The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1927, Page 1

i i | NOW MORE THAN EVER LABOR MUST ACT FOR SACCO-VANZETTI FOUR MORE DAYS TO. SAVE THEM NT THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAWIZATION OF THB UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 185. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, 9600 per year. THE DAILY WO Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., nuder the act of March 3, NEW YORK, THURSD/ COAL MINERS TO STRIKE F0! , AUGUST 18, 1927 1878, Published Daily PUBLISHING CO. SACCO No Illusions By JAMES P. CANNON. (Secretary International Labor Defense.) The lives of Sacco and Vanzetti still hang in the balance and they are in greater danger now than ever before. Every mention of the case should begin with this warning to the working masses not to be fooled with false hopes and false security. What has happened and what are the conclusions to be drawn for our guidance in the struggle during the remaining days of suspense? Some people, no doubt, have seen in the eleventh hour reprieve a sign of a change of heart of the Massachusetts Bourbons who have been moving, with such refined and deliberate cruelty, to blot out the lives of the Italian rebel workers. Some ideas are the most dangerous illu- sions. It was just to create these illusions and thereby to get some relief from the thundering clamor of the world’s millions, that this latest action in the “cat and mouse” game was taken. * * * There is not a hint or promise in any aspect of this new develop- tion of the protest movement of the masses and to organize a counter- ment of any design except to gain time, to maneuver for the demoraliza- campaign against it. The foremost problem of the workers who see in Sacco and Vanzetti the symbols and banner-bearers of their own class and cause is to understand clearly the new turn of events and to shape their course along the right line. The militant protest movement has halted the executioners up till now. As the final hour drew near this movement assumed such propor- tions and militancy and expressed itself in mass demonstrations and strikes on such a scale as to shake the world. It was especially the last phase of mass demonstrations and strikes which threw the real power of the masses into the scale against the murder plans of the Massachusetts hangmen. Those who emphasized this line of action, who understood and pointed out at every turn the fundamental class issues involved in the case, and who appealed to the mass power of the workers, were entirely correct. This line is the decisive line. The greatest hope now lies in a further development and energetic promo- tion of this class struggle policy. , * * * The case is again before the black-gowned judges on another ap- peal by the defense against flagrant errors in the trial. it is, of course, absolutely right to exhaust every legal possibility and technicality in the fight, provided, the workers have no illusions. We must remember that the case has been before these same judges many times before, and that they have again and again put their seal of approval on the criminally false verdict. We must remember that the appointment of Governor Fuller’s Commission revealed itself as a ghastly trick to disarm the protest movement and fortify the verdict with more digni- fied sanctions. The latest move should be suspected as another maneuver of the same sort, designed to give the outward appearance of still more scrupulous “fairness” in the process by which the two labor fighters are to be burned alive. x Remember, also, that powerful influences of the exploiting class are being brought to bear for the carrying out of the death sentence, and that the final issue, just because it is an issue of the class struggle, and not merely an isolated instance of miscarriage of their so-called “justice,” will depend upon the power and might of the class forces set into motion on each side. The great task, therefore, in the few fateful days remaining, up to the last minute of the last hour, is to put all energy, courage and militancy into the organization of mass demonstrations and protest strikes. All brakes upon this move est danger. come. protest and strike movement must * ment must be regarded as the great- All illusions which paralyze the movement must be over- All agents of the bosses who try to sabotage and discredit the be given their proper name. * * While the judges of the Supreme Court prepare their decision on the case again we must appeal at the same time to the laboring masses (Continued on Page Five) | Current Events By T. J. OFLAHERTY | bat ee SACCO threatened with, THE notorious red-baiter and fink, forcible feeding has broken his fearing impending indictment grew unger strike. There are only five| Violent and in terror drove his family more days now left until the date| out of his home and turned on the set for the execution. On August) gas. That was the end of McDonough. 22nd, unless the protests of labor ! first made this person’s acquaint- and sympathetic elements thruout| ance in the spring of 1923 when he, she world have succeeded in stopping in the company of Mr. Jake Spolans- the cold-blooded crime against Sacco! ky then of the department of justice, and Vanzetti, those two innocent! entered the office of the Voice of victims of capitalist “justice” will) Labor, which I edited and arrested have paid with their lives for their;me. While on the way to the detective loyalty to the workingclass. | bureau McDonough lectured me on the folly of “wasting” my time in * * * t * P : | Such unremunerative employment. See HIS column announced the demise| what the workers did to Debs! He of a Chicago gentleman whose| was going to look out for himself. He name is familiar to several hundred) was going to make money. Hell! We radicals who had occasion to sample| would not have Communism in the she hospitality of United States beets United States