The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 150. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., uider the act of March 3, 1819, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. N oW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927 Published Daily PUBL. Ree. 'SHING CO., 38 Firat Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents 25,000 DEMAND FREEDOM FOR SACCO, VANZETTI Party of America, at Chicago. Cannon-Weinstone opposition i: leadership. The cablegram wa: parallelling the Party Organiza’ full text of the cablegram_ publ of the Presidium of the Comint THE CABLEGRAM OF THE COMINTERN MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., July 7, 1927. “You should publish the tive Committee of the Communist International in the Party Press: HE Comintern is categorically against the sharpening of the factional struggle and under no circumstances supports the statement of the “National Committee of the Opposition Bloc.” The Comintern recognizes that Ruthenberg group followed a more correct line in the past than On the other hand the Executive is of the opinion that the Ruthenberg group had not understood how to estimate sufficiently the full significance of the trade union forces in the Party and that Foster at that time was more cor- rect on many trade union questions. The line of the Comintern the Foster group. has been: On the whole for the berg group and for bringing Foster nearer io the general po- litical line of the Ruthenberg group, at the same time, however, following the course towards the correction of the trade union tactic of the Ruthenberg group on the line of Foster thru co- operation in the Party leadership. and trade union differences have almost disappeared. The Com- intern condemns most categorically every attempt towards the sharpening of the situation in the Party, especially in the pres- ent objective situation as exemplified by the formation of a Na- tional Committee of the Opposition Bloc. siders factionalism without political differences as the worst offense against the Party. (Signed) PRESIDIUM OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Current Events By T. J. O’Fiamsnry. Waite hundreds of prisoners in- earcerated in Sing Sing peniten- tiary looked on, three young men tumbled out of a boat and drowned within a few yards of the shore. Several prisoners wanted to go to their rescue, but the keepers levelled their guns at them and the waters of the Hudson river sucked three lives to death. This is one of the most cold-blooded incidents of indifference to tragedy that I have ever heard of. * * * EVOLUTIONISTS do not nourish a maudlin sentimentality for the professional criminal, who is a will- ing tool of the capitalists for any dirty work that is demanded of him for a consideration. The gangsters that are employed by the right’ wing in the furriers’ union and by the so- cialists to beat and maim the strik- ers on the picket line, have served their apprenticeship in many a prison. But the great majority of prisoners are as clean morally as the great majority of their fellows on the outside and if one had to choose between the brutal, stupid keepers on guard on the walls of Sing Sing and the inmates who were ready to risk: their lives to save fellow-humans. from death, it would not be difficult to make the choice. ® * * HE Herald-Tribune, New York, has as soft a spot in its heart for fascism as any capitalist newspaper ‘n the United States. But it is a yewspaper. ‘Therefore, in its issue $f Wednesday, July 6th, it ran a sen- sational story revealing the bitter factional struggle in the fascist party between the “castor oil” gang _that were the original builders of she party and the younger elements, who are lgbelled “intellectuals” by cheir opponents. According to the Herald article the fascist regime is ‘acing a smash, and Mussolini who as dodged taking a definite stand in ‘avor of either one or the other (Continued on Paye Three) COMINTERN DEMANDS IMMEDIATE LIQUIDATION OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE OPPOSITION BLOC The following cablegram was received yesterday from the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national by the national office of the Workers (Communist) to organize within the Party, under a “National Committee of the Opposition Bloc,” to carry on a struggle against the present circulated throughout the Party urging the membership to cre- ate opposition committees in all units of the Party, practically . It is a rebuke to the Foster- n the Party that is endeavoring s sent in reply to a letter being tion itself. The following is the ished in response to the request ern: following cable of the Execu- HIS THUMB ON THE SCALE ‘SOCIALISTS GALL IN MOUNTED COPS TO WRECK UNION SQUARE PROTEST Act When Huge Crowd