The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1927, Page 1

SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! E DAILY WORKE | THE DAILY WORKPR FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGARIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED i FOR THE 40-HOUR WERK FOR A LABOR PARTY T SUBSCRIPTION RATHS: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Entered as serond-ciass matter at Vol. IV. No. 164, NEW Current Events By T. J. O’Fuanmery. the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., wader the act of March 3, 18789, YORK, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1927 ONLY 16 DAYS LEFT TO AUGUST lu LABOR MUST ACT! Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. FINAL CITY | EDITION | Price 3 Cents RACTION HEADS IMPORT STRIKEBREAKERS PRESIDENT Hedley of the Inter-| peat bas eu borough Rapid Transit company 1 will ignore mayor Walker's invita- UIRRIER WORKERS : b tion for a joint conference with the officials of the Amalgamated union representing the employes and the| Liberation of Vanzetti mayor representing the so-called pub- i And Sacco to Be Demand Hee sHedieys sents) defieatiy, Uke a1 NTI UE THEIR Of N.Y. Workers Friday the ruling class that runs this little 20,000 Workers Attend) The immediate liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti will be demand- ed by New York workers at a dem- onstration to be held this coming Friday, 5 p. m., at Union Square || by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee, The demonstration burg of ours. The labor leaders do not speak in similarly defiant tones. They are apologetic, tho approxi- mately 25,000 workers who run the/ subways, elevated and surface lines are behind them. * " * { ae Hedley is just a citizen of the) United States the same as any} one of the thousands of employes on| his lines, he is a member of the gov- erning class and when he goes to the police commissioner for uniformed aid Coney Island Concert | — | will be held 13 days before the date |} set for their execution in the state of Massachusetts. Well known speakers of the labor movement will speak. The eighth week of the strike of New York fur workers against the | Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc.,| begins today, with the workers stand- | ing firmly with the Joint “Roard in |their determination to force recogni- jtion of the union and the officers |a petty bourgeois democratic change HANKOW YIELDS COMPANY BARNS LIKE ARMED BARRACKS AS STRIKE TO REACTION (OOMS TOMORROW MIDNIGHT; STREET CAR MEN TO WITHOUT FIGHT Talk While the Gener- als Stage Coup MOSCOW, July 25.—Special corre- spondence in an article in Isvestia describing the Hankow coup de etat reports that this coup was effected gradually and was in the nature of '|6,000 Workers Attend | Daily Worker Carnival At Pleasant Bay Park Over 6,000 workers attended the Daily Worker Carnival and Fair at Pleasant Bay Park yesterday. || without outward events, the revolu- FOLLOW SUBWAY WORKERS IN GENERAL TIE-UP And Terminals; bared Thugs Guard Scabs At Company Barns Ready For War \Eight Thousand Cops Held Ready by Warren To Smash Huge Traction Walk-out The traction kings are expecting a strike and they are pre- against a strike he will receive it. which they want Tho he represents a class that is only } Membersh: aa ingest ae 4 a comparatively small minority of|) (11, nailaa pe aTi = iad the population, his voice weigis | ing fag 8 Sidiaek aad hee ahs toa heavily in government circles because | froin Hes: Gold 3 a atisg rae atee his class has economic power and | on the poise canteen ae eae political power. | F. of L. Committee where Gold and} * oe | Shapiro represented the Joint Board. | UGH FRAYNE and other reaction-|It is evident from the conversations | ary officials of the American|of workers at Joint’ Board headquar- S. Masses Victims of Imperialism Federation of Labor, fresh from a| ters, that the action of the A. F. strikebreaking job against the Fur-|L. Committee in rejecting the peace tiers’ Union are posing in the capi-| terms of the Joint Board is viewed as talist press as friends of the transit|a further betrayal of the furriers’ workers. I would hate like the devil! union. It undoubtedly indicates a de- to depend on those fakers for assis- | (Continued on Page Five) tance. They are the best friends the fel AEN EONS employers have. While Hedley is) energetically making preparations to) GREEN EXPOSED oreak the threatened strike those re-| actionary labor leaders are explain-| ing their case to capitalist politicians i and assuring