The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1927, Page 2

‘ ' ial Two Weta pyymmoeres sare poe THE DAILY WORSE NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST’ T9, Fifty Thousand at Union Square a for Sacco, Vanzetti 50,000 WORKERS Green Cowardly Whitewashes | DEMONSTRATE IN the Murderers ~ NEW Y0 RK CITY Under the mass pressure of the membership of unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, William Green dared not completely ignore the Sacco and Vanzetti Mightiest ‘Lahet Protest in Nation’s History ROSE BARON Neieieues: | N.Y, SACCO- VANZETTI COMMITTEE CALLS ON COOLIDGE TO INTERVENE (ffe rs: ‘Points te Department of Justice Connection With | Case to Prove Innocence of Guilt for NEW READERS of the Daily Worker i case. He tried to evade the question for days after Fuller’s decision to murder these two workers was made public by ab- senting himself from his usual haunts and ignoring the insis- tent demand that the executive council of the Federation rec- ommend that its affiliated international unions join the strike movement for the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. Rosé Baron, secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- | |mittee at two thirty o’clock yesterday sent the following telegram | to President Coolidge: “Unless you intervene, Sacco and Vanzetti die Wednesday (Continued from Page One) These valuable premiums, worth cial meeting was arranged for Irving Plaza. Green finally broke his silence by’ sending a letter to ‘night. We respectfully appeal to you to exercise the power con- | $2.50 each, can be secured FREE 30,000 at Two O'Clock. Governor Fuller. But in the letter he showed himself the ferred upon you by the, people of the nation to follow the brece- with every annual subscription to ay Peel Mien uma loyal servant of the bloody monsters conspiring to murder Sicatily EE te g |dent established by the late President Wilson in the Mooney | The compl ——, or through in “The Square.” 7 j “these two Italian workmen by whitewashing the farcical in- pg ah ne 3s ae a lease. Millions of citizens throughout the land, believe that a re-| eho nf ee $1.50 with 20 Speaking from four platforms, vestigation of Fuller and his committee. The first paragraph sid See lationship between a federal department and the Sacco-Vanzetti | vee st ee ae learn hee seores of speakers addressed the dem of Green’s letter reveals his flunkeyism before Fuller. He JUDGE THAYER |prosecution existed at the time of the tr ial. Judge Thayer said; “5c ition on ifferent days. onstration, denouncing the murder of gays; that the convictions of these men rest solely on the interpreta- Sagco and Vanzetti as a vicious piece of class hate and urging workers to join the mass march “On to Boston!” today to save the framed-up workers from the hands of the N achusetts \tion of theirgconduct at the time of their arrest as consciousness jof guilt. We feel confident that -the files of the department of | justice will explain their conduct following their arrest, interna- | tional sentiment indicates that the execution of Sacco and Van- | “Notwithstanding the thoro investigation which you and the commission you appointed made of the record of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, your examination of all the facts and information rela- tive thereto, and your decision that these men had a fair trial, there Be im ous applause the tens guilt ee hie cies i cctrumlachh a “ser ys oa aha zetti will seriously affect amicable relationship with the rest of of thousands eonkernain’ OTHE The Green letter concludes with an appeal, not for free- \the world. We urge you to use the Wilson precedent in the Square” approved resolution de-| dom, but for “executive clemency.” ‘Mooney case. Because of the fact that the world is watching the | aed ene pal Sees Green does not even state that he doubts their guilt! outcome of this case in a state of high tension we urge you to); metti, declar vm the vietims of, Taking the attitude of one standing apart from the struggle consider this momentous situation most, carefully. a monstrou ) by the cap-. of the workers this man who is the head of the American *: “Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committet, Rose Baron, secre- italist class and calling upon William) Federation of Labor does not even imply that the Sacco and nana Woskers ‘Sere x _.