Calls for Ben Gold to Take the Platform and Speak Leader of Furriers Kicked by Claessans While Horses Strike Down Audience As twenty-five thousand militant workers called for one of their leaders to address them at the Union Square Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting yesterday afternoon, Abraham Weinberg, social- ist henchman, gave the signal to a nearby police sergeant to clear jthe area. Immediately twenty mounted policemen tore thru the crowd trampling and crushing hundreds in the vast audience. |The police, apparently instructed as to what tacties to use, backed \their beasts up against the crowd and viciously weilded their | clubs. | As the masses were being forced in-| -|to the narrow lanes, fenced in by railings, whicha lead out of the square, Ithe police on foot aided in the brutal- ity by clubbing and beating those who were up by the dense masses. Call for Gold. 16,000 Cigarmakers Of Tampa Strike 24 Hours For Sacco and Vanzetti |socialist party speakers the crowd be- gan to call for Ben Gold to speak and it was at that moment that the meet- ing began to take on the proportions in many political questions the JAPANESE GOODS BOYCOTTED; FEAR SHANTUNG GRAB Right Wing in Shanghai Outlaws Protest political support of the Ruthen- Now the previous political SHANGHAI, July 7.—The anti- Japanese boycott that is being organ- ized to protest against the dispatch of Japanese troops to Shantung is be- ginning to assume gigantic propor- tions. Despite the efforts of the right) wing adherents of Chiang Kai-shek to | outlaw the boycott in Shanghai it is | spreading rapidly, while in Swatow and Amoy Japanese trade has stopped entirely. Reports from Canton state that | Chinese stevedores refuse to handle} Japanese goods. Workers and peas- ants refuse to purchase any mater- ials made in Japan or handled by Jap- anese merchants. The Comintern con- “L” CRASH DUE TO * * * NEGLECT OF BMT, BIG PROBE SHOWS Wooden Cars, No Safe- ty Devices Used Japanese Take R. R. PEKING, July 7.—Japanese trvops | today began oveupying the Tsingtao- | Tsinan Railroad. | Admiral Williams, present com-| mander of the United States naval | forces in Chinese waters, will arrive | at Tsingtao tomerrow to confer with | Gen. Smedley Butler, commander of | the American marines upon Chinese soil, and United States Minister Mac- Murray. Investigations were begun today in the crash of wooden elevated trains in Brooklyn and the Ontario & West- ern train wreck at Iona Island which caused four deaths and injured thirty- two persons. (Special Cable To DAILY WORKER) District Attorney Dodd summoned| SHANGHAI, July 7.—According to witnesses to his office in Brooklyn to | reports in the Chinese press Feng Yu- | fix the blame for the “L” collision | hsiang, renegade Nationalist leader, on B.M. T. tracks at St. Edward|has wired an ultimatum to Tang Street, Brooklyn, in which ten per-|Sheng-chi (wavering leader of the sons were injured. One of the motor- | troops at Hankow) demanding the dis- men, Michael Joyce, has been suspend-| Solution of the Wuhan Government. ed pending the outcome of the in-|Feng threatens an attack on Wuxan * * , Feng Betrayal. vestigation. unless Tang complies with this order. The state transit commission also is conducting a probe. The crash em- phasizes the absolute need for imme- diate substitution of steel cars for wooden cars, according to John F. Gilchrist, chairman of the commission. Two of the cars in the collision were forty years old. It also has been re- vealed that the B.-M. T. failed to install automatic tripping devices, as ordered by the commission. A joint investigation of the Iona Island wreck opened at Weehawken with the New York Central and On- tario & Western Railroads and the New York Public Service Commission and the Interstate Commerce Com- mission taking part. Railroad officials blame William Brandt, engineer of the passenger train on which four were killed and twenty-two injured. Brandt claims that a flagman stood in front of a switch signal, hiding the signal from the engineer’s view. Wall Street Bankers Back Pilsudski War On WARSAW, July 7.—Backing the Pilsudski regime in its unofficial war against the Soviet- Union, a, group of American bankers, headed by the Bankers Trust Company and Blair and Company, have com- pleted arrangements for a $15,000,- 000 loan. The $15,000,000 is part of the proposed loan of $60,000,000. The rest of the money will be made available to Poland when the mar- ket is favorable.’ The purpose of the loan is to stabilize the toiter- ing finances c2 the Pilsudski re- gime. Negotiations for the loan have been going on for the past year and a half. Threatens to Whip Negro: Starts Race Riot in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, July 7. — Police were rushed to the Hill District here today when a threat to whip a Negro/ precipitated a race riot. James Laido, 24; white, was injured | and many pedestrians were forced to run to shelter in the exchange of re- volver shots. Laido was taken to a hospital. He was reported to have received a frac- tured skull and internal injuries. Po- lice were unable to determine the num- ber of Negroes injured. HASSERODE, Germany, July 7.— Nine persons are dead today as the result of a passenger train disaster in the Harz Mountains near here yesterday. Scores of passengers were injured. The train was derailed and plunged from a mountain side. The SOCIALISTS BACK eck isu Nar TOF POLICE ATTACK, lof an impromptu demonstration. As the calls for Gold increased in inten- |sity he was carried on the shoulders | jof cheering workers and he made an \effort to mount the west speaking ylatform on which Abraham Weinberg, an officeholder in the socialist party was acting as chairman. Weinberg {turned around and seeing Gold com- BEN GOLD CHARGES Hyman Sees No Exuse for Police Actior to the speakers’ stand, kicked him in \the chest and set, him down into’ the jarms of the crowd below. Kicked by Claessens. | Not deterred by this evidence of ,., |hooliganism, Gold made his way over B oe Aust as of is Joint to the eastern platform on which Au- ts toliswhe: jae ee Sets gust Claessens, secretary of the so- z ‘i ccO- | cialist party, was holding forth. Here, Vanzetti Defense Committee, telling jas tho the entire proceedings were i fe circum £4100 © | running on schedule, Claessens landed Bepicuh of the. protasy Semioneeraynn.| iy foot on Gold’s shoulder and sent by Fe # lice an Union Square|him down the ladder. eee raey mteernon: r | Infuriated at this act of cold-blood- Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, jed cruelty the crowd roared its re- Boston, Mass. sentment, “We want Gold”—Give us Dear Brothers: ‘old? oe ee Gold,” they shouted. By this time the Over twenty-five thousand workers . pees git “d macnn’ in mass meeting assembled in Union|i,. their ‘ é eir horses through the protest- | Square in New York City this after-| ing a ai La P |ndon, gave a wonderful demonstration | “4. the police went about their busi- (oe, ee ee eae Upprinoned | ness callously, the socialist speakers * .. {and chairmen stood on their. platforms These protesting workers left their igrinning quite visibly. 14 % * jobs at 4 q’clock this afternoon to} Si ee és | gather in our largest square and there | Socialist Nabbed. | they raised their voices in unanimous| As the meeting was being broken demand for the immediate release of up by the police, Samuel H. Fried- our two imprisoned fellow workers|man, one of the socialist speakers, who have been clapped into jail on|audibly said, “We trumped-up charges supported by/|the meeting broken up than allow a |framed-up evidence because of their |faker like Gold speak.” sacrifice in arousing the working class |Friedman was coming out of t against their exploiting masters. {square he was recognized by som | As manager of the Joint Board of workers as one of the stoolpigeons whe \the Furriers’ Union, Locals 5, 10 and|aided in the break-up and they calied 15, it was my duty to call upon the |him “scab” and he was mobbed by the thousands of furriers in this city to outraged demonstraters. join in this impressive demonstration. In fact, I called off a very important largest in the history of Union Square general membership meeting which |and was composed largely of workers |had been scheduled for this afternoon |who had repudiated those who were and for which all arrangements had|monopolizing the speaking platforms. been completed in order that the | Fully ninety per cent of these militant Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration might|workers composed the audience. be more successful, I also felt it my Dragged Into Bandstand. duty to be with my fellow-workers at} Some of those who had been beatex Union Square on this occasion. up by the police were dragged to the Seen By Workers. park bandstand, blood flowing freely While in the crowd I was recognized|from them. They were hustled into (Continued on Page Five) After the crowd had listened to four | jing up the rickety ladder which leads | mounted cops were in full fury rid- | would rather have | Later when | The protest meeting was one of the | TAMPA, Fla. July 7.