The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1927, Page 2

ey Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, ryz7 BOSTON TENSE AS SAGCO-VANZETTI DOOM HOUR NEARS International Strikes) and Meetings Continue BOSTON, Kane: There was 2 gasping atmosphere in B last days before Gov. cision. ith Nicola striking to the last, s demonstrating and appealing ou the famous ¢ was dramati rushing to its ax. Sacco and Vanzetti, arrested as two unknown Italian radicals in the red- of May, 1920, had be- come internationally famous symbols of American justice within 12 months. And Boston, with the e of Vv world upon it, was uneasily waiting the outcome. nimous. of frame-up victim tive American Fede nounced their conv: ly miscarriage of ” and de- manded a new trial three national conventions. Trade unions, socialist, ion of Labor de- on a “ghast- communist and I. W. W. organizations continued to make in an issue of the Ameri and abroad in South America; ations in Latin case here there were immense Furope an from the nation- al labor and organizations of Germany, England and other coun- tries. Supported by Comintern. And though Sacco and Vanzetti, as anarchists were out of line with the Communist Party the Third Interna- tional launched a campaign in their behalf, as victims of class persecu- tion.* The Sacco-Vanzetti case really be- gan three months before their arrest when Palmer’s Di sent a certain stool-pig: to get the names of the ieni anar- chist group in New England. Pasing as an extreme radical Ravarino hung ebout the Boston printing office that had put out the croup’s weekly organ and got the names of Sacco and Van- zetti. Ravarino Tresca Exposes Spy. York, until exposed by he caused the arrest of Gallieni anarchists, Salsedo und and noted down the fact that Vanzetti had visited New York ini Sal- sedo erest. Sacco and Vanzetti arrested May\ 5 in Bréckton, with a handbill announeing a o protest meeting on their pos- Later in Ne Carlo T two ot been murdered; tories to death from Jo had pitching 14 tice rooms at 15 Park Row, N. Y. Grilled as radicals for 36 hours Sacco and Vanzetti lied. This con- sciousness of fear of death or deport- ation (many of their friends had been deported) was later interpreted by District Atty. Katzmann and Judge Thayer as “con sness of guilt.” Thafer Biased. Apparently as an after-thought, 36 hours after their arrest, Sacco and Vanzetti were confronted with the charge of murdering a shoe company paymaster and guard at South Brain- tree, April 15. They were convicted by a prejudiced judge and a preju- diced sheriff-picked j July 14,| 1921. Vanzetti had similarly been} framed on an attempted hold-up charge and given 12 to 15 years. After the trial the brilliant investi- gation wotk of Atty. Fred Moore, fi- nanced by the defense committee and other friends of the case, made ama ing discoveriés. Two state eye wi nesses confessed to perjury; a third, was shown to be a twice criminal and to have testified under a fake name. Bullet experts and new defense eye witnesses completed the proof of the prisoners’ innocence. But Judge Thayer denied all new trial motions. Twice the state su- preme court rejected appeals. The last appeal was based on the confession of Celestino Madeiros that he and the Morelli gang committed the murder. So the case went to Gevernor Fuller, who finally appointed an advisory commission ef three—Pres, Lowell of Harvard; Pres. Stratton of Mass. In- stitute of Technology, and ex-Probate Judge Grant. the | rtment of Justice | his | ndow of the Department of Jus- | ime-served | xirl Tried to Rob Bank To Pay Father’s Debt SAGINAW, Mich., Aug. ma Christler, the bob haired bandit, who tried to hold up’the Peoples Sav- ings Bank, was sentenced today to} to 13 years in the Detroit} from 3 ho} g of correction. She pleaded last week. Judge William H. n recommended three years. iss Christler told the court she attempted the robbery in order to pay off the mortgage on her father’s home. “Lying Editor of the Washington Post in Another Dirty Game WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, (FP). — | Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, is again mixed up in scandal. Implicated in the corrup- tion of cabinet officials in the Teapot Dome mess, McLean is now accused of corrupting amateur sports by maintaining George Voigt, who is ex- pected to carry off the amateur golf crown this year, unless barred from the national tournament as.an out- right professional. An investigation by the U. S..Golf Voigt | Assn. has uncovered these facts: resigned from government service in October, private secretary; he told friends that | he “did not intend to do anything but © play golf” and that he “did not have { to do anything else”; his golf dues | and traveling expenses are paid by| McLean; McLean’s private