The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST A CT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 154. Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanerry. ESTERDAY’S comment on the a sence of Dawes publicity has borne fruit and may soon bear fish, or at least fish stories. The tremendous in- road that Coolidge has been making on the poor fish voter sent the vice- president out of his retirement with several bounds, a cartoonist and a fly hatchery. ready, lined up the worm caucus in the G. O. P. Dawes has been forced to try his luck with the fly crowd.) It is not quite clear what position the G. O. P. national committee will take but it is unlikely that they will decide until the fish are counted. . * * IVILIZATION. is now hitting on all fins. A comparatively short time ago elections were decided by the heaviest artillery even outside of Chicago. Today the heaviest fish story teller is likely to win. Dawes appreciates the value of accentuating the differences among the economic interests that cater to the angling section of the voting population, ite is out to make a split between th« fly people and the worm crowd. Al. Smith, a typical candidate of heavy industry is photographed after hav- ing captured a wooden pike. * * * MITH will come home with the lumber vote, the thirsty vote and the catholic vote. Since living as well as artificial bait is monopolized by the G. O. P. Al. must fall back on newer devices. He makes his own fish and catches them at will. If this method of campaigning becomes universal we may see MacAdoo fish- ing with an inverted bottle and Frank L. Low °n, trying to bring them in with one of those nets you drop your socks in while agonizing thru a Pullman sleeper. * * * | Hate capitalist politicians are more | adept at telling fish stories than | catching fish. Between now and elec- | tion time their hired seribblers will | be busy retailing “personal” stories about the entries as sporting writers do about the pugs that are being boosted for the squared arena. Enthusiasm will be worked up until the great majority of the workers and farmers forget their own in- terests and develop as much interest in the race between the rival politi- cians as if the victory of either of them meant a betterment of their conditions. The workers and farmers of this country would give the capi- talist political hacks something else to think about besides indulging in clownish cowboy stunts and stale fish tales if they set about organiz- ing a Labor Party instead of wasting their time hoping against hope that the capitalist hacks will do something for them. AIL, His ‘ighness, Sajjan Finghn, Mahara Jah of Rutlam, India, and his seyen attendants, a minister arrived here last Monday. This parasite is one of hundreds of Hindoo parasites protected’ in their luxurious positions by the armed forces of the ' British government. They spend enough money on dissipation and luxury to feed thousands of Hindoo workers. In return for the protection afforded to them by the British gov- ernment they help the empire hold the teeming millions of India en- | slaved, * * * ane British gave a rather flimsy excuse for postponing a session of the so-called naval disarmament conference. The excuse given was the death of Hevin O’Higgins of the Free State government. As if the passing away of such an inconse- quential person would hold up the polite warfare between England and the United States at Geneva. As plenary session of this conference may never be held. The fact is that the conflict betwe g the two great powers is so sharp \ t there is little hope that the diffe. &.ces can be re- conciled on this side ef a war. t * * * E police are still busy helpiag ing to know that New York trade unionists have spurned the invitation to become strikebreakers, sent out by the A. F. of L. disorganizers Woll, McGrady and Frayne. This invita- tion was broadcasted by the social- ists. The tenacity of the militant furriers is one of the brightest chapt- ers in the history of labor struggles. Despite the odds against them, they fare unconquerable and their courage |) and steadfastness is winning for them the applause of all honest trade unionists regardless of political affil- jation. * * + ILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST is terribly excited over the perfidy of the anti-saloon league in deliber- ately and with malice aforethought ‘(Continued on Page Four); Since Coolidge has al-| } of state and an aide-de-camp, who} these lines are being written the) | | | | | | | { | | | the manufacturers, and right wing |been maneuvering in the center