The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1927, Page 1

) | i LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WORKER riGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., uuder the act of March 3, 1878. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 152. Current Events By T. J. O’FLamerry. tT ies of the most dastardly crimes committed by a degenerate shell of a so-called workingclass political party, against the two victims of capitalist injustice, Sacco and Van- zetti, was the action of the socialist party representatives at the demon- stration in Union Square last Thurs- day when they broke up the giant meeting with the aid of the police rather than allow Ben Gold of the Furriers Union to address the gather- ing, at the urgent request of 95 per cent of the audience. * * » igs the secretary of the committee under whose auspices the demon- stration was held had agreed with representatives of the Sacco and Vanzetti Emergency Committee to accept their co-operation and permit their speakers to address the meet- ing, the socialists violated this agree- ment and turned the city police, horse, foot and Bomb Squad loose on the workers gathered there to show their loyalty to their brothers who are threatened with execution in a Massachusetts prison. * * * c is admitted by all honest witnesses to the disgraceful conduct of the socialists that Ben Gold, rather than give the socialists an excuse for call- ing in the police and venting their wrath on the militant left wing unionists in the demonstration, wished to speak to the masses advising them the situation and urging them to re- strain their indignation and refuse to be provoked. But Gold got kicks in the face and chest for his pains and Ce TRESCA, editor of Il Mar- telo, and one of the first to take| up the battle in behalf of Sacco and! Vanzetti, told me in this office that) in his opinion at least 95 per cent of the workers present at the demon- stration wanted to hear Gold speak. They had little use for the liberal hokum handed out by the republican politician La Guardia, that governor Fuller was a decent fellow and would} | do the right thing by the: convicted the “socialist and the Forwardite. s i men. | Those workers place more re- liance in the mass strength of the | workers than in the invisible goodness | that is buried away deep in the heart of some capitalist servant. | * | * * ] i K the light of what happened at the Union Square demonstration last) Thursday it is perfectly clear that} the socialists have completely lost} whatever semblance of decency man-| | aged to sticR to them since the year | | 1919 when they used the police to) | oust left wing delegates from the} | convention in Chicago. They are now! | in open alliance with the Bomb,/ | Squad, the entire police force, the | employers, the labor fakers and the | capitalist press. he stories in the newspapers describing the break-up of the demonstration might have been} | written by William J. Burns’s pub-) | licity man. The socialists are wel- come to their allies. * pee FORD, who once won him- self an unenviable reputation by| declaring that “history is bunk” has again grasped the prize for’ general and unusual ignorance by admitting | that he knew not the nature of the material published in his own paper, | the Dearborn Independent, for sev-| _ eral years past. In this weekly, Ford had a whole, nicely-boxed page all to himself. Hardly a week passea that the publication did not contain a broadside against the Jews, and the multi-millionaire flivver magnate} hired a small army of Czarist forgers | to manufacture protocols designed to prove that the Jews were the cause of all earthly woes from Bolshevism to General Motors. ; Po * (EN Ford’s Hebrews were not busy devouring gentile babies they were engaged in the lucrative practice of getting a strangle-hold on the banking business, hatching _wars between nordic nations and | making life miserable for honest one hundred percent Americans like the | kluxer-souled, slave-driving auto- mobile manufacturer. Ford spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this propaganda and the man who employed agents to snuffle for alco- holic smells as his workers reported to his factory gates in the morning, ; the man had experts wracking their brains for new methods to get more profits out of the bone, and sinew | of his slaves, did not consider any amount of money too much to spend on his anti-Semite phobia. * * * . NOW, this great man appears wear- ing sackcloth and rubbing salt into his wounds. He claims that he did not know that anti-Semitic articles ‘were appearing in his paper, until he found ‘time to look over the files. Then he was sorry that the Jews re- sented those articles and regarded him as an enemy. Poor, naive SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 HAYS DENOUNCES ‘A. SHIPLACOFF FOR ATTACK ‘ON GOLD ‘Should Let Him Speak’ | | Says Civil Liberties | When informed that Abraham I. Shiplacoff was sending a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union trying to place the blame for