The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1927, Page 1

| NOW MORE THAN EVER LABOR MUST ACT FOR SACCO-VANZETTI SIX MORE DAYS TO SAVE THEM | THE DAILY WORKER ricHTs: | ' POR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK Ls. Sor 4 tAnoR Pampy | ‘ Vol. IV. ,No. 183. THE DAILY Bntered as serond-olass matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1927 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.09 per year. Outside New York, by muil, 96.00 per year. ¥ uuder the act of March 3, 1879, ER Published Daily except Suaday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LABOR RALLYING FOR SACCO-VANZETTI STRIKE Current Events By T. J. O’Fianeary. ‘THE supreme court of the state of| *-* Massachusetts meets today to de-| cide whether Sacco and Vanzetti shall die in the electric chair on August 22nd or shall have a new trial. As these. lines are written Sacco is on the thirtieth day of his hunger strike and the prison authorities are con- sidering forcible feeding. It would appear from all indications that a bitter determination to execute the two condemned men exists among the ruling classes of this country. * * * d ie legal hocus pocus that has been indulged in recently by the Massa- chusetts governor and the judicial arm of the capitalist commonwealth, as we pointed out, was only for the purpose of appearances; to create the impression that the two doomed workers were given every possible consideration they were entitled to under the law. But this law is a noose U.S. UNIONISTS AT SEA PREPARE EUROPEAN PLANS Delegation V Will Visit | Europe and Then USSR | By FRANK PALMER former editor Colorado Labor Advo- | cate and member of the delegation. | Specially written for Federated Press. | ON BOARD SS. PRESIDENT! ROOSEVELT (By Mail.) — The first | lap of the visit of the American Trade | Union Delegation to»*Europe—that of | actually getting overseas—is nearing | a happy conclusion. Trade Union Delegates at Sea. There are in the delegation: Chair- | man James H. Maurer, president, | Pennsylvania federation of labor; ex- | ecutive secretary, Albert F. Coyle, | secretary All-American Cooperative '|Every Party Member Mast Help Assure Holding of — EAR COMRADES: In agree-| ment with the Communist In- ternational the Party has decided to hold its fifth regular Conven- tion on August 31st. Because of the impending war| danger, the offensive against the| Party by the government and the, trade union bureaucracy, the gen-| the workers by the clique and the need for the consol-| idation and unification of the Par-| ty to méet the now confronting it, this Conven- tion takes on the most important character which any of our con- ventions has assumed to date. No Convention will be possible unless every Party member buys an Assessment Stamp. ‘To delay holding the Convention or not to hold it will deal a serious blow to Important Convention i | To All Party Units. |] eral attack being launched against| | imperialist | | important tasks| | | MEETINGS HELD Barbarous Method for a nation-wide strike at 10 save Sacco and Vanzetti from d of unions and other labor organi shortly in their organizations. Among the unions that partici- pated in, the walk-out of more than half a million workers in New York PREPARE GIANT WALK-OUT; SEE NO _ HOPE IN COURT ACTION; PROTEST THRUOUT COUNTRY iReport Sacco Takes Food After Threat to Apply of Forcible Feeding Following the appeal of the Workers (Communist) Party a. m., Monday, August 22nd, to eath in the electric chair, scores zations have indicated their will- |ingness to join in a giant walk-out. Officials of the Italian Chamber of Labor, | Food Workers’ Union, Local 913, nounced that the question of strike action would be considered o~ the Amalgamated of the Journeyman Barbers, an- ings of their executive committees before officially endorsing it. The Marine Transport Workers’ Union, an organization affiliated reaten the Commission; Joh i City last week were the International with the Industrial Workers of the BH ets toi nots question Tae Wekecs ate hea eae the welfare of our Party. It will Printers’ Union, Bape Boar World, indicated its willingness to of justice but one of expediency. sel for ‘the International Seamen’s| | be impossible, however, to hold a} | Union, Ship Yard workers, ue fed join in a_ united protest Monday " . 8 (Continued on Page Three) | | Convention as scheduled unless ev-| Workers, Garment \ orkers, United against the murder of Sacco and i ions | |ery member of our Party does his Hebrew Trades, Pocketbook Workers’ Vanzetti. HE mighty demonstrations that ee ee bit to help hold the Convention. Union, Journeymen Tailors’ Union, | Urges Students’ Strike were held_all over the world not This means that every Party mem- Journeymen Barbers’ Union, Waist % 6 only threw a scare into the ranks of the most reactionary sections of the CHIANG FORCED — ber must immediately purchase a Makers’ Union, Carpenters’ and Ex In urging the strike the Student Saceo-Vanzetti Committee, appealed i Convention Assessment Stamp.) cavators’ Union, Fur Workers, Plas-\+, a) students to stay away from taint Silectiope tshulod linens ik Not only will a Party member not) ; terers)- ;,Union, Cement vote? |their classes and to demonstrate for that their expressed sympathy for be in good standing unless he pur-| | Union, Hod Carriers’ Union, Paint-|11. immediate and unconditional re- Sacco and Vanzetti might tend to en- courage greater militancy on the part OUT AS HEAD OF chases his Convention Stamp, but if he fails to do that he will be Jers’ and Decorators’ Union, Amalga- mated Food Workers’ Union, Laundry lease of the framed-up workers, F Imi 7, >} y; st Meetings. | fii i vi rogre f| | Workers’ Union, Metal Workers’) Many Attend Protest ig < they’ have recentl: | jinterfering with the progress of sabes : > TTrt | e i fe ietnlae Ae the @ame. The NANKING REGIME the Party in the most serious way.