The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 3

We ge oon st Millions [SKETCHES OF LIVES OF SACCO, VANZETTI { BOSTON, Aug. 11.—Nicola Sacco! is 33 years old. He was born in| Torremaggiore, Italy, where he re-| mained until he was 17. Came to! America, became shoe cutter, | from 1910 to 1917; went to Mexico! to avoid draft, returned months later; worked at Stough-' ton, Mass. Survivo Wife, Mrs. Rose Sacco, son, Sante, fourteen, daughter, Inez, six, born four! months after Sacco’s arrest; all] ae father Michaele, and brother, | Sabino, in Torremaggiore. Mother | died in 1920, and he was contem- | rlating return to Italy to comfort | father in old age when arrested. | Bartolomeo Vanzetti is 39, un-} married, born in Villa Falletto,| Italy, came to America . 1908,| worked as restaurant dish-washer| and pastry cook in New York,} worked in Cordage mills at Ply-| mouth, Mass., blacklisted after a/ jerks there and began to peddle | fish; only known relative is sister, | take her to see brother, Fuller Retreats Before World Blame,Paris Says PARIS, Aug. 11. — “They May | Live” was the flaring headline over | the story from Boston that the execu- tion of Sacco and Vauzetti had been delayed, printed in a. extra edition of the Communist ‘newspaper I] Hu- manite early today. The newspaper added: “Governor Fuller has retreated before the world- wide reprobation. Che working classes will now prevent the asszssin- ation of two innocent men.” Communist Deputy, Vaillant Cout- urier, wrote in an editorial: “Sacco and Vanzetti must not go to the death chair. We must snateh these two in- nocent men from the Massachusetts prison.” * Toronto Workers Held For Protest Meeting TORONTO, Aug. 11—5 men and 2 women were arrested here for demon- strating in front of the United States consulate with placards reading “Stop this judicial murder,” “Release Sacco and Vanzetti.” They were accom- panying a committee of workers who handed the American consul a resolu- tion demanding a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. worked for Milford shoe company) ! four} | | live in Malden, suburb of Boston,} | Signorina Luigia Vanzetti, of} | Turin, Italy, held there when! steamship company refused to! | Strike T ‘Class War Defense Is| Ready for New Fight | LONDON, Aug. 11. -— The English | | branch of the International Class War Prisoners’ Aid Society, which has ar- | ‘ranged a majority of the Sacco-Van- zetti demonstrations staged in Lon- ;don, began today to draw up plans | for a new campaign following the news that the Massachusetts govern- | or had granted the two prisoners aj | respite. + The secretary of the organization told International News Service that the society's efforts to obtain the re- lease of the two radicals would not be relaxed. “We are glad to see that our seven ‘years’ fight against the murderous tyranny of the American capitalists is bearing fruit,” the secretary of the! 'society said. “The world wide dem- onstrations have assuredly influenced the American authorities. These demonstrations will continue.” Buffalo Infested With ‘Police and State Cops | troopers and armed guards patrolling | all points of vantage, the Buffalo au- thorities are in readiness to break up any demonstrations which may take place here for Saeco and Vanzetti. ‘Governor Holds Sacco- Vanzetti Resolutions RENO, Nevada, Aug. 11.—Gov- | | ernor Balzar of Nevada, has disclosed the fact that he has been interceptin, | resolutions from workers and sym. | pathetic organizations here demand- | |ing the liberation of Sacco and Van- | | zetti. This obediant tool of the west- | | ern bosses-has refused to be a mem-| ber of the proposed committee of gov- | ernors to investigate the Massachu- setts proceedings. He has wired gov- ernor Fuller that he entirely approves | of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. . * e Barbers’ Union Urges Green to Call Strike MC KEESPORT, Pa., Aug. 11—At a meeting at the Maltas Temple here, | local 522 of the Journeymen Barbers | International Union of America| | passed resolutions declaring their} convictions that Sacco and Vanzetti| are innocent and demanding the im- mediate release of the two men. A further resolution demands that president Green of the American Federation of Labor call a general strike on behalf of Saceo and Van- zetti. Copies of the resolutions were | sent to governor Fuller and to Green, ei BUFFALO, Aug. 11.