the} breaking up of Thursday’s Sacco-| Vanzetti demonstration on _ the shoulders of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party, Arthur Garfield Hays of the union issued a statement in which he says that Ben Gold of the} furriers union should have been al-| lowed to speak. “I think it’s an outrage that they} did not let Gold speak,” said Mr.;} Hays. “This bitterness between; rights and lefts in the needle unions} is being overdone. It’s just as in-| tolerant for the socialists to adopt an} | attitude like that as for the Com-} |munists to stop s«ncialists from} | speaking. This meeting on Thursday! had nothing to do with the warfare | in the needle trades. It was a work- |ingmen’s demonstration, and Gold} jand his followers came there as | | workingmen.” Check-Off Is Large NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1927 MASSES RISING "AGAINST CHIANG. ~THRUOUT CHINA |Demand March Against | Nanking Butchers | HANKOW, China, July 10—Not- \withstanding the fact that certain | wavering and uncertain elements ‘of |the Wuhan government favor liqui- |dating the revolutionary government jand making an alliance with the | Nanking government there is growing up in Hankow a powerful movement demanding an expedition against the traitors, Chiang Kai-shek and Feng | Yu-Hsiang. Great mass organiza- | tions, realizing the fact that the series | of betrayals by the military adventur- ers who, because,“ the rapid develop- ;ment of the Nationalist movement, |were able to place themselves at the thead of the troops, has endangered jthe very existence of the Wuhan Na- | tionalist revolutionary government, are ever more insistently demanding | lea expedition against Nanking. per year. Kevin O'Higgins, Vice- President of Irish Free State, is Assassinated DUBLIN, July 10. Kevin O’Higgins, vice-president of the Irish Free State, and minister of justice and external affairs, died shortly before five o’clock this afternoon from wounds received when he was ambushed and shot four times by three men early this morning. O’Higgins was on -his way to mass, accompanied by his wife, when the assailants drove up in an automobile, fired at him, and es- eaped. The wounded man was taken to his home, a few hundred yards away, where he. died this evening after lingering all day. 5 Issue of Hard Coal Miners’ Convention tk SCRANTON, Pa., (FP) July 10—|' A’ manifesto issued in reference to John Cunniffe on way to court. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Millionaire Held as Kidnaper INDICTED as kidnaper of his grandson, Jacob Murdock (left), mil- lionaire lumber man of Johnstown, Pa., denied commiting any crime when arraigned in New York city. Price 3 Cents GENEVA NAVAL _ CONFERENCE IS NEAR COLLAPSE British and Americans Hurl Accusations EVA, July 10.—Tomorrow’s plenary session of the tri-partite arms conference in session here may be the end of the naval parleys if |yesterday’s session of the executive committee in any indication of what must happen tomorrow. The usually austere diplomats who try to conceal beneath polite lan- guage the antagonism existing be- tween the powers they represent {threw off their masks and shouted and raved at each other, hurling re- |criminations in all directions. | A new storm broke yesterday when | Hugh Gibson, head of the American |delegation, proposed to boost the number of American big cruisers from 18 to 25, which would use up 250,- 000 tons of the 400,000 proposed as a |eompromise on Tuesday. It had been | considered that the 400,000 tons re- | ferred to a number of light cruisers, a Sony te sf s He's shown above with Detective Still denied the checkoff promised to|this by the Hankow committee of the International President John L. Lewis | Kuomifitang enumerated all of Chiang 17 months ago at the close of the|Kat-shek’s crimes against the revo- Unity Committee Calls ———~ | but when Gibson proposed that more |than half of the tonnage be applied to heavy cruisers, the British repre- BIG PICKET LINE the clubs of the police did the rest. | * * * |The New York District Organiza-| anthracite strike the miners of the|lution, namely the suppression of | tion of the Workers (Communist) | 20rthern hard coal field are meeting | the workers’ and peasants’ movement |Party has issued a statement flatly | in Scranton at their biennial conven-|by the most ruthless and bloody: ter- denying the charges of Shiplacoff.