—Over 16,000 organized cigarmakers to- day joined in a 24-hour strike in protest against the threatened execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Huge mass meetings were held thruout the city. At the Labor Temple speakers in English, Span- ish, and Italian denounced the ver- dict dictated by capitalists. Union Square, where they were ad- dressed from the second floor window \ by J. Olgin. Seeing the beginning of this new gathering, thousands of workers jrushed back to Union Square te hear jwhat Olgin was saying. Every few {minutes his remarks wer2 punctuated |by tremendous cheers from the work- ers. After he had spoken for severa! min- utes the police once again came into action. Mounted men drove inte the scattering them ir. all direc- Seamen Join Protest. Fifty seamen who work in the en- gine and machine rooms of the French liner La Fra quit work at four o’clock sharp yesterday, and despite the threats of the petty officer in charge, marched down to Union Square and took an active part in the | demonstration. | A number of large halls including | Cooper Union and Webster Hall were | jammed to overflowing a few min-+ utes after the doors were opened. At Cooper Union over 1,500 men and women waited near Astor Square an hour before the speeches of protest were scheduled to begin. Half Million Back Strike. About thirty thousand persons were conservatively estimated to have participated, in the two halls and at Union Square, in what was, until | charged by police the greatest demon- stration on behalf of Nicola Sacco |and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, in the his- tory of labor in this city and in the |nation, : Nearly a half miiiion workers of | Greater New York answered the one- |hour strike eall, according to Rose Baron, acting secretary of the Sacco- | Vanzetti Emergency Committee, | which yesterday sent the following | telegram to Sacco and Vanzetti, at |the Massachusetts State Prison at | Charlestown: | “In the name of 20,000 organized The Federal Grand. Jury Indictment Is Part of the Attack on Our Anti-War Propaganda The strategy of the Federal government is becoming more and more clearly exposed. The present period is one of intensified war propaganda. The Lindbergh flight and the other spectacular aviation feats are being used as the springboards for a renewed preparedness campaign. War is being prepared right now—against the Soviet, Union, against the Chinese people, against Latin America. being prepared on a gigantic scale. Part of the program for war preparations is the suppression of the only daily news- paper, which is fighting militantly against it. The Federal Grand Jury indictment is part Behind the scenes the most powerful forces of American capi- talism are combining against us. Comrades, you must open your eyes to the seriousness and importance of the fight we are waging. Thousands of dollars will be needed to maintain our paper against the pres- and parcel of this program. Have Paid Your Contribution World War. the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? ae ent attack. We cannot fight without your help. Send in your contributions. mongers and the Federal government. ——— Emma The fleets are now being built. The armies and poison are the office of the bandstand where workers gathered at Union Square they were clubbed without mercy. on Thursday, July 7, to demand your Among those brot up to the stand | release we send our tidings and cheers was a socialist whom the police had tg you, We will continue our fight edi ae | ee bar eagl arbaecte One® |to secure your unconditional release.” ahgnt-cut on niga c re-| Some of the largest unions in the porter indignantly asked members of city were represented at the demon- |the bomb squad why be wee a Af- | strations yesterday, many of them ter a short ane he was released. | displaying placards both at Union | Socialists As Informers. | Square and at the various halls. | A few minutes later August Claes- | Represent 500,000. \sens, Edward Levinson, of the New Thirty unions with a ‘Combined {peaces a ve Hi gala 3 membership of half a million workers raham Beckerman wer lowe: | Sod ‘ B jlice in charge direct the routing of | Thetaded among the organizations are the thousands of assembled workers. | tho Amalgamated Metal Workers. of |They gave suggestions to the inspec-| america, Typographical Union, Uni- [tor in saree and were listened to at-| teq Brotherhood Painters, Decorators \tentively. hi » Pi Box - | When one of the workers was brot | sat beet ae ig ache the en jon the stand, John J. Broderick, head lriers’ Union, Amalgamated Food jof the bomb squad, told his associates | Workers’ Union, Joint Board of the |to “beat up the bastards, we will show | Gjoak and Dressmakers’ Union, Amal- jthem what they get for starting | pamated Clothing Workers, United Textile Workers, Brotherhood of Car~ penters and Joiners, and others. trouble.” Olgin Addresses Workers. Do your part in the fight against a new Defend the Daily against the attacks of the war When the workers had been driven out of the park they reassembled in front of the Jewish Daily Freiheit, 30 | 4 ~ saith ia Fraternal and political organiza- tions include the Anti-Fascist aide on Page Two) 5 ;