—With state/tried in a speech to dissuade the| | squadron, to defend th jin A Socialist Murderer ROMP RR Above is Burgomeister Seitz, So- mayor of Vienna, who not only workers from overthrowing the cap- italist government there, but organs ized a large armed guard to kill them when they persisted. He keeps the guard, as a kind of personal gunman clericals, who fascism and the turn rule for League of Nations. He not only crushed the workers revolt in Vienna with his “Muni- cipal militia” but prohibited demon- strations for Sacco and Vanzetti. Newark Strikers Want Sacco, Vanzetti Free NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 11. — Rep- resentatives of the 35,000 Newark workers who have been out on a two day protest strike met in Amalga- and passed resolutions denouncing the proceedings of the Massachusetts courts Judge Thayer’s conduct during the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and de- manded an “immediate and uncondi- | |tional release” of the two innocent|Stamford Workers Hold men. - * Ps \Franciscans Appeal for Sacco and Vanzetti LAUSANNE, Aug. 11.—An appeal of Assisi in Italy has been received by Bishop Brent of New York, presi- order now in session here. * * % Belfast Workers Hold Mass Protest Meeting o Put Pressure on Legal Murderers ‘Montevideo Tied Up by 'A Huge General Strike MONTIVIDEO, Aug. 11.—Street ears heavily guarded by soldiers of the regular army were the sole sign that any wheels were still moving during the Sacco and Vanzetti gen- eral strike here. All commercial es- tablishments were closed, cabs did not appear on the streets, and no newspapers were published. ' At a huge meeting of the workers in the afternoon, speakers reviewed the whole Sacco and Vanzetti case and told how the two innocent men had been railroaded to the death house by the Massachusetts class courts. ai = BS Police Wound Holland Communist Deputy AMSTERDAM, Aug. 11. -— The | Communist Deputy Visser was wound- ed today during a clash oetween the police and Saeco-Vanzetti »ympathiz- ers. The police intervened in Saceo-Van- zetti mass meetings at the Hague and Rotterdam. Pravda Warns Thayer \What Workers Will Do “MOSCOW, Aug. 11-—The official Soviet newspaper Pravda today warned the judge who sentenced Sacco and Vanzetti of “similar destruction,” | saying: “The proletarians have learned from the capitalists how to kill scientific- ally. Judge Thayer and others in the same chair in which Communists die.” | * * * | | Basel Bomb Is Exploded Near a Protest Meeting | time bomb exploded in a tramway sta- |mated Clothing Workers’ Hall here | tion telephone booth last night, injur- j ing 15 persons, one seriously. The ers were staging a Sacco Vanzetti demonstration. * * * Protest at City Hall STAMFORD, Conn. Aug. 11, — | 2,000 workers and sympathizers dem- | onstrated on the steps of the Stam- | ford city hall Monday night in a Sac- |eo and Vanzetti protest. Mrs. Man- | for the liberation of Sacco and Van-| heim, George Si kind, Wm. McKenzie |zetti from the Order of St. Francis | and others addressed the crowd. * * |dent of the conference on faith and SevenSwissTowns Want Sacco-Vanzetti Freedom GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 11.— In a protest demanding that Sacco and Vanzeiti be liberated in language | tional Some day the workers will place | | BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 11. — al * , © | bombing took place while sympathiz- | | | “Sacco-Vanzetti Case to Be | STR Made Into Photoplay By 16,000 TRIKE Soviet Russia Company IN NEWARK FOR | mous Russian film “Mother” will wees ® | NE Baa ES BIEN BERLIN, Aug. 11.—A film based | by a German film concern for the| { SOUS = js 3) \Police Disperse Big City direct the Sacco-Vanzetti drama. Au Ohio Militiamen Guard |" Scared State Capital | att fated day mor COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 11.— Fear of whai the workers might do in reprisal for the crime which was to be committed against Sacco and Vanzetti reached such a pitch here tha the Ohio Na- guard, 16 infantry have ‘been stationed at the capital. eS uth down tools < CubanWorkers Demand ,_ Sacco, Vanzetti Free |: HABANA, Cuba, Aug. 11.