The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL N FIRST SECTION | This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. THE DAILY WORKER. DIE! OT Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., uider the act of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY | EDITION SUB Vol. IV. No. 151. Current Events| By T. J. O'FLamenry. 'VEN the New York World’s seem- ingly unlimited supply of optimism | regarding the peace results that were | to flow from the Geneva naval con-| ference has dried up. There are no more editorial predictions that the} boys will settle their differences | around the conference table rather} than by the roar of cannon and the| shriek of shrapnel. England is not | willing to share sea power equally| with the United States and the latter does not see any reason why a power that is obviously drifting toward bum- mery, should be so impudent as to expect a solvent nation to be content with an inferior position. | * | EHIND it all is the conflict between | the capitalists of the United States | and the capitalists of Great Britain| over “ports to export prunes.” The} old gag that “blood is thicker than water” proves how rotten most old gags are. The blood of English and American sailors and soldiers may be reddening the waters of the Atlantic and other oceans before long, to settle this quarrel. Peace conferences under capitalism simply mean camouflage for war, and at best are maneuvers on the part of the conferees to steal a march on each other. * How to keep the creases in a well- groomed steed’s trousers is one of the most puzzling problems confront- ing the society matron today. A young matron, with a phobia against indecency, obscenity and free poetry felt that her undressed carriage horse ran the risk of being accosted by Mr. John S. Sumner and haled into court for appearing in public au natural.| Fearing the effect of the resultant} notoriety on her steed the lady called | in her tailor and rigged the animal out in a pair of stylish pants. | * * * * * * * | agit tS went smoothly until the steed started to move and as horses and even some humans. have a) tendency to hook the knee when walk- ing, running or making humble obeisance to their superiors, the nag’s | trousers got baggy and the matron! got so sick that she had to take a| trip to Europe to recuperate. In the} meantime the horse got lonely and tried to commit suicide three times. So fellow workers, when you consider) what the upper classes have to put up with you should not be so dis- contented with your lot. “The poor ye shall bave always with ye” but supposing ye had to keep a nag’s trousers creased! ‘ * * * “TOP! You may be this man!” Perhaps you have difficulty in expressing yourself. Not that we suggest you stutter your ideas to an expectant pablic or that you have taken the vows of silence, chastity and humility but perhaps you are not do- ing the kind of work that brings out your creative spirit and makes of the business of hunting food, clothing and shelter ¢ living poem. A life insur- ance company, plus’ (what the plus means is a mystery to me) wants men who want to express themselves in a greater way in salesmanship. If you ever sold industrial insurance, sewing machines, insect powder or synthetic grape juice, you will understand what a new world this company has opened ‘up for the ambitious. * * * IHARLES A. LEVINE, backer of the Chamberlin flight to Germany an- nounces his intention of flying back to the United States in the airplane that winged her way to Europe.’ If Levine accomplishes this feat, the Ku Klux Klan and other worshippers of the Nordic myth will have a bad quar- ter of an hour. Levine, the ex-; junkman, was not the kind of a fel- low to keep patriotic women awake all night during his hazardous trans- oceanic flight. He is bald-headed and not in the least romantic. And fur- thermore he is being sued by the gov- ernment for $500,000 which he is al-| leged to have pocketed on his war contracts instead of turning it over to the government. * * * | PJAD Levine beerm a tried and true Nordic, this little matter might have been conveniently ignored and the newspaper would have injected his | personality into the spiritual anatomy | of the populace. But Levine did not} go to Daugherty, Jess Smith, A. B.) Fall or other prominent leaders of the G. O. P. to talk things over with| them. A few thousand dollars—say about one hundred grand, in the) language of the underworld—thrown into the campaign kitty of the G. O. P. would have fumigated Levine from the odors of junk and second hand clothing and rendered him fit for honors abroad and perhaps a congres- sional medal. | * ” yeu cannot keep a good man down out of the air. Levine is a typical SCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. PARTY G.E, 6, ISSUES STATEMENT 0 4 