The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1927, Page 2

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These Offers Are Good Only Until August 31, 1927. COUPON 7-15-27 DAILY WORKER | 33 First Stre | New York, N. Y. | Inclosed herewith you will find dollars for a }months’ subscription $1.50 or with my 20 NEWS- AMArONB cocci cere eeeee teeeeee ee { PONY coccsceereeee tee eeeeesenece Btate -ncceeeeeseas 1 186 LABOR GROUPS CONCERNING THE “BOMB OUTRAGES” SAGCO-VANZETTI | ‘UNITE FOR DRIVE IN QUAKER CITY | Callon A. F of L. Heads to Join in Struggle (Continued from Page One) in protest against the capi- the lives of our achuett for . M The strike drive ined g ; j petus at the enthusiastic gathering } of 500 delega from 186 workers’ | organizations, them trade i at Mac’ Temple, ad- Jd ngdahl, editor ILY WORKER, and Al- bert Weisbord, leader of the recent} Passaic textile strike. Demand A. F. of L. Take Action, Resolutions were unanimously | adopted demanding that the local, state and national organizations of | |the American Federation of Labor} take immediate action in aid of the} strike movement. | These demands were addressed to the heads of the Philadelphia Cen-| tral Labor Union, to James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylva-| nia Federation of Labor, and to Wil- liam Green, president of the Amer-| ican Federation of Labor. The resolutions also asked for a complete United Front between all} forces working for the release of| Sacco and Vanzetti. This was a plea} directed especially to the Sacce-Van- } zetti Committee organized by the lo-/ cal socialis Many Decide on Strike Action. There was no discordant voice in the gathering. Even delegates from trade unions, usually classed as con- servative, argued energetically for | the city-wide strike on Tuesday and} urged that every effort be made to} draw in the unorganized workers as] well. It was declared that special eommittees should be appointed to gi special attention to the unor-| ganized. The delegate of Local No. 104, Bar-| bers’ Union stated that the 2,000 members of his organization ready to strike. He told of the or-| | ganization dr | had been carried on for the last | three months, that had brought 1,800 new members into the union. The Carpenters Will Strike. Delegates from two locals of the | Carpenters’ Union stated that their | members were ready to strike. Sim- ilar reports were made by the dele- gates of the furriers, the upholster- ers and other organizations. This is the Sacco-Vanzetti Com- mittee that held a demonstration and | parade for Sacco and Vanzetti on | July 3, that called out at least 20,000 | workers. They were addressed at that time by James H. Maurer, presi- dent of the State Federation of La- bor, and others speakers, The Offensive Against Labor. Engdahl pointed out that the capi- | talist-planned murder of Sacco and | Vanzetti was but a part of the whole | employing class offensive against the working class in this country, | “If Sacco and Vanzetti are burned | to death in the electric chair in Mas- | sachuetts, then the lives of other | working class leaders are also en- dangered,” said Engdahl. “If the | employers are able to perpetrate this | murder against the working class, | then the vicious attack of capitalism | against labor will grow.” Great enthusiasm greeted Eng- dahl’s declaration that the workers | must use their strike weapon in this | crisis. Weisbord pointed out that the in- terests of the workers in Phialdel- phia were directly involved in the struggle. He showed that if Saeco and Vanzetti can be murdered with impunity, then the open shop war of the employers will grow everywhere. oCveintornu etaoin shrdlu emfwyp b |Library Workers to Get | Increase In Pay Soon id Ss. ny of nists’ Library workers in the service of | the three great library systems of | Greater New York have been succes- ful in forcing Joseph V. McKee, of | the Board, of Esti , that the librarian’s pay be increased. | The recommendations include a uniform plan of service for the three | library systems and increase in sal- ary rates commensurate with the duties of the library worksrs. is expected that the Board of nate will act upon the recom- ndation at one of its next sittings. It $2.50 CLOTH BOUND Tawra DAILY WORKER PUB. CO.