The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1927, Page 3

Representing 7,000,000 wor! THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 Page Three CHICAGO.—The following is a list, compiled by the Interna-| tional Labor Defense of ‘the larger labor organizations, unions, political parties, professional men (scientists, teachers, | Over 110,000 Appeals, 200 Cables and Over 50,000,000 People To Date Protest on Behalf of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti trade Professor Ellen Hayes, Wellesley College. Charles. W: Wood. Mm. Dorian, President of Interna- lawyers, ministers, writers, journalists, etc.), newspapers (CON-| tional League for the Rights of Man. servative, radical, labor, liberal), petition protests, schools, | churches, strike actions, street demonstrations, etc.; farmer or- ganizations, mass meetings, that have taken action against the proposed murder by electrocution in the week of July 10th of the| two workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. sents the protest and indignatio This repre- n of tens of millions of workers, farmers, and other men and women throughout the world. This list is by no means complete: since reports to date indicate that over 110,000 appeals in the form of letters, resolutions, etc., over 200 cables, representing more than 50,000,000 workers all over the Boyden, ex-president Boston Cham.| world, have demanded life and freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti. * Central Labor Bodies, District Councils. Other Labor Bodies. - American Federation of Labor, representing 3,500,000 workers has gone on record at three successive conventions on behalf of Saeco and Vanzetti. Chicago Federation of Labor, rep- resenting 300,000 workers. Roston Central Labor Council. Amalgamated Food Workers. Minneapolis Central Labor Council. Kansas City Central Labor Coun: cil. Silver Bow Trades & Labor Coun- cil, Great Falls. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, representing 100,000 workers. International Ladies’ Workers’ Union. J, WW, Ws Furriers’ Union International. Italian Chamber of Labor, New York, representing 75,000 Italian workers. San Francisco Labor Council. Everett, Wash. Central Labor Council. Tampa, Florida, Central Labor Council. St. Louis Central Labor Council. Lake County, Indiana, Central La- bor Council. District Textile Council, together with six locals United Textile Work- ers in Passaic vicinity. Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union of New York. Alameda, California, Central La- bor Council. Building Trades of State of Cali- | March, ' fornia at State Convention, 1927, cil. Carlinville, Tll., Trades and Labor Assembly. Detroit Federation of Labor (or- ganized mass meetings May 6th and 7th.) Perth Amboy, N. J., Central Labor Councils. Great Falls, Mont., Central Labor Corneil. Sub-district No. 4, Illinois Mine Workers. Sons of Italy (approximately 200,-| 000). Progress Builders of America and the Western Progressive Farmers, organizations representing 300,000 workers and farmers. ee eS Political Parties and Organizations Workers (Communist) Party of America. Socialist Party of America. Farmer-Labor Association, Henne- pin County, Minneapolis, Minn. Swedish-Social Democratic Labor Party. Young Workers (Communist) League. a Young Peoples Socialist League, New York. Socialist Labor Party, South Amer- ica. * * @ Protests From International Labor and Political Organizations, etc. Labor and Socialist International, s, sign- ed by Louis Debrouker, President, Committee for Political Prisoners of. Labor and Socialist International. Communist International. Panama General Syndicate of La- ‘| ber. Argentine Confederation of Labor. Rote Hilfe, Germany, representing 500,000 workers. 5,000 Unemployed Workers Sweden. Central Labor Body of Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, represent- ing 9,000,000 organized workers. Gloucester, England, Trade Unions. Employees Canadian National Rail- ways, O, B. U., Ft. Rouge, Canada. 20 members Black League, Japan, protest to American Embassy at of Tokyo. Independent Labor Party of Eng- land. South African Trade Union Con- 8. ee pelgian Federation of Labor, 600,- 000. members, Federation of Labor, Holland, Big Unions in Cuba. Non-Partisan and Miscellaneous Organizations. Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Confer- ence, New York, representing 500,000 organized workers. International Labor Defense, Amer- ica, 100,000 affiliated and individual members. Republican Party of Italy, New York, Civie Club, New York (civic and ‘sorted wrelora), Garment | | Milwaukee Federated Trade Coun-; * Italian Republicans of Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania. Saceo-Vanzetti Conference, Roches- |ter, N. ¥. | Sacco-Vanzatti j cago, Il. | Italian Federation of Culbs, Salem, | Mass. Many Lodges, Sons of Italy. Conference, Detroit Sacco-Vanzetti Provisional | ; Emergency Committee, calling con- | ference for May 9th, Lambkin, pro- isional_secretary. | ‘Los Angeles held Sacco-Vanzetti | Conference (Auto parade May 1st). | Buffalo, N. Y., Sacco-Vanzetti | Committee. Prominent Individuals: Publicists, Scientists, Teachers, Lawyers, Clergymen, Authors, Politi- cians, Labor Leaders, ete. Members of the British Parliment: Wheatley, | Wilkinson, Lansbury, Maxton, Wallhead, Campbell, Thorne, Stephens, Greenfell, Hayes, Stanford, Gibson, Hirst, Smith, Hall, Bromley, Beckett, Saklatvala, Purcell, liams, Salter, Welch, Barr, Montague, Barker, Lindley Lodge (these ‘are trade union Labor Party, Liberal |Party, Conservative Party and other | widely known leaders in England). | Professor Albert Einstein. Upton Sinclair. President Harry Fishwick, Ilinois | Mine Workers. Kate Crane Gratz. Theodore Debs. Victor Berger. Bishop Charles H. Brent, of West- ern New York, A. EB. F., Chaplins. William Nye Doty, “A Mayflower descendent.” President John Van Vaerenewyck, of Massachusetts State Federation of Labor. Group of 25 Unitarian Ministers of Boston. Group of 52 teachers, Mt. College, Boston. 48 teachers, Wisconsin State Nor- imal College. | 381 Students, Mt. Holyoke College. | Sidney Hillman and Joseph Schloss- berg, President and Secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union of America. Congressman Emanuel Celler of New York. 26 French Writers; including Ro- main Rolland, Maurice Donnay of French Academy, Maurice Rostand, Victor Marguerite, Henri Barbusse, Leon Frapie, Pierre Benoit, J. H. Rosny. | Cailleaux, | France. Leon Jouhaux, Secretary, of French Federation of Labor. Holyoke former Premfer of Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its fcremost leader and the American working class its be overcome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. 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Co,, 33 East First Street, New York City, or to the A waahinetin hoe eee it sero, TH Chi- | Broad, | | Kenworthy, Compton, Adamson, Wil-| staunchest fighter, This loss can only | phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) | Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit. John Haynes Holmes. Clarence Darrow. ‘ | Professor Felix Frankfuter, “Har- vard. | James Maurer, President .Pennsyl- vania State Federation of Labor. | Bishop William Lawrehce, Local | Episcopal Diocese, Boston, and four | prominent Bostonians: Roland W. ber of Commerce; Herman M. Burr, | banker; Charles P. Curtis, Jr., son} |} of police commissioner; F. W. Taus- | sig, Harvard Professor of Economics. | Professor W. E, Hockings, Har- | vard Philosophy Dept. Senator David I, Walsh, Massachu- | Setts, demanded investigation Depart- ment of Justice connection and at- ; torney Jos. Walsh. Bishop Slatterly, Boston. Rey. Rhys Williams, Chicago. President Neilsen, Smith College, {on behalf of teachers. Herr Sneevliet, Secretary of Dutch Labor Amsterdam, Holland. Winifred Nicholas Conovan, Prof. | Dept. of Biblical Interpretation of | Newton Theological Institute. | Chandler Association of Linden, John Fitch, and 62 New York iberals. 26 nationally known liberals, in- jeluding: Richard C. Cabot, Boston; | Margaret Deland, novelist; A. Lin- jcoln Filne, business man; John Hays, | Buchanan, Hugh Dalton, Griffiths, Hammond; Morton Prince, Harvard Z. Ripley, | Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard. | psychologist; Mrs. William Professor Richardson, Law Depart- ment, Dartmouth University. Edward Holton James, | Liberal. Harvard Rev. FE. Tallmadge Root, Secretary Massachusetts Federation of Churches | John P. Whitman, Associate Secre- | |tary of Greater Boston Federation | | of Churches, New England Conference of Meth- | | | odist Episcopal Church. | Dr. Calvert Magruder, Law Department. Harvard Rev. Wm. E. Gordon, Church of prisoners (I. L. D—I. W. W. De-| | Massiah, Back Pay, Mass. | Brotherhood Temple, | Mass. ; Faculties and students of all-aris- | tocratic New