| tary } ; Green, president of “the American’ Vanzetti murder plot is a blow against labor. aes than WO.000 ‘workers wine. on Sener one A traitor to labor, he appeals to Fuller, one of the mur- der conspirators, instead of to the working class that he ought to speak for. An appeal from the head of the Fed- eration to the affiliated unions would be a powerful weapon in behalf of these two workers whom the capitalist class of It would aid tremendously in staying the hand ef the execu- tioner! But an appeal to Fuller couched in such honeyed words as Green uses only enhances that vile enemy of labor in the eyes of his class and indirectly sanctions the murders. Green’s letter places him definitely in the ranks of the strike here today in protest against the impending execution of Sacco and | earned POLICE BREAK UP N. Y, GITY COLLEGE The strikers gathered outside fac- tories and threatened those who re- | : fepees working. prearaly, alt Oe} Ga Genie Instantly Held Off the College Campus | arge clothing factories were forced to . } close and the officials asked police protection. Many of the clothing workers: went out on strike over the} full power of labor for the immediate | and «complete independenca of the two workers. A message to Governor Fuller demanding the immediate freedom of the framed-up workers was also voted by the gathering. “They Shall Not Die!” Massachusetts has determined to burn to death tonight! Among the slogans displayed at the meeting were: “Sacco and Van- zetti shall not die,” “Boycott Massa- chusetts Pro: “You shall not) Burn Our Fighte ‘Governor Ful-| ler, you have heard the voice of Wall New York police, after the fashion of the Cossacks in the ezarist days \of old Russia, broke up a demonstration ‘in favor of Sacco’ and Vanzetti | | \ we s * “Dow a ha pha ' . orders of their Union lead ah being held by students of City College on their campus yesterday. “laa Down with Capitalisti Jus-/ exeeutioners of Sacco and Vanzetti and is one more foul blot |fovbade a walkout until tomoreow Among the speakers invited were Felix Cohen, an alumnus, now attend- Aes a ees actor Ta. Upon the labor lieutenants of American capitalism—the most ing Harvard University; Arthur Garfield Hays, a lawyer, attorney for the | - < . Police, under Chief Inspector La P' ap) 0s) afternoon. | Ofter GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) a OTS £ Fy * * * | Givil Liberties Union; Norman eeeine ts director of the League for Industri ial _ hey, stood about a foot apart in a’ corrupt and venal labor leadership on the face of the earth. | Deiiierasy. aaisT, Louie Wnadah), edi Ne. 1 CAMERA ay Praia bo nacre Let labor continue its strikes in spite of and against | ‘ ilps poe ee to oF the ey AILY WORKER; Leon ‘laces flag. two small ones were se-| Regular Price $2.50 ey 2 procee S. e | nn x * * | city-wide s - | : ‘ were madeed Seta of the Tae William Green, who scorns the working class and Srasps In | test aeatiat the legal munter of Sag0 Denenberg, of the N. Y. Students Sac- ee q ‘ abe Film ‘Pictures 4 sha. Tata Twenty armored motorcycles stood | fraternal brotherhood the bloody fists of Thayer, Fuller, and Vanzetti, Hundreds of marine|©® 294 Vanzetti Committee; Louis re ese tale au pet model is finely sinished and at one side of the square, while an, President Lowell of Harvard, President Stratton of the | transport workers and seamen an- Eyre, a student, was acting as Ghattnan Plas idee Engdahl told a eee sis havs foe vastiaal , i ; airmal Me pr | 4 Be panier ct mounted police were) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Judge Grant and the | ‘wered the call of | the Waterfront) °""'" Meeting Held on Campus. the fight that was being made to save | Adapted for time. or Shap: stationed on the other side pecial | jud es of the courts of that state Joint Strike Committee by a twenty- the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, not shot exposures. Highest details of police were on the roofs of! et : four hour eval atrike-oF ahipt The meeting started on the open} sh . quality Meniscus lens. With all neighboring buildings. ma lin New York harbor PP"S | campus, the huge granite foundation |°nly geo county staan he the | s.scsees book of. instructions. A detail of policemen was stationed The Waterfront Joint Strik _jout of the center of which rises a| Wore, Ceclaring that students every | wwnmnnnnnnnnernnnnrrnnnnnns around each of the four platforms. MILLIONS STRIKE THRUOUT NATION IN PROTEST letites which taate A ite Sate Coe giant flag staff usually graced with | Where thruout the United States must | Fach speaker, before he was allowed to mount the platform, had to give his name, address and nationality to the authorities. Police Before “Freiheit.” The 1,000 policemen were assigned } from 1 to 17th Streets. Along Union Square and Broadway they were stationed in front of all of the| buildings, many of them being in; front of the Jewish Daily Freiheity at 30 Union Square. At 5:45 p. m. no more workers} were allowed to enter the park. Only those who had entered the marked- off space previous to that time were able to listen to the speeches. Those workers who were unable following have been arrested charged to pass the deadline of the police! with