them that they are not | N ZUELAN radical. | Amalgamated union has now a} real opportunity to organize the) transit workers in this city. The sen-| timent for organization among the| men is strong. The whole labor| [J movement is in.sympathy with them. } Yast’ year a group of militants con-! ducted a strike that taxed the strike-| breaking ability of the traction barons to the utmost. With the aid} eceived a bor leaders to support it the strike was broken. If a strike is now called) Am the militants who are under constant | statement issued by the Venezuelean | fire from the reactionaries will be | delegate, Ricardo Martinez. The Pan the backbone of the struggle. | American Federation is used by it: - - = | leaders to forward the interests o: ILLIAM GREEN and Matthew| pmerican imperialism, just as the . ‘ S i stru t _ Woll are having their hands full) ¢5 Wall Street propaganda. When trying to justify American imperial-| Green stifled criticism of the gov- ism in Central and South America at| 4). nt’s repacious policy in the the Pan-American congress in Wash-|Tatin-American countries he avoided ington. Those two eateniaes of | being assailed effectively as he Wall Street, Wein like angry ike | would otherwise have been. But Mar- whenever the representatives of the! tinez issued a statement that accused | oppressed peoples of Latin America | q,.., 7 i y criticise the brutal policy of Ameri- reen of concealing rather than ex can imperialism. We said when this congress opened that the function of the Pan-American Federation of La- bor was to serve as labor auxiliary posing American imperialism. In ply to a charge that he had in- sulted the American people in his attack upon the application of the! Monroe doctrine in Latin Ameri LABOR DELEGATE nging re-| erday after the close of the | iean Federation.of Labor in the} SACCO VANZETTI WEAKER AS FAST REACHES 7TH DAY of|New York Workers to/| Protest Friday BOSTON, July 24. — Sacco and Vanzetti are growing weaker on the end of the seventh day of their hun- ger strike to protest against the ‘methods being used by Governor Fuller in investigating their case. | As the date of their execution [comes nearer it becomes clear that {the only way that their lives will be saved will be thru mass protests of the world’s workers, It was announced at the state house that Governor Fuller will soon pay jhis second visit to the Charleston State Prison to talk with Sacco and { Vanzetti. a Friday, the govermoy visited the two workers and when he Ieft the prison | it was rumored that the attitude taken by the chief executive of the state s not favorable for the release of co and Vanzetti. * * * New York Workers Demonstrate Fri The = Sacco - i Emergency Committee is arra: le- r i for Uni this Friday, 2 p. m, the workers of this city will be given an opportunity to demand immediate, un- (Continued on Page Two) TUE. L, CALLS FOR WORKERS TO PR tionary order yielded place to mili- tarist order, the situation is still far from representing bourgeois “order.” The definite rupture was preceded by preparation in the press with the Kuomintang leaders criticising Marx- ism in the styles of student’s essays. Ku Meng-Yu, Wang Ching-Wei and Sun-Fo demontrated their theory that Communist tendencies are des- ruptive by quoting Dostoevsky and Bakunin, they blamed: “bad labor- | leaders” and swore to their own loy-| | alty to the mass workers’ and pea- | sants’ movement. This radical prat-| | tle and noise masked the reactionary | coup, at meetings and demonstrations | |the demand was put forward for im-| | mediate action against Chiang Kai-| shek, the traitor to the mass move- | ment. | | i Troops Oceupy City. | Under cover of this shameless | | masquerading the Generals silently |and noiselessly pursued their deed, Among the many features were baseball games, the Freiheit Sing- ing Society and many carnival fea- tures, The workers started pouring into the fair grounds early in the morning and at 12 p. m. some of them were still in the vicinity. BRITISH TORY PRESS ASSAILS U.S.AT GENEVA \Churchill Gets a Chill Over Crisis |paring to meet it. | Hundreds of strikebreakers have been imported from all parts \of the country and are being herded into the barns of the Inter- borough Rapid Transit at 145th street and Lenox avenue while at the doors of the barns and at the terminal parade armed com- | pany thugs. | If the men on the Interborough walk out tomorrow at mid- | night—and according to all indications they will—they will be | joined by their fellow-workers on the Brooklyn-Manhattan Tran- \sit, the