The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 156. By T. J. O’Fuanerry. i Kes is the land of opportunity! An e x-~peddler, who came to this coun-| from Germany in 1888, has just sold a $10,000,000 business. This is what he deserves for having started at the bottom and worked his way up. Sacco and Vanzetti, also immi- grants, are sitting in a Charlestown death cell. They did not start at the bottom to work their own individual} ways to the top, but they started with the bottom dog and tried to raise their standard of living at the expense of the top dog. One of the two was a fish-peddler, but his busi- ness never got to be worth $10,000,- 000. * * * r depends on what opportunity one grasps whether he goes to jail or moves into a mansion. Harry Sin- clair and Edward L. Doheny, were not born with gold spoons between their gums. They worked their way up and incidentally flirted with a jail cell. But they are not in jail tho they defrauded their own govern- ment out of millions of dollars. They are enjoying the breezes on cool ver- andas on those sweltering days and perhaps listening to that pleasant tinkle in a glass that a famous poet considered the most melodious of sounds to the human ear. * * * ILLIAM GREEN, president of the A. F. of L. thinks this is a land of opportunity. He told it to the longshoremen who are assembled in convention here in New York to listen to their officers and sundry visitors tell them what great fellows they are, as long as they don’t make any trouble for said officers and visitors and for the employers. Green thinks a Labor Party is alright in Europe, but we do not need it here. In the United States the best policy is the hoary one of “reward your friends and punish your enemies.” Come to think of it, it is surprising that Green admits the American workers have any enemies in America. Perhaps he is referring to the Communists and progressives and not to the capi- talists. * . * IFTY SEVEN per cent of dis- charged soldiers return to the army according to statistics given out by the Army Information Service. This phenomenon is not difficult of explanation. y the time the dis- charged soldief has drowned his re- gret for a mispent life in as much needled beer as his savings can pur- chase he hasn’t enough left to buy a job in an employment agency, or if SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at Ourside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. has only gone through the lower courts. This is the situation i given to us by the International Labor Defense. Now we are facing a far more difficult period. pensive proceedings in the Federal Courts. port, We cannot win our case, to the last and heaviest attack against us. GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND Certificates, which a supply the funds for the fight. __We have received today a statement of the legal fees and expenses involved in the defense | of The DAILY WORKER, thus far. To date these expenses amount to over One Thousand Dollars. These are the expenses whch have been incurred in spite of the fact that the case We are facing the complicated and ex- Masses of court records must be printed. Experts must be employed. A whole staff of legal assistants is necessary for such an important case. Your sympathy is not enough. Unless we have your energetic and steady financial sup- Again the stream of contributions is flowing in as a response Preparations are being made for sale of the Legal experts, who are sympathetic with our fi ght assure us that we can win our case, in spite of the power of the attack against us. But we- can only win, if you are with us, and if you the Post Office ut New York. N. ¥. E DAILY WORKER. uuder the act of March 3, 1878, FINAL CITy | EDITION a NEW YORK, |FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1927 Current Events| We Can't Defend Our Paper Without Your Support n spite of the splendid support | re being sent out tomorrow. Important Questions to Be Taken Up at Fourth | Sacco Meeting Tonight | | SACCO INQUIRY - HALTED, FULLER REVIEWS TROOPS Two Workers Swelter In Charlestown Prison The Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee will hold its fourth con- ference tonigHt, at 8 o'clock, at Labor Temple, 244 East Fourteenth street. A report of the July 7th demonstration will be given as | well as discussion of future activ- ities. All affiliated organizations must see to it that their delegates are present. BOSTON, July 14.—Governor Ful- ler thinks that a military review is of more importance than the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, facing death on, August 10. ; i his was evidenced yesterday wren [J |the Massachusetts chief executive t a ‘called a halt to the inquiry proceed- |ings which have been going on for the past few weeks and decided to FLOOD LEVEES IF leave Boston for Camp Devens to in- spect the 26th Division Massachusetts National Guard. i The governor, who is stopping at) Rye during the hot weather, called at his office for but a few minutes yes-) —_—— jterday and left almost immediately) *. : fon Le canip. ;Ruined Sections Open While the two workers were swel- ‘4 tering in the Charlestown prison yes-' To New Spring Deluge |terday anxiously awaiting the out-} come of the inquiry, the governor) CONCORDIA; La., July 14.