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PREPARE T0 FEED SACCO, VANZETTI BY BRUTE FORCE (Continued from Page One) The agony which ac- hunger striker. companies this procedure is alm unendurable and members of the D: fense Committee fear for the sanity under such bart Will Werden Her ed to seo the! two men in their cells yesterday noon and asked them if they would care for a change from the regular | prison food which they have been re-! Jecting since Saturday. Both men} told the den that they cared for no food, prison fare or otherv Four members of the Sacco-Van- zetti Defense Committee terday in| an open letter to Governor Fuller asked him to “remove the veil of sec-/ recy surrounding the reviews of the} ease,” on which he will determine ight To End. afcer- | whether the death penalty shail be earried out. | Protest Seeret Inquiry. | Sacco and Vanzetti,” the letter| said, “are starving .themselves to} death in protest of your interviewing | Jong lists of witnesses, hostile and friendly, in private and permitting your advisory committee to hold Nts inquiry behind closed doors.” The State Executive Council, which | must confirm or disapprove any par-| don or commutation of sentence by tte governor, yesterday recessed for two weeks, instead of the usual week- | ly meeting. The council will sit next | on August 3, just a week before the date of execution of the death sen- tence of the condemned workers. Report Hearing Closed. The hearing of witnesses is now! at a close and after hearing counsel, the governor and his so-called advis- ory committee will retire to deliber- | ate and draft the report of the in- quiry. | * * * Geneva To Demonstrate. GENEVA, July 21.—Flaming post- | every Geneva wall. Feeling is tense NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927 Page Three « | “MEN OF THIS DYING SOCIETY HAVE TORN ME AWAY,” SACCO WRITES SIX-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER BOSTON, July 21.—In a beautiful letter written to his 6 |] daughter Inez, born since his arrest in 1920, Nicole d, “The |] men of this dying old society have brutally pulled me away from your embrace, but in spite of all the faith of your father survives.” The letter in full follows: “My Dear Inez: x “T would like that you should understand what I am going to ‘say to you, and I wish I could write you so plain, for I long so much to have you hear and feel all the heart-beat eagerness of your father, for I love you so much, you are the dearest lit “I will bring with me your little and so dearest letter.and carry it right under my heart to the last day of my life. When I die it will be buried with your father, who loves you so much as I do, also your brother, Dante, and.holy dear mother. “Tt was the greatest treasure and sweetness in my that I eould have lived with yoryand your brother Dante and your mother in a neat, little farm, and learn all your sincere words and tencer affection. Then in the summer time to be sitting with you in the home nest under the oak tree shade, beginning to teach you of life and how to read and write, to see you running, laughing, crying and singing through the little verdant fields picking the wild flowers here and there from one tree to another and from the clear, vivid stream to your mother’s embrace. “The same I have wished and loved to see for other poor girls, and their brothers happy with their mother and father, I dreamed for us. But it was not so, and the nightnmtare of the lower classes has saddened very badly your father’s soul. “For the things of beauty and of good in this life Mother Nature gave us all for the conquest and the joy of liberty. The men of this dying old society they brutally have pulled me away from the embrace of your brother and your poor mother. But, in ite of all, the free spirit of your ‘father’s faith still survives, and I have lived for it and for the dream that some day I would have come back to life, to the embrace of your dear mother; among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me. “T know that you are good, and surely you love your mother, Dante and all the beloved ones; and I am sure that you love me also a little, for I love you so much and then so much. But you do not know, Inez, how often I think of you every day. You are in my heart, én my vision, in every angle of this sad walled cell in the sky and everywhere my gaze rests. “Meantime, give my best paternal greetings to all the friends and comrades, and doubly so to our beloved ones. Love and kisses to your brother and mother. With the most affectionate kiss and ineffable caress from him who loves you so much that, he constantly thinks of you. YOUR FATHER. ar-old beloved one. ruggling life here as to the fate of the two con- “Pp, S.