The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1927 Some Lessons from the Sacco-Vanzetti Case THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. t Address: “Daiw Phone, Orchard 1680 lt is strikes and mass demonstr: ced to a living death, should be; in the United States and in many | j d. At this very moment, Mr. | “Reyelry” Here Next ! countries which have dealt the! Green felt that even such dastardly | body-blows to Massachusetts capi-| conduct on his part might be in- Month— Chevalier to Tour America By JAY LOVESTONE. { Peele = ly to estim SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per years 3.50 six months $2.00 three months By Mail (in New $8.00 per ‘ fe talist and have lengthened the terpreted by his masters as biting the -., lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. hand that feeds him and therefore | The New York demonstration, hav-| declared his complete dissociation as the - —— {| : oe eae anh a waniant re at least over fifty thousand par-| from Sacco and Vanzetti. Sydney Shields and Marie Carroll | THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, Y arial atasttic tron. the nts, is perhaps the biggest mass| American “Democracy On the Job-| will be co-featured in “Such Is Life” “ania hand of capitalism is of immea cets of the metro- BYyERY wheel of the government|which opens at the Morosco theatre J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } a significance and t eet eel, machinery is rolling at full speed | August 31. Peter Glenny and Marie W TAM Rh DUNNE [one eat Editors its le! : Ry BROBVANCOUSAY | 5 ; the murdering of Sacco and| Armstrong Hecht are the authors Poe Dae i Keds demonstrated on the streets their) yy, The church is. working |of the new piece. | j BART MILEER:.. « .ocisineeeecekecee Business Manager corres} s Eee to le bs Y over-time. The press is doing more | | ae Sul : ae News te of proletarians. | In \Ge than its bit. Witness the case of the) A. H. Woods new production goes Entered as secor Iss a New York, N under time since the big steel so-called liberal New York World, ' into rehersal today. It is a new play) of workers went ; to protest to the t murder cloaked employing justice. In New Philadel , Chicago, and the ite coal regions, thousands of struck, nothing the capitali re than thousands of work out from the factories to the} in mass protest against the| ting class rule. ere we should not hide the fact certain elements, parading as ipions and defenders of Sacco and i, have been only a hindrance | to this great mass movement of the i worke The fact that| bourgeois liberal elements in strategic positions in} Sacco and Vanzetti defense and | ve been tainted with anarchist mpathies not only does not make firing one of its outstanding contrib-| by Bayard Veiller and titled, “The| ‘utors, Heywood Broun, because of his} People vs Mary Dugan.” Ann Hard- powerful messages in behalf of Sacco| ing, Rex Cherryman, Arthur Hohl, and Vanzetti. Mr. Coolidge is too| Cyril Keightley and Robert Cummins busy pardoning boot-leggers and ex-| Will have important roles in the cast. traordinarily desperate plain erfm-| s to “consider” the Sacco and| Maurice Chevalier, the well known anzetti case. Government prococa-| French music hall and reyue come- teurs ar y manufacturing bomb-/ dian, is planning a vaudeville tour of | ing exploits in order to demoralize|the United States, appearing at the and destroy the workers’ protest | Keith-Albee theatres, beginning early movement. It is seldom that Ameri-|in 1928. | can democracy, the American govern-| | ment, shows its brute force, its ugly | Maxwell Anderson has just finished class fist, against the workers niet |the book and lyrics of a musical stich pare Sere < if shag been | comedy dealing with censorship. The | showing ae he care eae P | opus is titled “A Maiden’s Prayer.” murder Saceo an ‘anzetti. | Significance of Mass Movement. | eye: based on the novel of i P .| the same name, which is to be - HE main features of the tremen-| ’ 0 pre oak’ dimensions ots the Sacco-| Sented at the Masque theatre by| Vanzetti movement are: (1) It is a| Robert Milton shortly, will have the | FFP 11 Ady rtising rates Vanzetti tical ¢ Substituting Capitalist Protest for Mass Strikes and Hemonstrations. One of the obstacles that has stood in the path of the d ment of the n ry on the part of the working class into) q, strikes and demonstrations against the murder conspiracy to burn Sacco and Vanzetti to death has been the actions of the Bos ton Sacco- zetti Defense Committee in basing practically its whole campaign upon the legal aspects of the case. When Fuller | 2! t he would “investigate” the case the policy of the | | Boston Commit was to refrain from criticism of him or his so- called advisory committee. This action might have been somewhat atoned for if the com- mittee had, even after the vicious decision of Fuller, devoted all is evelop- tells , there is cons that correspo Chief funster in the new “Ziegfeld Follies” show, which opened at the New Amsterdam theatre last night. victory How 1 r at? The answer to this qu s the following. Undoubtedl the reprieve wa: nted by Governc Fuller not out o tt its resources to aiding in the drive for mass strikes in behalf of | abstract justice, not be less dangerous but actually| . 