The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WORKER riGHTs: FOR THE ORG: TION OF THB FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK UNORGANIZED FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 155. By T. J. O’FLaAmerry. APITALIST editori unrestrained in t over the execution of the I State minister of justice affairs. How different wa t. titude when the Soviet minister to Poland was assassinated by a young monarchist. That youthful murderez ‘was subtly justified in the commis- sion of the crime. How ¢ i ous those capitalist hacks are. gins was an imperialist agent. V koff was a representative of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. That explains the double standard of judgment. nation | gt | - the lengthy verbal tilt between | John F. Hylan, former mayor of | the metropolis and Samuel Unter- myer, a liberal with a roving com- | mission to fight for sundr | causes that are usually not on by some substantial THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., uider the act of March 3, 1878, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Current Events| CORRECTION IN CONNECTION WITH COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL CABLE The DAILY WORKER has been instructed by the Central| Free | Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party to pub- lish the following correction: “The headline and explanatory comment published over the Communist International thorized by the Central Executive Committee but was written in The DAILY WORKER editorial office. ecutive Committee did not offer any interpretation of the | Communist International cable. It is self explanatory andis | supplemented by the cable of July 10th, published yesterday. | The two cables are to be taken decisions of the American Commission, as showing what the Communist International desires in the American Party. The | Communist International stresses the necessity of unifying the Party and preventing a factional fight, especially in view of the lack of fundamental political differences and the big tasks, such as the war danger, cable of July 7th was not au- | The Central Ex- together, with the forthcom*ng facing the Party.” | appeal will be taken from the de- NEW YORK, THURSDAY,:. JULY 14, 1927 FUR WORKERS WHO ARE ATTACKED BY Slush Fund Committee Will Try Again to See Vare Election Ballots WASHINGTON, July 13.—An cision of Federal Judge J. W. Thompson, in eastern Pennsyl- vania, in dismissing the Reed sen- ate committee’s suit to open the Pennsylvania primary ballot boxes it was stated here today by Sen- ator King, (D.) of Utah, the only member of the committee in Wash- ington. These are the ballots of which the committee had evidence that fraud was involved around them. They have been kept away from the committee by one excuse or another, and a move is on foot now to destroy them at once. group, Hylan came off with flying | colors, John refused to be intimi- dated and he whaled the ~interests gallantly. Hylan is a five-cent-fare | man and in this big city a five-cent| platform is no flimsy support. It is} reported that Hylan did not get thin on his struggle in behalf of the corn- trodden patrons of the I.R.T. and B.-| M.T. Nevertheless we like to see him in action and contributing to the gaiety of the masses. * * pest represented certain petty bourgeois interests who were in conflict with Wall Street. The latter | commissioned Al Smith to cut John F. off from his political scalp and Al succeeded after practicing with} the knife for a few years. In return| for Al’s services Wall Street, or a substantial ‘section thereof, agreed | that it would not consider it a cala-| mity should Al manage to reach the white house. Big Biz is on top just against the labor movement. now but Smith and Tammany are anxious to collar the five-cent vote that John lived on for many years. Hence the farce in which Samuel Untermyer is playing a leading role. ‘We advise the workers to get all the laughs they can out of the comedy. That’s about all they will ever get out of it. 'VERYBODY does not love a cow- boy, it seems. While our nice! little president was making the} horses giggle on the plains of South| Dakota, dressed out in his ancient regalia, angry farmers. were meeting | in conference in Minneapolis and! throwing their lariats at the white! house incumbent. Those farmers are hard to please. Only a few short weeks ago, Coolidge informed them that there was not a fly in the na-| tional ointment, and that prosperity | was a drug on the market. Now,/ here are those farmers acting as if} he never told them they had nothing | to worry about. | * * * | 'HE Geneva naval conference is still marking time without any indica-| tions that an agreement between the rival powers will be reached. Even} if for the sake of appearances, a for- | mula of some kind may be agreed} on—tho that is not probable—it will mean nothing. The struggle for| naval supremacy, the offshoot of| world commercial rivalry will go on with greater intensity. * * * i