—Thou- spent the day pleasantly reviewing] sands of poor farmers in this eastern his crack troops. flood region of Louisiana are return- Prove Prejudice. ing to their homes as the flood waters During the past week there have gradually recede from them. They ‘been no developments of a sensational ®%e comparitively lucky, these far- jcharacter. The witnesses called were' Mers, for there are many sections of mostly the signers of the affidavits| this state still immersed below a which charged that Judge Webster | Steat lake of Mississippi water. Thayer made prejudiced remarks in But with the final departure from public during the process of the fa-_a refugee camp, the farmer and his mous trial. \family feel again fresh injuries to The last witnesses heard thus far their already nearly hopeless finan- were three firearm experts, James H.| cial condition. Their houses are for: the most part uninhabitable, covered | O'Higgins’ | gins has yet been secured and there is he has, he is rendered useless for any| Burns, J. Henry Fitzgerald and Al- kind of remunerative activity except|bert H. Hamilton, who testified that going thru a jerking performance in|the bullet which killed Alessandro obedience to the staccato bark of a|Beradelli could not have been fired with a foot or so of slime, and rot- | ting and collapsing, even where the force of the current has not de- superior officer. * * * poNe live the Geneva naval parley! It has contributed more to the gaiety of nations than Calvin Cool- idge among the worms, cowboys and boy preachers of the Black Hills of South Dakota. The great powers have not been able to decide how much their cruisers should weigh on the keel or how many should be a reasonable allowance for each peace- loving nation. But Winston Church- ill, the British fascist chancellor, is optimistic. He believes that “arma- | ments can be kept within reasonable limits if the nations make only mod- erate use of their freedom.” Here is a chance for the equine population of England to have a good laugh unless the horses in that dour land are as lacking in a sense of humor as the aristocracy. * * * | (CHURCHILL indulged in one of his) weekly tirades against the Sovict| Union a few days ago. Evidently | trying to take the sting out of the verbal war in Geneva between the} British and American delegates, Churchill rubbed a little ointment in the Yankee wounds into which the British sea dogs had been pushing salt since the fake conference started. The republic of the United States we are informed by the British chancel- lor is rich and powerful! compared to the republic of the U.S.S.R. This | kind of claptrap comes with poor grace from the representative of an| empire that is going rapidly on the bum. The once-proud and solvent! John Bull, is now degenerating into | an international dead beat and un- der the necessity of passing the hat “to raise the wind” as they say in “John Bull’s other island.” * « * INCIDENTALLY Churchill’s words are children of the wish. The U. S. R. is progressing economically with giant strides. Even the hostile associated press representative in Moscow tells us that the government revenue this year is approximately one billion rubles more than last year. Another news item that might in- terest the bibbling chancellor is the action of the Lanarkshire textile in- terests in granting a $10,000,000 (Continued on Page Four) lbefore yesterday, came to the State| until a crop grows next year. |from Sacco’s Colt revolver. | molished them. | Vanzetti Not In Car. | Their chance to raise any crop this | At the last hearing Mrs. Carrie; year in the waterlogged, slush that | Facchini told the advisory committee | is all that remains of their land, is |and the governor that she had an op-! slight, and wherever the crops do | portunity to see all the men involved: begin to grow, the cut worms and jin the Bridgewater crime and they | other pests must perforce concentrate were all young and clean shaven, and) and are putting an end to any chance that Vanzetti, who is heavily mous-| that the residents might recoup part tached, was not among them. | of their losses by a late harvest. Vincent Brini of Plymouth also ap- Nor is this the worse. In five peared, actompanied by his daugh-| great gashes the Mississippi levee ter, who acted as interpreter, to sup-|liés cut, and these gaps will not be port Vanzetti’s alibi for the day of| rebuilt, say the government. officials, the Bridgewater crime. Brini’s son,; until the farmers raise at least a Beltrano, also testified to the same|quarter of the cost. Not a single effect. | farmer can raise even a penny of Thayer Secretive. | this tax, and will have to live or Judge Thayer, who testified the day | Starve on such charity as he can ae ut House and entered the committee! that will never be if the levee breaks room only a minute or two after Prof. 2r¢ not repaired, because of the nor- James P. Richardson had been ushered | ™4!