0. ‘adicalizing force for Amer- | following players inthe cast: James | : s : s powerful radicalizing force for Amer- these victims of the Massachusetts mill-owners. Instead of appeal-|4esite to see Sacco and them more dangerous to the} (2) The use of the strike Crane, Charles Waldron, Rose Hobart ican labor. for political purposes is strengthened by its application to’ the Sacco-Van- | zetti case, even on the limited scale aved from death. RE 2 s “ | ch desires Gov- basis, to the only sound basis ing definitely to the mass power of the workers, which alone can| ernoy Fuller could satisfied long| which can beat back the hangmen save Sacco and Vanzetti, the committee in its August bulletin | ago by playing a different role than/ of innocent workers. does not even mention strikes and other forms of protest, but|that of a hangman who has been| More strikes. |More jand Harry Bannister. The dramati- zation of the Samuel Hopkins Adams, | novel was done by Maurice Watkins. All seats are reduced for the demonstra- | summer. Best Seats $2.20, devotes its small space to reprinting articles from the notorious Springfield Republican, one of the most conscious spokesmen of |death for seven years. There was|with which the workers can paralyze | ¢,. ‘llusi cil GRAND + * * * * v A ther some of the illusions regard. big capital in America, advocating that Governor Fuller commute | only one cause for the reprieve. This| the hands of the killers. naar eepereean reset rage 442h St., W. of B'way. . shes ‘A 5 Seay x Sr ais i ing American democracy, no’ y eans to orkers | Evenings at 8:30. STREET the sentences of death to life imprisonment. The Republican is|Was the mass pressure brought to) some “Friends” Who Need Watching.| among the more relatively class con- | MATINEES TUES. FOLLIES | bear on the American ruling class by| AND THURSDAY, 2:30 far more able as a defender of its class interests than is Fuller. it is aware of the fact that, after all the world-wide agitation in behalf of Sacco whole administration of class justice, while to sentence them to a living death behind prison walls would serve the purpose of | the world can naturally only w t Their propaganda has only F 4 | ne ° 99 | k e y only welcome FF ; J. Rusak, G Nie | trying to terrorize workers who dare challenge the supremacy of the extent to which working-class | ae fe Berets Fier eer Se es Se a ere le Stn: TYiale” Gea : | ‘The Russian Revolution | the owners of the slave pens. Not in any sense does the Spring-| consciousness has been aroused) /° Hh inh wacle, OC. | MUR ‘of the| great masses of workers throughout | M. Jurkewich, Gary, Ind. Phaee ante neo een tay : field Republican—quoted without comment in the August number See bid ae oy nel Gaps for wiichituey mey) bel mir ie mong 4 behalf peer ne es ae ee ta Stee OT | icis i p e 7 i se C i {2 " aie ale ome PP ‘i \interests. No one can -8 Ws > ae mA o amine! Revolt! | of the official bulletin of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee | proud of the role they have played in a a sie Aes ee the importance of this breath of in-|G. Maravich, Gary, Ind. - Not Acted but Actual Occurrences | advocate freedom for these workers who have been proved in- nocent of the crime of which they were convicted before a vin-| ' dictive, prejudiced judge and a crooked, vicious jury that was un-| - eee But let none fool himself. The re-| American imperialism in our move- | 2 |M. Malesevich, OLA tar Chi doubtedly bought and paid for by the hirelings of the mill own-!prieve does not mean freedom for|™ent. At the time when the eee. | conn bere Ae low Bases and | Frisk, Gerad? ap : ae ron Gonpitiges oct ‘Calif. Pan # ers and the agents of the United States department of justice. acco and Vanzetti. Our arrogant | tiga" bee ae | PS era ee a A eat tforis manyifold in|E- Frisk, Gary, Ind. - 1.00| South Slavish, Educ. Club, Cleve- Only the mass power of the working class has thus far saved |°"4. crafty ruling class may well) eae he are order to save Sacco and Vanzetti |S: Borisov, Gary, Ind. 1.00) land, Ohio .......- 16.5.0. 