The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927 Death, Commutation or Freedom? of confidence that couldgbe awak- ened only by a shameful and | Joint Defense Concert | deadly, new and final vanquish- | | ment.” At Coney Island Sta- | * x 7 | dium Saturday Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phons, Orchard 1680 Cable Addrezs The great movement of solidarity |know if, since some retreat must be —.|in the campaign to save Sacco and| made, they can wreck their revenge | SUBSCRIPTION RATES Vanzetti for the working class, which | upon these rebels, who have not feared | By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): has developed to such splendid pro-|to defy them, by burying them alive} 68.00. per year $4.50 ‘six months $6.00 per year 38.50 six months (Portions, may be confronted with ajand at the same time liquidate the | *‘Daiwork” The millions of workers in every $2.50 three months new danger by the time these words|movement which must free them! | $2.00 three months * . > iF On EE eer SY Address all mail and make out checks to | THE DAILY WORKER, 83 Firat Street, New York, N. Y. | sapped the strength, resoluteness and part of the world who have not ceased We declare that these “kind” gen-|to fight for the cause of Sacco and, tlemen who are so ready to grant a|Vanzetti, which has become the cause appear. It is the same danger that militancy of the movement to rescue The big open air arena of the | Coney Island Stadium, 5th Street and) iTom Mooney and Warren Billings commutation of sentence to life im-jof the whole working class, must not| Surf Avenue, will be the scene of the} J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ; eae Se aa Editors from the hangman’s noose. It arises|prisonment, and those who are so|be deluded by talk of commutation of | dual operatic and concert offering of WILLIAM F, DUNNE out of the diabolical cunning and fear|ready to greet such a commutation, | sentence, The workers who have thus | the Joint Defense Committee, Cloak- BERT MIGLER si ..06 0. sees sss business Manager of the vultures of capitalism who see | are not the friends of Sacco and|far by their power and solidarity pre-| makers and Furriers this Saturday, m a |their prey staunchly defended and|Vanzetti. For these fighters, who/ vented the execution of the two rebels! night. Borodine’s world famous Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥., undeF/ oo) ¢, hold it with new snares. ‘have so bravely withstpod the tor-|must continue their great fight with! “Prince Igor” prsented by ‘Alex| the act of March 8, 1879. * * * ‘tures and nightmares of seven years | more consciousness and determination. | Kosloff, premier dancer of the Metro- | This is known to us from the his- constantly being confronted _with| The workers who have snatched Sacco | politan Opera House assisted by his | tory of the past. We remember the|the frightful prospect of death in)and Vanzetti from the chair of death | ballet corps of 50 and 100 musicians | niovemsnt for Mooney and Billings; | the electric chair, who have been must snatch them from the cell, of | of the New York Symphony Orehestra | how it enlisted the support of the en.| borne up only by their own bravery |death by slow torture. No unfounded | conducted by Erno Rapee, will be the tire labor movement in this country |and the knowledge of the support and| joy must dull the sharp edge of the | principal attractions. Rita La Porte, | and in others, of prominent men and solidarity of the millions of the world,| movement. It must continue to fight| dancer of the Metropolitan Opera | and thinkers; a sentence of life imprisonment is in|forward with its million-armed power|Company, Victoria Youngman, and| >. Advertising rates on applicatiom German Farmers Must Pay Tribute to Wall Street. American banking capital, already realizing enormous profits | women, writers how The noted speedster plays the chief off German industry thru the operation of the Dawes plan and} until this great issue is settled with! Alice Delano Weekes, formerly of the| thru the constant penetration of that nation’s industrial sections | by investment capital from Wall Street, now has first mortgages on vast agricultural sections of that country. Yesterday there was floated on Wall Street thru the National City Bank, Lee, Hig- ginson & Co., and Harris, Forbes & Co., a thirty million dollar pond issue for the Central Agricultural Bank of Germany, secured by first mortgages on agricultural properties. A smaller issue | (four million) was floated for the State of Hanover. As is cus- tomary there a discount of approximately t2n per cent. The banks obtain five per cent discount for handling the issue, while hey in turn sell it to their customers at an additional five per cent discount. Actually there is ple ced, at the disposal of the German bank, credits to the extent of )00,000 on which the American bond holders draw six per cent interest on $30,000,000. Hence it means that the Wall Street gang has a claim on the products of German agricultural labor and ft further indicates that this and future in- vestments will be used to dispossess the farmers of the regions covered by American mortgages and institute