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é THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WET ESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927 LIBERALS PLAN SACCO-VANZETTI never been seen by the courts, Gov-| ernor Fuller of the advisory commit- tee, despite the fact that Attorney- General Sargent, according to press rept , offered to submit the depart- ment of justice records to Governor Fuller at the outset of the governor’s investigation, | Board to Help Harass Foreign Born Workers Page Three Industrial Conferences ‘EX-SOLDIER DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR Current Events ~ SACCO AND VANZETTI IN BOSTON (Continued from Page One) lent lubricator and diplomat E a Bas aR Tate eget The Royal Dutch Shell, a fs MEETS FOR WEST BEET Mave lup pea nnaly : 1reau of im: (Continued from Page One) f running away. They only replied, | government oil trust howled t v- j | We are confident that once the abor depart- declared that, “Sacco and) “What busin you got coming tojen at the idea i | erican people are acquainted with ment, in lien drive is tti are murderers. They should! Boston e way from Schenectady. | firm like the c as Ra ELSe: E et Re, the Bro itution saath die. They are trying to tear down! We'll take care of our own laws, and d ontinue Campaign to sgn dt peng ANE EI our constitution.” Litalal chrevat yon. them Open D of I Files a ee i es ett pee fel | igani Gurkin carried the placard Just they The patrol wagon was called and ow ed ‘ Mi r eetiadll cnt a ue bitte : 8 Bagi | ges: same from his home down State! The combined | th ould have Walter W. Sided 10 OF tite way one agent) | country. , to the station where he bought king him off Liggett, representing the Citizens’ National Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti, left Boston last night for a speaking tour in Wisco: resses it in an affidavit, and that an might secure a conv: y for payroll robbe aliens illeg to facilitate d announces. jon the e ion of | and| ation, the bos ket for Albany. A detective tried stop him, after purchasing the but when he showed the ticket his Vv into the le all the ed brain 1 trade * * IOWEVER it was learned that they will unite to prevent’ | S RS permitted to leave town. At! could conit him tc S cree to} 1 sin, Minnesota and other sections of ‘ution of two innocent men, ny Gurkin bought his ticket for| the ae adie Peete Dutch 1 tried the Northwest, in aid of the campaign with which is bound up the honor of| D on. ee eee ae it as to bring about federal intervention in| America, before the world.” ny: anee Pu Conductor Fears “Authorities me | poop prin in? he Br Teas tg the Sacco-Vanzetti case. cs | Gurkin put up his placard, v t Hf replied Gurkin D ech Sh il ¢ a Mr. Liggett, whose summer home f appeal for Sacco and Vanzetti, at Bie éirent aire k wil] ics pe A Coolidge Needs Time to! end of the railroad coach in whid ee ae Delle Belay ear ee is in Provincetown, is a native of Minnesota and the son of Dean Lig- Arrange Safest Way to’ SUPPORTED BY was riding in full view of the Lei This was very disconcerting taken here,’ he was tok Then they declared I but the oil trickled thru | gett, late head of the Minnesota Ag- ee to HE aRtoe enc turned “it | &¢chist,” said Gurkin eae ae ee again dec-|™ | peeme nat a teas oe ee DIS Tatas GERMAN PARTY aroumd, declaring, “The authorities (Bat T had stolen the uniform. In| Vy. sed its loyalty to | Newspaper man in Minnesota for é | 4 would Hie aka {spite of the fact that I showed them 5 y | vy oy “a eg y, . mV rmy ontiti P y, | pt et Sates crane ee 4a RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 16. —No re ara One of the passengers tried to pro- | 2tmy pide canon tagy N0:) features or ai a Raton 7 decision will be made by President voke Gurkin. When this failed he | 941,622, with my name on it, they be- inity of its nose. Another vate led ne ee ; ae shatters Coolidge regarding filling of the BCs Exposés Role of Trotsky tried other measures. He followed gan tearing off my medals, altho I “palace” revolt was attempted in that | ommittee, Hote 3ellevue, that /ieft vacant by the death of G ee ‘ Gurkint. off the train at one station| told them I take them off,| country and the ambitious generals | meetings at which Liggett will be|Gen. Leonard Wood, of