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’ A NEEL AEE IE NAN THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUS Page Three TCentralia Vietims Off (LETTER OF WORKERS. (COMMUNIST) PARTY, DISTRICT’ The Pan-American Federation of Labor as a Tool of Workers Betrayal in Latin America Official Pardon List OLMPIA, Wash. August 3,| | (FP). — Governor Hartley has ex- tended executive paroles~to -thirt: three-persons confined inthe peni- | tentiary and the reformatory. Non | of the Centralia victims: wére ‘on the list. German Ships Carrying Radio Phones Now BERLIN, Aug. 4. — More than twenty German passenger ships have been equipped with radio-telephones for the use of passengers, it was an- nouneed today. Connections may be made anywhere | all progressive-minded people, the Governor of Massachusetts backed by | on the ocean and successful calls have been put through to Germany from Points: off Newfoundland, The rate for tolls is $25 for three minutes. 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CO...) ~ 83 First Street’ New York Secreted >| and Vanzetti. @ i} 2, 10 THE SOCIALIST PARTY ON SACCO AND VANZETTI The Workers (Communist) Party yesterd: issued an invitation to the | | Socialist Party to join with it im common. action on behalf of Sacco and | Vanzetti for a local strike and united demonstration of all sections of the | labor movement on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 9. Tn. its letter the Workers Party. calls upon the Socialist Party to forget | their differences sufficiently to unite in common action on behalf of Sacco The. letter reads: August 4, 1927. | August Claessens, Secretary | Socialist Party of Greater New York, |7 BE. 15th Street, |New York City. Dear Comrades: : Capitalist justice has struck its final blow against Sacco. and. Vanzetti. | With cynical disregard of the world-wide ‘protest of the working class and the rapacious capitalist class has deomed Sacco. and Vanzetti to the electric chair. By taking this action against: Sacco and Vanzetti, despite the over- whelming weight of evidence proving their innocence, the capitalist class | is striking a blow at the entire working class of Ameriea, The* execution |of, Sacco and Vanzetti, if carried out, will be the stanting point of a | sevies of repressive measures throughout the eountry against American labor and particularly against. the millions of foreign-born workers. The | capitalist class will not stop with murdering Sacco and Vanzetti: It will continue ‘its brutality-and violence against any section of the working cl | that struggles for improvement of the conditions of labor and for a vigorous fight against capitalist injustice. |its command in one last effort for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. Through united action in common local and national demonstrations. and strikes, the working class can still free Sacco and Vanzetti. However funda- |mental our differences are, at such a time these differences must not. be | permitted to stand in the way of common: action on behalf of these two | men, | In the interests of these two victims and in the interests of the entire | working class of America, we propose to you that we take steps for the | immediate organization of united demonstrations calling for the immediate | | liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. We coneretely propose the issuance of a joint declaration calling upon all labor organizations of New York City to stop work on the afternoon. of Tuesday, August 9, and to participate in one mighty demonstration calling for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. We feel sure that if such a demonstration of united. action is made, | that it will go a long way to halting the execution of these workers. Quick | and decisive action is necessary. For that reason we request: your imme- diate answer to our proposal. Fraternally yours, (Signed) W. W. WEINSTONE, General Secretary, District SS ——@ History of And Vanzetti Frame-Up. %, sme & May 3, 1920—Nicola Sacco, Shoe- 3,000 Barbers Strike To. Free Sacco, Vanzetti (Continued from Puge One) in part: “The final. verdict has not been rendered; the workingclass na- maker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish tionality and internationally can yet | peddler, arrested while they postacers se ih aa Mgnt of ie capitalist their way to get radical literature. class vengeance, whose only crime was| May 2b, 1920—Vanzetti charged .in that they were radical fighters in the , Brockton Police Court with attempted ranks of labor. |heldup of Paymaster Alfred E. Cox, Wicks commended the barbers: for of Bridgewater Shoe Faetory in 1919. striking and for sending a resolution! July 1, 1920—Vanzetti in framed- to the executive council of the A. F.! up trial at the superior court convic- of L. requesting them to endorse ac- ted of “assault with intent to kill and tion by organized labor. rob” Cox. Demand National Strike. | August 17, 1920—Judge Webster The text of the resolution which biseeae “erga so the ses ae was unanimously passed by the strik- @US ere: SORES - ame «, | zetti to 12 to 15 years in State’s ers and forwarded by telegram to Wil- \prison for Bridgewater holdu liam Green, president of the American 4 iP 9 | September 28, 1920—Sacco and Federation of Labor read as follows: | Vanzetti indicted for South Braintree ‘Brothers: We, members of the | slayings. Journeymen Barbers’ International | Union, Local $13, having declared aly. one-day general strike on August 4, | 1927 protesting against the frame-up declared guilty of first degree murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, feel that the | after the viciously antaie trial. decision of Governor Fuller affirm-) October 1921—Demonstrations of ing the sentence of death to those two | protest against legal murder of the workers is an insuit and a challenge framed-up workers throughout the to the civilzed world and the Amer- world. ican workingclass in particular. | December 24, 1921—Judge Thayer Labor Can Free Them. denies motions for new trial. “We feel that organized labor has May 4, 1922—New trial appeal on not done its best to free those two | ground Lola Andrews, state identify- fellow workers. | ing witness, repudiates indentifica- “In many cases the united action of | tion of Sacco. labor in other countries has saved) . Feb. 15, 1923—Sacco starts hunger members of the workingclass from a, Strike lasting thirty-one days, similar fate. f March | 16, 19283—Sacco examined “We appeal to you as president of , by “alienists” and few days later rail- the American Federation of Labor to eaded to Bridgewater Insane Hos- call a general strike throughout the | Pital. ‘United States and demonstrate the| September 27, 1928—Sacco returned wilt of labor for the freedom of Seeeo 'from Bridgewater to Dedham jail as and Vanzetti.” {iene The resolution was signed by Peter May 31, 1921—Trial of Sacco and anzetti begins, July 14, 1921—Sacco and Vanzetti November 12, 1923—-Arguments on In this critical hour, labor is called upon to employ all the power at| OS O0809089S988S98SO0OSES9S 6008980998 HS9SHSOSHOOSSO8OOOOSOE929O6S ©9O0HS68S98S89S008080880 Midola, secretary of the Sacco-Van- zetti Defense Committee of the bar- bers’ union. “We Must Fight,” Says Tresea. Norman Thomas, a functionary in the socialist party also spoke. Thomas should be set aside as a day of “mourning and fasting.” Carlo Tresea, internationally-known | radical editor, said that “instead of preparing to fast and mourn we must prepare to fight.” Tresca made fiery addresses in both Italian and Eng- lish. The following resolution was unan- imously adopted by the assembled striking barbers: Local 913, assembled in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum on August 4th, taking into consideration the unexpected and affirming the death sentence against Sacco and Vanzetti decide to start to- day the agitation for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. Insult to Labor. “We are confident that the civilized world and the international working- class will respond to the insult and challenge of the Massachusetts capi- talists through its agent, Governor Fuller. “We pledge ourselves to work and support with all our might for the liberation of Saeco and Vanzetti and to keep ourselves ready for another general strike.” Following the reading of the reso- lution the local’s band played “The In- ternationale.” Enthusiasm and mili- tant determination marked the meet- ing thruout. Police Are’ Vicious. — After the meeting the thousands of strikers swelled their ranks with friends and sympathizers and pro- declared that the day of the execution . “We, 3,000 journeymen barbers of: drastic decision of Governcr Fuller’ motions for new trial concluded. | October 1, 1924—Judge Thayer snarling his anti-labor bras, denies all motions for new trial. _ December 1, 1924—Attorney Wil- liam G, Thompson files exceptions to Judge Thayer's denial of new triat. _ April 23, 1925—Vanzetti, after he- ing examined, reported sane. July 31, 1925—Bill of exceptions, consisting of 1,400 pages, filed in State supreme court, * | November 18, 1925—Celestino Ma- ‘deiros, bank cashier slayer, confesses that he was present at South Brain- | tree murder