large-scale agricui- ure. Just as capitalism, in its early stages inaugurated the wholesale expulsion of the agricultural inhabitants from the land in order to obtain sheep-walks to supply wool for the rising textile industries of the cities, so today, in its final stages, capitalism again drives the farmers and peasants from the land, erases the boundaries between the plots of land and inaugurates machine yroduction with seasonal employment of wage slaves, with the resultant pauperization of the agricultural population. The effect of this policy upon the American farmers will be the same as similar European investments in industry. Inten- sified agricultural production in Germany in order to pay interest to the American bankers will cause German products to enter into the cry for a general strike to free the two frame up victims found an echo among ‘hundreds of thousands of workers. We know that with a whole world convinced of their inno- cence, the executioners were forced to forego murdering Mooney and Billings, and instead cheated the movement for the two labor fighters out of its victory by putting them in prison for life. The change of the death sentence to one of life impris- onment was the clever evasion of the {consequences of the powerful and swiftly growing movement to vindi- cate Mooney and Billings. But al- though they were saved from the death of the sprung trap, they were condemned to the living death of life imprisonment and the movement for |their release was virtually destroyed. * * * The workers who had rallied to Mooney and Billings were soothed by \the sinister argument that’ imprison- ment for life was, in any event, bet- ter than execution. They were told that we would have to be satisfied for the while with one victory, and that the final release of the two fighters would be won later, But after ten years there remain only a few who still keep alive the memory of these buried men and who are pledged to continue the work for their freedom. The great movement for Sacco and | Vanzetti, which now embraces _mill- {ions of workers, must not allow itself |to be dissolved by a similar subter- many respects worse than death, for| it is at best a living death, a death | by the spirit-crushing torture of cold} ‘The hearts of the Massachusetts bers and pe ie : ie \executioners have not softened with e repea' warning to the | jindness, friends of Sacco and Vanzetti which | ou, comrades has not changed. Bartolomeo Vanzetti addressed to his| the contrary, they seek for new friends almost a year ago, in the! methods of torment. The working pages of the Labor Defender, when class must reply: the decision on the case had been post-| .- ae z yw ‘ | Not the chair of death, but life for poned and illusions on its outcome Sess ahd Mepectll | were being created: | te ri Not the imprisonment of death, but “We see evil, not good, in this | ; delay. Look out, Batis and com- _ | freedom to Sacco and Vanzetti! rades, let no unfounded optimism lure you in a restful slumbering a great victory. July.) ALL CHINA FEDERATION OF LABOR UNIONS CALLS ON SAILORS OF IMPERIALIST POWERS TO ASSIST WUHAN, (By Mail).—To workers The said federation leading 2,590,- of the whole world:—The United| 000. organized Chinese workers has States of America is a democratic|engaged struggles against capitalist | government in name but not in fact. imperialism for many years. The Na- She persecutes and entraps our class- tionalist revolution of China, through |workers, the proletariat, in the self-/the guidance of us, the proletariat, | same way in which the autocratic gov- Will sooner or later reach its final | ernments of Europe do to the working goal. For the sake of avenging the classes, Recently the state govern- murdered class-comrades and with the |ment of Massachusetts for the sake aim of accomplishing the world revo- ‘of pleasing the venal capitalists pro- lution within the shortest possible ~nounced death sentence for execution| Period of time, we resolutely deter- on the 10th of July, 1927, against our|™ine to fight most desperately and élass-comrades, Nicola Sacco and Bar-| most violently against capitalist im- tolomeo Vanzetti. This is sufficient perialism of all nations.—The All- |to show that American imperialists China Labor Federation. lare as equally cruel and tyrannical as | . * * Capitol theatre ballet, will be pre- | | sented in the principal roles. This concert is being given for the | for their wives and children. | Landy, campaign manager of the Joint Defense Committee expects | more than 30,000 people to attend the |concert this year. His estimate is ; prompted by the enormous success of | last year’s turnout at the same place Ludwig of the textile strikers in Passaic. | This is the second consecutive year | Ev | that Kosloff is appearing at the Sta-| ¥ | dium for strikers’ benefit. Last sum- | mer he presented Rimsky-Korsakoff | “Scheherezade.” This year the ever | popular “Prince Igor’ will be one of the main features. .Terpsichorean | brated artists will complete this un- {usually large program. The orches- | tral sections which will be played by the New York Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of Rapee, includes