The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 1

{ TRE DAILY WoRKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR # LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 180. | FINAL CITY | | EDITION | THE DAILY Wo Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offiee at New York. N. ¥.. uuder the act of March 3, 1879, MER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New Yerk, by mail, $8.00 per yoar. Outside New York, by mail, $600 per year. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1927 Published Daily PUBLISHING CO. 38 First Street, New York, M. Y. except Buuday by THE DAILY WOREER Price 3 Cents Ten Days Remain to Fight To Save Sacco and Vanzetti Current Events By T. J. O'Famenry, ¢ACCO and Vanzetti are still living, if the term can be applied to the terrible existence under which two heroes of the class struggle have been force’ to suffer for seven agonizing years. They are still living because the hands of the Massachusetts hang, men were halted by the giant protest of the workers of the world. Our comrades are still breathing in their death cells not because of the exist- ence of a spark of what is commonly known as humanity in the hearts of the capitalists of New England. In- deed it is doubtful if the annals of history can show another instance of an executive holding off a reprieve deliberately until a few bare minutes before the clock would tick the fatal hour, This fact alone puts the x-ray on the black, class-prejudiced heart of governor Alvan T. Fuller. ee eae Pe capitalists kill thousands of people daily in their exploiting pens thruout the United States. Some- times it is done violently; other times slowly. And it is done quite legally, because why should a capitalist gov- ernment, run in the interests of it- self make laws against itself. When little children are slowly poisoned by fatigue in southern cotton mills or TEXT BOOK OF MASSACHUSETTS WIRE UNMASKS. BOSS “JUSTICE” Fuller Is Warned What Murder Means The Central Executive Committee | of the Workers (Communist) Party. of American yesterday sent the fol- lowing telegram to governor Fuller | of Massachusetts: In these last hours before the con- summation of the monstrous crime of the legal murder of Sacco and| Vanzetti we demand that you heed the voice of the multitudes of work-| ers whose interest we represent. We | address the capitalist Governor of | Massachusetts not as a friend but as | a known and conscious enemy of our | class. i If you are deaf to the protests of | | tens of millions of toiling men and! | women throughout the world, and if! | you have ears only for your smug| | advisors of the financial districts of | Boston and New York, then we assure | you that the significance of your’ hideous action will be socially and| politically far deeper than you can} |dream. The execution of Sacco and! | Drown hr FRED ELLIS | AGE QF TWO WORKERS BEFORE FULL BENCH OF STATE SUPREME COURT Defense Asks Order to Force Judge Sanderson to Grant Writ of Error for Thayer’s Bias BULLETIN. That Governor Fuller and his Executive Coun- August 22nd was clearly in- Eugene B, Fraser of Lynn, a BOSTON, Aug. 11. cil intend to murder Sacco and Vanzetti dicated by a statement issued today by | member of the council. } “I believe,” he declared, “that the council would be inclined not to grant the respite again.” Commenting on the reprieve granted to the framed-up workers last night, Fra d, “We felt there was a moral barrier, altho no legal one on the execution.” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) BOSTON, Aug. 11.—Ten days more of torture and then death; or, 10 days more of waiting and then freedom, and restora- tion to the ranks of the working class. This is the alternative resulting from the reprieve until Au- gust 22, granted Sacco and Vanzetti by Governor Fuller. Nicola Sacco says it is just 10 days more of torture; 10 days more added to the agony of more than seven years’ imprison- ment since they were arrested in 1920. Sacco continues his hun- ger strike. Rosa Sacco resumes her daily visits to the Charlestown prison, where the cloth cover has again been placed over the elec- adults die from the effects of poisons | Vanzetti will steel the hearts of the! in factories, there is no danger| masses with loathing and hatred of | that those responsible will face an| the capitalist system which you repre-: electric chair. The capitalists are not! sent, s particularly anxious to kill workers} tric chair in the death chamber. | UP TO WORLD WORKERS. It is in the hands of the world’s working class now, as before SS 1] j | j in,electric chairs. They prefer to wear them out in factories, making profit out of them meanwhile. But when workers like Sacco and Van- zetti, or Tom Mooney or Bill Hay- wood, jeopardise their profits from human toil, they -have no more -seruple about snuffing out a human life than a dog would have in killing a rabbit. 3 * ed r was a splendid and encouraging sight:—millions of workers - all over the world rallying as one to save two men they never saw. Two men who were only known in a small cir- cle until the time of the frame-up. But because those two are workers, their comrades in every land stood by them. And the protests of labor in foreign countries had as much to do with halting the hangman as the protests of the workers in the United States. If Sacco and Vanzetti burn in the chair American capitalists“and American goods. will be as popular in Europe, Asia and South America as rattle snakes in a bed veom. » * * HE Saceo-Vanzetti movement shows what tremendous power is wielded by the militant radical minority in the labor movement. The old bureau- crats had nothing to say, except for an apologetic appeal from Green to Fuller. The Fullers know their Greens-and do not take their appeals seriously. And the Greens are fast frittering away whatever in- fluence they originally had with the masses thru their policy of co-opera- ting with the capitalists and making war on the militants. Despite the ab> sence of the bureaucrats, hundreds