the Philip- Opposition Group and hung about as Gurkin sent a tele-/ Urging them not to tear clothes.” | who would like to swap places with the chief speaker have been arranged as follows: Superior, Wisconsin, Wednesday night; Duluth, Minnesota, pines until Mr. Coolidge returns to Washington, it was official nounced at the summer executi 9,— Pravda MOSCOW, : iy published gram back to his family y. This pro- vocateur, according to ( i kin, sent a telegram to the police at the sta- * Promises Him Poison. “Throw him down in the id one of the policemen fi the present cabinet are safely locked up. * * * Thursday night; Minneapolis, Friday fices here today. blast inst the opposition in the | tion ahead, notifying them of of Gur- RESIDENT CARMONA is receiv-!& night; St. Paul, Saturday night; and) yyy. Coolidge desires to confer with | All-Union Communist Party headed |kin’s presence on the train. When’ i ing the plaudits of the press for 6 Minneapolis, Sunday night. officials in the Insular bureau. | by Trotsky and Zinoviev, connecting | a rough appearing individual got on 1 the courage he displayed when a 4 Those in charge of the meeting at; ‘There is no official announcement |them with the Ruth-Fis aslov-/ the train later, posing as a detective,! He suggested to the police that they lieutenant who headed a delegation | @ Superior, Wisconsin, have invited as|.. yet as to whether the islands will| Urbahns renegades and enemies ef he failed to make much progress with | get him pirin tablets to re- | that demanded his resignation decided é one of the speakers, Glenn Frank,| continue to be governed by military | the proletarian revolution. The ar-|Gurkin who demanded his credenti lieve a hi 2 to shoot him first and make his de- # president of the University of Wis- bureaueraey, with a promise of fri ticle was based upon the declaration) All he could show was a declaration “We'll u poison,” replied one | mands afterwards. Carmona’ simply consin, and one of the ‘sponsors of} the Citizens National Committee. | At its headquarters tonight the Cit- | zens’ National Committee issued the! following statement: | “Our committee was organized as/ the result of an appeal sent out from} Boston last Saturday night by Robert | Morse Lovett, of New York. The ap-! peal was directed to a small group of | outstanding men and women in the} country. The following have already wired their endorsement: Alexander | Meikeljohn, Glenn Frank, Fremont Older, Zona Gale, Felix Adler, David! : . «<1 | of the delegation of the German Com- dows, "ob whether thers wil be ‘a civil | munist Party attending the plenum government to«signalize the end of of the Central Committee and Central the: Filpiino’s hope of freedom and) Control Commission of the All-Union their permanent annexation. Communist Party. ‘ Compelled to Fight Opposition. HH H The declaration points out that the| 0 | ies ns | e |German Communist Party was com-| | | pelled to joint active participation | | with the All-Union Communist Party | n the fight against the opposition! | because that opposition was actively | giving the strongest support to the ultra-left renegades of German Com- munism. The group of Fisher, Mas- of innoculation from the army. Gur- kin concluded he was an American Legionnaire. This embryo fascist} tried to continue questioning Gurkin| until the train arrived at Worcester, | when he got off. Gurkin Arrives in Boston. | The remainder of the trip to South | Station, Boston, was made without incident. It was 9:30 o’clock in the evening, Wednesday, and Gurkin de-| cided that the “Death March” was| already on its way to the Charlestown Prison. He, therefore, decided to} take the subway, carrying his pla-! of the police officers, the others join- ing in with, “Give him something will finish him up. : “The cell was a suffocating hole,” that | said Gurkin, “I felt like a soldier who |had been captured before go- ing into battle. I regretted that I couldn’t be at the front.” Hear News of Respite. The next morning at four o’clock about 40 prisoners, according to Gurkin’s count, were crowded into a huge autobus police patrol and taken to the mun court building where socked his armed antagonist on the | jaw and called it a day. “There is nothing remarkable about my con-/| duct”, Carmona admitted to the press “What else could a Portuguese do?’