The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1927, Page 2

E DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M “PROTEST ALONE CAN SAVE US”, WRITES SACCO ENEMY RUTHLESS, SAYS WARNING TO. ULTRA -OPTIMISTS Frame-up Victims Weak From Hunger Strike Seores of Meetino’s vo Demand Th heir Freedom Warning the worki the world ag: ing the a mighty internation: ‘can alone ;from. the electric che Bacco, in a reply to a letter from | ar sympathiser It is most certain that }an. over-optimistic ' declares, “ they: will kill us if th ind class of optim- fact that al air e protest save him and Vanzetti Nicola voice of comrades and friends does not} become a mighty one and is not backed up with the will to do whatever is necessary to achieve ‘the-victory.” “You must not forget,” he that the enemy does not fight that it will stoop to any infamy and| It isn’t safe to be| scoundrels I only hope for a demon- it already has. Optimistic with such @eal with. air, to stration that will frighten them and | Prevent such crime as they have done | 5 to us ever again being committed upon someone else.” Scores of meetings demand the immec tional release of S A meeting of Square at 3 were throughout the country yesterday to! s ate and uncondi- > and Vanzetti. 10,000 held in Union p. m. sent a telegram to | better held Fuller demanding the release of the framed-up workers. Paris General Strik A general strike in Pa likely on August Ist, according to a letter received by the Student Sacco and| Vanzetti Committee from the Comite GET ONE NOW 14-Karat Gold Emblem KK) (Actual Size and D. , AP TY ” 1.25 Sept by On Recei Jimmie Higgins Book Shop University Place 106 ured Mail tr New York City In Lots of No Charg A NEW NOVEL We CRolait 0 $2.50 Cloth Bound DAILY WORKER Publishing Company 33 First St., New York | tire’ pour frum nce Sacco-Vanzetti.. The re- t the injustice of the sentence is so strong, that there is wide- for the strike Curie, famous F: public may the well-known res in the French Sacco tion to this country ment nch join rench d Sacco warning undue optim- tter from H. S. Van which provoked it fol- Letter Dear Nicola: warm thes¢ slaves in the To Sacco. ctories and ops are wishing winter were In the winter they wish for It reminds me of a song s something like this: ‘Men ver satisfied; when it’s cold it hot,’ always wanting We don’t know what the outside; we ourselve! not despair, dear Nico- the suffering be long soon to end in free- sure of this. They won 2 carry out their plans. Be sure of this, Nicola; you are coming out among men and loved ones again. Your comrades are working ssly and they won’t stop till the doors open wide. Letter From Sacco. Sacco replied, at a date not indj- cated: fy Dear Comrade: “IT have your t letter. Pardon, dear comrade, but you quote an old legend of nonsense. Men are not satisfied because they are always working for progress and the joy of living. They are always re tials out for something better in and social con- * n pursue this conquest their own well- being because develop needs, and they seek them even though they for they to sati: are sometimes deprived of their just | ards. As I wrote you before I repeat again today, only an international clamor—a protest—can free us. And re yet, while we are so near the tomb, your letter amazes me with its un- warranted optimism, ing, ‘You |must not despa dear Nicola, for, though the suffering be long and weary, it is soon to end in freedom!’ Life Not Monuments. “How you are deluded! This is not even common sense, coming from you. I would say nothing if such talk came from a man in the moon, Jtfe, Whe ane alia. inka struggle for liberty, this is too much. Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old so- ciety will go? Under the circum- stances it pains me to see such blind optimism in a comrade. Are you waiting to see them kill us first so that you can build us a monument? “And it is most certain that they will kill us the voice of our com- rades and friends does not become a mighty one and is not backed with the will to do whatever is necessary to achieve the victory. I have al- ways had faith in the men who toil for their bread, but they are often slow to see real danger and some- times need urging. It is cowardice to face danger from a safe distance and not shoulder one’s share of re- sponsibility. Force the Enemy’s Hand. Je from the fate that stares Bart and me in the face, I would not care to know that labor has not the | courage to face the battle with a showing of solidarity that will force the hand of the implacable enemy to desist from what it plans to do. It is not to have already done for us, oh, no, not at all! “But you must not forget that the} enemy does not fight fair, that it will stoop to any infamy and it already | has. It isnt safe to. be optimistic with such scoundrels to deal with. I only hope for a demonstration that will frighten them and prevent such a crime as they have done to