IR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN de-! clared in the house of commons that war with the United States was | outlawed in every British heart. He) did not seem to be so sure that this applied to the great heart of Ame- rica. Strange to say there are peo- ple that believe this bunk. The masses of Great Britain and the Uni- ted States have not a thing to say/ about the war plans of their respective imperialists, Their’s is but to fight and die when their masters give the word. Of course it will not be al-} ways thus. The time will come when | the workers of all countries now un-| der the flag of capitalism will refuse to kill each other for the profit of others, but will get rid of capitalism, and automatically of capitalists. Un- til then wars are certainties and peace an illusion. * * * dita! are critical and trying days} for Saceo and Vanzetti. The com-| mittee appointed by the governor of | Massachusetts is busy and perhaps | we may know inside of another week whether those long-suffering labor organizers will be seated in the elect- ric chair, committed to a living death ‘in the penitentiary or freed. Now, more than ever the voices of the American workers should be raised in unison in behalf of Sacco and Van- zetti. It is almost impossible of be- lief that at this crucial hour when the thots of all workers should be on their comrades threatened with death at the hands of the capitalists of curity and domination of the Central Executive Committee Issues Call To Party Membership The Centra] Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party having considered the recent Federal Grand Jury indictment against The DAILY WORKER, the official organ of our party, calls upon party members to rally to the campaign to raise funds to GUARD THE DAILY WORKER. The Central Executive Committee sees in this latest move of the federal government, instigated by various patriotic organizations, which are closely af- filiated with the capitalist interests of the country, another step in the general offensive THUGS ARRESTED |Held for Assault While| Rights Are Not While picketing in front of 148 W.| Twenty-ninth street, yesterday mor- ning, Philip Glatzman was attacked by three right wing thugs—Harry Rider, Jacob Gross and Jerry Larson. Henry Goldberg, an- other picket who was nearby, came to Goldberg’s assistance and helped him beat off his assailants. Seeing that the gangsters were getting the worse of it, members of the Industrial Squad appeared upon | the scene and placed the five of them under arrest. | Felonious Assault Charge. 2 fur worker, | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOREER PUBLISHING CO,, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. American Counsel Says Mme. Borodin Released By Peking High Court | WASHINGTO ame Borodin, wife z |] to the Nationalist Government, 4 |] the time of its advance against the North has been ordered released by the Peking high court, |] Mayer, American consul ad the state department today. was arrested some month and charged with “treason” ago, to Chang Tso-lin. There was never any evidence against her, but Chang’s officers raided a neutral ship, the “Pamiat Lenina” flying the flag of the U. S. S. R. to cap- ture her, and have held her pri oner until now. PLASTERERS AND It is but another instance of the growing aggressiveness of exploiters. American imperialism and a further development of its increasing war machinations. The Central Executive Committee calls upon all the units of the party to utilize the Dollar Certificates for the GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND to reach sympathizers and all available connections outside of the party, so as to build a strong and impregnable wall of defense around our party organ. The party must recognize that the tremendous pressure which is being brought to bear upon The DAILY WORKER, is due to the fact that the capitalist class of America, is fully aware of the danger of such a paper, to the se- \ We call upon the party therefore, to be the leader in the fight to protect our party organ, to demonstrate its ability to rally a wide circle of supporters in the fight to defend our chief weapon against the capitalist attack upon the labor movement, ‘and “to ’safeguard our strongest instrument in the fight against the new war danger. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. Fourth Sacco-Vanzetti Conference Called for Tomorow Night at 8:00 A report of the one hour strike on July 7 and the Union Square demonstration will be given at the fourth conference of the Sacco- Vanzetti Emergency Committee which will be held tomorrow eve- ning at the Labor Temple, 244 East 14th St. 8 p.m. All labor organ- izations must see that its delegates are present. Further activitiy of the committee will be taken up. GENEVA CONFAB FAILURE SEEN BY WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 13.