—Best warm greetings from Bartolomeo to you all.” demned workers and a mass demon- stration is to take place on July 31 at which all Geneva workers will be! , present. | Super-patriotic officials at the! |American embassy here yesterday | era protesting against the legal mur- | offered police and military pratection | : ; Vv i [ee cae Se ae ed ta, We TRIAL AT KHARKOV der of Sacco and Vanzetti placard bassador because they “feared for hi The FACTS About | demonstrate on July 31 against the SOVIET RUSSIA | BOSTON, July 21, (FP).—Work-| safety.” Gibson doubted the pi | bility of any violence and curtly re- fused the proferred protection. |Operated Thru Georgi- eee ’ an Mensheviks | Boston Workers To Protest. | ers around the world. are called to (Special to the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, July 21. — ‘Twelve Georgian 'Mensheviks went: on trial | yesterday in the high court at Khar- kov of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet ally Republic: The Mensheviks are charged ry | with attempting counter-revolution- ary work in the Ukraine under the direction of the second department of the general staff of the Polish army. One of the chief accused is |judicial murder of Nicola Sacco and | Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Leaflets bear- ling the call of the Sacco-Vanzetti De fense Committee are speeding to sorts of labor organizations in ev |part of the earth. The call says: | This committee feels that the hour lis at hand when friends of justice in ‘all places must unite in a vast, final |To that end we have chosen Sunday, | July 31, as the date for an inter-| Republics and illegally returned in |national protest. | In the name of all things dear to)of the Georgian Menshevik party. N these book amphiets [vce will find facts in answer to the [ying ¢#m- answer to the puign against the workers’ government. To enable more workers to read the truth on Soviet Rus- sia, many of the books listed are offered at especially low prices. We urge you take ad- vantage of this not only to secure books for yourself but to purehase others to give to workers you know. On All Orders Under $1 CENTS Or pestige: CLOTH BOUND DAYS THAT SHOOK or So- cialism? By Leon Trotsky $1.50 RUSSIA TODAY Report of the British Trade Union Delegation Shh BROKEN EARTH The Russian Village Today By Maurice Hindus —¥2.00 ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA By Mag pine Marx —=$1,00 A MOSCOW DIARY By Anna Porter $1.00 FLYING OSIP the Writers of $2.00 BOARD BOUND NEARING DE, ON RUS! A MY FLIGHT FROM SIB By Leon Trotsky PAPER BOUND By Scott Nearing Lat a. MARRIAGE SOVIET RL A — 10 RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS ® (in 1917) — COMMUNISM BY G, Zinoviev — 25 THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 88 First Street New York the human spirit we call upon you Jordania ordered Andjaparidze to re- lon this last Sunday in July to hold lof investigation will make you speak | 8 to organize counter-revolutionary li >» world will know | 8¢tivities and to establish at Kiev a ot Cones ae Hy ant vag |fransmission point and meeting place jwhat is transpiring. ; Be op Share ire | To substitute for an unfair trial) pIOnAS ' la trial behind closed doors with our _Andjaparidze received from the for- ‘friends unrepresented and with scores | @8n bure u eleven thousand roubles lof new and hostile witnesses testity-| and 4 gas emnese materials, He ing! That is called justice! The ‘ad-| me pees ai Sn NCA eu |visory committee is hearing privately at wv ah BE rare aceon pamiae ay | the i f fair trial. | Penkoff Polowny, an agent of the sec- me apeHigon A ond department of the Polish general A atbligtae pani ; staff. He crossed the Ukrainian fron- In the name of common fairness | {je jllegally. protest this last hideous travesty! | eB We must save Sacco and Vanzetti! Judge Thayer’s foul /Katzmann’s dishonest tactics! The} lis where he transmitted