The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1927, Page 1

lll SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! THE DAILY WoO FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Vol. IV. No. 163. Outside New York, by mail, 36.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N, ¥., wader the act of March 3, 1879. mail, $8.00 per year. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927 44s Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,, 18 DAYS LEFT TO AUGUST 10TH LABOR MUST ACT! FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents First Street, New York, N. Y. TAMMANY JOINS I. R. 7. AGAINST TRACTION UNION Current Events 'SACCO, VANZETTI oy .vmumer. | WEAK AFTER LONG. HUNGER. PROTEST Fuller Pays Visit to the Imprisoned Workers NLY a few weeks intervene between | now and the date set for the execu- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti. Even the} easily-satisfied liberals who believe in the innocence of the two labor leaders but oppose mass protests in their be- half, lest such demonstrations might seem to reflect on the impartiality of governor Fuller and his committee of intellectual yes-men, are now begin- ning to entertain doubt. Ugly ru- mors are afloat that the governor’s;} commission will uphold judge Thayer | ; d 5 and the jury’s verdict and that Sacco ag Hed wean re ater e and Vanzetti may either be electro- | He also. talked ‘With Celestine Ma- cuted or imprisoned for life. |deiros, who has confessed to the BOSTON, July 22.—Gov. Alvan T. Fuller who holds the power of life and death over Sacco and Vanzetti today visited the two condemned men * * * jerime for which Sacco and Vanzetti A NEW wave of hostile propaganda are to be electrocuted. is appearing in the capitalist press.| Both interviews took place in Whenever a new development in this) Warden Hendry’s office who was historic case takes place, stories of | Present all the while. The governor bomb plots and threatening letters are | first talked to Madeiros for fifteen to be found in abundance. Take the| Minutes and then for the same yarn of the bombing of the American | length of time with Sacco. Then consulate at Nice. At first it was) Venzsetl ‘was called in. The impri- charged to friends of Sacco and Van-| Soned workers plainly showed the zetti. Now we are told that the in-|effects of their hunger strike, they tended victim was some Czarist prince !ooked pale and haggard. who had committed some private As Vanzetti entered the office he} wrong for which he was marked for carried three sheets of paper appar-| punishment. But thousands who read} ently covered with notes. As rep-| ° ; * | tatives of the press and public the first startling headline may never | 7°5°! P Pp see the later version and they will be | 27° barred from all of Fuller’s hear- catty : oie lings it was impossible to ascertain d against the victims of cap-/ . | ones stanton ak Busatt: P- | what transpired at the hearing in! |the warden’s office. After an ab- Pe bd - |Sence of more than an hour Vanzetti leath staring at our two com-'was taken back to his cell. rades in the face and the steam) Are Guarded. ee a of the cee mnie oe This was the first time since their A alae aoe is Ges fara Siete | eter io the des prison that | the i" there is no time to be lost in arousing | daylight. are yeni froin the workers and all other sympathetic | neqham jail on the fiyst of this elements in this and other counties] month. As the men were brought to the great crime that ciated com-' from their cells, separately, each was mitted against Sacco and Vanzetti.! secompanied by a deputy warden and One mass movement is more effective | prison guard, in this case than the sympathies of | i * ! Permit Denied. ten thousand separate bourgeois in-; | The Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- tellectuals and pacifists. 3 0 | mittee has issued a call for a mass * * * | A a : protest demonstration and parade Te big bosses are not afraid of |} oy setting the date for Sunday, slaps on the wrist. They are afraid | of the wrath of the millions who are| nis ee the he Bediama ey huddled together in the mills and in Chick auc SAGR TG the ee ctine the mines. When the electric thrill aoe . vereg o sey Er anhng . 6 i of class indignation surges thru those! sugetrtiadent onien a! oto millions the master class sit up and! hands thi t ‘ aa *e take notice. It was the collective pro- lacie’ tha cal pete ae al a of Aa eset saved Mayer, | meeting might lead to violence. His aywood and Pettibone pnd Pe eects were vigorously denied by} a os Weer tes oe toe in baat ca oth of the Defense Committee. chair. It is in the hands of this power | : * * to save ced and ee | Milwaukee Mayor to Protest. * i . ‘ MILWAUKEE, July 22.