The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1927, Page 2

demgper ss pecemeyr 1s Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1927 Conneaut School to Give Sinclair Play at Dance; Successful Year Closing | KRUPSKAYA SAYS OPPOSITION IS BLIND 10 FACTS Old Bolsheviks Appeal for Unity CONNEAUT, Ohio, Aug. 3. The Young Workers League Train- ing School at Conneaut will hold an.) entertainment and dance at the Work- | ers Hall, 943 Broad Street, on Sat- urday night, August 6. The program will consist of a short play by Upton Sinclair, “The Second Story Man,” songs and recitations, in Finnish and English, and some PENNSYLVANIA GUNMEN ATTACK MINE STRIKERS ‘Arrest Organizer and_| Assault Women « | | | | Owing to a typographical TIONAL.” a CORRECTION ® error the resolution of the Poli-| tical Committee published on page-3 on Wednesday, August 3,/ {was pyinted with an incorrect heading. The correct heading is) the following: “DECLARATION OF THE POLITICAL COM- MITTEE ON THE RESOLUTION QUESTION ADOPTED BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE EXE-| CUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNA-| | ON THE AMERICAN | { MOSCOW, August 8.—Krupskaya, the widow of Lenin, in a speech to the United Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Com- mission of the All-Union Communist Party now in session de ed that the menace of war is hovering over the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies and that at this moment it is im- perative that the maximum unity of the Party and the wide masses around the Party be achieved. Opposition Condemned. The disputes taking place at the plenum testify to the fact that the opposition does not realize the grav- ify of the war danger. In face of the impending war its accusations directed against organizational unity of the Party and the masses must cease. The opposition is devoid of realistic foundation and it wrongly generalizes about separate, negative facts. It is purposely wearing blinkers not_to perceive all the con- struction, the industrial achieve- ments, taking place in the U.S. S. R. Masses Are Revolutionary. Ilustratiing the growth of the conscious desire for organization on the part of the ma: and their un- questioned revolutionary elation by numerous recent instances. Comrade Krupskaya emphasizes the fact that the opposition does not see real life, it has no roots in the ranks of the masses and the masses will not fol- low it. Discusses Defense. Keferring to the question of the} defense of the country against im-| perialist agression Krupskaya em- phasizes the fact that it is utterly speeches, The new Pioneer Group at Conneaut will give some cheers. The will close with danciag un- 30 p. m. pri til 1 The Conneaut League Training school is extending an invitation to the League and Party units in Ohio d in near-by cities to come to this ir and help make a spectacular ending to a highly successful venture. Admission will be 35 cents. speculating on small group of old members now in the opposition, even | in this question as in all others, op- erates with data deliberately untrue. The Society of @ld Bolsheviks con- siders absolutely normal and natural that different viewpoints or shades of epinion on aie political or eco- nomic organization questions are ex- pressed, with tne fundamental principles and provided they don’t collide | | By POWERS HAPGOOD. \ (Federated Press) | | (Avella is’the center of a rich coal | valley 30 miles out of Pittsburgh near the West Virginia border—Ed.) | AVELLA, Pa., August 3.—Miners of Avella, as a last resort in protect- g themselves and their families ainst the violence of the coal and ag iron police e petitioned the Gov-} ernor of Pennsylvania and the Sher- iff of Washington county to remove “about 18 disorderly ruffians com- missioned as coal and iron police.” The thugs were imported into the valley by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. and the Duquesne Coal & Coke Co., and they are “masquerad- ing falsely in the uniform of peace officers,” the miners. tell Governor Fisher and the sheriff. Thugs Threften Miners. Several days ago a plum _ seed dropped by a girl who was eating His Leg Wo standards of the Party. | fruit on the high porch of a coopera- An Emphatic Protest. | tive store -fell on the fender of a It is therefore impossible» to ab-| passing automobile in which two coal stain from making a most emphatic/and iron police were riding. * They protest against such declarations and | immediately turned their car about,’ actions particularly in the Society of| drive back a quarter of a mile to Old Bolsheviks. Therefore the bureau| where a group of striking miners of the Society of Old Bolsheviks| were peacefully playing cards under bearing in mind that summer time|a tree, drew their revolvers, and vacations render it impossible to| threatened to kill the miners. Later convene a general meeting suffi-}one of these company guards was ‘members of the society inviting them | ciently complete, has found it neces- sary to appeal immediately to all to resist most decidedly the disorgan- | izing activities of the opposition} which have gone beyond all limits. | Therefore the bureau of the old Bol- sheviks considers absolutely inadmis- | sible and hitherto unheard of