20.00 hand of the executioner, but to open the jail doors and permit these tortured workers to again take their places in the ranks of (2 gd0P, Instead of relying upon the adverse elements of the capital- ist class the Defense Committee of Boston should throw itself into the movement for a great strike thruout the country on August 22, the day last set for the execution of Sacco and} Vanzetti. |understand. This is the language of| ment against The DAILY WORKER A 2 S. Kologrew, Gary, Ind. . | Chas. A. Brown, Los Gatos, ——____—__—_—_. class power. They are used to talk-the persecution of the Workers)against the entire labor seer (As SalacinnGar ied. A atisaie eee Oe 00. | a “ oo” ing in this language. Obviously when| (Communist) Party in the state of | and that it was an expression of a) 5 Klavin, Gary, Ind. 00/ Anna Porter, San Jose, if. i The Decline of Prosperity. | the workers speak to the ruling class | Pennsylvania manifested in the fram-|gtowing reaction. Labor and liberal |’ Voitovitz, Gary, Ind. . T. E. Moontford, Wynndel, : : |in the language of class power, the|ing up and sentencing of members of|°rganizations adopted this viewpoint! Ww. Gherok, Gary, Ind. . Canada j In spite of the frantic endeavors of the ruling class and their| capitalists understand. More than| the Party for alleged seditious activi-| and responded to the call of the Par-| p ’ seogiund, Gary, Ind. . W. C. Heard, Gernet, Mont. political henchmen to maintain the illusion that there is wide-| spread prosperity in the country embracing all classes, the real | facts are gradually coming to light. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, vice-president of the Cleveland Trust Company, frankly states: “Our prosperity seems to be getting tired. It is showing signs of fatigue. It may recover its earlier vigor later on, but just at present it is unmistakeably slowing down.” Contrary to the falsified reports from the United States de- Communists in the Sacco-Van-| This was the time when the Party|aiso a part of an attack against the|S. Globerman, Los Angeles, Calif. 2.00| John Chopp, Los Angeles, Calif. 1.00 sae eee zetti campaign. We must emphasize|was struggling to find its way into cutive leber movement uit comestin A Pee NOE z partment of labor, issued for the specific purpose of furnishing | the yole played by the organization|the open, to function legally and just} e . z J. Kose (collected), Fort Stanton, |G. E. White, Los Angeles, Calif. 1.00 ene : . . A | pay iy atria iB One |the wake of an intense class strug- New Mex. .... 7.00} John Wilson, Los Angeles, Calif. 1.00 arguments for the administration which bases its claim to ex-| of the class conscious workers which'that time was chosen by the federal | 91, inv dhe’ neddiesinduatred vin (he | Riacial Won Cle Chicaaas: MO sohn Wileon Lee Anealen istence upon the prosperity that has been showered upon the Tia | detenda sae bieeirae tts th ou oans authorities to: makes Sn attack upon|¢o2) mining industry, in the textile, Tihnais: (Nook ee Scie be K. Field, Detroit, Mich. ... tion, the bankers, in their own statements, face the facts. Peas from capitalist persecution on) the Party, to create a new red scare! industry; it comes at the time when| Peter Teem, (collected) Rochester, | A. R. Fruen, Club Br. 462, Atlanta, | the basis of class interests and class /jn the country and to maintain the], : 4 sau ie | : ‘ “ Oe, “ ~ { * | RAE = - * ri e pace of industry is slackening and | Salm 5 | Georgia 26.00 Ayres declares that employment of labor ‘has declined el cede Internat one) age a8 isolation of the Communists from the} ty .n 9 general intensified drive may |S. Zollinger, Chicago, Ill 0; J. A. Kahler, International Falls, 5 that there is an excess money seeki ; j fense. This organization has served! }road masses of workers. yay) Se » Chicago, Til... J. A, 5 ‘ oh that we are eae: Sortie ef watniec e bc fe te Veale cores See s + 8 Re greg satus ce wee a jes. ener s: 2.00 | Mt Whittier, Willian sid aa 2 : : i 2 = and energetic fighters in behalf of ‘ : ath = ieee Rae see eae Set eae p ey nib * ss . widespread unemployment will grip the workers. The statisti-| Sacco and Vanzetti. It has served as| How did the Party meet the situa-| comes therefore at a time when a/ W. a eet Ne pale Los ks es ae oe cians maintained by the great banking combines to keep them in-| the unifying center of the most per-| tion in 1922? It met the situation | further sharpening of the class strug- LA EE a a ee pO Naa dog So Rs alata er “Are a sistent and devoted opposition to the| by the organization of a broad united|gle is to be expected. \L. D. L. D. Br. No. 24, New York 5.00 Club, Oakland, California . 