The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1927, Page 2

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LOW, APOLOGIZES FOR JEW BAITING Industrialist Pleads Ignorance that he ever the nade Brisba furthe utterances will withdraw from circulation the odious pamphlet, “The International Jew.” The new General ‘Motors’ plans for a car to compete with the present Ford product together with the neces- sity for additional capital to carry on H the competitive fight which is sure} to ensue is said to be the main cause of the apology which reads in part: Asks Forgivenes “T deem it my duty an honor: | wholly in the interest and brothers, by asking their forgive-| and citizen.” of right an able man to make amends for the} justice and in accordance with what Wrong done to the: Jews as fellowmen |{ regard as my solemn duty as a man Ress for the harm: I have unintention- | * * * ally committed, by retracting as far | as lies within my ‘power the offensive | charges laid at their door by these publications, and by giving them the | unqualified assurance that henceforth | they may look toxme for friendship | and good will. “Righteous Indignation.” lten five years ago.” Rosenwald Pleased. Julius Rosenwald, Chicago million- letras expressed gratification at Ford’s This assurance of goodwill in the} - v4 7 future contradicts by implication | Pord’s statement. that the publication of: anti-Jewish articles was done _ without his knowledge. 3 Ford Production Off. ~” In the face of the fact that the Ford | trmey, agai s- production has fallen off consider- | Pened, Robert M ably within the last two years this | abject statement loses some of its | edge. The figures are 1,790,258 cars for 1924 as compared to 1,447,515 for | Settlement in Sight. CHICAGO, July 8.—Negotiations for settlement of the $1,000,000 libel suit | | brought by: Aaron Sapiro, Chicago at- | against Henry Ford, have been | law partner of } Sapiro, declared yesterday. Literary Critic Dead. } CHICAGO, July 8.—Keith Preston, | THOUSANDS IN SACCO-VANZETTI a | | aboutface and commented, “Mr. Ford’s |statement is very greatly belated. | | This letter would have been very much | |more to his credit had it been writ-| 4926. Ford concludes his climb-down | author, critic, columunist and literary with: is-made on my own itiative and! pital after a few day: illness. Where Will You Be On ba PG Ue Be Rh day for the first SIX WEEKS’ TOUR t SOVIET to see all the sights of the new world there—the si ments of the first Workers’ Republic, Why not join the party? The Tour Costs $575 for all expenses—including your Russian visé. limited. Time short. Apply immediately to 41 Union Square Phone Stuyyesant 7251. Room 803 YOUR CONVENTION STAMP Buy your unit organizer has none— money for them— your unit organizer is not pushing sale energetically— ‘s WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 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A = leditor. of the “Chicago Daily News,” “Finally, let me. add this statement |died last night in the Evanston Hos- | Sl 9 1 OS 6 Le 6 a 6 eed DEMON STRATION SHOUTING FOR GOLD TO SPEAK The huge crowd, as seen in the picture, was orderly enough until Socialists irritated by the workers’ demand that Ben Gold, leader of the fur strike should speak, assaulted Geld and called on the police to break up the meet ing. THE UNITY OF LABOR AND THE UNION SQUARE DEMONSTRATION HE unity of the labor movement is most vital to its existence and progress. It is the basic fact which must underlie the policy of labor in all its activities. The Socialist Party leaders who are directly responsible for the breaking up of the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration in Union Square Thursday, not only struck a blow at the soli- darity of labor, but directed an attack at the very life of the labor movement itself. No one will deny that the left wing workers, the most advanced section of the trade union movement, have carried the burden of the fight for the liberation of Sacco and Van- zetti. The Socialists in the conventions of the American Fed- eration of Labor, at Atlantic City, in 1925, and at Detroit, in 1926, were silent on the Sacco-Vanzetti issue. They joined with the reaction in evading the issue. Abraham I. Shipla-; coff, especially, who was most responsible for the police at- tack on the workers Thursday, did not raise his voice for Sacco and Vanzetti at the Detroit A. F. of L. convention. The Socialists merely added another chapter, therefore, to their betrayal of Sacco and Vanzetti when they arbitrarily, and with the aid of the New York police, refused to permit Ben Gold to speak after thousands of enthusiastic and mili- tant workers had demanded that he mount the speakers’ stand and address them. The great demonstration for Ben Gold, in the face of police clubs and the hoofs of the mounted Cossacks of the employing class, clearly indicated that left wing workers made up the great majority of the demonstrators, that they had made it the great success that it prontised to be until it was | broken by the alliance of the socialist right wingers and the police. Thus the Socialists have again violated the very solidar- ity of labor, for the preservation and development of which | Sacco and Vanzetti are now facing death in the electric | chair. | The campaign for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti must be and can be made broad enough to allow room for all sections of the working class to participate, no matter what their other differences may be. The forces of