The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1927, Page 1

LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WERK | FOR 4 LABOR PARTY | Vol. IV. No, 158. revolt of the Vienna assumed serious prop: meager reports co’ ‘y¥ bear out the predictio: made in The DAILY R that the official leaders of socialist movement everywhere the most efficient policemen capitalists in holding th s in cheek, The Vienna revolt n proved the truth of this Secialist leaders in uniform worted to have tried to call ofi nonstration and the soci he, alied on the police to club tant workers at the Sacco- i rally a week or so ago. * aoe 'SLINGS are moving all over the; world with haleidoscopie rapidi Chinese revolution quickly pa: m one stage of development to; her and the policy that was cor-! only a few months ago may be ng today. Leaders who ing on the side of the revolution months ago are today fighting inst it, tho loudly protesting their devotion to the program and prin- ciples of Sun Yat Sen. On the other the social elements that will ide the man-power and the fu- ve leadership for the Chinese revo- ntion, ie; the workers and peasants, ise developing their collective power rapidly. were | | Wing Broken Off The seventh week of the furriers’ strike starts this morning with ar- rangements being made for a large picketing demonstration. It is believed that thousands of workers will crowd the market and give evidence to their determination to continue the struggle to preserve the Furriers’ union. | The petition that will be presented !to Governor Smith, urging him to take action on the mass arrests and police * ¥* * iff have been told many times re- low perfectly beastly of the Aus. rian workers to kick this respectable und hoary old gag in the slats! While the blasted agents of imperialism are obing at Geneva in a fake naval mitation conference the serfs of the of nations and the interna- bankers in Vienna gave sudden xd violent proof that the spirit of onis not dead, .The gapitalist, dits may now decide that there e times when even thieves must get together. * * * i Ce boasted stabilization, of capital- ism is very much of a false alarm. well not to underestimate it of But if there is any choice be- lines are written (Satur-}| i | | Free State Government | Funeral; Fear Sympathy | DUBLIN, July 17.—The city | issioners of Dublin, fearful ; ‘al of Countess Mar- on and prevent the nt from capitalizing the death of O’Higgins, has done rything possible to interfere ; h the obsequies. Their latest step is to refuse to allow the of Dublin City Hall or the ¥ House for the lying in state of the | i } i | said to have ordered the fire on the workers just ag BIG PICKE LI F Jassens and other New York| | IN FUR DISTRICT STARTS 7TH WEEK Many workers, when they see the peti- tions, ask for a quantity of them to take to their shops and obtain the sig- natures of all the workers: Break Off Negotiations. Negotiations entered into between the New York Joint Board of the Fur- riers Union and the Woll-Frayne-Me- Grady committee appointed by Presi- dent Green of ‘the American Federa- tion of Labor, at the request of the aforementioned committee, have been | statement of the expelled local unions hich include 80 per cent of the total jmembership of the Furriers Interna- | tional Union. roken off as a result of the refusal) of the committee to agree to the rein-} tween those two errors, it is on the Conference Result of Pressure. conclusion based on realities for the} was the result of pressure upon the yeason that they ignore all facts that| 4, F. of L. executive council from va- do not happen to jibe with their fan- The truth is that capitalist zation, in so far as it went, e the war, has been at the ex- pense of the workers. This in its turn makes for instability since it is only a question of time when this added exploitation of the workers produces revolts and revolution. * * * LREADY the Vienna revolt is blamed on the Communist Inter. iz not surprising. There would not he y trouble if the Soviet Union be wiped off the face of the Indeed, it is true that there be much less trouble for the erialists for the time being, hut even such a miracle would not elimin- ate strikers, and rebellions. Those’ 3 too soon to predict with any sgree of accuracy the develop- * of the Vienna revolt. As we already said, the workers are sndicapped by the traitorous leader- of the socialists and because of etariat in neighboring countries © is little likelyhood that they will eed in establishing a proletarian vernment. The fascist govern- ment in Europe will be ready to jump at the throat of the Austrian work- national and on the U.S. S. R. This/ numerical weakness of the Com-| rious unions designed to establish unity in the needle trades organiza- tions and liquidate a situation which, because of the use of gangsters, po- lice, injunctions and prosecutions by the Woll-Frayne-McGrady committee and the right wing in the needle trades, is bringing great discredit up- jon the whole labor movement and |making it possible for the bosses to |safely violate agreements. Minimum Proposals. In a ntmber of sessions the mem- bers of the New York Joint Board, headed by Ben Gold, proposed that agreement be reached as follows: 1. Reinstatement of all expelled |members and local unions. | 2. An election to be held- for the |New York Joint Board under the su- pervision of an impartial committee should be represented. | International union to which delegates | would be elected on the basis of local! union membership. | | 4. Ben Gold and a number of other} ‘officials of the New York Joint Board, | | would not run for paid positions in the | | union in the coming ele@tion. | 5. An agreement on the part of all: These proposals were rejected by SUBSCHIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. | | Negotiations WithRight| | 8. Following this election there|¢onfessed and e should be called a convention of the|chief of police at the time of the peen rapidly developing through the |his home on July 16, 1926. | authorities were very slow in find- Entered as senond-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., uuder the act of March 8, 1878. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Bunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,, 88 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents AUSTRIAN REGIMENT JOINS WORKERS THE MINERS ARE MARCHIN Pennsylvania Coal Miners have marched in great throngs to mines that have heen non-union for years and have ealled the men out on s' trike’ and closed down the mines. CHIEF OF MURDER T SAVE GRAFT Lengel Gets Sentence of Life Imprisonment CANTON, Ohio, July 17. — Chief of Police Seranus A. Lengel, deposed | because of his misdeeds, now is con- victed of murder and will have to reached in the trial of Lengel for conspiracy with denizens of the un- derworld to kill Don R. Mellett, an/ editor of a local newspaper which was exposing the graft connections between the vice-ring in Canton and the police department. | He Ought To Know. | Lengel arose in court when the ver- | diet: was brought in and dramatically | exclaimed, “There is no justice”. Mellett was killed in the rear of | Police ing anybody on which to attach su- spicion, but private friends of the slain editor hunted up the murderers | and forced their arrests. So far| there have been convicted: Pat Mc- Dermot, a hired gunman; Ben Rudd- | ner, a hardware merchant; Louis Mazer, *a professional gangster, who former Canton policeman, who also | implicated Lengel, | killing, and now Lengel himself. yr White Bearded Scab In Mine Injunction CENTERVILLE, Ia., July 17. — for the Guard The Daily Worker Funda Have Been Mailed Out’ WORKERS FROM PROVINCES HURRY TO REINFORCE VIENNA FIGHTERS ioe Police Shoot | Into Crowds; Bauer Bargains With Seipel Moscow Pravda Calls for Leninism in New Revolutionary Opportunity BUDAPEST, July 17.—The third Austrian infantry regiment, stationed in Vienna and recruited largely from the working classes, has refused service and is fraternizing with dernonstratora according to reports received here. i The Ministry of Defense has ordered troops from the prow vinces to Vienna. The workers of outlying towns, also, are mareh- ing in columns to take part in the affair. The Hungarian ministry has offered Seipel its aid in suppressing the revolt of the workers. * * . —& { MOSCOW, July 17.—Leading arti- cles in Pravda emphacize the revolw- \tionary character of the action of the Vienna workers who wont out on the streets contrary to the decision of the central committee of the Austrian so- ‘cial democratic party. Pravda contin- | uses to develop its analysis as follows: While social democratie workers |were erecting barricades, the “left” Otto Ecucr was striking a partiamen- tary barcain with the reactionary Seipel regarding a coslition cabinet. || Colleges Are Training More Naval Officers to Serve in Coming War | WASHINGTON, July 17 (F. P.).—Expansion of the naval re- || || serve officers’ training corps in || universities is planned in a con- |! ference of naval officers meeting erccy is beheading it. * cently that the workers of|brutality towards the strikers, is} ——— ea ou f 9 A ; i Ae teen ae teadine th : ee : i vel train- mctecd of leading the revolutionary estern Europe would have nothing} eagerly being signed by thousands of | *s Di coe lpert Endgcte nere l eivecaniert ast thes ania i > do with Bolshevism or revolution.,} workers throughout New York City. CONVICT POLICE 189 000 One 4 b quietly while the efforts, of anti- war forces were centered ‘on tac army units of the R. O. T. C. | The social democratic “Schutzbund” Within a few years the navy ||or militia, is shooting workers. has persuaded the following col- || The basis of the Vienna events is leges to institute naval training ||tho class struggle which recently has courses: Georgia School of Tech- | become more acute. The pressure of nology, Northwestern, Harvard, || European reaction gave fresh stimu- Yale, Washington and California. || lus to fascism in Austria where hatred The One Dollar Certificates which have been mailed out to all. subscribers and readers of The DAILY WORKER— these are our, answer to the War Mongers and Dollar Patriots. V A NZETT! DEFFES Some time ago, Minister Chamberlain issued a provocative CY) FULLER; GOES 6% statement to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet Republic, a state- ment which openly attempted to incite the werkers of England to. war upon their Russian brothers. The Russian workers and peas- jing class has been steadily growing. Events in Vienna are also important | because of the “left” character of Aus- trian Marxiem, which has now been tested actually by life, and in street fights. | Workers Turn Left. The result of the present events is of fascism on the part of the work re, |that the authority of Austrian social ants are now engaged in