England and New York | Women’s Colleges, including: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Barnard, Mt. Holy- oke. Pittsfield, to list here) * * . Strikes and Demonstrations. Buenos Aires, Argentina, trade | unions held two days strike. | I. C. W. P. A. of Great Britain— mass demonstration in Trafalgar Sq., | over England to American Embassy. Open Air Demonstrations, 20,000 | workers, New York City on April | 16th, auspices Sacco-Vanzetti Emer- | gency Conference. Proposal through Italian Chamber of Labor, New York, and Nuovo | Mundo to organize world-wide strike. | Second Conference proposed for April | 28th, inviting New York, Philadelphia Baltimore, Boston and labor organi- zations from other cities. Sigman of | International Ladies’ Garment Work- ‘ers’ Union to approach President | Green of A. F. of L. on matter, Ten- j ative date for half day strike set for | June 15th. All’ May Day meetings. & Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Confer- ence, New York, held conference April 22 to diseuss strike plans and the calling of National Conference of labor. é | * * 7 Mass Meetings of Protest. Open Forum, Los Angeles, mass 'meeting protest. ‘Tacoma, Wash., broken up by police. Zeigler, Ill., mass meeting, April 23, Swabeck, speaker. Cleveland, April 23rd, mass meet- ing, Biedenkapp, speaker. Portland, Oregon, mas meeting on April 17th, Minneapolis, Minn., mass meeting on April 24th. Sacco-Vanzetti conference meeting on May 8th. Hands Off China mass meeting, Ap- ril 17, Minneapolis, protested’ Sacco and Vanzetti case. © Mass protest’ meeting, 2,000 work- ers, held in Paris, France. Mass meeting, Newark, N. J., May 6th. Passaic mass meeting, April 20th. Boston, Faneuil Hall, meeting scheduled auspices Mass. State Fed- ‘eration of Labor. Also meetings to be held throughout state of Mass, Mass meeting Chicago, Ashland Auditorium, May 13th, speakers, Fitz- patrick, Johannsen, Cannon, Lapp, Rey, Williams, Morrison, Editor Chris- tian Century, Attorney Wm. H. Holly. Cleveland, all International Labor mass meeting mass and Vanzetti meetings—six already held. Chicago membership meeting [. L. D, to ih i membership, ls , ‘inn, array b (Hundreds of others too numerous London, protests being sent from all| Defense branches arranging Sacco| SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE CONDEMNED TO DEATH | | | | Drawn By William Gropper. San Jose, Calif., mass meeting. Los Angeles, mass meting for all \fense Committee) on April 24th. Detrojt mass meetings, May 6th and 7th, A. F. of L, sponsors. | Buffalo, N. Y., May 7th. * * * |Miscellaneous Actions: Radio, | tions, Sermons, ete. Petitions of Wellesley College stu- dents, Roland D. Sawyer, member Massa- chusetts legislature, introduced reso- lution demanding special commission \of inquiry on Sacco and Vanzetti. Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee leirculating nation-wide petition, de- |manding investigation. International Labor Defense issued special leaflets, stickers, buttons, pos- ters on Sacco and ‘Vanzetti, arrang- ing or backing protest meetings, for- wation of Saccowand Vanzetti confer- jences, etc, Petitions throughout the country, jfrom prominent individuals and en masse. Chicago Federation of Labor to {broadcast Sacco and Vanzetti case |over radio. Sermon, Chicago Third Unitarian Peti- } Williams, es Resolutions and Protests from Local | Trade Unions, Shops and Factories, | Fraternal Organizations, ete. 12 cigar factories, Tampa. Employes of S. Floresheimer shop, |New York City. Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Assn. of Perth Amboy, N. J. I. LG. W. U., Local 100, Chicago. Painters’ Local 275, Chicago. Independent Workmen’s Circle, Len- in Branch, Chicago. Archit@ctural, Iron, Bronze Structural Workers’ Union, York City, 1,800 members. Finnish Workers’ Club, Minenapolis. Freie Gemeinde Club, Milwaukee. Scandinavian Workers’ Club, Minne- apolis. United’ Mine Workers, Local 840, Madrid, Iowa. Local Brotherhood of Engineers, Minneapolis. Local Union 781, Painters, Paper- hangers & Decorators, Milwaukee, Italian-American Citizens, Local 85, A.C. W. of A., New York, 1,500 members. Local Union 1623, Lodi, N. J., United Textile Workers. Local Union 160%, United Textile Workers. Local Union, Carpenters, Philadel- and New Locomotive phia. Local Union 3703, Dowell, TIL, United Mine Workers. Local Union 280, United Mine Warkers, Eagle, Pa. Cleveland Local, Labor Congress. Maghinists, 