—The Sac- 'HE Rumanians now have a five-| . Lar rs seavold iad Thaker the kindof co-Vanzetti Provisional Committee of | v : this city has issued a call signed by| a king to have, easy to handle, When! Mayor Hoan for a conference to Bd the little fellow ascended the throne) eanize the labor forces of Milwaukee | he kissed a crucifix, then the cannons | “to participat ffectivi i roared outside and the kingling burst Sale weat as tie Seraat va into tears. Ion Bratiano, the real | zetti.” | boss of Rumania was there but Marie} ” Sapte was not. Jon and Marie will have | sate pale re ea an ens Gov-| things their own way until the work-! E hierveRa odt 5 eb ers and peasants give them the moe upon him by the thousands of 2 . % | resolutions, mass protest mectings, | petitions and telegrams, from home Quy a few years back, Warren S. and abroad, to the extent of appoint- Stone was the uncrowned king of ling an advisory committee. This the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-| pressure must now be doubled, and neers. His word was law in the continued until Sacco and Vanzetti union and those who would oppose his are given full justice. An openly policies were crushed with an iron) conducted investigation must be de- hand. As long as he was on top,! manded.” sycophants parroted his praise. But after his death it was discovered that} GENEVA, July 22.—Using a pre- jhis genius was largely bluff. He text that he pasted a Sacco-Vanzetti "brought a powerful organization to| protest poster on a city wall without the verge of ruin. A few days ago/legal authorization, a worker was ar- a brotherhood convention defeated by rested here yesterday and is being the narrow margin of seven votes @|held pending a further “investiga- motion to remove an oil painting of | tion.” the late chief from the brotherhood | Protests from many sources bank. Yes, Mr. Stone was an inveter-' apainst the execution of Sacco and ate foe of Communism and a “safe,/ Vanzetti continue to pour in to the sane and conservative” leader. | American legations at Berne, Gene- |va and other points, LONDON, July 22.—The steamship | Whe aenlinc of uGartae by A 7 { ‘a are literally Homestead Which was disabled in, the, covered with posters which protest Arabian Sea, near Mangalore, off the | against the imprisonment and pos- Malabar Coast, has been abandoned pibln “exouutiinil O84 the. coltaniiay in sinking condition. | men. See Page 3 For Det: ails The conservative Journal de Ge- * * | thorities have on various pretexts re- Nneve: which is widely read thruout iy Europe, yesterday ran a leading edi- About Stadium Concert Defend Needle Workers torial, declaring that everything in- Tonight you must be at Coney Island Stadium. The needle trades workers need you there, The fight to save the unions from being wrecked by the right wing and the bosses is at a critical point. The New York Symphony Orchestra and the Kosloff Ballet will be there for you. See page 3. i ‘dicates that Sacco and Vanzetti were condemned not because they were murderers, but because they ‘were revolutionists. , After declaring that the ease gives the impression that the men were condemned because they were foreign-born radicals, the paper continues, “Unhappily, iti is too true that in the United States poor immigrants are often consider- ed as being human beings in the sec- ond category.” Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! ‘ For the Struggle Against War HEDLEY CALL “The struggle against war is not a single act; it demands bloody sacrifices from the working class, a whole series of mass actions (demonstrations, strikes in munition fac- tories, etc.), whose outcome is the victorious revolt of the proletariat.” May Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. The training for the struggle against the new war menace begins with the accomplishment of the simplest tasks, in this instance and in this country, the campaign to defend The DAILY WORKER from the attack of the Federal Government and the War Patriots. The sacrifices required in order to build a defense fund for our paper, the only voice raised against the new war preparations, is but a forerunner of the greater sacrifices which will be demanded of the American proletariat. Already the Certificates for the GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND are beginning to pour in. Already the comrades are beginning to respond to The DAILY WORKER'S call. The fight against the War Danger demands quick and effective action. confronts the workers with an accomplished fact—WAR—here it is. Capitalism usually The workers must con- front the ruling class with an accomplished fact—a revolutionary paper—The DAILY WORK- ER—protected by the solid wall of the Defense Fund—and hurling daily its proletarian chal- lenge in the teeth of the war makers. FRENCH POLICE — RAID CHINESE- SOVIET RAILWAY Chiang Chains Soviet Union Citizens (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PEKING, July 22.