to Mamiya, underground organization of Georgian | | | Mensheviks, and found a meeting | one} lattempt to save Sacco and Vanzetti.) Andjaparidze who in 1922 was deport- | ed from the Union of Socialist Soviet | 1925 at the behest of Noia Jordania, | store connections among such Georgi- | an Mensheviks as there still are, to | At Kiev he created an} prejudice!) ;oint for them. He then went to Tif- | KING FERDINAND, late ruler of Rumania, died in the arms of Queen Marie early Wednesday morning. He was 72 years old. POLITICIANS IN FIGHT FOR POWER Fear Rise of Workers and Peasants BUCHAREST, Roumania, July 21. —Jan Bratiano, one of the family of politicians that for a quarter of a | century have dominated the Rouman- ian government. is the real boss of the situation here now. Queen Marie, |the notorious debauchee who led the dead king a merry chase; is part of the Bratiano machine and, as one time, if she is not now, a favorite of | | his, However, Bratiano is opposed by | another group around the ex-premier Averscu. The possibility e |this group may go to Pa s to en- | deavor to induce Prince Carol, who re- | | nounced the throne, to consent to lead a palace revolt. In some respects Averscu is considered a better agent of the imperialists in their manouvers fit and it is not unlikely that Carol may be backed by Britain in an effort {to stage a return. | Conspiracies on Foot. | Even while the decayed body of the old king lies in state in the uniform | of a general of the Roumanian army | intrigue of all sorts is being carried | on about the palace and the wily poli- \ticians are striving to gain adyan- \tages over each other. | | | | There is only one force they fear, | hence they are deterred from plung- ing into an open fight for politic domination. That force is the wor raged and_ discontented | The Communist Party is small but. has |considerable influence and in a dis- turbed s tion it is feared that events may play into the hands of the revolutionists. a member of the central committee of the Menshevik party the instructions of the Georgian counter-revolutionary organizations abroad and the money Penkoff Polowny remained at Kiev, engaged in military espionage. Po- lowny crossed the border several times, supplying intelligence to the Polish general staff and bringing back material for Andjaparidze to use in his activities. In August 1925, Andjaparidze and again to go abroad with information for the organization which sent them into the Soviet Union, but were ar- rested. A little later the members of the Kiev counter-revolutionary or- ganization were also arrested, and several employes of the war depart- ment who were supplying secret in- formation were searched out and jailed. \jury foreman’s typical hatred of rad- ‘ieals! “Damn them! They ought to ‘hang anyway!” The atmosphere | reeking with the bitterest anti-red ‘hysteria! ie He | | “We must save Saceo and Vanzetti! | In the name of human aspirations | assemble on Sunday, July 31, and lhelp us to save Saceo and Varzetti from death! The , Sacco-Vanzetti Defense | Cemmittee. \ | * * * | SPRINGFIELD, 0., July 21— Champion Aerie, No. 397, Fraternal | Order of Eagles, passed a resolution | asking release of Sacco and Vanzetti unless a new trial is granted. The | lyesolution has been sent to Gov.) Fuller. | | Evangelist’s Home Wrecked. | NORWALK, Conn., July 21. — | Charging “intolerable cruelty and in- | fidelity,” Gypsy Pat Smith, nationally | known evangelist, filed suit for di-| vorce here today against his wife, Karin Tjader Smith. They were sep- arated two months ago. | The suit comes on the heels of an) action brought by Mrs. Sinith seeking } damages of $10,000 in connection with | a property dispute over the Smith res- | idence in Tokoree, fashionable New York community. Discover Booze. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., July! 21.