The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1927, Page 1

acca a ‘| THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 178. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by Entered as sevond-ciass ma‘ ail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 36.@0 per year. THE DAILY the Post Office et New York. N. ¥., o ider tre act of March 3, 1873 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927 Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKDR PUBLISHING CO., city | EDITION FINAI Price 3 Cents 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. ee ‘They Plan to Kill Sacco, Vanzetti Tonight POLICE ATTACK LABOR’S PARADE; MANY INJURED March Follows Meeting At Union Square Scores of workers were bru- tally beaten up when the police yesterday broke up two im- promptu parades of workers who were marching from Union Square to City Hall after the end of the Sacco-Vanzetti dem- onstration in the square. The first group, 5,000 strong, par- aded through the Italian section un- til they were attacked by police. at Mulberry and Hester streets. Seven workers were arrested there. Five thousand other workers were charged by mounted police at Fifth avenue and Eighth street. Two ar- rests were made here, The first group of demonstraters marched along Second avenue to Houston street. When they entered the Italian section a young worker hoisted a copy of Tuesday’s DAILY WORKER on a stick. The streamer: “Strike Today!” brought cheers from the workers along the route of the march, At the suggestion of the demon- (Continued on Page Five) 50,000 Meet In Union Square; Demand Sacco And Vanzetti Go Free | Fifty thousand workers, gathered in Union Square yestérday, demand- ing that Sacco and Vanzetti be freed, constituted the mightiest demonstra- tion of labor that the nation has yet seen. The North End of “The Square” was jammed tight under the eyes of many hundreds of police, on foot, on horseback, in armed cars and motor- | cycles. The great throng overflowed | — into “The Square” as far South as | Fourteenth Street, while additional thousands, kept away from the meet- | ing by the police cordon, conducted | an endless march along the streets | surrounding “The Square.” It is estimated that 1,000 police-| THE VERDICT Drawn by Fred Ellis ‘LAST MINUTE EFFORTS TO SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI 1.—By train, bus and boat Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers rush | to Boston to picket the State House and take part in the death men in all were on duty, armed with the latest instruments of warfare | against demonstrating workers. They | were very evidently there to intimi-| date the great throng, rather than “maintain order,” Although the, demonstration had) been scheduled for four o’clock, al stream of workers started to pour into Union Square early in the morn- ing.. Men and women, who had gone. out on strike in the morning to pro- test against the attempted legalized! murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, streamed into “The Square” from their shops and factories and by eleven o’¢lock there were housands| of workers already on hand. A spe-| (Continued on Page Two) | state co urts possible. watch before Charlestown prison. Great protest demonstrations | planned in Boston. 2.—The hour announced for the execution is 12:30 tonight. | Judge Thayer refuses stay of execution. No further action before. 3.—Forty-two pickets arrested yesterday before the State House, Boston. ‘ } 4,--Fifty thousand workers gather at Union Square yester-| day in New York, after a huge protest strike, and adopt resolu-| tion demanding freedom. for Sacco and Vanzetti. Spontaneous | parades starting at the meeting smashed by the police with great | brutality and one arrest. Police break up meeting held at N. Y.| City College. 5.—Millions on strike thruout the world; many demonstra- | tions before embassies and consulates of the United States. Halt the Legal Murder! |gathered at 1115 So. Broad street at! 51000 WORKERS. GO ON STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA Police Stop One Rally; Second Is Held PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.—Fifty! thousand workers went on. strike here | today, protesting against the attempt) to murder Sacco and Vanzetti. The) police. prevented one meeting from} being held and attempted to stop a! second one. When several thousand workers 2 p.m., the police refused to allow them to enter the hall and foribly| made them disperse. | not so successful. When John Fuller-| |not.so successful. When John Fullr-| ton was speaking, they announced seen Sacco and Vanzetti. - HE act of murder, which has been planned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against the iwo champions of labor, Sacco and Vanzetti, will be halted only, if the workers raise such'a mighty voice of protest, that even the arch-fiends of capitaligm will hesitate to defy it. This voice of protest must be raised in every corner of the land against this infamous deed. Who will raise this voice of protest? Who will reach the workers in the mines, mills, factories and farms? Who will rouse them to the infamy on the terrible crime which is being framed against them? Now more than ever it becomes the duty of all class-conscious workers to GUARD THE DAILY WORKER, to contribute by means of the certificates which have been distributed, toward the protection of the strongest Ane Wear eet roe raised againat the execution of our a aoe Z that the meéting could not eontinue. After the police left, the workers re- {assembled and went on with the meeting. They were addressed by Albert Weisbord, Sam Blunt, Fur- riers’ Union, and J. Oswardo of the Bakers’ Union. In the evening the workers went to the Arch Street Theater, jamming it to the doors. Among the unions that participated {in the strike were the Upholsterers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Cloakmakers, Bakers and Metal Workers. THINK OF THE