The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ple Address Phone, Orchard 1680 By MICHAEL GOLD. WAS one of those who picketed the State House in Boston on the | set for the murder of Sacco and V. “Daiwork” SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): n- $8.00 per year x months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months | 2¢tti, Dorothy Parker, a writer, and Brewis caine eee a myself, were grabbed and hauled off 4 ciel apes: 3 Saks. este & pane a | to the police station by the same pair Add all mail and make out checks to of cops. As we were led through the streets there was a great crowd of aa e Us Bae e =e onlookers following us to the police Street, New York, J, LOUIS ENGDAHL : | station. WILLIAM F. DUNNE } RESET ek hy ea | "THERE were no sympathetic calls BERT MILLER.... Business Manager from that crowd, only a sullen > = - ~— —— | quiet. as second-class m th at the _post- vet of March , under | But there were some boos—directed not at the police, but at us, the pic- keters. Also there were voices that on application, Boston Prepares for a Lynching) | paper bulletin boards and read the?reprieve. They actually think he is| hourly bulletins on the Sacco and| too soft. | Vanzetti case. They whisper, they | HERE é is not a newspaper in the fidget, ‘they regard each other with] city that has the courage or even| worried eyes. It is like the war the desire to speak the mildest liberal | iB ada Sener George Creel’s baal word on the situation. ‘ The Cameo Theatre began the pres- | Lae Dae aaa creyeNe tM | USED to work on a nB\spaper in| elation last Saturday ef pictur | about to bomb New York, Boston and, . Boston, and dug up some old/ entitled “The Russian Revolution” Gites 7 |friends who are still reporting or) which packed the house early in the | sia! | writing editorials on various papers.|@fternoon and brought forth more | They told me they have never seen! #Pplause than any picture { have wit- this slow, provincial, hidebound city | ®¢Ssed since the days when it was in a mood such as the present. | considered the height of patriotism to “EVERYONE is in a state of ten-|7#i8e the roof whenever American sion, and anything can happen,” | Mar mes Were shown marching to take | the newspapermen say. “If this were | ee pd Teas make the world |the South the respectable mob would vy. at Cameo OU walk in among those crowds, mostly made up of clerks and pro- fessional people, and you will hear no words of sympathy for Sacco and Vanzetti—the sympathizers are as) cowed as a lonely unbiased North- |erner at the lynching of some poor Advertisin | Mass Strikes and Demonstrations Will Save | Sacco and Vanzetti. The decisive week in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti is here The fate of these two workers rests not with the hyenas of Mas- sachusetts who have already proved to the world that there is no monstrous torture they will not inflict upon these innocent work- ers, who fell vict f the wrath of the scab-herding open shop- pers of t nt industries of that state. It kening to view the childish respect still held defenders of Sacco and Vanzetti for the “due -’ Jn this regard it is necessary plainly to state defense committee has shown a pitiful lack of 1 it placed such fond hopes upon Fuller, the labor- by some processes of that the Bo realism whe« | state of mind in Boston to-day is that| triendless. Negro in the South, be storming Charlestown jail to lynch The Yellow Press. | the two Italian workers.” HAT you do hear is deep whispers, | jee no one be fooled. by the new mutterings, and ominous mob- legal aspect of the ease. The rancors. | Massachusetts supreme court will “ : | probably add the weight of its pres- eee ought to kill them! We) tige to the “legal” respectability of | don’t want that kind of people ; the lynching. The danger is just as| of a lynching bee. Legal forms are|running our country!” I heard a 5 strong as it was last week. Our com- being gone through as a concession to| husky young Harvard ex-football| yades are to be executed. Massachu- shouted, openly “Hang them! Harvard Lynching Bee. pee no one be fooled by the reprieve | until August 22nd. It does not} mean liberty for our comrades. The Jang them!” | throes of fear, blood-lust and hatred —that peculiar tangle of emotions ~ Piva and mass-pysochopathy known as the | ° “lynching mood.” Massachusetts is | is ttl I h t ( t M determined to kill Sacco and Van-| 1 Cc O S on rea ell zetti. | ea ae ie 'T is a Ku Klux Klan mob led by well- spoken but inflamed respectables in ernor Fuller’s having granted al Sacco and Vanzetti. | EE SOG ANT Ee eS | | | | | | By T. J. O°FLAHERTY. some gulch in the wide open spaces | OOLIDGE is almost as completely| and seriously tell the world that my | There was plenty of enthusiasm at the Cameo last Saturday and I venture to predict that “The Russian Revolution” will have a financially successful experience