hae Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued a statement explaining the cablegram of the Praesidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International demanding the liquidation of the so-called “National Committee Opposition Bloc.” The cablegram of the Comintern on the inner party situation was published in full in yesterday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER. The Comintern, in its eable, declared that it 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 declared that it “considers factionalism without po- litical differences as the worst offense against the Party.” The statement in full of the Central Executive Committee is as follows: * The Statement of the Party’s C. E. C. “The Workers (Communist) Party today received a cable from the Executive Committee of the Communist International with instructions to publish it in the Party press. It deals with the internal situation in our Party. On July Ist the opposition began circulating documents signed: ‘National Committee Opposition Bloc.’ “It is to these documents that the cable of the Communist Interna- tional refers. The following quotations from and summary of the docu- ment in question were before the Comintern when it made its decision: ‘National Committee Opposition Bloc document declares Comintern com- pletely upheld opposition on war danger, trade union work, internal situa- tion and the China campaign. The document ends appealing to member- ship to rally to Communist International le rallying to opposition bloc. * Document also contains statement principles opposition bloc declaring “Since Executive Committee Communist International endorsed political line opposition bloc, we proceed immediately organize opposition bloc na- tionally. We form immediately joint national committee equal representa- tion from Foster and Weinstone-Cannon Groups, Unity Group Young Workers League, South Slavic Opposition, Finnish Opposition. Similar Committees shall be formed everywhere.” “We call upon the membership of our Party to support the decision of the Communist International to close the ranks of the Party and unify for the struggle against the war danger, the struggle to’ save and strengthen the unions and the big tasks that we face. With a new war coming on the Party needs unity and discipline more than ever. “We close this appeal in the last words of Comrade Ruthenberg whose birthday it is today: ‘Tell the Comrades to close the ranks, to build the Party. The American workers under the leadership of our Party and the Comintern will win. Let’s fight on.’ “(Signed) CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY.” RUSH U.S. TROOPS TO TSING-TAQ; 38 SHIPS NEAR CITY Anti-Japanese Boycott Spreads Rapidly Recall Ruthenberg Defiance of Court On His 45th Birthday On the occasion of the forty- fifth anniversary of the birth of our late leader, Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, we publish herewith his opening statement to the judge who sentenced him to a long term in Sing Sing Prison in New York: “IT have merely this to say for myself, that I have in the past held certain ideals for a reorganization of society on a new basis. I have upheld those ideals and gone to prison for them when they were WASHINGTON, July 8.—Ameri- can marines have been landed at Tsing-tao to “protect American inter- ests,” Admiral Williams, commander- in-chief of the Asiatic fleet in Chinese waters cabled the Navy Department . today. connected with the late war. I * * * have stood by those principles in U. S. Guns On Tsing-tao. which I firmly believe, and I still SHANGHAI, July 8. — Fifteen stand for those principles irrespee tive of the result of this particular trial. I expect in the future, as in the past, to uphold and fight for those principles until the time comes that those principles tri- umph, and a new society is built in place of the present social or- ganization. I realized from the be- ginning of this trial, as I have in any other trial that I have taken American warships are anchored in Tsing-tao harbor with their’ guns trained on the city, according to dis- patches received here. Twelve Amer- ican submarines and one tender are also anchored in the harbor. The Japanese have seven ships, the Ital- ians two, and the British one. Confirmation has been received here NEW YORK, N] 104 FUR WORKERS THE CABLE FROM THE COMINTERN | RELEASED; MARCH ‘mayor says that the complaints of \“Mrs. Margaret Bandill, |tinues at Ningpo, according to infor- of the information that Japan is dis- patching 2,000 troops from Manchur- ia to Tsing-tao. Anti-Japanese Boycott. The boycott that is being organs| ized against Japan in this city to protest the landing of Japanese troops in Shantung is spreading rapidly de- spite the efforts of the supporters of Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist rene- gade, to