The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 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. 159, THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 Wntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., uider the act of Maroh 3, 1878, per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITy | EDITION Price 3 Cents Current Events By T. J. O’Fiameary. 5 nas revolt of the Austrian workers ‘was crushed by the social demo- ‘rats who stepped in to do what the armed forces of the bourgeois were incapable of doing. Our prediction that the socialists would do this very thing has been fully borne out tho this is one of those successful predic- tions that we take no pleasure in boasting about. Apparently the! demonstration was permitted to take! place by the socialists as a means of providing mass discontent with aj safety valve and also to give -a| demonstration of socialist strength to} the Seipel government with which} the socialists were bargaining for cabinet positions. * | * * | | ee Austrian socialists are consid- | ered farther to the left than the | SUPPRESSION OF LABOR MOVEMENT THRUOUT CHINA Raid Soviet Bank Shanghai in SHANGHAI, July 18—The syste- matic suppression of Communists, labor leaders and the labor. move- ment is proceeding unabated as the official socialists of any other coun-| mercenaries of the imperialists in the try. But this radicalism is spurious} forces of Chiang Kai-shek carry out as was demonstrated in 1918 and in the orders of their pay masters. The the present revolt. Owing to the ex-| latest assassination of a prominent treme poverty of the masses there is| Chinese trade union leader occurred, a strong revolutionary sentiment | yesterday when Wang Tei-lang was among them and to this feeling the| oxecuted in Nanking. He was ar- socialist leaders cater. All the news rested in the territory of the French \ peasants is about to be inaugurated. | This is unpleasant news but not sur- dispatches from Europe about the Vienna explosion represented the so-| cialists as the defenders of “order” | which meant that they were bent on crushing the revolution. s - all probability the Austrian gov- ernment, a creature of the league of nations will now carry on a cru- sade against. the small and weak Communist Party. The prosecutors and executioners will be the social- ists. But the events of the past few; days cannot fail to have a favorable reaction for the revolutionary ele-} ments. The socialist leaders have) shown themselves in their true colors. | The workers can see no difference be-/ tween the shooting ordered by the| socialist mayor and the capitalist} chancellor Seipel. * . * { Haat the Hankow or Wuhan gov-| ernment in Chicago is travelling the same road followed by, Chiang Kai-shek is becoming clearer day by day. Chinese dispatches indicate that the policy of suppressing the trade unions and murdering the most mili-} tant of the leaders of the workers and prising. ee E newly-awakened masses of China are not yet sufficiently or- ganized ‘or experienced in leadership to provide this mighty revolution with the proper leadership and the necessary discipline. Outside of the assistance rendered to them by citi- zens of the U. S. S. R. and the Com- munist International they were poor in leaders. The national revolution was led and officered mainly by in- tellectuals, members of the petty bourgeois class and professional soldiers. Those elements used the revolutionists as long as they found them useful for their aims, but when the development of the revolution threw a picture of a worker and pea- sants government on the political screen, the bourgeois leaders took fright and with the aid of the for- * | eign imperialists, took steps to block | such a development. * * * FOR the moment the fortunes of the Chinese revolution are at a very low ebb. But there will be a recovery | and the lessons learned by the work- ers and peasants during this phase of the struggle will be invaluable in the next. In the main only the workers and peasants are capable of putting up a fight against imperialism. The bourgeoisie love their country less than they love their class interests. They would prefer to serve as tax- masters for foreign imperialism than citizens in a free proletarian state. * ss Nice CONNOLLY the great Irish revolutionist frequently quoted the phrase: “The rich always betray the poor.” In his masterly work, “La- bor In Irish History,” he points out that the Irish struggle for freedom from British rule was always be- trayed by the upper and middle classes at every critical period. They repeated their betrayal in the latest Irish revolution five years after Con- nolly gave his life for it. The Chi- nese “patriots” have done the same} thing. * *. * Ned Upholsterers’ International Union is holding a convention in this city and one of its most in- portant achievements will be the presentation of a chair to. governor Alfred E. Smith. The chair was de- signed by William Kohn the socialist president of the union. No doubt the socialist leader will nominate Smith for president when presenting him) with the chair. ° + * Te Geneva naval parley still drags along without accomplishing any- thing tangible. The British papers b that there is no likelihood that (Continued on Page Four) SACCO-VANZETTI concession in Shanghai by French police, turned over to the Chinese! soldiery, taken to Nanking and exe-| cuted on personal orders of Chiang Kai-shek. Raid Soveit Bank. At the same time the