| There is a good deal in what the president says. i * * xx; Pee is a satrapy of Great \* Britain and those revolutions usu- ally take place when the quarterly | | subsidy arrives from London. Those in power have the spending of the} money, of course. In return for keeping Portugal on the payroll the | Blast F public opinion has temporarily stayed the hand of the executioner. Mass protest, Bo lov, Urbhans & Company are making | card before him, a black band on his|they were offered a cup of coffee | British receive the tobacco concession e Giada Garrison Villacd, Capt, Par’ |@ crual fight against the Communist | rm, the honor medals and pins from apiece. Gurkin said he had declared |and many other favors that repay mass strikes , Capt. Pax- E abe Tea icati tains noth-|the army blazining conspicuously on er strike against his arres: 5 cost. 3 | ton Hibben: WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 16 | Party Its publication contains no ita cane Spic y a hunger strike against his arrest | the cost. | have halted + . “A week ago charges of the most;—Additional pleas for reduction Ee ee a eee the Gane Priced serious nature, made in great detail|the French war debt to the United | alist Soviet Republic ateattoe upott | and supported by affidavits of depart-| States, including a two billion dollar | fie Communist International and open ment of justice agents and evidence) flat remission and an interest reduc- |treachery and mockery of all revo-| from official sources, were submit-| tion of fifty per cent, were made to- | lutionary movenients mn other ‘coun: ted by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense! day at the Institute of Politics. | tried. Committee to Attorney-General Sar-, Frederick W. Peabody, managing | Part of Imperialism. gent by telegraph at his home in Lud-/ director of the American Association; ‘This unprincipled gang with which low, Vermont. Ample proof was sub-| favoring revision of inter-allied debts, | Tyotsky and Zinoviev combine, having | mitted that department of justice) and William T. Hornaday, author, of | }ost all influence among the mémbers | agents and spiés in the notorious reg-; Stamford, Conn., both came forward) of the Party has become an insig- jand refused to take anything “The subway was_ packed,” an ee Bans ia pes anise is Gurkin. “Everybody took an interest | It was here. in reading the sign. Most everybody lheard of the showed sympathy. One man said,| |] ORD BIRKENHEAD, secretary for/M| the act of legal India, and one of the most bitter | OY enemies of Irish freedom back inj, murder jf Sacco i“Home Rule” days has high pr | 7 j |for president Cosgrave of the Ivish| | and V anzetti. Free State executive council. Birken- | head declares that he would not stand | for any modification in “substance” |} | of the oath of allegiance to the king of England which is a hint that a} ‘change in wording without making that the prisoners respite to August 22, “Tia is the gikatest ‘criine the state | Stanted to Sacco and Vanzetti. has ever committed,’ while another|.. - eto singing “The Interna- added, ‘Governor Fuller will not dare | onal,” said Gurkin, “and several to buck against the world protest of /°f the prisoners tried to follow, and labor.” {succeeded to some extent. I told the Grabbed by the Police. jprisoners that the International Lab- The tide turned, however, at the|0"% Defense was taking care of my But the executioner bides his time. ime of A. Mitchell Palmer, conspired) to champion the French cause. | nificant but nevertheless and iritegral | State Street Station where two po-|case. They were duxfous>to {o aaep aoe. ms 3 : Cyan cee cee’ with Katzmann in securing the con-| New War. ‘part of the powerful international|licemen on the platform called thru |Icarn what the I. L. ; ee tt See oe The capitalist class vietion of Sacco and Vanzetti; and| Hornaday, in proposing the two bil-| machine that is preparing for an im-/ the open window to Gurkin to “Come! Seized By the Government. Laeéw ap the fomiula that (was. acs} is still thirsting ; that the consciousness of guilt to|lion dollar remission, went so far as|perialist war against the Soviet| out, we want you!” But Gurkin was} Gurkin was taken into court. The | ceptable to Cosgrave in 