stem it. It is feared that Japan is making an attempt to re- seize Shantung which she was com- pelled to abandon by the terms of the Washington treaty in 1922. Anti- Japanese strikes and boycotts are! spreading rapidly in the Canton| region, reports state. | Chiang Executes Workers. ' The execution of labor and peasant leaders by right wing officials con- mation received here. Chiang Kai- shek fearing a rebellion of workers and peasants has sent 200 execution- ers to Ningpo to murder left wing leaders. part in as a defendant, that this court, and all the instruments of this court, are merely a part of that organization of force which we call the capitalist state; and I expected no other result from an organization of the capitalist class to protect the capitalist system, than the result that “has been re- turned by this court in this par- ticular case; and, of course, ac- cepting this as a case of class jus- tice, a case of the use of the or- ganized force of the state in order to suppress the desires of those who today are suffering under the oppression of the present system, I will accept the sentence in that same spirit of defiance, realizing that I go to prison because of sup- port of a great principle that will triumph in spite of all the courts. in spite of all the organizations of the capitalist class.” (Further facts regarding Ruthenberg on Page 4.), | | | TO JOINT BOARD Walker Sends Letter to| Warren | One hundred and four fur strikers were released from Welfare Island on bail yesterday. They were serving sentences ranging from 10 to 30 days. Singing “Solidarity Forever” they marched in military formation to the office of the Joint Board, 22 East 22nd St., at 5:30 p.m. When they reached the office they were greeted by cheers of hundreds of fellow unionists and relatives who were waiting to receive them, They told the assembled workers that they kept busy digging potatoes while they were on the island. To Release Five More. It is hoped to obtain the release by | Monday of the five workers who were! sentenced to six months each at the same time the other workers were given the shorter sentences, The six| month terms were meted out as a result of a protest against the unfair | attitude displayed by Magistrate} Ewald in Jefferson Market Court. Passing the Buek. The Joint Board of the furriers’ union yesterday received a letter from, the-secretary of Mayor Walker ac- knowledging their communication of last Wednesday which was delivered by a committee of three accompanied by 5,000 strikers and members of their families. The letter from the brutalities would be referred to the| police commissioner for consideration. The letter reads as follows: “Joint Board Furriers’ Union, “22 East 22nd Street, N. Y. C. “Dear Madam: “Mayor Walker has divécted me to acknowledge your letter of July 6th} to you, and through you to the other| members of the Committee of Strik- ing Fur Workers, in which you call/ attention to alleged brutalities in con-| nection with the fur strike. “Your communication has been re- ferred to Police Commissioner War- ren who has charge of this situation, and you can be assured the facts con- tained in your letter will have his earnest consideration. “Véry truly yours, “(Signed) Edward L. Stanton, “Secretary to the Mayor.” Only a Gesture. That the referring of the letter to the police commissioner is just a ges- ture that, will result in no action, was| the opinion of Joint Board officials | yesterday. They pointed out the fact)! that they already have made a com-| plaint to Commissioner Warren con- cerning the brutality of the police and | filed with him several weeks ago the affidavits of a number of workers who had been beaten in the 30th St. po- lice station after their arrest on the picket line. The police commissioner’s office in-| terviewed some of these workers who | had been injured, and he promised | that the investigation would be con-/| tinued and the charges thoroly sifted. | To date no report has been made on} this matter. Arrests have continued as usual. Three Furriers Arrested. Three furriers who were arrested Thursday at Union Square when the} socialists in cooperation with the po- lice broke up the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration were released on_ bail | for trial July 12 in the Jefferson Mar- ket Court. They are A. Macardo, M. Wallger and Max Levine. | SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1927 WORKERS PA RTY OF, A. SHIPLACOFF Flatly denying all of the charges sent to the papers yesterday by A Shiplacoff and L. Frisina that the | cooperation with the police department broke up T Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. |SACCO-VANZETTI DEMONSTRATION IN UNION SQUARE JUST AS POLICE CHARGED INTO IT SACCO Price 3 Cents VANZETTI COMMITTEE SHOWS ANSWERS CHARGE SOCIALISTS BROKE UNITY OF