337, Chicago, Ill. Italian Workers’ Service Club, Ak- ron, ‘Ohio. Lodzer Sick & Benevolent Associa- tion of Paterson, N. J. New York Local, Brotherhood of American Negro nters, Decorators and Paperhang-|of the capitalists and to increase the der the direction of the Ministry of i Justice. Mr. George Hsu Chien, Church, April 24, by Rev. David Rhys | | | | Two Locals, Granite Cutters’ Union, Vermont, } Cincinna of A. Cloth, Hat and Capmakers of New York, | Molders’ Local Workers Scho , Joint Board, A. C. W. Everett, Wash. Liberal Club, icago University, Housewives Union 1, Santa Clara, Calif. | Evangelical Brotherhood Federa- |tion, Buffalo, N. Y. | Fraternal organizations, Avella, Pa., and vicinity, | Special meeting on Sacco and Van- zetti, Local 144, Amalgamated Cloth- jing Workers, Chicago; speakers, |James P. Cannon, I. L. D, secretary. | Valier, Til, Local 518, United Mine | Workers. | Carpenters’ Local 599, Hammond, Ind. } Local 524, Horwick, Pa., United Springfield, Mass. | Mine Workers. Local 1355 and 2881, Avella, Pa., United Mine Workers, Local 1794, Cedar Grove, Pa. | * 2 | Newspapers, Magazines of all Politi- | cal Opinions Protesting Action, Demanding Inquiry, etc., in Amer- ica and Other Countries. Chicago Daily News. Vorwaerts, Berlin, Germany. Yale Law Journal. Boston Herald. New Republic. The Nation. Daily Herald, London, England. New York Times. Springfield Republica... New York World. New York Herald Tribune. | New York City Graphic. Brooklyn Eagle. Winnipeg Tribune. Tampa Daily La Truducion. WHAT THE NATIONALIST In the past six months, since the jestablishment of the Nationalist gov- ‘ernment at Wuhan, unprecedented jchanges have been carried out to re- organize the Chinese courts and re- |form judicial practice in territory un- | der Nationalist control, In an interview with a representa- tive of the “Tribune” recently, the ministry and were explained. The plan includes the establishment of the highest court of the National- ist government in Wuchang, with a monthly allowance of not less than $10,000. The former supreme court in Canton is abolished and made a branch of \the highest court which will be located at the former Wesley College, Wuchang. The Canton branch of the highest court will have Kwantung, Kweichow, Yunnan provinces, Courts of Appeal have just been es- tablished in Hupeh, Hunan and Kwan- ‘tung provinces, while the plan of reforms Fukien and to form the Fukieén, Kwangsi and Proclamation has also been made to cease trying mixed cases in Chinese magistrates’ offices. They will be handled by the Municipal Courts, un- accompanied by foreign assessors. H Aid Poor. | izens have the right of using the courts, yet the heavy pressure of suit- filing and litigation fees often deprive the poor of their power of exercising their judicial privileges. In view, of of justice has decided a 50 per cent rates governing civil cases is formul- ated to restrict undesirable practices revemie of the ministry jurisdiction over | | organization | /committees are making arrangements | Kiangsi Provincial Courts of Appeal. | Although nominally all Chinese cit- GOVERNMENT OF CHINA HAS DONE FOR LAW REFORM (From Hankow Peoples Tribune.) { Inheritance Law Changed. | | As the old custom and law of in-} ‘heritance in China was largely a relic of the feudal system and a constant | cause of family and tribal controversy, | the Ministry of Justice has enacted} a new law limiting inheritance to the) |deceased person’s own heirs. In case! the deceased is heirless or leaves no, to the government for educational! | purposes, Penal Code. In view of the necessity of strictly | suppressing all counter-revolutionary | activities when the Revolution is still | going on, the Ministry of Justice has ‘compiled and promulgated a penal code governing counter-revolutionary joffenses, The code contains 17 ar- ticles. Lawyer's Charges. With regard to lawyer's fees, the Ministry of justice has issued an or- ‘der forbidding any legal practitioner to obtain by extortion or other names |remuneration other than what is granted in his contract with the cli- ent. Parties who make contracts with the intention to seeure ilegitimate consideration will be severely pun- ished. In accordance with Article 5 of the Judiciary Reform Act which was passed last November, the practice of assessors who will have the right of participation as to matters of law and fact shall be introduced in the civil jeases. A