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Page Two THE TF ATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. GUST 17, 1927 Huge Demand for Unconditional Release of Sacco, Vanzetti atiractive ‘The Bomb Hoax Still Serves the Murder Gang WOMEN OF GREATER NEW YORK’ HELP SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI ay stay was given to the two brave workers, and Vanzetti, is 2use of the workers’ PROTEST truout the ates and the world” over. is up to us now to save the lives of the two workers and FREE 1E fact that another 12 THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE by the continuation of protests and demands in the same manner as we did. If IS UP TO YOUR DECISION, this is the only hope and the only thing to rely upon to FREE SACCO AND VANZETTI, THE UNITED COUNCIL OF WORKING CLASS HOUSEWIVES calls upon the working class women and the liberty loving women to unite with them to.help SAVE the two innocent workers, SACCO and VANZ iu & £ UNITED COUNCIL OF WORKING CLASS HOUSEWIVES ‘ri ft f Plaza, 119 East 15th Union Square, which is anzetti Emergency Com- street, w only two blocks away, to join with the mittee, in the PROT AND THE SMAND FOR THE RELEASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI. (Signed.) THE UNIT 2D COUNCIL OF WORKING ChASS HOUSEWIVES, LEGAL ACTION IS ONLY SCREEN TO. CLOAK MURDER, DECLARES APPEAL Page One) concerning alleged udge Thayer. ramed Evidenced Hill first discussed the Show Attorney 3 titioners had such t before the jury as they were entitled to. “Whether the question of Judge Thayer’s won prejudice is a matter which can now be decided in these|fitst taken up. The former chief of by him. police of Braintree iri a new affidavit rder scene and “identified” as accos by a tear in the lining was new evidence, a cap found near the} VANZETTYS SISTER IN PARIS | Luigi Vanzetti leads great mass demonstration for release of Sacco, and Vanzetti DAILY WORKER CORRESPONDENTS WRITE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Again the reptile press screeches with weird tales about bomb explosions by Sacco and time the provocateurs of a blood Vanzetti sympathizers. This drenched capitalist despotism blew off the front porch of the house of one of the twelve creatures who sat on the pack two innocent workingmen. The reports of the explosion ap- ed jury that convicted these peared simultaneously with the hearing of pleas for an ap- peal to the full bench of the sup: Some trivial police chief of the town of East Milton, Mass., where the explosion occurred, got on the front page of the kept press with the assertion that it was an act of pathizers. sional strikebreakers and crooks, who between strikes con- Sacco and Vanzetti sym fine their activities to blackma' reme ‘court of Massachusetts. The state police, profes- iling bourgeois motorists and protecting bootleggers who use the highways, are conduct- ing an “investigation,” as if the counted with intelligent people. thrown about the homes of “ ir opinions on anything really Reinforced guards are ‘public men,” and the terror stage is again set for the next move on the part of the mur- No worker should be deceived by this sort of thing. We can say definitely, without fear of successful contradiction that the bombs thus far exploded were planted by those who want to aid the case of Fuller and his Back Bay advisory com- They are counter-blasis to the agitation of workers mittee. der crew to carry out their fiendish plot. all over the world for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. The only reply to this pro demonstrations that must culm strike on Monday, August 22, th last respite. All those unprin vocation is more tremendous ninaie in an impressive mass e date of the expiration of the | cipled fakérs who profess to | speak for labor and who talk against this strike are guilty of aiding the executioners and th capitalism. e provocateurs in the pay of Offers! for NEW READERS of the Daily Worker These valuable premiums, worth $2.50 each, can be secured FREE with every annual subscription to The DAILY WORKER or through payment of only $1.50 with 20 Coupens elipned from the News- stand Edition on 20 different days. if both of these peti-| admitted that he tore the cap while tions be decided in favor of them any) seeking for marks of identification. |Extracts From Scores of Letters on Fate of the | The other evidence concerned a! .| statement by Captain Proctor of the Two Innocent Workers |State Police concerning the bullet! Owing to lack of space The DAILY WORKER is unable to! | ASK SOCIALISTS — TO STRIKE FOR legal remedy can be made. “If so can a writ of error be o! tained for a review of this case,” |found in the body of the slain guard. | poke, Ganda Yall Hang Captain Proctor, did not say, as Was/yyint in full all of the interesting and vigorous letters received | Statements by Judge Thayer that/alléged, that the bullet was from| F * 1 Vanzetti and Sacco were “Reds,”|Sacco’s pistol, |from comrades all over the country who have something to say | wen ; Oe, “Draft Dodgers,” that “no Bolshevikij Attorney Hill then launched into| about the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti planned by the capitalist ie Wana ere ag No. 2 (Ansco) ae aie : hea bate that) an attack on the prejudice of judge/ courts of Massachusetts. We are therefore adopting the policy i j | Nea Rapuir Pace akiks tahued ia. he pe affidavits filed ae fila of printing extracts from the letters we receive. A e Takes an Standard Roll ae the ae Siew ree Py Milwaukee Protest Meeting. wed heck a : no.crime, and that they are absolutely Vinson A ks Move Tnodst {s'tinely, niahea ane Attorney ul, 4 these allege MILWAUKEE Aug. 16.