The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1927, Page 1

SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! E DAILY WSO | THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: | FOR THE ORGASIZATION OF THB | UNORGANIZED | FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 165. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as serond-class matter at Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1927 the Post Office at New York. N. Y., uuder the act of March 3, 1879, ONLY 15 DAYS LEFT TO AUGUST 16 LABOR MUST ACT! | FINAL city | EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O,, 38 First Street, Price 3 Cents New York, N. ¥. Current Events | By T. J. O’FLanenrry. OINCARE, of France hopes that Germany will admit reponsibility for the late war. The premier is ‘optimistic, but we fear that by the time Germany # brought to the r quired degree of humility, the next war will be on. volved in the late world holocaust were responsible for it and nobody} was more to blame than Poincare. * * * pe is said that the changes being made by Henry Ford in his plant, preparatory to building the new Ford model, the design of which is still a secret, are costing the auto mag- nate one million dollars a day. This is a front page story and it appears side by side with an announcement of another Ford settlement of one of those bothersome suits brought against Henry by members of the Jewish race who were libelled in Ford’s paper. The luxury of carry- ing on an anti-Semitic war cost Ford a pretty penny, and his change oi policy does not mean a change of heart, but a wise precaution on the eve of introducing a new Ford model. The-light Henry saw was from the dollar sign. * * * SPURIOUS German princes are do- ing a rushing business thesc day. They visit wealthy aristocrats and claim to be scions of some noble house, attributing their lack of funds to some trivial family trouble whic: would be promptly liquidated. The little boys usually get a substantial handout. After a while they are ap. prehended and wind up in jail. This is what we call a perfectly legitimate graft from the ethical standpoint. * * * FTER the war several well-buil bell hops made considerable money and even succeeded in marrying intc high ‘society by making the rounds of Fifth Avenue and Long Island millionaire homes, representing them- selves as Austrian, Russian or Hun- garian nobles. They were rarely questioned and not only got away with the dough and with divers heir- esses but cashed in on their experi- ences after the game blew up, by writing for the Hearst press. * * * t hon failure of the British govern- ment to put across its naval plar at the Geneva conference has brough’ the old fox Balfour again to the fron: in British politics. In the absence o Stanley Baldwin, Balfour heads th: cabinet. He is lined up:with the morc moderate faction in the cabinet against Churchill, Birkenhead, Joyn- son-Hicks and others. The only dif. ference between Balfour and Church- ill is a difference of opinion about the best way to serve the empire. (eae Sa Tee Position of the Nanking gov- ernment it China is said €o be precarious. The northern feudai militarists have won important vic- tories over the southern forces. In breaking with the left wing elements in the Koumintang, Chiang Kai-shek deliberately weakened the nationalist forces and played into the hands of the imperialists, Under the cloak 0{ a war on Communism he stabbed the revolution in the back and dealt ~ serious blow to the struggle of the workers and peasants. Here ir America we witness a similar phen- omenon in the trade union move- ment, where the reactionary labor leaders wage war on the Communists under the guise of protecting union- ism. * * * GOVBENOR Moore of New Jersey in a speech delivered at the un- veiling of a monument to Samuel Al- len, leader of the New Jersey minute men in the Revolutionary War, de- clared that the ‘United States should take the lead in outlawing war since our country leads in everything. A good way to start this worthy crusade would be for the United States to withdraw its troops from Nicaragua and China. The governor did not have a word to say in condemnation of the action of the United States marines and air-men who slaghtered 300 Nicaraguans last week because they defended their country against the Wall Street Brigands. This anti- war talk is the sheerest hypocrisy. ee ae A NATIONAL conference of the Friends of Irish Freedom held here last week passed a resolution praising ambassador Gibson for the stalwart manner in which he is up- holding the interests of the United States in Geneva against the mach- inations of the British