1921. | for the lives of its i which so much weight was given by|to hold up the spectre of a new war| Union. This group only be-|not inclined to obey. icharge of carrying a sign without a ;. : : | or the lives of its if the French débt controversy is not|cause of two-fold support—one the settled amicably when he said: | one hand by the bourgeoisie, its state “In 1915 and 1916 the American} department, justice department and people made a gigantic and costly | police and on the other through direct “So they came into the car to ‘get 'me,” said Gurkin. “One of the police | officers grabbed me by the arm and twisted it. The other got behind me Judge Thayer, Governor Fuller and the advisory committee, was due to the great fear of Sacco and Vanzetti and their friends because of the activ- |permit was dropped and deputy United States marshals seized him on behalf of the federal government on the charge of illegally wearing the victims, and is determined to accomplish its evil ie will not make president Cosgrave | more popular with the Irish people | to have praise showered on him by} ities of department of justice agents| blunder through apathy, pacifism and | and continuous collaboration and sup- | and began pushing. I thought it best | uniform. ae siesta The Fane Eee against the Galleani band of anarch-| unpreparedness. Must we bring pees | Port ae Wie Ras le cae I did once, during a coal} Gurkin was thoroly lectured on baa iene Dae ey eae eee ee | purpose. i i tti| the three grinning skeletons of our | Munist Party o le U. 5.5. K., which | strike in 1921, in West Virginia, and ioti: s TEAR j a Ae Pi Sed ists, of which Sacco and Vanzetti| these grit iz | dois it| pot wala cuahtie ea aay tisad, patriotism. He was told by govern-|/them. Indeed this a universal policy| three disgraces and rattle them in| supplies it with material, and ‘ public as a warning? If not, our| With all sorts of argumentation and | splitting it open. American people must now awaken guides Bice ide 3 “So I just went along. But I| to the dangers that lie in the unset- | nspeakable Treachery. | thought, ‘If this is the way they treat * eas 4 tled Tench debt. We should cour- | Although without support from the) gn ex-soldier in uniform, with his [£0 the judge ae vine pice ae ageously and promptly take the mat-|masses, this alliance of Trotsky and medals on, in 1926, how these same | ye auth Gh alt aed a ter in hand.” Zinoviev with this expelled and dis-| police must have tyrannized over for- |"¢ Would only tell the judge he was sady to buy. off the ising | sees credited group acquires particularly | eign-born oven. Many. of them |S0°T% that he doesn’t believe Sacco pg ed of a e most promising | | deer and harmful significance for} unable to speak the English langu- and Vanzetti are innocent, and that | ° e workers’ leadership. | | German Communism just now when | age, during the red-baiting days of {he was misinformed as to the nature | * * * [the Soviet Union is threatened with| : , of the Sacco-Vanzetti protest, then! HE action of the New York World 7 Ms 1919 and 1920’.” Hs |war. In the impending war of the! Questioned by “The Authorities,” |they would be glad to let him go. = in eeuene ae to Te srouns articles on Sacco an an- Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | ¢ Peer | But Gurkin refused to say any- | against united imperialisms the So-| superar ey dhe tome aed OF the |tning of the kind to the judge and zetti shows what myth this boasted | | viet Union will first of all tely upon | SoU Hane: wre: ad going?” SaaS Ons jhe was sent back to jail in the after- | free press is, There is no such ani-| |the firm confidence of the Working | o¢ ‘the AoneeTich noon, Gurkin and other prisoners} mal. The DAILY WORKER never }masses of all countries, the revolu-| “To Ghacleativen » Gurkin answered, | SPent most of that night singing “The | pretended to speak for all classes. | c 8 *' International” and “The Red Flag.” |{t speaks only for and in behalf of | tionary proletarian international and | “What for?” the eee papote Me the only Soviet} Upegkese-E-wantt 6 hold this sign| The next morning, Friday, Gurkin | the workingclass. The World on the} | Republic in the world. | dp heford the gates of Charlestown {W28 told to “quit his foolishness,” to | other hand pretends to