—French police raided the offices of the Zefiroff, director of the Sino-Soviet owned Chinese Eastern Railway, which is situated in a French concession. As in the other raids on Soviet Union offices, white Russians participated in the search. * * ( * Chiang Shoots Lefts. | SHANGHAI, July 22.—At the or- der of the Nanking Government, Hsia Chen-hsiang was arrested and shot. He was suspected of having been a member of the Chinese Communist; Party. Nothing definite is known about the fate of the Soviet citizens who were arrested on board the steamer Henli. Contrary to the assertions of the Nanking Government, the native press reports that the prisoners were brutally treated. The hands and feet of the prisoners were chained. They will be brought before a military court, it has been learned. Prisoners On Hunger Strike. The Soviet Consul General has been trying to meet the arrested So- viet citizens, but the Nanking au- fused to grant this request. Tt has been learned from reliable sources that the prisoners have de- (Continued on Page Two) CANNON FALLS, Minn., July 22. —Five workers, members of a_ sec- tion gang, returning home from work on a gasoline car met death near here last night when struck by a Chicago Great Western freight engine. Arrest Communists of Austro-Bohemian Town Holding Demonstration BRATISLAVA, Czecho - Slov- akia, July 22—Tw -three Com- munists ineluding/ <¢ secretary of the party here -e been arrested and are held in jail because of a demonstration for release of poli- tical prisoners and against the shooting of the workers by the Austrian government. Attend Daily Fair Is Request to All Workers by Party All workers are urged to attend The DAILY WORKER Carnival to- morrow in a statement issued by the District Execeutive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party. It reads as follows: “The DAILY WORKER will hold a | carnival at Pleasant Bay Park this Sunday. The carnival was originally | scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. In view of the fact that the Coney Island Stadium Concert arranged by the defense committee was postponed from last Saturday to this Saturday, The DAILY WORKER has donated this day and has given way to the de- fense committee so that the defense committee can hold its concert in the Coney Island Stadium Saturday night. “The DAILY WORKER, because of its devotion to the cause of labor, finds itself today persecuted by the local and federal authorities. It is the duty of the militant work- ers of this city to help the Daily by attenting its Carnival. “DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE, District 2, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY.” UPHOLSTERER CONVENTION KILLS PROGRESSIVE RESOLUTIONS; EVADES LABOR PARTY ISSUE The defeat or the referring to the@opposed to the Hands Off China Com- general executive board of all pro- gressive resolutions featured yester- day’s session of the Upholsterers’ Union convention at the Hotel Cadil- lac, 43rd St. near Broadway. Among the resolutions that were either defeated or turned over to the general executive board where un- doubtedly they will die, were those favoring the recognition of the Soviet Union, Hands Off China, and affilia- tion with the Wevkers Health Bureau. Against Russian Recognition. The resolution committee brot in a recommendation for non-concurence with the resolution favoring the recog- nition of the Soviet Union. Before the vote was taken Delegate Carl Ap- pel of Boston, the progressive spokes- man on the convention floor, made a masterful speech in which he said that “the Soviet Union will not suffer by the defeat of the resolution, But in the future when anyone examines the records of our union he will be ashamed at the attitude our organiza- tion has taken.” Socialist Delegate. The resolution calling for the With- drawal of American troops from China, the recognition of the Nation- alist government and the affiliation with the Hands Off China Committee was referred to the General Txecu- tive Board. A. Solvioff, socialist delegate, said that while he favored the withdrawal @ troops from China he was bitterly’ mittee which he charged is a Com- munist organization. Before giving the resolution to the executive board “ec portion mentioning the Hands Off ina Committee was deleted. The resolutions committee recom- mended that the Labor Party reso- lution be not accepted because “the American Federation of Labor is op- posed to a labor party.” William Kohn, president of the union said that until the A. F. of L. starts a movement for a labor party he will not work for a labor party in this country. “We will instead,” con- tinued Kohn, “devote ourselves only to the Upholsterers’ Union.” The resolution for affiliation with the Workers Health Bureau was also sent to the executive board. Today’s session will act on the other resolutions and elect the new officials. HONOLULJI, T. H., July 22.