The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, World-Wide (Continued from Page One) derer and has barred Aldino Felicani, Defense Committee treasurer, from death house. Felicani had taken out the Sacco, Vanzetti messages, out of which the | warden says he had censored the lines describing Fuller as a murderer. The lines reappeared in the printed state- ments. Tomorrow Attorney Arthur D. Hill will file a new trial motion at Ded- ham and will ask the superior court in Boston for a writ staying the exe- eution of the framed workers. * * * MOSCOW, Ang. 5.—Protests from Strike Wave For Sacco and Vanzetti STRIKE No leprous corpse in ministerial gown, No microcosmic tsar with lust for power Nor hate, nor wealth shall strike these workers down Comrades, ours is the might; brothers,*ours is the power Comrades, millions of throats Millions of marching feet, Millions of mighty arms Can save them. In us resides the strength to loose their bars, |is to burn out their lives in six days | they NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1927 their comrades over the world. “We are not surprised by this news be- | cause we know the capitalist class is hard without any mercy to the good soldiers of the revolution,” says Sac- co the shoe worker and strike leader. | “It is up {0 you now brothers, com- | rades, yott.are the only ones that can save us.” Sitting in their death cells only a few feet from the electric chair that scribbléd their messages out on one sheet of paper in longhand and gave it to their tried defenders Al- dino Felicani and Gardner Jackson ot the defense committee they were per- mitted perhaps the last visit from Charlestown Prison Where Death Chair Stands and Sacco and Vanzetti Are Held In us resides the might, in us the power To give them life and strength to strike the tsars. workers’ and peasants’ organizations | thruout the Soviet Union began to} any but lawyers and relatives. Van- zetti the fisherman says: “Governor pour in today when the news spread that Governor Fuller had decided to murder Sacco and Vanzetti. Moscow’s leading morning newspa- | pers editorially denounce the ap- proaching execution, and the Izvestia calls it “one of the most hideous crimes of class j av? “Nothing helps—neither proofs of innocence nor confession of the actual murder, nor the protests of the most prominent American jurists,” it adds. “There are five days remaining. These days must be devoted to gran- diose agitation, which should prevent the commission of this unheard of crime.” * * * Plan Legal Battle. Probable legal procedure in the last | thruout the civilized world. court skirmish to save Nicola Sacco | from the | and Bartolomeo Vanzetti electric chair was outlined this after- noon by M. A. Mushwanno, a young Pittsburgh attorney, who has. been as sisting the defense. The legal moves he said would probably be im this or- der: 1, A request of the superior court for a new trial on the ground of new evidence discovered during the review by Governor Alvan T. Fuller, evidence that has never been before a court. 2. A request for another guberna- torial respite, pending a decision by the court. 3. Application to the federal district court for a writ, taking Sacco and| Vanzetti out of the jurisdiction of | Massachusetts courts, or upon failure | ‘to secure a habeas corpus writ to file | a writ for a new trial. 4, An appeal to the United States Supreme Court on _ constitutional grounds if final action in the state courts fail. “Legal” Chances Slim. | While legal conferences were in| full swing, the possibility loomed that all court avenues looking to a stay of execution has been closed. ‘In_the meantime, the police guard at state’s prison was doubled. Warden William Hendry denied reports that | he had received several, threats of death and violence to the institution. Vanzetti spends much of his time, according to prison officials, in pac- ing his prison cell. Sacco, growing weaker each day, keeps to his cot. From separate cells in the death house, the framed-up workers talk to each other, although they cannot see each other. . . * Ask Coolidge Intercession. BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 5. — De- .claring that Nicola Sacco and Bartol- omeo Vanzetti are innocent and that their execution in Boston would be regarded here as “judicial murder,” the Sacco-Vanzetti emergen:y com- mittee of Bufalo telegrap >resi- dent Coolidge today askirg 2-n to intercede. “Behalf thousands Buffalo believe | Sacco, Vanzetti innocent respectfully urge you intercede prevent what we | would regard as judicial murder,” the telegram read. RS Tampa Cigarmakers Strike. TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 5. — Approxi- mately 15,000 cigar factory workers returned to work here this morning after walking out on a general strike yesterday in protest against Governor Fulfer’s decision to murder Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. * * * London Protest. LONDON, Aug. 5.