| me Vv \u nion, Shoe Workers’ Union, Paper In the athens reports from all New York World, which a short time The Unit secretaries must not) ‘Yer Honor, I thot, I heard him say ‘Sacco and Van- | pox ‘Makers’ Union, Bricklayers’ Sections of the country state that ago conducted an editorial campaign demanding a new trial for the con- demned workers has now switched the issue to an editorial campaign against the Communists who are given credit for the world-wide pro- test demonstrations. . The Commnu- nists are entitled to the major part of this credit. : x * * r cannot be repeated too often that only the power of the masses ex- pressed thru strikes and other forms of mass protest can stay the execu- tion’ of Sacco and Vanzetti and free ¢ Peasant Uprieings Still Threaten Wuhan | | |. SHANGHAI, Aus. 15.—Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, commander of the Cantonese forces in the northern drive who at the time of his greatest sticcesses be- trayed the revolution into the hands of the eapitalists and imperialists is | now down and cut, Since the-treach- | ery, of the Wuhan governrhent and | ng, a strong de- hold up the funds collected thru) Stamps. These funds must be re-| mitted to the National Office with-| out the slightest delay. Comrades, if you have not yet! bought — your Convention Assess-) ment Stamp, buy it immediately. You cannot vote otherwise. ; If you have not yet remitted the| funds collected thru the sale pf the! Convention Assessment Stamps, | send them immediately to the Na-| tional Office. Failure to remit! | these funds is as harmful as fail-_ | the sale of Convention Assessment! | said it!” an’ he was lookin’ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral when he Union, Chamber of Labor Unions, | Amalgamated Power Plant Workers, Architectural Iron Workers’ Union, @ ELBERT H, GARY DIES SUDDENLY IN | FIFTH AVE, HOME BIG SACCO-VANZETTI SPECIAL SATURDAY The DAILY W vORK ER will i special dated Saturday, not only contain a review of all the | developments in this international | a Sacco-Vanzetti August 20. e It will _-@ vdgsalt The enthusiasm with which organ- tion and Paperhangers, | | Workers of America, Marine Trans- Union, Local No. 7. Bigger Than Before. izations are pledging themselves to join the strike to save the framed-up workers indicates that the new walk- out will exceed the last in strength. Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators | United Textile} port Workers’ . Union, Edict: mata protest meetings are being enthus- liastically attended by record crowds of workers. Plans for a monster demonstration at Union Square, in New York City, are being made by ithe Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- mittee. | In its call for a strike the Central | Executive Committee of the Workers I eCoruautat} Party declared: “The twelve days’ respite must not deceive the working class. It is in- tended only to deceive, only to quiet down the magnificent demonstrations of working class brotherhood and them from either the chair ora th sa for unity between the Nanking | ure. to purchase Convention As-| ‘Was Head of U. Ss Steel | Sead ine ena ee International Labor petents aus eee Co ek See ing death in prison. vere Bn ile es and aha te sessment Stamps. Act quickly. i] re I Ubud th @alt Slgo-anchude aE aie | {sae ale pugreency srbiy 6 ready hinting. of that fact that @iee the state of Massachussetts, and such retire. Jay Lovestone, | —~ | |frame-up by prominent writers.) | -14° Structural Workers’ Union are|its might it must be heard. The busi- nonsense has no effect on the hard-' Owing to desertions to Wuhan and Wm. Z. Foster. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the ahere will, aleo be cartoons and among the organizations which have|ness of the working class now is to boiled plutes who head the capitalist system in this country. They fear the spirit of rebellion among the masses which one day will put an end to such crimes as the one per- ; ground before the forces of Marshal io defections because some of the troops refused to follow Chiang’s anti- | Communist campaign, his army was weakened and was steadily losing Secretaries. peste: Radio Organization for Soviet Union Will Use ) board of directors of the United | States Steel Corporation, died yester- | |day morning at 3.30 o’clock at his Fifth Avenue home in this city, ac-| cording to the official announcement sketches by noted cartoonists and artis bution by Ellis. will be announced from day to day. including a special contri- our own artist, Fred| Contributions to this issue ; already endorsed a strike. Numer-/ ous other organizations which have already indicated their