there. The picture opens with scenes of the early days of the war when the ruling classes of Russia were send- ing the workers and peasants off to the front to fight the Central Powers. Hundreds of thousands of splendid home and indulging in the debaucher- jies so characteristic of old Russia. Gradually, the tide of discontent arises, Tales of disaster come from the front. The Germans advance and the peasants who are driven from their homes spread discouragement as they flee from the enemy. Hunger the) Shaw rev the outside world. They mean noth-| player snap out to all within earshot| setts has set its mind on this. Only .human types were sent to ing. Massachusetts, at , least the) at one of the boards. intensified large-scale demonstrations| slaughter, while the Czarist aristo-| Was bourgeois portion of it, ‘is .in the) OME of these people resent Gov-| during the next eight days will Save|cracy were amusing themselves at ” Theatre yy ashington appearing in little theatre Square The LADDER ats are reduced for the of Massachusetts and his “advisory commission,” Lowell, Strat-|trock-coats—Governor, judges, Har-|™ off the front page as if he wero| client was spending his time think-|stalks the land. Ino the sacantinie lore Theatre, 46 St. By of of Massachusetts < advisory commission,” Lowell, Strat-|vard president, all the rest of official-| only vice-president. After exhausting | ing, and ae have his say nes quate ae ms of revolt among) ieracten asta elas Pacend Gr shen i rates its dom, ministry and Chamber of Com-jall the tricks of his publicity agent, he tho le time was ripe. This} the proletariat. | Li r top and Gre punen 1 Concengr oues) its AO0ces | eee aaire | 4s: endeae-hin’ to/thel Mauser he ead. | Would “have” the’ “nation: developing |) /49i7"Mrtven ana wiki ieeke PE pry aap Ewa eo exclusive § e house and indulging in other Maral Lave |denly came to the conclusion that Al| brain fever and the aspirants for| revolution. The Czar is forced to| # enings at 8:30 similar perfoi s that create sensationalism for the newspa- Wik f ~ mar. |J2l80n could sing better mammy Presidential honors in G.O.P. ranks| abdicate. The next to renounce a| ND 3 FOLLIES pers, but are c ly not to be compared with the necessary task Eu oA NEE: Decoy meet aol songs if that was what the fat boys) Would be tucked away in their re-|right to the Romanoff throne is the| .— ae of mobilizing the mass power of the working class in the United Hal Jaw. ihe entire state militia |in Wall Street wanted. The president SPective madhouses by them. He) Grand Duke Michael. Czar Nicholas 4, 8. MOS! States and thruout the world for action to force the assassins to take their blo talons from the throats of Sacco and Vanzetti. The great mass demonstrations in this country of the type of the Union Square meetings, the mass meeting in Boston Common, the} gigantic demonstration in Chicago where the workers faced armed policemen in the streets for the right to protest, the hundreds of smaller mass demonstrations did far more to‘save Sacco and Vanzetti than anything else. We do not say other agitation is not necessary, It has its place, but that place is decidedly secondary to the mobilization of the mass power of the working class. In this regard the International Labor Defense has shown in its taking the lead in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti, that it is the or-| ganization best fitted by training and by its working class char- acter to serve as the rallying point for such struggles. | | There are many indications that this week will see greater demonstrations thruout the world in behalf of these two tortured victims of capitalist vengeance than occurred before August 10.} For a few d. the European “liberal” press and certain spokes- | men of the working class fell into the trap set by Fuller and his council that granted the respite. They claimed victory and stated that they were convinced that after being taken from the death house they would escape the electric chair. Only those familiar | with the fiendishness of what passes for justice in this country | ¢an perceive the depths to which the Fullers, Thayers and the | rest of the capitalist lackeys will sink to terrorize the working | class. | The very method of granting the respite was carefully timed | £0 that the victims would suffer the maximum torture before they were notified of the action. | Again Sacco and Vanzetti will march (or be carried) to the death house unless the mighty voice of labor rises in thunderous | protest. | American imperialism, extending its ravages thruout the world, can be fought on a world-wide scale and the workers of | Europe, with their revolutionary experience, with their powerful |of us, after a hard day’s work at has ,been brought to Boston, and/| gid not look any better in a cowboy would have the nomination by de- waits in the armories. The police| suit than he would in a