The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1927, Page 4

i ‘ E i 4 ERS Et aT “Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by tiie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 85 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Addrezs SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 96.50 six months | $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | Phone, Orchard 1680 Daiwork” Address all mail and make out cnecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | he ONNE eis cei conentoc itis Kdltors _ BERT MILLER............ses000+ business Manager — Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on applicatiod,| Smash the Massachusetts Death Plot! | Every day it becomes clearer that the state of Massachusetts has no intention of granting Sacco and Vanzetti a new trial or of | freeing them. | They will go to their fiery deaths in the electric chair on| August 10 or to a living death in a Massachusetts prison cell until life leaves their tortured bodies. | The “investigation” authorized by Governor Fuller is a dance} of death. | It is the sole concession made to the millions thruout the world who know that Sacco and Vanzetti are being sacrificed to satisfy the blood-lust of a brutal ruling class. The “investigation” | is a ghastly farce and the Back Bay clubmen loll and laugh as} Sacco and Vanzetti stare at the blank walls of the death-cell and count the hours left to them. | Authentic information as to the attitude of Governor Fuller and his advisory commission has been obtained and there is no mercy in their hearts for Sacco and Vanzetti. They are making a gesture to save the “fair name of Massachusetts justice” but their purpose is deadly. The sole purpose of the “investigation” was to arouse false hope and still all protest. It has succeeded in a large measure. It is still easy in America to deceive the masses. But everyone has not been fooled. There are workers who know that only mass protest, rising ever higher, is the only guar- antee that Sacco and Vanzetti will not be murdered, that they will be freed. From now until Sacco and Vanzetti are out of prison, in the ranks of their comrades, there must be no let-up in the mass de- mand that the Massachusetts conspiracy against two innocent workers end. Its long-drawn out torture of two workingmen must cease. Sacco and Vanzetti must be freed. Unity of all forces in the struggle, tireless exposure of the frame-up, unending protest whose din will give the Massachusetts authorities no rest, uncompromising loyalty to the struggle of the working class which they symbolize—these are the means at hand and they must be utilized to the utmost. With the Pollyannas who were so elated by the appointment of the “investigation” commission that they abandoned the fight for freeing Sacco and Vanzetti, there must be no further com- promise. If Sacco and Vanzetti go to the electric chair or are im- prisoned for life these elements must take the blame. Never has it been more apparent than now that Massachusetts justice is class => justice, that Governor Fuller represents the capitalist class and | that the Sacco and Vanzetti case is a class case. Likewise, those workers and representatives of workers who fail to do their utmost to arouse the working class to the fact that not only Sacco and Vanzetti but the whole working class movement of America is on trial, have strengthened the hands of the ex- ecutioners. Let there be no more parleying and diplomacy. Two innocent workers await death in Massachusetts—a quick death in the electric chair or a lingering death in prison. If this murder is committed, the working class in the years to come will pay in blood and tears for their weakness. Sacco and Vanzetti must be freed! Imperialist Murders in Nicaragua and the Role of American “Labor Leaders.” Work has begun on the American canal across Nicaragua. American imperialism has murdered more than 300 Nicara- guans and the American working class can see clearly now the bloodthirstiness with which Wall Street carries, out its plans for the subjugation of Latin America. Likewise, Latin American workers and peasants will now know how to appraise the recent trip of the “good will” flyers and the protestations of friendliness for Latin America made by Cool- idge and Kellogg. Cold blooded butchery is the only phrase which in any way characterizes the slaughter of these Nicaraguans. Swooped upon by airplanes against which no defense was possible, bombed and raked with machine-gun fire from above, the poorly armed Nicar- aguan soldiery were slaughtered like sheep. Another great victory for American arms has been recorded. We quote from an Associated Press dispatch: “Major G. D. Hatfield, commander of the marines at Ocotal, and his fellow-officers today were receiving congratu- lations from the Nicaraguan government on the bravery shown by the American forces in the face of such great odds.” Needless to say this “Nicaraguan government” is the creature of Wall Street-Coolidge-Kellogg government and its sole support in the country consists of American armed forces. The blood of 300 Nicaraguan workers and peasants has moistened the soil for American steam-shovels, the canal has been | most appropriately christened and Wall Street again has brought enlightenment to a “backward” people by means of bombs and bullets. In such a situation, with the murderous purposes of Amer- ican imperialism plainly apparent, with the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor in session in Washington, headed by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, another oppor- tunity is given the leadership of the American labor movement to take the lead in a ringing denunciation of this latest bloody act. But they act their usual traitor role. » What happens? A protest resolution comes from a Nicaraguan delegate, Pres- ident Green refuses to allow action on it and states calmly that the matter must come up later in the regular course of business. The regular course of American imperialism’s business must not be interfered with even if this means that 300 Nicaraguans have been murdered and 100 more lie bleeding under a scorching sun while vultures devour the mangled bodies of their comrades. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1927 VIENNA CROWDS ON THE VERGE OF REVOLUTION Just before the shooting started. Great crowds marching past the Votivkirche, Vienna. By HARVEY O'CONNOR. WASHINGTON, July 19—(FP)— America’s trade unionists had better |look sharply to the south if they do not want a regime of open shop| |paternalism hitherto unequalled in |labor history to spread northward, |engulfing unionism as it goes. Even |if the Dixie type of industrial feudal- }ism does not spread, it is becoming }each year a greater menace to the }maintenance of union standards in | organized northern industries. | New England’s 400,000 _ textile | workers can speak eloquently of {what the south’s “new era” of low paid industrial.labor means in north- jern mills. The coal miners, who find | the very existence of their union jeopardized by, non-union West Virg- inia, now becoming the dominant fuel} | state, can give further testimony. | Pittsburgh’s iron and steel workers,; A billion dollars is invested in |foreed to compete against Birming-| southern cotton mills and another bil- | | ham, know what it means to have a! lion represents their yearly output.) | city in Haiti, has jailed the entire Haitian delegation, and newspa- permen. accompanying it, just as it was leaving for the Pan-Amer-| ican conference. Here is another reason for protest and action| but the official leaders of the conference are too busy denouncing | the “reds” to pay any attention to such minor manifestations of | | reaction in American dependencies. | The labor movements of Argentine, Brazil and Chile have} shown excellent judgment in sending no delegates to a conference which, dominated by American imperialism’s labor agents, has no other purpose than to paralyze the resistance of the Latin American peoples to Wall Street aggression. There is no better way to fight American imperialism than | by exposing the true role of the leaders of the Pan-American Fed- ‘eration and aiding in every way the organization of the Latin American masses for struggle against all it stands for. low wage, low standard producing center less than 500 miles away. Confident Tryouts. Under a crass and arrant employ- ing class, confident in the docility of their laborers, southern industry is| striding forward in seven league} boots. Last year her manufactures exceeded in. value the entire nation’s in 1900; one third of the country’s | post war increase in factory and mill production came from south of the Mason and Dixie line. Drawing added power from the Appalachian moun- tain streams, she boasts 50 per cent of all newly developed hydroelectric energy. With more than 1,000 cot- ton mills, the south has 57 per cent of the country’s active spindles and processes in her own mills two thirds of all the cotton she produces. More Miils. More Tory Lies and Provocation. | News dispatches from London relate that Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate is in Shanghai, China, with the | object of interviewing Michael Borodin, former advisor to the Wuhan government, who is a citizen of the Soviet Union. It is noteworthy that none of the dispatches from Shanghai mention any. such proposed conference. As a matter of fact no such con- ference was contemplated. Borodin, himself, is right now being sought in China by counter-revolutionary mercenaries bent upon his destruction, so it is ridiculous to assume that it is physically possible for him openly to participate in a conference in Shanghai. The motive for this latest crude lie is easily perceived. The |tory government of forgery, provocation and murder, views with {alarm the increased demands from American interests desiring to trade with Russia, for recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States, and so endeavors by low intrigue and vicious prop- aganda through its news agencies to prevent such recognition be- eause it would be a heavy blow to its own industrialists as well as a rebuke to the Baldwin governmental policy against Russia. The recent revelations of the international spy and forger, Drujalovsky, who confessed to forging documents used py the United States state department against those advocates in the senate of Soviet recognition have discredited the methods of the forgers and provocateurs against the Soviet Union and it is hardly likely that even such a troglodyte as Secretary of State Kellogg will have the audacity to try to use this latest fairy-tale against advocates of recognition. As the only government of the old | world that is steadily increasing its productive forces the Soviet Union is attracting investment capital from the enormous surplus held by American capitalists who must, of necessity, find some place to dispose of it or face stagnation. Russia needs this capital to enable her to obtain the enormous amount of productive ma- chinery necessary to carry out her economic program. In face of these facts the provocations on the part of the discredited tories and their ilk will fall flat. Especially should American labor strive for recognition by this government of the Soviet Union if for nothing other than the fact that the millions of dollars