us ever again being committed upon some one else, “That is all. Iam not writing this out of prison irritation, nor yet be ause of their cruelty in bringing us ack to this stifling place to torture If not, For ' ‘ ‘ ' ’ ‘ ' ‘ 1 ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ 1 YOU CA See your Nucleus Secretary today. Tomor- row it may be too late, Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, write to: Sale of Stamps, etc., NATIONAL OFFICE 1118 WEST WASHINGTON BLVD. we 3 1927915 NOT VOTE! Remittances, On CHICAGO, ILL, scold you nor to say that we} do not appreciate what the friends) Convention em Soon! Have You Ore of oie in Your Dues Book? Unite! O. Ye Workers for Action MILITARISTS. IN (Dedicated to the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti.) WETHERELL. By ELLEN \ Mutterings of deep discontent, Sound of a brave warfare Stout hearts speed to the front To mingle their blood in the fray; Red lightnings flash from the West Thunders prophetic resound, A white s ar gleams thru the night,— Star of a Victory profound. O, Ye Worker :—Ye men an& ye women:— Ye mothers with babes on your breasts, Do ye not hear the bold buglé-blowing The march of brave feet thru the land! Then up! United ’tis the call to your duty, fa spirit and deed! The world lies before you to conquer, For yourselves and humanities’ need! We are mighty in Truth and in numbers, Our foes, they are few in their lies, We will break every chain by our courage, Courage for Truth never dies! The masters are drunken with power, Their souls are glutted with greed, By the sweat of our bodies in slavery We toil that their bodies may feed, The masters are sweating the children, They rob*for profits and gains, They sneer at our laws and our protests, They laugh at our anguish and pains! The masters are feasting in splendor The children are crying for bread! We are beaten, we are jailed, we’re deported, We are hung by the neck till we’re dead! Then Unite O Ye Workers for action! And up! To the call of your union! Up! from the shops and the factories Up! every man, every woman, Up! from the mines O Ye Toilers, Up, from your blood and your sweat! Aye! Up, from your blood ané your sweat, workers, Up! Up! Lest we forget. Our heritage is ours for the taking, O, workers, it’s Awake! we who are robbed! Men of Action from slumbers! * Be the lords of yourselves and your jobs! The hour is at hand for our rising, Arms folded—a red flame in our hearts, Strike out; each and all! Strike out! This is our part, Hark not to the voice of the siren, Beguiling “With owomises fair, All together! Beneath is the hand of the Tyrant, \ The mailed fist of the slave drivers there, ; Hark not to the voice of the siren A serpent lies coiled in the song The serpent of greed and oppression The serpent of hate and of wrong. Injunctions—child labor and profits! Open-shop—gunmen—and strife! The enemy presses hard on our ranks, workers, Unite! Unite, O Ye Workers Unite, for your lives, for Action, We have nothing to lose but our chains,\comrades, And a world—a world to gain. {Mootaitrter—steobbed at Point of production. us some more before ‘they burn us, | but I want the comrades to know | what kind of creatures they are deal- ing with. | “Well, without rancor, cheer, comrade. friends from Bart and m “Yours sincere! “NICOLA SACCO.” Weak With Hunger. be of good the result of their long hunger strike, BOSTON, July 31.—While Sacco other private property and Vanzetti are growing weaker as_ nationalized. Teagle Gambled Soviet Union Would Fall (Contineed from Page One) Best wishes to all|in the Taigor timber case settled the question as to whether certain tim- ber sold in England by the Russian government, had been “stolen” when it was nationalized in 1918, just as all The British court said that a gov- ‘plans for their forcible feeding are ernment, being sovereign, has a right’ being made by the prison authorities.| to take property as it chooses. The Seven long years in prison coupled | British government, the court said, with their long fast have weakened|had taken in taxes up to 85 per cent |them considerably. tion or death by electrocution face | Sacco and Vanzetti within the next] eleven da unless the workers of the world free them thru a mighty international protest. The internationally. known French writer, Romain Rolland, and a num- ber of other French writers, sent the following telegram to Colonel {Charles Lindbergh, the first aviator} |to make the non-stop trans-Atlantic | flight: ° “At the moment when the people of France are welcoming you with }great enthusiasm, we draw your at- and Vanzetti, who have been threat- ened with execution for six years, We | appeal to your noble heart to pre- sent petition to the American gov- ernment in favor of a review of the trial, or their pardon.” Hl Bullets Show Confession False. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 31.