distribution: .W. Murdoch, or- marched up and down the neighbor- | ganizer of the New England Progres- ing streets in d formation. They | sive . Textile Committee, had to move lowly, due to the| Young, Martin Daum, Sarah Gold- denseness of the crowd. The police, berg, Steve Puleo. All were released kept them constantly on the move, on bail. not allowing them to stop for even} Police preparations give Boston the AGAINST MARTYRDOM (Continued from Page One Amalgamated, furriers, upholster- ers, capmakers and millinery voted to strike, going out at noon today. Many workers didn’t even report in the morning, beginning the strike four hours ahead. I. L. G. W. U,. voted not to strike but to permit members to go out as individuals. Building laborers, Ital- ian barbers and other Italian work- ers are out unofficially. The strike committee flooded the a second. aspect of a beleaguered city. The| Many Speakers Address Throngs. | Sacco-Vanzetti Committee is concen- Among the speakers who addressed trating all its energies nationally and the meeting were Ben Gold, Louis internationally for bringing pressure Hyman, J. Louis Engdahl, Pat De-; 0? Coolidge to follow the Wilson vine, C. E. Miller, Charles Mitchell, Mooney precedent, by telegraphing G. E. Powers, Jack Stachel, Anton, Prominent Americans, — progressive Bimba, A senators and cabling prominent citi- 1 Schaap, D. Benjamin, Pas- eal Cosgrove, M. J. Olgin, Ludwig Lore, Carlos Tresca, Rebecca Grecht, Joseph R. Brods' Alexander Trach- tenberg, Rose Wortis, Louis Quintal- lino, Charles Krumbein, Alfred Wag- zens of foreign countries, asking them to cable Coolidge. The general strike eall was signed by the Sacco-Vanzetti Strike Com- mittee. It read: “Strike for freedom enknechi, W. W. Weinstone, and for Sacco and Vanzetti. The last day many others. strike begins at noon Tuesday. Only Ried Hen Gold was introduged,| ‘he ‘workers’ protest can save us |Come to the following halls and be the crowd let loose a wild outburst. assigned for piket duty.” A list of ecice i. ts Pe age oe halls used by various unions was square, a detail of police prevented alas All police pasa, Te Las him from reaching the next platform! ie4 are on 24-hour duty, were no! where he was to speak again. ~~ The meeting ended at As soon as the workers carted ‘| leave the square, the mounted peice | _ Sa gonad enced the aie |secretary ,of the Sacco-Vanzetti Ten thousand copies of the DAILY | 2mergency Committee, said: ; WORKER were sold, a record amount|, “This is the first time in the his- “tg tory of the American labor movement for a working-class demonstration. that aothhaa mitkecof "sush panor: In the morning indoor meeting$| tions as this one was called without were held under the direction of vari-|the gid of properly organized strike ous unions. machinery. It may be said in all Police Break Up Newark Parade. | truthfulness that the hundreds of * * * “First Time Such Large Strike.” Commenting upon the success of |the general strike, Miss Rose Baron, town with thousands of leaflets. The | Mildred | NEWARK, Aug. 9.—A huge par- ade here was dispersed by police af- ter thousands of workers who had come out on strike early in the day marched to City Hall to protest against the legalized murder of Sac- co and Vanzetti. The parade started at the head- | thousands of strikers responded prac- tically through the sole medium of the capitalist and Labor press. “This is a warning to the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy that organized Labor in this country will follow militant leadership in a mo- ment of workingcelass crisis. William quarters of the Amalgamated Cloth- Green, president of the A. F. of L. ing Workers at 12th street and South | | without his official request for clem- Orange avenue. The demonstration) {ency untl the moment when he was was stopped at City Hall by Cain] overwhelmping!y convinced that the missioner Brennan, gho declared that | New York unions were acting with- out his ukase. no permit had been granted. ae Mae . ‘ ‘A meeting wes held at Montgom-| ‘The spirit which actuated the in- dividual Labor leaders in New York ery Hall later in the afternoon. On| with reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti its march from City Hall, the par-| protest strike is most commendable, ade passed Military Park, down Cen-/and will serve as a precedent in fu- tral avenue, to Market street, up 15th) ture exigencies. ” avenue, to 10th street. At 10th street | * * and South Orange avenue, the crowd | r | Many Unions Join. dispersed. | Among the unions which joined the OF SACCO AND VANZETTI, walk-out in New York City were the following: Harbor Boatmen’s Un- ion, Ship and Yard Workers, Cloth- ing Workers, Garment Workers, United Hebrew Trades, Pocketbook Workers’ Union, Journeymen, Tail- or’s Union, Journeymen