capi- talism, now seeking the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, must be shown in no mistaken terms, that every section of the labor movement is solidly and unequivocably for the immediate re- lease of these workers. Any act of provocation or division, which by implication or intent excludes any section of the labor movement from expressing its sympathy with the move- ment for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti, weakens that movement and destroys its power. The Socialists and right wingers in control of the demon- stration worked in full cooperation with the police to enforce their dangerous policy, the same police force which is today arresting pickets, and breaking up labor demonstrations. The | capitalist press which has been most vicious in its efforts to | railroad Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair is uttering | peons of praise for the right wingers, and hypocritical state- | ments of regret for what occurred at the demonstration. | None will be deluded by these utterances. The right wing, the Socialist Party, the chief officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, has done practically nothing to secure the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. The police and the capitalist press, which has come out so openly in alliance with the right wing, has been the most unscrupulous opponent of the efforts to free these men. The sole factor which has thus far stayed the hand of the executioner, and which will leave no stone unturned until they are finally freed, is the power of the rank and file of labor, manifested in labor demonstrations in every part of the world. The rank and file of labor has a right to hear its own spokesmen and no renegades will succeed in their attempts to revoke that right or disrupt the forces of labor, not even in the name of Sacco and Vanzetti. Needle Trade Defense | “Under separate cover, I am send- | You will want to be present at the | Concert which will take place on Sat- urday, July 16, in the Coney Island Stadium. As a class conscious work- er you must be there to express your solidarity with the striking furriers and imprisoned cloakmakers. Then too, you should not miss the oppor- tunity of being present at a concert, where the New York Symphony Or- chestra of 100 will participate, con- ducted by the internationally-known Erno Rapee where Alexis Kosloff, well-knaw~ * -* «e~ will appear in person with his famous ballet ir uve Igor,” in BPecial pet * ( which several of the best known dan- | cers of the Metropolitan will partici- pate. Such a program of attractions has not yet been arranged. Besides these, Ben Gold and the lawyers who fought for the furriers in Mineola will address the gathering. Those who saw Alexis Kosloff in last year’s Stadium Concert held for the benefit of the Passaic strikers, will surely take advantage of this really wonderful treat. We advise you to provide yourself with tickets immediately to be assured of a seat. Tickets are $1.00 fer general admis- sion and $2.00 for wéserved seata. (Continued from Page One) Union, one of the organizations af-| filiated with our committee, some of the workers lifted him up on their; shoulders and moved towards one of) the speakers’ stands. When the 25,-) 000 workers saw Gold they immediate- | \ly demanded that he be allowed to) | speak. More than 90 per cent of those; |present joined in this demand. | | “As the cry was taken up by more ‘SACCO-VANZETTI COMMITTEE SHOWS SOCIALISTS BROKE UNITY OF LABOR {which undoubtedly would have been | held without any trouble. { “In behalf of the Sacco-Vanzetti | Emergency Committee we promise to/ continue our work in the future as| we have in the past until the day ar- | rives that Sacco and -Vanzetti leave | the Massachusetts prison as free men} to once again take their places in the} ranks of the working class of this} country. | |and more workers, the socialists, ‘Au-| “SACCO-VANZETTIL EMERGENCY | | gust Claessens, secretary of th local | organization and Abraham W berg, | called upon the police to break up the |meeting. By this act they showed \that if their own plans could not be realized they preferred to have the) same time allow scores of workers to receive broken heads. | | | Liberafion Fight Goes On. “The Saeco-Vanzetti Emergency| 'Committee will go on with its work! land save the lives of these two con- |demned workers. | “The Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency) | Committee was organized July 9, 1926, \at a conference held at the Labor | Temple, 2483 East 84th St., where 400 ‘delegates attended, representing 500,-! 000 workers organized in trade unions, \labor, fraternal and other organiza- tions. It held its second conference | April 22, 1927, and its third meeting | June 24, 1927, when it went on record) jin favor of the one-hour strike and {the Union Squate demonstraticn. | “Since our committee has been or-| \ ganized it has held hundreds of meet-} lings in the vicinity of New York.