empire. Gib- son is just as loyal to Wall Street as the British Bridgeman is to Thread- needle Street. .Those Irish-American long distance fighters for Irish free- dom have not a word to say against the oppression of the colonial peoples who are under the yoke of our own imperialists. Their mouths were shut tight when the United States went to ‘war on the side of Great Britain against Germany in defense of the (Continued on Page Four) {Put the Whee Strength of the Labor All the nations in-| 5 ‘ Movement Inia rganization of The Traction Workers HE traction barons have thrown an open challenge to the trac- | tion workers, the labor movement and the millions who} ride to and from their daily toil on the subways, the elevated and | the surface lines. i Scouring the underworld of America’s industrial centers for! seabs, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the spearhead | of the traction baron’s offensive, has imported 500 thugs and! gunmen to man their trains. | The ghastly histery of wrecks, the loss of life and the maim-; ing of passengers, inevitably resulting from the recruiting of | reckless and criminal elements to replace workers trained for their responsible tasks, need not be repeated here. It is eriough to say that the traction barons care nothing for ives—they think only of dividends and unrestrained control of a oublic utility to which millions contribute and for which thousands of underpaid workers slave. What are the issues in the struggle for which the traction barons import mercenaries in much the same manner as their ‘eudal predecessors hired men-at-arms? The issues are so clear and simple that they can be under- teod by a ten-year-old child. They are: (1) The right of the traction workers to organize—the right to have a union free from company control. (2) The abolitien of the serfdom in which the traction work- -rs, especially on the Interboreugh, are held by the company con- rolled “brotherhood.” (3) The abolition cof the spy and blacklist system—the oxistence of which the traction barons boastfully admit. (a) The abolition of the “yellow dog” individual contract. (4) The quashing of the injunction obtained against the mion and the traction workers, (a) The right to strike and picket without being treated as criminals. (5) An increase in wages, a shortening of hours and im- arovements in working conditions. (6) The traction barons must be forced to make these con- cessions and pay the costs out of the tremendous profits dis- clesed in the recent investigations without an increase in fare. Around these issues can be organized a mass force able to defeat the traction barons, free the traction workers and estab- ish a union which will serve the interests cf the traction workers ind add immense strength to the labor movement. Upon the whole labor movement is placed now a heavy re- sponsibility. The traction workers must be shown by unswerving support against all enemies that the labor movement is behind them, The issues of the struggle must be made clear to the millions who pay tribute to the traction barons. They must be won to the| side of the traction workers—as a great majerity of them can be.| Relief must. be drganized—the strike machinery set in mo- tion. The traction barons must be shown that New York labor knows how to organize, fight and win. Preparations for legal defense for victims of police and gang- ster brutality must be made. : | The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Rail- way Employes, the Central Labor Council and the State Federa- tion of Labor, must show by deeds that the traction workers have their full backing in every action it may be necessary to take to smash the compary union, bring the traction workers into the Jaber movement and obtain their demands. THE WHOLE STRENGTH: OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT BEHIND THE TRACTION WORKERS! . Big Anti-War Meeting, Bryant Hail Tomorrow Republic in Soviet Russia means to the American workers, the signifi- cance of the attack upon it, why militant workers should demand the recognition of Soviet Russia, the re- lation of this workers’ government to the struggle of the Chinese peo- ple—all will be discussed at this meeting. All workers who wish to protest against the attack on the Soviet Union and the danger of war should attend the huge mass meeting to- morrow at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave., near 42d St., 7 p. m. F TRACT la smile. | Communists for Trying To Hinder Imperialism PARIS, July 25.