The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1927, Page 1

NSS ——— “Our Only Hope of Life in Comrades Outside”, Say Sacco and Vanzetti BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 8. nesday at midnight for our revolutionary beliefs. But we place our only hope of life in our comrades outside.” warden stopping all written communications, Let labor respond with an irresistible nation-wide strike TODAY! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR Pater | Vol. IV. No. 177. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: “We are unafraid to die Wed- The message was sent by word of mouth, the prison Mntered as sencnd-class matter.at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥. wader the act of Maroh 3, 1879. In Mew York, by mail, $8.00 per year. NEW Y Outside New York, by mail, 9600 per year. t! | ORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER. Published Dally except PUBLISHING CO, 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. EDITION Sunday by THE DAILY WOREER Price 3 Cents Defeat the Murderers of Sacco, Vanzetti by FRED ELLIS | ABOR DOWNS TOOLS AT 10 0°CLOCK START MARCH ON BOSTON TODAY T0 PICKET PRISON Demand, Vanzetti S Following the huge mass demon- strations that will take place thruout the country following a nation-wide | walkout to save Sacco and Vanzetti, thousands of workers will pour into Boston to march before the State House and picket the Charlestown penitentiary containing the death house where Sacco and Vanzetti sit, and the executing chamber where it is planned to put them to death. Hundreds of prominent labor lead- ers, authors, professional men will lead the demonstration. Jane Addams, Upton Sinclair, Hey- wood Broun, Professor Charles A. Beard, Sinclair Lewis, William Z. Foster are some of the people who have been invited by the Sacco .Van- zetti Defence Committee to lead the demonstration. The committee tells the peaceful marchers to come armed with the in- extinguishable faith that, “Sacco and Vanzetti must and shall not die!” Rose Baron, Secretary of the Sac- co-Vanzetti Emergency Committee, 80 East 11th street, in a statement made public late yesterday ennounced that the Sacco-Vanzetti Defence Commit- tee of Boston, which is the central national organization, has wired an “Sacco and Shall Not Die!” AN EVENING AFFAIR i | | appeal to the New York Sacco-Van- | zetti Emergency Committee. The telegrams ask that the New York Committee urge well-known New Yorkers and prominent national fig- ures to attend a peaceful demonstra- tién outside the Charlestown Prison on the night of the execution. The list of names which the Boston Committee urges the New York Com- mittee to get in touch with follows: Jane Addams, Director of Hull House, Upton Sinclair, novelist, Pro- fessor Felix Frankfurter, professor of the Harvard Law School and au- thor of the famous book, “The Case | of Sacco and Vanzetti,” Professor John Dewey of Columbia, Heywood Broun of the New York World, Pro- fessor Charles A. Beard, Oswald Gar- rison Villard, editor of the Nation, Dr. Norman Thomas. The list continues with the names of Arthur Garfield Hays, prominent | attorney, Sinclair Lewis, author of | “Elmer Gantry,” H. L. Mencken, edi- | tor of the American Mercury, | “Mother” Jones, Mines Workers lead- er, Carrie Chapman Catt, Glenn Frank, president of the University of | GOAL MINE KILLS; + ‘like Gold Will Report ‘On Picketing in Boston For the Daily Worker | Mike Gold, of the New Masses, | | writer and poet, has been added to | | the staff of The DAILY WORK- | ER that is covering the Sacco-Van-| | | | zetti case in Boston. He will go! | |with the delegation from the/| | | Union Square meeting today to| |Defense Attorneys Plan BOSTON, Aug. pared late today to carry the ea: F picket the state house and prison| | Sentenced to die in the electric c in Boston, Wednesday and Thurs- | jeral courts. [sey | All efforts to get a stay in *\today. The supreme court denied two petitions. GAS EXPLOSION IN Keach a writ of error calling for he famous case. When these' festiaeabe: had been denied th fens went before Judge Webster Thayer, the trial judge who sentenced the condemned THAYER DENIES MOTION FOR NEW | TRIAL FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI : States Supreme Court 8.—Attorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti pre-| writ of habeas corpus and a stay of execution and the other was FLATT EL ED Los Angeles Tou So: On With Demonstration Though Arrests Multiply LOS ANGELES, August 8. While successfully continuing their efforts to arrange a monster dem- onstration in the Plaza here on | Tuesday at 5 p. m., the leaders in| this work, and especially the Com- munists, have been subjected to ex- treme hindrance and attempts at terrorism by the police. Sidney Bush was arrested last night, and the police are threatening that «ll active Workers Party members will be in jail before the demonstration takes place. The entral Labor Council at its last meeting passed a resolution calling on all workers to attend the demonstration. The present state of affairs started with a raid on the Workers to Carry Fight to United se of the two framed-up workers hair Wednesday night to the fed-| | the state courts were exhausted | One was for a! a review of facts as well as law) One was for a writ of habeas corpus and a stay of execution and the other was for a writ of error for a review | of facts as well as law in the case. | ‘— in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. | WORK MUST 60 ON Wisconsin, Dean Roscoe Pound, | George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic, Waldo Frank, novelist, Franklin P men, with a motion for a new | trial which was refused. The legal proceedings to save the | lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, whose re- | spite ends at midnight August 10th, Party headuarters two days ago, two arrests, and the confiscation of | 500,000 leaflets. Adams (F. P. A.) columnist of the New York World, Judge Ben Lindsey of the Juvenile Court, Denver, Colo- rado, George Kirchway, former war- den at Sing Sing, Frederick C. Howe, Louis F. Post, Floyd Dell, novelist, Sherwood Anderson, novelist, Bruce Bliven, economist for the New Re- public, Walter Lippman, editorial writer of the New York World, Will- iam Hard, political newspaper corres- pondent. Names added Jater in the day were Carl Sandburg, poet, President Wil- liam Green of the American Federa- | tion of Labor, William Z. Foster, head of the Trade Union Educational League. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 8. —} * * * Four miners were burned, one per- | Thayer. Denies Trial. haps fatally, in an explosion of gas in | the Stanton mine of the Lehigh and; DEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 8. — Judge Wilkes-Barre Coal Company here, to- | Webster Thayer, in Norfolk county day. | superior court late today denied a mo- All men in the vein in which the | tion for a new trial for Nicola Sacco blast occurred, were accounted for.|and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. ! Other sections of the mine, where 700| Attorney Hill urged Judge Thayer men are employed, were able to con- jas he sat in the heavily gusrded court |tinue operations. Gas and dust ex- | room to designate some other judge to \plosions never occur in properly in- | hear the motion, His request was | spected mines. based on the fact that Judge Thayer The old custom of ceasing work in|himself was prejudiced against the la mine when a fatal accident occurs | workers because they were radicals. |has been given up, under the leader-| In Boston prior to this hearing, ship of Cappellini and other union re- | Judge George A. Sanderson, in state actionaries, supreme court, had denied. two peti- |Railroad Men Protest Strike In Argentina courts. Mrs. Sacco Near Collapse. “T just ask you to designate some other judge to hear the motion for a revocation of sentence and a new For Sacco, Vanzetti trial.” Attorney Arthur D. Hill said | OG to trial Judge Webster Thayer, lep-| BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 7.—Join- rous-looking czar who sentenced the | two innocent workers to the electric | | ing the World-wide movement for chair. | Sacco and Vanzetti, the railroad Mrs. Sacco, near to collapse, as the | workers here have decided to go on result of her terrible ordeal, listened | gtrike August 10, the date set for as the defense attorney continued. | their executions. The train crews “No matter,” he said, “how’care-| will suspend work for 15 minutes, fully you are trained the result is in- | | while the workers at the shops in- evitable. (Continued on Page Three) ‘hours. | | ” THIS MORNING 10 STAY HAND OF EXECUTIONER IN MASSACHUSETTS Millions to Quit Work Thruout Many of Nation’s Great Industries | eundweda of hekedaas Idle In New York to Demonstrate In Union Square At ten o’clock today millions of workers thruout the country will go out on a nation-wide strike to snatch Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair to which they have been sentenced by the judicial puppets of New England’s industrial autocracy. It is estimated that more than half a million workers in New York City alone will throw down their tools this forenoon in the greatest walk-out the city has ever seen. Millions more thruout the country have already pledged themselves to join the fight to save the two framed-up workers from being railroaded to the electric chair. MUST OVERCOME OFFICIAL INACTION. Despite the attitude of the American Federation of Labor ‘officialdom, which has maintained a cowardly silence, when labor |a strike to save Sacco and Vanzetti, leaders in other countries thruout the worid have joined in urging the rank and file of the American labor movement is responding courageously to the strike call. Refusing to heed the silence of the A. F. of L. officialdom or the clubs of police, which smashed a huge demonstration on the Boston Commons Sunday, the rank and file of American labor in | great numbers has pledged itself to the struggle to save Sacco and Time is short. If your hon- | | tend to abstain from work for 24 Vanzetti. MANY ORGANIZATIONS FOR STRIKE. The solid front presented by American labor in its struggle to free the two framed-up workers is indicated by the natures of the organizations sponsoring the strike. The Workers (Communist) Party, the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the Worid, the several Sacco-Vanzetti De- fense Committees, the International Labor Defense, hundreds of unions with no political affiliations, have all announced their in- tention of joining the monster strike tomorrow to snatch Sacco and Vanzetti from the hands of their capitalist hangmen. AMALGAMATED READY. Sydney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America announced yesterday that he had sent out telegrams order- ing the 140,000 members of that organization in this city, Rochester, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities to suspend work for from thirty minutes to an hour today in sympathy with Sacco and Van- zetti. About 30,000 members of the union are employed in the needle trades in New York City. The strike call was sent out, President Hillman said on a referendum vote of the 200 local unions of the or- ganization. THE SHOE WORKERS STRIKE. The New York District Council of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union has issued the following call to its members: “District Council No. 2, Shoe Workers’ Protective Union calls upon its members to unite with the tens of thousands of other workers in protest against the infamous decision of Governor Fuller on the Sacco and Vanzetti case. “Tuesday, August 9th, at 10 a, m. all shoe workers should walk out from the shops and declare a strike for the immediate liberation of our two innocent fellow workers and come to the Union Square demon- stration, “LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN SOLIDARITY! “Their liberation depends upon the solidarity of the workers! “SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! “LOUIS TRUBOWITZ, “H. LEVINE, THE JEWELRY WORKERS STRIKE. The Executive Board f Local 17 of the International Jewelry Workers’ Union has issued a statement calling upon all members of the jewelry novelty trade to stop work at 10 o'clock today to protest against the legalized murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The statement follows: “To all members of the International Jewelry Workers’ Local 17, and all those who work in the novelty jewelry trade. (Continued on Page Three) President. Secretary.” Union, re SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! ONLY ONE DAY LEFT TO AUGUST 10 LABOR MUST ACT! NATIONAL | Ped