—Scant hope was held out here today that the Geneva naval conference will survive the forthcoming plenary meeting. Even state department officials, | failingly optimistic concerning a fav- jorable prospect of an amicable agree- }ment between Great Britain and the United States on the controversial question of cruisers. Britain’s latest proposal, which is understood to be for limitation of the number of 10,000-ton cruisers each nation could possess, with no limita- tion at all on total cruiser tonnage, was described unofficially as but lit- \tle, if any more, acceptable to this government than Britain’s previous | proposals. Every cruiser proposal Britain has advanced to date, it was pointed out, would have the net effect of giving the British navy undeniable naval superiority. The lobbyists for a big navy are very busy here and swarm about the state department. The hotels, usually vacant at this time of year, and for the most part but half full even dur- ing sessions of congress because big business feels that it needs fewer lob- byists to influence the Coolidge ad- ministration, are now full of agents of the armor plate, munition, arms | who have hitherto pretended to be un-| Massachusetts, that the socialists!and other trusts interested in big ap- should be trying to disrupt the ranks | propriations for armaments. The state of those whose long-drawn struggle|department is acting as a publicity has hitherto halted the hand of the/agent for these elements executioners. For this treachery) The British insistence upon the (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) BENCHLEY AVERS THAYER SAID HE ‘WOULD GET THEM’ ‘Saceco-Vanzetti Hearing | Reveals Prejudice BOSTON, July 138. — Robert C. |Benchley, New York dramatic critic, | |was called before Gov. Fuller's ad- | visory committee yesterday and sub- | ‘stantiated the statements contained | j in his affidavit in which he charged } that Webster Thayer, judge in the} | Sacco and Vanzetti trial made “prej- | |udiced and biased” public remarks | while the famous case was in pro- | gress. Benchley was summoned by the de- |fense to give details of the affidavit jhe had submitted, which told of a ‘conversation with Loring Coes of Worcester. Benchley affirmed Coes | told him of statements made by Thay- jer at the Worcester Golf Club, which showed that the judge was prejudiced in the case. Promised to Get Them. The affidavit read in part: “Mr. Coes said that Judge Thayer had re- ferred to Sacco and Vanzetti as ‘bol- sheviki? who were trying to intimi- | date him, and said that he would get them good and proper.” Benchley was briefly cross exam- ined by Dudley P. Ranney, represent- ing the prosecution before the com- mittee. Albert H, Hamilton, firearms ex- pert of Auburn, N. Y., was the first witness called yesterday and spent some time with the committee behind closed doors. When he left he re- fused to make any statement. And Still They Come. After Benchley the commission in- terviewed Joseph Glancy, a newspa- perman. He was in the commission room about five minutes telling of a conversation he had with Coes regard- ing the Benchley affidavit. The next commission witness was Mrs. Lolis B. Rantoul who attended the trial as an unofficial observer for the Greater Boston Federation of Churches. She also wrote a state- ment concerning Judge Thayer in which she said that his attitude and private conversation was of a preju- diced nature. Driver Not Vanzetti. Two other witnesses before the (Continued on Page Three) » Important Meeting of Needle Trades Section LUE L. This Evening A very important meeting of the Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League will be held tonight, right after work at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and Ninth St. All needle workers must attend this meeting. PEASANT RISINGS SHAKE REACTION THRUOUT CHINA SHANGHAI, July 13—The Chi- nese press here reports a big peasant outbreak in South Kiangsu province. The uprising is against the Nanking government and the agents of Chiang Kai-shek have been driven from the province by the mighty sweep of the revolt. It is reported that the Nank- ing bandits have ordered army di- visions into the province with orders to erush the rising with the utmost force, as other risings are constantly be put down. * * * CANTON, July 18—Over 2,000 peasants stormed Yamen town and took all the public buildings by force from the Nanking hirelings of Chiang Kai-shek, released two hun- dred prisoners held in the jails charged with crimes against the Nanking government. The whole countryside is inflamed as the real purpose of the militarist traitors be- comes known and indications are that the whole country formerly affected by the nationalist movement before the series of betrayals of tHiang Kai- shek, Feng Yu-hsiang ind smaller military adventurers who placed themselves at the head of the armed forces will soon be swept with the flame of peasant revolts, thus un- leashing a deep-going agrarian move- ment that will sweep all before it. HANKOW, July 13.