The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 4

age Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1927 - HE DAILY WORKER Published by tie DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday Phone, Orchard 1680 Addrezs: “Daiwork” b) Firat Street, Nsw Yor! ie b SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 38.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $8.50 six months i $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } BESS | WILLIAM §. DUNNE i(¢¢°°"**¢s*7tts ORT MILER <6 cons .ceeecenscss + business Manager ntered as second-class mai! at the post-office at New Yerk, N. Y., undes the act of March 3, 1879. “Advertising rates on applicariom >. Hammond, Who Faced Death Sentence Like Coward, Despises Courage of Sacco and Vanzetti. John Heys Hammond was one of the first to congratulate ‘overnor Fuller for his decision to burn Sacco and Vanzetti to eath in the electric chair. Probably this member of the civic 2deration, mi ator and engineer who is one of the talwarts of pr American capitalism, feels a deep hatred 1 his craven hi when he compared the defiant attitude of acco and Vanzetti, these two workmen who face death, with his wn attitude when he, himself, was sentenced to death in the| ransvaal in South Africa after the Jameson raid. Through the intervention of friends John Hays Hammond ‘as saved from a sentence of death imposed upon him; his sen- ence was af s commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment and inally he ed on payment of a heavy indemnity. Ham- ; loathsomely cowardly. Instead of defiance, time to whining and grovelling and fairly nds to come to his aid. His idea is that the nder-dog must always crawl instead ef fighting, and when one f the suppressed class dares to show courage it reminds Ham- iond of his own past. Hammond, a member of the ruling class, might conceivably ave been innocent of the crime charged against him. But he 3 far too c conscious to concede for a second that workers tho dare challenge his class might be innocent. Like the rest of res that they ought to be exterminated anyway or innocent of the crime charged against them. Mn general princi; Hammond, Fuller and the rest of the mur- er gang favor wholesale murder of class conscious workers. hond’s conduct w fammond devoted } hrieked for The Respite Is for the Murder Conspirators. Before the monster wave of international protest on the part f the working class and sympathetic elements from other walks} f life the miserable conspirators plotting to burn to death Sacco nd Vanzetti have hesitated.‘ To gain a respite for themselves hey had to grant a respite to Sacco and Vanzetti. It was not Fuller’s respect for so-called justice that caused sim to grant a stay of execution to these tortured victims of class engeance. It was the fact that he and the rest of the malignant he |amusement park is. ‘uling class of this country feared the consequences of the sum- nary execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The wave of indignation vas rising ever higher and the Massachusetts gang of vultures snew that the execution at the hour set would have been the ignal for such outbursts of mass fury as this country had never vitnessed. But even in their respite to Saeco and Vanzetti they played heir familiar roles of fiends incarnate. They forced these work- ‘rs to remain in ignorance of their immediate fate until a few noments before the time set for the execution. The lights in he prison were dimmed at the usual time in the evening and then yegan the long wait for the hour of midnight. When, a few noments before, Sacco and Vanzetti heard footsteps and the clash of iron barns swinging outward they must have thought the end iad come. This is monstrous. But the execution is only post- yoned if the Massachusetts murderers have their~way. The ‘espite was more for them than for Sacco and Vanzetti because -hey hope that during the next ten days the movement for libera- sion will die down and that then they can wreak vengeance upon these workers for daring to try to organize slaves in the mill towns of that benighted state as a sinister warning to other vorkers. Fe But the workers must take advantage of this respite of ten more days to increase a thousand-fold their demonstrations. In the United States, in spite of the mass arrests and terror that exists in some places, the workers must fight with every weapon ‘at hand against the consummation of the murder plot against Sacco and Vanzetti. H The American workers must again appeal to the workers of ‘all other countries to’ mobilize their