—The Correctional Court today brought m a verdict of guilty against eight Communists on charges of treason. They are sentenced to fines and imprisonment ranging between six- teen months and five ye These cases grew out of the propaganda of the French Com- munist Party against the govern- ment’s imperialist adventures in Morocco and China. Agitation against the continued spread of the French armies of conquest is interpreted by the court as “espion- age.” INTERBORO SCABS FATTED FOR WAR Eleventh | Passengers In Scab-Run rs, Trains Endanger Lives; Recall Malbone Tragedy ng in trains oper- not merely ai Is to break strike but Passengers ri ated by scabs 4 ing the transi the traction are risking the City officials, their will, were forced to make ans yester- day to supplement the scab-ope ated transit lines in the event of a strike, with bus systems and spe- cial railroad schedules, even going pl. so far as to outline ferr routes to convey office workers from lower Manhattan to the Bronx. rful of the repetition of the Malbone street disaster, in which scores of people were killed and injured when a B.-M. T. local train, run by a scab motorman and scab conductors, raced around the Mal- bone street loop in Brooklyn ne rear of another Blacklegs Hide Faces From Camere | By SYEVAN A. POLLACK. | The I. R. T. is preparing for b-opera deaths war. Their 147th St. and Sev- in, r nd enth Ave. terminal has been || seriot SRS, on Re : sig turned: 49i6 a> barracks ‘into|| Peeetiment of Plans) and Strue- tures and the Board of Transporta- tion hastily called a conference yesterday on the strike situation. It was only when pr ure Was which scabs are constantly pour- ing from many eastern cities to replace the workers who will go| 4 || exerted by politicians who on strike. | afraid of losing their jobs through Furnished ‘by ‘a half a dozen labor |! . new Malhone street disaster, that agencies the strikebreakers are being | the plans for supplementary tran- taken. tothe. barracks where: they || <it service were drawn up, since are kept virtual prisoners, since any representatives of the traction trust attempt on their part to leave the|| yealized that the traveling public are i results in immediate aise would not trust the unskilled Othe, P . N cklegs, and would a f When the writerSin company with| ao piste a ails vat reporters of the capitalist press was! ten The iting los conducted through the building last| night by J. S. Doyle, assistant gen- eral manager of the Interborough companie hasten a ¥ itimated, would for the regular Doyle constantly tried tb impre Nees upon the newspaper men that the un employed army in America is large| ay and therefore the strike will be 44) broken. a “Seabs Are Plentiful.” “We can get all the men we want,” he asserted. “In fact, more than we can use. There has been such a sur- plus of labor since the end of the STRIKE RESUMED; do it as wwl as men.” Turning to} the women reporters he said this with | Gov. Fuller to Visit Prisoners Again BOSTON, July Zetti sumed his hunger strike this morning When the capitalist press photo- graphers began taking pictures, the} scabs in most cases hid their faces. | They evidently are ashamed of the} despicable methods by which they will earn a living for the next week|when ,he joined Sacco in refusing or so. |breakfast. Vanzetti ate a little cereui The scabs consist of men of almost /and drank a little coffee at noon yes- every nationality with the exception|terday. Fear that he would be for- of Negroes. Of the 800 to 900 strike- |cibly fed and suffering caused by his breakers at the barns not one colored |jong fast and the recent heat wave man was present. The blacklegs are|are said to have led him: to take a constantly guarded by metropolitan little police and special company detec-, tiveniuuiany; of whoiate Inside the | Seven long years in prison have building ss - weakened the framed-up workers con- |siderably and they are unable to stand The sleeping quarters last night |t0 the strain of a prolonged hunger was able to take care of almost 500 |Strike. When Governor Fuller pays men, more cots, dusty from storage |his second visit to Sacco and Van- since the last strike, arriving almost |Zetti today or tomorrow he will find every half an hour from the ware-|them considerably weakened. (Continued on Page Five) (Coatinued on Page Two) food Sunday. 