SUSTAINING “Hngdahl Is in Boston On Sacco-Vanzetti Case — For the Daily Worker! J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, left for Boston | last night to direct the forces that will give the readers of labor's! only “Daily” the true and detailed story of the latest developments in| the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In the ar- rests of pickets before the State House yesterday, the industrial au- tocracy of Massachusetts only in- dicated in another way its deter- mination to carry out its sentence of death against Sacco and Van- zetti. Nevertheless, the struggle to “Save Sacco and Vanzetti,” goes on with increased energy. It must succeed. Workers, however, must not depend on the capitalist press for their information. They must ike The DAIL ¥ WORKER. Park. Hundreds of workers who a sembled were driven away by poli nor and Commissioner Gillen. Federated Press the who Was a test case, The committee issued FUND AT EVERY MEETING! ‘ 2 ing the meeting to take pace, Stop Newark Meeting | PRISON WARDEN DECLARES MURDER “WILL BE DONE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 12:30; PICKETING GOES ON ‘Police Launch Campaign of Mass Arrests Against Last Minute Protest | | ! peel Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will burn in the elee- \tric chair between midnight and 12:30 o’clock tonight unless the | mighty rising wave of working class protest, registered 3 day in the United States and throughout the world proves ‘enough to save them. | The hour of death was set by the prison warden of the | Charlestown Penitentiary early last night, according to reports jreceived from Boston. Mass arrests greeted the “On To Boston” last minute cam- |paign to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the hands of the Massa- chusetts murderers who have sentenced them to burn in the elee- | tric chair at midnight tonight. | Forty-two leaders of the picket line in front of the Beston |State House were arrested yesterday when they defied the regi- | ments of tity and state police parading the streets of Boston to |demand the immediate release of Sacco and Vanzetti. The picket |line was broken up. PICKET THE STATE HOUSE. The picketing of the State House followed the influx of thou- }sands of workers from cities and towns near Boston. With the }eall for a “March On Boston” issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti De- | fense Committee and the growing realization that mass demon- strations alone will save the framed-up workers from death, | thousands of workers are pouring into the city to demonstrate in frent of the State House and the Charlestown prison, in which Sacco and Vanzetti sit. Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the Workers School; Alfred Baker Lewis, socialist secretary; Gus Shklar, district organizer |for the Workers (Communist) Paxgty; Harry Canton, Grace Hutchinson, Fred Douglas and Mrs. Fred Douglas were among those arrested for picketing the State House. vous UNIONS FURNISH PICKETING COMMITTEES. The picket line was composed of committees sent by the Cap- makers’ Union, the Amalgamated Clothing We s’ Union, the Upholsterers’ Union, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the Furriers’ Union, the Workers (Communist) Party, the socialist party, the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, the Inter- ‘national Labor Defense, as well individuals. Those arrested will be given a trial at nine-thirty o’clock this morning. They are \charged with disturbing the peace. In spite of the arrests additional demonstrations will be held (Continued on Page, Five) MILLIONS STRIKE THRUQUT NATION IN HUGE SACCO-VANZETTI PROTEST Boston Police Arrest Labor Leaders in Vain Effort to Quell Walk-out Millions of workers went day to save Sacco jand Vanzetti from being railroaded to the electric chair. It’ was on strike yest | |the most gigantic walkout of its kind in all American labor his- \tory. In New York City alone approximately half a million work- ‘ers left their jobs and joined what was one of the most effective tie-ups in the history of the city. | Reports from other sections of the? |country indicated a wide response to \the strike call. Although the right wing labor officialdom thruout the threatened with “the same medicine as Sacco and .Vanzetti.’ NEWARK, August 9. — Police re- fused to allow tonight’s Sacco-Van- | zetti meeting to be held at Military under the direction of Lieut. O’Con; According to Irving Freeman of | charge of the arrangements, if they | are refused a permit today, they will | hold a meeting nevertheless and make | statement. vigorously protesting the action of the authorities in not allow- country did its best to smash the pro- | test, the rank and file of American labor heeded the call to the struggle to free the framed-up workers Police in various cities conducted a campaign of terrorism and wholesale arrests. In Los Angeles, 19 promin- lent leaders in the struggle for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti were jarrested after raids on the head- LN esrb of the Workers (Commun- \ist) Party; in Philadelphia and Bos- ton Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers were arrested for distributing leaflets call- ing for short general protest strikes; 5- a Lavoratore, Italian newspaper were raided and members of the staff were in New York City the offices of Il} Boston Union Heads Arrested. BOSTON, Aug. 9.—Immediately upon issuance of the Boston strike call today two officials of the Cap- makers’ Union, J. Miller, manager and J. Seligman chairman of Local 7: arrested and held without bail thus depriving the strike of two of its most active driving forces. The strike grew out of a call issued last night by the hastily formed Sacco- Vanzetti strike committee, capmak- ers, upholsterers and furriers par- ticipating. This was followed by a conference ten o’clock this morning of represen- tatives of all the clothing unions, (Continued on Page Two) 4