The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 1

] NOW MORE THAN EVER = LABOR MUST ACT FOR SACCO-VANZETTI FIVE MORE DAYS TO SAVE THEM [suk DAIS woken iden) DAILY woRK TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAS IZATION OF THE | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-NO0UR WEEK FOR A Lif BOR AOR EN PARTY Entered as secuna- at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., Vol. IV. No. 184. veuce New Yoru, by muil, 3600 STIRSCRIPTION RATES: Ir New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927 uader the act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER co., | FINAL CITY | EDITION Price 3 Cents 33 Firat Street, New York, N. ¥. MEET FRIDAY, STRIKE MONDAY FOR SACCO, VANZETTI EX-SOLDIER DEMANDS JUSTIGE FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI IN BOSTON He Is Jailed for His Audacity in Urging That Two Workers “Must Not Die!” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FOUGHT FOR JUS- TICE! GIVE JUSTICE TO SACCO AND VANZETTI! THEY MUST NOT DIE!” * * * \ These words, emblazoned on a placard where all could see, brought Morris William Gurkin, an ex-soldier, of Schenectady, N. Y., into the nervous but hungry grip of the Boston police. It was only after a three-day hunger strike that he was re-; leased on bail, being held on two charges, for carrying a placard without a permit and wearing a soldier’s uniform illegally. The fact that Gurkin wore his uniform, long after he had been | discharged from the service, was not the real crime, however, “that bothered the police. The police said they would gladly let! |him go, if he would only tell the | | judge he was sorry that he came |to Boston, to join in the “Death j. O'Flaherty \||March” about the Charlestown) ) | Prison, Wednesday midnight, THERE i is one person at least who| August 10, the hour of the pro- gained nothing from biting the;posed execution last week of hand that guided his military career,|Sacco and Vanzetti. and that man is Chiang-Kai-Shek. He} Bubieurkin tld them val, pron has been deposed as commander-in- | chief of the Nanking army and forced} annge fo eee ue ee zeae of to take himself completely out of the| W7@* ne could do to help save Sacco’ nationalist movement, such as it is ns erent aa it only bothered | now, with the right wing in control.| at he could not do more. Before Chiang listened to the siren Gurkin Leaves Schenectady. call of the imperialists and deserted} Gurkin had no intention of crashing the revolution he was going thru the| thru the capitalist law. He wanted northern troops like a dagger thru a/to display his placard in Schenectady , cheese, but no sooner had he turned} on his way to the railroad station, go- | ing to the commissioner of public against the radical elements that sup- plied the nationalist revolution with| safety and the chief of police seeking a permit for this purpose. Current Events By T. J its dynamic power than things began | The refused to give him the permit, | | * * * s - ' home. They questioned him about} yribaggese arena agpne | nee “bombs,” especially in New York) menting on Chiang’s downfall says: (Continued on Bee EES Three) | ation is to the effect that Ghistie: | Kai-Shek lost every battle fought! P since Rolland, his personal Russian| adviser left him.” Chiang complained | | Soviet military and political advis- ers but as soon as he broke with this “interference” his end arrived. E 5 NMEN. * * * “ | scene makes possible a union be- Shot. by heavily armed gangsters | tween the Hankow and Nanking for-|. ~ 1 ¢ buildi gets ces. But since both elements are hos- jin: the employ of bulding .con beaters | tile to the revolutionary elements, led | Yesterday, Frank Titelbaum, striking | llyn, is lying at the point of death | bode no good to the workers and|\7"™ g | peasants and will be as ineffective |i the Kings County Hospital. Sur-| against the northern militarists as|3¢0ns found a bullet that had entered | to happen to him. advising him instead to go back} “An interesting comment on the situ-j loudly and bitterly of Communist | interference, meaning the advice of | HE departure of Chiang from the by the Communists, this unity will} |painter, 17 Tapscott street, Brook-) was Chiang’s — short-lived regime. | |his left lung and said they held out | _ Only a movement that bases itself | little hope for his recovery. on the needs of the workers and! When about 15 strikers started to in|picket at Ave. I and Flatbush Ave.! more than a dozen guards attacked | them. The workers were peacefully, peasants can hope for success China. 2 * * . NEARER AND NEARER The poisonous spider of capitalism is busy drawing Sacco and Vanzetti into its net. SAGCO, VANZETTI PROTESTS IN TWO HUNDRED CITIES 'MORE AND MORE UNIONS RALLY AT THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE CALL “Pay No Attention to Reactionaries Who Try to Stop This Demonstration,” Says Secretary Plans for the general protest strike which is scheduled for Monday, the day on which Sacco and Vanzetti will die unless American and international labor intervene, are going rapidly ahead. Representatives of labor unions are calling at the office of the Emergency Committee and are pledging support for the forth- voming strike. Notably in this respect are: Excavators’ Union, Locals 731 and 732 of Greater New York, Long Island and vicin- ity, Amalgamated Food Workers, Marine Transport Workers, Amalgamated Metal Workers, Joint Board Furriers’ Union, Lo- cals 1, 5, 10 and 15, Barbers’ Union, Millinery Hand Workers’ Union, Paper Box Makers’ Union, Shoe Workers’ Union, United | Brotherhood Carpenters and Joiners and many other labor organ- | izations. PLEDGE STRIKE SUPPORT. The following political and social organizations ve offered aid in the coming demonstrations previous to date of execution of Saeco and Vanzetti: Anti-Fascist Alliance North America, Workers Party of America, Young Workers’ League, Workers’ ; Health Bureau, International Labor Defense which represents }more than 50,000 workers in the city of New York, Finnish Work- lers’ Federation, Bronx Jewish Workers’ Club, International La- jbor Defense, Stamford local, many branches of the Workmen's Circle, Workers’ Culture Club of Bath Beach, United Council of Working Class Housewives, United Workers’ Cooperative Asso- ciation, the Workers’ School of New York, the American Negro | Labor Congress, and others. a ® The officials of the Sacco- Vanzetti | | Emergency Committee state that} Bombing of Juror’ s |Monday’s strike will equal, in point! |of number and intensity of feeling,| House Framed-Up to last Tuesday’s general protest strike.’ | Committee Issues Statement. \| Hit Sacco, Vanzetti Miss Rose Baron, secretary of the| | |Emergency Committee,“ issued the} | following statement early in the af- | of BOSTON: ‘Aug. 16.—The bomb- ing of the home of Lewis McHardy. ternoon: “The Sacco-Vanzetti Emer-| 163 Pleasant street, one of the jur- gency Committee calls upon organ-| joys jn the Sacco-Vanzetti. trial jized labor in this city to demonstrate) | early this mornin 2 thevea to the master class the solidarity of||the part of the enemies of the |Iabor. Only ‘the united strength of, |framed-up workers to discredit the e workers can now save our con-|| struggle to free them, defence at- |demned comrades., As Sacco himself jhas said, ‘Only the united action of) | purgh, the working class can save us now.’ Call For United Front. fence Committee declared this af- 1 ternoon. “The Emergency Committee knows) | The bomb, which had evidently |that the working class of New York | been planted under a corner of the | will support this strike. We call up- jon all organizations, liberal and poli |tical irrespective of our differenc jin the past to unite in this mighty | veranda, tore out the front part of the building, wrecked the veranda, demolished part of the North Side, broke down all the and doors jeffort to free Sacco and Vanzetti. smashed all the windows. The de- | “This is no time for bickering and) | tonation was heard for about a | petty politics; this is no time to draw | mile. No one was hurt by the \sharply defined distinctions between | blast. ; | liberal, socialist, labor leader or ra jcal.” Continuing her statement Miss | Baron said, “I appeal to all who oy fess a love of justice or an ab | rence of injustice to aid us in ey |last effort to free our comfades. PLAN PROTEST A | “History will recall those who in PLANNED BY THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE wiv? oc? soe marching up and down the street with | THE Soviet oil trust has concluded an agreement with three European governments for the purchase of defi- nite quantities of Russian oil. The rovernments are those of France, Germany and Italy. Oil is an excel- (Continued on Page Three) DEPUTY SHERIFF AND RIGHT WING RAID JOINT DEFENSE COMMITTEE Militant Workers Brutally Beaten Up By Thugs! Of the International signs announcing the strike when they were suddenly assaulted. Dur-| ing the melee one of the strike- | breakers and one guard was injured. | The guards and _ strikebreakers fired wantonly into the crowd. 7 | | | | | Entering the office of the Joint Defense Committee, 41 itoo! Square, yesterday morning with an illegal warrant, Deputy Sher-; iff E. Plunkett took away a large amount of ‘the office furniture. | Before leaving, he set about to dismantle the entire office, throw-' ing files around and generally wrecking the place. The furniture | was taken away on the identification of Phil Rubin of the dues! Hf yartment and the janitor of the right wing Joint Board build-' ye The police were thunderstruck, but | \in the midst of the illegal removal | Py of the furniture, Joseph R. Brodsky) refused to aay ite cee art and Philip Wattenberg, attorneys of | |warrant was bonded at § e the Defense Committee appeared.| | furniture covered is not worth more} They’ demanded that Plunkett show |than $300. them the warrant. Hesitatingly he| Joseph R. Brodsky in commenting allowed them to examine it. After on the case said he “intended suing) a careful examination pau the parties involved.” | branded it as illegal. Try To Disorganize Work. | Refused To Make Arrest. | Ludwig. Landy, manager of the | Brodsky demanded that Police Ser-. ‘Joint Defense, said: “This is a move} geant 212, who was present with two of the right wing in their efforts to patrolmen, arrest the sheriff and the break the splendid defense work be- identifiers on a civil and criminal|ing carried on. Our comrades in charge of entering the premises with- prison and in the shops will answer out a proper warrant. (Continued on Page Five) CHICAGO, Aug. 16—A new" wave of mass protests and demonstra- tions on behalf of Sacco and Van- zetti of a greater scope and inten- sity than ever before is indicated in telegraphic reports that are being | received by the national office of | ' the International | from its local organizations thru- Labor