| tion in belligerent mood. lror, the economie blockade of the | Tt points out that Shiplacoff is trying) Delegates from 80,000 workers are| Wuhan government in an effort to |to explain away the action of his| ready to give their officers the neces-| starve the revolution into submission, socialist colleagues who called upon|sary mandates to demand a show-!the support of the most vicious coun. the police to break up the demonstra-| down with the big operators who|ter-revolutionary actions in the rear tion because the thousands of -work-| agreed to the checkoff during the! of the Nationalist forces, the spread- For Demonstration by Needle Workers Today In a statement issued yesterday by Louis Hyman, Charles Zimmer- man and Ben Gold on behalf of the Unity Committee of the fur- EXPECTED IN FUR DISTRICT TODAY | sentative, Lord Bridgeman, shouted |in most undiplomatic language that in case of. such a program be inau- gurated by the United States the British government “would build ship for ship.” Gibson Waxes Sarcastic. “In other words,” Mr. Gibson re- markked drily, “while we are asked |to trust Great Britain’s purity of in- ‘Straton’s Wilder | Henry! Isn’t it surprising that some- body hasn’t robbed him of his sus- penders? (Continued on Page Four, ers wanted to hear Ben Gold, furrier leader, speak. It continues: “Shiplacoff is making| use of the fact that the Workers} Party held a membership meeting on} Wednesday, a meeting that was ad-! vertised in the press as was also the order of business. This is another] example of the provocative method of a Shiplacoff, a Sigman, and of “As to the statement about the de-! cision of the union affiliated with the | Liberation Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti that they will not in the fu- ture defend Communist political prisoners, we want to state that Mr.! Shiplacoff and his associates, the | Sigmans, and the Schachtmans are today pointing their fingers at and jailing not only Communists but hun- | dreds of trade unionists in the needle | 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 | raised from the hard coal zone. And} other view, so long as he is fighting| in the interests of the workingclass,” Friends Now Forbid. Reporters to Tarry Made wise by the sudden flood of notoriety and the influx of psycho- analytically intentioned visitors which followed in the wake of their suc- cesses among the flock of John Roach Straton, the extremist sect of Penta- costalists no longer let the sober minded into their tarrying services. Reporters who stayed thru the wild singing and exhorting, praying and testifying of the open meeting in Glad Tidings Tabernacle, the Penta+ costalist Church in New York, were gently excluded last night when the! still wilder “tarrying” service started, “No Witnesses.” “This is no place for curiosity seekers,” said the ushers as they barred the door to all whose faces did not show the fanatical expression de- manded of the enthusiasts who re- mained. As the folding doors slid shut, the reporters saw a throng of “tarriers” fling themselves, men apd women and children together, on the floor near the altar in preparation for | the primitive rites to follow. It was these orgies of religious emotionalism which attracted many | members of the church of the funda- mentalist leader, John Roach Straton, and his tacit consent to such prac- tices in his own church raised such a division in his ranks that he has had to interrupt his work of fighting lib- eralism and suppressing plays and books to defend himself from the chargé of,abetting something akin to voodooism, * John Drew Dead. SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—John Drew, veteran actor, died here yester- day after a prolonged illness. He was 73 years of age. 3 | | settlement negotiations of February / |4, 192 Promises Ignored. These promises are now cynically forgotten by the Big Three that dom- inate the field—the Hudson Coal Co. that operates for the Delaware & Hudson R. R.; the Glen Alden Coal Co. that produces for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson R. R. in- terests aril the PenriSylvania Coal Co- that is owned by the Erie R. R. The workers want the checkoff be-| cause it means more funds and se- curity for the union, and the opera- Under this plan there is one hundred per cent organization. No apathetic unionist or company sucker can be a dues slacker. The company pay- master is compelled to check off the union dues from each man’s bi-weekly pay and to turn them over to the local union treasurer. * Need Revenue. To the west of the anthracite are the 165,000 bituminous strikers who need all the revenues that can be that is one reason why the operators are breaking their agreement to grant the checkoff. There is a solidarity of interest between many hard and soft coal employers, through joint selling agencies, kindred banking af- filiations and sometimes joint owner- ship. Pennsylvania Coal Co., for in- stance, as an Erie R.R. concern, is owned by exactly the same _ stock- holders that own the Northwestern Mining. & Exchange Co. with 2000 striking employes in the central Pennsylvania bituminous fields. Dele- ware & Hudson R. R. is closely re- Yated to the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh R. R., whose soft coal sup- sidiaries broke their agreement with the United Mine Workers in central Pennsylvania. Thousands Unemployed. Like the union bituminous miners the anthracite men are affected by’ scab West Virginia coal. Thousands of hard coal men are out of work to- day because their markets have gone to the smokeless coal of the New River fields in West Virginia, and to coke, briquet and fuel oil concerns. Times have not been so slack in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre field for many summers. At this writing the 20,- 000 employes of the Hudson Coal Co. are on a two weeks’ vacation without pay. ing of the most malignant rumors against the Wuhan government. ; Everywhere the demand is rising |for immediate action against Nank- | ing and the preparations for this drive | against Chiang Kai-shek will probably be entrusted to General Chang Fa- |kwei, recently appointed commander of the fourth revolutionary army. 4 : Pa oe usc | Canton Revolutionary Center. CANTON, China, July 10.