The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKE xUST 15, 1927 FENG MURDERS 26 COMMUNISTS | IN NEW DRIVE Prepares to Hold Fake : Kuomintang Plenum @HANGHAI, Aug. six Communis and accused against the Wuhan, were ofders of the Yu-hsiang, An the leaders of t and the labor “General” F gun the “scouring section of the K and dis s tang have been the opposition to chine does not subr of terror th with only the a drum-head In this way the t pare for the plenur Kuomin- tang that is to be held tomorrow. The activity of the workers’ and peasants’ unio: women’s and stu- dents’ organi and other public organizations been suspended. Feng Yu-hsiang’s proscription states the existence of the Communist Par- ty is absolutely prohibited; Commun- ist leaders must be eliminated from all official posts and expelled from the Kuomintang. Ferg, the so-called former “Chris- tian general”, has already proved himself to be as base and bloody as Chiang Kai-shek, the first of the military adventurers who deserted the cause of the revolution and went over into the camp of the big. bour- geodisie and the imperialists. Library of Congress Censors Ford. WASHINGTON, Aug.. 12.—Bound volumes of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, containing att: S on the Jewish people, will be withdrawn from general circulation by the li- brary of congre: NOTICE To All Daily Worker Readers. Watch your newsstand. Notify us at once if your newsdealer does not get a sufficient supply of DAILY WORKERS. DAILY WORKER, | 33 First Street. Orchard 1680. Newsdealer } Address City . Wants . . more copies of The DAILY WORKER. | Failed to receive papers on Chinese Rising Against Wuhan Gains Power n Page One) whet rising will be only a hero: ode or will be the begin- the decisive stage of the ¢ ese revolution, Must Attract Peasant Masses. {| Much depends upon the courage and ex of the leaders and also the Chin cially up- ing will pea- of on the fact commanding staff 2 Co! On August 5th, t mmuni August 28rd, to be deported from der forced marching. count The ler came from iret being the occupa the Immigration Service of the U. S. | eastern } the of the provinee of | t ixwantung. The army, on 3 Y has to overéome the greate ~ tary diffieu as it encounters five nemy di under one of the minor military adventurers. Will Fight Li Chi-shen. Further on the rebe rmy has to niect and break the resistance of the army under Li Chi-Shen which was ly and with all speed dispatch- ed to the Kwantung-K i The Nanchang upr atter never imagined that s rific force and effective organ would be displayed. | Proveked by Reactionaries. | The present central committee of the Kuomintang in deciding upon a| break with the Communists and un- | leashing the terror against them cer-| |tainly knew that they would have| many difficulties with the workers| but it did not expect that after the }Hunan and Hupeh proletariat, the Kiangsi proletariat would also as- sume such a hostile attitude. In the |provitices of Hunan and Hupeh and Kiangsi there is great indignation in large circles of the Kuomintang | against the policy of the central com- jmittee. This discontent is constant- |ly growing and in many places is taking definitely organized forms. Widespread Disturbances. As to the working class in gen- eral the Wuhan government is still unable to strangle the strike of the working men at the arsenal and are| |afraid to launch the terror order | against them for fear of che army di- visions refusing to act, or possibly| | going over to the side of the work- ers, The'events in Kiangsi prove the }powerful working class movement under way there. The. railr | working on the Nanchang- railway are strongly support: uprising and take a most militant at- titude against the traitorous Wuhan government. | Reports received from the peasant| |movement in Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi| jand Kwantung shows that despite} cruel suppressions the movement is |not strangled. In the southeastern part of Hunan the peasants are show-| jing great activity. Next month after} the harvest, when the time to Pay] | |rents arrive, will certainly be deci- “\on the charge of having illegs ly (now daily), ORDER EXILE FOR “RADNIK” EDITOR; LL.D, GALLS AID Zinich, Communist, Is Hated by Capitalists TICAGO, Aug. ffice of the Internatio ied today that Stephen munist South Slav editor 3 must be turned over an immigration officer on Tues- C Department of Labor. Zinich was arrested a few years ago tered the United States from lavia ence he had been forced to flee from the barbaric persecutions of the fascist government there. In- stead of finding in the United States the traditional right of asylum, Z: ich, who immediately joined in the ac- tivities gf the American .labor and adieal mMevement, as editor of the Radnik,” Jugoslav Communist week- eized by the im- migration