raising money for their “Answer to Cham- in berlain.” This money will be used to build up the defenses of the HUNGER § TR | K 5 ' be Today our paper is under the same attack from the Chamber- ‘Condemned Worker democracy among the masses will be ad Gatinatl =| di serve life imprisonment unless his| Soviet Union against the danger of attack from the toi - | : ae ot nie ee Sota Bee) The conference, according to state- erat sie aes, ee anes Senter Brit *) adn ne th aatea ee ern |considerably weakened. It is most ple q Pi i 2/ments made in official labor circles, Voueniag a ceniice.cf calles ane o giand, or its agents, important that Austrian workers chould not miss the opportune moment lains of America, those interested in dragging the American work- ers into another world war. We must give our answer as the Russian workers are giving theirs by building up the fund for the defense of our daily paper, the workers’ fighting weapon against capitalist wars and the Open Shoppers. MASSES DEMAND | You Denonsate Tae ACTION AGAINST | agg Maes CHINA TRAITORS si | Wuhan Rulers Abandon | Revolution | (Special To The Daily Worker.) | MOSCOW, July 17,—Numerous demonstrations of the young workers are taking place in con- nection with the “Defence Week” now proceeding. .Members of campaign for the organization of a} m || tion yesterday began with a geries military drive against Nanking has/ : of impromptu meetings at the mills mass organizations of the workers and peasants. The railwaymen, ‘ssail- ors and other transportations work- ers, the peasant unions and other or- ganizations of labor are arranging the Wuhan government immediately organize military expeditions against | Chiang Kai-shek. big capitalists and the imperialists | has caused an internal crisis in the| and factories, which the Young Communists addressed and led into street parades, all centering on the Red Square and the Moscow Soviet. While the columns marched thru the streets, automobiles with car- tators in the autos shouted out slo- gans to the demonstrators march- ing past. the Moscow committee of the All- Union Communist Party, and by Asks Open Hearings | BOSTON, July 17. — Bartolomeo | Vanzetti has started on a hunger | Strike. | This information was released yes- \terday by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense |Committee in a statemeng which said jthat Vanzetti preferred to die by starvation rather than by electrocu- tion as a result of the false evidence which is being submitted to the so- ‘called advisory committee appointed by Governor Fuller to inquire into the charges of prejudice and percecu- tion which existed at the Thayer trial. According to the Defense Com- mittee Vanzetti intends to: continue his strike until Governor Fuller and the advisory committee consent to/ place Vanzetti and Sacco with counsel Behind Closed Doors. | It is pointed out that in a case |of this magnitude, which has aroused | | protests from all corners of the | world, this “hearing” is being held behind closed doors, and all witnes- |Ses who testify are sworn not to di- It is well-known fact that former judge Robert Grant is an enemy of the accused workers and has de {up his mind as to the guilt of the and fail to develop their mass shock jactions. They should, by organizing |soviets, put forward the question of | power. The leadership of the Aus- | trian social democracy is a formidable | brake on the struggle of the workers. |Only by following Lenin’s path can the Ausrtian proletariat achieve vic- | tory. VIENNA, July 17.—With the pub- lication of a manifesto threatening that the social democratic militia will crush the revolutionary workers of { Vienna unless they confine themselves to “a silent and dignified protest,” the social democrat leaders have openly |and definitely turned counter-revolu- tionary and espoused the cause of the | Seipel government. | While the Seipel administration is summoning regiments of fascist coments as long as capitalism| jy which the New York Central Labor conteased’ and implicated various ._|| the Young Communist League are |'in the presence of their accusers for|troops from the border, the social apse i rN Council and the Civil Liberties Union| Policemen; Floyd Streitenberger, a) HANKOW, July 17.—An energetic| especially active. The demonstra- || public hearing of the testimony. | democrats have ,issued an order de- manding that there be “no demon- |strations” and threatening a “colli- sion between the workmen and the soldiers of the republican army,” The social democratic leaders head- ed by Karl Seitz are crarying on ne- gotiations with Chancellor Seipel. ne j 4 ‘ieee The revolution, which is being fought * . 0 s : ; i mie ¥ i 1 mettle. Ta a ig Toug 2 it iat Ai ne apnnate Hh the interest of the unity, providing | sectional demonstrations and issuing || vicatures. of Chamberlain lifted pede oe ey ae in the streets, is being led by active z rene rom the lthe above program was excepted, defiant manifestoes demanding that above them circulated about. Agi- || ” e tite Communists. Police Are Ruthless. The number of persons killed in the te od 5, | 4 é i | ffort in the past to conceal the |street fighting already totals close to 4 concerned to begin immediately 100 The mass demands’ for action Ay é Fash atae. © Pi ceal the js t fig g already als mente of Italy and Hungary are of- | er cent enforcement of the agreement | fla ompany 0 against the traitors who are trying! From the building of fis Mos jfact. 