The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1927, Page 4

* “ahd, belittle everyone connected with the defense. Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, fW YORK, FRIDAY, A Ui UST 5, 1927 * THE DAILY WORKER Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sanday 6S First Street, Now York, N. Y. Cable Addrezs SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New. York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 96.50 six months $2.60 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” Address all mail and make out enecks to THE DAILY WORKER, 38 First Street. New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGD/ WILLIAM F, DU BERT MILLER at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of Merch 3, 1879. Entered as second-class Advertising rates on applicaciom Fuller’s Prejudiced Decision The same cynicism, the brutality and prejudice that have characterized the whole procedure of the state of Massachusetts in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti since its very inception, was glaringly set forth in the decision of Governor Alvan T. Fuller, multi-millionaire owner of the b Packard Motor Car Company of Boston. Its flippant and careless tone confirms our conviction that the hearings conducted by the governor and by his com- mittee of three who are characterized in his decision as “men whose reputation for intelligence, open-mindedness, intellectual honesty and it were above reproach,” were farcical in the extren te of the men had been decided before the investigation arted and that the “hearings” were staged solely | for the purpose of trying to conceal the crime contemplated by the state. ree The utter dishonesty of Fuller, his fear of a real investigation is indicated by the very calibre of the creatures he appointed on his committee. President Abbot Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University heads one of the most poisonous institutions of so- called higher rning in the whole world, maintained for the exclusive purpose of teaching the sons of the predatory capital- ists how best to fleece the workers. Harvard is supported by such | imperialist monsters as J. P. Morgan & Co., and is called a ‘“‘bul- wark of conservatism.” Judge Robert Grant and President Sam- uel W. Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had both expressed views hostile to Sacco and Vanzetti before their appointments on the committee, and both of them are servile agents of the labor-hating mill owners, that mass of foul pollution that calls itself the Back Bay aristocracy of Boston. So fearful was Fuller that the known facts regarding the| vindictive attitude of- Judge Thayer, the vicious disregard of the} prosecution for the so-called rights of the accused, the ignorance if not the corruption of the jury, the refusal to admit newly dis-| covered evidence as a basis for a new trial, would force official recognition, that he selected men whom he knew to be eenmies | of Sacco and Vanzetti, and who would sink low enough to become! parties to the last murderous act in the conspiracy: If Fuller had been impelled by even the slightest degree of honesty he would have appointed at least one labor representa- tive on the committee and given the greatest possible. publicity whole thing was veiled in secrecy. Witnesses for the defense were so intimidated and generally browbeaten that they were on the verge of collapse as they left the room where the eminences | of educational and judicial Massachusetts were conducting their stage-play designed to whitewash the would-be murderers. Instead of an honest investigation, one that avould endeavor to ascertain the facts in the case, the Fuller decision reveals the most loathsome efforts to conceal the facts. For instance, Fuller sneers at the claim of the defense, that the reason the men re- fused to tell the police, who arrested them a month after the erime for which they finally charged was committed, the truth about their movements at the time of their arrest was because they wanted to shield their radical friends from arrest. He seems to see something particularly criminal in the fact that they were about to start out at ten o'clock at night to dis-| tribute radical literature. labor movement knows it_is not at all uncommon to do this sort of work, not merely at ten o'clock, but at twelve midnight, at} two or four o’clock in the morning and at all other so-called un-| reasonable hours when the smug bourgeois exploiters of labor | are peacefully sleeping and dreaming of greater profits to be wrung out of labor, or revelling in cabarets with their kept ladies. * * * Fuller also says he found that the “jurors were thoroly hon- est men.” No reason for this belief is given. I presume the fact that they brought in verdicts of guilty against two radical work-| men is sufficient to prove their honesty in Fuller’s eyes. Fuller | also proclaims his belief in the words of the witnesses for the prosecution. This is only another way of stating his belief that the alibi witnesses for the defense were, without exception, liars. | — The fact that they were working men and women would tend to strengthen that view on the part of the labor-hating buzzard | who is governor of the state of Massachusetts. | The Fuller decision is a class