of labor leaders to break the strike of Honan province. the Furriers’ Union. It is encourag- equipped and best trained portion of | PEKING REPORTS T SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by maii, $8.00 per year. Outside New Yor, by mail, $6.00 SPY'S FORGERIES’ AGAINST U.S. 8. R. GIVEN TO SENATE Stoel Pigeon Confesses) In Moseow Courtroom | MOSCOW, July 12—The spy ac- cused of having forged documents used by the state department of the | United States against the demund for recognition of the Soviet Union was today sentenced to death on charges of espionage and forgery of alleged state documents. The doomed culprit is Sergius Drujelovsky, who confessed after exposure to a whole series of forgeries against the Soviet Union on behalf of various imperialist gov- ernments. Used Against Senator Borah. At a time when the Idaho senator, William E. Borah, had forced the Coolidge administration into a posi- tion where it had no arguments against the recognition of the Soviet government, the state department under Kellogg produced forged docu- ents concocted by this same Drujel- ovsky purporting to show that the Soviet Union was conducting Com- munist propaganda in the United States. The prisoner was also guilty of foreknowledge and complicity in the Sofia bomb explosion in a cathedral, having forged a document a month before as a part of the plot, which forgery was used to exile and mur- der a large number of Bulgarian communists who were entirely inno- cent of the outrage. | Spy 2a Weak Character. | The defense attorney, while plead- ing guilty for the spy, tried to plead extenuating circumstances on the ground that Drujelovsky was a weak character who could be persuaded to engage in such low practices, with- out knowing the effect of his deeds, and their definite counter-revolution-! ary purpose. This plea was ignored by the court which declared that the spy was fully aware of his crimes * * * Silent Gn Accusations. WASHINGTON, July 12.—Inquiry at the state department regarding the revelations in Moscow of the spy, Drujelovsky, failed to evoke any re- sponse. None of those at the offices would talk for publication on the | matter and one of the staff resented | questions implying that Kellogg had used forged documents in his attack upon the members of the senate press- ing for recognition of the Soviet Union. CHIANG KAI-SHEK ATTACKSHANKOW PEKING, July 12.—Chiang Kai- shek, appears to have changed his; plan of military campaign, according to reports reaching here. Nationalist troops which had pushed forward are now reported withdraw- ing towards Nanking with the North- crn armies reoccupying points along | the Tientsin-Pukow railroad. | Chiang Kai-shek is reported to he} concentrating his armies for a drive | against Changsha and Hankow where military preparations against him are | under way. Several transports bear- ng Hankow troops are already against | Nanking. ” * * Attack Chiang Kai-shek. WUHAN, China, July 12.—General Chiang Fa-kui has marched to the borders of Kiangsi in his advance against General Chiang Kai-shek. The advance was undertaken under or-} ders of the Wuhan (Hankow) gov-} ernment. Chiang Fa-kui’s army has Tt is the best) the Wuhan government’s troops, and has been nicknamed “The Iron Army.” Near Kiukiang General Chu Pei- teh is advancing steadily against Nanking. There are persistent rum- ors that many sections of Chiang Kai- shek’s army are in mutiny, following the discovery of the common soldiers that he has turned adventurer like the militarist generals he opposes. The most important mutiny is said { E DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., wu per year. si PLANTATION OWNER: NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927 “Wal, I still got OGORKER. ader the act of March 3, 1878, you!” Guard the Daily Worker Fund| NEGROES HERDE Launched by Management BACK TOSLAVERY Committee The grave charges launched against The DAILY WORKER and the members of its staff by the Federal Grand Jury, initiated by powerful patriotic societies, and officially heard before Judge Anderson in the United States District Court day before yesterday has compelled the Management Committee to act upon the serious situation, which the paper is confronting. We place this situation frankly before the Party and its sym- IN FLOOD REGION Waters Ruin Their Crop and Increase Debts OPELOUSAS, La., July 12.