that| an anarchistic wa The Party is not, members of the party and particu-| a discussion club; there are:moments| larly responsible members of a party when it is necessary to act—not de-|leading an enormous country, the liberate. first socialist republic in history, now Indulging in biting irony against/ under furious bombardment by the} Trotzky, Krupskaya declared that he| united reaction of the whole world,| more than anyone else knows what|that such members should permit would have happeneed to the Red themselves to stamp in the mud the| Army if, at the moment of attack,| prestige of our central organs by de-| each soldier would deliberate as to/claring that the party is degenerat- whether he was going in the right ing and that its central organs are direction and would himself decide conducting a treachery policy and impossible to discuss this question in arrested and held over for court on a charge of disorderly conduct and pointing firearms, Assault Women and Girls, This afternoon another scene of violence disturbed the peace of this} mining community. Some strike- breakers were being imported into Pittsburgh Terminal mine, and three | women, three miners and District Or- ganizer Wolcott of the United Mine Workers were quietly telling them there was a strike and asking them not to go to work. Immediately a that sum. G. Mayor, of Brooklyn, a at all. e That’s what the court said. Ask anybody if he will sell his leg for railroad brakeman, and his wife are seen here rejoicing that they get even this much for a part of a human body. Plenty of workers lose a leg or an arm without any compensation gang of coal and iron pajice tried to! break up the picket line, even though it was on a public highway. They knocked down and severely bruised Mrs. Mary Hritz who was carrying a little child. When her eldest daughter stepped to the aid of her mother both where to go. The same maximum unity is required in the present situ- ation. Defends Chinese Policy. Vassing over to the question of theses proposed at the plenum, Keferring to her Krupskaya declared that in 1925 she considered the position of opposition correct, in the moment of struggle, the max- imum unity of the party on the basis of support of the Central Committee is imperative. Opposition Losing Adherents. that in case of war the workers should ask reasons, ete. Party Foes Rejoice. | What resuits can flow from this| kind of opposition? Firstly, ter revolutionaries will form support own position, |to the opposition and sustain dt, such | being the logic of the situation. All the | such elements will rush into breach | to enter the office I was stopped by but that now/created by the party opposition, pro-| Carmichael and the guards. moting their aims and annihilating the dictatorship of the proletariat. Secondiy, undoubiedly trom_ whole {tone and character of the opposition declarations, the question of substi- were arrested. i i pe all| property, and then arrested him, for the Chinese events, Krupskaya em-j vacillating and unstable elements in|trespass. Wolcott, three women and phasizes the correctness of the funda-| tne party, also all open and secret|two young boys were driven in the wict.tal line as outlined by Bukharin’s toes of our party up to sworn coun-| custody of four armed guards in two Arrest Union Organizer. Other coal and iron police rushed Organizer Wolcott onto company (Continued from Page One) men-was- placed outside the cells and heavy guard details patrolled the walls. of the prison. The streets out- side were guarded, Sacco’s hunger strike was in pro- test against the secret methods used by Governor Fuller and his advisory commission in reviewing the case. The report of the commission—Presi- dent A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, President Samuel W. Stratton and Judge Robert Grant—has not yet been made public. Sacco needed no jautomobiles to Washington, where they were arraigned before Justice When I tried |of Peace Carmichael. The | prisoners were eventually bailed out} | by the union’s attorney and are wait-| \ting trial next week. The workers’ petition has put these facts before the governor and the sheriff. MOVE TO IMPEACH JUDGE THAYER PLANNED; VANZETTI REFUSES FOOD advised them their case would be bad if no further proof were found, With Attorney Ehrmann coming along they honeyeombed Atlantic Ave. fish markets. After searching eight or nine they came to the Corso | Brothers. Joseph Carrizini of the firm vemembered Vanzetti well. Such a nice man with such beautiful Italian talk of social thiffgs. Yes he had sold him eels about that time, he remem- bered, and so did workers about the | place. But the receipt books had all | been destroyed long ago he thought. Mine Policeman Who Shot Boys Abducts Girl (Continued from Page One) iffs and members of the state con- stabulary patrolled the Pricedale sec- tion after the hearing. The coal and iron police were non-committal but were plainly looking for trouble and anxious to shoot somebody in revenge for Gannon’s arrest. This is but one of a series of brutal |crimes committed by coal and iron | police (merely company gunmen, paid Attractive Offers! by coal operators and given power to make arrests by the state), The wounding of the boys at Granville, for which Gannon was arrested took | place when a truckload of scabs and| seab baseball players, company thugs, | ete., rode thru miners’ towns and shot them up. for NEW READERS of the Daily Worker * * * Small Favors Conference. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 3.—Gov.| with every annual subscription to Len Small, through his executive sec-| The DAILY WORKER or through retary, George D. Sutton, wired Gov. | a : Vie Donahey of Ohio today that he| Payment of only $1.50 with 20 would join with Donahey and Gov. Bd| Coupons clipped from the News Jackson of Indiana, in requesting coal | -stand Edition on 20 different days. operators and miners of the central é 4 district to call a new conference in| any attempt to settle their wage dis- | pute. | Harry Fishwick, president of the | MTiinois miners, has signified his wil- lingness to enter such a conference. There is no doubt that other district These valuable premiums, worth $2.50 each, can be secured FREE officials will also participate, for the union. But the operators are still de- manding a reduction of wages, and the morale of the miners is still high; they are holding out for a resumption under the Jacksonville scale. en * * * Tetlow Injured. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 3 (FP). — Percy Tetlow, provisional president of District 17, United Mine Workers, embracing southern West just below the shoulder. Tetlow’s arm had been broken in three places in an automobile smash-up"on his way to address a meeting of coal diggers on Virginia, had his left arm amputated, | i t } | Laurel Creek, near Little Coal River. * ° . Won’t Call Troops Just. Now. { COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 3.—There is no need for intervention of the Ohio National Guard at this time. This was the gist of reports filed here to- day by three Ohio National Guard colonels, dispatched by Governor Vie Donahey to investigate outbreaks in Offer Ne. 1 GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) CAMERA Regular Price $2.50 Takes an Standard’ Roll , Film. Pictures 24x38. Thig | Columbiana, Tuscarawas, Harrison, model e tinely taished co complete im every et Jefferson, Belmont and Guernsey Haatwo finders foo Vert i counties, where operators have ‘been Horizontal Pictures, setting up machine guns and simul- taneously accusing the strikers of violence. quality .-book of instructions, Japanese Delegates Propose Navy Holiday STORIES, PLAYS REVELRY { | sit by Samuel Hopkins Adame | (Continued from Page One) ek A story of the corrupt i |and Great Britain, the Japanese are Otiiane. Regen be nape { utilizing the growing consternation to| ....----American political lite. secure new possible advantages for herself. Otter ELMER GANTRY Japan is in no position to enter No. a by Sinclair Lewis upon a wholesale naval building com- petition with the two leading imperial- ist powers. Exhausted by her earth- The famous author of Bab- bitt has given a fine rendi- tion of the hypocrisy and wham of the, American clergy. _josing its adherents one by one. In an editorial on the situation in| tuting for our leading comrades mem- the All-Union Communist Party | bers of the opposition, because if our Pravda emphasizes the fact that the | central organs, the: comintern, central menshevist hopes for the legalization committee of the Party, and the cen- of the opposition cannot be realized.) tral control commission, conduct a| The opposition is in a bad way and is| treacherous policy, if the Party is |degenerating, the conclusion follows | Sokolnikov has broken with the op-| that our leading comrades must cede position recently. A collective dec-|their places to the opposition not- laration was filed by a number of | withstanding the full confidence en- comrades who recently signed cppo-' joyed by, our leading organs in the sition documents, requesting that!Party. For this reason we consid their signatures be cancelled from the | it imperative that all members of o1 documents, society now as in former years, when | These events and many other de-/| ideological oscillations separate com- fections from the opposition indicate) rades or groups should strongly re- the rapidity with which they are los-| sist the attempts of the opposition to ing ground, The resolution of the| wage a struggle against the true un- opposition to continue and to aggra-/| falsified Lenin line. vate the struggle in spite of all in) No Mass Support. face of the present acute inter-| In view of the dangerous position national position will compel others! in which the Party may be placed by to follow those who returned to the a comparatively insignificant group, ranks of the Party, having honestly | uniting diverse and most contradic- acknowledged their faults and broken!) tory tendencies and having no sup- with the opposition leaders. | port among party or working masses, Old Bolsheviks’ Appeal. | but supported only by unstable ele- The bureau of the Society of Old| ments, their social composition not Bolsheviks issued an appeal to all) reflecting proletarian nature of our members of the Communist Party |Party, we consider it timely to make protesting against the outrageous'an end of this outrageous conduct declarations and actions of members from the viewpoint of the interests | of the