Defense out the country as well as from de- fense organizations abroad. The days remaining between now and August 22nd, the date set for the execution, will be marked by continuous activity and agitation. Prepare for Strikes. In most cases the new demon- { | strations begin on Thursday and will continue thereafter, being develop- ed wherever possible toward strikes on the twenty-second. An illustration of the intensified activity and determination of the militant workers for Sacco and Van- zetti is contained in the report from the anthracite ccal field district that thirty meetings, three par- ades, and several strikes are being organized. Just before the last reprieve eleven locals officially declared strikes involving over ten thousand miners, despite the prohibitory rul- ings of Cappellini, president of Dis- trict One. yb reports from Minneapolis state that “the twin cities are be- ing swept by mass protests against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Huge street meetings being held every night. Monster demonstra- tions are being arranged for St. Paul on Saturday and Minneapolis on Sunday with Walter Liggett and Paul Crouch as the principal speak- ers. Mass demands are being made for the opening of the départment of justice files and hundreds of tele- grams are being sent to President Coolidge.” Reports from other centers all tell practically the same story, of energetic activity and militant (Continued on Page Three) TURN ON THE LIGHT! The capitalist press is gradually pushing the news of Sacco and Vanzetti into the back- ground. There is good reason for this. The capitalist bloodhounds of Massachusetts dread They intend to carry out the cold-blooded murder of our com- rades, Sacco and Vanzeiti, under cover of the silence of the capitalist press, within the dark the white light of publicity. walls of Charlestown jaii. But fortunately there is ove newspaper that will fearlessly keep the light burning, a paper that has thrown open wide its columns to spread before the public eye the full details of the horrible crime, which the state of Massachusetts is about to perpetrate. The DAILY WORKER is in this fight with all the power and resources at its command. Will you help us fight the powers of darkness and crime? Will you help us keep the bright light of publicity on the dark forces of capitalism? Will you help us, through public pressure, to force open the secret files of the Department of Justice? Will you help us keep up the fight of Sacco and Vanzetti until capitalism is compelled by the might of the aroused working class to release its victims? Your contribution to our GUARD THE DAILY WORK- ER FUND will tell your answer. any way did not aid in this interna- zetti who are the victims of a mon- strous nightmare of class injustice.| I know that the hundreds of thou-| sands of workers who staunchly came} to the aid of Sacco and Vanzetti last week will not be disheartened by des- peration of the situation, but rather, | will put forth another gigantic ef-| fort to free our comrades.” Huge Demonstration Friday. Officials of the Sacco-Vanzetti| Emergency Committee are very op- timistic as to the success of the} Union !Square mass protest demon- stration which has been called by the | Emergency Committee for Friday, 4| p. m. It is expected that this demon-}| stration will be greater than last| Tuesday’s which more than 50,000 workers joined. Half a million circulars have been printed and are now being distributed | |in all the five boroughs of New York | City calling for the mass attendance | Jat Friday’s demonstration. Volun- |teer corps of distributors have been |mobilized and are now in action at the entrances of factories, subways, shops and other points at which workers congregate. Traitors Wil} Fail. When informedthat some labor leaders of reactionary organizations | idiculed the idea of the success of janother protest strike, Miss Baron said, “I would ask these gentlemen to | recall their satirical predictions the | day before the last protest strike to which mere than 500,000 workers re-! ‘sponded. We warn these reactionary | | agents of the ruling class that they | will be called to account by their memberships shortly and asked to tense their criminal sabotage of the | only genuine labor issue which has (Continued on Page Five) jat the HIGH COURT SITS Hill Forced to to File New Plea for Writ BOSTON, Aug. 16.—A big protest meeting is being arranged by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee for Thu evening, August 18th, Scenic Auditorium, Berkley, | Tremont and Dover streets. Prominent speakers will address | the meeting. - * * Four members of the supreme court bench sat to hear Defense At- torney Arthur D. Hill, a former dis- trict attorney, ask a review of the case based on a writ of error. Those sitting were Justices Henry K. Wraley, Edward P. Pierce, James I. Carroll and William Cushing Wait. Hill was finally told his request was taken under advisement and that it had been presented in improper form. He immediately filed a new plea. Every seat in the courtroom was oceupied for the momentous session. Lawyers were discussing the ques- tion: If the new writ of error is de- nied which is likely can exceptions be taken to the United States Su- preme Court? Asks Review of Case, Attorney Hill opened his argu- ments after the recess by saying that there were four substantial question: now before the court. “Whether in (Continued on Page Two)