mass power before the Amer- jean embassies, launch the boycott of American goods, make it impossible for the plundering plutocracy of yankee imperialism to flaunt their brazen wealth in the faces of the European workers ‘and peasantry. Send the bloody monsters back where they came from and let them know in no uncertain terms that if Sacco and ‘Vanzetti die at the hands of the capitalist class of-this country, _ that capitalist class will pay dearly for its criminal folly. Already despised of all nations, known throughout the world as Uncle Shylock, the capitalist class of this country will cover it- ‘self with undying infamy unless Sacco and Vanzetti are freed. As to Fuller and his contemptible executive council and his ‘consultants, college professors, ex-attorneys general and all the ‘rest of the array of murder conspirators nothing will ever rehabil- itate them. Already they have tortured Sacco and Vanzetti with _ the agony of a hundred deaths. No matter what they as indi- | viduals may or may not do, their names will remain synonyms of Y. They may think that by torturing Saeco and Vanzetti ‘and attacking labor with the weapon of the frame-up they can _ prolong the system that gives them this power, but they are mis- ‘taken. Fuller, Thayer, Lowell, Stratton, Grant and the rest of | hem will be pilloried as murderers as long as they live and the _ time will come when the children of these men will blush with shame to bear the names of their degenerate sires. The Signal for a Drive on Foreign-Born Workers. James J. Davis, secretary of labor in the Coolidge cabinet, who is also a product of the notoriously venal Pittsburgh political machine controlled by Andrew W. Mellon, and the direct servant of the steel trust, is utilizing the world-wide interest in the Sacco and Vanzetti case to launch a drive against the foreign-born work- ers in the industries of this country. President Sigman and His Little | Coney Island | SSS By A. T. Here I am, 1,500 miles from New! York, at Storm Lake, Iowa. Entering the Citizens Bank, I inter- viewed the president, Mr. Schiller. In the course of our conversation I asked him if there is any place where one may be entertained. He _ in- formed me that across the lake there is a very fine amusement place, known as Casino Amusement Park. | Not only do the residents of the town go there for amusement, but the farmers of South Dakota, Nebraska, and from the entire corn belt, spend their vacations there, I inquired if knew who the owner of this/ With a wry smile upon his lips he told me that it is a Morris Sigman, the president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Thinks of Cloakmakers. Immediately I thought that this Mr. Schiller was picturing a host of thousands of cloak and dressmakers who were constantly battling for an opportunity to live like human be- ings, and here was their president, the proud owner of the Casino Amusement Park—or perhaps he thought, what kind of union is it which permits its president to engage in such an enterprise as the Casino Amusement Park? Mr, Schiller in- formed me that in the course of seven or eight years Mr. Sigman had de- veloped the park from practically nothing. Originally, Mr. Sigman had purchased about six acres, for which he paid $14,000, but every year he has puttup additions to the park, new buildings, various improvements, and has also bought additional land. “Tt is my opinion,” continued Mr. | Schiller, “that- Mr. Sigman must have put in, during the past seven or eight years, about $50,000.” After I saw Casino Amusement! Park, I was sure that Mr. Schiller was very conservative in his estimate, for the park is worth a good deal more. x Small Mortgage. “Undoubtedly, this must be a good! venture,” I remarked. : “No,” answered Mr. Schiller, “for| the past few years farming in this| section has not been very profitable, | d it must cost an enormous amount} to keep the place going. But in spite of all this, Mr. Sigman is continually | adding to it aH the time. His entire mortgage. on the Casino Amusement Park is only $5,000.” This last statement was very sur- prising to me. We have known for some time that Mr. Sigman had a farm, and it was always rumored that the farm was heavily mortgaged. Now it appears that the farm is an amusement park worth many thou- sands, and the entire mortgage is one of only $5,000. ‘ I left the Citizens Bank. My head was in a whirl. How was it possible for the president of the International amass such a fortune in such a short time. Other ideas crept into my head, but I pushed them aside. In a daze, I walked down