terror is be- ing carried out against the labor unions the provocation against the Soviet Union is also going on with increased intensity. The premises of the Shanghai office of the Far East- ern Bank in the territory of the French concessions was invaded and (Continued on Page Two) PROTEST HUNGER STRIKE GOES ON Rather Starve Than Be, Killed by Perjury | i Death by starvation rather than|/ electrocution as a result of framed up evidence which is being submitted | to Gov. Fuller and his advisory com-| mittee, is the choice which Sacco! and Vanzetti have made. This heroic protest is being made by the two condemned workers be- | cause of the star chamber attitude | which Fuller has taken by insisting | that the hearings on prejudice be held in secret. j Reports that the workers were not on a hunger strike but were abstain- | ing from food due to the excessive | heat was branded as a lie by the | Saceo-Vanzetti Defense Committee | yesterday. Members of the commit- tee stated that the hunger strike was a grim reality and that William G.{ Thompson, counsel for the condemned men, spent three hours on Sunday trying to dissuade the men from con- dinuing with their plan. This they refused to do, Condition Desperate. For more than a month Gov. Fuller and his so-called advisory jcommittee have been “deliberating” on the re- spective merits of the case. In spite of the fact that eminent jurists from all parts of the world have expressed opinions that the case was an obvi- ous frame up, the Fuller “investiga- tion” has slowly dragged along. It is a well-known fact in Boston that Gov. Fuller is prejudiced against the workers and the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti have decided upon the dras- ~ The Cry from Vienna fia IS “Forward” Yesterday it was the Chinese workers who issued their clarion call to the world prole- tariat against the forces of imperialism. Today it is the workers of Vienna, who smashing through the counter-revolutionary web of the socialist and Second International machine, have shown the way to battle against the forces of world imperialism. The heroism and self- sacrifice of the Viennese proletariat, defying alike machine gun bullets of the police and the deceptive words of the socialist traitors, brings us a message, that we cannot overlook, or for- get. It brings us a call for a new forward charge against the forces of international capi- talism. The attack upon The DAILY WORKER, now in the hands of the Federal government, has behind it the same forces which are today responsible for shooting down hundreds of work- ers in the streets of Vienna. The profiteers, the war mongers, the open shoppers, the treacher- ous trade union bureaucracy and the socialist party, all are allied in one black united front against the revolutionary workers led by the Communists. We must hold our own in this battle just as bravely as the Viennese workers. We must meet the attack upon The DAILY WORKER with barricades of contributions piled up in de- fense of our proletarian fortress, The DAILY WORKER. . We have mailed out the certifi- cates for the GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND. The self-sacrifice and devotion which show in the present attack upon our movement, will show quite clearly, whether you will stand the test, when greater sacrifices are demanded. | Small Welcome Accorded To Five Trans - Atlantic Fliers On Their Return Clarence Chamberlin, Richard E. Byrd and the three men who flew with Byrd to Paris came back to New York yesterday to receive a welcome many times smaller than that recently given to Chas. A. Lindbergh. The fliers were met at the City Hall by Mayor Walker and re- ceived the city’s medals of valor. At the eternal light in Madison Square, William H. Woodin wel- comed them to the state in the absence of Governor Smith. The welcome was much briefer than that accorded to Lindbergh—it was all over by mid-afternoon, ending after the Madison Square cere- monies. Ohio Miners Faced With Double Fight In Mines and Union COLUMBUS, O., July 18.—Accord- ing to Ohio Coal Operators Associa- tion, which has met in Columbus, the mines of Ohio will be opened soon. “We are not hoodwinking ourselves, tie step of a hunger strike is evidence of the desperate condition in which the matter stands. Warden William Hendry of the Charlestown Prison insists that the men are not out on a hunger strike, but this denial is part of the prison regulations and is not being taken seriously. Prefer To Die. The Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- mittee in a statement made public yesterday said that the men prefer to die “by starvation rather than be killed on false evidence introduced in Goy. Fuller’s office behind closed doors.” The report continued, “It is a sol- emn decision to make—this slow tak- ing on one’s life—but it is necessary in this tragic situation where the fate of two men is being shaped behind closed doors from the words of wit- nesses whom neither they nor their counsel are allowed to face.” The condemned workers started their strike Saturday when Vanzetti declared that he would rather starve to death rather than be killed on false evidence. ~ b i we have a long, hard fight ahead,” said the head of one of the coal com- panies. This statement is true, de- spite the fact that voices are to be heard among the miners or their of- ficials that do not bespeak a good future for the miners. Some time ago, Searles, mine offi- cial in the Hocking Valley, proposed to