that can be spent for American Furthermore, President Borno, the puppet of the national WT industrial products will employ many thousands of worlLers. South Is Challenge to Organized Labor Thirteen new mills go up each year, to, say nothing of additions and im- provements to existing plants; 60 New England textile firms now have southern mills. The south claims four great ad-| vantages: climate, water power, raw materials and labor, and of these labor is the greatest. Critics may pick flaws in her other claims: the warmer the climate, usually the less energetic the laborer; the power trust, through financial legerdemain, may make electricity relatively expensive, especially in view of the refinement of coal combustion processes in north- ern steam plants; the Carolinas are exporting most of their cotton, the fiber being too short for profitable spinning, and importing the raw ma- terial from Texas. But in cheap un- skilled labor, the south’s claim to supremacy is hardly challenged. Use “Poor Whites”. The mill owners are drawing their labor power from a vast reservoir of hatf-famished mountaineers whose standard of living is the lowest in the United States. From wretched huts in the Carolina hills, the “poor white trash” gladly troop down to the mill towns. So infinitely superior are | these villages with their monotonous rows of four room shacks, many of which have running water and even electricity, to the primitive cabins of the “hill-billies” that they willingly sacrifi¢e freedom of action and sub- mit to the baronial tyranny of the employer, who owns homes, schools, church and the entire community. Even the low wages paid in the mill seem princely to the mountaineer who hardly handled $100 in cash the year round. In addition his wife and children are privileged to toil in the same mill and so for the first time the family’ escapes the genera- tion—old semi-starvation of the hill regions. Suborn Preachers. Employers hire the village preach- ers, who in turn laud the mill own- er and make religion the vehicle for feudal submission. Race pride is stirred by references to the “finest Anglo-Saxon strain in America” and enmity against the Negro is cultivat- ed by veiled references that he will be brought in if ever the white wo ers lose their proper humility. Wit? the nightmare of the hill life behin him and the terror of Negro com petition before him, the southern tex-, tile operative is a nearly “union- proof” as any worker in the land, | [Letters From Our Readers “World” In Doubt About Slums. To The DAILY WORKER: 1 The “World” recently carried an} editoria! lauding “a new plan for the elimination of the so-called (why ‘so- called’?) slums and the construction of model ‘apartments for workers.” This plan was submitted “at a con- ference of Mayor Walker with a large number of real estate operators, ban- kers, philanthropists, dnd capital- ists.” What can bankers, capitalists, and realtors be doing at such a con- ference? This is the answer: found at the end of the editorial. “The feasibility of the plan depends, of course, upon its appeal as a business proposition to the capitalist.” Now, I’d like to ask one little ques- tion. proposition, and if a 10 per cent re- turn on the investment, as it is claimed, is assured, why cannot the government undertake th® project ?— instead of some capitalist whose pri- meve concern is his own benefit, 'Conrad’s ‘Rescue’ Plan-! ned by Hampden— | Benefit Concert | Next Saturday | Due to the rain last Saturday | night, the concert for the benefit of | | the Cloakmakers and Furriers, which | was to have been given at the Coney | Island Stadium, will be held next Saturday. The vaudeville headliners at Moss’ Broadway this week include: Eddie! Mayo and Harmonica Band; Tom; Howard & Co., Butler & Parker; Jones | & Rea;and Marcelle and Geraldine | Miller & Co. Beginning Friday the} | Dempsey-Sharkey fight pictures will | be shown. | “Dear Little Rebel,” a musical play- let, with Nancy Gibbs, Robert Ver- non, P. J. O’Connor and Dick Trout, book by Edwin Burke and Lyricks | is the feature at the Palace this week. | The other acts are: Rosa Low, So-} prano; Paul Tisen and His Orchestra | | with Holland Barry; Frank Fay, third week as Master of Ceremonies; Sen- ator Murphy, and Harry and Dennis | Dufor. Tey one The Albee in Brooklyn has on its| bill this week, Vannessi & Co.; Mr. | and Mrs. Coburn; Yates and Lawley; } Treasure Land; Barry & Whitledge; | Marino and Martin; Cardini; Tom and} Bett Waters; Alan and Jean Corelli. | Walter Hampden is planning to do| a dramatization of Joseph Conrad’s | novel “Rescue” among the features of his schedule for next season at the Hampden Theatre. The season may open there the last week in Septem- br with “The Light of Asia” or Ib- sen’s “An Enemy of the People.” | Anyhow, what are the “philanthro- pists” doing at this conference if the “feasibility of the plan depends, of course, upon its appeal as a business proposition to the capitalist?” Sincerely,—S. W. Kass. Investigate Murder Beating. An investigation was started yes- terday by Police Captain Harry Walsh of the Seventh Precinct, Jer- sey City into the death of Charles Walls, 52, of that city who died on| July 6th. He will try to determine | if his death was caused by a beating he suffered while under arrest that day. The charge was made by Wall's father-in-law. He said the body will be exhumed to secure proof of the charges. Have Paid Your the Contribution to! Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? | | What the Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund, John G. Zittel, Saginaw, W. S. MACH 7 ocau ie a sini neutsy eae 2.00 M. 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