caddy serves Voigt in national competitions. ‘Great Strike in Hankow Against Brutalities (Continued from Page One) Pacific Labor Protests. The secretariat of Pacific Labor Unions has just published a press protest against persecutions carried on against the labor and peasant movements on territory under the domination of the Wuhan government jand against occupation by troops of the premises of labor organizations. In order to counteract the wide- spread denunciation following the ex- posures of its anti-labor and counter- revolutionary policy the central ex- ecutive committee of the Kuomintang, a group that has consistently violated during the past few weeks the prin- ciples of Sun Yat Sen, has published a sweeping order establishing\a cén- sorship over all printed works and has prohibited any adverse criticism of its treacherous policy. * * > Red Aid Protests. MOSCOW, Aug. 2.—The Interna- tional Red Relief Society has pub- lished an appeal inviting the masses of workers and farmers and their or- ganizations to protest against out- rages committed against the workers and peasants of China by the counter- revolutionaries and asking for the collection of funds to help the vic- tims of the white ‘error. * * * Call MacMurray Home. WASHINGTON, August 2. — Min-| ister MacMurray at Pekin has been summoned home by Secretary of State | Kellogg to give an accounting of his handling of the situation in China. DETROIT, Aug. 2.—Commander Richard E. Byrd’s flight to the South | Pole will be backed by Edsel B. Ford, | ‘the decision, was announced today after a long conference between Byrd and Henry and Edsel Ford. The younger Ford will contribute an un- jnamed amount. ANEW NOVEL Glos Sinclair | | $2.50 CLOTH BOUND 2.—Thel- | 1926 to become McLean’s} if they are freed. and Vanzetti. | arise! | | (Continued from Page One) town prison. authoritative quarters. | | | | are taking place. Vanzetti Defense Committee. The. Committee yesterday vigor- ously gaweithé/lie fo the report that jacket. This was characterized as a low attempt to show that the two workers were malingering. Dr. Joseph J. McLaughlin, the framed-up radicals and ‘refused to comment on their ¢ondition. Friends and sympathizers fear that the terri- fic nervous strain together with the effects of the ravages of the hunger strike is rapidly wearing them down. | With eyes of the entire world foc- used. upon him Governor Fuller is Lspending his time hearing last-minute witnesses and visiting his son, Alvan, who is recovering from an operation in, a local hospital. Reports that Vanzetti had gone raving mad and had to be put into a |straight jacket was categorically de- |nied late yesterday by Deputy War- jden James L. Hogsett of Charlestown ‘ prison. j * Police Wound 4 in Lyons Protest. * * |when police tried to interrupt a mass meeting called by the Communist Party of France to protect the mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti yesterday. Thousands of demonstrators leayv- jing the hall stoppéd all street cars jand traffic in the center of the city, the police charged the crowd. Mis- siles were thrown when the police drew their revolvers and fired upon the mass wounding four. Eight po- \licemen were hurt. The leaders of the |meeting were arrested. * * * More Argentine Meetings. mass meetings were held here yester- day to demand the immediate and un- |conditional liberation of Sacco and | Vanzetti. Speakers addressed thous- ands of demonstrators who flocked to the big meetings at which Massachu- “THE ELECTRIC CHAIR IS READY!” | The closing sentence in a Sacco-Vanzetti report from Boston to the Hearst “Daily Mirror” of Monday stated that the “electric chair has been tested and found to be in condi- tion for carrying out the executions on the date set.” Incredible as it may seem, after the world-wide protests against the carrying out of this fiendish conspiracy on the part of the agents of the Massachusetts industrials and the agents of the United States department of justice, all prep- arations are being made to burn the lives out of these vic- tims just as tho nothing at all were being done in their behalf. Just one more week remains until the fateful day. In a few hours we are promised the verdict of Governor Ful- ler, the millionaire auto magnate and labor-hater. But we must never for a moment concede that the fate of these two victims of capitalism are in the hands of Ful- ler. The working class has thus far stayed-the hand of the assassin and it is only the organized might of the working class here and in other countries that will finally free them, Vanzetti had been placed in a straight | prison doetor, yesterday examined the | LYONS, France, Aug. 2.