— A meeting of the representati of various trade bodies here has issued a protes gainst the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Trades Council whe co-operation la qui “th appealed to for y tabled the re- Police Refuse Permit. On Tuesday morning hundreds up-| # on hundreds of workers gathered be- | i s of the Clothing t. and So, Orange hearing the report, the used to issue a permit in Laurel Garden, Granite Cutters Strike In Big Quincy Protest) jfore the headquarte QUINCY, Mass.; Aug. 11—Al| Workers at 12th | granite cutters of Quincy and vicinity| Ave. After | went out on a protest strike for Sacco | city officials , and Vanzetti yesterday. After a mass|for a mee | meeting in the afternoon the police| Springfield Ave. | were called out and organized on an} A motion was made to form a par- | emergency basis to be able to break| ade and march down to the City Hall |up any demonstration in which the/and protest the action of Acting Chief ‘droused workers might participate. |of Police Harris and Commissioner |} | Gillen for refusing to issue permits |for meetings in Halis and Military |Warsaw Police Arrest [pin ‘the workers, led by Nathan Four Before Legation | ‘einman, a representative of the A. i \C. W. of A., preceded their march. | WARSHAW, Poland, Aug. 11.—| The ranks of the parade increased | Warsaw police are having their hands|as the march proceeded down So.|@ full arresting curious passers-by who | Orange Ave. to Broad St. to the City | {stop to look at the heavy guards}Hall. There the several thousand | | thrown around the American legation| workers were greeted by Acting Chief | {here. Four arrests were made yes- | Harris and a squad of uniformed and | jterday. Protests continue to be re-|civilian police. The chief said he was | ceived by the United States officials| sorry but that he had not the power | altho the fascists are doing all in|to grant the permit. The workers their power to prevent demonstrations {hen shouted and yelled that they de- jof any kind. mand the freedom of Sacco and Van- | . 4 . \zetti. They marched back over Broad | j St. and passed Military Park up Cen- Porto Rican Workers |tral Ave, to Washington St., to Mar- | Wire Fuller Protest | ket St. to the court house, where the | |workers stopped and shouted, “We| | SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Aug. 11.| Want Justice for Sacco and Vanzetti.” | At a mass meeting held in the| The march then proceeded back to | Plaza Colon here resolutions were|the headuarters. The parade went | [sent to governor Fuller demanding | all thru the busi section of the | ‘that he release Sacco and Vanzetti. | city and demonstrated to the business | The editors of five San Juan daily | interests that the workers of Newark ir i * k | | | Sacco-Vanzetti | Meeting to protest the execution of 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. PAGES— 25 Cents 32 Communist Analyst aod Theory. Marxins Lavine Con ception and. Inter pr Phe. nomena of Secial Truth about Soviet Russia 25 Cents a Copy $2.00 a Year Canada, Chicago, and Foreign countries, $2.50 a year. Sample copii | Saceo and Vanzetti was held here yes- | terday. The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti Felix Frankfurter | ‘Russian Party Sternly Warns Opposition By (Continued from Page One) |intern. In carrying out this poliey the opposition openly ignored the This book by a professor of Harvard—a_ trained Belfast, Ireland, Aug. 11.—A mass! division of the Party’and of the Com- | | So strong that the telegraph offices | newspapers have united in protest-| were convinced that these two Italian at first refused to forward the mes-! ing to governor Fuller to prevent the| workers were innocent of the crime} sage, seven principal Swiss towns| killing of Sacco and Vanzetti which |for v h they were convicted. have taken their stand against the | they characterize as an “irreparable Manhandle Workers. execution of the two condemned men. judicial crime. In the afternoon a meeting was held - a ro ae a =e in Montgomery hall where speakers Re ee er RC EAE eT 4 [ Defends Expelled Group. {from the local organizations affiliated | ‘Borah Refuses to Ask || “In regard to the second question| With the Newark Sacco and Vanzetti | | |'we recognize that the German Com-| conference add d the workers. J. | |munist movement has threatened di-|0. Bentall appeared as a representa- | |rect dissension and the formation of | tive of the Sacco and Vanzetti Emer- {two parties. Obeying the resolutions | gency Committee of New York. The }of the Comintern regarding the in-| workers were urged to strike Wednes- |admissability of organizational con-|day, to boycott Massachusetts made wm "Secret Sacco-Vanzetti Files Be Made Public 1} | | | anti-Soviet and anti-Party forces| | which are watching for the moment | | when they will be able to act openly | jagainst the revolution. | Tried to Correct Errors. | The plenum during its long ses- | | sions did its utmost to help the op- | | position emerge from the swamp in| which they had placed themselves.