—The closing session of the All-China Trade Union Congress yesterday elected an exec- utive committee of thirty-five mem- bers and nineteen deputy members. The task assigned the executive is to immediately create branches in Shang- hai, Canton and Teintsin and proceed to take full direction of the labor movement in these places | The two strikers were released on| | $1,500 bail each charged with feloni-| ERS IN yous assault while the three right} | wingers were released in the custody UNION STRUGGLE |of their lawyer on disorderly conduct! charges. The arresting officer re-j| W. Green Attempts to End Figh | Ben Cohen, the two killers who at-!| d & t talking to “Little Augie,” well known layers and the plasterers unions said that he “could not find from the | |fused to hold the gangsters on as-| |tacked Aaron Gross so severely that} William Green, president of the jeast side gang leader. This confirms | phigh: han Sheckansonétsnaee: testimony of the policemen that the| |sault charges altho they had first | | attacked the workers. | Little Augie’s Gang. . | | The trial of Meyer Friedman and} | A | a ae lt toa cpa Ca American Federation of bor who | When aiitne: foe. the onenine of arrived here yesterday declared that | Aggie a) he would attempt to settle the juris- | | J | Soure detredinan, Sad Cohen, were eoeny dictional dispute between the brick- the suspicion of many workers that ane erica a ag pana the| cement masons affiliated with the thirteen workers Magistrate Brodsky |°TiC*layers’ union are at work. It is believed that if the fight be- tween the two unions continues al- Plas- | terers are going on strike wherever} | FINAL CiTy | | EDITION Price 3 Cents FASCIST SPIES IN CONSPIRACY PLOT WITH U.S. AGENTS [Evidence of Plan to | Start New Red Raids That secret service agents of the F st government are operating in this country with the full knowledge and approval of the United States department of justice was brought to light yesterday on ian noble- men and not s local fascists met at a fascist rendezvous to discuss ways and means for exterminating all janti-Mussolini act ies here. Conspiracy. Sufficient evidence has been un- covered to establish the fact that there is a widespread «conspiracy to either as sinate or imprison all prominent anti-fascists. The tactics of de tment of justice operatives are reminiscent of the ar- rests of radicals in 1919 and particu- |larly of the case of Salsedo who “jumped” from the fourteenth story ef a downtown office building where {he was held for “questioning” by sec- ret service men. At the meeting it became known that the two fascists who were killed |on Memorial Day, Carisi and Amoroso, jwere high officials in a machine op- erating on an international scale with |the avowed purpose of spying on and reporting all anti movements |to the Italian government. $1,000 Bail. Five anti-fascists are being held as “material witnesses” without bail to the killing of the two spies. Two other well known fighters of fascism, Mario |Tresca and Luigi Quintiliano, editors strikers were making any noise or in any way molesting” the scabs. Brodsky further said that the fur (Continued on Page Five) BEGIN EVICTION OF COAL MINERS | | BROWNSVILLE, Pa., July 13,— | OFP).—The 10-day notices to vacate served on union miners in company houses have expired and the Vesta ings. The Vesta is a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. The mine ran under union agreement until April 1 but has since vainly attempt- ed to resume open shop at reduced wages, Union miners are bitterly disap- pointed with the sheriff of Washing- ton county who was elected by their votes but now sides viciously with the operators. Labor party talk is spread- ing as the sheriff, the coal and iron police and the state constabulary club the pickets off the public highway and beat them up in the company jail. * * * Lewis Vote Steal Must Be Probed, Says Miner Convention of Scotia GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, June 30 (By Mail).—The eighth annual con- vention of District No, 26, U. M. W. of A. met in New Glasgow, N. S., June 20-28, with 113 delegates pres- ent. These annual gatherings are a good means by which to judge the temper of the miners. The present convention indicated a rather sleepy and grumbling giant that was too tired to battle, but would give an ugly growl at any attempt to further degrade and humble him. Under Tory influence the miners of Nova Scotia had been induced to accept a ten per cent wage cut a year ago, and to place their fate as to further wage changes, either up or down, under a scheme as drafted by the famous Dun- can Royal Commission, At this convention the “sleepy giant” received his first report on the results obtained by Besco out of a year’s operation under the Duncan scheme of exploitation. A fellow by ‘the name of Scott was the miners’ representative to audit the Besco books and determine whether Besco could afford to pay more wages or the miners have to suffer another cut in order to keep the wheels of indus- try going. Scott made his first re- port to this convention, and the re- (Continued on Page Two) j most 20,000 workers will be effected|of I! Martello, were