to the lake. While standing there, I was greeted in a-vety.friendly manner by one of the residents. In answer to my ques-| tion about the amusement park, he told’ me that an enormous business} must be done there, for new additions were constantly being built. “At one time it was a ‘regular place’,” he “Arizona,” in Musical: From the bath house, six diving) Form—New Shipman boards lead into the lake. Apparent-/ ly, quite a number of people make Play on Way use of these accommodations. | The main attraction at this Little, Coney Island is the carousel. While the older people are spending their time in playing billiards or at the The Shuberts, in association with} Lawrence L, Weber, are preparing |for immediate presentation a musical | camal “Ari Pps owing valley) madithe growike at version of “Arizona,” with score by and girls are dancing, the children en-| Tee aes peers joy the aren aus |The cast is headed by: Berna Deane, | DOr. | Lora Sonderson, Alice Fischer, Estelle amen aumenr scammers eee said, slyly winking an eye, “but, the residents of the city began to talk about it, and now the place is a good deal quieter.” As we were talking two fishermen approached us, and, The majority of the workers at the Casino Amusement Park are young} school children. Adults are employed only at the bowling alley and in the} billiard room; for all other kinds of overhearing our conversation, re-| work, the young school children are| marked that the casino must belongjexploited. The highest wage paid is| to some crazy New York millionaire.|$50 per month, which, needless to) A Gold Mine. say, is paid to the adults. As to the| I stepped into the motorboat and|school children, Mr. Sigman gets| was taken across, The owner of the|away with paying them as little as! boat remarked that the Amusement| possible. j Park must be “a regular gold mine.” Of course, this is not quite the} “I remember the place When there|proper attitude for the president of) was nothing there,” he said, “but|the International Ladies’ Garment| since Mr, Sigman owns it, i | Workers’ Union to adopt, and when ing by leaps and bounds.” These few ‘ou examine the Show Card, (which | words were Ux 3 printed on a red background) you to get out of hi: As I alighted from the motorboat, ng. It can readily be seen that Mr. I noticed mrs. Sigman appiv. Sigman does not employ union labor It is not e to describe M: Sig-|of any kind; at any rate he evidently man—she a woman of average|dc2s not make it a point to do so. build, a brunette with chestnut-col-|And after all, why employ union la- oved hair, and her face and eyes re-|bor when one can do without it!! flect an open hostility tempered with Lease Concessions. craftiness. I was reminded of a the-| Well, let me not digress too much. is ee that the union label is also miss-+ Hunt, Jane Egbert, Hazel Moran, John Barker, John Rutherford and Joseph Macaulay. In dramatic form, | “Arizona” was very popular here in’ the 1890s. Lionel Barrymore, Vin- cent Serrano, Robert Edeson, Walter Hale, Arthur Byron and Theodore Roberts were members of the original cast, “The Decoy,” by Hugh Stanislaus Stange, opens Monday night in As- bury Park, prior to a Broadway show- ing. Hilda Vaughn, Frank Shannon, Joseph Kilgour, Malcolm Fassett, Florence Gerald, Frank Peters, Helen Dumas, Thomas Gunn head the cast of players. The Civic Repertory Theatre’s last season’s success, “Cradle Song,” Which goes on tour beginning Labor Day, will be out twenty-five weeks, visiting the principal cities, In addition to Allan Dinehart and Helen Chandler, who will play the two central roles in “Creoles,” Rich- vs. Will be seen shortly in “The People Mary Dugan,” a new play by Bayard Veiller. Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson, will play the principal leads in “Lone- some Ladies” which comes to Moss’ Broadway screen, beginning Monday. “The Russian Revolution,” a screen- ing of the events which took place in Russia during the revolution, will be | the j me. ory propounded by a German profes- Let us continue our stroll. sor: that when husband and wife re-| further away, close to the large bath Nash: side together for any length of time, wife’s physiognomy gradually changes, so that she acquires husband’s looks. | her | supplies. Afraid of Reception. | I did not spend much time inter-| one else. | viewing Mrs. Sigman, for I was ac-| Farther on, in the dense woods, tually afraid that I would be given|there are innumerable cottages. the same reception offered to my fel-| was impossible for me to count them, low-members in our union, and ‘that,/due