Third Avenue Railway and the Brooklyn Transit Com- pany. The walkout of traction workers on subways, surface car lines and elevated lines in their fight for the recognition of their right to organize and for a decent living wage will bring about the most complete tie-up that New York City has ever seen. Referring to the strike, James H. Coleman, general organizer for the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Rail- way Employes, said, “It will be a complete tie-up, motormen, guards, power. house men, ticket agents and even porters, and on every line—subway, elevated and surface.” | “There may be a strike call at any® | General Ho-Chen’s troops spread | thruout the city, occupied the prem- ises of labor organizations. These xoops had covered themselves with | defense of the course of the dele- |infamy by suppressing the peasant|gates to the tri-partite naval confer-| |movement in Changsha. The work-|ence that reached a deadlock at Gen-| [ote parang" 9 Aare elie eva after just forty-five minutes in oa é * session on the first day. The game! |unions daily becomes more depleted ;and the active workers disappeared{is to try to save the faces of the/ tory gang by throwing the blame for) | underground. While a’semblance of the revolu- the failure of the farce upon the| United States, | LONDON, July 24.—The British tory press is completely mobilized in (Continued on Page Two) CAPPELLINI HITS lily perforated compromise that even} ja child can detect, or an ontbreak of | recrimination between the United | States and Britain. Hugh Gibson, the| chief of the American delegation, has | already severely publicly criticized the jmoment if company officials ais-| |charge workers for attending a union | meeting,” he declared. “We are or-) ganized. The men want it. But out of courtesy to the mayor, who is try- ling earnestly to make a settlement,| there will be no answer before Tues- day night. Hedley’s attitude, how- ever, warrants action right now.” The dismissal of an employe for at- tending a union meeting, however, would warrant immediate action, union officials declared. hattan alone to aid the company thugs and strikebreakers in their war on the traction workers if a strike is de- clared, it has been stated. The spirit with which the men are welcoming the organization drive is \British chief, Bridgeman, and both| indicated by the fact that more than| |groups are still berating each other! three hundred workers filed applica- | 6g O99 ie SACCO DISCUSSED | privately in preparation for the open|tions for membership in the union.| os ibreak; which will be the signal for) The rapidity with which the men are| . C . {the loosening of the campaign of| joining the Amalgamated Association | Will Not Call Meeting ’ | propaganda Ret weeit the two Anglo- of Street and Electrical Workers be-| Assails Miners Who Do | Saxon nations, who are fighting each| lies Hedley’s statement that most of | lother for domination of the rest of| the men favor the company brother- ‘hood. More than seventy-five per] cent of the subway, elevated and sur-/ SCRANTON, Pa., July 24.—Rinaldo | the world. Cappellini, president of District 1 of Churchill Gets a Chill. in the I. R. T. yards he said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if there were. “Given adequate police protection,” he said, “this company will continue | service on subway and elevated lines. Long Preperation. | paring for the strike which. seems | inevitable. Scabs are being rushed | into the city by transit officials. | Hard-boiled thugs who parade outside | of the company barns with guns in | their pockets indicate that company It is recognized in London that the} Between 6,000 and 8,000 policemen | officials will not yield without a aftermath will be either a cheap, eas-| will probably be martialled in Man-| Struggle. | Unless a strike call is not forced sooner by the attitude of the transit | barons the strike call will be voted at a meeting of workers at the Brook- |lyn Labor Lyceum, Willoughby ave- |nue and Broadway, Brooklyn, tomor- row. Hs. Ak ome Militant traction workers when in- terviewed said they are determined that Frank Hedley’s mass picketing move on Friday will not deter strike action at the next meeting. Hugh Frayne, general organizer for the American Federation of Labor, arch- The company has long been pre- ‘the United Mine Workers, smarting With the Hon. W. C. Bridgeman and face lines employes will answer the|denouncer of mass picketing, was strike call when it comes, according| most effectively mass picketed last Martinnez issued the following state. | PY ment: | . American Workers Victims. Demand Marines Get, Out of Nicaragua. “T consider the American masses CHICAGO, IIl., July 24.