— Sergeant John Harrison of the Scars- dale police force, who was shot to death in June 1923 while attempting Slain by bullets from two different ‘pistols, probably in the hands of | two men, it was learned here today, This fact, known to the authorities here for some time, but revealed pub- Mely for tho first time today, throws an entirely new light on the brutal slaying, the blame for which Arthur Barry, confessed jewel thief, placed on the shoulders of his former ac- complice, “Boston Billy” Williams, in |a spectacular confession to the police 2 ‘shortly after his arrest. ! tention to two innocent men, Sacco} Death by starva-| of earnings, which means up to 85 per cent of the value of the property. In any case, Standard of New York and Vacuum proceeded to arrange their purchases from the Soviet in accordance with the advice of Hughes. Nobles Buy “Stolen” Oil. Moreover, the Nobles, who are Wal- | ter Teagle’s partners in a claim to na- tionalized oil property in Russia, are buying “stolen” oil. In January of this year they made a contract to buy 50,000 tons annually from the Rus- sian government. There is another game that Sir Henry Deterding—seconded by Wal- ter Teagle of the Standard Oil of New Jersey—is playing in his appeal to American publi " asking it to turn again: f New York and Vacim for buying Russian out- put, Spain, France and Italy have either established or are establishing state monopolies to deal in petroleum pro- duets. The plan is for these mono- polies to buy, refine and distribute cheap Russian crude—cheap because it need stand only the low freight to apprehend an automobile thief, was,from the Black Sea instead of. the high freight from our gulf ports. Spain, France and Italy are the do- main of Royal Dutch and the Stan- dard Oil of New Jersey. Sir Henry Deterding saw this development com- ing and tried to prevent it by an en- tire year of negotiation with the Sov- iets, attempting to get a monopoly of the Russian output for himself and Standard of New Jersey. That would have shut the budding state mono- polies off from their sappeeee source of supply. in Russia was ; DRIVE AGAINST ‘Fear Communists As | Mass "eaders | HANKOW, July 31.—The political committee of the Kuomintang has be- ;come completely subservient to the | military council and is carrying out its | |orders in every detail. The principal | | | activity of this counter- revolutionary | |clique today is directed against the | Communists who are the only well- organized opposition to the betrayal of the revolution. Plenary Session Called. August 15 is set as the date for the | plenary session of the central execu- itive committee of the Kuomintang at | which time the question will come up for discussion regarding the future re- lations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. It has been recommended to the | plenary session to approve measures against the Communist Party pending | the third congress of the Kuomin- tang. But these measures are to be/ immediately effective. Counter-revolutionary Proposals. The demands of the reactionary agents of the militarists are that all members of the Communist Party who | are at the same time members of the | Kuomintang and who work in Kuo-| | mintang organizations or hold posts | lin the Nationalist government or army | {must leave the Communist Party, | otherwise they will immediately be ; removed from office. Also members | ‘of the Communist Party must not} | carry on Communistic work under the | cover of the Kuomintang. An addi- | | tional demand is one prohibi ing mem- | bers of the Kuomintang joining any other political party under penalty of facing accusations of rebellion against the Kuomintang. All this is in direct violation of one of the principles of | Sun Yat Sen that specifically stipu- | lated that Communists should always | |have the right to work within the | ee ldatan ea CHINESE MASSES | | | were taken to Shanghai, but the |off system in the pathacite, |families are going hungry. | rators. "New American Marine _ Base At Olangapo Has Strongest Pacific Unit MANILA, July 31.—Olangapo, the site of America’s new marine base in the Far East, is booming) like a western village. One month} ago it resembled Sleepy Hollow and today it resembles the center} of a baby gold rush. Fifteen hun- dred marines were landed at Olan- gapo on their way to China. Sub- sequently about 1,000 of them | important fact is that the govern- ment is building barracks and | making other improvements which lleave no doubt of its purpose. | Bars which cluster outside the |limits of; the new reservation are |thriving; there is new paint on the swinging doors and the brass |foot rails have been polished, | Everything will be ready for the |Marines when they return from China. | A total personnel of 2,500 men | jand officers will be stationed in |-+ Olangapo before the end of the year. Together with the person- nel of the navy base previously population of the town, there will |shortly be a metropolis of some 