—With the Chinese problem relegated to se- eret sessions to permit the Japanese and imperialistic delegates in general full scope, the Institute of Pacific Re- lations entered today its more serious work of putting out propaganda for the American policies on immigration and Asiatic trade. Romanzo Adams, professor of so- ciology in the University of Hawaii read a paper, outlining the “need” of the sugar plantation owners for a big supply of cheap manual labor in the islands. CAPPELLINI GANG PANNED BY €.L.U, OF SCRANTON, PA, Opposition Defeats | Four-Year Terms | | COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 22.— With an injunction and a carload of machine guns to help them, part of the Ohio coal operators will try once more next week to open mines with scab labor. Rose Volley and Good- year Rubber Co. mgnes at Steuben- ville, and the Luhrig Colliery Co. at Luhrig will attempt to start work Monday. The injunétionis by the” Luhrig company against District President Hall and 83 officials and members of the union. The court’s order allows only six pickets. Quar- ters for scabs are prepared, and all these mines will utilize armed guards, barbed wire fences, search- lights and quick firing guns to break down the picketing and terrorize the union miners. * * * SCRANTON, Pa., July 23.—An in- vitation to Judge Maxey to address the convention of District 1, United Mine Workers of America here, and failure to invite the officials of the Central Labor Union to address the delegates has brought harsh and un- restrained criticism of President Cap- pellini and other miners’ district off ficials from the heads of the local labor movement. Favors For Maxey. It was stated openly during the last strike that Cappellini had allowed Judge Maxey to operate his coal washery all during the tie-up, con- trary to union regulations. Maxey also favored Cappellini in a suit in which the validity of his election to the office he now holds was involved. Democrats and Repubticans. support the democratic party as a rule while Cappellini follows the tra- ditional official U. M. W. A. policy and supports the republicans. This is probably the real basis of the present struggle in Scranton labor circles. The district convention shows however that there is a genuine rank and file epposition to the Cappellini regime. Lawrence F. Hart and Frank Walsh, president and recording secre- tary, respectively, of the Scranton Central Labor Union, addressing a special meeting of the central body last night at headquarters, 521 Tack- awanna avenue have seriously ques- tioned the trade unionism of Rinaldo Cappellini, Enoch Williams and other officials of District No. 1, United Mine Workers of America, for their failure to invite President Hart or some other officer of the C. L. U., to say a few words of welcome or fra- ternal greetings to delegates at the biennial convention of the miners’ union at the opening in Town Hall on Monday. Mr. Hart also accused Cappellini of not living up to promises made at a convention some months ago in Harrisburg when he said he would strive to have the various mine, lo- cals in the district become affiliated with the Scranton Central Labor body. “Rinaldo Cappellini and Enoch Williams saw fit to invite a politi- cian and not the president of the C. L. U., to welepme the delegates to Scranton,” Mr. Walsh declared. Con- tinuing, he said: “The officials of the mine union, for the most part, are young men and I believe them to be intoxicated with egotism. h i] y ~ The Central Labor Council officials | Te eyENS ORE RE ON NM ‘ § FOR POLICE AID AND GETS IT; COPS, DETECTIVES, “SUPES,” SPIES, SURROUND BROOKLYN LYCEUM Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes Mass Meeting “Picketed” Present Union Demands to I. R. T. Today; Meet Tuesday to Consider Reply New York police, in large numbers, operating in close accord with innumerable company detectives, blockaded and strangled the first of the two meetings of traction workers arranged for Brooklyn Labor Lyceum last night. The meeting of the day workers opened with the crowd driven away by more or less open intimidation from company guards and their Tammany assistants. The meeting was called to order an hour and three-quarters late, at 9:45 p. m., and General Organizer James H. Coleman of |the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway Employes, announced to the hundred or so who had forced past the guard lines outside that more were expected when the night shift came down, but that this meeting had shown the company practising intimidation on the workers and keeping them out of the meeting at which they meant to formulate demands on their employers. An offer by Mayor Walker to interview a delegation of the workers and hear grievances was read by Coleman, and voted