The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927 United States Supreme for Framed-Up Workers DEDHA he Massach a of execution and revocation of senten Court. @ Surrounded by Guards. Thayer wrote the decision at his Worcester home, surrounded by police and armed guards, It was immediately telephoned to defense counsel Arthur D, Hill at his office in Boston end to attorney gen- eral Arthur K. Reading, the later nting the e in the last court proceedings in the Sacco- Vanzetti e. Stenographers were at the courthouse to transeribe copies of the decision which were moved to! Boston by fast automobile. Defense Counsel Arthur D. Hill be- gan a final drive on the state courts in an effort to save the lives of the two workers. His plan was under- stood to be to c the case again to the Supreme Court on exceptions from judge Thayer’s ruling, with an appeal to the United States District Court and a justice of the United States Supreme Court still in the! offing. | Twenty-two armed state troopers! patrolled the palatial summer estate| of governor Fuller at Rye Beach, N.| H. Three “sharp-shooters,” expert suit gun men, from each police station, were assembled at police head-| quarters. The gathering of the fif- teen “dead shots” was shrouded in! mystery but followed the discovery! of the “general strike” circular in| Roxbury. | Appeal to Borah. ! BOSTON, Aug. 9.—The Defense | Committee appealed to Senator Borah as Chairman. of the Senate Foreign | Relations Committee. The message | stated that “Sacco and Vanzetti have | become international symbols of American justice, and goodwill to- | ward the United States will be pro-) foundly impaired in Europe and) America if these men are executed | while the United States Government | has evidence in its possession bearing | on their innocence. We are appeal | ing to you, as Chairman of the Senate | Foreign Re ons Committee, as well as to William E. Borah, humanitar- ian. We believe a federal investiga- | tion opening the department of Jus-) tice files will bring the two radicals | their freedom.” The telegrams to Senator Borah, Senator LaFollette and Miss Addams then went on to explain that Sacco and Vanzetti had been sought be- cause it was alleged, they belonged to the Galleani group of anarchists, Vanzetti being a contributor to Cron-! aca Soversiva, the Galleani paper} published in Lynn. The telegram | concluded: | Telegraph Lindbergh. | “We submit this departmeént of | justice man-hunt cannot be brushed | aside, and we further submit it is an absolutely valid explanation of the ‘consciousness of guilt’ Saeco and Vanzetti showed when arrested, and which judge Thayer asserts is the Mass., Aug. 9.—Judge Webster Thayer, j industrial czars, who have sentenced Sacco and “Vanzetti to die in the electric chair, denied the framed-up workers’ motions for a stay | bergh. asking him to appeal to the | ing for a general strike to save Sacco | | cripple the Boston walk-out, the Bos- | | ton and state police are conducting a | | view, Johnson sneered at “the attempt tives abroad of murderous America were frequently so incensed _— Y ff Court Last Legal Hope ial puppet of | ce today in Norfolk County Superior strongest proof of their guilt of the murder charge.” | The Defense Committee also tele-/ graphed to Colonel Charles A. Lind. | President to appoint a commission of inquiry. European goodwill created by the transatlantic flyer was being | destroyed by the pending execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, wired the| Committee, appealing in the human- itarian ideals of Lindbergh’s father. | Arrested For Leaflets. Two young women were arrested in Boston for issuing circulars call- | and Vanzetti. | In a vain and frantic effort to| reign of terror. The young women arrested are Mildred Young, 22, a shoe worker, and Miss Sarah Young, 27. Use Machine Guns. Riot squads from the twenty-one police stations were assembled at police headquarters, with three men} in each squad manning sub-machine guns capable of firing 1,500 bullets) a minute. The riot squad of 400 and more men was ready for instant call to aid the 2,000 policemen engaged in “twenty-four hour duty” at the vari- ous headquarters. | Inimigration Head Tries to Terrorize Aliens Who Strike HOQUIAM, Wash., August 9. —Al-! most snarling with rage against sym- | pathizers with Sacco and Vanzetti, Representative Albert Johnson, chair- “STOP THIS MURDER!” | Police Sack Offices Of Il Lavoratore in Sacco-Vanzetti Raids “We'll electric che {| Street they afternoon. After ransacking th tearing down poste the release of the eight policer { | vising the membe | | voratore staff that | | ter get out of the U.S,Emabssy Tries Blow at Sacco and | Shows Part in Raid China, yesterday offices and ng for left, after ad- of the Il La- hey hed het- country.” PEKING, Aug. 9.