| | immediately made public. Borah| | Nevertheless a real guarantee of | | refused on the grounds that it was | | peace is still lacking. The whole} | too late to stay the execution of | Party perceives the evident insuffi-| | the doomed by publication of the |ciency of the oppositions’s deelara-| | evidence in the department of! tion, which reserves to itself loop- | | justice files. But he promised to| holes at many points for a renewal | join a movement for the publica-| of the struggle against’ the Party.| | tion of such evidence at a later | | Further developments depend en- | time. . |tirely upon the leaders of the op-|| Other prominent WASHINGTON, D. C.,.Aug. 11.) —Senator Borah of Idaho yester- day refused to sign a petition to) President Coolidge, Secretary of! | State, Kellogg and Attorney Gen-| eral Sargent demanding that the! files of the Attorney General on} the Saeco and Vanzetti case be and responsible ‘lawyer —created widespread discussion on its appear- ance. It is brief, popular sum- mary of the thousands of pages of evidence pre- sented in this case. $1.00 Cloth Bound nection with the expelled Urbahns,| goods, to march on to Boston and to | Maslov group, we simultaneously | fight for elimination from public of- | emphatically suggest and will use|fice of Chas. P. Gillen who has set all our efforts to attain, inside the} 1] | Comintern, a revision of the decision | |to expel this group, as among those | jexcluded from the Party are hun- |dreds of old revolutionary workers, | closely bound to the working masses, jattached to Lenin’s work and ready {sincerely to defend the U, S. S. R. |to the end. The creation of a second |Party in Germany would involve tre-| ;mendous ‘dangers. We consider it | imperative to take all measures pos-| sible to avoid this danger. We sug-| |gest that the Central Committee of | |the Communist Party introduce the | police under the direction of Lieuten- | himself up as a tyrant and czar in the city. In the evening thousands of work- | ers appeared in Military Park but the | ant O’Connor were stationed there to | prevent any meeting. Under orders | of Acting Chief Harris many workers | were manhandled and two were ar- | rested for not moving fast enough. Irving Freeman and the committee in | charge of the meeting were rushed out of the park. | Forbids Meeting. Next Number Out | July 25th. | It will be a combination of July-August issues. | Retail price the same—25 cents. ; THE BEST EVER. | tion number one we stand uncondi- | position. The Party will watch most intently how the leaders of the opposition will in practice fulfil their promises, If their declaration meets a similar fate as declaration of October 16th, so much the worse for the opposition. In any case the Party will be able to assure its unity despite the leaders of the opposition. Opposition for Defense. The full text of the opposition is signed by Avdeev, Bakaev, Zino- viev, Evdokimov, Kemenev, Lizdin, |Muralov, Peterson, Piatakov, Rakov- sky, Smilga, Soloviey and Trotsky “Leaving alone the polemical form of the questions put to us, we reply to the gist of the matter: On ques- and published®in Pravda as follows: | politicians | signed the appeal. { |feat all bourgeois countries fighting against U. S. S. R.’; ‘Every honest preletarian in a capitalist country must work actively to defeat his |“own” government’; ‘Every foreign the Red Army, being the army of the | country of all toilers’; |tober 25, 1917. Our ‘national’ (Lenin) war will be war ‘for the So- | viet republic as a detachment of the all-world army of socialism. ‘Our “national” war is not issue towards a bourgeois country, but an issue to- | wards socialist revolution.’ (Lenin.) Whoever isnt’ a defender of the U. S, S. R. is an absolute traitor to the in: | soldier unwilling to assist the slave-' |holders of “his” country should join: “We are its defenders since Oc-' On Wednesday a committee of the Newark Sacco and Vanzetti Confer- | ence went down to the office of Gil- len. After attempting to evade the committee, Gillen’s subordinate finally admitted them. He backed down from his ezarlike attitude and told the com- ittee that he was sorry but that the joard of Commissioners had decided | § that no sting could be held in be- half of Sacco and Vanzetti; but that | # the Military Park could be had for any other kind of meeting. | Due to the action of the city offi- | cials no meeting could be held Wed- “As regards the third question we|nesday evening despite the fact that emphatically denounce all attempts | hundreds of work appeared. The at the formation of a second Party.