code of 32 articles has been /compiled by the Nationalist govern- jment to govern the practice of as- | sessors. ! All these changes are a part of a} ization, When the new codes and the West. This work is being carried out un- | similar | granted in all the towns of Palestine. ie Palestine Workers Barred From Polls By Great Britain JAFFA, For Palestine, (By Mail) first time since the British conquered Palestine in 1917-1918, Municipal Elections are to be held in that Hitherto municipal- ities in Palestine have been appointed and not elected, but in October the Government in Palestine did publish a Monic 1 Electoral N This law, however, is far ‘om being democratic. No women have the vote reserved for males over ho rates or taxes ear, Candi- 1 Elections must be and pay rates or of not less than the country. vhich is the age of 25 not | dates at 30 y ts Mw of to the ciy age value a year. The effect a poor country of these provisions in like Palestine is to restrict rage to the aristrocacy, big merch and landlords, while the workers and laborers do not en- joy the right to vot h the result t in towns li , Tiberias and oth only suff nts Ac about have while in Jerusalem, J tt 15 per cent of the franchise, percentage is Requ which have the Government of Pale the franchise upon a bro: been refused. In T has been secured for e town w two shilling rates or a year to vote at Municipal Nlections. The working-class in other towns in Palestine demand that suffrage rights should be An appeal is ordingly addressed to the British working-class by more than 1,000 members of the Mamad Hapoalim (Workers’ Class Club) for support in securing a wide demo- |} eratic suffrage for the inhabitants | of Palestine. Britain Still in Jail Under EPA. LONDON, April 12. (By Mail).— More than 100 British miners are still {in jail charged with violations of the “Emergency Powers Act.” This in spite of the fact that the miners’ lock- | out ended in November and the E.’P. | A. was lifted in December. The majority of the convictions, many of them resulting in severe sen- tences, were obtained on the favorite | charge of “disturbance” and “riotous assembly.” In a large number of cases the only evidence submitted in court was given by local policemen, Women Jailed In South Wales 50 miners were sent to jail by the Glamorgan Assizes. Among them were included five wo- men. One of them, a mother of six all of them under eight years, was given a 3-months’ sen- tence, | According to a statement made in the House of Commons by Joynson Hicks, a total of 7316 persons have been charged under the F. P, A, and | over 1,000 have been imprisoned, Rumanian Minister Spurs Complaints Of Jewish Torture work already accomplished by the / Will, his property shall be turned over) BALTIMORE, May 18 (FP).—That the Rumanian minister at Washing- |ton had refused to receive a petition and protest reciting the atrocities committed against Jews in Rumania, Was announced at a meeting of the Associated Rumanian Jews of Marys land, called in aid of their oppressed co-religionists in the home land, The envoy, it was stated, had replied to the petitioners that they were misled by Soviet propaganda. MF Herman Speier, executive secretary of the Rumanian Jews of America, charged that the present Bucharest government is directly responsible for “atrocities as terrible as those of Torquemada.” Rabbi Rosenau of Baltimore said that Rumania alone, of the three countries which persecut- ed Jews before the world war, has not ceased these horrors. He declared that her actions violate not only the laws of humanity but the written terms of thé Versailles treaty. “We féught to make the world safe for démocracy,” was his bitter ¢om- ve seemingly have made it safe chiefly for demagogues.” Harder , imes In Britain, © WASHINGTON—(F. P).—-Reports from its agent in London to the De- partment of Commerce show that this unfair phenomenon, the ministry | thorough plan of reform and veorgan-| there has been more short time work- ing recently than usual, especially in — décrease in litigation fees and a 60{courts are in operation, China will|cail mining; that the supply ofscoal per cent decrease in suit-filing fees. | have a judicial system that will com-| is beyond demand; that the re; In addition, a system of progressive|pare favorably with any country of| unemployed were 1,044,000 on Aj : 25 as compared with 1,034,000 a year ao. fs i Read The Daily i Every Day, fe Vubabeks seis