—A huge demon- stration to protest against the legal murder of and to demand the libera- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti will be held at Trafalgar Square on Sunday, Aug. 7. An appeal to the masses to dem- onstrate everywhere against the slay- ing of the two prisoners was circu- lated here by the International Class War Prisoners’ Aid in the form of a petition bearing the names of Prof. Albert Einstein, Bernard Shaw, M. G. Wells and many. prominent members of parliament and the church. Precautions are being taken to guard the American embassy and con- sulates as feeling against the United GET ONE NOW 14-Karat Gold Emblem Q (Actual Size and Design) SCREW-CAP TYPE $1.25 Sent by Insured Mail for $1.50 On Receipt of Money by Jimmie Higgins Book Shop 106 University Place New York City In Lots of 6 or more $1.25 each. No Charge for Post jAlvan T. Fuller is a murderer as Thayer. Katzmann the state perjur- er and all the others. He shakes hands | with me like a brother, makes me be- Comrades, this is the time; brothers, this it the hour. | Comrades, millions of throats Pave Millions of marching feet, lieve he was honestly intentioned and Millions of mighty arms that his killing of the three carbarn Can save them. boys was not so as to have no pre- —JOHN RAMBURG. cedent to save us. Now ignoring and ete ——— —— —|denying all the proofs of our inno- | States mounts as a result of the Sacco {years has kept Sacco and Vanzettti| cence he insults us and murders us. and Vanzetti sentence. | suspended between life and death, but| We are innocent. This is the war of “Greatest Crime.” |the most artful form of cruelty.” plutocracy against liberty, against the The International Class War Pris- | > be * people. We die for anarchy. Long |}oners’ Aid characterized the crime as I. W. W. Meeting Declares For life to anarchy.” |the greatest in the annals of history | General Strike. Signed, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Au- and as the complete disclosure of} WALSENBURG, Colo, Aug. 5.—| gust 4th, 1927. Charlestown State | American class justice. This crime, | Branch 220, I. W. W. at a mass meet-| Prison, they said, will bring an ineffaceable | ing here elected a committee of action Capitalism Without Mercy. stain of the honor of the United States|t0 make preparations for joining] sacco wrote: “In the death cell we Workers who re-| aye just informed from the defense a general strike ene ey te oa ve the death committee that Governor Fuller has Vanzetti’s Sister Sails. Wrecting leche y, 2nd Vanzetti,” the) decided to kill us August the tenth. MestIng Ceciared.. |We are not surprised by this new: because we know the capitalist clas: BOULOGNE, France, Aug. re < E ; | Luigia Vanzetti, sister of Bartolomeo Wouen Warkecs Seaiopeteek: pecagier te Se ome Ae good soldiers of the revolution. We Vanzetti, who was recently deported | rn ns having been refused permission to | hae eae a has rere eae ares Cen oF |are proud of death and fall as all the Sacco and Vanzettti| 29@rchists fall, it is up to you now, jleave France by the Boulogne au-| the | thorities has now been granted leave. | we Oe She will embark Saturday for Boston | as GF na 5 brother comrades. As I have told you | in order to be with her brother during | Ran Ge oes Safia, yesterday that you are the only ones | What may be his last aye: i PSHE ea res than can save us because we have i ‘ : never had faith in the governor. For Sacco, Vanzetti Messages. we -have always known that Gover- By ART SHIELDS. nor Fuller, Thayer and Katzmann are mass str 3 e Soldiers of the revolution undaunt- | the murderers. | against the killing of Sacco and Van-| oq gacco and Vanzetti send stirring | “With warm fraternal greetings to | Zetti will be here Saturday under the| messages from their death cells to | all.” Signed Nicola Sacco. jauspices of organized labor. Work-} __ if it: ers and sympathizers will rally on the | | square in front of the court house. Representative Victor L. Berger characterized governor Fuller’s de- * * * Milwaukee Labor to Hold Protest | MILWAUK Wis., Aug. 5.