—The |der strain of the excitement roused | by the Sacco Vanzetti case, and the }eagerness of the embassy staff to that it has in its possession property | Soviet Republics. | The American diplomats in China, jas well as the U. S, department |of state, have alw |the raiding here of the embassy of jan affair of the local Chinese gen- | erals, Now announcement is made, as tho it were news, that “The Worker | (Communist) Party of Ame conducted a propaganda c | for a united front of activity jof the relief of Sacco and Vanzetti. | by the U. S. Embassy to be contained on pages 115 and 178” of a book eized in the Soviet Union Embassy at Peking, and “now in the possession of the American Embassy.” Ownership of such a book or pamphlet by the Soviet Union Em- bassy or some individual in it would | not be against the law of nations, man of the House committee on immi- | gration and naturalization, threatened chusetts: | The congressman, while denouncing | L, up to the world as a fit example, of the working class of Europe, South America and Africa yester- and praised his attitude of treachery| qay, because of the complicity of the United States government all aliens in the U. S. A. with depor- } tation and refusal of citizenship papers if they did anything to stay) any interference with the killing BN planned for August 10, took oceasion ci hi fits |. : : as hang Aig re ‘in the proposed murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Demonstrations the hand of the executioner in Massa- | to hold Matthew Woll of the A. F. of American consuls and ambassadors felt the deep resentment During another part of the inter- assembled outside of the dwellings and offices of the representa- of those alien bandits to escape the hy attempts of the police of their own countries to save their | electric chair.” Ns 2 4 2 Johnson promises his hearers that | American allies from discomfort that they broke past all restraint | the immigration laws would be tight-|2nd made attacks on the buildings over which the American flag) ened up so that “only the right sort | floated. In Moroceo a crowd burned the flag. Some of the more} of aliens” could come into America, | important demonstrations are mentioned below. | eae ean meer Up te Peek eee MEXICAN LABOR WIRES COOLIDGE. ——— MEXICO CITY, August 9.—The Mexican Federation of Labor has wired President Coolidge, asking for the pardon and commutation of Sacco and Vanzetti. The Federal Council of the local labor unions has ordered fifteen | minutes of susupension of work and all public amusements tonight and | publie service tomorrow in all principal centers. Special patrols have been placed outside the American embassy and the offices ef American oil companies. * * * Y. C. L. IN ROTTERDAM. ROTTERDAM, August 9.—The Young Communists’ League staged a.demonstration today urging a general strike in protest against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution. The police dispersed the demonstrators, who afterward went to the American consulate where they staged a demon- siration. * * * SWISS TELEGRAPH AIDS EXECUTIONER. GENEVA, August 9.—The Swiss telegraph administration today re- TWO NEW BOOKS ON SACCO-VANZETTI | nn ” Sacco-Vanzetti anthology of Verse A splendid collection of rebel verse on the fa- mous case by seventeen noted poets, including: “Mary Carolyn Davies Siegfried Sassoon F. Merrill Root Henry Reich Jr. Ralph Cheney and others. 82 PAGES— | The Case of Sacco { | | 4 | | operetta: fused to transmit to the United States Minister at Berne a long telegram protesting against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which had been | drawn up at a monster mass meeting, on the ground that it would be injurious to a friendly government. ™ * * NORWEGIAN UNIONS PROTEST. COPENHAGEN, August 9.—The national organization of the Nor- wegian trades unions has organized Sacco-Vanzetti protest meetings throughout all Norway, to be held at the close of work on Wednesday. * * * FINN WORKERS CABLE. ' HELSINGFORS, August 9.—The Finnish workers’ national organi- vard—a trained zation and the executive of the social democrats have cabled to the se ible lawyer United States government, protesting against the Sacco-Vanzetti execu- an ied Whee d tion and demanding the release of the men. —crea y * * * discussion on its appear- BRAZILIAN POLICE WORRIED. yc ia RIO DE JANEIRO, August 9.—Fearing possible outbreaks by It is brief, popular sum- Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, Rio de Janeiro police today doubled the mary of the thousands police guards in the vicinity of the National City Bank building, located of pages of evidence pre- in Rio Branco avenue, and around Canadian and English banks in the e * city. sented in this case. The American embassy and the American consulate here were pro- “and Vanzetti By Felix Frankfurter This book by a professor 25 Cents ® tected by a special guard. $1.00 Cloth Bound See ean WORKERS STORM U. S. LEGATION IN STOCKHOLM. LONDON, August 9.—A demonstration of 15,000 persons attempted to storm the United States legation at Stockholm, Sweden, last night, said a Central News dispatch from that city today. A strong cordon of mounted police beat back the workers, arresting sevefal of the leaders. C0 oe MONTEVIDEO LABOR STRIKES. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 9.