} Broun takes up specific weaknesses | as they await instant duty. 38 FIRST ST. t im- were | for his union, that} imate, to recommend | Philadelphia Prepare s for Strike A ction on Tuesday If the subway blasts and other reported “bomb out- rages” with the Fuller decision in the were planted by friends of Fi in various cities of the*country Had any connection Sacco and Vanzetti case, they uller and enemies of the two Italian workers now in the shadow of the electric chair in Charlestown penitentiary. At such times as these, when the intelligent sectiqn of the working class and the overwhelming | majority of the public is audible in denunciation of the mur- | derous decision of Fuller, it is to the interest of the hang- men, of the culprits who engineered the frame-up, and their supporters to try to alienate si upport from the victims. In the first place the radicals do not need to throw bombs in omer to arouse the | that the executioner will not will hurl a bolt of concentra’ | into the tortured bodies of Sac All radicals connected wit tion, have publicly repudiated s fury of the masses—the task is to give intelligent leadership to that mass indignation so dare throw the switch that ted fire—chained lightning— co and Vanzetti. h the defense, without excep- such tactics as sporadic bomb throwing. But one man endeavored publicly to connect the Communists with such measures. That person was Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Cent of New York City. ral Trades and Labor Council This lackey of the capitalist class and enemy of labor who obtains at least part of his livelihood from the workers whom he bet: charge the Communists with such idiotic acts. “IT think the Communists a blasts. I don’t know whether a rays, does not dare to directly He says: re responsible for the subway Communist planted the bombs, of course, but I do know that they have incited such crimes in the mind of some poor ignorant foreigner by their wild state- ments and their calls to action and their soapbox meetings. eye fellows.” I think the federal government is too lenient with thos To be sure Ryan has mighty good reason to hate and’ fear our calls to action because the burden of our agitation as it affects Mr. Ryan and his the membership of the trade and force him and his kind to draw all their pay from the serve. If Ryan knows anything knows that we not only do not we combat it as detrimental cause for which we struggle. I of agents provocateur who in act or a series of acts that g associates has been to arouse unions to their real interests get out of the movement and enemies of labor whom they at all about Communists, he approve individual terror, but to the working class or ‘any ndividual terror is the weapon times of stress commit some ives the enemies of labor an excuse to start an organized reign of terror against the labor movement. For almost eighty years—since the very incep- tion of the. Communist movement—we have steadfastly fought against the use of the “ propaganda of the deed,” and we will always be found fighting against it. Our position is that he who resorts to such m | ethods is either consciously or unconsciously an enemy of the working class. . By attacking the Communists the labor fakers are ob- jectively shielding the real enemies of Sacco and Vanzetti, | eration of these two victims of tee of intellectual hangmen. Not individual terror, not just as their refusal to endorse a general strike for the lib- capitalism places them in the | same pillory with Goyernor Fuller and his advisory commit- a spectacular deed of violence, | but the mass power of the workers of the United States and | the world, will achieve freedom for Sacco and Vanzeiti. To that task the Communists of America and of the world have | dedicated themselves and by that method and that method | alone will we continue the struggle. 'Provocateur’s Bombs | Start Police Action | | (Continued from Page One) jcateur” is how the Sacco-Vanzetti | | Emergency Committee characterizes | |the subway bombings. Rose Baron, | secretary of the committee, says: |“‘Bombs’ are usually found to ex- plode when there is a popular wave | of protest against some particularly | brutal act on the part of capitalism.” Despite Police Commissioner War- ren’s ban on parades and meetings |for the next week, various labor groups are going ahead with plans |for a part time strike for Sacco and Vanzetti and for mass demonstra- | tions. | | Ryan Asks New Trial. \ Joseph Ryan, president of New| York Central Trades and Labor Coun- | cil, has reiterated that he believes the two Italian workers should have a new trial. The central body has not announced participation in the city-wide strikes, which will bring out | hundred of thousands of clothing workers, dock workers, barbers and other labor groups. | N. Y. World Appeals to Fuller. | “The World respectfully petitions | the Governor of Massachusetts to commute the the sentences of Sacco jand Vanzetti to life imprisonment. We ask on the grounds of mercy.” So begins the lead editorial of the New York World, democratics and | mildly liberal. The World states that there is “a very weighty body of in- structed opinion which is not alto- gether convinced that the whole truth about the Braintree crime is yet nown.” If the sentences were com- ; muted, the World points out, “there would «till be a chance te undo the j mistake,” should Sacco and Vanzetti be found innocent. Ts Harvard Hengman’s House? “From now on, I want to know,” | says Heywood Broun at the end of | a column in the New York World pro- | testing Gov, Fuller’s decision against | Sacco and Vanzeeti, “will the insti- |tution of learning in Cambridge which once we called Harvard be | known as Hangman’s House?” . | Broun says it didn’t take much} counage for Fuller to make his deci- | sion, judging by the messages of ap-| proval coming from business men. NEW YORK, N. yY.