accepted. The demands are for the right of collective bargain- ing (the Amalgamated instead of a company union) and for a wage increase. Another meeting Tuesday will consider further action if the demands are not granted. Long before the hour set for the opening of the meeting a crowd of | workers, subway workers most of them, but traction workers all of them, | began to gather outside the doors of the hall. It looked then like a record | meeting. Organizer Coleman’s prophesy of 13,000 attendance seemed likely | to be fulfilled. The ”Force” Apriyes. tom Burt soon another.crowd began.to® gather too, The 1. R. T. had shouted for police “protection.” “Plain clothesmen” like those who clubbed strikers jin the last subway strike were there in gangs. The police came, enough |of them to block the street. They didn’t actually do that, but they hung around the doorway, and closely scanned every worker who came near it. And still more of the company crowd came, to keep company with the police, to scan the faces of the workers—company officials, superintendents, foremen, stool pigeons, spotters, bosses of every variety. This undoubtedly |cut down the attendance at the meeting, but it also showed how seriousiy the company took even a threat to strike, what desperate efforts it was making to mobilize all power against workers who were only asking for a | somewhat better wage, a little more chance to live, and the right to form | their own union. A | Earlier in the day the ike threat had penetrated into the inner councils of Tammany—it was effecting the executive decorum of the city government, and Mayor Walker was being “forced” to make a public state- ment. He’was told that the union leaders had said that he was the only man who could stop the strike. He replied, “I hope that is so. If there is danger of a strike, I do hope that I will be able to prevent it.” And he called on his chairman of the Board of Transportation, John H. Delaney, to corroborate him. ‘Delaney is trying to build more subways to give the men more work,” said the mayor. More work—with company union, jall the present ills, dangers, and semi-starvation? | anything about that side of it. | To Try Personal Suasion. | But later is was reported at the Brooklyn mass meeting that he had |invited the union officials to come to his office today, to confer with him; he did not say that he had invited the company officials to be there too, | Evidently it is not arbitration, but “persuasion” the mayor has in mind. Mayor Walker came under fire from ex-Mayor Hylan during the after- |noon, Hylan said the mayor should arbitrate. | But Walker by that time had sent the police to intimidate the pros- | pective strikers, and probably he hoped that that would be all that was necessary. | It was Frank E. Hedley, president of the Interborough, who made the | official application for police. He came in person, yesterday afternoon, |to see Police Commissioner Warren. He sat with him in secret session. He refused to make a public statement about his conversation with Warren. But Warren talked. Warren said Chief Inspector Lane would lead a detail | of police to “guard against violence at the Brooklyn meeting” of the-workers {of the traction companies. Whether Lane lead them or not, there is no |doubt but that the police were there. n wage cuts, espionage, black list and The mayor didn’t say WALL STREET GONTROL OF P. A. F. L, | | } WASHINGTON, July 22.—Attacks on the foreign, policy of ‘the United States in its dealings with Latin-American republics, |coupled with charges that the machinery of this government was | being used in the interest of Wall Street bankers, caused President | William Green to demand a halt in such speeches on the part of | Latin-American delegates to the Pan-American Federation of La- bor in session here today. | Green told the delegates that noth-| Daily Worker Carnival At Pleasant Bay Park ing more must be said against the/ |policy of the United States in Latin] | America, as the convention was “not | ja clearing house for political ills of | | South America.” | | ' Against De La Selva. | The gag law was applied in the/ jeourse of discussion of a resolution| offered by Salomon De La Selva, Nie {raguan delegate, calling for an inve tigation of the running amuck of an |American marine in Haiti earlier in| |the week, resulting in the killing of one and the wounding of two natives. | Green’s intervention followed a ve-| jhement speech by delegate Martinez, | (Continued on Page Four) | Tomorrow; See Page 3 The Daily Worker Carnival and Fair, originally planned for two days, will be held Sunday, July 24, one day only, at Pleasant Bay Park. That is your only chance to’ see the event of the season. EB kind of amusement, and all to say the workers’ daily newspaper. § page 8 for details. Decide now { go. BARED BY MUZZLING LATIN PROTEST —