document designed to vindicate the perjurers who testified for the open-shoppers of the state Its sins of ommission are as glaring as its sins of commission. Fuller does not even mention the role of the agents of the United | States Department of Justice. He entirely overlooks the fact | that Vanzett wias in New York trying to protect his fellow-work- er, Salsedo, from the foul clutches of A. Mitchell Palmer’s gun- men and gangsters and that he knew the circumstances surround- ing the manner in which Salsedo met his death at the hands of the department of justice on May 3, 1920, when his body was found crushed almost beyond recognition on Park Row from whence it had fallen from the fourteenth story of a building in which the government maintained secret torture chambers. This "incentive on the part of the government to discredit Vanzetti is} entirely ignored by Fuller. But this decision of Fuller should not stand as the final de- cision. It is still possible for effective action on the part of the workers of this and other countries. Too long have the workers depended upon the impartiality of the capitalist eourts and judges, institutions of capitalist class dictatorship, which exist only to ~ impose by force the will of a minority of the population upon the uast majority. Instead of workers standing before the courts of the Fullers and Thayers the time will come when the Fullers and Thayers and other enemies of the working class will stand before the revolutionary tribunals of the workers. Fuller’s decision should do much to dispel any faith intelligent workers may have in the courts and government of capitalism and help immensely to generate that concentration of power that will sweep these institutions into the scrap heap of history. | si The Convention Preparations | To all District Organizers: { EAR >Comrades:—The Committee | for the Preparation of the Party| Convention has unanimously agreed to the following decisions regarding the Party discussion in the press and) the holding of general Party member- | ship meetings. ‘ | 1. Rules Regarding Party Discussion. 1. The discussion in The DAILY WORKER and the Party press shall begin immediately and continue till! August 3lst, the day of the opening of the Convention, unless» mutually agreed upon in the Committee for the | Preparation of the Convention to close earlier. 2. All articles submitted for print- | ing in the Party discussion column shall be subject to the approval of the Committee for the Preparation of the Party Convention. The deputy chair- men of the Committee for the Prep- aration of the Convention shall serve as editors for the Party Discussion. 3. The DAILY WORKER and all daily Party organs in the various languages shall set aside sufficient space in the section for Party news the majority of the Polcom, three for the Opposition, seven minutes for each speaker and the speakers of each side alternating. (f.) Changes in the arrangement of speakers or theabove specified time alloted to speakers from the floor} can be arrived at only by unanimous | agreement in the membership meet- ing arrangement committees. (g.) Rebuttal by representative of Opposition:,15 minutes, (h.) Poleom majority. | (i) Voting pro and con on the Poleom Resolution. (j.)_ Voting, pro and con on the | Opposition. Resolution. 4. Participation and voting at the membership meetings in the ten prin- cipal cities above mentioned shall be limited to members in good standing of the respective city organizations with the exception of the case of New | York, in which meeting any good standing member of the district or- ganization shall be entitled to partici- pate in the meeting arid vote. 5. ‘| rules of procedure and organization | Monday--“‘Abie” Breaks | spective cities where these member-| clone” at the Hollis Street. Closing by reptesentative of | The mass membership meetings | 7. All membership meetings shall | be concluded not later than the night Opens of the 7th, and as far as practical the | laid down for the ten principal meet- | ings shall also apply in’ the other, World’s Run Record membership meetings. - | 8. Elections in the nuclei shall George M. Cohan will have two new take place at the first regular or) plays opening in Boston on Labor special nucleus meeting following | Day, “The Merry Malones” at the the membership meetings in. the re-| Colonial theatre and “The ae Bek ‘ollow- ship-meetings are held ing a short run “The Merry Malones” 9. Any election in any shop or| Will come from Boston to open the z } ‘ street nucleus which has not been held New Erlanger’s Sheatre in West 44th within these time provisions shall be | Street in this city. | declared invalid, Bot |. 