| of the governor's decision and shows the holes in it. “Reporter at Vanzetti- Sacco’ Trials Describes Events Refuting Fuller | | ‘The DAILY WORKER has 1 | ceived too late for presentation | | today a long interview with John | | Nicholas Beffel, now a member of | the New York World editorial}, | staff, but in 1920-21 a Federated | | Press reporter at the trial of Sacco | and Vanzetti, and a close student of the case then and since. He states now in detail how the actual |facts controvert many parts of | Fuller’s statement. This inter- | view will be published tomorrow. —> Police Smash Crowd On Boston Commons (Continued from Page One) of alibi witnesses for Sacco and Van- zetti, whom Governor Fuller had re- ‘fused to hear, were at the meeting. If Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty, Lewis declared, thy alibi witnesses were perjurors. Police Inspector Crowley pushed his way to the platfgrm and an- nounced that there was to be no men- tion of “perjury or perjurors.” As Arturo Giovanniti arose to address the meeting, the police dispersed it. Just before the meeting, Herbert Goodwin of the police sum- moned Alfred B. Lewis, chairman of the socialist meeting, and suggested that ® would be well for the speak- ers not to refer to Judge Thayer as a “murderer.” ‘ It is the first time in the history of the Boston police department that the riot squad has been mobilized. The men have 15,000 rounds of am- munition, fifty-six shot guns, twelve machine guns and several eighteen- inch bayonets. Back of the riot squad stood the entire police department ready for any emergency and the National Guard awaiting call. Behind these forces are the United States marines expecting to be ordered out. Boston is an armed camp tonight although all appears peaceful on the surface. Two thousand policemen have been cut off from their families Although all these precautions have been taken, for any kind of ter- ra vestigation was nothing but o monster | Captain) STRIKE DECIDED ON AT WATERBURY ‘Workers Plan to Quit Work on Tuesday (Continued from Page One) cided in a great mass meeting here. “What are the workers of Water- bury going té do to stop this out- rage against the working class?” de- |manded George Siskind, the principal speaker. And 500 workers thun- dered: “Strike!” Workers Will Give Their Verdict. “The last verdict has not yet been spoken,” the speaker declared. “That | will be the verdict of the American | workingmen.” And h@&added, “The | workers of America will tear Sacco and Vanzetti out of the hands of |their executioners, for the issue is |not whether these men committed murder but that they were radicals, | draft evaders, slackers, Italians and foreigners.” A Siskind told the eager * audience how the frame-up had been effected during a period of “red” hysteria when the American people were be- |ing fed on lurid stories of the ter- rible fate of this country if the reds ever got control of the government. Plot to Frame Sacco Was Told. He told the story of Salsedo, Sac- co’s friend, who was either thrown out of the top floor of a 14-story building in New York, where he was | being held incommunicado by Mitch- jell Palmer’s red raiders, or jumped jout crazed by the third degree they | had given him. The speaker went on to tell how Sacco came to New York to investi-| |gate that case and how he was| seized by the red hunters and held |on no other charge than that of be- jing a radical. It was then that it was decided to frame him. | Branding the government’s refusal | to produce records now in the de- partment of justice files which sub- stantiate this story, as ‘proof of the frame-up plot, Siskind proceeded to |quote Judge Thayer’s statements | that he was going to get the two | radicals, ° | Labor Will Tie Up the Country, |. “Sacco says that unless labor acts he is lost,” Siskind declared. “We | have the power, We can tie up every | wheel in this country,” he said. “Why jeven Governor Fuller’s chauffeur | wont’ be able to run his car if we jcall a general strike. What are you | workers going to do?” “Strike!” roared the hall. A resolution was then adopted calling all workers to lay down their tools on Tuesday, August 9, at 4 p.