The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1927, Page 1

i Gln Duty woaken sicace | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR Bee enone SABE fs | Vol. IV. No. 179. THE DAILY WORKER. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New Yor, by mail, 9600 EDITION NAL CITY oe | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. XY. uudor the act of Maroh 8, 1878, per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1927 Published Daily except Suaday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O,, 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents MASS FURY DELAYS ARREST PICKETS ATSTATEHOUSEs UNIONS RAIDED Police Terror Against Demonstrations —— { By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special To DAILY WORKER.) BOSTON, Aug. 10.—Boston police continued their mass ar- rests in their vain effort to smash the picketing of the State House to protest against the le- galized murder of Sacco and Vanzetti,> John Dos Passos, novelist and poet, | who is sending special articles to The DAILY WORKER on the struggle to) free the framed-up workers, Michael | Gold, editor of the New Masses, Ber- tram D. Wolfe, member of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the} Workers (Communist) Party, Sender! Garlin, member of the staff of The} DAILY WORKER, Rese Pesotta,} Dorothy Parker, George Kraska, sec- | retary of the local branch of the In- ternational Workers Aid, and Nat Kay, of the Young Workers League were among those arrested. Anoth- er vicious attack by the police ac- companied by mass arrests broke up the second day’s picketing line on Beacon street before the State House, where Governor Fuller is considering | his latest contribution to the effort | of the Massachusetts ruling class to| ~put Sacco. and Vanzetti to death—in | the electric chair. Bertram D. Wolfe, member of the! Central Executive Committee, Work- ers (Communist) Party, was leading the picket line, carrying a placard denouncing the attempted murder of the two workers. A scors of similar placards were being carried by others among the many marchers. The pick- | eting continued for about fifteen} minutes when the police arrived and} began making arrests wholesale. | Sing International. | At the Joy street station the pris- oners today, as yesterday, spent their time singing “The Internation- al”, “The Red Flag,” and other revo- lutionary songs while yaiting to be} bailed out. Efforts are being made, thru International Labor Defense to} secure bail for the prisoners. Fresh forces of pickets are pouring into Boston from other cities. An impos- ing demonstration is expected tomor- | row. The local organization of the Work- | ers (Communist) Party has issued a} statement on the picketing as fol-| lows: “The Workers (Communist) | Party members participated in the demonstration with the members of the socialist party and the members of trade unions because it is the firm conviction ‘of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party that Sacco and Vanzetti are innocent and that their only| crime is their devotion to the labor movement, | “The electrocution of Sacco and) Vanzetti ‘marks the beginning of an attack against labor and will no| doubt be followed by fresh persecu- tion of the American working class, | The campaign to lower the standard | of living will now proceed in full | swing. This is also a part of the ter-| (Continued on Page Twu) | | Sacco’s Wife Compelled To Pass Electric Chair BOSTON, Aug. 10.—For the past two days Rosa Sacco, the wife of Nicola Sacco, now awaiting death at the hands of Massachu- setts industrial over-lords in Charlestown jail, has been com- pelled to pass thru the chamber of death in order to get to see her husband, The executioner’s chair has been uncovered and as she passed thru, experts have been at work testing the apparatus with which it is planned to burn to death not only Sacco, but also Bar- tulomeo Vanzetti. Prison officials have not made it possible for her to avoid the hideous spectacle that has displaced the stake with its burning faggots of witchcraft days, ie On Way to See Husband | | AMERICA’S REAL EMBLEM By FRED ELLIS REPRIEVE FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI UNTIL AUGUST 22; DANGER STILL EXTREMELY GRAVE; ONLY FURTHER Engdahl at State Prison Issues Call | J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, tele- | phoning direct from Charlestown state prison where Sacco and Vanzetti were awaiting the order of the executioners at 11:50 last night gave us the first authentic information re- garding the reprieve and also made a ringing call to the workers to continue the fight for the liberation of these two | victims of capitalism. Engdahl said, “Fuller was afraid of the mounting protest over the whole world and has post- poned the burning to death of Sacco and Vanzetti in the hope that the mass fury will die down. Our answer must be the further development of this protest wave. They are alive today because of the vigilance of the working class and only the further determined action of the working class can save them.” gs ae (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) CHARLESTOWN STATE PRISON (11:50 p. m.), Aug. |. 10.—Sacco and Vanzetti and Madeiros have just been notified that a stay of execution has been granted until August 22. At eleven o’clock ali newspaper writers at the State House were told to go to the State Prison. It was thought that the | _ end had come and the final act of the ghastly persecution was about to be carried out. But the warden notified them (Continued on Page Wi) EXECUTION PLANNED TO LAST MINUTE; HOLMES HAS NO MERCY BOSTON, Aug. 10.—Plac no faith in the “justice” meted out by capitalist courts, workers from all sections of the country are streaming into the city to demonstrate for the immediate and unconditional release of Sacco and Vanzetti. Mass demonstrations and mass protests alone will force Gov- ernor Fuller to grant Sacco and *Vanzetti a respite. Firm in this belief thousands of workers frem neighboring cities are pouring into Boston by train, bus, boat and automobile. Undaunted by the mass arrests of picketers and wholesale raids on unions the protest demonstrations are continuing. A march on Boston can alone save the framed-up workers, it is stated, and leaders of the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti POLICE FIRE INTO D EMONSTRATION FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI, CHICAGO ‘Sacco and Vanzetti Demonstrations and Strike Thruout Country BULLETIN. ordered them to disperse and when the | crowd firing their revolvers. | Side. CHICAGO, Aug. machine guns and tear bombs br police charged the crowds. 