break away from the United Mine Workers, and to form a new union. He got the support of only a few men, and the idea evidently was abandoned. In spite of the fact that some of the miners’ officials offered to meet the coal operators, to “come to an un- derstanding” as to the wage scale, the operators have refused to meet them. The operators were encouraged by Carl Daugherty, sub-district presi- dent in the Hocking Valley, who talked about fight, and demanded a national strike, but at the same time, offered to confer with the operators provided they did not insist upon a wage scale of $5 to replace the $7.50 according to the Jacksonville agree- ment, The operators have turned down the (Continued on Page Two) BUILDING BOSSES START DRIVE ON NEW YORK UNIONS Broach Scores Hidlitz, Woll’s Side-Kick |their war on the building trades unions. Following the attack of Charles Norman, president of the New York Employers Association, on the plum- bers, Charles L. Eidlitz, open shop president of the Board of Governors and director of the National Civic Federation, of which Mathew Woll is acting president, has notified the Electrical Workers Local 3 that it will not renew its agreement with | the union. Eidlitz’s action follows the expul- sion of the corrupt officials headed by Richard L. O’Hara from the local. O’Hara and other former officials, ousted by International Vice-presi- dent H. H. Broach, applied to Su- preme Court Justice William Harri- son Black yesterday for the appoint- ment of a receiver to take over the funds and the business of the local. Eidlitz Supports Ex-Officials. That Eidlitz is actually supporting the expelled local officials, was the charge levelled by International Vice- president Broach in an interview with a@ representative of The DAILY WORKER. “idlitz has admitted that he is as- sisting and aiding the expelled cor- rupt officials who were expelled from the union. Since none of the expelled officials has worked since the local was cleaned of corruption, I assume that Eidlitz has been sup- porting them.” Organization Drive. The organization drive that is now being conducted by the local and the refusal of local officials to agree to the violation of provisions of the building codes were other reasons given by Vice-president Broach for Eidlitz’s action. Twenty-five organ- izers are now working for the local in an attempt to bring repair men and men on-contract jobs into the union. Taking advantage of the jurisdic- tional fights among the New York building trades and of the refusal of many locals to organize their unor- ganized, the Employers Association is girding its loins for a war on the building unions. } New York builders have renewed Communist Deputies in | France Faced With New | Threat of Prison Terms | i j PARIS, July 18.—Marcel Cachin || M. Doriot and M,. Marty, Com- |] munist Deputies in the French Chamber, have received a sum- |] mons to surrender to the police to- || day to serve prison terms to which || they have been condemned, but from which they have thus far been saved by parliamentary im- munity. They are charged with having conducted subversive propaganda in the army and navy, and M. Doriot is alleged to have been ac- tive in anti-imperialist campaigns in the French colonies and in || China. Parliamentary immunity was re- cently lifted from the Communist Deputies by vote of the Chamber of Deputies. NICARAGUA LABOR DELEGATE DEFIES U.S. TO CONQUER WASHINGTON, July 18,—With President Green of the American Federation of Labor in the chair to oppose any radicalism, the Pan Amer- ican Federation of Labor began its fifth congress today. President Green in his address stated that the policy of American la- bor was specifically against imperial- ist adventures by American capital. Louis N. Morones, Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Mexican government, responded to Green’s address and declared “if the time ever comes when there is a rup- ture in Mexican-American relations I am sure there will be no break be- tween the working classes of the two countries.” Solomon De La Selza, a delegate from Nicaragua, read a report to the conference that U. S. marines had “killed 809 Nicaraguans today in battle.” it obviously referred to the (Continued on Page Two) Five people are at Coney Island Hospital suffering from what hos- pital attaches described as alcoholic poisoning after drinking the contents of a quart bottle of grape soda pur- chased for 15 cents in a store at West 24th Strest and Railroad Avenue, SOCIALIST SURRENDER ENDS VIENNA STRIKE ——» SOCIALIST LEADERS IN CONSTANT CONFERENCE WITH SEIPEL CABINET Bauer, Adler, Seitz, Demand Labor Surrender; | Create Militia to Shoot Workers | BULLETIN. VIENNA, July 18.—The Austrian transportation strike was settled to- night. As a result of the agreement reached between the socialist officials and Chancellor Seipel’s national conservative government, railroad, tele- |phone and telegraph services will be resumed at midnight tonight, if the | workers agree to the surrender of their interests by socialist leaders. * VIENNA, July 18.