The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1927, Page 1

SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI! DOWN TOOLS TODAY 4PM Fi /DEMONSTRATE AT UNION SQUARE, COOPER UNION, WEBSTER HALL THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 149. Current Events| , By T. J, O'FLanenrry. (a | | ; abs those who do not keep abreast | of the times meditate on the sad story of the dodo. ate bird passed out of history about This unfortun- i the year 1681. The dodo was slow » on his feet, could not fly and was} so darned lazy that he laid only one egg, which he had to drop in the| grass, being unable to use his wings or climb up a tree. Trade unionists should take a lesson from the dodo. While the capitalists are amalga- mating the big industries of the nation the comparatively few work- ers that are organized into unions are separated by craft barriers, thus weakening their power. * * * oF course the workingclass will not pass out. like the dodo. Without the workers society would be as bar- wen as a desert. The wheels of in- dustry would cease to hum and star- vation would stalk the land. But the producers are not content to carry the burdens of society on their shoul- ders for the benefit of the parasite class. They want to create an econo- » mic order which will confront the parasite with the alternative of star- ving or working for what he puts in his belly or on his back. And in order to accomplish this purpose they must have organizations built . on| |, modern lines. : * * = SEG IEEE SESS IE OEM EAI TE 1 Bes day of the craft union is gone. With the growth of giant industry the form of union organization based on the tool used and not on the pro- duct has become passe. The develop- ment of proletarian class conscious- tvial and financial power makes it possible and renders it necessary for | the workers to organize in a mass Labor Party. The dodo passed away because he ignored evolution. The dodo must not be the symbol of the American labor movement. * * * HE convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers chopped proudly on the shoulders of high of- ficials of that organization. Misfor- tune befell them and woe unto those who fall by the wayside. Trade union | officials who were going to save the | j workers one by one from wage slav- q Hd by turning them into capitalists have lived to see their pipe dreams| ade in the cold light of the morning | * * « pe DAILY WORKER is not prone} to chortle over the stunning blows a "dealt by unkind fate, even to its ad-| _versaries. Meaner spirits might be! driven by irresistible force to say: “Too darned good for them; we ) warned them of the perils of class- “collaboration.” The fact is we sym- _pathize with the engineers who in- vested their savings in schemes they | hoped would enable them to quit their _hazardous jobs and spend the evening | _of their lives in ease and security, smoking their pipes on secluded| porches and relating their thrilling) experiences to their trusting and lov- ing wives. We draw the line, how- “ever on those brotherhood members who invested their savings in the { " scabby Coal Rivers Collieries, * * * WE hope the entire trade union © W movement will take a lesson from the disaster that befell the business operations of the railroad engineers. | Trade unionism and business ala cap- SUBSCRIPTION RATES ness and the trustification of indus-| nm New York, Outside New Yorx, by mail, wm Strikers Picket | City ila | Jailed Workers all ditections at 2.30 yesterday after- riers, their wives, children, and brothers, gathered to petition Mayor James J. Walker to take some persecution of the fur strikers.” i were no arrests. Arrangements are {being made to have thousands of workers out again this morning. Released On Bail. Certificates of reasonable doubt were issued yesterday for the release of 115 of the strikers who were sent to jail Tast week for sentences rang- ing up to thirty days. The writ was |signed by Magistrates Solomon, Sal- mon and Healy in Special Sessions. | They will be out by 11:30 a. m, to- day. The five workers who’ were sen- tenced to six months each are ex- pected to obtain certificates today. During yesterday afternoon’s de- monstration the .mass of workers marched up and down in front of the City Hall, and a committee of seven off séveral heads, that once rested | S¢lected from the demonstrators en- ; tered the building to present their grievances to the chief executive of the city. Committee of Three. When they got inside, they were requested ‘to reduce the size of their committee to three. Mrs. Elizabeth Bandill, Mrs, Sarah Gross, wife of Aaron Gross who was almost killed several weeks ago by right wing gangsters, and Max Ackerman, were picked to appear before the mayor. The other four members of the committee were A. Emeneth, A. Ma- guiré, Issac Green and Frank Gaal. The committee did not see the by mail, $8.00 per year. $6.00 per year. AGTION BY MAYOR ON MASS ARRESTS Will Be) Reieased on Bail Today | Pouring into City Hall Park from | noon, more than 5,000 striking fur- | sisters | action in regard to the systematic | Yesterday rhorning the picket line | | was in the market as usual, but there | iE DAILY t th Entered as serond-c ss ma NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927 Post Office at New York, N. uider the act of March 3, 1878. Praise Efficiency of USSR; Urge Friendship LENINGRAD, July 6.