and declares that Sacco and Vanzetti were not there. May 12, 1926—State supreme court overrules exceptions of Sacco and Vanzetti, and sanetions the legal mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti. i October 23, 1926—Following hear- ing of lengthy arguments Judge | Thayer in a viciously biased state- ment denies new trial based on Ma- deiror coufess:on and sixty-three sup- | porting affidavits. May 27- Governor Fuller be- gins his sestigation” of the case. | August 8, 1% Governor Fuller idoems Saeco and Vanzetti to death in |the electric chair. jceeded to march to McCarren Park in Greenpoint. The line of march was ;down Myrtle Ave. to Bushwick, then on’ to Grand. St. over'to South Fourth St, and into the park. At the en- trance to the park they were greeted by 60 uniformed cops who viciously broke up the parade, The names of Fuller and Thayer were hissed thruout all the proceed- ings. arrangements committee con- | sisted of John Tartanella, manager of ‘Local 918; Peter Midolla, recording secretary, of the union; and Samuel Levy, president. By J. NEVAREZ. * Workers Eager To Organize. In Porto Rieo we have the first in- stance in the history of Wall. Street’s. crusade for colonies, where following on the heels of the Yankee military forees: of: conquest, and the military or colonial regimes: imposed upon. the victims of the coming of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy to the assistance of the Walk Street-Washington imper- ialist poliey in its efforts to crush out | |every ounce of resistance manifested | by the conquered colonials, and to! consolidate the imperialist political | regime. Taking advantage of the| growing revolt among: the island’s 1a- | boring masses from the oppressive! semi-feudal conditions remaining af- | ter the Spanish: regime, and which | are, under the new Yankee regime} becoming more unbearable, due to the | intreduction of semi-feudalism, and} modern methods of intensified indus-| trial exploitation, the Gompers out- | fit, with promises of salvation, suc- ceeded in betraying the feelings of | reyolt among the Porto Rican work-} ers, into channels suiting the aims o: \the Washington colonial policy. Hav-| jing corrupted, with their bourgeois democratic’ phraseology, and won over the leader of the Porto Rican| labor movement, (Santiago Iglesias), | the workers were encouraged to or-| ganize into the A. F. of L.-directed | Federacion Libre, by the promise of} leadership in their struggles to Sweep | jaway semi-feudal discriminations, and to gain better conditions from’ their new Yankee capitalist exploit- | ers. The workers of Porto Rico, from the hardi-craftsmen in the cigar fac- tories to the unskilled laborers on the sugar and tobacco plantations, took advantage of the opportunities of- fered them for organization, and joined the ranks of the Federacion | Libre till it numbered more’ than 80,- |000 strong, and at the beginning of | the war years, beginning in 1915, the entire working class of Porto Rico,| under the lead of these 80,000 organ-| ized, beeame involved in a long series of strikes, extending into the. year| 1920. Workers Raised Red Flag. | The workers of Porto -Rico fought their exploiters heroically. They demonstrated great militancy, even to the extent of raising the red flag on the sugar plantations, as at Fa- jardi San Juan, Bayamon, etc. But the Iglesias leadership, devoted to the strike-breaking methods of the Gom- pers outfit, did not give the strike movement the militant leadership it needed. It did not voice the anti- imperialist character of the strike movement, and thus permitted the heroic efforts of the Porto Rican prolatariat to’ be crushed in blood by the strike-breaking insular police, judges, scabs and jailors. They cul- minated in the tragic defeat of the tobacco workers’ strike in 1920, in which the most militant and class- conscious forces were crushed. Today the Federacion Libre counts at the very most not more than 4,000 members; the workers of Porto Rico are completely disorganized and at the merey of the exploiters. The Ig- lesias bureaucracy sit comfortably in heir ‘swivel chairs, in the offic , the Federacion Libre, holding down their jobs with an air of security. So long as they are loyal to the exeeu- tive council their salaries are seeure. They need not worry if the Federa- cion Libre has a small membership, or about the will of the rank and file. They hold their jobs from above, from the executive council in Wash- ington. Militancy Revives. In recent months, we witnessed in Porto Rico a revival of the militant labor movement among the cigar ‘makers of the