—The re- of the laboring masses the counter-revolution is | sistance against |tors oppose it for the same reason, |&towing ever stronger here, despite \the terror of the ruling clique. The (labor masses are passing to an attack ‘against the reaction, trade union ac- tivities are being resumed and tremen- ‘dous demonstrations are taking place against repressions, such demonstra- tions sometimes end by _ horrible slaughters of workers, wholesale ar- rests and summary executions car- ried out on large scale and in the ‘most savage manner. | New Strike Committees. The reaction is vainly trying to de- | stroy the last vestiges of labor organ- ‘ization in this city, but the vitality lof the unions guarantees ther con-! tinuation. New strike committees) ‘have been formed, while the reaction |vainly tries to obtain disbandment of} | the Hong-kong strikers, numbering up! |to 40,000. The authorities are vainly |trying to suppress with military methods the uprisings of workers and | have declared that a state o! war, ‘exists in the labor quarters cf the |city. Mass arrests and wholesal? exe-| jcutions by shootings are the orcer of) |the day. | Beset With Enemies. | Every day new and more startling, situations develop out of the kaeido- scopic changes in China. In this city| (Canton) while Li Chi-sheng is carry- jing on a struggle against the triitor, Chiang Kai-shek, he yields te the, pressure of the reaction that is exert- | ed everywhere and attacks the abor unions,’ At the very time he was call- ing for a determined fight against Chiang Kai-shek he was also o'der- ing the arrest and deportation ‘rom Kwan-tung of the left trade wion leader, Cheng Fu-mo. He has cbsed many of the labor unions’ halls and, dispersed the membership, A prace-| ful labor demonstration going to pro- test to the labor department was dis- | (Continued on Page Two) | riers and cloak and dressmakers’ union, the workers in the needle trades are called upon to be on the picket line this morning. “During the past few weeks,” traitorous chiefs of the A. F. of L. with he acive cooperation of the statement reads in part, “the Toronto Local in Call | tentions whatever her demands, it a .. , | does not seem to work the same way for Joint Confer ence |when we make a few ourselves.” Real Admiral Hilary P. Jones, of the American delegation, then pro- A big picket line is expected in the \market this morning when the sixth anh ‘ tek ot ia are pated Meprace fia hee led to explain the reasons for the working conditions of the furriers be- | ppc: earner oe ede the police and Tammany _politi- te pedteaty lary Rimmed cruisers of only 7,500 tons which eee togts Succeeded Mi Jains | with the right wing, the workers are te ries a marian ia Sie ays souls logo nite eke |just as determined to fight until vic. led such ieraisers for anything: but “i viele is reves we ee : ~ | coastal i i s e These tactics however, have tory is achieved as they were when | 0; 2 ee “esta Se bases of up only succeeded in infusing new || the strike began | plies and would practically shut this energy and determination in the || py, ce Ai + will | YP of war ship out of the Pacific at fe ue ae One The workers declare that they will) as far as the United States is con- not be deterred in their picketing by cerned: the refusal of the police commissioner and the mayor to take any action on {the protests of the furriers’ Joint | Board regarding the mass arrests and | police brutality. enemies will fail to crush our strike even tho they utilize the most vicious methods at their com- mand, “Be on the picket line Monday See Break Tomorrow. Lord Robert Cecil, in reply to Ad- miral Jones, blurted out “This is per- fect nonsense.” Immediately High Gibson was on his feet and demanded an apology from C. declaring that " = -|he would ins’ ve the c = /meeting of all four locals of the Joint] withdrew the remarks and the dog- * * * Membership Meeting Tomorrow. crush our struggle.” Healey Defeated as East Fourth St. int Board offi vill be elected | . or agen Crtcen® Noun, Bes elereee (Continued on Page Three) the reactionary machine of the| tem of peace and unity in the Inter- a militant trade unionist, as president Ynited States and Canada issued the Committee of the organization. following call yesterday, “To Trade Alliance for the Recognition of and) “The fur workers of New York City | its report in a short time. They have the Resumption of Trade Relations|are engaged in a bitter struggle at gained credence especially in view of Healey was defeated by John F.