released yester- in this city as well as thousands more |day on $1,000 cash bail on framd AT BROWNSVILLE \County Sheriff Betrays | \Men Who Elected Him} | Coal Co. is starting eviction proceed- | throughout the country. | The present outbreak-is centered about local 32 of the Bricklayers | Union that consists of cement ;masons. The Plasterers union has |for a long time objected to cement jworkers joining the bricklayers |union, having a local for cement j workers in this city. A constant | struggle between the two interna- tional unions for the cement workers |has been carried on. At a conference held between the two internationals in 1911 the terri- tory of both unions was decided and according to the agreement neither | side would enter the territory of the | other for members. Infraction of the by both organizations and the 1924 building boom in Florida brot the matter to a crisis. Strikes spread throughout the entire state that lasted for many months. An arbitration committee was ap- | pointed last year with Elihu Root as jchairman. The decision was that all | charters for locals issued by both in- | ternational unions in violation of the 1911 agreement be abrograted and | that provisions for the exchange of working cards be lived up to. At a meeting held March 2nd o: this year the plasterers agreed to withdraw their charters in 31 cities and the bricklayers to withdraw char- ters in five cities. Both are now charging breach of |faith. The plasterers claim that the bricklayers did not carry out their part of the agreement. The brick- the exchange cards offered to the town plasterers in the bricklayers or- ganization. The reply of the plaster- agreement was subsequently charged | _ Dust J layers assert that the plasters did) not keep faith an refused to receive) New York plasterers local by out of | charges of “violating” the so-called | Sullivan law. |__ The offices of I Martello and 11 | Nuova Mondo, Italian labor papers |were. raided late Monday afternoon and fourteen workers were arrested without warrants by U. S. and Italian | secret service agents and taken to the |Highbridge police station for third ldegree “questioning” regarding the | death of the Italian spies. | At fascist headquarters here it was maintained that the two fascist sp’ were “working men” but it soon de- | veloped that they received state fun- }erals when their bodies were taken | to Italy. Were High Officials. Even before the bodies left this country Nobile Giacomo di Martino, (Continued on Page Five) Police Called ai Transit Hearing to ohn F. Hylan John F. Hylan still insists that Un- termyer took a $25,000 fee from the Interborough. In the face of a united |front on the part of John F. Gilchrist, |chairman of the transit commission land Samuel Untermyer, special coun- sel for the subway crowd and the New |York police force, the former mayor burst into the proceedings yesterday and demanded that he be heard. On Monday Hylan made the \¢harge, which seemed to be a sound one, that Untermyer’s firm had re- d a twenty-five thousand dollar Ss ers is that they refused exchange’ ceive! ‘ eards only to those men who re- | fee from ny IL area te oe sorted to subterfuge by going over) I have ere, ylan shouted yee to New Jersey, taking out member-| terday, the record of a fee paid by ship cards in the bricklayers union and then returning to New York with the cards. Cap Union Holding Important Meeting A special meeting of the Capmak- ers’ Union will be held right after work tonight at Beethoven Hall, East | Fifth St. to act on a further tax !on the workers and to take up the question of the 40-hour week and standards of production. Two weeks ago a $30 tax was | placed upon all the workers in spite of the left wing opposition. The militants proposed that the unem- ployed workers be exempted and at the same time be paid from the un- employment benefit fund. Left wing workers point out that instead of organizing picket lines and fighting against the bosses, the right wing officials are devoting their time in placing taxes on the workers. \the Interborough to the firm of |Gugenheimer, Untermyer and Mar- | shall.” Untermyer Feeble. “Sit down,” Gilchrist roared at him, hammering away with his gavel. “You are out of order.” “T know it,” Hylan agreed excited- ly, but kept on talking, while Unter- |myer looked about him helplessly and demanded in a feeble voice where the sergeant-at-arms could be found. “T offer this book,” Hylan went on rapidly, “and I have a letter here from Oscar Waters—” “You are not subpoenaed,” Gilchrist shouted. “Well, will you look at this receipt for $25,000 paid to Gugenheimer, Un- termyer and Marshall?” The chairman kept on informing Hylan that he was out of order while the former mayor kept up his gra- tuitous testimony. At his wits end Gilchrist ordered his secretary to call the police. “All right, call the police,” Hylan challenged. After a few minutes as no police were forthcoming Hylan quit the tran- sit commission's offices obviously the vietor of the day. \ Jv