partly to the mumber and the as a result, my investigation would) come to naught, The Casino Amusement Park is sit- uated in the very center of a farm-| ing community. Its hugeness amazed | The first building one notices is the} large casino. This building has many | wings. In one of them, which has just been newly added, is housed the skating rink, large enough to acco-| modate 500 people; following that is} the dance hall, which is much larger! and can easily take care of 500 cou- ples; further on is the billiard room with its five tables, and a complete bowling alley, Across the entire front of the building is a large sign, an- nouncing: “Dances, Games, Food, Drinks, and Cottages for Rent.” Nearby is the restaurant building, so built that it can comfortably accom- modate a couple of hundred diners. Large Bath House. Somewhat further away and near- er to the edge of the lake is a large bath house, where those who go in | the fact that I did not wish te arouse "S Teadied—the Mayfair Theatre—/ director of “The Big Parade.” at Moss’ Cameo Theatre, beginning Saturday. Flitting through its scenes are Lenin, Trotzky, the Czar, Ras- putin, the Priesthood, the Duma, Ker- ensky, and the Russian masses. On The play will open out the same program will be a film, the eptember 5 and come!“Log of the U-Boat 35”, and Charles |here the following week. Chaplin in “His Prehistoric Past.” A little! ard Herndon has engaged George , Natacha Rambova and Princess house, is a store where one may buy /Matohabelli for the cast of the new all kinds of fishing tackle and fishing lay b: : Mrs. Sigman explained tolbay pd cima Shipman and Ken- me that this is not operated by them,| of town oar but is a concession leased to some- The 55th Street Cinema has ar- ranged a King Vidor Week, commenc- ‘ing this Saturday, to be dedicated to Another little cinema theatre is be-| two of the early cinema-works of the The suspiciom in the mind of Mrs. Sig- Situated Forty-fourth Street announe-! films are “The Jack Knife Man” on man, who was constantly watching °° the opening of that house early in) Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tues- me. i September with an “ultra-distinctive| day, and “Wild Oranges” on Wednes- As dan be seen from this meagre policy of unusual motion pictures.” day, Thursday and Friday. ioaecn Pale Gor a Renal EMENTS, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION capital must be invested in it. In THE SENSATIONAL MOTION PICTURE IS HERE! my wildest phantasy I could not im- agine it possible that all of this could See the actual events and actual persons who figured in the great upheaval which shook the world! WAR! . be owned by Mr. Sigman. How is it FAMINE! REVOLT! The Cast: LENIN, possible for one whe is President of the International Garment Workers’ ‘TROTSKY, KERENSKY, RASPUTIN, THE TZAR, THE NOBILITY, THE MASSES Union to be able to amass such an All Play Their Part in This Picture enormous amount of money? I know that the Unity House, situated in “Greater than ‘Potemkin’ because this is not acted drama, but the real actual occurrences of the Russian Revolution.” It thickness of the trees, and also to: International, cost a considerable amount, and there are no carousels there, no shooting galleries, no bil- liard rooms, no skating rink. One can just imagine the cost of this| enormous business venture! ) Where Did It Come From? j Again and again the question came! Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to |to mind: where did it ¢ome from;| swimming may change their clothes. how is it possible for one to amass| Pennsylvania, which is owned by the At B. S. MOSS’ Refrigerated BEGINNING | tions consequent on the Sacco-Vanzetti case are going to have a) serious effect: upon the immigration laws at the coming session of congress.” Then follows an outline of Secretary Davis’ pro- | posed campaign. His first step is to induce employers to boycott aliens “who are in this country illegally” from getting work. The | term “‘illegally,” as employed by Davis, covers every foreign-born worker who objects to industrial despotism and tries to organize! a union or affiliate with one in order to better his condition or, the condition of his fellows. It does not mean simply the handful who are guilty of entering the country in violation of the im- migration laws, but all who, having complied with all regulations regarding entry, may later come to hold ideas not acceptable to the masters of industry. Like the rest of his tribe of labor-haters, Davis indulges in the dirty trick of connecting “bombings” with “radical