be for the The opposition denies the revolu-| ; i “eat something,” and to “say you’re| Whole community, yet when Broun | |tionary nature of the Soviets. It in-| Prison to protest against Governor were members. “The files of the department of jus- tice have been refused to Mr. Thomp- son, defense counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti who made a specific request by letter to Attorney-General Sar- gent in July, 1926. The files have Convention Elections Soon! Have You Ore of These in Your Dues Book? ' THE H | N £© 1 a 1927988 ment officials that Sacco jzetti should burn. and Van- The deputy mar- shals told him that they had spoken | used by all imperialisms. The United) States does it in the Philippines and| |Porto Rico. The capitalists follow} | this policy in the American Federa- | tion of Labor. They shower favors} jon the labor leaders and are always} Again the working class will have to mobilize its forces to save Sacco and Vanzetti, this time on a far more | effective and far-reaching scale. | Again the Daily Worker will send forth the call to workers sc hata , ‘dulges in base affirmations concern-|Fuller’s murderous decision,” said [pore tinocd dueenie. h lis wrcteageane tie meinen in the mines, mills ling transition to “Thermidoreanisn eas I want to protest against lopee in continued obdurate, OW- | vigor, his Reritiigs ate: ldlled. ever Dy Dy |It puts forth accusations regarding | the taking of the lives of these two |“Kulak regeneration.” It denies the | innocent workers.” international nature of the Soviets, | Huge Throng Gathers. | branding their existence in Russia as| By this time a huge throng had factories and farms, to down the tools |tho he is one of the foremost and “I guess they were afraid that I * * * ; | . «| most hi d sts ir | was going to starve to death on their | United aoe A dcitide date met | hands,” said Gurkin later, as we dis- * * * | If not, YOU CANNOT VOTE! | “nationalist conservative mediocrity.” | gathered. Gurkin was holding high The opposition also fights against | bis placard reading, “We are supposed See your Nucleus Secretary today. Tomor- row it may be too late. For Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, Remittances, On Sale of Stamps, etc., write to: NATIONAL OFFICE 1113 WEST WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL. Next Number Out | July 25th, | It will be a combination of July-August issues. ! Retail price the same—25 cents. | Communit Analyse and Theory. Lenin’s teaching of the possibilities of | building socialism in one country | |where working class has gained power. The block of the opposition |with the ultra-left agents of the | West European bourgeoisie is the re- sult of anti-Leninist views on funda- mental questions of revolution. Aids War Preparations. The tactics of the opposition are | directed not only toward the defeat to have fought for justice Give jus- tice to Saceo and Vanzetti. They must not die.” One of the policemen yelled at Gur- kin thru the subway noise, “You've | been riding around here all night, haven’t you?” “No, I just came off the train from Schenectady,” replied Gurkin, getting the reply, “You're a damnable ‘iar. You've been riding the subway +dall cussed his case in a restaurant, where ‘he was getting a square meal once jmore. “They are realy afraid of the |hunger strike and they finally let me |out ‘on bail, furnished by the Inter- \national Labor Defense.” | This is just one view of Boston dur- ling the days when the ruling class murderers were halted in their efforts jto murder Sacco and Vanzetti. Last week this attempted assassination ‘was stopped by the world protest. of labor. International labor must score of the defense capacity of the U. S.! night inciting the people to riot,” and} the same victory again before Mon- S. R. but signifies also the continua- tion of the policy of sabotaging the greatest task presented by Lenin: to}- the West European Communist in the event of a European war, namely turning the imperialistic war- into civil wars against capitalism and the establishment of the proletarian dic- tatorship. The tactics of the opposition as well as the policy of the expelled | a lot more, ending up with, “You come along with-me.” wee Some of the throng began calling out, “Let him go!” Gurkin