—A 24-hour general strike has been called by the labor groups for tomorrow as a protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanretti Arneals have been issued to all work- ers in the republic to join the strike. It is expected that many commer- cial houses will close their doors. Troops are to be kept in the armories tomorrow prepared for dem- onstrations which may develop “of a revolutiénary character.” Shouts of “Down with Yankee imperialism!” were frequently heard at a large protest meeting held yesterday, as speakers vehemently de- nounced American justice. * * * BURN FLAG AT CASABLANCA. PARIS, August 9.—The American consulate at Casablanca, Morocco, was the scene of a demonstration by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. After burning the American flag in the Place de France, in front of the con- sulate, the crowd hurled stones through the consulate’s windows. The police were unable to cope with the demonstrators. Several arrests were made. * * * ALL FRANCE TAKES PART. PARIS, Aug. 9.—All France participated in Sacco-Vanzetti demon- strations yesterday. Workers went on strike in the following cities: Lyons, Tours, Dunkirk, Cette, Cherbourg, Toulouse, Nantes, Bethune, Havre, Toulon and Brest. Large protest parades took place in Mar- seilles and St. Etienne. A committee of Americans in Paris is organizing a meeting today to voice an appeal for Sacco and Vanzetti. The mother of Captain Charles Nungesser, the lost trans-Atlantic flyer, cabled Governor Fuller: “I implore you to listen to the earnest appeal of all France.” * * * BORDEAUX DOCK WORKERS OUT. BORDEAUX, France, Aug. 9.—Every dock worker in Bordeaux was striking yesterday in a Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. The ships were unable to clear. * * * MARCH ON CHERBOURG CONSUL. CHERBOURG, Aug. 9.—Several thousand workers marched on the American Consulate here last night in a demonstration against the exe- cution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The police had difficulty in defending the consulate from the fury of the crowd. A number of people were hurt on both sides. * . * IRISH LABOR ASKS CLEMENCY. DUBLIN, Aug. 9.—The Irish Labor Party and the Irish Trade Union Congress today sent a cablegram to President Coolidge asking executive clemency in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. The message follows: “Irish labor joins labor in other countries urging clemency for Sacco and Vanzetti.” The Workers Party of Ireland adopted a resolution protesting against the Sacco and Vanzetti death sentences. * * * GREAT PRAGUE MASS MEETING. PRAGUE, Aug. 9.—Communist workers at a great mass meeting held tonight on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti voted an order for a gen- eral strike tomorrow in all the factories of Prague. The chief speaker was H. Vajtauer, a Czech Communist, expelled from the United States. * * * HAVANA POLICE FEEL DANGER. HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 9.—Plain-clothes men from the Judicial Po- lice Department have been stationed at the American Embassy and all public buildings. This step was taken to prevent possible demonstra- tions by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. * * * DEPUTATION PROTESTS IN CAPE TOWN. - CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug. 9.—A deputation of members of the Communist and labor parties visited the American Consulate yester- day to protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Resolutions passed at a public meeting of the Communist and Labor Parties yesterday, demanding the immediate reprieve of “these innocent working-class yictims of capitalist justice” were cabled to the United States. * * * ROUMANIAN WORKERS WRITE MINISTER. BUCHAREST, Aug. 9.—Resolutions in protest against the execu- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti, adopted at mass meetings held throughout Bucharest and other Roumanian cities, yesterday, have been sent to Will- iam 8. Cylbertson, American minister here. An armed guard has been posted at the American Legation and “tte to euard against any possible demonstrations. “A Massachusetts Courts Determined to Kill; Strike Spreads! JUDGE THAYER DENIES STAY OF EXECUTION TQ SACCO, VANZETTI latnerioan embassy has admitted, un-| hehe the two workers electrocuted, |§ } stolen from the Union of Socialist |§ insisted that) § the Soviet Union some weeks ago was | @ he source of this information is said @ Bombs It is not the subway bombs of the agents provocateur which the ruling class fears, as it approaches the eve of the foul murder, which it is bent on perpetrating. ORO BO} It is the fact bombs of truth, from which they recoil in terror. 2.28. 2 It,is the truth which they seek to hide from the working class. Ss It is the truth about the Sacco Vanzetti case which is the greatest menace to those who are determined to carry through this inhuman crime. Sa 2 The drive for | Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily; Worker means spreading this truth, so that its destructive effects may reach the very foundations of capitalism itself, a2 23 It means five thousand new centers from which the bombshells of truth radiate their powerful force / against the bulwarks of injustice, against the capitalist system of society of which this injustice is an inseparableypart. aS