5,000 or more. Marines now stationed at Olan- gapd are the best equipped fight- | ing unit ever brought to the Paci- fie. Aircraft, tanks, artillery and gas equipment are included. ¢ @ They refuse to set up relief committees, in spite of the fact that many miners’ They simply refuse to organize the real strength of miners for a fight. Un- der these circumstances, the struggle is twofold, the progressive must car- ry on a struggle in the union to com- pel the Lewis administration to carry on a real fight against the coal ope- Then the solidified organiza- tion must throw its complete strength into the struggle against the coal | operators. The “Save the Union” program which is also our program and which | was endorsed by the majority of the members of the Miners’ Union, can | and will win the strike. MILITANT GROUP IN MINER UNION - ISSUES BULLETIN ‘Demands ‘Strong Drive | | To Win Coal Strike | CHICAGO, mn, Say 31.—Callin for organization of non-union fields, for nationalization of the mines andj} the railroads, for relief for the strik- .ing miners, but especially for a more | ‘militant and aggressive policy by the | strikers themselves, the Progressive |Miners Committee, an organization jof rank and file miners belonging to, the United Mine Workers of Amex jea, has issued here the first number lof “The Miners’ Strike Bulletin.” The nature of this movement of) |progressives among the miners is) | Shown in a statement put out by the committee, on the first page of its | strike bulletin; in which under the |title, “Why the Strike Bulletin?” they say: { The strike of the bituminous min-| ers is now in its fourth month. The’ operators have carried on a vicious! campaign, in their attempt to enforce a wage cut and to materially worsen the conditions of the miners. This campaign applies equally to the an-| thracite miners, where the’ check-off! system is not being enforced, and where the miners are compelled to. strike against wage cuts and length-| ening of the work-days. This strike bulletin is issued by the, Progressive Miners’ Committee for’ the purpose of rallying the rank and! file to militantly struggle against these attacks, to fight against the weak-kneed begging policy of the Lewis administration, and to demand| that the real fighting spirit and | strength of the Miners’ Union be or- | ganized, that the grievances and de-)| mands of the anthracite miners be linked up with that of the striking bituminous miners, that the struggle be made jointly and the strike brought swiftly to a victorious con-| clusion. | Many left-wingers and progress- | ives labor under the illusion that it is wrong to erticize the Lewis adminis- tration during the period of strike, even though they know that the pol- icies being pursued leads, not to vic- tory, but either to defeat or at best a demoralizing compromise. | This is the main reason why the| Progressives have not issued a state- ment dealing with the strike situa- tion. This position is wrong and must be combatted. The left-wing with the progressive forces in the Miners’ Union must compel the lead- ers to follow a militant struggle pol- icy. The Lewis administration have thrown away the national agreement. They are doing nothing to orgenize the non-union territory. No attempt is being made to enforce the check- Coal miners demand action, you are facing a great responsibility. Now is the time to act.—Progressve Min- ers eras naan The bulletin commends the march- ing miners of District 2, John Bro- pees 's district, and stands by the slo- gans of the “Save the Union” ticket ics the last miners’ elections. It carriers news of the struggle, of evictions, of attempted strike-break- ing, of barbed wire entanglements around mining towns, and calls for defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. The bulletin sells for five cents a} ; copy, or $1.50 a hundred, and is pub- lished at 428 Belden Ave., Chicago. Vesuvius Active Again. NAPLES, July resumed activity. The ancient vol- cano is belching fire and smoke and some lava, Tourists are thronging to Naples ‘to witness the beautiful and awe-in- | spiring sight and the hills around the bay of Naples are thronged at night [with those witnessing the splendor established there, and the Filipino | | 31.—Vesuvius has | |of the eruption. °|Milwaukee Communists, Picnic on August 7 MILWAUKEE, July 31. Th Workers (Communist) Party, bocal Milwaukee, has arranged a picnic with; | outdoor dancing and ganies for Sune day, August 7, at the Arcadian Inn, Greenfield Ave., West Allis. Prom~ inent speakers just returned from the | Soviet Union will address the crowds. Take the Waukesha Rapid Transit trains marked “Local” leaving the Public Service Building 15 minutes | past the hour. Get off at Sunny Slope; station and walk three blocks north. You can also board trains at 6th andi Michigan, 16th and Clybourn, 27th and. Clybourn, and 35th and Clybourn. 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