| Large gatherings have been held with speakers we have furnished in Phila-} |delphia, Albany, Union City, Passaic, |Hartford, Stamford, New Haven, Newark, Bridgeport, Jersey City, Pat- terson, Buffalo and Elizabeth to name jonly a few. gee: New York City we filled Madi- |son Square Garden on November 17,/ |1926 where over 15,000 workers gath-| jered and listened to speeches by such jspeakers as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, | Arthur Garfield Hays, Carlo Tresea, {Jacob Panken, Norman Thomas, Wil- \liam Z. Foster and many others. Big Demonstration April 16th. mass demonstration in Union Square |where over 20,000 workers gathered included Bishop Paul Jones, Leonard Abbot, McAlister Coleman, Robert W. \Dunn, Arthur Garfield Hays, Paxton |Hibbin, Scott Nearing, Harry Kelly, Carlo Tresca and others. executive committee elected a com- jmittee of three to attend the Sacco- | Vanzetti Liberation Committee’s exe- \cutive board conference to try and coordinate the work. requesting information about the one- hour strike and offering our coopera- tion, On June 15, Carlo Tresca repre- senting our committee attended a meeting of their executive committee and told them that we would cooper- ate wholeheartedly in the strike and demonstration. “On June 25th we received a letter from Frisina in which he said: | “*This committee instructs me to |thank you most kindly for your in- ‘terest in the case of Sacco and Van- zetti and to assure you that we ap- |half, ing you a copy of the circular letter |which we are sending to all the labor unions in the city, so that you may see for yourself what we are doing for that date, “‘Please advise me what—if any- thing—yow are planning for the same date in your locality, “With best wishes and kindest re- gards, I beg to remain for tho libera- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti. “‘Fraternally yours, (Signed) “ ‘Leonardo Frisina, demonstration broken up and at the} ay |yesterday exposing the acts at the | Leonard Abbot, Arturo Giovannitti,| he did not have any objection, due to | “On Saturday, April 16, we held al {and protested under our direction. | told of this new arrangement, strong- The speakers at that demonstration, !y objected to having any body com- “We haye at all times done our ut-| meeting, Abraham Shiplacoff ruled | |most to centralize the work in this|that a discussion on this point was | |eity. On April 26th of this year our) “On May 11 we sent them a letter| preciate all your efforts in their be-|25 We were overruled by men who COMMITTEE, (Signed) “Rose Baron, Acting Secretary. “Carlo Tresca, | Acting Treasurer.” | Roger Francezon, delegate of the arine Transport Workers, I. U. 510, I. W. W., issued a statement Sacco-Vanzetti Liberation Committee meeting held last Wednesday, at which he was a delegate. | It reads as follows: “On July 6th the Italian Chamber of Labor called a meeting of the Sac- | co and Vanzetti Liberation Commit- tee. During the discussion, when a list of speakers was being presented to the delegates for approval, some one among the delegates asked if the | Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee | was going to be represented also. ‘The secretary, Brother Frasina, made | a statement declaring that a few days previous to this date, Carlo Tresca| and Rose Baron came to him and asked to have a united form of action | on this date, at least in'the Union | Square demonstration. | “They emphasized, he stated, that | insofar as the Webster Hall and the Cooper Union Hall had been rented by the Sacco Liberation Committee they would not insist on having | speakers there, however, they thought | it was all important to have speakers | from both sides speaking at the open | air meeting, as there the audience would be largely composed of radi- cally inclined people. | | “Frasina declared that at the time | the fact that he was finding difti- | culties to secure permission from the | | park commissioner for the demonstra- |tion of July 6th, so he promised that both committees could have speakers lat the time. | “But the executive committee, when | ing from the Communists, as they | termed the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergen- | cy Committee, and Frasina said to the delegates, ‘Now it is up to you’. | “At this point the chairman of the | |not necessary and that the decision jof the executive committee was bind- ing. This started protest from my- self, representing the Marine Trans- port Workers of the IWW and from my fellow worker, Ben Edelman, rep- resenting the Industrial District Council of the IWW, also Brother James W. Walsh of the Plumbers’ Helpers strenuously objected to these discriminations, Then I pointed out to Shiplacoff that the audience would be largely composed of radicals of all shades, who would protest against any discrimination, and that some serious trouble could ensue. Shipla- coff declared that the police would protect this committee and that they would be called upon for protection. This caused strong protest from Ben Edelman and myself, but to no avail, ‘had their machine pretty well oiled, | and if was useless for us to try to do anything else as we would have been thrown out anyway, so we withdrew, | | “After having witnessed the das- tardly action of the socialists at! |Union Square, where Assemblyman | Claessens and Herman Hens kicked |Ben Gold on his face and his body |while he was helplessly held by his | admirers who were attempting to shove him on the stand, I deem it my duty to expose that gang of cowards, who have done more to stab Sacco and | Vanzetti in the back than all the capi- | talist agencies put together. | “ ‘Executive Secreta | “On the basis of this letter and the jconversation our committee later held with Frisina, we went shead and pre- pared honestly for the demonstration, “Roger Francezon, Marine Trans- port Workers’ I, U. 51 of the IWW.” | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS ' - campaign against Every Factory a Fortress This is the message of our dead commander-in- . chief, Comrade LENIN. . 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