—A} | demonstration. to protest) ROAR OF PROTEST “Siztt Demonstrations: mitted a crime, he said, “but because | | loyally ranged themselves on the side \they are workers.” * * * Berlin Communists Hold Huge | cision as “as iniquitous as the case 5 | (Conti Saag pity tae rs | ‘ontinued from Page One) | SE Bisa Dieyrusy | eae siidiVene 6 R F "7 TS FULLER § | mand of millions of workers who have zetti will not die because they com-/| | | |of Saceo and Vanzetti because they | SNARL FOR DEATH |are convinced of their innocence. | Banner Bearers of Workers. | | | Insert is a photo of Wm, Hendry, | but his job. the last preparations to kill the two innocent workers. Police are two of a special guard ordered to surround the prison and make sure that big business gets its victims. warden of prison, who is supervising He cares for nothing MASSACHUSETTS ‘letariat to release Sacco and Vanzetti | oe Meeting. | | | BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 5.—Thou-| |sands of workers thronged the Lust- garten facing the former Emperor’s| palace today, in . | Darrow Assails Fuller Affirmation; ‘Madness’ a monster mass | | demonstration held under the auspices | The: wave of dnotent cabatnee ane of the German Communist Party. | ‘ato} ag hunuanie ok istic Worn disteib- | MUTderous Fuller decision continues ¥ ae _|unabated. Persons prominent in all | uted calling upon the American pro lalka oRliseand oe saccine BRaien af c iri | political opinion have expressed horror | | The whole German people is | affirmation of the death sentence of | aroused over the crime about to be | the two condemned workers: | committed in Massachusetts. Even| CLARENCE DARROW, world fa-| such capitalist papers as the Berliner| mous lawyer, “No alien, radical or) Tageblatt calling the decision “not|Communist could get a fair trial in| | only barbarous but unwise,” while|this country at the time these men | |the reactionary Voissische Zeitung | were tried. As a matter of public | sees in the case “an act of imhuman-| policy, in view of the fact that so | ity.” many peqple either believe in their | jinnoncence—or doubt their guilt—it | Lansbury Appeals For Mercy | would be madness to execute these * * * “Sacco and Vanzetti are the banner | bearers of the working class, and this action is the possible prelude, if the legal murder is cagried out, to a new| persecution drive against the workers of the United States, and against the radicals especially. PROBE OF BOARD “Interrlational Labor Defense has| ot persistently pointed out the class is-| sue involved in the whole case, and| Organ of State Reflects | that the sole hope of Sacco and Van-| View of Bosses zetti lay in a huge class movement} for their vindication and freedom. The FAL aN latest events in’ the case have fully pith fhe Gnd oe confirmed this Position, and have| -ommittee on resolutions at yesterday conclusively proved the bankruptcy | hich * ‘ Sora PT ea (¢,:,| morning’s sessions the convention of of relying upon the ‘justice’ or fair! the Mass. State Federation of Labor lay’-and the ‘liberal intentions’ of] almost unanimous! went on record the rulers of Massachusetts. lf bill di i ‘ ee is Stay Murderers’ Hand for a ill lemanding a full inquiry | ee : : 7 into the operations of the state board | We have a big task before us—| of labor and industries. Objections to the task of reviving on a colossal scale | the resolution were raised by Gately LONDON, Aug. 5.—George Lans- | workers. I think it is a great injus bury, member of parliament and vice-| tice for Massachusetts to take th chairman of the National Labor /|lives “of these men. The state will Party sent the following telegram to/| never recover from it. Men will al- governor Fuller: 2 |ways feel that Sacco and Vanzetti “In the name of humanity I appeal | were executed because they were radi- to you to exercise the greatest of all| cals.” [Sar many ee | POWERS HAPGOOD, miner’s lead- | “Innocent” says Princeton Professor. | °" and nephew of Norman Hapgood, PRINCETON, N. J., Aug. 5— {in a telegram to Governor Fuller, | George McLean Harper, professor of | Evour es to grant anew: Ciel to | English literature ,in Princeton Uni- Bacco and Wansettt aie ene conduct versity, yesterday declared that goy-|/™& of “the mvestiagton’ in. secret, jernor Fuller’s decision will “weaken See Yn AN ines menor of unoee r ae ” the respect for law and produce gen. two innocent eile atl eral discontent,” “His statement fails), HUGH FRAYNE, organizer, Amer- to convince me,” Prof. Harper said, | ic” Federation of Labor, “No com- “that the men are guilty or that they | ment.” had a fair trial. The governor does) BEN GOLD, manager Furriers’ |the 2 policemen who pretended to|freedom has been closed to these | identify a bullet, nor the alleged con-|framed-up labor leaders. They have | spiracy of the state’s .attorney who | been ‘guilty’ of the crime of trying to | is said to have knowingly permitted | organize the unorganized, for this and this false testimony to be made in|for this only have they been con- | court, The men have already en-|demned. Now labor in whose behalf | dured ‘punishment more cruel than| they fought must come to their aid. | death. | The unanimous voice of labor will * * * Uruguayans Prepare to Strike. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. 5, —Preparations are in full swing here for a giant strike against governor Fuller's decision in the Sacco and Vadnzett case, While feeling is in- tense and everything possible is being {done to make the remaining days |count, the Uruguayan government is establishing guards around the Amer- legation and consulate and ind the American commercial and industrial enterprises. | * * Rio De Janiero Protest | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug., 5. |that the Massachusetts legal hierarchy |eannot strangle our two comrades. The furriers will be there.” ROGER. FRANCEZON, organizer jof the I. W. W., “The workers in our unions were horrified when the news |of Governor Fuller’s decision flashed through the world. ‘Through the voice of Fuller, the textile barons of Massa- chusetts have declared relentless war against the workingclass. That class must*now show the world that it can liberate its warriors. The general | strike is the only weapon,” . MARTIN I. LOEB, New York: “It resolution protesting “in the name of | to die than for Massachusetts to bear the City of Rio de Janeiro and Amer-|the shame. I am convinced as are the judicial murder of Sacco and Van-| Vanzetti are innocent.” zetti. United States buildings in Rio ROSE BARON, secretary I. L. D.: are under heavy: gaara. “There is yet time. Only the mighty arm of labor can save these tortured, innocent workers. Down tools on | Tuesday!” Even Fascist Paper, ROME, Italy, Aug., 5—La Tri- buna, official organ of the Fascists commenting editorially on the Sacco and Vanzetti case calls it the’ darkest judicial episode in history and adds, | Sacco. and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! “No, it is not justice which for seven | a movement on a class basis to defend the working class and Sacco and Van- zetti for whom it fights. | . “We do not give up the fight for a moment. We do not admit defeat |for we still have reliance upon the \irresistible power of the organized | working class which can yet be mob- ilized to stay the hand of the Massa- | chusetts executioner. We will fight | to the last moment for life and free- | dom for Sacco and Vanzetti.” | Call to All Units. | An appeal has been sent by Inter- national Labor Defense to all of its units throughout the country and to | the labor press, calling for monster | demonstrations everywhere for Tues- jday, August 9th, the day before the }execution date is set. Labor organ- |not mention the alleged perjury of | Joint Board, “The last legal door of | 12ations are being urged to call short the attitude of the supposedly neutral protest general strikes everywhere and the delegates of the telephone operators in Boston but this opposi- |tion was swept aside when Mary Thompson of the Women’s Trade Union League made the first militant speech of the convention. | The complaint of Delegate Thomp- son was that the resolution was not strong enough. “The state board of labor and industries does not only re- quire an investigation it requires to be cleaned out and cleaned up it re- quired that real representatives of labor investigate conditions. ... At present the state board is a bosses’ organization.” Thompson cited cases where she had represented textile workers on strike |and when she had protested against arbitrators she had been told to keep on that day, and in addition, to send|auiet or leave the hall and that but telegrams of protest to Governor Ful- | for the show of fight put up by the ler and to President Coolidge at|rank and file workers on her deputa- Rapid City, S. D., urging him to in-| tion she would have been ejected from vorveneHge the release of Sacco and! the hall, ansetti. It is time the delegates to this con- Cablegrams have been sent to labor | vention realized that they have The Municipal Council has passed a/| will be easier for Sacco and Vanzetti | | ican culgure and civilization” against | millions of people that Sacco and| mand by means of the general Mh S| defense organizations in France, Ger- jmany, England, Belgium, Russi&, | China and Canada, urging demon- | Strations, especially before American embassies and consulates. It is ex- | pected that within the next few cays | millions of worker§ throughout the | world will be in the streets, demand- | ing justice for the sevan-years-long | persecution and tortue of the two | heroic labor fighters. \Canadian Co-oprratives Show Big New Increase (FP) Aug. 5.