—There is still enthusiasm for revolt, part of the workers of this city are still armed, new contingents arrive from the surrounding districts continually, and parts of Vienna are still so much under labor control that the brutal Seipel police dare not attempt to penetrate them. The working class has had |a taste of power, it is suspecting the motives of its yellow socialist ‘leaders, and if the deadening influence of the latter could be | thrown off, might still be able to seize control of the government. But the Seipel cabinet is attempting’ to soothe the workers by a series of vague promises, and the social demo- cratic leaders particularly Burgomeis- ter Seitz, Fritz Adler and Otto Bauer, are exerting every particle of their cumberous party machine in the effort to prevent revolution. Socialist Militia and Police. At present one of the points at issue between the government of the state and the burgomeister of Vienna (a so- cialist) is whether the demonstrating workers shall be shot down by regular troops, or by the “municipal guards,” a newly organized body of militia, made up of members of the socialist ——__—___— ly defeated with unknown losses, driven into hiding, but Seitz brought them out under the protection of his guards The so hesitated, despite pressure from the c ical gov- ernment with whom they are in con- stant secret conference, to advise the workers to end their strike until at least something won. Economic conditions have been going from bad to worse, and tho the workers during their sudden uprising burned the house of the Tscharmak family in Schatten- dorf, and Ss punished Fascist mem- bers of that family who were acqu t leaders is ted in a mock trial by Vienna courts of murdering workers, no actual pun- |ishment or even disbanding of fas units has either been undertaken or promised by Seipel. Strike Goes On. The socialist democratic labor jead- ers and politicians, while forced a guards, and hired mercenaries. The burgomeister, Seitz, insists that this newly armed force is necessary to pre- vent revolution, while the government ministry prefers to rely cn the regular army, Burgomeister Seitz has announced that his municipal guards will work in close co-operation with the city po- * Caer t ontinue the str Penney lice who fired on and killed about sper ehaue d a ici 7% forty and wounded about three hun- : ne tao RR scope Nes harmless as possible. Hour by ho dred of the workers during the height of the fighting. The police were final- (Continued on Page Three) THE LEFT WING, FUR WORKERS UNION ELECTS ITS TICKET IN BOSTON, MASS, Ben Gold Tells of Peace Negotiations That Have Been Carried on With the Right Wing BOSTON, Mass., July 18.—A sweeping victory for the left jwing of the furriers’ union was recorded in Saturday’s election |when the progressive group elected their entire slate. \ The right wingers went down in complete defeat before Max Perlman, who was elected president; A. Rosenberg, vice president and A. Frank, secretary. The new executive board will consist of Dave Mathoff, L. |Garfinkle, M. Miller, W. Litvin, I. Steinberg, M. Dorfman and J. Levenstein. tare j A. F. of L. To Blame. According to Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Union Joint Board, the collapse of peace negotiations in the ‘union is due to the action of the A. \F. of L. officials and he adds: POSTPONE CONEY | "wphe Joint Board lays full respons STADIUM A FF A IR |F. of L. officials and charges that) they are the cause of the reduced!/ | wages, and the contracting and sweat-| |shop system which now prevails. ‘To Sue Arena Owner | “The Joint Board charges that the for Breach of Contract |A. F. of L. gave these as concessions On account of the terrific rain jto the manufacturers in return for recognition of the dual union and for " és assistance in the fight against the storm which swept New York Satur- |Joint Board.” day, the benefit concert scheduled to Of the unsuccessful peace confer-|take place in the open air arena of jence, Gold says: “Ever since the A,|the Coney Island Stadium on that |F. of L. instituted its splitting tactics | night, has been postponed until next jin our union, the Joint Board has| Saturday, at 8 P. M. ) stated many times that it desires} AS @ result of this, the Joint De- unity in the International. There-|fense and Relief Committee, 41 Union \fore it responded to the request of | Square, sponsors of this affair, have |Magistrate Rosenbluth to attend aj Started legal action against the ‘conference on Monday, July 12th, and| Coney Island Resorts, Inc. for breach |Isadore Shapiro, president of the | f contract. Ludwig Landy, campaign |Joint Board, and I were present with| manager of the committee, states | Magistrates Rosenbluth and Brodsky,| that he had signed a contract with and Mr. Markewich, who represented | Isidore Silberman, president of lie the A. F. of L. | Coney Island Resorts, Inc. to the Peace Terms. | effect that in the event of postpone- “Magistrate Rosenbluth informed us| ment of the concert due to bad that prior to this meeting he had Weather conditions on Saturday, July held a conference with the A. F. of| 16, it would be given the following L. representatives and learned their night, Sunday, July 17. Inasmuch as terms for peace. At the magistrate’s 4 bull fight was advertised and pre- request we repeated the Joint Board’s sented at the Stadium Sunday, it was peace terms which called for (1) Re-| impossible to go ahead with the post- instatement of all expelled members | poned concert. and local unions; (2) an election to; 15,000 Turned Away. be held for officers of the Joint Board | It is estimated that at least 15,000 under the supervision of an impartial| people jammed the gates commencing committe on which the New York Cen-| early Sunday afternoon, but were re- tral Trades & Labor Council and the| ‘used admittance because of the buu (Continued on Page Ftve) fight. |