_ spring floods, Some of the in- from the committee’s presence. ‘An. habitants here believe it is already effort was made to prevent the two t00 late to save the three parishes of men from meeting, for Richardson! Tensas, Concordia and Catahoula was the author of a letter to Gov.| fom another flood, anyway, and are Fuller denouncing Judge Thayer for | too despondent to even try to plant prejudiced talk about the two con-|*"ything. demned workers while staying at the} The rills, hollows and holes are Hanover Inn sometime in 1924. jeverywhere full of stinking drainage water, foul with decayed animal and * * * BOSTON, July 14.—Before leaving | Vegetable matter. Swarms of mos- for Camp Devens yesterday Gov. Ful- quitoes are everywhere, malaria and yellow fever may descend upon the land like a plague any day. 46 Die in Heat Wave; ler spent a few minutes talking to Mrs, Lois B. Rantoul of the Federa- tion of Churches of Greater Boston.| The governor left shortly after ten) o'clock. a —_—___——. City Death Toll 12 Mayer Fails to Knock Man Off. | pauses BUFFALO, N. Y., July 14.—) With 46 dead and countless hun- Awaiting a decision on his injunction'dreds prostrated from the terrid restraining Mayor Schwab from re-| weather blanketing the country from moving him from his lofty perch atop | Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard, the Andrews building here, Alvin) “shipwreck” Kelly, seeking the flag-; pole sitting championship of the world, sat through a severe thunder- storm early today. Menace Hanging Judge. JOLIET, Iit., July 14.—Three men broke into the home here today of Judge Frederick A. Hill, who imposed fentence upon the three desperate con- victed murderers sentenced to. hang tomorrow for the murder of Deputy driven away. sweltering millions hoped fervently today that the weather man’s predic- tion for showers would materialize before night to ease the intense suf- fering. | Twelve persons succumbed in New York City to the broiling weather and eight more victims were reported in ‘other cities in the state, Thirteen died in Pennsylvania, in- jcluding six reported from Harrisburg, ‘four from Philadelphia and three from Pittsburgh. Warden Peter M. Klein. They were] Chicago’s death toll reached eight}the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? as the mercury continued to mount. / ‘ ITALIAN BLACK O’Higgins SHIRTS MOURN IRISH MUSSOLINI Funeral | Made Imperialist Show * DUBLIN, July 14.—One of the most | significant features of the demonstra- tion at the funeral of Kevin O’Hig-| gins, Free State minister of justice and of foreign affairs, and -alled the | “Trish Mussolini” was the presence of a contingent of Italian fascists who| marched, blackshirted and with mili- taristic bearing behind the slain man’s body. Conspicuous also were veterans of | the world war who wore medals and| other decorations won for service in| behalf of the British Empire. The| funeral was ‘turned into an imperial- ist. demonstration. | Only bad flying weather prevented | the notorious die-hard Earl Birken- | head from flying to Dublin from Lon- | don for the funeral. The earl and) the entire British “cabinet attended the services in a London cathedral at which mass for the soul of the Free State minister’s soul was celebrated. | No elue to the identity of those who} inflicted the death penalty on O’Hig- considrable doubt that the police will succeed in getting evidence on those who shot the late minister of justice and forign affairs. The reason is that O'Higgins out- did the worst of the British rulers in his ferocity against Irish national- ists who refused to bend the knee to the imperialist Free State govern- ment. His execution of 77 young! Irishmen marked him for vengeance and it is believed that it would be al- most impossible to find a jury that would convict defendants charged with the shooting, so bitter is the feel- |worker) he will organize your shop.’ FIGHT DUBINSKY — | IS GUTTER CALL AT MASS MEET Welfare League Rallies Against Wreckers “Dubinsky must go!” With that as | their slogan several hundred cutters meeting at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave, and Ninth St., last night at the call of the Welfare League, went on} record to fight “with new vigor to} liberate our Local 10 from the self- styled leaders” who have brot destruc- tion to the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union. Harry Berlin, who presided, said that “the machine of the International and Local 10 has not stopped at any- thing. Business Agent Ansil recently | went to an open shop and said, ‘It is | true you have an open shop but if you don’t fire him (a certain militant ing of the masses against the dead | mankiller, People Breathe Easier. Foreign correspondents are sending | out stories giving a falsified view of | the reaction to O’Higgins’s death. In- | stead of the general feeling of regret | represented in those stories there is | evident a feeling of relief, that such a monster no longer threatens the lives of the militant nationalists. Among the ten arrested on sus- picion is George Plunkett, son of Count Plunkett, who received his title from the pope. All denied guilt. Innocent of Shooting. O’Higgins ordered the execution of Rory O’Connor and Liam Mellowes as a reprisal following the shooting of two Free State deputies in the streets of Dublin. As O’Connor and Mellowes were in prison at the time it was quite impossible for them to have had anything to do with the shooting. The late minister of justice intro- duced the infamous treason bill pre- seribing five years imprisonment for failure to disclose knowledge of de- signers against the Free State. When a court of appeals order granted writs of habeas corpus for two republican prisoners, which would set a precedent for 12,000 others, O’Higgins had the Dail pass a “public safety” bill that blocked the release of the interned men for several months longer. Stayed Up to Hear Shot. Capitalist corresponden't have sent out a story that O’Higgii! collapsed when he heard the shots that killed his former friend Rory O’Connor. On the contrary he stayed up all night so that he would be certain that the execution took place. After O’Con- nor’s death it was discovered that he jeft all his possessions to O’Higgins. O’Higgins was an ardent admirer of the die-hard section of the British cabinet, particularly Birkenhead and Churchill. He called the former “Treland’s best friend.” Neen enna Have Paid Your Contribution to I will, if necessary, give you the name of the shop I refer to and the name of the worker, Bosses Take Advantage. “The bosses never took advantage as they do now, because never did they have union officials to deal with as they have now. In the past, cut- ters were able to quit work at five o’clock, but now they have to work piece work.” Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, told of the latest developments in the union struggle, referring to| Dubinsky as one of the bulwarks of the right wing machine. Other speakers were Samuel Liebo- witz of the furriers’ union, Martin Feldman, who the Dubinsky clique re- (Continued on Page Five) | British Envoy Makes Frantic Try to Stop Flop of Geneva Meeting WASHINGTON, July 14.— A final effort to rescue the Geneva armaments conference from col- lapse was made here today in di- rect negotiations between the Bri- tish ambassador and Secretary of State Kellogg. Their meeting followed close up- on the recess of the parley at Geneva where the delegations of the three powers in public ad- dresses made it evident that an agreement on the terms laid down by President Coolidge to fix a limit on auxiliary naval craft is hope- less at this time, especially as this would give the U. S. with its su- perior building power an advan- ta ge. Whether the Geneva conference will be reconvened was said to be problematical. Officials frankly say that they see little use of con- tinuing a discussion that has been deadlocked from the start and one in which there has been so much show of temper on all sides. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOREBR PUBLISHING ©O., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. at Funeral of Fellow Butcher Arrow points to Vice-President Kevin O’Higgins of Ireland, as he looked €5S- while attending the funeral of Michael Collins in 1922. Generals Dalton, O'Higgins and O’Connell. taken that O’Higgins sentenced to death 77 young Irish revolutionist: Left to right are Negro, Who Refused to Sell Land at Nominal Price. Brutally Beaten BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 14— Because he refused to sell his land for a price far below its market { | It was soon after this picture was Price 3 Cents ‘ALF. L, ENDORSES PROPOSED STRIKE ‘ON INTERBOROUCH |Growing Sentiment for Action Among Workers Wijliam Green, president of the | American Federation of Labor, speak- ii to the Longshoremen’s conven- tion yesterday said that his organ- ization is behind the coming I. R. T. |strike. He urged his hearers to sup- | port the subway workers in thelr | fight. Speaking of the yellow dog con- tract which the I. R. T. is forcing its |workers to sign, Green said that it }was invalid and illegal and no one who signed it could be made to live up to his. so-called agreement. Frank Hedley, president and gen- eral manager of the I. R. T. in a | statement issued yesterday said that {all of the subway workers on duty | have signed the company union agree- jment. He said that 611 more em- |ployes signed yesterday bringing the total up to 12,320. Used Force. In reply to this