opposition in their references ,of the Party and world revolution ac- to the great number of old Bolheviks | tivity. among them, who built the party.) Because they systematically oppose The old Bolshevik builders of the the decisions of the party, their resolu- Party will show all members of the| tions are always intentionally am- Communist Party that the opposition, | biguous, demagogic and defiant, thus ‘Convention Elections Soon! Have You Ore of These in Your Dues Book? BUUN 1 ‘ ‘ ‘ i ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ‘ ‘ ' ' . If not, YOU CANNOT VOTE! See your Nucleus Secretary today. Tomor- row it may be too late. For Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, Remittances, On Sale of Stamps, etc., write to: - NATIONAL OFFICE 1118 WEST WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL. | Gas Bombs and Machine Guns. | he coal companies are becoming| desperate at the strikers’ success in peacefully .persuading imported strikebreakers not to work. days ago the Duquesne Coal and Iron Co, unloaded 11 strikebreakers: from a special car and marched them to barracks accompanied by 8 coal and iron police, armed them with gas bombs and machine guns. Light pic- kets, led by Organizer Wolcott and Fred Siders, miners’ leader, informed the men as they passed that there was a strike. Immediately 10 or 11 of them came over to the strikers, | saying they had been told there was no strike, and that there were union| conditions at the mine. They went back to Pittsburgh in a truck. Siders, Wolcott and the others were then arrested for trespass, even though they had not left the public road. The miners of Avella are standing solidly on strike. “We will die fighting,” they say, “rather than die starving to death in the mines.” placing our and fraternal parties in still more difficult position in face of the very difficult complicated prob- lem confronting our party. Demand Unconditional Obedience. We think that an ultimatum should| be presented to the whole opposition demanding unconditional obedience to Party’s decision. This relates equally to all groups of the-opposition; the adherents of Zinoviev and Trotzky, left opposition (Sapronov, Smirnov) also new but not less harmful buffer group. We are absolutely in favor of ex- pelling from the central committee of the Communist Party the leaders of the opposition. The Party must at last be given the opportunity to con- centrate all powers and all attention, exclusively on the construction of the socialist state and the struggle for the.deyelopment of the world revolu-| tion. | ¥or Iron Unity. j The Bureau of the Society of Old Bolsheviks appeals to all members of the Party to support fully and un- conditionally the central leading or- gans of the Party, opposing their iron discipline and proletarian desire | for Party unity to the disofganizing tactics of the opposition, which is breaking Party unity and leading towards strife. We urge the mem-/ bers of the Party to act unitedly! against all oppositionaires, and frac-| tionaires no matter what position they occupy or whatever their past | services to the revolution. The ine jassistance in walking from Cherry} “Let us look,” begged Ehrmann. “No use,” said the fish wholesaler, but, all right they could try. Hill to the death house, a distance of | a few hundred yards. Yet his phy- sical condition has been elarming his| friends and sympathizers. A few} * * * By ART SHIELDS, (Federated Press). More Proof of Innocence. BOSTON, Aug. 3.—Resting on Gov. Fuller’s desk before his decision came was documentary evidence of Van- zetti’s innocence of the Bridgewater hold-up. This proof in the form of an age tarnished receipt book telling of a shipment of eels to Vanzetti, |came to light after a baffling search of fish markets of Atlantic Ave. in dusty litter of old papers in the stor- age room of Corso Brothers. Express Company Assures Fuller. This sensationally unearthed testi- mony was a knock-out to foes of the defense. Shortly before the American Railway Express Company and State Detective Ferari had assured Fuller there was no record of such a receipt. The receipt book gives documentary confirmation to story of alibi witness- }es that Vanzetti was selling eels in | Plymouth the day of the Briggewater | crime, December 24th, 1919. The day before Christmas is an | Italian fast day when meat is banned | but eels are eaten by custom. It is |the big eel selling day and eighteen witnesses swore that Vanzetti the fish peddler of the [talian quarter was selling eels that morning. Vahey Sold Out. Their testimony was discredited as the story of “wops” and John L. Vahey, defense attorney, made no ef- fort to further confirm it. Vahey, later reported as a stock- holder in the Plymouth Cordage Com- pany, sold him out Vanzetti asserts, Fuller seemed to share the Ply- mouth ‘jury’s attitude. When Aldino Felicani and Gardner Jackson of the defense committee visited him yester- day Fuller sharply asked them why they were unable to corroborate the alibi with such documentary. evidence as an American Express receipt. » Fuller had already been assured by an American Railway Express repre- sentative and Detective Ferari who investigated that there was no such receipt. This Ferari is the fellow who worked. hard. to