10, In every district there shall be | aay exe | elected a district convention arrange- | ee ae a Shia wre | ments committee in which the ma-| vole Pau) Garand: Smith's play, jority of the District Executive Com- | y- mittee shall have a majority and the H rest} Rees en | old August 28th open. Save/ minority of the District Compfittee | 144 May “foe the Bip Jaribbroe. ae shall have an adequately eo | Starlight Park, where the Joint De-| tive minority. ‘The personnel i © | fense Committee will stage its big minority representation shall be se- benefit | lected by the minority itself. eee Fi | 11. In these district convention | “Speakeasy,” the Edward Knob-| arrangements committees appeals | \ William E. Lawrence has: been: en- | as follows: One thousand words for|in the ten principal cities shall be the Majority of the Poleom and one| held as follows: August 5th—New | thousand words for the Opposition, | York, Chicago; August 6th— Pitts- 4. The two editors of the Party burgh, Detroit, Philadelphia, New discussion shall decide upon the ma-| Haven; August 7th—Boston, Puffalo, terial to be published in the Party | Cleveland, and the Twin Cities (Min- language organs which are not dail-| eapolis and St. Paul). ies, 6. may be made from decisions arrived | at. Whether these appeals shall be laid before the\Committee for the preparation of the Party Convention | jor whether any of the disputed ar-| |rangements in the varieus districts | shall be held in abeyance, will depend lock—George Rosener melodrama will | be offered by William B. Friedlander in Asbury Park on Monday night. The cast is headed by Jose Ruben, Anne Shoemaker, Dorothy Hall, Arthur Vinton, Paul Gilfoyle, Marie | Pettes,, John Crone, Beatrice Lee, | Adelaide Rondelle, Ruthelma Stevens | Rules For Membership meetings 1. The District Organizer shall preside at the ten principal member- ship meetings in the following cities: | New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Haven, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Bos- ton, Buffalo, Cleveland, and the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul.) 2. In the organization of the mass membership meetings in the above named cities there shall be selected a special membership meeting: ar- with each side having full power to chose its own personnel. Three mem-| Convention Arrangements Committee, has arranged a General Membership | “Abie” in Central Europe. | bers from each side are recommended | meeting for discussion of the decision of the Communist: International on. PEL ets Fics to constitute the personnel of the Committee. This committee shall take care of all arrangements, ad- mission of members, tellers, ete. The District» Organizers are to serve as chairmen of these arrangement com- mittees. 3. The rules of procedure for the membership meetings are as follows: | Speaker for Majority of the | (a.) Polcom; One hour presentation. (b.) Speaker for Opposition; one hour presentation? (e.) Reading of resolutions. Membership meetings shall be arranged wherever possible by the respective city committees in the | various cities on any one of the three specified dates (August 5th, 6th or | upon the endorsement of the appeal in question by any one of the two deputy chairmen. Fraternally—Jay Lovestone, Wm. |Z. Foster, Deputy Chairmen, -Com- and Kate-Pier Roemer. | Anne Nichols local production of her famous comedy, “Abie’s’ Irish Rose,” will pass the world’s long run ith). These meetings must be. ar- | ranged within this period. mittee for the Preparation of the ¢ record on Monday, when the 2239th Party Convention. performance will be given. This THE PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS rangement committee on parity basis | THE District Executive Committee of the New York (No. 2) District of | to. be called “Abie’s Children,” and | the Workers (Communist) Party, |the Inner Party Situation. Central Opera House. TONIGHT! Convention Arrangements Committee PITTSBURGH MEETING SATURDAY. The Party membership meeting August 6th, 7 P. M., 805 James street, Northside. standing will be admitted. The purpose will be the rention issues. —Signed, SATURDAY NIGHT IN D The Detroit membership meeting It will be held Friday evening, 7 p. m., at the. i . Other meetings called by the National | Daily Worker Builders Representatives of the majority and opposition will speak. County is slowly but surely putting A. Jakira, District Organizer. | breaks the record established by the London production of “Chu Chin | ,; Chow” which ran for 2238-consecutive | | performances, Miss Nichols \ is now | |in France completing her ‘newest! play, a sequel to “Abie’s Irish Rose” under the direction of the National @tanging for the production of | are as follows: Are Active at Oakland, : Calif.; Hold Meetings at Pittsburgh will be held Saturday, | Only members in good) OAKLAND, Calif. — The Daily discussion of the ¢con- Workers Builders Club of Alameda ‘itself on the map in Oakland, Cal. , Tonight a street meeting was held ETROIT, FINNISH HALL. \ é A 3 ‘under the auspices of the Workers will be held Saturday evening at the | (Communist) Party of America and The talented Hungarian artist will play the leading role in “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” which is now being filmed. Little Theatre 44th St., W. f B’ GRAND es at 8:30, way. STREET AND THURSDAY. 2:30 FOLLIES The LADDER All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats $2.20, Cort Theatre, 48 St. BH. ot B'way.+ Matinee Wednesday. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader and the American working class ite staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. ers joiniixg the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail i+ Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. Every radical and revolutionist in the} | (d.) Collection to help defray the | | expenses of the meeting and to en-| SUNDAY NIGHT |able each district to meet the quota | The general membership meeting | which will be assigned to it as its | Hall, 6021 St. Clair avenue, Weinstone. | tion of the ten principal meetings. Admission by membershi (e.) Discussion from’ the floor divi- | good standing and have convention stamp.