—Shots | were fired and many seriously hurt | | | | BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 1—Three| » The fight here must be extended to all-enemies of Sacco Workers particularly should let the infamy of Massachusetts be known to everyone, and those reptile sheets of the type of the Hearst publications who brazenly lie when they tell us that “justice has been done,” should be exposed for what they are by picket lines in front of every one of their plants in the whole land. Let the contemptible apologists for murder of workers know the height to which the fury of the working class can GOV. FULLER TO GIVE SACCO-VANZETTI DECISION TO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AT A SPECIAL MEETING | Setts’ justice was characterized as cor- |working class unshaken, Nicola Sacco |YUpt, and asserted the workers’ faith | entered the seventeenth day of his jin the innocence of the two prisoners. hunger strike yesterday in Charles- | According to Warden | Hendry, Vanzetti is taking liquid | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. nourishment. This is being denied in |huge meeting will be held here under Pittsburgh Protest. * 2 Bes There is a tense atmosphere here |zetti Defense Committee of Western |most selfish bitterness of Wi as the hour of the decision rapidly |Pennsylvania at the Moose Temple|Palmer against the republican party.! tic action by the working class if the closes in on the two eondemned work- | Auditorium, 628 Penn Ave., on Sun-|Rumely is a native born Ameri ers. An air of secrecy surrounds the |day afternoon, Aug. 7th, at 2:30 p. m. bern in Indiana and was Roose State House where the deliberations |daylight saving time. Reports of strikes | |thorities. | Hapgood, Harry Guff, A |Wm. Van Essen, D. E. |Diabetti Massimo, who will speak in \Italian. J. Muste, | Oe Kelly Demands Release. PORTAGR, ° a., Aug. §2.—Declar- ing that if Christ were to appear on earth today he would be finger- printed, registered and required to wear an identification tag, Dr. P. J. Kelly at a meeting of the delegates jfrom labor and fraternal organiza- jtions to the Cambria County Council {of the Society for the Protection of rupt Massachusetts, courts. A resolution opposing the registra- |tion of the foreign born in. this coun- itry was also passed. The Spanish censorship forbids the publication of news regarding the Sacco-Vanzetti case, according to ad- vices received here. | * * * Amsterdam International Resolution. | BOSTON, Aug. 2—As the case | | neared the crisis, Gov. Fuller today received more of the communications | with which he has been swamped since the fate of Sacco, and Vanzetti was placed in his hands. From France, Robert Underwood | Johnson, United States ambassador to Italy in 1920 and 1921, cabled the | governor urging clemency. Johnson is editor of the Century | magazine. The fourth congress of International ‘ederation Trade Unions, meeting in Paris, cabled that Sacco and Vanzetti | should be liberated immediately. The cable message said that the American people will surely “not allow atrocious travesity justice bring on itself repro- bation throughout the world.” The DAILY WORKER Pus. co. SAVE SACCO AND VANZETT! AND THE DAILY 33 FIRST ST. * , ' ‘ ‘ H ' ' ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ ' ' t row it may 19279184 If not, YOU CANNOT VOTE! See your Nucleus Secretary today. Tomor- For Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, Remittances, On Sale of Stamps, etc., write to: NATIONAL OFFICE 1118 WEST WASHINGTON BLVD. Convention Elections Soon! Have You Ore of These in Your Dues Book? sl { ‘ he too late. CHICAGO, ILL. NEW YORK, N. Y.| | By AIDA FLOMENBAUM. . run an open air meeting something has come up, to prevent it. If the speakers were there the platform, was missing, if the platform was there the speakers did not show up. However, the task was given to us and we decided to make it go. Now the second meeting has taken place with much greater success than ever before. How we,did it? Here is the recipe: We started the open air meeting two weeks ago on the corner of Wil- kins and Intervale Avenues without even one speaker present and no platform on the place. As Branch Org, I was there and had reported the meeting to the Police head- quarters, so that if the meeting took place we should not be disturbed, by our protecters of the law. Within a short time some of those guys were there, however. 