The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927 The Hand Raised Against Sacco and Vanzetti is the Hand Raised Against the Daily Worker 2:3: "eo American capitalism has condemned Sacco and Vanzefti to the electrie chair. Their crime has been none other than that of fighting in the interests of working class, of seeking to organize them into trade unions to protect their interests, and of bringing enlightenment and understanding to the workers of Massachusetts. is unforgivable. Death is its punishment. In the code of capitalist law this crime The DAILY WORKER, too, has dared to raise its voice against the open shop, against the new War Danger, against the present social order, and for the freedom of Sacco and Van- zetti. This is its crime. For this it is being prosecuted by the Federal Grand Jury. For this, the capitalist class seeks to destroy The BAILY WORKER. But the workers of America will never permit their champions to be destroyed. They will keep up the fight until Sacco and Vanzetti are finally freed. They will keep up the fight to GUARD THE DAILY WORKER from the enemies of the working class, until the day, when the capitalist judges and capitalist governors no longer rule, and the working class is finally enthroned to manage its own destinies. SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI SAYS WORKERS (COMMUN- Berlin, Buenos Ayres IST) PARTY IN STATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE (Continued from Page One) munist) Party calls upon its members and those who sym- pathize with it to devote all their energy in these next few days to.this cause. It has arranged that at general mem bership meetings, to be called in every city on Friday, Satur- day and Sunday, the first order of business shall be the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti. The decision gives Sacco and Vanzetti only 5 more days to live. Only the united might of the labor movement can save them. In this hour, whatever our differences, all forces must unite on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. It calls upon all labor organizations to unite for this common action. We propose that the workers everywhere picket all federal and state government offices beginning at once. We call upon the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, now in ses- sion, and upon the Executive Council of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and upon all labor organizations to call and participate in protest strikes on August 9, and calls for demonstrations on August 9 under the auspices of all labor organizations. It pledges itself to support and take part in any demonstrations so called. The entire party will close its ranks and fight as one to mobilize the widest possible masses to stop the execution of this criminal decision and to secure the immediate release of Sacco and Vanzetti. CLOSE THE PARTY’S RANKS! UNITE ALL LABOR’S FORCES! FREE SACCO AND VANZETTI! FIGHT AGAINST CAPITALIST INJUSTICE AND OP- PRESSION AND CAPITALIST CONTROL OF COURTS AND GOVERNMENT! . FIGHT FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOV- ERNMENT IN AMERICA! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERIGA. Convention Elections Soon! Have You Ore of These in Your Dues Book? 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. FOR THE CONVENTION In preparation for the coming Party x convention these books should be in the hands of every active Party member. SIXTH SESSION OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTION AND PROGRAM Workers Party of America Adopted at the National Con- vention of 1921 (New York), amended by the Convention of 1924 (Chicago). 05 SOND YEAR OF THE RS (COMMUNIST) PARTY ORGANIZATION Introduction by Jay Lovestone The letter on reorganization from the Communist Interna- zation plan the party's y indexed, charts, pogram, —AS constitution, organizational etc., etc. FROM THE FOURTH TO THE | FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS A report of the Central Com- mittee to the third National Convention held in Chicago, Jan- c » 1924, resolutions pogram, thenberg. URTH NATIONAL VLION tions—Thesxes— Declara- tions — Constitution of the Workers (Communist) Party Adopted at the 4th National (Report of the Ex. Com. of the Communist International) er | FIFTH CONGRESS REPORTS { Speeches, reports and the last } decisions of the leading body of the world Communist movement. (Paper) —.70 Convention, held in Chicago, Ill, August 21 to 30, 1 Soon! | On with the fight for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. On with the fight to GUARD THE DAILY WORKER. Wireless Telephone Is | Success; Service Soon BERLIN, August 