service authorities and slated for deportation to his native land where imprisonment or worse certainly awaits him. International Labor Defense immediately assumed charge of the case and aroused strong sentiment, espeyplly among Jugoslav workers, in favor of pre- venting the deportation. The action of the Immigration Service is the lat- est development in the case. Try to Save. “Every legal measure will be used by us in the short time left to halt the deportation of Stephen Zinich,” | said James P. Cannon, national secre- | tary of International Labor Defense. “The sudden action of the immigra- tion authorities is one of the first re- actions to the tremendous campa of protest among the millions of American workers that has been or- ganized for Sacco and Vanzetti. Our declaration that the proposed execu- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti is a har- binger of new persecutions of the radi- eal and labor movement is being | proved by new facts every day. Zin- ich is one of the many fighters of the workingclas# who has devoted his en- ergies and life to organizing the mem- bers of his class for the fight agains their enemies, the capitalists. attack upon him as a foreign born radical worker is the first step in an | intense drive against all the progres- sive sections of the American labor movement. We intend to fight to keep Zinich in the United States and in the labor movement of which he is a part. All class-conscious workers must recognize the great importance of the Zinich'case and suport the ef- forts of the International Labor~De- fense to prevent his deportation.” Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not: Die! a} The | STRIKE TO SAVE } | | | | | | (Continued from Page One) | be afraid of the murder of Sacco and | Vanzetti. | Strike! met | We must warn the workers against the danger of a cowardly ¢vasion | which migk possibly be tried by the | capitalists and their politicians. They |may attempt to quiet the working- |class which they call the “mob,” by {commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment! The Central Exe- cutive Committee of the Workers | (Communist) Party warns the work- |ingelass of America against being de- ‘ceived by this cowardly and beastly | device of trying to stop the protest | against the unjust punishment of. Sac- co and Vanzetti by merely “granting” \Sadco and Vanzetti a living death | within the walls of the penitentiary! |The workers must indignantly reject {this hideous and contemptible pro- posal.. We have not forgotten how the capitalists and the political flunkeys sueceeded in deadening the whole ac- tivifies of the workingclass in the case of Brothers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, by commuting Mooney’s sentence to a life time of torture along with Billings in the penitentiaries of | California. Workers, don’t accept this | swindle again. It is necessary to warn | you, especially because certain men lin the labor movement who hold of- | ficial trade union positions, but whose WASHINGTON, (FP) Aug. 14.—| real business is to serve the capitalist | | | EAMON DE VALERA, Repnobli- can leader of the Fianna Fail, is expected to strike a blow at the Irish Free State when, with forty- four members of his party who with him took the oath of allegi- ance to King George, he enters Parliament for the first time, since his election and votes the Cos- grave government out of office, Neatle Trae Defens | New Union Label Drive. | Armsful of union label literature are| class and the capitalist institutions i | available for trade unionists who are| of “justice,” private property, the ex- ee for the ggg puien | ploitation of labor, and the capitalist abel campaign from August 22 to| state. Some such men are now en- | September 10. The union label trades! gaged in paving the way for the capi- | department of the A. F. of L. is sup-| tglist politicians to imprison Sacco plying the literature free of charge. | and Vanzetti for life in the event that ee 4 fe | the mass agitation against the death logo aaa 39 pone | sentence becomes too strong to resist yASHL N, (FP) Aug. 14.—| without throwing out a sop to you, | Because he had been sleeping in alleys | sehen they call “the mob.” It is nec- ‘and eating out of garbage cans for! ossary to warn you against such ac- months, Frederick Jefferson, an aged | tions as the recent public statement of aa tae oe be HA ey Rey William Green, president of the Ape whether 2 ays ‘ou e el ‘ +f i, - M "lican Federation of Labor, who, al | Jefferson Dleaded for a longer sen-| though he knows that Sacco and Van- panes and yo given eee reentea | zett! are innocent, requests that these Kok ae : aceon € Manked'lheroes of the workingclass be kept he y dUCee Re iad tai Lato |in prison for life, instead of being | ksi: #8 h 2 priser te ae +} Clectrocuted. This is what Mr. Green | tay Eo HE it really Treats ? On | requested when he demanded the sen- } death be “commuted to life the boardwalk of Coney Island otte | once ot Sa The “cae ak. the may notice many signs on booths al | iiprisonment,” | along.: the. dine: “SkeesBall.:. take a, Workingelass must swell louder than shot?” And the stores are always well filled. After a little pushing you can see what the crowd is there for, You see a big board fixed to} | the/floor, and at one end are young |men throwing balls, aimed at a hole | situated at the other end of the | board. . For levery successful throw {a number comes out, and those who make the biggest scores, win prizes. The skee ball is not only a game | where one gets prizes, but it is also| is now temporarily the official head |of our Federation of Labor! workers must demand that Sacco and Vanzetti be immediately and uncon- | ditionally freed, No cowardly evasion. | No déath for Sacco and Vanzetti. And ‘no life-time of torture for Saeco and |Vanzetti! Give Saco and Vanzetti back |to the workingclass. That is the de- | mand of Labor. The workingclass struggles have SAYS WORKERS PARTY | | the voice of its misrepresentative who | The | | healthy exercise. The Skee Ball is’ one of the popular features at Star- light Park, and on Sunday August | 28th it will be run for the benefit of | i been successful in drawing into this |an unusual number of middle class people whose voices have helped to | | swell, the tide of protest. At the same | the Defense. ltime the workers have to beware of |__In_ the evening, there will be a| certain weaknesses of these elements | Special performance of the opera | who because of their class associa- ‘Carmen,’ rendered by a’ famous com-| tions are too ready to relax the fight, pany of singers. Tickets to the . |to believe in excuses, lies and evas- Opera are $1.00 and are also good for hs admission to the all day Carnival, re- é ; +/.:- | ticians, of the state house and the duced rate on bathing and admission | courts put forth in order to quiet and peas ancing. Opera tickets are limi-|\ 1 the movement of protest. With | ted, and we advise our readers to se- | : ; 4 ‘i | A +: | all of their good intentions, the mid- Sa ie Sean rea coalad Er class elements do not and cannot le ee for a aul aay. varniniree) a tatetevia and at time themselves be es | fear the mass movement of millions of * * * lions, which the big. capitalist poli- } Camp Donations. | Seventy-two dollars were collected | ;at Camp Kinderland by A, Block. A/ | committee was elected to carry on the| | further activities. of the Joint De-| |fense. Over 50 vacationists pledged | | themselves to a voluntary tax of $1/ weekly for the Defense. At Camp | Nitgedaiget, Block raised $348.55. Trumbenickes near Nitgedaiget | sent in a check for $46, collected last Saturday ang Sunday during the con- | cert rendered by the Freiheit Gesangs | Verein. At present the trumbenickes jare selling shares on a beautiful pic- |ture at 15 cents. This money will be | turned over to the Joint Defense. | Other Collections, $41 was collected at a reception to a comrade from California, held | at the home of M. Spector. Montreal raised )$400 for the de- fense thru I. Shapiro of the Furriers Union, | Unions Pledge Help for | Jnion Square Meeting ‘ | (Continued from Page One) \ilized world brought about the last- minute respite. In spite of the fact that - certain die-hard conservative |New York newspapers have viciously workers which can turn the balance for Saco and Vanzetti. THE ACTIVI- TIES OF THE MASSES OF THE WORKINGCLASS IN THE SHOPS, IN THR TRADE UNIONS. AND ON THE STREETS ARE THE ONLY HOPE FOR SACCO AND ~VAN- | ZETTI! These mass activities must | be supported by all honest and sin- cere enemies of judicial murder. These mass activities are what has kept Saeco and Vanzetti from the death chair up to the present time, and this is all that can win them freedom! ‘The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party fully endorses and recommends. the mili- tant and clear-sighted workingcelass policy which has been followed by the International Labor’ Defense in this respect. The workers everywhere should use their pressure upon all or- ganizations and groups taking part in the defense, to compel all of them to stiffen up their policies in accord with the fearless and determined at- titude of the workingclass. The work- ers should join the organization which has followed the clearest, brav~ est workingelass policy in this case— the International Labor Defense. Not Isolated Incident. The Central Executive Committee SACCO, VANZETTI {men and women of this country and | |of Europe, South America, and the |rest of the world, whom the American |capitalist class exploits and hopes to | exploit even more in the future. | Already the police, as agents of the} |capitalist class, have