1 found myself in a predicament as there was not one vpeaker present, no platform and was getting late, Every time we have attempted to |1_ noticed two comrades bringing the WORKER, SLOGAN OF CHICAGO OPEN MEETING As I was about to get discouraged, platform, but was soon told that they were to run this meeting under the | auspices of the Womens’ Council. | This did not stop me from forming a United Front with them, and drafting a comrade as he passed by to act as chairman, we started the meeting. After introducing the meeting un- der the auspices of the Workers Comy munist Party, Our comrades from the audience volunteered to speak, though not prepared. But as members of the | Communist Party, being ‘Always | Ready,” .we attracted a crowd big enough to draw the rest of Wilkins and Intervale Avenues. The first topic was Sacco and Van- zetti, who by this time are deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of every class conscious worker. The crowd was vitally interested to hear of the contemptible steps taken by the yellow socialists, who attempted to destroy the Saeco and Vanzetti demonstration, for their petty selfish ends, not considering the lifes of the two innocent workers, the Foreign Born at Moose Hall, in-| |troduced a resolution demanding the | immediate liberation of Sacco and \¢rnor to Stephenson’s statement that rapidly that Cappellini and his ad- |Vanzetti held for murder by the cor- Jackson owes him $600,000 nor any|herents could not stop it. The res- |¢xPlanation of evidence said to have|after speaker rose and demanded} olution was sent to Governor Fuller. |been submitted by “Steve” when he | Aged Imperialist Has Son by Concubine TOKIO, Aug. 2.—Premier Giichi Tanaka, head of the Japanese gov- ernment, is celebrating today the birth of his first son, The child is born’ by the quasi.wife of Premier Tanaka. Baroness Tanaka, legal wife of the premier, is childless. The premier recently celebrated his sixty-third birthday. Stephenson Wire to Subordinate Shows Watson Implicated INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 2. — |D. C. Stephenson, former ruler of In- diana political affairs, who fell to a convict’s cell, stepped to the front in |behalf of Dr. Edward A. Rumely, one |time owner of the New York Daily Mail, convicted for making a false jreturn under the alien property act, according to a copy of a telegram purported to have been sent by |Stephenson, and released for publica- tion today. | Had Real Power. | The telegram was brought forward by persons interested in probing al- leged political corruption in Indiana as evidence that Stephenson’s power was not mythical. Senator James Watson testified be- \fore the Senator James A. Reed slush |fund committee that he had practi- ‘eally no dealings with Stephenson. | “Get to Watson at once through your friends in Indiana and have | Watson see the president in behalf of Dr. Edward A. Rumely who was rosecuted just after the war osten- ibly for trumped-up charges of vio- i |lating the alien property law but in the auspices of the Sacco and Van-|fact as a result of the deepest and | conference, Ison and ran, elt’s |You must not fail to see that these go |Borglum, famous sculptor) at Stam- arley and ford that this has been done and give | }me result of your work. After all {only results count. D. C. Stephen- |son.”” | “Palmer” was said to be A. |Mitchell Palmer, former atien prop- lerty custodian during Pitsidedt Wil: |son’s administration. * * * INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 2.— }Governor Ed Jackson, the chief tar- get of D. C. Stephenson, was silent yesterday on his return from Mac- | kinac Island in the face of his former associate’s many accusations. There was no reply fwom the gov- appeared before the Marion County \Grand Jury Saturday. | | Jury Reads Documents. | With predictions that action would |ber, that body today took up its wearisome, albeit interesting, perusal of Stephenson’s alleged records of his |transactions with the politically great lof Hoosierdom. There are thousands of pages of ‘recorded testimony and reams of |papers and documents to be read and evaluated by the jurors before the {Marion County criminal court re- sumes its session in September after vacation. Steve Talked. What Stephenson’s testimony Sat- urday added to the investigation, is an unknown quantity. The former ruler of politics is believed to have talked unreservedly to the jurors for jfive hours. | It is certain the special prosecutors will endeavor to thwart the statute of limitations, which might .prevent criminal prosecution’ for many of Stephenson’s former, playmates. The prosecutors believe they can prove at- tempts to conceal evidence have cre- ated an existing conspiracy which would nullify the statute that outlaws political crimes after two years. Politics Professor Intimates U.S. May WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug, 2. —What Napoleon did in France Mus- solini seems to be doing in Italy—es- tablishing an autocracy—Prof. Henry R. Spencer, of Ohio State University, asserted here today before the In- stitute of Politics. i Long continued publie apathy and indifference to public affairs in Amer- ica in time might produce a Mussolini, Spencer said, and he then ‘began to cautiously praise the work of such tyrants. Benito of course, in Spencer’s opin- ion has ruled too long, but he seemed to think that some such strong arm methods might be all right to “pre- serve order” in U. S, come from the grand jury in Septem- | Set Up a Mussolini MINERS PARADE — ~IN PROTEST FOR ~ SACCO-VANZETTI Cappellini Tries to Sab- | otage Work PITTSTON, Pa., (By Mail).