willingness to} join the walk-out are awaiting meet-} intensify ten-fold the demonstrations \and strikes which have compelled the {butcher of Massachusetts (and the (Continued on Page Five) petrated on res and Vanzetti. Shans pst the Manchurian war- lat his office. The news of his death, Resi meantime ped. a “uy 7 mj ; Z * 5c bd lord and bandit. was withheld for several hours, until) | (7 pes ere Sane NE of the most contemptible ac-- Feng and Wuhanites stood aside|U* S-. Wireless Patents 2, SRAEHOG nathutv on nsa Mon: | | WORKER, 33 Rast Fuet St. Ng STRIKE FOR SACCO, VANZETTI ! SAYS tions that any section of the and permitted Chiang to face defeat |day morning and the holders of steel| | *°T* “lly. f\ workingclass movement guilty of was that of the Boston sec- tion of the Socialist Labor Party, when it refused to hand over its speaking permit on Boston common, last Sunday, to the Sacco-Vanzetti de- fense speakers; the police having re- fused the latter permission to Speak. On the previous Sunday both the So- could be- and then agreed to step in only on condition that Chiang quit, thereby leaving only the Wuhan counter-re- volutionaries in, the service of im- verjalism\in the field against Chang Tso-lin. Feng has shown the master class that he is just as vicious against the further development of the revo- \LENINGRAD, Aug. 15—The So-| viet Union radio Trust gnnounced to- day an agreement with the Radio| Corporation of America for the ex-| change of patents and mutual inspec- tion of manufacturing plants by en-| gineers, Both German Airplanes shares had time to prepare for a bear- | ish movement to pull down the market | price. The result was hut a slight | Loteateset trend and immediate recov- | ery with United States Steel taking | the lead in a new upward drive. | |. Noted Labor Hater. 1] Gary, who with the backing of the | Please the Sacco-Vanzetti at $2.50 per hundred to: BUNDLE ORDER BLANK Daily 33 First Street, * * E i Worker, oes « copies of | pecial Edition join in a nation-wide protest to \ TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—The Trade Union Educational League has issued the following statement calling upon all workers to save Sacco and Vanzetti: ‘, luti s was Chi: first House of Morgan, organized the + A cialist and the Workers (Communist) testers pate tty ee tae | United States Steel Corporation in| |Name .......seseeeeeesees rhs “The Trade Union Educational League calls upon all workers parties gave up their permits and had 034, | Return to Land: |1901, and has been the recognized | | 4 14 for ten-fold increased activity in the campaign to’save Sacco and ee lores odie ee its Peasant ‘Uprisings Conenae |head of it ever since, was one of the, |C°TESS s++eerereees patie ¢ Vanzetti. o—+___—_ RaRGes eee ee ete Be ee ey whi isi. ‘ worst enemies of labor in ¢he country] | City ..........eeseeeseees pa a Pas nee a _|are openly advocating life imprison- true to its craven conduct during the’ Meanwhile the uprisings of peas-| DESSAU, Germany, Aug. 15] 7 the’ teadall of the Satest “open | y ee en a Se eecatn at is ne al ment for Sacco and: Vanzettlgadsie war, would rather enjoy the oppor- “nts, under the leadership of Com-|The second German Trans-Atlantic ALE Nees Shae ire tee ‘ other attempt to divert mass prote! tunity to bask in the smiles.of the Boston police department white dis- munists, continues in a number of provinces and the’ Wuhan counter- plan, the Bremen, returned to the flying field here at 4:24 o’clock, Ger- shop” drive against. labor unions. ruthless exploiter of labor, he eae came the chief spokesman for the; Arraign Westchester Bootleggers. and quiet the movement with the chloroform of legal hocus-pocus. It | American Federation officials seem to be adopting the same line. cussing the evolution of the “tool of revolutionary gang fears the spread/man daylight saving time, today,! hi does not remove the danger of execu-| “This is as shameful as the threat industry” than throw in its lot with of dissatisfaction to their own armies | abandoning its attempted Trans-At- SPER “ARORPETA. Four residents of Westchester|tion. Remember the Tom Mooney|ened execution and must be other sections of the workingclags that may result in strengthening and | lantie flight. i Controlled Republican Party. County were arraigned in federal! case. He was equally innocent, but) nounced without reservation. movement in 2 struggle to save two proletarian lives from: the electric chair . tempt that those fake radicals de- serve from the workingclass. * * * Ny those lines are clicking off the typewriter a German junkers air- plane is flying towards us with -Chi- cago as her destination, A few days ago, I saw a picture of a German U. zoat in the movies sinking British, Italian and Greek merchant vessels to the immense satisfaction and pleasure | of the audience. Ten years ago, if either of those two incidents took place there would be cursing and shooting. Ten years 4, the Germans were “Huns” and “baby-killers.” To- day Germany ig the backbone of civil- Words fail to express the can-' spreading the revolutionary move- ment until they will follow the road of Chiang to oblivion. It’s sister ship, the Europa, had} given up the attempt some hours be-| fore. New Danger ‘By JAY LOVESTONE. Sous people tend to look upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case as an isolated, | special example of the miscarriage) ot justice in the American demacratic | court system. _We Communists take} the very opposite view. We look upon) the Sacco-Vanzetti case not as a mis-| , carriage of justice, but, on the con-| ; trary, as a crass example of the (Continued on Page Two) It was Elbert H. Gary who domin-|court here today charged. with violat- ated the republican party in 1920 and ling the was condenined to a living death thru! prohibition law and allowed | life imprisonment. ‘to go free on bail until their hearings | “Sections of bourgeoisie, like Ford, Signals in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case Make This Execution Impossible! The International Labor Defense declares: “Sacco and Vanzetti have been suspended between life and death for seven years “ernor Fuller now prolongs this agony for twelve days more. issue of The DAILY WORKER appears.) History knotvs no parallel for the deliberate Bite longed torture inflicted upon innocent and idealistic men. (Six days more remain as Gov- this [ominous instances indicating that} ; Such a campaign is in the making. | . The Sacco-Vanzetti case is so clear, American democracy as applied by the imperialists that even the most purblind can see the mockery, hypo-| : ericy and terror of the whole game. It is very many‘wears since an event in our working class struggles has | | stirred up so much interest abroad as « naked, so crass an example of pure | 22: “American reactionary imperialism ean only be halted in its determina- tion to destroy Sacco and Vanzetti ;by an increased demonstration that | millions of workers everywhere will | immediately render the verdict of ‘as- sassin’ and American imperialism will take the same place in the estimation {of the ma formerly occupied by ezarist Russia. The TUEL calls upon lal workers everywhere to join in general strike movement on August nd in the supreme final protest. “Prevent this heavy blow against | working class! Save co and Van- rom judicial murd Strike on August ‘Secretary, Trade Union Educational ization. But should the German and carrying out of justice by capitalists | “For our part we will work with all our power and energy in these’ days to help the | Wel! as at home. Naturally, among League.” seman naling Fenech Uehe outta th Le felciting movement for Sacco and Vanzetti grow in volume and intensity. Paella Paces tiger a tote |_In an interview Foster stated that ‘ips u gains 5 | s z - shee v5 Moisnive we would he taght lt hate justice is not an abstraction. To us| “Oar local organizations in two hundred cities are already organizing a new series of pro- test enorgetically against the Cool-;TUPL adherents are everywhere in 'the front ranks of the ‘struggle and them just as vigorously as they were | justice is part and parcel of the) test meetings and demonstrations for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. \idge brand of justice as handed out S Stee ~ a hated since spring 1917 until long | whole system of the capitalist, class after the armistice. ' society of today. | More than that. ‘The Ginter Reet i. ‘GARY, chairman of the! do not look upon the Sacco-Vanzetti United States Steel Corporation case as an isolated incident of reac- died at his home on Fifth Avenue, | | tion which is an exception to the rule yesterday morning, at the mellow of the trend of events. To us, the age of 81. We are often told that | Sacco-Vanzetti case is only a symbol, life among the great industrial mag-|a high-water mark of the sweep of nates is strenuous and that they are capitalist reaction now crushing the egames on Page Three) Ane workers. 4 * f Gane 2 Gd “We are advocating protest strikes of the workers everywhere and predict that the strike movesient will now take on a volume which will render the execution of Sacco and Van- zetti impossible.” Satco-Vanzetti Case Part of Whole Offensive: TRIKINGLY clear manifestations of the fact that the Sacco-Vanzetti case is an integral part of a whole offensive against the working class by the black capitalist clique, are evi- denced in the preparations now being made for an attack on those workers who are unskilled, semi-skilled, de- prived of political rights, and most proletarian “section of our working class. peated threats and intensified prep- | aratory measures that are now being| of society” must be assured. resorted to for a big drive against the | Weakest section of the working class|of all those who are ready to really foreign-born workers. Within the; must be taught a lesson. This means |act to save the two framed-up worl last three days there have been ehree The writer has in mind the re. £ 4 |to Sacco and Vanzetti are great|™ust now do even more. jmasses of foreign-born proletarians.| From every city the news shows The extreme ire of our capitalists has | that the ma are protesting, but |been aroused. Two foreign- born | the reactionary union “officials are | workers must be executed. The thin holding them back. It is up to all .; veil of the dignity of capitalist justice active progressives to organize dem- | nas been torn to shreds. The “safety jonstrations and strikes. The TUEL The jcall is for the complete cooperation (Continued on Page Two) ers, x ‘