of thousands of workers thruout the United States participated in ‘giant *- demonstrations and strikes. The capitalists will not think more of their labor lieutenants after this’ demonstration of labor solidarity. * * * - ECENTLY, and here in New York particularly, the socialist bureau- erats blocked every effort at a united front on. the Sacco-Vanzetti case. This conduct seriously impaired the power of the struggle to save them from the chair. But at the last moment, when: it appeared that Sacco and Vanzetti | were about to be offered up as a sacrifice on the altar of @Jass justice the masses swept aside all‘those who would play with the lives of two workers and there has been more real solidarity displayed during the last week between all sections of the la- | bor movement than at any time since the drive to save Tom Mooney. * * ” 4 Maeelen who would indulge in false optimism now, about the. results of the moves being made by the Mas- sachusetts authorities, between now and August 22nd, would be danger- ously sapping the strength of the pro- test necessary to free our comrades from the threat of death. Sacco and Vanzetti have no hope that a spirit of justice will prevail among the rulers of Massachusetts on the eleventh hour. That spirit of justice, like all other spirits, is a drug that kills those who rely on it. We have no confidence that there is anything else in the eleventh-hour stunt of Fuller and his confidantes except a ruse to pull the guts dut of the Jabor protest and to exhaust it. William ; In your action and that of Thayer |and the so-called “advisory commit-! | tee” behind whose secret and preju- | diced actions you seek to hide. The, | working class cannot be deceived, but 'ean only learn hatred and contempt |for capitalistic courts and capitalist | class justice. “This judicial murder i will open the eyes of millions of | American workers to the nature of jcapitalist class dictatorship which istalks in the clothes of democracy. | Like a blind bourbon you play ‘with legal phrases and try. to cover your! |shame with the report of a secret investigation by notorious class ene- | mies of your victims. But the tens of ‘millions of toilers of all countries know that their brothers, Sacco and Vanzetti, are innocent and that you participate in judicial murder. | Your action of class hatred will awaken, in turn, the class conscious- ness of millions of workers. The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti is a challenge and a defiance to the working class whose opinions and feelings you hold in contempt. The challenge is answered in countless strikes and movements which will! ngthen our class organizations | ruggle against your class. } BOSTON PICKETS CONTINUE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF SACCO, VANZETTI Thirty-five Fined For Demonstrating In Front | Of State House and Vanzetti who have bravely stood their ground through, BOSTON, Aug. 11.—Mass arrests have not dampened the} seven years of tarlure oe innocent | spirits of the thousands of workers and intellectuals who have | and the exploited toilers know! i 36 , ; ; aes Ghee ahinielan de eeeeceays| streamed into Boston to demand the immediate and unconditional uirs will be irrevocable, Your name release of Sacco and Vanzetti. Today thirty-five demonstrators il he known to coming generations | H roku He shame and reaction. | all y igid § on | rose as a unit and pleaded guilty to Be shes t at fod do not a | violating the city ordinance regard- with this irrevocable crime. e de- ing loitering, paying $5 fines. They . niand. that eur working class brothers as ba Result i || were arrested while staging ‘a “death’ { be freed. | ‘ ‘ ms ss # watch” in front of the State House Central Executive Committee Work- , yesterday in protest against the le- ers (Communist) Party of America. | New Yo k i tse murder of Sacco and Van- rkers Hurt :: Reorganize Budget of | George Kraska and Bertram D. i | | Wolfe, member of Central Executive | Mexican Government | Twenty persons were injured in a|Committee of the Workers (Com-| jrear end collision of elevated train on! munist) Party, pleaded guilty and | the Front. Street curve near South| were held for trial tomorrow. George) | Ferry station during the morning rush|T, Tettle changed his plea to guilty; hour yesterday. Scores of excited! and was fined $5. rs dent Calles as part of his financial | passengers were taken down ladders iia: was. the -secoud row of | reorganization policy, according to! from the blocked tracks. A series of “death watch” ickets p aed a ‘an: an official statement from the treas- | small fires, started by short circuits, ae 39h: nee been au. ty yes- ury department. jfollowed the crash, which filled the | 0’? ep : MEXICO CITY, Aug. 11. — ‘A radical change in the Mexican budget system was decreed today by. Presi- Darts Goes to Confer With Coolige On New | MOOSEHART, Ill, Aug. 11. —} | Secretary of Labor James J. Davis lleft here today for Rapid City, |S. D., for a special conference with President .Coolidge, at which | plans will be made for a drive against alien “radicals.” RUSSIAN PARTY STERNLY WARNS | midnight on Wednesday, to say whether it is to be more days of torture, then death, or whether the ruling class finger that sought at Wednesday midnight to press the button carrying the current of death into the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti is to be defeated in its purpose. it must be, “Close ranks for victory over reaction. ranks to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.” q Saeco and Vanzetti still live. Long live Sacco and Vanzetti! Close BOSTON, Aug. 11.