—Utter | incompetence in the handling of the |relief for the most serious natural | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. IFASCIST FRAME UP ON “IL MARTELLO” AND “IL NUOVO MUNDO” STAFFS Federal Agents and Mussolini Detectives Try to Start New Sace | The workers arrested were C. C ciliero, Luigi Quintiliano, M. Buzzi, \Antonio Aloia, Joseph Alteri, Mario |Tresca and several others. Mario |Tresca is the brother of Carlo Tresca, |world famous writer and anti-fascist. i Arrested D’Armico. | At the Il Martello offices, failing to {find V. Vacirea, the editor, they ar- rested a clerk, L. D’Armico and con- itinued the raids. Later the agents went to Brooklyn jwhere they arrested Domato Carrillo and Cologero Greco, who are being held as material witnesses in the al- leged murder of two fascist “squad- ristas” supposed to have been kill by anti-fascists on Memorial Day. “Planted” Weapons. Employing the usual “planting” tactics, the police claim to have found two revolvers and four dirks on the Il Martello offices. Those framed with the “violation” of the Sullivan law are Mario Tresca, editor of Il Martello and Luigi Quin- tiliano, a secretary. The employment of department of justice agents in a local unsolved “murder mystery” has all the ear- marks of the creation of another Sacco-Vanzetti frame up. Several eve- ning papers yesterday carried scare headlines to the effect the government is instituting another series of “red round-ups.” Like Red Raids. Monday’s raids are reminiscent of pathizers. The fact that members of our staff are facing penalties) disaster that has ever overtaken the the Palmer and Burleson raids in 1919 of twelve years each, or fines totalling $20,900 in all, or both, and that the paper faces a revocation of its mailing privileges by the Federal authorities, means that we are facing a life end death struggle for the right to maintain the paper. Proceedings in the Federal Courts are highly complicated and therefore involve a heavier legal expense, than do the lower state courts. The DAILY WORKER Management Committee is conscious of the fact. that we are facing not an ordinary prosecution, but rather an attack which is an integral part of the present capitalist offensive against labor, and the present preparation for a new World War. The Management Committee calls the attention of the Party and its sympathizers to the fact that not only a few patriotic societies are involved in the attack upon The DAILY WORKER, but that the entire weight of the Federal Government and the capitalist class of this country will be brought to bear in, the effort to destroy completely labor's most effective weapon) against the Open Shoppers and War Mongers. The DAILY WORKER Management Committee has therefore decided to launch the Guard The DAILY WORKER Fund with which to meet the powerful assault being made against it. The! Guard The DAILY WORKER Fund will be floated by means of | One Dollar Certificates, which are being sent to all subscribers and to Party units. This fund will be used for the defense and maintenance of The DAILY WORKER in the face of the present attack against it. Management Committee calls upon all Party units and friends. of The DAILY WORKER to meet the attack against our paper, with all the enthusiastic support, which the gravity of the situa- tion demands, | DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. | 10 PER CENT TAX' TO BE CONTINUED IS FUR DECISION In spite of the intense heat, Arling- ton Hall, 19 St. Marks Place, was crowded with hundreds of furriers last night who voted to continue the 10 per cent strike assessment and postpone the election of Joint Board | ' | officers for several weeks, ‘A0-Hour Week Fight | Altho Isidor Shapiro, chairman of) the meeting, pleaded that the assess- Will Soon Be Won | By 400 Capmakers ment be reduced to 5 per ‘cent, the! overwhelming majority of the work-| i} Important Meeting of | Needle Trades Section T.UEL. Tomorrow Eve. The Needle Trades Section of the || Trade Union Educational League will hold an important meeting to- || morrow evening right after work |) at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St. All members must attend this meeting. ers spoke and voted for its continua- tion at the present rate. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint | Board, gave a report of the strike. He denied that peace was near in the In- ternational, maintaining that the Jew- ish Daily Forward clique will not al- low the destructive tactics of the right wing to come to an end. Fights All Workers. The struggle of the 400 capmakers who have been fighting for the 40- hour week for the last few weeks is | going forward towards victory. A} | meeting will be held today, 2 p. m., at to be of the troops in Shantung prov- ince. * + 8 White Guards In Tsingtao. TSINGTAO, July 12.