compositions by Wagner, Richard and Johann Strauss, Tschaikewsky, | Rimsky-Korsakoff, Berlioz and Boro- \dine. Tickets, which are sold at $2 | and $1, can be purchased in the office |of the Joint Defense Committee, 41 | Union Square. Broadway Briefs and their desire to murder | PUTPose of raising funds for the de-}| On fense and relief of the imprisoned | | furriers and cloakmakers, and also} —James Cannon (Labor Defender, | given for the benefit of the children! }and ballet divertissements by cele-| role in “The First Auto” now show- | ing on the Colony theatre screen. The LADDER All seats are reduced for the GRAND STREET FOLLIES B. S. Moss | Warner Bros. Present COLONY |“The First Auto” 9 with Barney Oldfield and NEW VITAPHONE Noon to Midnite i | ae 2nd Big Week B. S. MOSS ; | GRETA GARBO CAMEO | & Werner Kraus in a & i“Streets of Sorrow” Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the joss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- |ty has lost its fcremost leader and eae % the American working class its | Africana, a Negro revue had its} staunchest fighter. This loss can only | Premiere at Daly's Sixty-third Street | be overcome by many militant work- theatre last night. Ethel Waters is | ers joining tha Party that he built. |one of the chief players. | Fill out the application below and |fuge. It is not a fantastic possibility | other imperialists in the world. We, HANKOW, (By Mail).—To sailors | |that is projected here, but a proba-|the class-workers of the world, must of all nations in China, on the Chinese | bility that may rapidly develop into| jointly protest against the taking of | National Humiliation Day, May 9, \a fact. |precious lives of innocent class-com-|1927-—Dear friends: Today is the world competition with the products of the American farmers, with the result that the working farmers of this country will face still more difficult years than they now face. j Capitalism exploits alike the workers and farmers. The fact) Already the rumor is being cau-|Tdes. ; |Chinese National Humiliation Day. MAM ike: Besline. “ki sastibes. ok the that it does not directly employ farmers as wage laborers does not |tiously spread that the governor of In Rumania, Bulgaria, Italy and Let us tell you very briefly its history | Workein > (Communist) Party anal \ coneeal the fact of their exploitation. Many of them today receive | Massachusetts, in whose hands the) under the white guard dictatorship of | in order to make it more clear. Twelve New England Y. W. L. carry forward the work of Comrade final decision on Sacco and Vanzetti| Poland, the most elemental rights are years ago on this very day, May 9, etl Ruthenberg. ~ less ‘than the cost of production of their commodities; their ex- ploiters receive the rest. The answer of the workers and farmers I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. lis placed, may commute the sentence | denied to our class-workers, the prole- | 1915, the Japanese imperialists forced | Training School Opens B ee, of death to one of life imprisonment. | tariat, and furthermore many laborers China to accept the “Twenty-one De A a to the ever-growing power of Wall Street must be a class party of It is being spread so that the enemies | are imprisoned and many labor'lead- | mands” which had been presented by t Winchendon, Mass. lakor that will represent the interests of these two groups of of Sacco and Vanzetti may feel out/ers butchered. We, workers of the! them on the seventh of May.’ The, slaves. the reaction to this prospect among | world, the proletariat, cannot bear main purpose which the Japanese im- WINCHENDON, Mass., July 11.— ai F ‘ 3 . | the defenders of the two Italian rebels. | this kind of treatment any longer now. perialists had was to carry the policy The Young Workers League Training | In addition to the Sie abs effect upon the American farmer, They want to know if this splendid | We must unite together tp work for of Japan towards China at that time./ School opened on July ath 19277 st ‘Addn the continuous stream of investments to Europe and other parts | movement of solidarity, which has) the world revolution, Down with our|To speak definitely, they wanted to| Lake Dennison, Winchenden, Mass.| o: the world means that this country becomes ever more deeply |time and again struck heavy er rge g enemy, es | oxercise ‘4 coe their cruel’ policy a Students from Massachusetts, Maine, ag pe ‘. maaR at a 2a ¢ pare ' \at the Massachusetts reaction, will|of all nations. venge the blood of economical exploitation, expansion of New Hampshire, New York. M 1 4 \ = eg eg eplsarlbegd SCS VELEN wae hat allow itself to be dissolved with the the butchered comrades and liberate territory, the highest influence, poli- and Connecticut totaling’ 40 neve . ero MOTE Wak pesenee CYEL OLE menacing. : special Y | bait of a commutation. They want to| us from our pains. tical control and of the Asiatic Mon-| registered. is there grave danger of an attack upon the Soviet Union which ~ |roe doctrine. The secretary of the school com- stands as a monumental inspiration to the oppressed of the world These cruel demands they were pre- jnittee, Comrade Kay, opened the [Name ...sesee | Occupation {Union Affiliation. a | Mail this application to the ‘Work- lers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New workers and farmers to respectfully rise and sing ‘““My country, | whether the groan under colonial despotism or live in the debtor vented from carrying into existence school with a short address on its at the risk of many a life yet they| aim and purpose and greeted the stu- ‘have greatly influenced other imper-| dents on behalf of the District Exec- \ialistic countries and opened a gate in| utive Committee of the Young Work- China for them to come over to exer-|ers Communist League, District No. cise their cruel policy. Consequently, | !