diseredit the Mad- eiros’ confession last year. He is also notorious for the third degree bru- tality. When questioning prisoners he swings a sand filied rubbed hose, say police insiders. : terests of the Party and of the social revolution take firat place. * As Jackson and Felicani were leav- ing, one of the governors” attaches They examined every scrap of pa- | per for two hours but found nothing. A shabby box lay inconspicuously in |the corner, they tore it open. To- | wards the bottom was an old Amer- ican Railway Express receipt book, dated 1919. Turning the pages feverishly they found the company’s record. The ship- ment of a barrel of eels, December | 20th to B.. Vanzeiti, Plymouth. Allowing for shipping delays, that gave Vanzetti just sufficient time to get the eels in advance for his big eel-selling day. ‘ Ehrmann and Thompson rushed with the book to Fuller. Then a nocturnal visit to Vanzetti in the death cell. Ps Weakened by his hunger strike and the terrible strain of seven years, Van- zetti could still remember that he had also bought three other barrels of eels at another company, probably the Pier Fish Company. But at the Pier Fish Company the receipt books had been destroyed and | the management, not being Italian, | could not remember him from others. The defense drive now is to compel the American Railway Express Co. to examine its records. The record keep- er of the firm in Boston told the Fed- erated Press reporter and Thomas O’Connor apother newspaperman that the records might still be in exist- ence. These records must be opened, the defense demands, also the files of the Department of Justice and the pri- vate reports the Pinkerton Detective Agency made to the shoe companiés. Vanzetti’s conviction in the Bridge- |water case brought him into the Dedham trial for the South Brain- tree murder as a convicted felon. The proof of his innocence in Bridge- water explodes the presumption against him in the murder case. Huge Protest. Fuller in his review of the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, finished today, interviewed scores of witnesses who testified at the trial and 102 additional witnesses. Arguments on both sides were heard. In addition, an advisory commission of three men, appointed by the gov- ernor, delved into the case. It: was estimated that the review cost the state many thousand dol- lars. Approximately 10,000 letters, 2,000 telegrams and radiograms and 5,000 posteards from persons in all parts quake sufferings and the failure of her banks when Suzuki and Co. crash- ed some months ago, and with her hands full consolidating her forces in Manchuria and Korea, Japan would like to stop building. To effect this purpose she has not put forward her plans for a naval holiday for herself and Great Britain which coming at a moment when they can save the face of the badly battered Geneva diplo- mats have a chance of being listened 0. ‘ Works to Deepen U. S.-British Rivalry By this naval holiday proposal, Ja- pan would gain her needed financial rest, while the Americans would have 2 chance to build approximately up to the British strength. Thus Japan’s two most powerful rivals in the East would be entangled in a life and death competition on almost equal terms while each would be prepared to make important concessions for Japanese support in case of open war. Admiral Saito and Viscount Ishii, the Japan- ese delegates at Geneva are sitting tight and waiting for a nibble today. of the world, flowed into the execu- tive offices and a,force of a dozen stenographers was kept busy for weeks answering the communications, In addition, many petitions, con- taining thousands of names, were re- ceived. Gardner Jackson, publicity director of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- mittee, who called at the governor's office today said he considered the postponement of the meeting of the Executive Council as a hopeful sign for Sacco and Vanzetti. Jackson said that the governor apparently wanted personally to make public his deci- sion before placing it before the council. Jackson turned over to the governor’s secretary an account of talling $325,000. It was understood the chief executive asked for) the financial statement. * * . Omaha Demonstrates. OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 3.—Braving a heavy rain, hundreds of people at- tended two demonstrations to protest against the threatened murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Rev. J. L. Beebe and Roy E, Stephens, secretary of the local branch of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, addressed the meetings. CHAMBERY, France, Aug. 3.— Former United States ambassador to Htaly, Underwood Johnson, today ca- bled a protest to Governor Fuller against the slaying of Sacco and Vanzetti. r money received by the committee to-|) ost atm ARRON otter EMPEROR JONES No, 4 by Eugene O'Neill and other plays coker Gaia gaa Ee lax plage enn MARXIAN CLASSICS otter ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by N. Bukharin Thoughtful Marxist read- ers will find in this book a guide to an understanding of the ideologists of the mene ern bourgeoisie. The book ig written by the foremest Marxian theorist of the day. 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