LABOR issues Sta | of Workingel Condemning the actions of tement Revealing Shiplacoff Enemy ass Solidarity the socialist clique who in open hursday’s Communists created a disturbance at | 94.69. Vanzetti demonstration in Union Square, the Sacco-Vanzetti the Union Square demonstration for Sacco and Vanzetti, the New York District (No. 2) of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued a statement, placing tl.e blame directly on Shiplacoff and his associates. The | statement goes on to say, in part: gee Ee “It is called to our attention that) Emergency Committee would be allowed to cooperate, let |Mr. Abraham I. Shiplacoff in a letter’ ], Shiplacoff of the socialist party, chairman of the “ committee”, to rule that the latter organization wou to the American Civil Liberties Union charged that the Workers (Commun- ist) Party is responsible for the break- ing up of the demonstration for Sacco and Vanzetti at Union Square Thurs- day and that it was decided upon at a meeting of the Workers Party Wednesday evening. “Mr. Shiplacoff claims that he and his group will not defend Communist prisoners in the future. “In the first place Mr. Shiplacoff and his socialist colleagues are tr ing to explain away their crimina action in asking the police to brea up the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration, because the thousands of workers! who came to voice their protests de-| | Emergency Committee yesterday issued a statement exp |detail the events leading up to | of the I. W. W. also testified to t {points out how after Leonard | Vanzetti Liberation Committee h allowed to participate. aining in the meeting. Roger Francezan he socialists calling on the police. The statement of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee Frisina, secretary of the Sacco- ad‘agreed that the Sacco-Vanzetti Abraham liberation d not be The statement, in full, reads as follows: The Statement of Sacco-Van- zetti Emergency Committee “The breaking up of Thursday’s Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration in Union Square, where 25,000 workers terms. “When the socialist party leaders 25,000 needle trades workers approved “Two hundred thousand leaflets and 100,000 stickers were given out by our committee, that usetl every means jat our disposal to have as big a turn- lout of the New York workers as pos- y-jhad gathered to demand the release | sible. 1a] |of the two Italian workers, is a crime | | that all those who are working in) |their behalf must condemn in strong | gathered at the Square saw that in- Workers Call For Ben Gold. “When the thousands of workers |stead of a meeting to secure the re- lease of our two fellow workers it manded to hear the militant leader who had gained control of the Sacco- was being utilized to advance the poli- of the striking furriers, Ben Gold. Vanzetti Liberation Committee per- |tical views and prestige of a certain “Many of our members and trade mitted Abraham I. Shiplacoff to de-| organization, the assembled workers unionists generally have brot to us| stroy the plan to have all sections of were not satisfied. the facts concerning the incident,| namely that Gold who together with | members of his union came to share in the protest and demand the free-/ dom of Sacco and Vanzetti was recog- nized by a group of workers and they | raised the cry: ‘Gold is in the audi- ence,’ which was overwhelmingly) the labor movement participate; after Leonardo Frisina had so agreed,| places the responsibility for the dis- graceful display of police brutality squarely on the shoulders: of the so-| cialist party leaders, who for partisan reasons wanted to have exclusive con- trol in the selection of the speakers. \sire to speak and demanded of the| | chairman that he be allowed to quiet) shouting a demand that Gold be give United Front ‘Agreement Reached. ane Plat aaEt: ‘ On Monday, June 27, Rose Baron; “Gold was hoisted by many of the/ and Carlo Tresca, representing the workers upon their shoulders and car- | Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee, ried to the platform. He did not de-| held a conference with Leonardo Fris- | ina, secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti| the audience so the demonstration | Liberation Pompetioe Shai acne might proceed peacefully. “Tt is the selfish and narrow inter- ests of the right wing socialists that is responsible for the entire affair. First they try to exploit the issue of Sacco and Vanzetti in their interests, denying the Sacco-Vanzetti Emer- \agreed that the former organization | should participate in yesterday’s dem- jonstration. It was decided that each lorganization would have two plat- ,forms and be responsible for the con- |duct of their respective followers. | | “We were never informed officially | “Spying Ben Gold, the manager of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ (Continued on Page Two) U. S, STATE DEPT, BULLDOZED SPAIN TO GET OIL SALE Threatened Embargo if USSR Oil Bought That the American Ambassador to Spain Moore actually threatened lgency Committee representing 500,-|of any change of plans but were told Spain with an embargo on all cotton |000 organized workers of this city;by some delegates who are affiliated goods destined for that country une Prisoners Go on Hunger | of which we are a part, the right to|with their organization that at a less she awarded her oil monopoly Strike in Mexico City| XICO CITY, July 8,—Unable} er to stand the atrocious food} ind revolting against inhuman treat-! mt on the part of keepers, several) ndred prisoners at the Andonaegui on today declared a hunger strike. | They demand the immediate dis-| missal of the warden. example of the immigrant who ab- (Continued on Page Three) Can You Secure All or Part of $25,000 Security? | ture On Monday morning, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, A. Bittelman, David Gordon, and Bert Miller will report at the office of the District Attorney in answer to the indictment of the Federal Grand Jury. They will be held pending the payment of bail. We must secure not less than $25,000 in property security to cover the bail of the defendants. secured it will be necessary to pay an exorbitant premium of not less than $700, or if that | cannot be raised then the defendants will have to stay in jail until the date of trial. will be unable to continue their work on the paper. We appeal to all comrades who have any connections with those who have any real estate to secure their consent to stand bail for those indicted. Comrades who are able to secure any part of the security needed should call, If this is not They telephone or. wire at once to te DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, Orchard 1680, | jailing not only Commu dreds of trade unionists in the needle | demons*ration. “Shislacoff is making use of the fact that the Workers Party held a membership mecting on Wednesday, a meeting that was advertised in the ress as was also the order of busi- ness. This is another example of the provocative methods of a Shiplacoff, a Sigman, and of the Socialist and the Forwardite. As to the statement about the de- on of the union affiliated with the eration Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti that they will not in the fu- defend Communist political oners, we want to state that Mr. Shiplacoff and his a iates, the Sigmans, and the Schachtmans are today pointing their fi at and s but hun- industry. “The Workers Party will defend in the future as in the past every work- er taken in the clutches of the capi- talist police, be he anarchist, social- ist, Communist or workers holding any held Wednesday, when Frisnia report- | ed on the agreement between the two} committees, that Shiplacoff, who was | presiding, ruled the proposed plan order. He said that no other speak. ers would be allowed at the meeting except those whom he chose. Fur- thermore, he names to the police who would see to it that no one else would be allowed to speak, The Last Minute Change. “This tyranny established over the | '°S committee by the socialist party took place only one day before the demon- stration. “We did not notify the members of |our organization of the move on the part of the socialist clique to create trouble, as we wanted the affair to be a success, being interested above all in the release of Sacco and Van- zetti. | “We had notified all our affiliated lorganizations of the demonstration also having a resolution in favor of would give the list of | /have a share in the Sacco-Vanzetti| meeting of their executive committee; to the Standard Oil Company and British oil interests instead of a na- tive corporation imposing Soviet Union oil (which actually won the contract) leaked out in an amazing story of U.S. oil diplomacy appearing in yesterday’s issue of the New. York Times, Admitting that the State Depart- ment actually fought the Standard | Oil's battle for the contract, the New | York Times ys, “The American and British governments are under- stood to have brought strong rep- ns to bear upon the goy- of General Primo de Rivera ational petroleum ander Moore, the then American Ambassador, who was {a personal friend of the dictator, was asked to lead the combined British- American attack. Even the British Ambassador, the senior to Mr. Moore ‘in diplomatie precedence, is said to jhave requested the American rep- jr sentative to attempt to save the | situation, Moore Threatens Boycott, “The Standard Oil and thé Shell ernm in other view, so long as he is fighting|the one-hour strike passed at the| companies, it is understood, at/ once in'the injerests of the workingclass.” | Union Squere meeting June 25, where | (Continued on Page Thre