4. —Regular tele- ph ice between Berlin and| Ayres is expected within » the result of successful tests ast night. The voices from Germany smitted through regular telephone vires to the radio station in Nomen and thence on short wave lengths to | x radio station at Villa Zeliza and! thence by telephone wires to Buenos | Ayres. No sending apparatus has been es- tablished in Buenos Ayres, but the/| one-sided telephone conversation was | heard clearly, cable advices stated. Nation-Wide Strike to) Free Sacco and Vanzetti (Continued from Page One) Fuller’s decision was “unbelievably brutal in its partisanship and even more brutal in the omission of facts,” a statement made public today by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense ,Committee said: “The days separating Sacco and few, but this Defense Committee will | continue to fight for justice for these | two men, Our faith in their innocence | is unshaken. We call upon the mil-| lions of people thruout the world, who | have supported them, to dome for-| ate effort to stay the hand of*the ju- | dicial hangman.” The committee in seven years has spent $325,000 for thé deferise of Sac- | co and Vanzetti, who were railroaded because of their radical beliefs. Mrs. Sacco is reported in a state of | collapse as a result of Fuller’s de- cision to railroad her husband and| Vanzetti to the electric chair. * * . WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—American government officials were today or- dered placed under heavy guard with a view to demonstrations by Sacco and Vanzetti sympathizers outraged by the decision of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, | As soon as the decision of the Mas- | sachusetts executive was made public | the state department cabled all em- bassies, legations and consular offices |as well as missions and officials who are traveling abroad. *. * s Plan Legal Defense. i Immediately after the issuance of | the retirement statement the Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Committee announ- ced that Attorney Arthur D. Hill, ‘prominent Boston member of the bar had been retained to determine what, if any future legal steps should be taken in behalf of the condemned men. * * * Troops Guard Thayer CONCORD, N. H., Aug. 4.—Extra | |precautions were taken today to guard j |Governor Alvan T. Fuller as he visits | bis summer home in Rye Beach every jevening and over the week-end, while Sacco and Vanzetti are in their death cell, In addition to a Massachusetts state \police body guard, a detail of three |New Hampshire state troopers sta- \tioned there, Governor Fuller was offered any | proteetion desired by Governor H. N. |Spaulding and it was thought likely | that a detail will be assigned from the | 197th Regiment, Coast Artillery, Na- | \tional Guard, in camp in Rye, near jthe Fuller estate. | Plays Golf. | Two state troopers were sent to Odunquit Beach, Maine, today to guard Judge Webster Thayer. Judge Thayer was on the golf links. * * * | Police for Paris Protest. } PARIS, Aug. 4.—Special police pre- cautions were taken today to guard | the United States embassy and the consulate buildings as a result, of Governor Fuller’s decision that Nicola Saceo and Bartolomeo Vanzetti xa |} die. |] _ Bicycle policemen, prepared to rush | \{ for reinforcements upon a moment’s noti¢e, took up their vigil at the em- bassy and consulate in addition to a dozen uniformed gendarmes at each — | protest strike. |General. Strike Tuesday | ‘Says Union Sq. Crowd! (Continued. from Page One) Bright in the sunlight gleamed the jmilitant labor vanguard. Some of the \banners read: | “Only a Protest Strike Can Save jour Martyrs.” “Shall Capitalism Murder Our} Fighters?” “Sacco and Vanzetti We Need You.” “Governor Fuller, You’ye Had Your |Word From Wall Street.” | “‘Only a protest strike can Save Us?” One enormous banner carried by four workers had inscribed on it, Read the DAILY WORKER, The voice of Freedom for Sacco and Van- zetti!” Call For Strike. The speeches were short in length but to the point and in most cases clarion calls demanding a general Some of the speakers were William F. Dunne, J. Louis Eng- dahl, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, John I. Ballam, Pat Devine, Bert Miller, Will- iam Patterson, D. Benjamin, Rose Potesta, Bertram D. Wolfe, William W. Weinstone, H. M. Wicks. Roger Francizon, Sam Don, Moore, Chas. Krumbein, Philip Frank- feld, Al Schaap, and others, A resolution calling for a united front on the part of all labor for the purpose of calling a national general strike was thunderously applauded. |The resolution read as follows: Text of Resolution. “Whereas