—A 100-gallon still, and severa hundred gallons of grain alcohol, were being held for the federal authorities today, following their discovery in the cellar of Louis Morse’s home in Greenwich , Be wg to county police who made the seizure. small town alone 82 persons were FLOOD DROWNED MANY HERE A general air view of the village of Berggieshuebel, Saxony, Germany, with the main street transformed into a river. In this killed by the flood, which, through- out Saxony, caused the loss of approximately 150 lives and did damage amounting to many millions of marks. s that} |in the Balkans than the Bratiano out- | ing class and the wide strata of en-| peasantry. | Polowny tried to cross the frontier | FORM ANTLINTERV _ IN JAPAN TO STOP WAR ON CHINA Lived Under Feudalism | es ‘the only foreigner who ever lived in the interior of Japan dur- ing its feudal days is snapped or his arrival in San Francisco from the orient. He is Professor Wil- liam Elliot Griffis, distinguished historian, one of the first of the foreigners to enter Japan after Admiral Perry’s visit. There in 1870, Professor Griffis became historian to a feudal prince. He recently was decorated with the | Order of the Rising Sun by. the { Emperor of Japan. Pacific Relations - Institute Listens to Filipino Demand HONOLULU, Jul for the Philippines ne before the Institute of Pacific Re in ses- | sion here, as one of the questions to | be serious: nsidered; tho most of ithe delegates e rather afraid of |the subject. Nicholas Dizon of the Filipino delegation was the one who credited with fo the issue on this question, and he d iterly speech which contradic jor General Leonard Wood’s propa- | ganda at every point. 21,—Freedom The Filipinos, said Dizon, regard Wood as the representative of the} U. S. in their country, wher Wood \interprets his office of governor gen- eral to be something like that of a |Roman proconsul, and tries to arbi-|Sion of the Chinese Nationalist Move- trarily settle all home affairs for the Philippines. Moreover, s: Filipinos hate those who ‘selfish native politicians” ENTION LEAGUE TOKYO, Nationalist Revoluti China has now entered into the second and the st important stage of its historical opment. Indeed, the important ng point h: me to the Chinese Nation: ¢ when it be- come the Chinese Re- lish firmly the under th facing this the Chinese thru their cunning . On the one hand, they are training their pup China- milit the other, they are trying prolet n influence out of China b: | means of t As the f throw of China, the governments of the im rialist powers i strength. step toward the The European of which the + government is the| spokesman, a arrying on the in- famous and dirty work of mischief and |distortion in an effort to cut: the bond |friendship and allianee between the proletariat in China and the Soviet as | Send Delegates. | Look! Comrades, how the delegates of the Japanese proletariat, who were |to attend the Pan-Pacific Labor Con- ference were prevented by the brutal }oppression of the authorities from proceeding to China in spite of the open promises made by the police pre- viously! Look, again, comrades, how the spokesman of the S| Minshu to (Social People’s Party)—a reac- tionary petit-bourgeois political party | | which exists only under the protection of the imperialist government—were permitted to proceed to China in the| |eapacity of the “delegates” of the! | Japanese proletariat in order to play |their mischievous game in the eyes of | the Chinese proletariat. Then, again, the Japanese imperialists drew their |swords and brandished the blades in| |the face of the Chinese proletariat by| sending thousands of troops to China. | Anti-Intervention League. | In order to break up the ambitious | attempts of military intervention! |started by the bourgeois imperialists of Japan, the proletarian masses in| Japan, mobilizing all the forces under their control, has now opened a de- jtermined campaign against the gov-| ernment. An organization, styled the} jTaishi Hikansho Domel (Anti-Inter-| jvention League) was created on May| Ist by the proletarian masses under| ‘the auspices of Rode Nomin Po, which | jis a proletarian political party under | |the guidance of the most militant pro-| \letarian elements, Toitsu Undo Domei, | |a league comprising more than 100,000 militant Lawyers’ League, and the Nomin Kumiai (Peasant Fed- ‘on of Japan), The Japanese pro- letariat has thus started a vigorous campaign against the Chinese inter- vention by the imperialist government | of Japan. | It is: evident, however, that the co-| operation of the proletariat thruout} the world is of vital necessity for the | | accomplishment of the historical mis- J | ment. While appreciating in this con- | Dizon, |nection your effort for the cause of! i of the |the Chinese Revolution in the