coat of paint fault. are on 24-hour shifts, and are/and a sheaf of corn stalks. And tho! ‘ 5 : equipped with machine-guns, teat) the relies of cowboy days applauded, Pees ENE Harding was not noted bombs, and armored cars. No meet- and felt Calvin was acting like one for mental animation but he was ings on the Sacco and Vanzetti case) of themselves, it is doubtful if they , dignified and only H. L. Mencken and are allowed. If you wear a beard. or| would vote for him. other stylists poked fun at his Eng- have a dark foreign hair and eyes,| lish, tho he broke into the diction- or carry a brief-case at night, or in| hiGNITY as indigenous to the ary with a sound word. It was any way act like a man who works presidency as an air of prosperity Harding that made “normalcy” what with his hands, or has not had a Har-| :. ¢9 an insurance agent. A knight of it is today. Harding was going vard education, you are picked up on|+he ib lips who wears a couple of | Strong when he died and we did not the streets for suspicion. dime flashies can make a customer, know that he shot craps, played 'T is dangerous to be out on the! sign on the dotted line wMen another Poker and cavorted emotionally out- streets after midnight. A group|expert in protection for the under- Side the beaten track until the book taking business would only get a “Revelry” appeared. Then we won- glass of near beer for pains, simply dered that he did not take a job as because he did not want or did not bartender. But tho he may have lost * * * headquarters, went searching for a| restaurant about 12:30. We were! followed by a patrol wagon, no less,) until we safely found that restaurant. pees dog one everywhere; there are always two or three in front of one’s hotel, or sitting next to one in the restaurant or drinking Coca-Cola at the next stool in the drugstores, | aaa BLACK and Ann Washing- street and questioned at a police sta- tion for looking like New Yorkers and carrying a suspicious cardboard under their arms, which upon investi- gation proved to be a Sacco poster which they were told to destroy, IX Italian workers came in an auto- mobile from New York to be present at the demonstration. They were arrested on the street in their car and are being held on suspicion of being bomb-throwers. reason the cops arrested them, evi- dently, was that two of the Italians needed a shave. care to carry the gaudy decorations of his savage ancestors on his is dignity on occasion he did it privately and among his peers. The| to Craton were picked up on the} The only fingers. A president ‘with his little yes of the masses whose minds are right toe (or is it his right little toe) filled with bourgeois prejudices don’t | peeping bashfully out thru his shoe,! Want to see their great men go around | would never get the cobbler’s vote With hanging shirtails. It simply and.the lowliest bum on the Bowery. Won't go at the polls. : i rao ree would scorn him. i a A ‘HERE ‘is nothing a publicity agent has a different proposition on his will not descend to in order to, hands. Practically every mayor in | get his client on the front page. Yes- New York and Chicago for several |terday we were treated, in most of years have been good singers. Johnny jour..metropolitan papers with the Fitzgerald of Boston rarely made a picture of an actress dressed in a Political speech except when quoting | scarf, deflty hung, who claimed that the bible against Jim Curley and the she was notified by an admirer that latter was worshipped because he ‘a certain subway would be bombed would sing “That Dear Little Mother |and warning her to keep away. The of Mine” coming home from picnics. | sucker, whose name sounds some-|And in those days picnics brought what similar, is now in jail. In all forth song. The mayor of New York probability it will develop that he is is more famous for his composition: the lady’s publicity agent. This is “Will you love me in December as an example of how far a good pub-| you did in May?” than for his knowl- licity “agent will go, provided our edge of geography, and in all proba- guess is right, bility if he cares to be mayor again a * * * great proportion of the metropolitan MAYOR in a great industrial city cuts a sorry picture as he pretends to| | lead the Russian army. Prince Lvov and his associates take the helm, but not for long. Their rule was received with no more favor by the masses than that of the Czar. There was no basic change. Next came Kerensky the “man of many speeches.” His time was short. He was a tool of the.allied powers and continued to send the young men of Russia to be slaughtered in the interests of imperialism. He escaped out of the Winter Palace dressed as! a woman when the Bolsheviki finnally considered the time ripe to seize power. What a storm of applause broke | loose in that theatre when the pic-| tures of Lenin and Trotsky were flashed on the screen! Kerensky got two claps and