—Signed, I, Amter, District Or- going on there as well as debates | | ded as follows: ‘Three speakers for ganizer. ‘ b Sunday, August, 7th, at 7:30 P. M. The speaker |!and, Cal., one may always find to the proceedings by holding open hearings. Instead of this-the | ate of expense for the organiza-| for the Poleom will be Jay Lovestone. Finnish Hall, 5969 Fourteenth street—Signed, R. Baker, District Organizer. | come forty copies of The DAILY | AT CLEVELAND. ‘WORKER were sold. | at Cleveland will be held at Gardina| At 10th street and Broadway, Oak- | Speakers for opposition Foster and gathered a group of workers. One| p card only. All members must be in finds all sorts of religious meetings ‘among individual freaks Along come | The New Pacific Another Step in the Drive for Power in ‘the Workers (Communist) Party ispeakers headed by Flemming and \they sweep the religionists and other \freaks out of the limelight * Instead of handing out. religious dope and a lot of ookum they bring! ,to these down trodden workers, who | ‘have very little time to read or listen | Cable the Pacific. tion of the Pacific area by the great powers, will give the American plunderbund an excuse to build. AMeRican imperialism will fight its rivals for the power to rule and rob the workers and peasants of the Far East,—the scene now of a great movement for liberation. American business and American government are part of the same im- By WILLIAM F. DUNNE \ pS oING proof of the deadly seri- | | ousness with which the American | rulingelass is carrying on its drive | for domination of the Pacific area is| contained in a news story in the New| | York Times of August 2nd. The Western Union Telegraph | Company is completing plans for lay- belief held in many quarters that future American trade would expand ‘to lectures, ideas of organization. | These ideas are illustrated with word | | « pictures and examples of workers in! Bis tre East rather than toward | other parts of the world such as’ Rus- | |! pa isia and China. Apis day the new cable will carry, While the speakers talk girls and | \ the message of bloody struggles boys go thru the crowd and sell The waged by American imperialism | DAILY WORKER, hand out litera- against its rivals but before that it!ture, and hold private discussions will carry the news of its onsloughts ‘with strange workers and invite them | Address I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name Occupation Union Affiliation. Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if im other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Il, Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” ‘his Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- Palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus must collect 60 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the Dis- trict office—108 Hast 14th St. Nuclei oztside of the New York | on the new line of communication, ing.a new cable to China and the Far East. We quote from the Times story: “While the Western Union has had the Pacific cable under con- templation for some time, it was said that the recent crisis in Shanghai. might have served to hasten the work of the engineers | on the new project. “At the time when American and European soldiers were landing in China thére were three wire sys- tems available for Governmental and press use between the Far East and London, compared with the single cable system between China and the United States. This dis- crepancy was said to have caused embarrassment to officials at Washington anxious to keep in touch with the Chinese Situation.” Te theory that the American gov- ernment was blissfully content to follow in the wake of British im- perialism in China seems to be de- molished by the above statements whose authenticity is proved by the fact that the Western Union, un- doubtedly in agreement with the state and ‘war departments, is rushing work The announcement of this new ven- ture whose completion will make America entirely independent” of ern ¢ $ upon the workers and peasants whose | | perialist machine which threatens to | drown the revolting masses in their | own blood. As the New York Times | says; referring to the Western Union: | “The decision of the company to in- | vestigate the possibility of entering the Pacific field was based on the interests are in contradiction to those of the imperialist exploiters—unless | the American working class develops | its consciousness, its power and its| will to fight as a class faster than! | American imperialism develops its) | war machinery. \ rrent Events omen | | (Continued from Page One) murder but on the ground that they were radicals. * ‘et * THERE still exists in this country among the workers a belief that | justice is blind and on the level: that there is not one law for the rich and another for the poor. This belief is a valuable aid to the capitalists of Massachusetts in getting away with the trick that was pulled off when the governor appointed his commission, While those representatives of the flower of New Kngland’s bourgeoisie were making a-bluff at investigating the case, the liberals and pacifists connected with the Sacco-Vanzetti defense practically stopped appeal- | ing to mass opinion, and placed all | confidence in the sense of justice of --—_ fh: Te radical elements also insisted | that the workers of all shades of opinion should unite around the slo- to the hall, : f Our militant little worker, Roza R. Paul, taught a Jesus shouter a les- son. He fought a fair fight and went to'a glorious defeat. When the fair Roza was through: with him he knew more about Communism than he thought he did about the Holy Bible. Rattler Strikes. BATH, N. Y., Aug. 3.