300, it is estimated. 2 fering aid to the Austrian govern-| yon in the strike of last year, includ-| 5 to arrest the revolution at a stage | COW Soviet the young workers were Unofficial reports fr Boston, Vienna and outlying districts have ment and every imperialist govern- ine the a0 Houtiwebe: > ee where it will be advantageous to the| greeted by Uglanoff, secretary of | have it that Governor Full as made |been placed under tial law in a desperate attemp h the revolt os are 7 the representatives of the right wing| (FP) — No interference with strike- San fet Rida reg pine oe Bato land since they constituted minimum | breakers in the Winifred Coal Co. Sciitades Ant Aukteig ti. Hat °C! guarantees for uniting the union to/ Mine in Appanoose county is permit- . ‘ strong | which the Woll-Frayne-McGrady com-| ted under an injunction obtained last | two condemned workers and denizens ,of the underworld as well ¢ | spectable” “brokerage house i fering two to one against Ukhanoff, chairman of the Moscow Soviet, Chaplin, of the central com- mittee of the Young Communist Koumintang which is daily growing | more acute. Most representatives of the military group in the Koumintang eco and On Vienna, is the grip of the leaders of the so- cialist international on their follow- ers? Those are two questions that will be answered within the present ~veek, { * owe FROM ‘Europe to America is a long jump. Out in the wild and woolly state of Illinois, William Hale Thomp- son, is still waging war on King George and amusing himself by threatening to kick the King’s superintendent of schools out of Chicago. We do not know whether the teachers are glad or sorry that the foyal tool is due for the bounce, but we know that the threat to reduce their salaries in the interests of economy and for the greater glory of (Continued on Page Five) mittee would not agree, the New York} week against the Iowa Mine Workers |Joint Board representatives could pro- ‘ceed with the negotiations only by en- dangering the interest of the member- i ship, kay Gold’s Statement. “The Woll-Frayne-McGrady commit- tee exhibited in the negotiations the same disregard for the welfare of the terized their war upon the union mem- bership,” said Ben Gold. “The New York Joint Board will con- tinue to carry on the fight in the mar- ket for enforcement of the agreement and will continue to support the ef- fort of the Unity Committee of the Furriers’ International Union for soli- darity against the bosses and the strengthening of the union.” needle trades workers as has charac-| at Centerville. The Barrett Coal Co. obtained a similar writ about a month ago. Both companies are bringing a little coal to the surface. They are paying the 1917 scale, about 20 per cent under the Jacksonville scale that expired April 1. Another Foul Blow. These injunctions mark another step in the determination of a group of Iowa coal operators, undoubtedly with eastern backing, to break the backbone of the United Mine Work- ers in the Iowa district. Appanoose county-is the center of coal produc- tion in the state. The district union is concentrating its efforts against’ these scab mines and is having quite (Continued on Page Two) who have been acting as the secret agents of the traitors, Chiang Kai- shek and Feng Yu-hsiang,, are de- termined to force a final rupture! with the Commthists. lhany of the Communists in the $rmy corps, most of whom are holdifig political posts, have already been excluded, other corps have ordered registration of Communists. However several corps have refused to indulge in the policy of excluding the Communists. Persecution of Communists. In Hanyang, on the western bank of the river Han, opposite Hankow, soldiers are conducting systematic ids against Communists, arresting and torturing them. In Hankow it- (Continued on Page Two) League, and others. | Caddy Killed When He Tried to Obtain Ball ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 17.— While he was trying to retrieve a golf ball on the road near the North- field Country Golf Club here, Walter Conklin, struck by an automobile and instant- ly killed. The car was driven by Ir- win Campbell, a local attorney. He was arrested on a technical man- slaughter charge and released on $5,000 bail. self similar raids have been going on|Have Paid Your Contribution to the << Sustaining Fund? a 14-year-old caddy was| Vanzetti. |Dry Agent Sentenced to ‘Prison for Beating Cor and Being Intoxicated COLLINGSWOOD, N. J., July 17.— |For assaulting a local policeman, Jo- seph Murray, a prohibition agent, and 1 i to jail here. | Murray was given 60 days for be- ing drunk and disorderly, resisting arrest and assaulting an officer, and) his wife was fined $300 and sentenced | to 80 days in jail for similar offenses. | As they were taken to jail Murray} vowed vengeance, | his wife, Irene, have been sentenced i s called in sev- , reports from ate that several s have gone over to the Vienna w« and that thou- sands of wor from cities and towns near Vienna are marching into the city to théaid of their comrades. Call General Strike. The general strike that is slated for midnight will be completely effective, cted. Workers have al- ned the Svipel government ins will be allowed to leave the country. Many Republican Guards are said to have denounced the betrayal of the social democratic leaders and to have joined the workers. (Continued on Page Two) * regiments of troc