500 Men. re-| N MEN QUIT JOBS [Sentence Bekt Frech | WILL TAKE STRIKE VOTE AT BROOKLYN MEETING TONIGHT: MORE THAN 5,000 COMPANY THUGS AND SABS POUR IN FROM ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY Traffic On Subways Slowed Up As Key Men Walk Out; Buses to Handle Traffic [Men Demand Strike; Incensed at Attempt to | Balk Walk-out at Last Moment By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. Although traction workers will not take their strike vote until this evening when they meet at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, hundreds of them—many of them key men—have already walked out. The bulk of those who quit are old-timers who fought in last year’s strike with Lavin and Walsh. More than 1,500 scabs are already housed in the company’s barns in preparation for a fight against the traction workers. It |is expected that more than 5,000 scabs will have poured into the company’s barns and terminals from all parts of the country by this afternoon. | Only men who can handle guns are being hired as scabs, it has been authoritatively stated—and expert gunmen are pouring into New York from all parts of the country in preparation for the fray. Yesterday afternoon a train arrived carrying 750 scabs from Buffalo, Albany and other up-state cities. BETRAY TRACTION mployed by the company. ork World, which poses paper, carrie ivertise- s in its iss rday was admitted by H. L. Merritt, su- perintendent of transportation on jthe I. R. T. The bs get $10 a |day in addition to free board. and| |lodging. Scabs who join up are’com- |pelled to sign the regulation com- | pany blank. | At em s 4 ree A little plot to smash the traction workers’ strike was hatched | behind closed doors by Samuel Un- | termeyer, agent of Al Smith, yester- day afternoon. The plot, under the | guise ~of the postponement of the neat Manhattan Casino. | of workers who have} strike vote, pending investigation is | e at the Man-/ receiving the support of Tammany street and 8th/ Hall, including his honor, Mayor enue, scene of |. 's historic | James J. Walker. meetings. They talk about last! Although the conference. which ar’s strike and its mi: They | was held at the transit commission’s are’ re to go—and they. appear (Continued on Page Five) 'to be determined not to fail this | time. The | few evident < sffect which the walk-out of a had was ght when ANTHRACITE MINE traffic unable to women fainted in the jams Traffic Slowed Up. Traffic conditions on the Brook- fanhattan Transit were particu- bad throughout the afternoon. cularly on the Brighton and REAL GHECK-OFF End lines. Brighton express} SCRANTON, Pa., July 25.—Exper- were running at intervals|iencing the first defeat since he as- ranging from half to a full hour,|Sumed the presidency of District No. while local service was considerably |1, United Mine Workers of America, slowed up. “|Rinaldo Cappellini, renegade radical, The role that is being played by | tried to reorganize his machine to jam the servile company “brotherhood ani | She several pet measures at the eon- the present situation is revealed by | vention, but failed. Patrick J. Shea, v The left wing miners had several, Amalgamated ociation of Street|in fact many, proposals before the and Electric Railway Employes. Shea |convention. e Left’s resolutions on makes public the following communi- | th which demanded | ction addressed by the brotherhood | to all of its members. Brotherhood Statement. “It appears to the officers and the members of the General Committee |that a strike is about to be called by the Amalgamated Association of | Street and Electric Railway Employ- | {es on the Interborough line ! (Continued on Page West | trains -president of the lishment of local, district and tri-dis- | trict relief committees to aid the soft coal men, carried at yesterday’s ses- sion, after several speeches on the measure. It is expected, of course, that the definite proposals contained in the resolutions will be shelved by the District Executive Board, ive) | Smarting from his defeat of yes- |terday, when his pet measure of ex- Scabs will be during the last I. R. T. strike. SCABS GET FEED FOR SMASHING ae TRACTION WORKERS’ STRI The above is |tension of the officers’ term from two. |to four years was laid on the boards {Cappellini is vomiting threats against (Continued on Page Two) \Disapproval of Ocotal Murders Rises Like Tide WASHINGTON, July 25 (FP).— That part of Washington which still has a conscience—and eight years of Harding-Coolidgeism have reduced it to a rather small fraction—looks with horror and revolt upon the Ocotal massacre in ragua. “The bloody incidents of Chinandega and Ototal,” pdeclares a statement sponsored by | the national citizens committee on re- | lations with Latin America, “are but |a beginning of the record that will fill the pages of the American police blotter in Nicaragua before it is transferred with shame to the pages of American history.” The committee will ask congress to |inquire into all Nicaraguan relations to place the responsibility for “a course of action which has done more (Continued on Page Two) Cee ae a picture of company barracks |