hundreds of hisses. The picture briefly tells of the struggle of the Bolsheviki since they i | | o Now! Sensational Film 42 St. & Bway Not Acted but Actual Occurrences on their Russian fellow-workers but instead hoisted the red flag and de- clare for the revolution. This picture is worth seeing and we heartily recommend it. Whatever defects it may have are overshadowed by its merits, not the least of which is its propaganda value. There is also on the bill a picture of “The Exploits of the U-Boat 35” which raised havoc with allied ship- ping, sinking 80,000 tons in a few weeks, Another feature advertised that did seized power in behalf of the workers | not appear is Charlie Chaplin in “His and peasants, against the counter- revolutionary forces of the numerous white; guardists that: were-engaged by the foreign imperialists to crush the young workers republic, down to the time when the allied blockade was called off and the imperialists decided for the time being, that the Soviet Union could not be taken by a frontal attack. The photography is good, and there are-real thrills in the scenes which show the masses of Leningrad rush- ing the Winter Palace and again when the sailors on board a French warship led by Marty refuse to fire Prehistoric Past” where he is shown going out and getting his woman with his trusty club: We would not be sur- prised if Charlie would not now wish that he secured Lita Gray that way. His alimony bill would probably con- sist of a few shinbones of a less illus- trious public citizen, if anything at all. Those who like the many sport of boxing will get a kick out of Jack Dempsey giving Sharkey a’ bellyache in the seventh round to the accom- paniment of claps and hisses. Altogether worth seventy-five cents. Boston Is Nervous. | What the Daily Worker organizations, can help to shake the complacent murder crew in | the state house at Boston by jarring the capital at Washington | with international demonstrations. Prepare for the strike in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti next Friday! | Give the mass movement such an impetus that on the 22nd the hand of the executioner will no longer threaten to destroy with shattering bolts of electricity the bodies of these two work- ers who are being victimized as a warning to other workers not to dare strive to improve the condition of labor. Wall Street Replies to Premier Baldwin. 3aldwin, premier of the decadent British tory government of murder, provocation and forgery, made a special visit to Can- ada, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, in order to try to per- suade the Canadian ruling powers to abandon their policy of do- ing business with Wall Street instead of with Lombard Street. Today this political wishes as expressed in Canada have come to naught as inexorable economic supremacy enables Wall Street to reply to Baldwin in a tone that makes his “diplomacy” sound weak and hollow. As far as astuteness goes, Baldwin may be as clever as any premier Britain has had, but Britain hasn’t the economic power to back up the maneuvers of her diplomats. On the other hand, if Baldwin were half-witted his “diplomacy” would appear successful if Britain maintained her once dominant eco- nomic power. Wall Street’s reply is seen in the financial pages of the newspapers. It is in the form of a hundred million dollar loan that will be floated to enable the government of the Domin- ion of Canada to refund loans maturing this year. Most of the loans being refunded were floated originally by the British bank- ers of Lombard Street, so the financial movement means that Britain loses and Wall Street gains. Prior to the war virtually all Canadian financing was handled tlirough London. But the weakness and uncertainty of the London market makes the han- dling of large-scale foreign loans difficult and in most cases im- possible, Politically Canada is listed as a British dominion, but eco- nomically it is the forty-ninth state of the union, and even the present government of Canada is more loyal to the United States than to Britain. ~ his ever-increasing penetration of Canada by Wall Street makes imperative the closer unity of the workers of the two coun- tries fora joint fight against the mighty power of Wall Street. In this fight the Canadian workers have a two-fold task; to carry n a fight against the political vassalage of Canada to Britain, in- dependent of the fight of the MacKenzie King outfit which only ‘represents the interests of Wall Street, and at the same time | who are not members of the Workers (Communist) Party to be (00LIDGE had the wrong kind of, population will give it to him for the a publicity man. Jack Dempsey | 5°". é lost one fight because of a poor man- ; | ager and a publicity agent is to a Merck Hylan was popular for a dif-| president what a manager is to a ferent reason. He got a strangle-| pug. If I had been the president’s | hold on an