—Ad- ditions to cooperative societies. in | Canada last year numbered 353, | bringing the total up to 1155 societies with a membership of 470,000, accord- | ing to a report of the Dominion labor bureau. Included in this group are the pools which handled 180,000,000 bushels of wheat and 30,000,000 bus- hels of grain in 1926, operating | through a central agency, the largest wheat marketing organization in the world. ? MONTREAL, THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AT EVERY MEETING! nothing to hope for except from mem- bers of the working class. “General Sweetzer is a Czar” and cannot give a fair hearing to workers organiza- tions. She further exposed the de- partment’s practice of warning em- ployers béfore sending out inspectors 1o their factories. Williamstown Talkers | “Amazed” at Fuller’s| “Unconvincing” Words WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 5. —Members of the Williamstown Insti- tute of Politics: today characterized Governor Fuller’s decision in the Sac- «o and Vanzetti case as “inhuman, amazing, and weak.” Dr. Pierre Le Paulle, former lec- turer at Harvard and head of the round table on international law, said that he considered the case as work- ing against the aims of justice, and alluded to the treatment of Sacco and Vanzetti as worthy of Orientals. “Chi- nese tortures have never been more ° [Paris Unions to Strike In Sacco and Vanzetti Protest; Rally Sunday PARIS, France, Aug. 5.—“If Sacco and Vanzetti are executed any congress of the American Le- gion in Paris will become abso- lutely impossible,” declared Hu- manite today. The workers are in- furiated and the Unified Labor Federation has called a twenty- four hour strike for Monday, Aug. 8th. | On Sunday afternoon, August) | 7th, the Sacco and Vanzetti Com- mittee of Paris will hold a mass demonstration on the outer boule-| | vards of Paris to which will‘flock | | thousands of workers from the “cordon rouge,” the Red suburbs | which surround Paris on all sides. | | Needle Trae Defense | Announcement of the latest Grand | Affair of the Joint Defense Com- | mittee can now be made. This, will | be a Grand Jamboree at Starlight | Park, all day August 28th. Starlight Park is the Luna,Park of the Bronx. It accomodates 100,000 people and has many amusements with a wonder- fully fine swimming pool for bathing, in addition. Most of these features have been taken over by the Defense for the entire day and evening, com- mencirig at 10 a. m. There will be| music, dancing, vaudeville, fire works, and numerous other features to be announced later. A special produc- tion of the Opera “Carmen” in the) Great Open Air Stadium of the Park will be given. | Pledge Support to Cloakmakers. The Joint Defense and Relief Com- mittee is now carrying on a cam- paign for workers self-defense or- | ganization of 100,000 workers and sympathizers to pledge themselves to pay a small weekly voluntary tax for the support of the fighting cloak- makers and furriers. Every class conscious worker and sympathizer must become a member of this organ- | ization. Only through such a large | mass organization that is ready to| constantly support the fighters will we be able to successfully carry on the fight against Sigman, McGrady, Woll and Company. If you are not a member of the Workers’ Self-De- | fense, join it immediately. Send in| your name and address and also the amount that you pledge yourself to pay weekly. At a meeting of the campers at Unity, all pledged themselves to make weekly donations to the Defense. Every person who stays in the camp for a week pays 1.00 and week-en- ders 50 cents. A committee was elec- ted to carry this into effect Dorothy Dezeter, executive secre- tary, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, declared: “Naturally I am amazed. I was startled that Governor Fuller’s state- crue} than the tortures of these men,” he said, ment was so weak a defense of his action, it was so unconvincing.” Is the development of a mass movement of protest against the execution of Saeco and Vanzetti. The power of labor, united in a gigantic effort to secure their freedom, is the only, power that will save them. In addition to the huge mass meetings and demonstrations which are being held throughout ° the country and throughout the world, it is necessary that a daily agitation be carried on among the workers, it is necessary that they: kept constantly informed of the nefarious efforts of the capitalist hehchmen to murder them, and of the growing force of the movement which is fighting for their freedom. Under these circumstances the drive for Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker takes on a new importance. It is in the interest of Sacco and Vanzetti, that the Daily Worker Army must grow. It is in the interest of the successful fight against the attack of the bosses, we must get Five Thousand New Readers. f i