continued to hold high the sign, declaring to | those about him, “I may be in prison, but don’t let Sacco and Vanzetti burn | tonight!” . “Let him go!” continued the shouts, as the police reached the street with their prisoner. They came out of the | day midnight, the new date of the ex- ecution in the electric chair. According to the words carried on | Gurkin’s banner, “they must not die!” Sacco-Vanzetti Protests | Tn 200 Cities (Continued from Page One) IOBODY who is opposed to this! social order can express his con-| | victions in the capitalist press. We! {do not get indignant over this fact. | | It is just as it should be, The | | capitalist press stands for the pres- | ent social order and it would be sui-| cidal for it to allow itself to be used for the purpose of sabotaging the} system from which it draws suste- nance. It is the hypocrisy of this| press that we object to. The thing| to do however is to actively support | the only workingelass daily news-| paper published ‘in the United States | in the English language that speaks | for the workers and the exploited farmers. Gary Grave in Wheaton, | Little Main Street | WHEATON, Il, Aug. 16. — The | | } and pour into the streets in thousands upon thousands as a mass protest against this crime against the working class. Help to spread the call by putting your shoulder to the wheel in the drive for Five Thousand New Readers to the Daily Worker. little town of Wheaton of theosophi- cal activities prepared today to re-| ceive the funeral cortege of Judge | ultra-left objectively unites in this! ty oy : way with international menshevism | Subway. at. the Old.. South Church, | and the second international. which, it will be remembered, was. the | ‘meeting place of the party of colo-| THE BEST EVER. laraian-Leninist Con- | spirit of the working masses in the fight against the legal murder of the workingclass martyrs, Sacco © pretation of alk Phe- nomena of Social Life, Help build the Editonale, Truth about Soviet Russie ubscribel 25 Cents a Copy $2.00 a Year Fe SRO ae pees Canada, Chicago, and Foreign countries, $2.50 a year. Sample copies on request, free. preva. fat Pip Must Stop Such Betrayals. The German Communists expect | the United Plenum to make an end to| anti-Communist tendencies of the op-| Watch for the announcement of contents. nists, more than 160 years ago, who | took the law into their own--hands, | threw huge quantities of tea over- | and Vanzetti. 200 Cities Busy. The local organizations of the In- Gar, body of the chairman of the} trust, who died yesterday in| New York, will reach here on a spe- he | steel army of Freedom for Saeco-Vanzetti, ORT s evn ;.,|board from British merchantmen in! ternational Labor Defense in two . by securin: REAL TIMELY ARTICLES pone Swe Gare HEME E a protest against cxhorbitant taxes, and| hundred cities are devoting their |¢i#! train tomorrow. Burial will fol day confronted with greatest ordeals and strongest trials in its prepara- tion of forces to fight in defense of the workers and peasants govern+ ment against world imperialism. At this moment the German Com- munist Party feels firm confidence in its leading brother patty of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, its Bolshevist central committee, AND CONTRIBUTIONS. The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd, CHICAGO, ILL, aes N became known to history as “The Tea Party.” Taxi Drivers Demand “Let Him Go!” “T noticed that many of the taxi drivers, whose cars were parked near, | were joining in the demand on the) police that they let me go,” said Gite | kin. “But this didn’t stop the po- lice. They kept twisting my arm, al- tho I assured them I had no intention entire activities to the campaign. Cables received from defense or- ganizations thruout the world con- nected with International Red Aid, which is cooperating with the I. L. D. in organizing the international protest movement, promise renewed and intensified work in the remain- ing period before the date set for execution. }low Thursday morning in Wheaton cemetery. | | The Rev. Almer Pennewell, pastor | |of the chureh, is now in Missouri on vacation, but wired that he is return- ing to condtict the services. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! | | | | | | new readers for the Daily Worker.