the farcical trial of Sac- co and Vanzetti followed by the re- ‘peated denial of a new trial in spite | of accumulated evidence of frame-up and the crowning act of criminal in- justice, the declaration of Governor Fuller, demonstrate that the workers {can secure no justice from. capitalist | courts, and “Whereas only the united protest of labor can now save these two work- ers’ champions, “Therefore be it resolved by this | meeting called by the Worker’s Party in Union Square: Call for Unity. “1, We-call upon the entire labor movement to unite, regardless of dif- | ferences, in a common struggle to re- lease Sacco and Vanzetti. “2. We-eall upon the entire labor | Vanzetti from the electric chair are |movement to unite in a half-day joint | protest strike at 12 o’clock on Tues- day, August 9th. “3. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of these two innocent men. si ‘ > | “4. We call upon the Massachusetts | ward and join us in this last desper- | State Federation of Labor now in ses- | sion to issue a call for such a strike. “5. We call upon the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor to issue @ call to all of their affiliated organizations for a strike at the same time. “6. We ¢all upon all labor organi- zations, regardless of differences, to endorse and participate in this strike. “7, We call upon all workers to unite their forces to end the system of capitalist injustice and oppression and the capitalist control of govern- ment and to build a workers’ govern- ment in the United States, “Unite All Labor’s Forces!” “Free Sacco and Vanzetti!” Workers (Communist) Party, Dis- | triet 2. Weinstone Speaks, In his ringing address to the work- ers at the meeting, William W. Wein- stone, secretary of Distriet 2, Work- er’s Party, said, “We will do every- thing within our power so that Sacco and Vanzetti shall not die. The labor movement, despite the Wolls and Greens, has great power, it can stop the wheels of industry. Sacco and Vanzetti must not die. Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers’ School declared that the general strike is labor’s last court of appeal, He said, “Five days from now every worker should stop Working at the stroke of noon. Coal Co. President In Gun Battle; Killed (Continued from Page One) then drew his gun. McManaway fought with Merz and killed him. * * J “Underworld Dicks.” BELLAIRE, Ohio, August 4.—Sub- district 5 of District 6, the largest sub-district in the United Mine Work- ers of America, has issued a state- ment to the public in answer to mis- leading propaganda put out by the operators. The companies have been charging the Ohio miners with vio- lence, while at the same time deliber- ately going about to raise private troops, and to place then in neighbor- hoods where miners have to live, with instructions to so conduct themselves towards the striking miners that vio- lence is bound to result. The officers of the sub-district say: “From April 1914 to May 1916 the Eastern Ohio mines were closed not a single act of violence was commit- ted. History of coal strikes reveal that riots in coal mining communities are incited by the importation of thugs and stool-pigeons by coal oper- ators to intimidate the resident min- Richard B. We Do Not Surrender Sacco: and Vanzetti to Massachusetts { | | i | | | Murderers! They Shall Be Freed! | The Massachusetts murderers have unmasked. | | Governor Fuller, brutally, coldly and contemptuously, has} said that Sacco and Vanzetti must die. | | The spokesman of the capitalist conspirators rejects all the evidence which has convinced millions of people all over the world |that Saceo and Vanzetti are innocent—and sends them to their ‘death. | | In a death cell close to those in which Sacco and Vanzetti are, |eonfined sits Madeiros, a convicted criminal who has confessed to the Braintree murder for which Sacco and Vanzetti were tried) jand found guilty. i | Governor Fuller simply says that he does not believe the} | Madeiros confession. | Fourteen witnesses who swore that they saw Sacco and Van- zetti elsewhere than Braintree at the time the crime was com-| |mitted, and that these two workers could not possibly have. been | in Braintree for criminal or any other purpose, have demanded that they be prosecuted for perjury if Sacco and Vanzetti are |to be electrocuted. }nocent working men must die. | Massachusetts capitalism, backed by |perialist reaction, takes two human sacrifices. Plucked by pow- | erful fingers from the ranks of the working class, Sacco and | Vanzetti have been tortured for seven years—tortured as no | workers in the history of the American labor movement have been