—Three new legal moves, in the attempt to save from murder Sacco and Vanzetti, were made in the courts here today as an aftermath to a new twelve-day respite granted the world-famous prisoners. Judge George A. Sanderson in supreme court agreed that he had “the power and duty” to send to the full bench defense coun- sel exceptions to his decision in refusing a writ of error based on the prejudice of trial Judge Webster Thayer. ~ Tho it must have been known at the state house early Wednesday that Judge Sanderson was at least very seriously con- templating this move, Governor Fuller delayed until forty minutes \before the time of execution before allowing a respite, so that | Sacco and Vanzetti would be alive when the case came before the ' full bench. ® Hendry Waits Longer. | In this act of intolerable cruelty, | Governor Fuller had the complete co- }operation of Warden Hendry |Charlestown prison, who, knowing that the reprieve was granted, held | back knowledge of it still longer from hopeful, The p that stayed the execution defi y arranged for last night, the of labor in mass demonstration, is still the only powér that affords the slightest chance that of these two martyred workers will be saved. ixceptions Filed. po’ of the two innocent workers waiting in’ But meanwhile, the first steps in the shadow of the electric chair. the courts have already been taken, | Waited until only thirteen minutes) fo; whatever they are worth. jbefore the first of them was sche- |duled to be burned to death, before lintimating to them that they had |twelve more days to live. | Indignant public comment turns Defense exceptions filed in Norfolk County Superior Court to the rulings of Judge Thayer in deny- ing a new trial and refusing a stay and revocation of sentence on the were jaround the question as to whether or not Governor Fuller and Warden Hendry were planning a little illegal yexecution of their own, death by men- |tal torture, hoping that the shock in s t a te me nt {their weakened condition would put jan end to one of the serious problems |facing the cotton mill government of | Massachusetts. MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—By issuing a} Legal Battle Begins Again. statement repudiating part of their The legal processes from now on past errors Leon Trotsky, and their | are very complicated, and not any too supporters, Gregory Zinoviev escaped | phe eal ae 3 THE OPPOSITION Trotsky Leaves Loophole Same grounds—prejudice. Both these appeals go to the full bench of the supreme court, five members having been summoned to Boston to sit on Monday, At the same time an application for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in federal district court. It appeared only as a matter of record as Asso- ciate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (Continued on Page Two) Under the new order a budget com- ‘street below with splintered glass. terday following the’ first demonstra- expulsion from the Central Committee | mittee will be established and all fu- Motorman Thomas Shine, of the ete ture budgets will be prepared by this | Astoria train, told deputy fire chief body before presentation to the con-| Henry Halm that the signals at the | gress. / Front Street curve were not working. Make the Victory Complete! The gigantic power ‘of the masses has robbed the arms of the electric chair of its victims for a short period of ten days. The merciles#Tuling class has faltered in its evil purpose be- fore the mighty wave of protest of millions of workers throughout the world. But let not any worker be deceived by this strategic retreat, for it is nothing more. The capitalist. class thirsts for the blood of labor’s' two champions, Sacco and Vanzetti. Only the mightiest efforts of labor will save them from the executioner’s hand. f The DAILY WORKER has given itself completely to the fight for the freedom- for Sacco and Vanzetti. It has exhausted and will continue to exhaust every resource at its command to this end. It has become indeed “Labor's voice for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti.” This voice must go on and grow in volume, if they are to be saved. But we are hard pressed. The demands of the fight and the demands of our own case before the Federal Grand Jury have strained our resources to the limit. We want to keep up the fight until Sacco and Van- zetti are free. We must keep up the fight. Wéill.you help us do so by contributing on the occasion of the Sacco and Vanzetti-reprieve, to the GUARD THE. DAILY WORKER: FUND, _ so that our paper may complete the job, it has so valiantly begun? ~ - : geecterag a Arrest Six More. Six Yonkers, N. Y., men were ar- (Continued on Page Two) ‘of the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The statement, howevef, is not | what is ought to be, in view of the | grave breaches of Party discipline and the open covert relations carried ‘on with the expelled elements in Ger- many. This fact is recognized by the | Pravda, which today emphasises the fact that by its decision toward the opposition the joint plenum of the Central Executive Committee and the Central Control Commission acted correctly and wisely, and declares ‘that the highest criterion must al- | ways be the interests of Patty peace |and Party unity. | Realized Opposition Dangers. ps The point at issue during the |plenum was a just comprehension lof the various phases thru which the | opposition struggle against the Party has passed and the phase that it now enters. This latest phase of the op- position tactics represented a danger- ous transition from a policy of op- positional struggle to a policy of a (Continued on Page Three) SACCO CONTINUES HUNGER STRIKE; MRS, SACCO REVIVED FROM COLLAPSE ‘Both Workers Faced Death With Unexampled Composure; Vanzetti Glad He Will See Sister BOSTON, Aug. 11.-—Nicola Sacco today began the first day of his twelve-day respite by refusing food. It was the 26th day of his hunger strike. Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who has fasted for nine days, drank a cup of coffee and ate a little food. ° Both men have been removed from the death house to the slightly more cheerful quarters, called the “Cherry Hill Section’ of the state prison. Mrs. Sacco, somewhat recovered following her collapse, went |to the death house and pleaded with her husband to take food. \ Te refuged. | The prison physician said that he saw no reason for forcible | feeding at present. (Continued on Page-Two)