| American Civil Liberties Union tele- ; We consider the idea of a second! graphed its unconditional protest to Party within the U. S. S, R.an ab-! Mayor Raymond inst the actions | solute peril to the revolution, We| of the City Commissioners, | following measures thru the E. C,| Goh | (1) Provided the press organ ‘of the Urbahns group be closed and ‘that group agrees openly to obey | all decisions and resolutions of the) Comintern’s congresses they may re- turn to the Comintern, (2) All those who accept these, |terms will have the right to defend! their views in the general Party | press and in general in ranks of the| Party and the Comintern, Denounce Second Party Idea. tionally and absolutely for the de- | fense of our socialist country from | imperialism. We are naturally un-| conditionally and absolutely for the defense of the U. S.S. R. under pres- ent guidance of the Executive Com- ‘fi mittee of the Communist Inter- '}| national. Qualifies Statement, “At the same time we preserve our conviction that even during war the Party cannot renounce tho right to criticize and correct the Central |Committee’s tactics should they prove wrong. Our proposition is that the resolution on international questions must introduce, among Watch for the announcement of contents. REAL TIMELY ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. The COMMUNIST 1113: W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL, request, free. ‘ others, the following slogans: ‘De- ternational proletariat will fight with all forces and all! Sees Thermidorianism. /means against all tendencies toward “With regard to thermidorianism | two parties. As absolutely and em-| we say: The elements of thermido- | phatically as we denounce the policy| rianism, with sufficiently serious so-| of dissension we shall comply with| cial basis, are growing in the coun-|all resolutions of the Communist| was arrested after the Sacco-Van- \try. We dont’ doubt that the Party) Party and its Central Committee. | zetti demonstration in Union Square | \and the proletariat with Lenin’s tac-;We are willing to do absolutely| Tuesday denies that he had attempted jties and inside Party democracy will everything to bring about the annihi-} to disassociate himself from the par- over¢ome these forces. What we lation, in all elements of. the Party,| ade by telling the magistrate in the | demand is that Party leaders should | of fractons formed, due to the fact, night court that “it was a Communist | show more systematic and firm re-| that under conditions of perversions| demonstration and that he was a so-| sistance to these dangers and their of our stand inside the Party regime. cialist.”. The DAILY WORKER pub- influence upon certain parts of the| we were compelled to fight to make | lished a report to that effect in yes- A CORRECTION Samuel H. Friedman, socialist, who | ( Party. We renounce the idea al-| our actual views, which were incors| terday’s issue. leging that our Bolshevist Party, its| rectly stated in the press and read Central Committee and Gentral Con-| by the entire country, known to the|did not attend the trial as a charac- trol Commission has become thermi-| Party.” Algernon Lee, Friedman declared, ter witness but as a defense witness. | > . A Partia re ictory for Our Armv The ten days’ reprieve for Sacco and Vanzetti, is a partial anda temporary victory for the Daily Worker Army ™2 ag It is a concrete proof of the power of our proletarian army to develop such a mass sentiment, that even in black Massachusetts, the hand of the executioner is stayed, for a time. CMOMO] We must not forget that the capitalist class is determined to take the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, because of the rising forces of labor for which they stand. aa 3 It therefore become; our duty to build our army, bigger and stronger for the next attack. 228 Thousands of new readers must be added to our ranks to carry on the fight until complete victory is won, until Saeco and Vanzetti leave Charlestown jail as free men.