—Three arm- ored trains with Russian white guards, mercenaries in the pay of the Northern war-lord’s coalition have united at Kiao-Chau. Referring to the Forward group, Gold said that, “They are not only a hmenace to the furriers but also to the cloak and dressmakers. The fact. is, that if it was not for the police de-|tion while several unofficial talks partment which is working hand in|haye also been held. It is belteved hand with the right wing, every Asso-|that it will not be long before the) ciated shop would today be empty. [bosses give in to the ‘workers’ de- , (Continued on Page Five) mands, Beethoven Hall, East Fifth St., where the latest developments will come up. Conferences are being held between the union and the contractors’ associa- | United States, plain failure to do.any- thing to save thé farmers standing on jlevees and looking out over their |ruined crops and houses rotting away {in the waters still spread over the southern Mississippi valley, is the opigion akout the United States gov- | ernment all in the flooded region. Hoover’s Interest in Credit. Herbert Hoover came down with a great flourish of trumpets, and jour- neyed about the flood waters on a {government launch, promising much. But once he had perfected his machin- ery for controlling the credit of the | government and that based on private when Salsedo, the anarchist, was taken for “questioning” to federal headquarters in the New York post office building and was later found dead on the sidewalk below. The U. S. secret service agents ad- mitted that they were working in con- junction with the Mussolini agents under orders of the Italian Ambas- sador in Washington, Giacomo De Martino. They said that the raids were part of an international plan to wipe out all opposition to the Musso- lini dictatorship. Instead of being taken to the Tre- funds, he lost interest in the people of mont avenue police station in the pre- (Continued on Page Three) STRIKE LOOMS ON IR. T.AS WORKERS SPURN CONTRACTS BULLETIN. Pickets were put on duty yester- day morning, their work being to keep firm the men already affili- ated with the A. F. of L., and to make further inroads on the com- pany union, according to J. H. Cole- man, organizer for the Amalgama- ted. The workers’ union, in a state- ment issued yesterday, says that more than 50 per cent of the I. R. | T. men have signed up. Officials of the transit company refuse to say anything on the strike situation. * * * Strike Looms On. The possibility of a strike of sub- way and elevated lines employes |loomed today following announcement | by organizers of the Amalgamated | Union under the.American Federation of Labor that definite action would be taken within 72 hours. The strike threat followed reports | that the Interborough Rapid Transit Company had sent to each of its em- ployes an individual contract of em- ployment stipulating that they must. belong to the yellow company union. Characterizing the “contracts” of- fered to them by the transit company as “a high-handed bit of bulldozing,” the leaders of the subway union de- clared that a peaceful settlement is virtually impossible. “We see clearly that this company will not deal honorably with our members and that we will have to give them what they are inviting — a fight,” said J. H. Coleman, union or- ganizer, in a statement issued follow- ing a meeting in the Continental Ho- tel. y “We have attempted to open nego- tiations with the company in a friend- ly spirit,” declared P. J. Shea, gen- (Continued on Page Five) \ cinet where the fascists were killed, those seized in the raids were taken to the Highbridge station, which is in an out of the way section of the city. | Third Degree. Of the fourteen arrested, seven were afterwards released and the other seven held as “material witnesses, who were subjected to third degree torture. SACCO - VANZETTI JUDGE IS HEARD ON BIAS CHARGE BOSTON, July 12.—Judge Web- ster Thayer, who presided at the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and who has | been charged with prejudice by well- known newspaper men and writer |was called for examination yester- day and appeared before Governor Fuller’s advisory committee. The sessions of the committee are being held behind closed doors and |none but witnesses and their counsel are allowed to enter. Thayer was called before the com- ‘mitttee to answer to the repeated charges of unfairness and prejudice }made against him by impartial ob- | servers. Thayer refused to talk on leaving the committee room and those who jwere in with him at the same tir also declined to speak. The committee, which consis! Dr. Howell, president