12. formed on the condition of industry have reported that the world | rere ee” Ao Massachusetts and| front movement against the forces of See ae R. F. O'Neill, Summerfield, Ohio 5.00| Rebecca Rubin, Philadelphia, market is overflowing with industrial products, hence investments | their nefarious alli \reaction. Its appeal for such a united] ‘The vicious attack of the Tahar | ees eee South eae ao fn Ree RO ae bee in many important industries will prove a total loss. The banks | ——————__—— ——__—___— —| bureaucracy of the American Federa- ANA eee e eee eee eee ++ 2.00) Geo. Sap , aid os Leo P. Lemley, (collected) Phila have devised measures of protecting themselves from the disas- A Lesson the Socialist Leaders Ought to Learn tion of Labor may appear as a dis-| delphia, F ss» 76.00] nd Vanzetti Shall Not Die! trous effects of ever-recurring industrial crises by withholding capital. The only class that seriously suffers is the working class. Scientific organization shields the banks and the rest of the capitalist machine. The application of scientific organizational ‘principles to labor organization would go a long ways toward en- abling the workers to assert their power. In the last analysis labor can only struggle effectively against the ravages of capitalism by creating great industrial unions through the amalgamating of the craft unions, and also building up a class party of labor that will represent the class interests of the workers and exploited farmers the same as the parties of capitalism represent the class interest of the master class. The Sort of Protest Pulitzer Approves. Since Mr. Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World asserted his 4 rights in demanding that all his writers conform strictly to the «stablished rules of journalistic prostitution by refusing to pub- lish the articles of Heywood Broun on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, a : = 3 liv A ate i » united front for the coming demonstrations in behalf |should be made against a newspaper, munist International —15 certain Mr. Frank Sullivan also protests, but not against the tor-|Pate in the united front f 3 : ; 5 agate a : fdreatinflicted. upon two lec ho: His brotele is of a type | 0f Sacco and Vanzetti which must culminate in great mass strikes sells nena of the ee ie) BUS SoecNeARING. > : : ‘ Is i a Rivets - <a as ¢ other drive is in itself a remark-| ] LING ata aa ot that will in no way offend the murder gang of Massachusetts, |!” this and other cities. able fact deserving attention, | ie SN PRRs atta 2 Ulrika | Jn yesterday morning’s World Mr. Sullivan declares: “We protest against the boiling of the sixty-year-old lobster caught by a life-saver at Coney Island.” This innocuous scribbler objects because he fears that when he next eats lobster in a restaurant the sixty-year-old one will be served. This nauseating drivel only emphasizes our claim that the only place to obtain correct information and honest interpretation of events of interest to the working class is in the columns of the working class press. ¢ and Vanzetti, their execution would discredit the | Sacco and Vanzetti from death and that power must be still fur- | ther developed and intensified in order not merely to stay the Bigger strikes, Bigger demon- |strations. These are the weapons responsible for keeping these two in-| tions. |nocent workers within the jaw the American as well as the interna-| TE official .socailist party. bureau- | cracy has played a shameful role tional proletariat. The most con-| , 4 i z is Their scious section of the working class,|i" the ‘Sacco-Vanzetti drive. Their the Communi: in the United States other country in ers put faith-in capitalist class. jus- |as well as in every the tremendous ¢ movement de- s Sacco and Vanzetti;campaign has been played by Mr. veloped over the be ecalion, F {Green and the rest of thé agents of Vanzetti, the arch-reactionary presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor could do nothing more than to beg that these men should be sen- utilize the reprieve a sort of war camouflage with which to hide (be- hind this very delay as the final es- |tablishment of “justice.”) their con- propaganda has tended to make work- ) to which it has been resorted in this instance. (3) The Sacco and Van- zetti movement has destroyed still scious workers in Europe and else-} where, but even among the more po- litieally backward American working | class masses. (4) For the first time} in decades, the American proletarian masses have participated in a move- |ternational proletarian solidarity for|S. Levchinko, Gary, Ind. |S. Kuchar, Gary, Ind. ... The workers of America and other | M. Cunovie, Gary, Ind. jour working class. |from capitalist justice, |protect the basic interests of the | working class. | tinued intentions to murder these two |champions of the workers. The | danger is far from over. The danger |is not even lessened. The danger of | death for Sacco and Vanzetti may be even intensified by this very probable | ruse of the reprieve. There is only one language that the capitalist exploiters and oppressors} By B. SKLAR. The attack of the federal govern- ever before is it neoessary to con- tinue and to develop to | strength than hitherto the pre: of the working class on the Ame |ecapitalist masters in order to save |Saceo and Vanzetti from murder. | Our Tactics and Tasks. | WE have mentioned the role of the tie: the vicious attacks upon our '| Party in New York by the joint forces of the police, the courts and the trade union bureaucracy; the campaign against our Party by the American Federation