9 * 2 8 | By THURBER LEWIS. CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 10. — Surging thru Chicago streets in spontaneous demonstration protest last night against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti ten thousand Chicago work- ers were gathering strength block by block when a corps of squad cars and 200 detectives, guns drawn, charged the crowd and broke the ranks of the parade with tear gas bombs. A half hundred workers were brutally thrown: into patrol wagons held in reserve. 10.— Thirty motorcycle police, | mounted police and squads of detective bureau cars armed with @ men were parading when the police! marchers hesitated, they charged the 1,500 police have been stationed in the West! * thirty | ‘oke up three impromptu demon-_ Demonstration followed a rousing mass meeting crowded by seven thou- sand in the Ashland auditorium. Cries of “strike! strike!” resounded thruout, the meeting and were taken up on the street again following adjournment and the refusal of the crowd to go! home. Throngs began forming into parade and moved west on Van Buren street. Gathering hundreds of recruits from sidewalks the parade -continued east on Ogden Ave. to Madison street and headed for the loop district. Crying for’ ja strike an ee demanding free- | dom for Sacco and Vanzetti, the dem- | nsteation stretched from curb to and extended for three blocks, hein street cars and stopping automobiles. In the meantime two dozen squad | |cars were zooming and sirening thru | the west side, organizing for a posi- tion to break up the demonstration. | Finally at the Curtis street block from the Workers Party National Office the first squad car clanged into the} \erowd. This was followed by a dozen CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Police poured their revolvers into a crowd of work-| more. Detectives struck out right and ers who were participating in the half hour sympathy strike which has | left with clubs and revolver ends. | brought out 20,000 workers today, Th In spite of the brutal assault the | crowd moved on. It was not until more than a dozen tear gas bombs |had been thrown, with stifling and ‘blinding gas fumes causing a panic that knocked many down, that the street was cleared. For hours after _ into the early morning squad cars and | patrols raced madly about streets, | strations involving thousands of men and women on Chicago's | sirens shrieking and terrorizing the West Side today, following the main procession which marched | entire west side working class quar- yesterday from Ashland Auditorium to the City Hall, and was also| **™ broken up. Two women and five men were arrested when the) Workers Call For Strike. | “No one has a right to say that the working class of this country will not move to save Sacco and Vanzetti,” said James P. Cannon, national secre- tary of the International Labo» De- |fence at the meeting. “If the work- ingelass can receive from Sacco and Vanzetti one tenth the faith and conr- age that they have shown ¢uring seven years of unspeakable torture, they can yet be freed This meeting (Continued on Page Two) THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AT EVERY MEETING! |have issued appeals urging workers to stream into Boston to protest against the legalized murder of the two framed workers. Arthur Hill, chief counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, called on Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court at Beverly, |Mass., late today. When he emerged from the conference he said: “I know of no human power that will save them.” Justice | Holmes declined to comment. NAILED TO CROSS. “For seven long years they have nailed me to the cross of ‘their laws. Let me die in peace, without giving them another ASKS EMPLOYERS aging to crucify me,” said Sacco, refusing to sign an application writ to the U. S. Supreme Court. TARVE RADICALS . No amount of persuasion would make him sign, even as he |had refused to sign a petition for reprieve to Governor Fuller months ago. Vanzetti, calmer, was persuaded to sign the petition, and de- Announces : jclared he hoped it would help “peor Nicky.” To Fingerprint | “But,” he added, “f feel like Nicky that all hope is gone. I eae ; want to say farewell to you.” And he offered his hand to his WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. —Steps| attorney, Mussman, and asked him to take out two books, “The were taken by Secretary of Labor) Rice of American Civilization” and “Twelve Stories and a Dream,” Davis today for a nation-wide round-| ‘ G 1 hick hei fi a di h up of radical workers in this country, Dy H. G, Wells, which he had just finished reading, and on the He issued an appeal to business fly leaf of which he had written farewell messages to the world. establishments, especially large in- The first move on the part of Defense Counsel Hill today was dustrial plants employing common tg file his bill of exceptions with Judge Anderson. These excep- labor, to cooperate in the drive to rid re based two-thikos 2 five) ddl f Jud Thayer € the country of unwelcome aliens. fee Artes sr Th on vo ings—pre) ce 0. uage nayer an Factories were asked to make a the verdict o e jury. thorough check of employes and to| “Tt appears —t the record that the finding of the jury was nee bahamas or pees ay He plainly wrong,” the bill read. “The defense seeks a review of e country a requisi’ e@ to employ- “ ma ait: the facts in the case as well as the law. ‘ ye Other government establishments | Judge Sanderson said he would give his decision at noon to- |will be called upon to join what is morrow on whether or not to present the case to a full bench. |planned as the greatest drive to The first move to carry the case to the federal court was round up thousands of foreigners,’ made today when associates of Hill conferred with the clerk of \who have gained “unlawful” entry in- ha' federal Gistrat 4* eEGUe het f tition f er to the country. Careful check of en- the federal district court about the form of a petition for a writ jlistment applications made by aliens of habeas corpus. | will be sought. Warden William Hendry stated that he was ready to carry In Ford’s Footsteps. out the death sentence, that the electric chair had been tested | Secretary Davis said his plan fol- by the executioner and that all electric wiring had been gone over. |lows one adopted by Henry Ford sev- Meanwhile, the prison is under heavy guard, with a special 1. btn Hen ct Natibig Word, mPiey? yomb squad of picked men from the Boston police department to , (Cortinued on Page Five) } (Continued on Page Tigo) ” Campaign DEMONSTRATIONS WILL FREE THEM | ay