| |My to protest against the legal mur- | | der of the two convicted men. A tel- | egram, flaying Fuller’s decision and | the methods of the prosecution and | | the investigating committee, was sent to Governor Fuller. “Your in- |plot against the life of our two| | brothers,” the telegram declares, | | “and we demand their immediate lib-| | erty.” | The meeting, which was held un- | der the auspices of the Workers Par. | ty, was addressed in Italian by N, Napoli, New York editor, and An. |gelo Distefano of the New Haven | Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee. | | rorism tomorrow, for tomorrow ie | courts will hear motions on the fa-)| | mous case that has been in progress | for seven years. Judge Webster Thayer, who recently sentenced Saces |and Vanzetti to the clectric cnair, will leave his summer home in Maine | and go to the court house in Dedham | tomorrow afternoon to pass upon the | eighth motion for a new trial. It is certain that he will repeat his deci-| sion to railroad the workers to the, | electric chair. | New Court Moves. | | Tomorrow morning the warden of | (the state prison, who has the prison- | ers in custody will be in the Supreme | Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought in an effort to get the men out of the death phouse. The defense holds that they | should be returned to their regular prison cells pending the décision for a new trial. The prisoners will not | be in court. It is the general impression here tonight that both court hearings are | preliminaries to getting the case in- to the federal courts. It would be impossible under the law for them to appeal to the federal courts without |sucn a move because the law pro- Vides that a case cannot be taken to | the United States court after it has |been thru the state court three | It has been four months} months, since the men were sentenced, hence it was necessary to go back to the State courts tomorrow with some kind | of motion in order to go to the fed- eral courts the next day. If the defense fails to get the dis- | trict federal court to intervene, the | case will be carried to Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, the plea being that the state courts have violated the Constitution of the United States which provides that every person shall have a fair trial. The contention for seven years has been that Sacco and Vanzetti did not have a fair trial. Sacco and Vanzetti the next ten months, are already be- vention of 1928 as generaly similar to the historic 1920 convention. ‘Police Break Up Sacco Vanzetti Meeting Held | In Binghampton; Arrest | BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 7.! —City police broke up the Sacco | | and Vanzetti meeting here yester-| day afternoon and arrested Her-| {bert Benjamin, the speaker, who | | |was afterwards released on $100| bail after being held on a technical charge, Benjamin will speak at an indoor demonstration Mofiday. The night before Benjamin* had addressed over 500 shoe workers in the neighboring city of Endicott, These workers SOSA: | to participate in the half day pro-| test strike Tuesday forenoon. i TheCASEof SACCO and VANZETTI By Coolidge Political Felix Frankfurter This book by a professor Fortunes End: Who Have Banks Picked?) or, teveese waives | —ereated widespread WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — The} discussion on its appear- practical politicians of the capital, f ance. trying to peer through the haze of | It is brief, popular sum- mary of the thousands of pages of evidence pre- sented in this case. ginning to vision the Republican con- Whether history will repeat itself | as to details and see the favorites out- | distanced and a dark horse nomin- ated, as was the case in 1920, can enly be conjectured, but they point | out that the pre-convention situation is much the same. The three strong men of 1920 were Lowden, Wood and Johnson. Ulti- mately they killed each other off and Warren G. Harding was nominated. The three strong men of 1928 now appear to be Lowden, Hoover and Dawes, with .Charles Evans Hughes constituting a possible fourth with big business finally selecting some less smirched candidate. Meanwhile gentle guffaws pervade the smoking rooms and beauty par- lors of this capital, where political leaders foregather. The cause of mirth is the final, belated explanation of close friends of Cal Coolidge that the word “choose,” so enigmatically intruded into an otherwise plain and simple abdication, was selected thry no sense of New England humor, but was a gently and dignified hint to the world at large that “Our” presi- dent could have won again if he had Wanted to, but just didn’t want to. READ IT NOW! $1.00 Cloth Bound THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First St, New York BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Next Number Out July 25th. It will be a combination of July-August issues. Retail price the same—25 cents. THE BEST EVER. 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