—More | than three thousand miners paraded in a driving rain thru the streets of | Pittston Sunday in a protest against the execution of Sacco.and Vanzetti. | Hundreds of colorful and striking | banners, signs, together with two dig | bands made of the affair a striking | demonstration of the solidarity of | |the miners with Sacco and Vanzetti. | In the morning, over five hundred | | delegates, representing more than! | fifty local unions of the United Mine} Workers of America and eighty so-} cieties, lodges, etc, assembled in the! State Armory in the second confer-| }ence of the Anthracite Saccé and Vanzetti Conference. Fuller Evades Committee. Tk conference, after transacting the 1vutine business of reports, lis- |tencd to the report of William J. | brennan as to the results of the | delegation trip to Boston to inter- |view Governor Fuller. The report | stated that the delegation failed to | see Governor Fuller, he being out of | |town at the time, but succeeded in| | having a session with Mr. Johnson, | |the Governors Secretary. |. The conference, adopted a motion unanimously to continue the work ted, a motion to reassemble soon. | An emphatic resolution was adopted | | which was telegraphed to Governor | Fuller. The conference also sent to! Sacco and Vanzetti a telegram of} greeting. | Anthony Ramuglia, representing | the New York Sacco and Vanzetti | Emergency Committee addressed the | His speech touched on |the necessity of immediate and dras- lives of the prisoners were to be |saved. While Ramulgia was speak- “closest friend and a thorough patriot. | ing, Cappellini, district president of | The committee which had planned |Have Watson and Ralston (the late|the Miners’ Union unexpectedly en- | and demonstrations thruout the world |to hold the meeting in Schenley Park |diana) see the president tomorrow. | tered the hall. | continue to pour in on the Sacco-|was refused permission by the au-|Senator Samuel M. Ralston of In-| | A motion was made that “in view | | of the serious aspect of the case this| Among the speakers who will ad-|down the line to the limit on this case. | Conference elect a committee of three | dress the gathering will be Powers |Wire me in care of Borglum (Gutsum | ™embers to interview Rinaldo Cappel- | | li ini for the purpose of having a gen- eral strike of the district miners | | called as a protest against the execu- | tion.” | A supplementary motion was made \“that in the meantime, this confer- jence recommend to all affialiated| miners locals, that a strike be called | for wednesday August 3rd. Capellini Tries Sabotage. | | Cappellini immediately rose and |spoke against the motion viciously. }His position was that he, as presi- ;dent, was in no way authorized to |call strikes. A better way, he sug-| | gested, was to “work that day and | give the wages to the defense.” The | strike spirit, however, spread so { “ Speaker | strike, strike. Forced to Retreat. | Cappellini then retreated to the ex- | | tent if you want to strike, then dont | | call it strike, but just stay home that | day, as is your right to do as an American citizen, to stay home when- ever one pleases.” The motions to strike became a split point between two factions in the conference, and for the preservation of unity of the conference and the work itself, the anti-Cappellini floor leaders amended their own motion “to refer to the Executive Committee for early ac- tion.” Several attempts by Cappel- lini men to break up the conference failed when they were shouted down. Cappellini himself, jumping on a table, singled out an individual in the audience and attempted to throw the conference in an uproar. Only for the coolness of the Chairman and the Executive Committee, seated at the platform,.was the disruptive element quieted. Cappellini’s Disgusting Speech. In his speech at the demonstration itt the Park, Cappellini stated to the disgust of those assembled “that in- stead of criticizing Fuller, Coolidge, Massachusetts, etc., we must beg them, plead with them, yes, get down on our knees to them.” Ramuglia in answer stated “No, I disagree, too long have we workers belly-crawled. If we are to free them, we must not Beg, mast not whine, must not crawl on our belly—we must fight.” The entire park cheered, The City Commissioners of Pitts- ton, the Chief of Police and several other city offieials joined the parade in an automobile. The Mayor of Pittston has pledged to have the City Council adopt a strong protest at the next. meeting. 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