issue that was invulnerable publicity man, I would take him to! against an ordinary foe but what ‘could Hylan do against Jimmy | Walker, the song-and-dance man? In | Chicago Mayor Dever was dignity personified but he was elected be- cause all the other candidates were more dignified. But when William Hale Thompson returned from Cali- fornia with his cowboy hat and a hand that could slap a back two blocks away, Chicago went wild for him. Perhaps it was Bill Thompson’s hat that gave Cal’s publicity man the 'HE city has lost its head, It is quivering with nervousness and fear. It jumps like a startled cat every time a pin drops. Along Washington Street great crowds stand constantly before the news- * * * | Deterding Sheds Oily Tears for the Russians. Sir Henry Deterding, who has recently been waging a cam-; paign of moral indignation against the Soviet government be- cause he could not pillage Russia of all her oil, has found a new javelin to hurl at the unrepentant heads of the Bolsheviks. His indignation now concerns itself with the plight of the Russian people who haven’t enough kerosene because too much of this’ commodity is being sold to the competitors of Mr. Deterding. Hej? ight ‘i . 4 is not at all concerned about the competition, but he weeps over |/¢¢3,,0 ##ing his entry out in a the poor Russians who haven’t enough kerosene. Mr. Deterding * * * also cites statistics to show that there was more kerosene avail- able for ‘home consumption” in 1911, 12 and 18 than there is per year at present. Since these figures are taken from official | ould approach his woman oozing Soviet reports they are correct. But what do they really mean? | garlic and onions would not be more In the United States, for instance, the consumption of kero- | reckless of his immediate future than sene was greater twenty years ago than it is today. Does fhe pee Donen at ae pizant tehe woud mean that people have no lights in their homes? No. It simply |& rotarian stag bart a alice eae indicates the development of electricity and other means of light-!self to be snapped taking off his | ing. The same is true of Russia. Thousands of workers and | trousers in » iain | peasants who never knew any better system of lighting that! Te butthoas of sbaike Rane of| kerosene, now have electricity. i be jie Ainived |e Staten lee we Uneene | In a very few years the great hydro-electric enterprises will) wrocking one. If Coolidge had to go| furnish millions with electricity and the use of kerosene will fall thru four more years of rapid-change | almost to zero. | acts—from fisherman to farmer and | Mr. Deterding of the British Royal Dutch Shell and Mr.| on cpuroy, {0 indians he would be Walter Teagle of the New Jersey Standard Oil trust will have to’ at a side show. | get better arguments than the decline of the use of kerosene in| ; Pinan * Russia if they expect much sympathy in their highly moral cam-' NEEDLESS to say Coolidge did not} i aganda wi $033 ;, «decide that his days in the white; ilvog paign. Such coarse propaganda will cause millions of Americans Hola: werannbibliaeadionare eieca coe 3 A jhe ran out of costumes. I have al- convinced that Messrs. Deterding and Teagle are not at all con- | ready given my best guess as to why cerned about the welfare of the Russian people, but only want all, he shoal his headgear from the the oil they can get out of Russia. If they had their way the | 17%. Me era Le EE Russians would be lucky to get tallow to make candles, say noth- win out in Leningrad. His Geneva ing of oil products, because the highly moral oil magnates might stunt that would enable him to ap- need all the kerosene to sell to other customers. . pee Leta ath rd ae Pap as e. . vet t a vi 11 r As one argument after anofher against recognition of the yoy oS Lageines and the thied eae Soviet Union is blasted the enemies of the workers’ and peasants’ | tradition did the rest. Still there is government—the great oil thieves and others—become ever more | Something in Coolidge making a idiotic in their furious attempts to-discredit the revolution, until “1°W °ut of himself in South Dakota, their arguments finally become so ridiculous that they serve as'pHINK OF THE SUSTAINING usually sensitive—ahother bour- geois delusion. But a suitor who garry on a determined fight against Wall Strect. : a‘ ” propaganda for recognition, ‘FUND AT @VERY MEETING! (Wo MeN are supposed to be un-|~ Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. $100 Contributions .... .... ...... Slov. Rob. Spolak, Racine, Wise. $1.00 Anne §limek, Racine, Wise. Y. Mataric, Ambridge, Pa. S. Paraga, Ambridge, Pa. . P. Abradovich, Ambridge, Pa. Hanzovopsky, Ambridge, Pa. F. Matan, Ambridge, Pa. .. Geo. A Friend, Ambridge, Pa. Frank Gajer, Ambridge, Pa. Petrieek, Ambridge, Pa. .... S. Pasilavic, Ambridge, Pa. R. Zlady, Ambridge Pa. .... M. Zurkovich, Ambridge, Pa. 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