of Labor—all of this ings to our recollection the days of 4 19 If anything were required to emphasize the bankruptcy of the tactics the socialist leaders of New York have been pursuing in their frenzied desire to utilize the Sacco and Vanzetti agita- tion for their own narrow purposes it was-the failure of their meetings that they held in a number of halls simultaneously with the great mass demonstration in Unien Square a week ago today. They thought their meetings would reduce the crowd at the main demonstration held by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee, but no one ever noticed their absence for the simple reason that many of the former rank and file supporters of the socialist bur- eaucrats were in attendance at the meeting in Union Square. | While the leaders scorn unity of action in this case that is so vital to the working class the rank and file achieve unity in ‘action. Theoretically leaders are supposed to lead the masses of the rank and file, but in this case the masses refused to fol- low their self-chosen leaders. The socialist leaders ought to learn ‘a lesson from their former supporters. and abandon their odious role of trying to divide the labor movement and agree to partici- | So determined are the socialist leaders to fulfill to the last degree their repuistve roles as lackeys of the labor bureaucracy, lthe Greens, the Wolls, the Fraynes, the Sigmans and McGradys, in trying to destroy the virile elements in the labor movement that they will not even agree to abandon their tactics when two victimized workmen face the electric chair. Either these leaders should be forced to unite on the common demand for the libera- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti or stand forever execrated by all class- conscious workers as aiding the Massachusetts bloodhounds in their attempts to murder these tortured workers. ‘A UNITED FRONT FOR DEFENSE AGAINST THE ATTACK UPON THE FREEDOM OF PRESS front was based upon the correct| | viewpoint that the attack against the Party was but a part of an attack |ty. The drive of reactior’ was stopped. | The Party not ony weathered the at- tack but made great progress. The | Party proved itself the true vanguard {of the American working class. | attack against the Party at present is tinguishing feature of the present sit-| uation as compared with that of 1922.) But even this is a difference only in} degree, for in 1922 the Party was | also faced with the attack of the trade union bureaucracy against the} Communists and the left wing. The raid upon the conference of the Trade | Union Educational League, the ‘acti-| vities-of Gompers against the Trade | Union Educational League and} against the Communists furnish the} proof of this. | There is, however, one feature that distinguishes the present situation from that of 1922. The offensive of the American imperialism jin South America, China and in Europe. This factor is of importance because it signifies the further sharpening of | the class struggle in America ~and! carries a danger of a much fiercer! attack against the Party than in 1922.) That in time of “peace” an attack! Our Party must utilize the past ex- periences and again adopt the tactics which proved so effective in the past. We must mobilize labor, fraternal, liberal organizations in defense of the freedom of the press. We must mobilize all Party members and sym- pathizers for this united front drive. We must make the defense of The DAILY WORKER a part of the de- fense of the entire labor a ema against ¢*s a:tack of the ruling class: | What the Daily Worker. More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. B. Philipow, Gary, Ind. . H. Peich, Gary, Ind. . cs 2 | N. Saledsow, Gary, Ind. in onder cay Zinevich, Gary, Ind. .. | J. Golosevich, Gary, Ind. . _|T. Vlasevetz, Gary, Ind. ‘eter Savonchek, Gary, Ind. Harbovetz, Gary, Ind. \J. Gaduga, Gary, Ind. \c. Jackson, Gary, Ind. . |J. A. Gutrenez, Gary, Ind. G. Lazarian, Gary, Ind. . M. Lubovich, Gary, Ind. Geo. Helmeezy, Gary, Ind. jA. Papuez, Gary, Ind. .. P M. |S. Bekich, Gary, Ind. F. Nepsha, Gary, Ind. |P. Csinat, Rankin, Pa. . | Celia Paransky, Pittsburgh, Pa. 13.00| P. Kovasevich, L Frank Baumholtz, Midvale, Ohio. ‘Ske . . Justin Swartz, Dorchester, Mass. general, similar to the situation at) yonn Larson the time of the Bridgeman raid. The | Victor Renner, Chicago, Ill. attack against the Party at present is! John Oslishok, Chicago, Ill. Cort Theatre, 48 St. E. of B'way. Matinee Wednesday. Little Theatre B. S. MOSS’ ! AMEO NOW! Sensational Film | }42 St & Bucay 7ritienne pe © A. Stavrianudakis, Helper, Utah 5.00 L. E. Seney, Rossland, B. C. ..10.00 | St. Nuc. o. 1 of San Jose, San Jose, Calif. J | J. Goolauskos, Crivitz, : ones Odeniels, Lakewood, Minn. Nucleus No. 267, of L. A., Los Angeles, Calif: ........4. \¢. R. Ray, Detroit, Mich. .. | A. N. 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