| prison. Earlier in the day they im McNamara of Boston, an old-line terviewed seven members of the jury fe ” died yesterday as a result of eating| A thousand bakers in New York,| friends of the defense here are un- a firecracker. | members of the Jewish Bakers’ Union, usually apprehensive of the decision We Will Not Surrender! morning by the thousands and Board will be held tomorrow right fight went on. The plenary session has been called H 5 |and a reduction of the strike assess-| remen S$ ea a a iment will be considered at this meet-| 3 5 ing. 4 : All strikers should assemble in| ECTED Union Hall, 12 St. Marks Place, in-| 8 0s a is. of Manhattan Lyceum this CLEVELAND, July 10.—Utilizing| poRONTO* July 10.As the . SOON ON CASE OF Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen, | national Fur Workers’ Union directl: SACCO VANZET Il e f YY} Oilers and Railway Shop Laborers pefore the membership of Canadian | 5 at its convention here yesterday suc-/ unions, the Toronto Section of the RES Makes Visit to Prison Healey, who is 61, has served as| Unions, Societies, and all Working head of the union for 24 years. He) Class Organizations,” for a joint con-/ BOSTON, July 10.—Rumors are was at one time a member of the! ference, The letter reads: @ersisting here that Gov. Fuller’s with Soviet Russia, and has favored! the present time for the right to re-|the fact that the committee yester- the sending of a delegation to the|tain their own union against dictation d@yY spent two hours with Nicola Soviet Union to study conditions| of their union membership and poli- Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in union politician, ‘Jewish Bakers Win that convicted the two Italian radi- ‘ Bet ais | }eals on the original framed-up LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 10.—Clar-| Long Fought Strike | charges of murder. | have ended their strike with a victory | that may be made by the committee, according to Abraham Baron, of the) with Sacco Vanzetti secretly junion, The strike has been on since | + m the Dedham county defy the bosses and their tools to ‘after work at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 for tomorrow by request of the stead morning. his age as a pretext to “ditch” him, | step in its work of bringing the prob-| ceeded in defeating Timothy Healey; | Unity Conference of Fur Workers of GOVernor’s advisory board of the National Labor! “Dear Sirs and Brothers: | “Advisory Committee” will submit there. (Continued on Page. Two) | the death house at Charlestown state ence Bennett, seventeen months old, 8 { Skeptical of “Investigation. | May a e prison where the Today the members of The DAILY WORKER staff, whc have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury, will have to report at the office of the Llistrict Attorney. Physically we will have to surrender ourselves. But actually we will not surrender in this fight until we win, for we are confident that we have behind us rank upon rank of workers, who are ready to undergo the greatest self-sacrifice in order that The DAILY WORKER may continue its work. We are confident that thousands upon thousands of workers in the mines, mills, factories and farms, who have been deeply aroused by the attack of the var-mongers against The DAILY WORKER, and who thoroughly understand its significance in the present war propaganda period, will fight to the last ditch to defend and maintain the only daily newspaper, which has the courage and determination to speak up defiantly agains) the forces of reaction and cap- italist militarism. { i During the coming week, when we go before the Distrit Attorney, we call upon the com- ‘rades throughout the country to speak, with voices strong aid powerful, speak in a way that will clearly show that you are behind The DAILY WORKER at the time when it approaches its hardest battle, ) | Sue | electric ed, they feel Subway Engineers Put) ‘ht the in ion can be dese cribed in no other manner than “per- | Wrongs Before Delaney functory,” if the committee is really | bas its decision on the ten vol- Subway engineers, of whom 1,800) ¥mes of printed testimony, given | belong to the Union of Technical Men, will place grievances before Transit | Commissioner Delaney soon, W. H. | Nelson stated yesterday. | Pope Won't Divy Up. ROME, July 10.—The “Holy Of- fice” of the Roman. Catholic Church has issued strict orders that no cath- |olies shall attend the “church unity” | conference to be held in Lausanne thi | autumn, vided authority in his church, and prefers to run independently his own sect without regard to others, The pope insists on no di-} them only a week ago. Governor Framing Decision. Gov. Fuller, who is now at his sum- ;mer home in Rye Beach, N. H., is | said to be framing the beginning of his decision on the case. Sometime this week he will visit Sacco ghd | Vanzetti in the state prison, and ‘will | also interview Celestino Madeiros, under sentence of death, who has made a full confession that the Mo- relli gang of which he was a mem- ber committed the crime for which Sacco and Vanzetti are now facing | the electric chair, / ae ool