labor-hating American Porto Rican Tobacco Co. Due to un- bearable open shop conditions im- posed upon them, these workers, rank and file members of the cigar- makers’ union, forced a strike which lasted more than six months, and was settled favorably: for the workers. Thanks to their stubbornness in hold- ing out the strike, they forced sup- port from the bureaucracy, I say forced because on his return last March to Porto Rico, Iglesias ex- pressed himself as not being in favor of the strike method in that situa- tion. This outburst of ‘Iglesias’ was reported to the writer; with tears in his eyes, by the old working class fighter, Comrade Eduardo Conde, the | only leader who has remained loyal to the Porto Rican workers, who fights against the Iglesias traitors and is brutally mistreated by Iglesias and his underling, Rafael Alonso. In addition to the capture of the trade union movement and placing it in control of American imperialism, Iglesias proceeded with the organ- ization of the Socialist Party in op- position to the liberal bourgeois, anti- American political parties. This party, even tho it was affiliated with the American socialist party, was sponsored by Gompers and Co. Us- ing militant and even revolutionary phrases, this socialist party won to its support the great masses of the Porto Rican workers and agricultural led and betrayed the masses of Porto Rico into the net of American im- perialist domination, A. F. of L. Backed Yellow Socialists. While the A. F. of L, disdained the from the program of the socialist party of Porto Rico will explain: “The Socialist Party of Porto Rico declares that the continued influence of the people of the United States upon the destinies of the people of Porto Rico has been, ar S e - izing one. That the extension of the constitution of the United States of America to Porto Rico repres positive guarantee of the public and political liberties, of favoring and protecting the rights of the individu- al, and therefore we favor the per- manent and inseparable union of the people of Porto Rico with the people of the United States.” Here we have a ialis which Sam Gompers and Woll could be proud of membership. Socialists U. S. Lackeys. The following recent incident in the Porto. Rican senate chamber is. quite characteristic of an official, the Sec- retary of the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor, and can well indict the Pan A. F. of L. in its, atttitude to- ward American imperialist aggres- sion, It was during the session of the Porto, Rican senate: held March 22-27. The Senate President and leader of the bourgeois Unionist Party, in out- lining his intended! discourse between the visiting Secretary of War Davis at the official banquet, suggested that he intended. in addition to laying bare the problems. of Porto Rico, to con- demn the Latin American policies of the United States initiated by Roose- velt with the rape of Colombia, and pursued at present in relation to Nicaragua, Trembled for Their Jobs. Our Secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, the honorable Santiago Iglesias, hastily intervened and warned Barcelo: “You would assume a serious re- sponsibility in confronting the secre- tary of war regarding the policies which his government may pursue in its relations with Mexico and Nica- ragua. You should confine yourself exclusively to the problems concern- ing Porto Rico and not. meddle in in- ternational affairs. Such an act would be interpreted badly by those in whose hands the fate of our. aspi- rations lie.” Which means the fate of their political ambitions, whose Island and which would give either of these politicians the opportunity to become governor. Barcelo with much humility bowed before the “labor” senator Iglesias, adding “True, very true, as: colonials it is not. our right to vent our feel- ings and sentiments. I will confine myself as Senator Iglesias sug- gested.” In its every act then the Socialist Party is demonstrating that it is the tool and standard-bearer of Ameri- can imperialist rule in Porto Rico. The relative ease and completeness with which the labor branch of Amer- jean imperialism has succeeded in ob- structing the development of a labor movement expressive of the real in- terests of the workers, and bringing it under control in Porto Rico, has ereated a desire in the American la- to the labor movements in the other Latin American countries. First sub- jugated by the military forces of the United States this becomes an easy matter. The instrument created for this purpose is the so-called Pan- American Federation of Labor or- ganized in 1918. ¢ And