J. H. Coleman, local organizer for the Amalgamated Association, said that he did not question that many subway workers had signed the “agreement” as the signing was accomplished under dur- “When you point a gun at a man and tell him to sign he may do so,” Coleman added. He said that the preamble to the | so-called contract stated that all | signers declared that they had read | the 5,000-word document. This would require each signer to read for at | least an hour and the sixty-one com- | pany agents would be canvassing the {subway workers at that rate until a | few days before the contract expired in 1929. i Contract Mlegal. Senator Robert F. Wagner and | Representative Henry D. Perlman, |counsel for the Amalgamated jn- yalue, Arthur Hitt, Negro: dirt }/ formed William Green that the I. R. farmer, was beaten within an inch of his life and frightened into dis- posing of his land. Hitt was taken from his home, tied to a tree and savagely whip- ped. Fearing that he might be murdered, he sold his land for $900, far less than it was worth, three days after the beating. FUR WORKERS 10 SUE FORWARD FOR $1,000,000 LIBEL Will Prove That Its | Charges Are False Papers are now being drawn up by | Louis B. Boudin, attorney for the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union, to | bring suit for $1,000,000 against the Jewish Daily Forward, right wing newspaper, on the charge of libel. Fifty workers who have been called gangsters and guerrilas in the For- ward will bring the case jointly before the Supreme Court and will prove that the irresponsible statements of that newspaper are issued only for propaganda purposes and are not based upon facts. Worked For Many Years. The Forward has been calling many workers who have been working in the fur trade for a score of years “gangsters” because they have gone on strike to preserve their union and improve their working conditions. The Forward, being the organ of the strikebreaking opposition, has been trying to discredit these workers hop- ing in that way to break the present strike. It is believed that when the | would | T. contracts were of no legal value, | After the last traction strike, last jyear, Hedley threatened that he |;would institute suit against the pro- perty of the ex-strikers for “viola- | tion” of the so-called contract. A canvass among the subway work- ers confirms the statement that the rank and file are infuriated with the methods used in forcing them to sign the company union contract. A majority of the workers favor a strike at this time and it is expected |that the Amalgamated will take ac- tion in a very short time. HANKOW ARMIES MOVE TO SMASH CHIANG KAISHEK Three Columns Driving Against Nanking | WUHAN (Hankow), July 14.— | Three armies are ready for a drive |on Nanking and Chiang Kai-shek in | whose forces there is widespread dis- affection according to reports reach- ing here. * One of the Wuhan armies, headed iby General Chiang Fai Kue, is the |best disciplined and equipped of all | the revolutionary divisions, the Iron |Army which lead the victorious march of the liberation movement northward from Canton a year ago. Boycott Hurts Chiang. The anti-Japanese boycott is mob- ilizing great masses of workers, stu- dents and peasants whose strikes and demonstrations Chiang Kai-shek dare not suppress since such a move align him with Japan and case comes to court and witnesses | further weaken his government with are heard, a complete vindication of the populaton. the workers’ position will be shown. | ‘hen Nanking government in or- Isidor Muschnick, right winger, was|der to meet its military budget has held for the grand jury on a charge) ordered a substantial increase in (Continued on Page Five) |taxes which is alienating both the — ' foreign businessmen and the Chinese ' Production Standards traders and manufacturers which Price Capmakers Must | formed Chiang’s principal base of support. Pay for 40 Hour Week The general impression here and in jother Chinese centers, among the for- Conferences between the capmak- ers union and bosses were held last night and another meeting will be held today, it was reported at a meeting of the union held last night} at Beethoven Hall, East Fifth St. | The administration spokesman told | the assembled workers that the boss- es are willing to consider the 40 hour! week provided the union installed | standards of production. From all indications the right wing leaders are willing to give the bosses their |eign population, is that the Wuhan government is showing unexpected strength while Nanking is weakening. If Chiang armies are defeated in the first clash with the Wuhan forces ob- servers predict either his speedy col- lapse or a new alignment with Wuhan dominating the alliance. GREENPOINT, L. I, July 14— While razing a tall chimney, Newell Macarter was instantly killed on the country estate of Dr. Charles M, Wester here. His back was broken demands. and his skull fractured, Pca posonaaee”*