tortured. | They were leaders of their fellows in the cause of labor. They were arrested and tried as representatives of the work- ing class. | | They were convicted by class justice and they are to die! | because of class vengeance. American capitalism ‘says to the American workers: “Two at least of your number we have and we will not let them go till they are dead by our hands. “When we have burned the lives from these two workers who dared to challenge the domination of our class in Massachusetts, we will give you their charred bodies to remind you of our power. | “Our feudal forebears hung the bodies of rebels in | chains on gibbets to terrorize the countryside. “We, the rulers of the greatest industrial nation, | kill by more modern methods. We are able .to murder | Sacco and Vanzetti with the same current that sends the news of their deaths as a warning to millions of their class.” | But to us the death sentence for our comrades will not be a | signal for submission but a stern symbol of the need for soli-_ darity and action. ; | We do not surrender Sacco and Vanzetti to the Massachu- callous pro-consul of American capitalism. | We say to the Massachusetts murderers that they shall never close the switch which will send the deadly current thru the| bodies of two innocent workers. | Sacco and Vanzetti must be Freed! _ We will show the ruling class of America that Fuller’s death decree has united the whole labor movement into one compact army with no other purpose now but to. strike the shackles from Sacco and Vanzetti! | We will show to the rulers that we know that Sacéo and Vanzetti are chosen for the first victims in the onslaught on the whole labor movement which now impends and which is a pre- liminary to imperialist war. We say that this blow shall not fall. In every industrial center, from now until August 10, there must be continual mass protest—strikes, demonstrations, mass meetings. The Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, now meeting in convention in Fall River, should take the lead in calling for ietion. It should call upon President Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor to recommend a nationwide protest strike. | Every mass meeting should make this same demand. | Every organization, unions, fraternal societies, cooperatives, must be brought into the struggle. | The time is short but the issue is clear—the working class | must tear Sacco and Vanzetti from the hands of their class ene- mies, It can be done. To fail is to confess that American labor ‘cannot protect its militants. | | | | American imperialism are striking a blow at the whole labor moyement. This blow can be warded off and turned into a mighty of- fensive against |abor’s enemies by the united and ceaseless ef-| tort of the working class. ‘ | Not Defense but Offense is the weapon which labor movement must wield. Sacco ana Vanzetti shall be freed! e- rs © purpose of starting trouble in Ohio; while in reality it pillages the so- coal fields.” ‘called poor or thrifty miners whose Noted Scab-Herder. isavings combined with other toilers | The miners particularly point to the constitute the capital of the Country. | slanders against the union put out by a certain Doctor John H. Meagher, alimagine a man like Meagher who steel company employe. would so wantonly attaek the United Says Sub-district 5: | Mine Workers, the only force that has | “And to top it all, lo and behold, contributed anything whatsoever to-. Ohio operators have crossed the river |wards the stabilization of the Coal, and secured the counsel of one, Doc- Industry, serving in the capacity of | tor John H. Meagher, professional industrial stabilizer, promoting peace | |strike breaker and open shop advo- and prosperity to any industry.” cate, who is head of the Industrial | Cost of War. Relations Association of the Wheel-, Trouble is already being caused by ing District, which is financed by the assaults of company gtin-men on steel interests. On April 2nd Meag- striking miners, and the latter's at- | her seooped down into the mire of |tempts to defend themselves, Some- | slander and abuse and issued a state- thing of the cost of this warfare to, ment. In part his statement read: |operators who refuse to pay their! Incoherent Lying. ‘Onion miners a living wage are sum- “‘Past history shows the United marized by the officials of Sub-dit | \Mine Workers of America to be thé trict 5 as follows: | ‘following: “Pittsburgh Coal from August 1925 “*N Maffia of shotguns, daggers Governor Fuller makes no reply except to say that two in-|, the full weight of im- ~ setts executioners. 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