that the Pan A. F. of L. with the temporarily conquered labor movement of Porto Rico as its cor- further development can be realized | with the granting of political auton-| omy (but not independence) to the| bor bureucracy to extend its conquest | Communist International. Then fol- lowed the Machado reign of terror against the Cuban labor movement. nder the secret guidance of the am- bassador, of the American Sugar Trust, General Crowder, he ins a syste: ic and most ruthless aign of terror, to break the: militant spirit of labor in Cuba, Labor lead- ers like Enriqua ona, Thomas Grant and 200 outstanding milit were sinated. The prisons v filled and thousands forced to le the Island. The Communist P: was dealt a severe blow 2 underground, And in this tragic moment in the labor movement of Cuba, with the il of Cuk fc rs’ blood, th the “Accien Soeiali: spokesman for the Pan. eration of Labor, whose editor administrator, Juark gate to the Arevalo, convention held ington, makes this stateme gratification in an editorial of J re distinct roads th. bor the road, toward the Communist movement may Th In |ternational which guides the Com munist Parties and the Red T: Unions. And then if the labor m ment dots not turn toward Rus |has the alternative of Amsterdam, Zurich or Washington.” Cuban Fakers Fayor PAFL After pointing out the indecision in |the labor movement as.to which road |to take, it goes on to say: “Tt (the Cuban delegation to the Pan A. F. of L.) goes to signify the |road: which our labor movement trav- jels is already determined: (wilh the {aid of the Machado-Crowder terror |J. N.). In the near future, the con- |fusion (read militancy J. N.) which jdisturbed our labor movement, will |disappear forever. “Tt is true that there are yet some labor organizations that are not in agreement with the tendencies of the Pan-American Federation of Labor. But, we assert, if the labor move- |ment of Cuba wants to progress, if it does not wish to remain inactive, or in the chaotic state in which it} found itself for some years, it will be |necessery to incorporate itself with |the tendencies of the Pan-American Federation fo Labor.” it ‘Robert Minor to Speak | ‘At Cleveland Picnic on) Aug. 7; New Vass Farm Cleveland District, International L; bor Defense, will hold its annual ow ing and picnie on Sunday, August 7th at the New Vass Farm, stop 24% | Kinsman Rd. | Arrangements are being made by | the committee which is drawing up a} program of entertainment and sports | | which is sure to interest everyone, and! | also in which everyone present will be | | able to participate. | | An analysis of the decision in the | jease of Sacco and Vanzetti will be jmade by a nationally known cartoon- |ist and newspaper writer, Bob Minor, | who has spent the. past eight. months lin Soviet Russia and other parts of Europe. Comrade Minor will tell us jof the International Protest Move- |ment for Saeco and Vanzetti that has } swept Evrope. | Dancing from 3 to 7 o’clock. Speak- |ing at 2 p.m. To reach pienie ground }take Kinsman Rd. car to end of line. | There take'I. L. D. bus which goes | | directly to grounds. t | Come early. There will be plenty | of refreshments cls eats. ner stone, and the tested Porto Rican, flunkey as its Spanish secretary, is| laborers, but by its policies only wh j on the road to betray the labor move- ment in other conquered countries, may be demonstrated by the existing situation in Cuba. Cuban Workers Betrayed by Socialists. In Cuba prior to the reign of the tyrant Machado, we had a labor movement that strode rapidly toward militancy. The workers organized in the tobaeco industry were the back- bone of this militant anti-imperialist labor movement, and with the sup- port of the masses of “Colonos,” gave birth to a Communist Party orientat- ing towards the leadership of the Adjourn Theater Meet. |Without Planning For Central Ticket Bureau) | The, absence of Lee Shubert led to | the adjournment of a meeting of | representatives from New York the-| atres without agreement on a plan} for a central ticket agency. Among those who attended the! meeting were Arthur Hopkins, Sam | Harris, Arthur Hammerstein, Joe Le-| bang and Thomas Broadhurst. The} chief interests not represented were | those of Florenz Ziegfield, Charles; Dillingham and George White. Truth bow Soviet Russia seribe! 25 Cents a ‘Copy $2.00 a Year it, at the re bry msored the soclalist ‘y in lony of Porto Rico, whet The following excerpt socialist party in the United States || Next Number Out July 25th. It will be a combination of July-August issues. 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