— The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union have made few mistakes in “their gigantic attempt to revive the life of the nation on the basis of justice and humanity.” That is the conclusion of the group of stu- dents from Syracuse University and Bates College who have been visiting here. The students hope that their vis- it may lead to a better understand- ing between the Soviet Union and other nations. They were here for ten days and have already left for Moscow. LOCKED OUT THRU ATTACK ON WAGES JOHNSTOWN, Pa., (FP) July 6. —Joining forces with the 150,000 coal diggers on strike since April Ist an- other 14,000 men have downed tools in the central Pennsylvania field that runs north and south along the Alle- ghany Mountains a hundred miles east of Pittsburgh. With nearly all the union men out towns of Illinois and Iowa the strike now begins to take on national pro- portions. The new recruits will aid the hopes for success of the United Mine Workers to the extent of the two to four thousand tons a week they cut off from the national pro- duction. * * * By POWERS HAPGOOD PITTSBURGH, (FP) July 6.— Tearing off the roofs over the heads| of striking miners’ families is the| latest move on the part of the Pitts-} burgh Terminal Coal Corporation in its attempt .to break.the miners’ 14000 MORE MINERS of the pits from Altoona to the coai/} (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Two) italism will not mix except to the detriment of labor. The co-operative! movement must be the substitute of | labor for the debauching and degen-/| erating trade union capitalism, that} the labor lieutenants of imperialism: have been saddling on the workers | for several years past. And the cle-} ver proponents of labor banking and! other forms of business unionism must go to work now and dig up excuses for the B. of L. E. debacle. i * ee are } ipaat the reports of a possible re- newal of the discarded Anglo-Jap- (Continued on Paige Six) | WORKER. Unity Committee Holds An Open Forum Meeting This Afternoon at One An open forum will be held at 1 p. m. today at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 East Fourth St., by the Unity Committee of the furriers, cloak and dressmakers. Morris Sigman’s proposal of proportional represention will be discussed by Louis Hyman while Ben Gold will take up the latest developments of the furriers’ strike. \than in the presen standards on a world scale,.is bringing closer the danger of a new |World War. ‘ment. ‘ciation of the significance and importance of The DAILY WORK- Never was the role of the Federal government as the Bxeeu-| tive Committee of the capitalist class more clearly demonstrated! t Federal Grand Jury indictment against The} DAILY woteee While the bosses are engaged in an offensive! against the trade unions, in the mining industry, in the | trades, and in other industries, aided at every turn, by the gov-| ernment, through the police, the courts and the legislative bodies, | efforts are being made to suppress The DAILY WORKER, the, only newspaper which supports the workers in these struggles. The policeman’s club, which is being used against the workers on the picket line, finds its concrete expression on a broader scale in the Federal Grand Jury indictment against The DAILY The effort to crush the labor movement and degrade its This danger, The DAILY WORKER is constantly fighting. The power of The DAILY WORKER, its influence in the \strugles of labor on a national and international scale, brings jdown upon us the shar; pest énmity of the ruling class, and finds its most recent expression in the iast Federal Grand Jury indict- Simultaneously, however, there is growing a new appre- WR to the workers in ‘their struggle: The attack upon The DAILY WORKER will arouse the workers throughout the country to renewed efforts to protect their vital organ, to defend it from the onslaughts of the ruling class, and to maintain it until it final- ly becomes the official organ of the American proletarian revolu- tion. Labor Must Save Sacco and Vanzetti The secret midnight removal of Sacco and Vanzetti from the jail at Dedham to the penitentiary at Charlestown within whose walls stands the electric chair, the instrument of death to which they have been sentenced, again emphasizes the malignant cruelty with which these victims of capitalist jus- tice have been tortured during seven long years The excuse that the removal is in compliance with law is a cheap evasion, for the simple reason that there is no specific law covering executive respite in such cases. While Governor Fuller and his two commissions pretend to be most seriously considering intricate details of the case other official henchmen of capitalism, under cover of night, take one more step toward carrying out the fiendish plot to murder these two innocent workers who are chosen for vic- tims of capitalist vengeance in order to terrorize other work- ers into silent submission to the slavery of the New England mills, In the demonstration and strike to be carried out today at four o’clock in the afternoon the workers must beware of pinning their faith in the actions of Governor Fuller. Do not yield to the illusion of capitalist justice. It is the mighty protest of labor alone that has thus far stayed the hand of the executioner in this case. It was the power of labor that forced the hands of the liberals who still show an infantile faith in the alleged impartiality of the courts and the ruling powers. And if Sacco and Vanzetti are to be saved from death in the electric chair, or a possible living death behind prison walls in case of commutation of sentence, labor must speak in no uncertain terms. The one hour in which the workers of Greater New York down tocls and demonstrate against this monstrous frame-up should be considered only a partial rehearsal of what will follow if Sacco and Vanzetti are not set free and permitted to take their places in the labor move- ment. American imperialism, already despised in every land on earth, because of its savagery ag&inst weaker peoples, is coming to be literally loathed by untold millions because of the savagery with which Sacco and Vanzetti have been as- sailed. Militant workers in the United States while carrying out to the limit a fight against the frame-up, must urge the workers of other lands to make it impossible for representa- tives of this blood-streaked capitalism to establish themselves in other countries unless Sacco and Vanzetti are freed. The demands of American labor must be: No more torture for these workers! No more evasion and underhanded trickery! Only unconditional freedom before August 10th! 'ORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, KERS STRIKE FOR SACCO, VANZETTI! I | HALF MILLION UNIONISTS SUPPORT 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents ONE-HOUR STRIKE TODAY AT 4:00 P.M. 'Tremendous Protest Demonstration Expected at i Union Square and Cooper Union ‘Speakers to Expose Class Bias of Verdict; Will | At that time hundreds of machines will stop, and Union Square, where a huge protest demonstration on behalf | of the framed-up workers will be held, | will rapidly be filled with those who |for seven years have been fighting to | stay the hand of the Massachusetts | executioner. | Thousands Will Join. | Arranged by the Sacco-Vanzetti |Emergency Committee the Union Square meeting promises to be one of the most impressive in the history of labor in this city. Confident of the response to the strike call and the demonstration, the committee has also arranged for over-flow meetings at the details about the seven years of persecution of Sacco and Vanzetti will be related by speakers who will point out the class verdict of the Massachu- setts court. Labor Behind Protest. Leaders of important unions in the city declared that the one-hour strike called for today by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee will be an ef- fective method of calling attention to! the great danger that the ruling class their threat to execute the two work- ers who have been persecuted for their activities on behalf of the labor move- ment. Resent Removal. The unexpected a: brutal transfer jof Sacco and Vanzetti from the coun- |ty jail at Dedham to the state prison |at Charlestown where the death house lis located has heightened the efforts lon the part of workers everywhere |who realize that unless the solidarity lof labor is demonstrated in the most \effective manner the Massachusetts }legal oligarchy may yet make good their threat to kill the two framed-up radicals. | Ben Gold, manager of the Joint | Board of the Furriers’ Union, said: (Continued on Page Two) JUDGMENT FOR $45,000 ISSUED AGAINST UNION Bank, a_ right wing and Dressmakers’ Union has resulted in a judgment of $45,000 against the holding corporation of the Joint Board building. Supreme Court Justice McCook re- served decision on another claim of the bank for $45,000 against the Joint Board direct, and in relation to a $15,000 note on money loaned to the right wing during the recent strike and which has been endorsed by the Joint Board, i Suits for additional sums totalling $300,000 against the Joint Board will come up for trial soon. When a jury was being selected, Morris Hillquit, attorney for the bank objected to a member of Local 10 of the right wing International sitting jin the box. Frank P. Walsh and Louis B. Boudin represented the Joint Board.. * * . Call For Strike. The Joint Boards of the Furriers’ and Cloak and Dressmakers’ Unions yesterday passed resolutions calling upon all members to join the Sacco- | Vanzetti strike at 4 o'clock today and the protest demonstration at! Union Square. The DAILY WORKER. Cooper Union and Webster Hall where |, of the United States may succeed in} The suit of the International Union | institution | against the Joint Board of the Cloak | \tally Volunteers Wanted for the Sacco-Vanzetti Demonstration today. East 14th Street, Room 35, to distribute leaflets and to sell Demand Immediate Release Today at 4 o’clock New York workers will demonstrate pre- cisely what they think of the attempt to railroad Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to the electric chair at the Massachusetts state prison, Charlestown, during the week of Augus st 10. WAVERING WUHAN LEADERS SCORED; AIDED TRAITORS TOKYO, July 6—The Japanese Government is making preparations to rush 4,000 additional troops to Shantung, it was learned today. Two thousand troops will be sent from Tsingtao to Tsinanfu, it is‘ believed, and an equal number from Port Ar- thur. The dispatch of additional troop to Shantung will arouse the greate: indignation among the Chinese, it expected. The concentration of anese troops in Shantung weeks ago resulted in the organ tion of an»anti-Japanese boycott a wide-spread protests in the pr and from the Wuhan Government. * * * ) Wuhan Leaders Waver. | MOSCOW, July 6. — workers and p the Wuhan Go’ ure to dismiss and es its ref Organized are attacking nt for its fail- right wing elements 1 to loosen the forces revolution, ac- atches by Pravda. The Government did he actions of the traitors and nothing to para right wing gene did nothing to liquidate the nest of internal coun revolution, On the ry while refusing to prevent the disarmament of the workers and re- the Na- fusing to mobilize the masse: tionalist Government prot gener- als who are aiding in the counter revolution. uch a } of the Na- ns the self- tionalist rnment liquidation of Wuhan. | Neglect Peasants. Nationalist Government is learly than ever h to and cannot ige Eee “The manifesting: more that it does Continued on P. SLUGGED PAINTER PICKETS ARE IN GRAVE CONDITION the ing Brooklyn were Wednesday bru- police are in serious conditior a large number of the others » suffering from wounds inflicted when they were clubbed dur- ing the mass picketing demonstration. Harry I adore Abramovitz, Irving Kishkop; Philip Yerby and H. Hochman we ‘o severely slugged during the attack by the cops that they had to be taken to the hospital. Despite the police terrorism pick- eting will continue as usual, leaders of the strike declared. The trial of the nine pickets ar- rested last Wednesday has been post- ed until July 19, Meanwhile they in $500 bail each. rp breaks in the ranks of the bosses were evident yesterday when a number of contractors who usually get their painters from the Master Painters’ Association applied to the Five of strik paint wie beaten | |union. Report at 108