brutally rapt }saulted) hundreds of workers, who thad committed no offense ‘but had| |peacefully asked that the murdef of ‘two innocent men be prevented. Al-| ;veady ‘every open shop organization! |has eoupled up its encouragement of} jthe electrocution of Sacco and Van-} }zetti with intensified efforts to break| up the trade unions and leave baba {working class as a whole defenseless. | Already the reactionary agents of| | the employers are striving to in-| crease their power for the arbitrary | deportation of workers from Ameri-j| jca who happen to have been born’ in} jother countries. Every company | union faker, every open. shepper,! ever’ b herder, every yellow flun- key 2 bosses, every stocl pigeon and every reactionary, is mobut for the death of Sacco and Vanz Sacco and Vanzetti will be burned to death in the electric(chair on the night of August 22nd! Every. work-| er in tke United States must strike | on the morning of August 22nd! And now-- today—mobilize the workers of your shep and your union. Call_mass meetings. Demonstrate ..on the streets! Now! Today! The time is short. The working class mus‘ raise voice to a roar many times ‘oud- er thar in the past! Not mere words, but ke, must be the answer of labo: Strike for Saceo and Vanzetti! Demonstrate for Sacco and Van-! zetti! Alt cut onto the street! ers—alk out! Sacco and Vanzetti are to die on} the night of August 22nd! Strike: for | Sacco and Vanzetti on the morning of | August 22nd! UNITED FRONT OF LABOR GROUPS. IN CLEVELANDSTRIKE No slack-| Huge Demonstration for Sacco and Vanzetti CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. '14.—The greatest labor demonstration ‘that have’ oceurred in this city since the bloody May Day of 1919, were held in Cleveland on Tuesday and Wednes- | day, Aug. 9 and 10. The Interna-| tional Labor Defense and the Sacco- | Vanzetti Defense Committee have been carrying protest meetings for several weeks, culminating in! a big meeting st the Square on Tuesday, | Aug. 9 at which an announcement of | a strike on Wednesday, Aug. 10 was | made. } Leaflets Get Crowd. Leaflets were distributed at all the ‘actories and Wednesday was the oc- casion,,of a spontaneous outburst of solidarity such as Cleveland has not seen in recent years. The Amalga- _mated Clothing Workers came. out 100 per cent.’ Italian coment. layers, plasters, bricklayers and street work- ers ‘struck. Frem 12 o’clock 10on to! 11 at night, the Public Square was the scene of splendid demonstrations | ir favor of Saeco and Vanzetti. { Happy Over Stay. { Just about 11 p. m., the newspapers) had an extra on the weptieve. Wild enthusiasm greeted the reading of the report by Comrade I. Amter, who was addressing the crowd of 5,000 workers. Hats flew into the air, cheers went up—it was a wonderful scene of jubilation that the workers of the world had succeeded in. stay- ing the hand of the executioner for fat least 12 days, during which the bat- jtle will go on. Comrade Carl Hacker, who was chairman of the meeting, ;made the announcement during the \long meeting, that he had been or- dered to leave the building in which is located the office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, of which he is se¢retary. In the same building is the office of the American Plan Associa- jtion, which cannot tolerate it to be on the same premises.as the Interna- tional Labor Defense. r The demonstration was held under the auspices of the International La- bor Defense, the Cleveland Sacco-Van- zetti Defense Committee, the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers Communist League, and was endorsed by several unions and: fra- Attractive Offers! for NEW READERS of the Daily Worker These valuable premiums, wort® $2.50 each, can be. secured FREE with every annual subscription to The DAILY WORKER or through payment of only $1.50 with 20 Coupen« clipped from the News. stand Edition on 20 different days, Otter Wo. 1 GOODWIN No. 2 (Ansco) CAMERA Regular Price $2.50 Takes an Standard Roil Film, Pictures 24%x3%. This model is finely finished and complete in every detail. Has two finders for Vertical or Horizontal Pictures, Adapted for Time or Snap. shot exposures. 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Hundreds of telegrams of protest have been sent to President Coolidge. forthcoming murder of Sacco and Van- tensely, but because the capitalist class hates and dreads and fears the militant workingclass which Sacco and Vanzetti represent. They ai Saceo and Vanzeti in the electric chair as an act of hatred intended to terrorize the great masses of toili ‘ forthcoming, and speakers at the de- Federation of Labor and of the A. F. of L. who at this critical moment either issned an appeal of the char- acter of that of William Green’s, or failed to take any action Whatever, like Harry McLaughlin, president | ‘| the Cleveland’