- la series of terrible massacres and| After his address followed the ‘bombardments was conducted by them/ greetings of the District Agitprop lin Darien, Tsing-tao, Canton, Shang-| Director, Comrade Rudolph Shohan, \hai, Shamen, Hui-chow, Wan-hsien, Who expressed the satisfaction that |Nanking, Kiu-kiang and Hankow. the League is able to train the second |They have got all imperialistic coun-| STOUP of future leaders of the Young itries on their side and at the same| Workers League of America, which nations that absorb millions in investment capital. The workers and farmers of the United States must be aware of these new dangers, of the new threats of war that are the in- evitable outcome of the unbridled sway of Wail Street over the government and must organize politically to fight against the bloody conspiracies that go hand in hand with the ravages in for- eign countries of Yankee imperialism. Government Clerks Can’t Vote Against Cal. Most of the 60,000 government clerks in Washington thought it no more than “fair” for the administration to permit them to enjoy a full holiday for Saturday during the intense heat of the summer months. The matter was referred to President Coolidge on a three-month’s vacation at his “summer white house” in the Black Hills of South Dakota, whence he had gone for political pur- ‘tis of thee,” the next time someone bursts forth into patriotic | | York City; or if in other city to song. Even today, after the waters have subsided in Arkansas, Mis- sissippi and Louisiana, when malaria is taking an unrecorded toll of death and more frightful plagues threaten to devastate the land the low political shyster, Cal Coolidge, in whose hands rests the power to call a special session of congress to deal with the matter, refuses to budge from his comfortable summer home in the Black Hills of South Dakota, because he fears the political consequences of facing the responsibility for the recreance of the government | Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bly., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- | phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why | Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- |palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. | Every. Party Nucleus must collect | 50 cents from every member and will receive 20. pamphlets for every men\- in neglecting to build proper safeguards for the inhabitants of the time they have induced all the new Was very well. accepted by the stu-| ber to sell or distribute, Mississippi valley. | District 2 Mines Skew How to Win the Strike The militant action of striking miners in and around Clear- | \field, Pa., where, marching into non-union territory they stage land old militarists—Chiang Kai-shek | 4¢?ts. ‘and Chang Tso-ling—to join them.) They want to commit another series) enemy and your enemy is our enemy. of more horrible massacres and to Let us work together and shout: | crush the revolutionary spirit of “Long live the proletarian workers |China by means of this united force. | cf the world.” | You, dear friends ought to know. ‘Success of the sailors’ help in the |that the defeat of the revolutionary world revolution.” Nuclei in the New York District | will get their pamphlets from the Dis- | trict office—108 Kast 14th St. | Nuclei outside of the New York | District write to The DAILY WORK- | BR publishing Co., 33 East First | Street, New York City, or to the | National Office, Workers Party, 1118 W. Washi Blvd., Chicago, I. The All-China Labor Federation, | nea eats . poses and to escape the sweltering heat of Washington in a Hankow, May 9, 1927. i i arades and demonstraticns against the coal barons that result) moy China i summer, disapproved the request, so the clerks will work the cus- Pe ih movement. of China is the defeat of A jin thougands of miners joining the ranks of the strikers, gives the world revolution and hinders the => tomary six days. ; /a lead to the whole union. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE EWSSTANDS Keep Up the Sustaining Fund! T PPECIAL PRICE emancipation of the oppressed peoples 3 The clerks will have to make the best of it. If they don’t like | In one instance, as reported in dispatches, a mine which had has a peat The aarti de ae it they can exercise their inalienable right to quit and if they been non-union for 15 years was closed completely, the workers |more correctly. ‘They would not be object too strenuously they will get kicked out. They are consid- esponding to the strike call almost to a man. leontented in carrying out their policy * ered mere automatons and cannot register a protest because they | The Clearfield incident is a smashing reply to the official-|of exploitation and oppression in one are not even permitted to vote so long as they hold government dom of the United Mine Workers which so far has failed to launch | country fonly any hah do the ance jobs or live in the city of Washington. The other alternative is to| any systematic organization work in the non-union districts. pO acne ies and even in their organize a union and strike. That, however, would be a political |i, indicative of the sympathy among the thousands of non-union | aay dallove, Ravel gone tlvhheh ail act, because the policy of all departments of the United States gov. men for the strikers, and of resentment of the coal barons’ auto- the troubles only for the imperialists. ernment is scab. Unions are prohibited and the workers are sub- | cracy expressed in action when given the right kind of leadership. | What else have you go: besides earn- Si ject to the whim and caprice of the politicians at the head of the) The action of the miners in District 2 should be broadcasted ink Si feu toe of Hollsts phot OY Brolidss's respect for the demands of labor is clearly tieaid ee ie =e ee geesg omer ang ors of imperialist, suffered more in F - . ea jaction in those districts bordering on non-union territory andthe great European War 1914-1918? in: this latest act and ought favorably to impress the workers and in our opinion all that is necessary is for the officialdom to stop | Was not a great number of the Chi- farmers of the middle west—to fight against him and the £aN¥ the pussyfooting policy so far followed and allow the rank and nese poe deceived by and sacri- hé serves by striving for a class party of labor thag will also put | file to use the experience it has gained in a hundred bitter con-| Wirt baie Ae eekine Lane aati: forth the demands of the farmer: flicts by which the union has been established and maintained. | Jaborers or imperialists, when war tee If the “Save the Union” bloc leadership will, with the Clear-|was over? Most of you, sailors—we : Floods in Saxony and America War and Imperialism With the tremendous growth of American Imperialism and the increasing dangers, of war, these books should be read especially at this time. They are offered at a lower rate for your advantage. IMPERITALISM—by Lenin. In an attractive complete edition received from field action as a precedent, initiate similar well-organized demon- |ate sure—are come from the working P A * i . si +1) /class of your countries. Will you be strations in other sections the sheer weight of mass pressure will bie Li aabunetat Sour brethem wane A flood in Saxony in Germany, the result of a cloudburst, | force the official U. M. WwW. A. family into some kind of support jers and sister-workers in your coun-_ England; 60 took a toll of some ninety lives. Though small, almost insignifi-|for these rank and file actions or make them abandon all opposi-|tries a better condition of livelihood 3 :! 7 cant in comparison with the vast inundation of the Mississippi | tion to them. ’ jat the risk of your own lives? We, Mayadas aes AD study in American Im- river valley in this country, the government took immediate steps It should not be forgotten that District 2, of which John HE ea Oa ata aval Be dente Nearing and Joseph Freeman —.50 to: relieve the suffering. It sent in federal troops with fully-| Brophy was formerly president, has a tradition of militancy and| gone for them nor treat Sten wall: STOPPING A WAR 4 equipped camp kitchens to relieve the starving victims. No effort! is living up fo that tradition in spite of all the damage done to) What then is the use for you to mur- By Scott Nearing eae t was spared to relieve the suffering. _ Contrast the action of the authorities of that small province, poor in wealth and resources,’ with the criminal neglect by the United States government of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Mississippi floods, left to the:tender mercies of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who utilized*the disaster to increase the power of the New Orleans bankers, part of the Wall Street octopus. |the district by the Lewis machine in its unprincipled fight .on | Brophy. The same thing holds true in other districts but from the |“Save the Union” bloc must come a concrete program and direc- tion. mi The miners’ strike can be won but it cannot be won by wait- ing. This is clearly seen by the rank and file as the Clearfield This comparison ought to be sufficient to cause the American} action shows, 3 der, the Chinese workers who are in! no better condition than your brothers | are? We know and do believe that | you would not do this. Why, then, | will you net help us in demanding for the gancellation of all the unequal treaties? In doing this, you help not only the poor workers of China but | also the brother-workers of your own coupmies, because our enemy is your A total of $1.20 worth of books, seat to any address postpaid, for $1.00 Books offered in this column on hand N * in Mmited quantities. All orders cash * and filled in turn as recelved, : a a li