of Har Dr. Stratton, president of the M.I.T and former Judge Grant, called in William G. Thompson, chief counsel for the condemned workers and Pro- fessor James F. Richardson, of Dart- mouth College, who wrote one of the affidavits in which he charged that Thayer was guilty of “gross pre- |judice.” Others who were called ‘were Dudley P. Ranney, assistant | district attorney and a public steno- | grapher. | While the advisory committee was jearrying on its investigation yester- |day Fuller was hearing evidence. Witnesses were presented to the committee by William G. Thompson) and cross-examined by Ranney, dis- trict attorney. «| working mai tion, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents o-Vanzetti Case After subjecting fourteen anti-fascist workers to the third degree, Italian secret service agents working in conjunction with United States department of justice operative: ‘to implicate those arrested with the murder of two fascists who | were killed in a street brawl] on Memorial Day. yesterday failed } | | BIAS CHARGED IN CIVIL LIBERTIES’ SACCOSTATEMENT | | Workers Party Refutes Committee Charges Pointing out that the “investiga- | tion” of the smash-up of the Sacco- | Vanzetti demonstration in Union Square last Thursday, conducted by a committee appointed by the American | Civil Liberties Union was never ac- tually conducted and that the “inves- | tigation committee” was headed Norman Thomas, prominent sociali: (leader, the Work (Communist) Party, New York district, request: that the Civil Liberties withdraw its unfair charges against the Workers (Communist) Party and appoint a new committee to conduct a genuine investigation of the affair. Despite the fact that, socialists had denied Ben Gold an opportunity of | calming the audience and had called in the police who broke up the demon- stration, the statement of the “fnves- tigation committee,” headed by Nor- man Thomas, socialist leader, accuses the left wing of violating “the prin- ciples of free speech and assemblage.” - The Workers (Communist) Party statement which denies the charges of the committee follows: No Consultation With Lefts. Director, American Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth Ave., New York City. Dear Sir: In reference to the findings of the investigation committee that you have appointed for the purpose of inves- tigating the breaking off of the Sacco demonstration at Union Square last Thursday we wish to say the follow- ing: —We are surprised that your |committee without any investigation, | (altho it was an investigation commit- tee) for we were not asked to furnish any information on the matter, prac- tically charges the Workers Party with responsibility for breaking up the meeting, when your committee states that the meeting was broken up by “outside interference” and then “in connection herewith we should add that complaints have come to us that four other “open air meetings were |broken up by alleged organized” left j wing” or Workers Party groups. No Reference to Police. Your committee fails to mention the fact that the socialist part: man and arrangement commit- e in charge of the demonstration were directly responsible for break- ing up the meeting by calling police to squelch the insistent demand on the part of large sections of the audi- ;ence that Ben Gold speak. You also |fail to offer any criticism of the po- |lice in this action. The Workers Party, as well as the left wing, have been the most active in behalf of the campaign for the free- | dom of Sacco and Vanzetti since their jimprisonment. The Workers Party jand the left wing have placed the unity of the movement for the free- dom of Sacco and Vanzetti above any ifferences on other questions when i sue was involved. When the ion Committee for Sacco and i issued the call for the one- hour strike and the demonstrations we placed the unity of the movement, the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti above all else for the moment and did everything mobilize the for the demonstra- the fact that this committee ¢ garded the feelings and sentiments ‘of the masses and re- fused to allow the left wing to have any speakers or share officially in the demonstration. Audience Wanted Gold. The demand that Gold speak came \er a spontaneous demand on the part possible to in spite of the masses assembled the moment Gold was recognized by the audience, What followed afterwards was the logical outcome of the policy followed by the s ists who were in the of- ficial charge. 1.—Refusing the left wing speak- ers in spite of the fact that, based on (Cantinued on Page Five)