this cross-examina- |tion the judge made statements in the presence of the jury which were uncalled for by anything that had oc- |eurred, and must have operated to deepen the prejudice against us. It seems to us little short of mockery to. suggest that the effect of such occurrences could have been removed |by mere general admonitions to the | jury to treat us fairly. | assured that these lies had no relation | | were designed to shield friends in the “Our present request is made first | : and foremost on the ground of our ‘The Governor is asked to consider innocence. We had nothing whatever |the “suppression by the district-at- to do with the South Braintree crime. ;torney of the testimony of important Our instincts make us abhor and our principles condemn such a crime.” Outlines Family History. The statement then tells briefly the family history of the two men. Both could have lived comfortably in Italy, it says, but they were drawn to Amer- ica by the love of freedom. It points out that neither Sacco nor Vanzetti, after the South Braintree crime, con- ducted themselves like criminals, but lived normal lives in the three weeks preceding their arrest. The first discussion of the trial it- self concerns the identification tes- timony. There is reference to the discrepancies in the reputations of Goodridge and Lola Andrews, two of those who identified Sacco. Then follows a discussion of the affidavit of Capt. William H. Proc- tor of the state police, with quota- tions from the record and from Judge Thayer’s charge. “We mention this,” the statement explains, “to show the great clever- ness of the district-attorney in turn- | eye-witnesses,” and the use by the prosecution of an interpreter named | Ross, who subsequently was sent to | the house of correction for attempting to sell his influence with judges. Ross, distorted translations to aid the pro- secution, and also drove Judge Thayer to and froma Boston in his automobile during the trial. “Much has been said in praise of the fairness of the judge who tried us,” says the statement, getting down to the accusations against Judge Thayer, “but we have learned to our sorrow that professions of fairness do not necessarily mean real fairness and may cover an intention to use the great judicial power to secure a con- viction which under the forms of law will stand. We understand that this power is called discretion, and that the judge who uses his discretion to convict is beyond the reach of any other tribunal vuless it can be proved that he was corrupt or irrational. We do nct intend to enter here a criticism of your system of law. We simply point out what it means to men of ‘tures for peace. ing a hostile witness into a favorable witness in such a way that we and our hated class when brought before one of your tribunals. leadership. Now that Ben Gold and his associates in the Joint Board have succeeded in breaking away from the association of employers the trimming manufacturers and signing an agree- ment with them the officialdom of the International knows that Woll has failed to carry out his promises to exterminate the left wing. Therefore they are probably in the mood to listen to over- But peace in the unions will discredit Woll. His game as agent of the Civic Federation, labor haters and apos- ‘tles of the scab shop will be up. He prefers to wreck the unions. rather than permit them to be dominated by a leadership that will put up a militant fight geainst the employers. His slogan is “rule or ruin.” If the International officials want to atone in some degree ior their shameful conduct against the membership and their support of the Woll-Frayne-McGrady wrecking crew they will speedily make peace with the left wing and then expose to the whole membership of the organization and to the general labor movement the real character of the unprincipled swindler and liar who created a united front with the Civic Federation, the bosses, the police and underworld elements in order to railroad to the penitentiary the militant leadership of the Joint Board of the Furriers, who gommitted the unpardonable sin. of winning a strike instead of {bludgeoning the workers, in approved Woll fashion, into accepting the terms of the bosses. . and now roams the countryside in an expensive automobile with a private The statement then calls the Gov- ernor’s. attention to the Sibley, Bern- kopf, Benchley, Beffel and Rantoul affidavits, made public yesterday, adding that “if all those who know | the facts were brave enough to dis- close them, the number of such affi- | davits could be multiplied indefinite- ly.” Again discussing “consciousness of guilt,” the statement justifies the carrying of weapons by the two men, on the ground that they had a right | to protect themselves from the “priv- ate violence and cruelty of federal “It is true,” the appeal continues, “that the foreman of our jury in a | discussion of the case with one 6éf his | friends who believed us innocent, said | before the trial, ‘Damn; them, they | ought to hang anyway,’ yet we won- | der if he would have succeeded in convincing all of .the other eleven} jurors to convict us were it not that | we were armed.” | “Lies Told at Brockton”. | The Governor is asked to analyze | the evidence as to the lies told at) Brockton on the night of arrest, and is to the South Braintree crime, but) | radical movements. Sacco and Van- | zetti had been warned, they now as- sert, to clear their homes of radical literature and were on the point of doing so when arrested. “It was these facts and these fears that we were compelled to disclose as the only way of meeting the evidence of suspicious conduct introduced by the presecutor,” they say. “It was this that opened the door to our fatal cross-examination. Our guilt was the guilt of thinking and not of doing, of opinions and not of acts. This is the guilt for which in this free country our lives are to be taken.” The Plymouth trial is analyzed at some length. One of the witnesses against him. Vanzetti says, was a halfblind’ woman. Other witnesses changed their testimony between the preliminary hearing and the trial, all this constituting “an aggravation of the unfairness shown us.” The pro- secution is accused of bringing the robbery charge to trial first to make} more certain their subsequent convic- | tion for murder, 2 Express Political Views, The last six pages. of the appeal | are an expression of ‘the political views held by the two men. They insist that these go into the record, | even though they excite further prej-| udiece against them. ‘They criticize’ Dist.