—The na-| to the armies and navies of Wall) Street in the Southern half of this/ hemisphere. So far the developments there, have amply proved this con-| tention. | | just as much victims of imperialism | {as the oppressed peoples all over the} world. | a r y ats se “Far from disparaging the Ameri-| Educational League has issued the ae tection pac ee yee pee | can people, I believe that we workers | following statement in regard to the eco tenuteies tor the gkcdatory jof Latin America have the most inti-| killing of Nicaraguans, many of them ‘ merici ns Tall Street. o i she | mate interest in common with the|members of the Nicaraguan Federa- | interests 0’ dieel hae : fs Be workers of the United States, arjd} tion of Labor, by American marines fends be so-calle ae 29 ee U8, | that it is necessary to establish the|at Ocotal, and other places. i ral Fae Nukhcles ae Cuban pa ;| closest possible relationship in order; The statement, which is addressed | Sxpeeed by the Armetienn Federation |e, umevallst_ oligarchy of Wall| ganized labor movement, is headed, | r } Ey of Labor as an executioner of labor, | presses us. ,of the American Military Forces from his greetings to the congress was ra “Unless the Pan-American Federa-| Nicaragua!” and ‘‘Der:and the! cepted by Woll and Green. This puts | tion of Labor, or any other organi-! Punishment and Removal From Of-| the x-ray on the sincerity of those | 7 ation claiming to represent the in-|fice of the American Officials Re-| labor leaders. | terests of the workers, makes a de-| sponsible for the Nicaraguan Slaugh- | (Continued on Page Three) termined fight against American im- | ter,” iE MA tee hase tad perialism on the whole line it will} if ie not justify its existence. “It is because I believe Mr. Green| Over three hundred citizens has helped to conceal rather than ex- | Nicaragua were murdered in cold pose American imperialism and to} blood by the armed forces of Ameri- avoid a concreted fight on it that I! can imperialism in Nicaragua. Among spoke as I did. Every sincere Latin-| the victims of this latest brutal out- American worker and every forward-' rage of the United States invaders in looking worker in the United States | Nicaragua are to be found larg | will approve my stand.” (Continued on Page Three) —— ==5 7 Se REEN stands up and beilows in defense of the Monroe Doctrine, | . France and Germany Conclude Low Tariff Commercial Agreement PARIS, July 24.—France and Ger- many have at last concluded a com- | mercial agreement establishing lower tariff rates between the two coun- tries. It is expected that a large in- crease in trade will follow the con- clusion of the treaty. Commercially, it is expected that the treaty will increase the exports of French wines and automobiles to Ger- many and will boost the export of German chemicals and machines to France. Politically, the treaty indicates a STOP THE WAR ON SOVIET RUSSIA All militant workers will protest against the attack on Soviet Russia by coming to the LARGE MASS-MEETING on WEDNESDAY, JULY 27,7 P.M.,at BRYANT HALL, | 6th Ave. and 42nd St. The main speakers will be Moissaye | J. Olgin, J. Louis Engdahl and Joseph Freeman, the last ional committee of the Trade Union| tack on. those who called on him for | fered from a severe chill after the _ to fight shoulder to shoulder. against {to workers and members of the 0Y-| no objection to the convention’s call-| ferences immediately following his that op-|“Demand the Immediate Withdrawal and just treatment to both Sacco andthe proposed heavyweight champion- and continues: | i { Statement of T. U. E. L. | of | under the criticisms that have begun his associates here, it was thought a nat! in aaa him et eb | that ae en soph th one ye defense of Sacco a anzettl, | Churchill, imself of the | | seized the district convention platform seceeeliy te ps the house of during discussion of the fate of the commons tomorrow, but indications | two condemned workers m Massachu- | today are that he will not appear. The setts, and launched into a roaring at-/ excuse is that he is ill, having suf- ‘action, He called them all indiscrim- arrival of the Geneva delegates. linately “radicals” and turned aside} | | Vanzetti f i- TIL en \ ae estes sc Aa | Tunney to Fight Dempsey in Chicago. He said the district federation was CHICAGO, July 24, — George L. doing all it could for the defense of | “Tex” Rickard is expected here this Sacco and