past, we meaning | have the pleasure here to announce) all those in public life who advocate |the creation of the National League | \freedom for the island. The govern- | |ment of the islands in the hands of | its own inhabitants would be stable | {and safe, make it a territory of the U. S. or to} nvime it and set ap two administra- | tions, as in the recent artificial Moro | struggle. are resented. | Careful About China. | The institute is carefully feeling its | way inthe matter of China. Joshua| 8au yesterday read a paper in which} a complicated plan for very gradu-| jally relinquishing control of the for- | ign concessions in Shanghai was/ | worked out. Many of his points were legalities. Bau’s centerist position was today attacked both by those who advocate continued control of China hy foreign powers, and by those among the delegates who wish to end| | imperialist domination at once. | decision was arrived at. Gains In Southern Textiles. | WASHINGTON, July 21, (FP).— | South Atlantic states, alone of the! i nine geographic divisions, show an in- j crease in employment between June, 1926 and 1927. The increase was 2 {per cent, due largely to textile mill | expansion. Decreases in other areas {averaged 5 per cent. iekemdleaibatestitiian | | Sickness and Cold Friend of Loan} | Sharks. , | WASHINGTON, July 21, (FP).—| Sickness and cold are the two wolve: at the door which drive workers most frequently to the loan agency. They were found to head the list in a sur- vey just published by the department of labor. The fact that winter often finds workers’ families utterly unable to make the large payments needed for coal is attested by one fifth of the families studied. No| Against Chinese Intervention. Let us, now, co-operate with you in the task| of the struggle against the imperial-| the delegate insists, and | sts in the world in their open and se- of the Americans to either |¢?et acts of intervention in China, Let} us ery with you: | Hands Off China! Withdraw all foreign troops from | China at once! Down with the imperialists who are planning to hold the Chinese people in heir oppressive grip! Workers of the World, Unite! S. KAMIMURA, Kojimachi-ku, Uchisai-wai-cho 1-5, Tokyo, Japan. Receiver Rules Llano. NEWLLANO, La., (FP).-—The long legal fight between factions in the Llano cooperative colony in Louisiana |has resulted in appointment by the | court of J. D. Woolsey, a lawyer, as | receiver. Manager George Pickett of | the colony is not interfering with the | receivership, Charges of immorality |brought by embittered factionalists ere thrown out by the court which! also ruled that the colony was prob- ably solvent except for the large sums of money put in by the stockholders. {Right of appeal was granted to the management. W. H. Burton and Sid- | ney Merrel are leading the faction de- |manding a receivership, CURRENT EVENTS | (Continued from Page One) only one that treated the Chinese | people as equals. Even now the re- negade generals who have sold out to the imperialists pretend to be friendly to the Soviet Union, but hostile only to the Communists. This is the cloak under which ¢hey hide the dagger that is stabbing the revo- lution in the back. Breaking Down the Enemy s Lines Someone has said that the next war would be a highly. mechanized one. In spite of this fact, it is none the less true, that propaganda will play a highly important part. The army which will succeed in winning the minds of the largest mass of troops, that side will have a decided advantage. Particularly in the class war is the propaganda weapon of the greatest importance. EG G The Daily Worker is the most effective : propaganda weapon which the” — revolutionary movement in this country has yet devised. PVE The most disciplined ‘ army of wage slaves cannot ! withstand its convincing force. At the moment, - when the enemy-is « preparing for a new attack upon the trade ‘ unions, upon. the Soviet Union, . + and upon the j Chinese Revolution, ; the Proletarian ; Army must unloosei its strongest j weapon, and wutilize . it to the full. Pt easel ia Five Thousand New Readers:for the Daily. ‘Worker will be indeed a gaping rentttorn | in the side offtHe capitalist forces, Ae Forward to the goalsof Five Thousand New Readers, Break downthie enemy’s lines, 4

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