-Atty. Katzmann for using such! expressions as. “regular Wops” and “lowest types of Italians”, which to! Americans are “synonymous with and personification of crime and crimi- nals.” Even the word “anarchist’”| had a sinister meaning to the jury, | and these two are still proud of their standing as anarchists to be wholly bad people, cannot do them justice | even if they want to.” They have no desire to hide their’ beliefs from the Governor, “a man of conservative principles, supreme authority of a great state in its eth- nic human meaning,” and therefore the statement continues: “We are anarchists, believers in| anarchy, which is neither a sect nor a party, but a philosophy that like all the philosophies aims to human pro- | gress and happiness. Our goal is the | ultimate elimination of every form of | violence and the utmost freedom to} each and all actuated by the elimina-, tion of every form of oppression and exploitation of the man by the man. Our sense and ideal of justice is bas- ed on the principle of man’s self-re- spect and dignity: of the equality of men in their fundamental nature and in their rights and duties. Are Libertarians, “We call ourselves Libertarians, which means briefly that we believe that humen perfectibility is to be ob- “In Abraham’s Bosom,” will move | Monday from the Greenwich Village | | of this city. theatre to the Cort Theatre. The producers of “The Ladder” now playing at the Waldorf announce the prize award of $500 for the best ar- ticle on the play to T. Halsey Raines An additional prize of $50 each were awarded to Grace Hazard Conklin of Northampton Mass., and Edwin Stanley of this city. Sam H. Harris is bringing the Marx Brothers in “The Cocoanuts,”| to the Century Theatre for a brief engagement commencing Monday night, May 16th. “Keeping Up Appearances” Butler Davenport's interesting drama is playing atthe Bramhall Theatre, Sheila Barrett is playing the role of Warner Bros. will present Syd | Chaplin. in the new feature picture, “The Missing Link;” at the Colony Theatre tonight. The proceeds of the premiere performance will go to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum at 138th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Heading the new Vitaphone bill are John Charles Thomas and Vivienne Segal in a scene from the musical comedy, “Maytime,” in which George Jessel will be heard in the sweetheart | song, “Will You Remember?” a new number and Leo Carrillo will make ‘his Vitaphone debut in a dialogue | playlet. The 200th presentation of John Barrymore in “When A Man Loves” | will be given at the Warner Theatre tonight. GRSECR AMUSEMENTS, Gust MADISON SQUARE GARDEN TWICE DAILY, 2 P.M & 8 P.M. 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Eves. 50c-$2. ‘What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Drama Vanities , Thea., 7th Ave, Earl Carroll ghee qi Ave, & both Se | | WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER | OF SACCO AND VANZETTL 1 ieeiibes |EARL CARROLL tained by the largest amount of free- dom, and not by coercion, and that the bad in human nature and conduct can only be eliminated by the elimi- nation of its causes, and not by co- ercion or imposition, greater evil by adding bad to bad “We are not so foolish as to believe ‘or to advocate that human institu- which cause | believe that we are asking for mercy or for anything but justice; or that we should purchase our lives by the surrender of our principles of our | self-respect. | + Case an Infamy. ' “Men condemned to die, may be ‘forgiven for plain speaking. We |would not urge upon you anything | Braintree crime.” tions be changed in a day. The change|that might seem disrespectful or in- must be gradual. But we do believe creditible; but in the long run the that there ought to be a change, and / victims of public injustice suffer less that it should be in the direction of! than the government that inflicts the more fredom and not more coercion.| penalty. We can die but once, and That is where we are opposed tothe pang of death will be but mo- every theory of authoritarian Com-| mentary; but the facets which show munism and socialism; for they would | injustice cannot. be obliterated. They ‘rivet more or less firmly the chains will not be forgotten, and through of coercion on human spirit, just as the long yéars to follow they will we are opposed to the present system, trouble the’ conscience of those whose which is based upon coercion.” death, and of generations of their They do not deny that their fel-| intolerance has brought us to our low-anarchists, in other ‘parts of the | descendants. A mistake of justice world, have committed acts of vio-|is a tragedy. Deliberate injustice is lence, but they justify such acts on an infamy the ground that “violence of tyranny) “Gov, Alvan T. Fuller, we have been has provoked the violente of the op- in prison \weven years, charged with a pressed for self-defense.” ‘crime We did not commit, awaiting “For this cause,” they continue,/the fate that every day came nearer “we are willing to suffer and to die, and nearer. Perhaps you ean imi but not for the low and sordid South|what this has meant to us. And do / |you realize what this has meant to! They ask the Governor, im con-| Sacco’s wife and children, and clusion, to make ‘his investigations | Vanzetti’s father and mother id in publie, and not to accept the stories | family at home in Italy? It is the of those who are only willing to give thought not of our own approaching them behind closed di \death but of the suffering of those Appeal for Justice. (near and dear to us in the seven years The final paragraphs are; \that have passed and of the greater “For these reasons, and because we suffering to come that is the cause realize how much time and labor will of our bitter grief. And yet we ask be required to deal adequately with the matters to which wé have called your attention, we respectfully urge you, if you doubt our statements, to cause a preliminary public investiga- tion of our case to be made by able and disinterested men, The result cannot be convincing unless the in- vestigation is public so that all may know what is said against us. But in saying this we would not have you |you not for merey but for justice. | We will not impose their sufferings or our own upon you. You cannot justly consider their suffering or ours as a ground for your official action, to you a reason for giving the most ‘except that that suffering may seem |eareful and unprejudiced considera- -—that we are innocent and that our trial was unfair.” tion to the two grounds of our prayer - [ Screen Notes—== ] Z / wy