Barbers’ Un- ion, Waist Makers’ Union, Carpen- ters’ and Excavators’ Union, Fur Workers, Plasterers’ Union, Cement Workers’ Union, Hod Carriers’ Un- jion, Painters and Decorators’ Union, Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, Laundry Workers’ Union, Metal Workers’ Union, Shoe Workers’ Un- ien, Bricklayers’ Union, Amalga- |mated Power Plant Workers, Archi- tectural Iron Workers’ Union, Broth- erhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, United Textile Work- ers of America, Marine Transpo1t Union Local 7. Some of the organizations urging the strike were also the Anti-Fascist Jewish Workers’ Club, Finnish Work- ers’ Federation, Workers’ Party, Young Workers’ League, Interna- tional Labor Defense, National Coun- cil for the Protection of the For- eign-Born, Private Chauffeurs’ Pro- tective Club, Sacco-Vanzetti Brook- lyn Conference, Workers’ Unity As- sociation and. the Workmen’s Circle. at . Colorado Miners Still Out. (Special to Daily Worker) DENVER, Col., Aug. 9.—More than 4,000 miners in southern Colorado are still out on a three-day strike to protest against the murder of Sacco and Vaneetti, A. S. Embree, I. W. W. organizer, announced. This figure represents 80 per cent. of the normal working force, he declared. * * . Cossacks Break Up Miners’ Meeting. SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. 9.—Riding their horses into a mass meeting which* had gathered at Jessup, near here, to stage a demonstration of sym- pathy for Sacco arid Vanzetti, near the Public Service Coal Company mine, mounted state police brutally dispersed the gathering today. The demonstrators planned, it is stated, to march to the mine to per- suade the miners to leave their work as a protest. No arrests were made. . * * Mt. Vernon Builders Strike. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Aug. 9. —Between 75 and 10) men, plasterers, carpenters and bri¢eklayers employed in the construction of three apartment houses on Grand street here, walked out totay in a on day strike as a gest ire of protesi, against: the execu- tion of Saeco and Vanzetti, according: to the police. Onty the plumbers re- mained on the job. Louis Thoma, general foreman of Workers’ Unton and Typographical’ Alliance of North America, Bronx} Seamen’s, Club, the J. W. W., ian section of the International Long- shoremen’s- Union, and represents practically every branch of harbor | work, issued its call for a strike from one o’cloek Monday night to midnight on Tuesday. Only the International Seamen’s Union, an A. F. of L. or- ganization and the International Long- shoremen’s Union seus to cooper- ate. Police Circle acdlag: Hundreds of the striking workers and sympathizers ringed round by police and police wagons took part in the mass protest meeting at South and Whitehall streets yesterday to de- mand the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti. Processions formed at the Interna- tional Seamen’s Club on South Street and at the I. W. W. hall bearing plac- ards, calling on Jabor to snatch Sacco and_ Vanzetti from Massachusetts legalized murder, marched along the waterfront and gathered in a great crowd by the South Ferry. The crowd filled the street and the windows of the office buildings and lined the elevatd platforms overhead to hear Pat Devine of the Interna- tional-Labor Defense describe how the cordage kings of Massachusetts had railroaded Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair, Devine traced the case from its be- ginning, with the death of Salsedo, who was either thrown out of the fourteenth floor of the department of justice building in New York, or was provoked to jump out, until the pres- ent momént when word had just ar- rived that Judge Webster Thayer, lackey of New Eng'and capitalism, had refused the last plea of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense for a stay of execution. “The bosses are like undertakers in one way,” Devine detlared “You may escape them today and you may es- cape them tomorrow, but they will get you in the end.” Devine described how they worked up the evidence against the two innocent anarchists. W. I. Fisher of the I. W. W., and Lena Chernenko of the ‘Ainatpamated Clothing Workers urged the working | the Ital-. an American flag, being used as a speaker’s ‘platform. Burman opened the meeting, de- claring that the gathering was not | being held under the auspices of any organization, but was the result of a |spontaneous demand on the bart of large numbers of students that a Sac- ‘co-Vanzetti Protest gathering be held. He then introduced Felix Cohen, son of the professor of philosophy at City \ College, as the first speaker. Cohen declared his faith in the innocence of | Sacco and Vanzetti and urged the stu- |dents to read the book on the case written by Professor Felix