—Three} orkers uSt Save Sacco an innocent to ave Tw y 7, rker; complete in every jetail. une oll poeta : e h “ ind v i ean Ha ees ee Were | thousand to 3,500 people supply De a4 ; one : No lull must be allowed to take | 8 0 Wo . gh Monzomtal "Pte vars pee cueside pCoHES UGE ed into Court House Square, Satur-| The judicial, clerical, academic and|place in the desperate fight the mil- 2 ; | Adapted for Time or Snap- * , August 6th, 3:00 p. m. to pro-| political dogs of our industrial oligar-|jtant millions of workers are putting | ee to ie saleuegt desund PY Pt Phi, trp Eth ane Expose Thayer Bias. test against the unjust decision of|chy in the state of Massachusetts are|yp all over the capitalistic world as| eh fe ctre i cae caate | -book of instructions. Swinging into his attack on Judge |@0vernor Alvan T. Fuller and his ad-|still howling for the blood of the two| well as protests from that land where | | pte noclallay antes Shue casbiarte eeereenre eat i ice Attorney Hill re.|Visory committee—in making a_se- framed up workers, Sacco and Van-|the workers control and govern their! ROSE BARON, head of the com in he ae parents a ee pata an affidavit by | cret investigation of the Sacco-Van- | zetti, listed to be burned alive in the] own affairs, Rassia. mittee battling to obtain the ra Sac vend “Venue Rose Meroe of | STORIES, PLAYS lease of Nicola Sacco and Bartolo meo Vanzetti, is shown above, electric chair August 22nd, 1927. * * | REVELRY ibley, a newspaper man |2¢tti case. Frank P. : Twenty-five thousand leaflets were the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- who “covered” the trial.! Also the pen prostitutes are aiding) Chicago Pretest Meeting Dispersed. ' . 24 | otter Reading from the affidavit, At-|distributed. Advance speeches at! and abetting that potential atrocious|Dear Comrade: | Sie RR its Sos eee - CBN aS eae ag PA inet ce psig No. 2 pars a Me Lead pose torney Hill, quoted Sibley as saying factories and street corners. murder, they are lying indiscrim-| As the correspondent of The| A edtomientcot hie poaiean i veginerce iste, Steen that judge Thaye: red to coun-| In the factory distribution of leaf-|inately in the hopes that their mas-|DAILY WORKER of street: nucleus| Pointing Gat. thalekas Bane eeiaee Coolidge. An inside view o sel for the defense as “those damn lets S. Krazonya was arrested on the | tors will feast over the blood of these| No. 29, Chicago, Ill., I wish to make! Charters dash - ees bes | teeeees Saeed, Pee con ee fools” this and similar remarks, were | hand-bill ordinance, and received $5/ two fighting working class martyrs. |an-announcement through The DAILY strike: yuatiisuale fallaw ee tiered | made, Sibley said during a luncheon |and costs, as a fine. They know as well as millions of] WORKER on behalf of Sacco-Van-| | of the Beate Veneta Tatente Com-| Otter ELMER GANTRY conversation at the Dedham Inn. | — radicals, liberals and conservatives’|zetti demonstration meeting that was) mittee in Boston, which is the offi-| Ne 3 by Sinclair Lewis Attorney Hill then took up various| Don’t Forget the Sustaining Fund!!that these two men have committed|supposed to be held on the corner of es ae | % : P ! ai gt cial defense committee, Miss Baron The famous author of Bab =e % pst ees ins ies Ns ea ___.|Division and Washtenaw, where we % sae ges bitt has given a fine rendi- had a difficult time to start the meet-| »;Says, “Can the socialist party in its tion of the hypocrisy and ling on account of Jaw and order. But| desire to be ultra-respectable afford|........+ sham of the American clergy. { lfeepite all ‘thie svar naa saokided to| to absent itself from this momentous \\|have this meeting and we decided to! age ai eaioeee i nits Otter EMPEROR JONES \ |earry on the meeting on Rockwell Appeals Case, Is Held ie velogram tollows in full: No. 4 by Eugene O'Neill y Mid-Su : The Gayest Affair of the Season { — : namer Jamboree jand Division streets. | We managed to listen to the speak- jer for about 15 or 20 minutes when {suddenly the proprietor of the drug store on the corner of Rockwell and perse the very meeting and where he succeeded in doing his dirty work; the meeting was dispersed and the |speaker arrested. Pe ) Fuller Rivals Leopold and Loeb. | “In the light of recent events in | Massachusetts, Leopold and Loeb should be convinced that with their ‘mediocre experience in committing a | perfect murder they are pikers of a jvery low order.” * * * They Shall Not Burn! Did you hear it? f It’s going on now for seven years! Two prolets are in prison Framed for the chair. Two fine fighters who Tried their best for you. What will your answer be To free those two? OTTO PRICE. * Sevelana Workers Tells Emotions. ednesday, August 10, 1927, was the most crucial day in thé history of the American worker. Hope and de- spair had struggled in the heart of every class-conscious worker. Would the masses respond to the aid of their two mama, Sacco and Vanzetti, who were probably for the last time that day. to see the light of the sun? Would the toiling thousands for once realize their power by saying: No! * * BENEFIT OFTHE JOINT DEFENSE COMMITTEE OPEN AIR DANCING SUNDAY 50 Cents AUGUST 28 Admission and Dancing $1.00 oe Admission, Dancing and Roller Coaster — Ferris