—Serum was being rushed here from Ithaca today to combat. the venom of an enormous rattlesnake which bit Mrs. Walter Thompson, 50, when she was picking berries in the woods near her home in Cameron. The snake did not rattle a gan: “Save Sacco and Vanzetti” and | warning before biting her hand. District write to The DAILY WORK- ER publishing Co,, 33 East. First Street, New York City, or to” the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, il, 2 Ford Sells Planes. DETROIT, Mich., Aug.'3. (INS). — The aircraft division of the Ford Motor Company has more orders 0g its books than at any time in its his- tory. The largest commercial plane ever built in the United States was deliv-. ered to>the Royal Typewriter Com- pany this morning and immediately took off for New York by way of present a united front to the enemy. | — This policy was sabotaged by the so- | cialists’ who were more concerned with making war on the left wing and on the Communists than fight- ing the capitalists who wanted to put Sacco and Vanzetti to death. There would have been no Sacco-Vanzetti protest movement, but for the radi- cals. The officialdom of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor did nothing | except give lip service to their in- nocence thru resolutions. T he bureaucrats will do nothing now.’ What is to be done and done quickly must be done by the masses. “4. * * * A Small Library ry on Russia- of Every Worker v We offer this set of books on Russia covering | British sources for information comes| *he governor or -and his fellow pup- | immediately after the intense rivalry | Pets: They had a’ naive faith that between Britain and America has pre-|‘h¢ millionaire governor would ex- vented even formal agreement at, 2™ine the case of those two workers Ghaie. | with the same benevolent impartial- i v ney | ity that he would bring to bear on a ges glaleatel for imperialist war | consideration of. the cases of two consist not only in the building of | textile manufacturers convicted of huge navies and the organization of | killing @ labor: leader. armies but also in the adaptation of the industrial enterprises of a nation to imperialist purposes. The ships: and their crews, the en-_ |gineers and scientific experts, the! divers’ and electricians who will lay, connect and put in perfect working order the new cable with a capacity | of 2,500 letters per minute which will | tie the Orient to America, will be | part of the war machinery of Ameri-| can imperialism just as are the more deadly and impressive war vessels which the collapse of the Geneva con- ference and the strugale for domina- j * * gain illusion was not shared by either Sacco or Vanzetti. For a long time the former has expressed his conviction that there was no hope for them from the executive or ju- dicial arms of the capitalist state in Massachusetts. Demonstrations on the part of the workers only, would halt the hangmen. This was the po- | sition of the Communists and the left wing in the labor movement, It was ES bor Defensa the position of the Jaternational eel c has been said time and time again, since our comrade were first framed by the capitalists of Massachusetts | that “Massachusetts is on trial.” This | is the bunk. Massachusetts today, | means those who own the industries | of the state and control it politically. | They are not on trial. They will not | be on trial until the workers secure | political power and turn the indus- | tries over to the masses that created them. Sacco and Vanzetti are in their death cells within a few yards) of the death chair. One week only, stands between them and the date set for their execution. Every ounce of energy in the organized labor | movement must be exerted to free them. And every section of the work- ingclass movement must unite in one last effort to snatch those victims of capitalist injustice from the doom that faces thom, 1 @Ulea MARRIAGE LAWS OF SOVIET RUSSIA —.10 COMMERCIAL HANDBOOK OF THE U. S. S. R. GLIMPSES OF SOVIET RUSSIA . AT MPECIAL PRICE? | "Within the ‘Means } many phases of Russian life at a special price. 4 This is the opportunity to own them—and to pur- zs chase them to give to other workers. . CONSTITUTION—Labor ,Laws—Social Insurance, sete, of Soviet Russia —10 [ By Scott Nearing i —.10, Y EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA ; ‘ By Scott Nearing —50 RUSSIA, WORKERS AND WORKSHOPS IN 1926 / By Wm, &. Foster —.25 bey dotal of $1.30 worth of books for $1.00 Books offered in this column on hand * in limited quantities. All orders cash | * and filled in turm as recelved. tne”