Frankfur- ter, of Harvard University. Engdahl’s Plea Is Interrupted. | Engdahl next began to analyze the case as an example of capitalist class “justice” against which the thinking students of the nation must rebel, in common with the whole working class. He was giving a word picture of the make-up of the ruling class autocracy in the New England states, and es- | pecially in Massachusetts, that inaug- urated the attack on Sacco and Van- zetti, when several squads of police, in military formation, headed by Ser- gean Lander, marched on the campus. The sergeant mounted the platform and tore down the sign that merely read, “STUDENTS’ SACCO-VAN- ZETTI MEETING.” The other po- licemen circulated among the increas- ing crowd, as Engdahl continued talk- ing. He was not allowed to continue long, however. | College Hear! Leads Attack. In another f»w minutes Francis X. Healy, director’ of the summer session of City College, heading a flying wedge of police, demanded that the meeting end. The students insisted they had ‘he right to hold the meet- ing on their own campus, that they jhad done.so in the past, but Healy was supp rted by the police, and in- sisted the meeting stop. The students decided that if they couldn’t hold the meeting on the cam- pus, they would hold it on a public street, where the college authorities could not molest them. | Break Up Second Meeting. Some of the students got thru the class to organize if they did not wish | nolice line to 139th street and Amster- to find themselves in the electric chair|dam, Ave. while others had to go| tomorrow. l|around the entire block jto reach the | “Do you believe we can save Sacco | same destination. | and Vanzetti?” Lena Chernenko de- | Chairman Burman tried to open the | manded, “Is it possible to. save them | meeting again, but it was once more | at this late. hour? No. It.is only by | broken up by the police, who claimed | @ mass organization of the workers | this time that it was being held toot g join in this effort. He urged that the City College stu- dents send a delegation to help picket the State House and Charlestown Penitentiary at Boston today. . He said this delegation could report back |to the students of the College, and thus give the student body a first hand report on the case, i Hays and Thomas Talk. | Hays and Thomas then spoke, con> cluding the meeting. A resolution was adopted, which will be telegraph- ed to Governor Fuller, at Boston. It declared that the students believed that Sacco and Vanzetti had not re- eeived a fair trial and demanded ex: | ecutive clemency. | Placards that had been ‘posted up around the campus, advertising the demonstration, had been torn down during the night, the students arrang- ing the meeting declared. | More Protests Against \Sacco-Vanzetti Murder | eta William L. Patterson, president of the Seen Negro Labor Congress issued the following statement in be- half of his organization yesterday in a telegram to the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee: “The American Negro Labor Con- gress protests the decision of Gover- | nor Fuller’s commission as the most | infamous in the history of the Amer- | ican Labor struggle. The Negro Con- gress has called upon American Negro Labor, organized and unorganized, to show its resentment by joining with white Labor in the strike set for | August 9, 1927. (Signed) William L. Patterson, President of the American phe Labor Conarent, New York Lo- cal | A ee 4 | Food Workers Protest. | Declaring that Sacco and Vanzetti| are innocent, the Amalgamated Food | Workers yesterday sent a telegram | to Governor Fuller demanding that he stay the execution of the two framed- up workers. The union announced its intention of taking part in the monster strike and demonstrations. ' * * * i Calls Upon Youth Protest. A resolution adopted by the Stelton. branch of the Youth Movement calls” upon young peoples’ organizations in| |the United States to protest against the legalized murder of Sacco andy Vanzetti. that outrages like this“can be pre- vented.” + i: Other speakers were Jack Walsh and Harry Myers,.both of the Marine Transport Workers Union. Harry Kweit, chairman of the meeting, then read a resolution con- firming the absalute convietion of hundreds of marine workers and sea- men that Sacco and Vanzetti are in- near a fire hydrant. The police, at this juncture, were reinforced by fliv- ver squads headed by a Deputy In- apeetor, Edward J. Quinn of the Fifth Division. “We'll hold this meeting or all go to jail,” declared the students, marching to: Hamilton Terrace and West 141st street, which is not college property, not on a busy thorofare ard foal proof Mary Louise Lepansky, the daughter of Max and Mar- garet Lepanski, died August 8, 1927, in Lincoln, N. 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