OPEN AIR OPERA | Mine—Lovers’ Meel—House “CARMEN” of Nonsense STARLIGHT EAST 177th STRE ET, BRONX, N, Y. ito the legal assassins of New Eng- | y A U D E y | L i E SHOW jland? The response exceeded all ex- ——— |) pectations. . From morning till midnight the Buy Tickets at DAILY WORKER 108 East 14th Street FREIHETLT 30 Union Sq. JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP 106 University Place PARK awakened giant, labor, stood on con- stant watch, mightily protesting against the Massachusetts crime. Expectation and calm as before a storm. Suddely a venomous press re- port: “Anarchists to Die.” Thousands |rush out with hearts as heavy as hell itself and make their way towards the newsboys. Suddnely, another spe- cial: “Respite is given to Sacco and Vanzetti!” | the great battle, It has dawned, Labor, the awaken- ing giant, has won the first round in THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AT EVERY MEETING! On $1,000 Bail BOSTON, Aug. 16. — For demand- ing the liberation of Sacco and Van- on Sts, called up the police to|zetti at a demonstration on the Bos-|Sacco-Vanzetti protest strike called {ton Common broken up by the police | Sunday, Powers Hapgood, young mili- ‘tant mine leader and Harvard gradn- | ate, was sentenced to six months in the house of correction by Judge Par- | menter in municipal court today. | Hapgood appealed from the decision and was held in $1,000 bail for ap-| | Pearance before the superior court. Hapgood stated that he had merely talked to the gathering regarding their rights as citizens to speak freely, and that he had not attempted to inflame the crowd. The technical charge jagainst the young mine leader was “rioting and inciting to riot.” | Cosmo Caraviotti, arrested with| Hapgood, was found guilty of at- tempting to rescue him, of inciting to riot and was sentenced to nine months in the house of correction. He ap- | pealed. Police Search. Hapgood was rearrested yesterday \at the Sacco Vanzetti defense com- | mittee headquarters soon after he had been released in $500 bail after hav- \ing been found guilty and fined $50 on a charge of speaking on Boston Common without a permit. He was Searched and letters to his mother _tead by the police, he said. | He was first arrested last Sunday _ when mounted police rode thru twelve \thousand workers on the Boston |Common to drag him off the plat- form. Fought Lewis Machine. | Out of college he became active in jthe United Mine Workers of Amer- jica. At the Indianapolis convention of the United Mine Workers at In- 'dianapolis last January Hapgood was |denied the floor by Pres. John L. |Lewis on the fake charge that he |was not a delegate. Hapgood has worked in mites thru- out the world. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—The In- | terstate Commerce Commission today dismissed the complaint of the Wash- ington State Coal Producers Asso- ciation against alleged preferential rates on carload shipments of soft coal from Utah to northern ‘ific ports for export to Alaska and Hawaii. Telegram To Claessens. We have been informed that your Mr, Edward Leviffson has issued a} statement to the press urging New! York labor not to participate in the! for Monday, August 22nd. | You must surely be aware of the fact that the lives of our comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti, ave in as great ‘langer now as they were last Tues- day. Call From Defense Committee. You must also be aware of the fact) that the Boston Defense Committee! -- which is the official defense com-} mittee for’ Sacco and Vanzetti in this country in a telegram sent to us said: “Sacco and Vanzetti die on August 22nd. The respite does not lessen the danger of the situation. There is no} hope in the court. The prisoners) thank you from the bottom of their hearts for your work in saving them thus far. They say to you that only increased cooperation may save them in the end. The committee has set the 22nd for a general strike.” | Can the socialist party in its desire| to be ultra-respectable afford to ab- sent itself from this momentous struggle. Wire reply collect. % ‘The Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- “mittee, Rose Baron, Sec’y. Socialist Sabotages Strike. 1 In his attack on a strike move to| save Sacco and Vanzetti, Levinson said: | “Certainly the trade unions of the| city will pay no attention to any so- called strike issued by the Workers | Party or any other Communist agency. Those who struck last week! lost $2,000,000 in pay and yet the | Communists robbed this demonstra-| tion of its greatest value by organiz-| ing street parades, thus giving the} impression that the Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers are a collection of ir- responsibles. “Tt is altogether unlikely that an- other protest strike will be held. The last strike, which involved the walk- out of 350,000 workers for one day, was a clear and emphatic demonstra- tion of how the workers feel in re- mS to the two Massachusetts radi- cals. “We have taken our stand and it is now up to Massachusetts to decide whether or not the voice of the work- ing people counts for anything with er,” | and other plays Includes the popular plays »."Gold” and “the First Man,” MARXIAN CLASSICS ECONOMIC THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by N, Bukharin Thoughtful Marxist read- ers will find in this how guide to an understanding the ideologists of the mod- ern bourgeoisie. 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