demon- strations.”” This propaganda only adds proof to our contention that the bombings were the work of agents provocateur in the employ of the capitalist class and calculated to pave the way for a wave of unrestrained attacks against labor. It also emphasizes the fact that the Sacco and Vanzetti persecution is directed, not | so much at the two victims of the frame-up, but at the whole working class. Davis is prepared to suggest legislation at the next session of congress that will enable the government to register,and finger- print all foreign-born workers in the country. The employers are unanimously for this system because it enables them to main- tain a record for their blacklists of workmen who dare strive to| improve their condition through organization. | This renewed agitation for registering and fingerprintnig foreign-born workers is only the first step toward the regimenta-| tion of the whole working class, so that each worker in industry. will be properly recorded and his record filed for any use the em- |™ ployers or the government may desire to make of it. The work- lai ers in industry will be classified the same as criminals are listed! in a rogue’s gallery or in the army. All American labor must be alert to expose and smash this new conspiracy against the working class, otherwise every worxer will have to carry a government card and on request be forced to, present it to any one of the horde of plug-uglies and gangsters | who will be on the government pay-roll to aid the industrial mag-| nates keep their slaves in subjection. | This brazen threat should cause increased activity and sup-| port for the Councils for Protection of Foreign-Born Workers that are organized thruout the country. - | Registration of workers is also a part of the preparation for! an imperialist war that the United States government is preparing | for at break-neck speed. The war-mongers want their.lackeys in the government at Washington to have everything arranged so that industrial conscription can be established at any time it be- comes desirable. The fight against such legislation as is proposed by Secretary ef Labor Davis must be developed to gigantic proportions for it is a fight against the two-fold evils of industrial conscription and «gainst tue preparations of the war-mongers to again drench the _ The dispatch from Washington relating Davis’ new drive st labor stated that “bombings and other radical demonstra- bs pe i ‘sp earth in blood in order that the Wall Street gang may grow still inore rich and powerful. | and Radio such a large fortune? just one possible answer. There was This could jnot be owned by Mr. Sigman alone.| Perhaps there are a number of part- ne perhaps the banker, Mr. Schil- ler, made a mistake when he told me that there was just one mortgage of $5,000 on this. property. To satisfy my curiosity and to set my mind at rest, I detedmined to go to the county office. I re-entered the motor boat. head was throbbing with My wild thoughts, All the time I was repeat-| ing to myself: it cannot be that the man who is president of our union, our International Garment Workers’ Union, would stoop to this kind of investment. When all is said and done, it requires a particular type of mind to engage in the pool room game, or to run a shooting gallery, or operate a bowling alley. Visits County Office. At last-we reached the shore. “I jumped out of the boat and began to walk in the direction of the county office. On my way I saw the differ- ent posters, announcing: “Cliff Man- dy and his Minneapolis Orchestra,” “Nine Artists, Beloved by All Dancers Enthusiasts Will Be Brought Down to Casino Amusement Park.” But let us not stop to look at all the announcements, the bill boards and signs which tell of the many and divers activities provided by Mr. Sigman in his Casino Aumuse- ent Park. I asked of the Deputy County Au- tor a statement of the real proper- ty owned by Mr. Sigman, and was handed the following: (a certified copy, signed and sealed, is in our possession), Copy of Statement. Section’ 9-9@-37 Morris Sigman—Lot 1, acres Sigman—Block 4, Lot 100x40, assessed valua- 144s Lea wane Meena aeaalee 1,000 Morris Sigman—Block 4, Lot 7, 100x40, assessed valua- MON oh cave ban OUI esas Morris Sigma 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, $800 each, as- sessed valuation .......... Tillie Sigman—Block 10, Lots 2 and 3, $256 each, assessed WRLUBHON: haat aa rent yar ts Morris Sigman—Block 10, Lats 4-5-6, $420 each, assessed WEIURTOT ks Pisa holao es Morris Sigman-——Block 11, Lots 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, $240 