Vanzetti, and that he had| week. He will go into a series of con- ing on Governor Fuller to “grant fair | arrival. All of the minor details of Vanzetti.” \ship bout, involving Gene Tunney, the Proud of Treason. world’s title-holder, and Jack Demp- But then he told in bitter tones of | sey, the old champion, will be disposed (Continued on Page Five) of during these conferences. to J. H. Coleman. Hylans’ Statement. Denouncing the attempt of the company officials to stamp out the organization drive, John F. Hylan, former mayor, said, “The company union is an offspring born under un- natural conditions. The president (of the brotherhood) is hand-picked by Hedley. “Such a union,” he said, “is con- ceived in iniquity and means a life- and-death struggle against honest unionism not alone in New York City but thruout the nation. The attitude of the company offi- cials James L. Quackenbush, general man- ager of the I, R. T., to a statement on the importation of scabs and armed thugs. Asked if there were any scabs If You Are Opposed to a New World War You If You Are for the Defense of the Soviet Union | The Daily and hourly, the capitalists of the world are preparing ized to stimulate preparedness propaganda. Huge armaments a -the advance guard of the world proletariat. . DAILY WORKER. They must not succeed in their attempt to silence our daily closer alliance between the two coun- tries, for which Briand has worked a hich Poincare has balked. It ut a crimp in the recent ||} | by the French for British || two of whom have just returned from the Soviet Union. The subject will be “The Attack on Soviet Russia.” All workers are invited and are d to bring d be circulated widely in VORKE Must Defend Daily Worker for the new World War. All the forces of industry are being mobilized for the coming conflict. Every occasion is being util- re the order of the day, with new and more terrible instruments of destruction constantly being devised. Against whom is the yew World War being prepared? Against whom are the engines of destruction being devised? They are being prepared now for the new conflict, not against a rival capitalist nation, but rather against the Soviet Union and the Chinese Revolution, against As part of the preparation for the coming World Class War, the capitalists of the United | States are seeking to crush the trade unions and destroy the only voice of opposition, The organ. The charge of the Fed- eral Grand Jury must be met by our comrades, everywhere with a rallying cry in defense of The DAILY WORKER. The GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND CERTIFICATES must every workers’ organization and wherever workers congregate. The class, the Communists and the left wing must win support for the R FUND and thus rally ever wider masses in the fight against is indicated by the reply of | Friday night at the Brooklyn meeting when the I. R. T. and B.-M. T. sur- | rounded the hall with hundreds of | spotters, “beakies” and prevented the | several thousand workers, who came to attend the meeting, from entering. | Workers Expect Strike. | In spite of the fact that all ap- | proaches to the meeting hall were | blockaded by groups of company spot- ters and also in the fact of the fact that thousands of traction workers were fearful of running the gauntlet and thus risking discharge, the fact |remains that the mass of rank and | file subway workers will respond to | a strike call when it is made. There is every indication that such a call will, be issued on Tuesday night. | When the strike is called it is to be hoped that the strike leaders will benefit by the mass picketing lesson which Frank Hedley taught them on Friday. It requires a strong nerve to face a mass of pickets, Hedley Won't Confer. On Saturday the strike leaders con- | ferred with Mayor Walker at his re- |quest. Although on Friday Walker | said that if the traction presidents | failed to show up in reply to his in- | vitation “he would consider it an act {of great discourtesy,” they failed to j do so. | The City Hall conference was fruit- | ful of nothing at all and the confab | postponed until Tuesday. This was to |be expected in view of the fact that | Walker would not dare to make any | definite move without the explicit | sanction of Tammany Hall—hence the’ | delay. | That the traction workérs are anx- jious to Jock horns with the subway |corporations was evidenced on Fri- day when Edward Lavin, the leader of last year’s traction strike was wild- © ly cheered when he was called upon to speak. He urged the men to or- (Continued on Page Five) :