each, as- 5,600 512 1,260 CAMEO THEATRE TOMORROW 42nd STREET and BROADWAY A Film Arts Guild Presentation ‘The LADDER This is a statement showing the lots and acreage owned by Morris | Sigman and Tillie Sigman at Casino | Beach, Section 9-90-37, Hayes Town- ship, Buena Vista County, Iowa. (Signed) LILLIAN WILLIAMS All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats y Cort Theatre, 48 St. E. of B'way. Matinee Wednesday, | —— Deputy County Auditor je itile Theatre GRAND | Buena Vista County. Evenings at te vy: / STRERT. Wie MATINERS TUES. AER ORD |AND THURSDAY, 2:29 FOLLIES Actual Proof. + | Here were the actual proofs of, truth of our statement that Mr. Sig- what the banker and the other citi-/ man does not own a farm, but that |zens had told me. They were abso- he is the owner of the Casino Amuse- lutely right that in the beginning Mr./ment Park. Mr. Sigman, in the same Sigman had purchased 5.96 acres,|issue, offers to sell to the Commus and that he was continually adding nists the Casino Amusement Park for to his holding. It is quite evident that | $6,000, provided that the Communists the cost of the grounds must have been a good deal more, as the above | Here it is on black and white that | the assessed value is $24,492, and that ‘applied to the land only. That did “not take into consideration the im- | provements, the -numerous cottages, | the large dance hall, the skating rink \for 500 people, the shooting gallery, )tko billiard room, the bowling alley, the carousel, the loop-the-loop, the restaurant, the bath houses and the many other contraptions, too numer- ous to mention. Takgn all in all, the _ value of the/entire Casino Amusement |Park is somewhere between $100,000 and $150,000. And on this there is only the one mortgage of $5,000, ac- cording to Mr, Schiller, the president of the Citizens Bank. | A Fortune, Again I have to come back to the |same question: where did it come |from? How is it possible for the President of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to amass |such an enormous sum? Can it be 5.96, assessed valuation....$10,000 that all this could have been built up| | Morr sy ‘on a “shoestring”? | It is a well known fact that if an | official of any union suddenly pur- | | chases a home for himself, or enters some large business, or engages in a 240) business venture on his own account, | ‘it arouses suspicion in the minds of ~ |his co-unionists, and he is in duty | bound to show from what sources he \was able to get his start, and allay the suspicion of the members. Surely, | Mr. Sigman, the president of the In- | ternatfonal Ladies’ Garment Workers’ | Union, also owes that duty to the members’ of his union, and to the la- boring mass at large. * * * sessed valuation .......... 5,880 Forwards Statement. ———— | Im the issue of July 5, 1927, the : $24,492' Jewish Daily “Forward” admits the figures are the assessed values only. | assume and pay all the outstanding | obligations. | To that there is just one answer, and that is that the Communists are |not interested, and do not want to | buyan amusement park, with such wonderful attractions as a shooting gallery, a billiard room, a bowling ale ley, carousels, loop-the-loop, and othe® such highly ethical attractions, | Furthermore, in closing, let us ask | Mr. Sigman one question. Mr. Sig- |man made his first purchase in 1920, and his investment at that time was $14,000, less a mortgage of $5,000, or a net investment of $9,000; now, in 1927, he is willing to sell his equity for $6,000; apparently, he must, have piesa ee Ab during the past seven yars. Now, if that is the case, | how is it possible to add and keep on ‘adding improvements without increas- jing the amount of the mortgage? |Again, I must ask of Mr. Sigman, | Where is the money coming from? 1 . voncession To Japanese | MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—(By Mail.)— A contract has been signed with the |Japanese “Sikuai Kigiosio, Ltd.”, a divers’ company, granting this com- pany the right to carry on the work of lifting and unloading the Black Prince, an English ship which was sunk in November 1857, among other English and French ships off the coasts of Crimea and which, it is presumed, carried a big cargo of gold. According to the terms of the con- tract, the company is to receive 50 percent of the gold if the total sum is less than one million, and 40 percent if it is larger than one million rubles, If at any time, further work is seen to be technically and economically an utter failure, the company has the right to discontinue it.