in one hundred years. cells during and after the war. Lawrence McDonough, stoolpigeon in che I. W. W., sergeant on the Chicago | police force and later an attorney, is| ganization he stooled for a time. she man. It appears that Lawrence,| “They did not seem to question how veing an ambitious fellow got his|a fellow could smoke cigars and eat nands on some money that did not| steaks on $10 a week”, he said. This pelong to him, and being accustomed} despicable creature was one of the to treat the workers rough, he thot|star witnesses against the I. W. W. he could get away with the dough.!in the famous Chicago trial and also CDONOUGH “boasted that he fooled the I. W. W., in which or- {| OPEN THEM! By Fred Ellis ‘Wuhan to Carry Out Terrorism of Nanking SHANGHAI, Aug. 17. — British troops cut the Shanghai-Hangchow railway line south of Soochow Creek today when the commissioner for foreign affairs refused to turn over a British plane which had fallen in Chinese territory. MOSCOW, Aug. 17,—Pravda, in commenting upon the union in China between Nanking and Wuhan, em- phasizes the fact that Wuhan capit- ulated politically to Nanking and not (Continued on Page Three) CURTIS FIELD, L..L, Aug..17. | Discovery that two bearings in the wheels of the landing gear were burned out, forced a postponement | of- the New York to Rome flight of |the Fokker monoplane, Old Glory this Woslaroec Wins Hawaii Flight; Hearst’s Late WHEELER FIELD, HONOLULU, | Aug. 17.—A. T. Goebel, in his plane Ee. | FINAL cITy | | EDITION except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER .. 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. AND VANZETT AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS APPROVES STRIKE ON AUGUST 22 Price 3 Cents Fifteen Thousand Musicians of New York Put | Names on Petition to Fuller to Free Workers Emergency Committee Secretary Demands That | Socialists Withdraw Treacherous Statement BULLETIN. BOSTON, 17.—Representatives of trade unions and fraternal org ill meet at the Amalgamated Hall, 11 |Beach street, tomorrow evening to make plans for a full day | strike on Monday to snatch Sacco and Vanzetti from the chair. Prominent union leaders have pledged their support to the strike. Powers Hapgood, young militant mine leader, who was sen- tenced to six months in the house of correction on Tuesday for addressing a demonstration on the Boston Common, will address a mass meeting at the Scenic Auditorium, Berkeley, Tremont and Dover streets tonight. | * * * | WILKES BARRE, Aug. 17. — Al!of the fight to save our two Com- large proportion of miners in the an-|rades, and we urge you to’ stand by thracite coal regions will join the na- | them to the last. | tion-wide strike Monday to save Sac- | | A 2 y Rise !-! ! Strike ! ! ! Drop your jco and Vanzetti, the miners’ commit-!toojs Monday, August Sahar poe }tee, organized here for defense of |gacco and Vanzetti ! ! ! Save them | Sacco and Vanzetti declared last night that p ' | ea ‘ for the honor of your class ! ! !{ after issuing: @ ‘strike call to 'mem-| cave them for the honor of juatios jbers of the United Mine Workers) 944 tite! 11 | Union of America. The defense com- | ~ haa | mittee represents 100,000 workers in |the hard coal region and has held a preparatory conference. In addition to the strike call, ar- rangements for mass demonstrations |Communists only, the ‘Sacco-Vanzetti Leite Lae rere made bs. the | Defense Committee of Boston has sent Frail: take clade ie Paimienes Baeeee | the following telegram to Carlo Tres- Parsons, Pittston, Oldforge, Wilkes. | ©, editor piomepaehee nt contirhae 2 Barca; Mentidake, Olyphank, Cachou: strike call issued earlier in.the week,. |dale, Shenandoah, Pottsville, Miners-|,,,Purstay August 18th marks the ville and Shamokin. Three huge par- jPeminnmng of a mighty protest asain ades will be held in Wilkes-Barre, | the judicial murder of Sacco and Van- Pittston and Jessup. | zetti, says the defense committee statement. The strik as + the | fe sirike. “appeal iesued ‘by. the)” «i, Monday, August 24nd, the aa committee follows: * ri The text of the strike call follows: | °Ution day, there must be an effec- To the members of the United Mine |jvc Senora! Strike despite the ruth: Workers of America and all other| cov ression of oro Saiaereoeias: fern of all normal activities of protest. Dear Brothers: _ | “Local unions working to make the Sacco and Vanzetti are to be cruci-| strike effective must’ come to Boston ais. Defense Committee Asks Strike. : Answering the charges made by so- cialists and the capitalist press the strike call for Monday is a move by afternoon. | Woolaroc, wins the $35,000 air race, |from San Francisco to Honolulu. The Hearst plane Golden Eagle, re- | garded as the fastest in the race was joverdue at that time. |. LANSING, Kan., Aug. 17.—Four| The plane of Miss Mildred Doran in prisoners’ in Kansas state © prison | which the Flint, Mich., school teacher, were killed in a rceck quarry today |is making a flight with Augie Pedlar | when 2. 20 ton ledge fell upon :kem.| a8 Pilot which started an hour and "Che dead are: A. A. Corwi ‘aylor | thirty minutes after the other planes |Day, Pearl Wilsun and Ken ¢ (Continued on Page Three) Kill Four Prisoners at Kansas State Prison mbs. | OPEN THEM UP! The jails of capitalism still hold the two victims of the hatred of the ruling class. Behind the bars of the capitalist Bas Behi secret men, lished. Hew we use gle for fille the champions of the working class, Sacco and Vanzetti, are languishing, while the ruling class plots to murder them. Through the public pressure of the large masses of the people, we must open the bars and give Sacco and Vanzetti their freedom. nd the walls of the United States Department of Justice, the files show incontestably the innocence of the two convicted The power of the masses, mobilized throughout the country, must compel the United States government to open these files to pub- lie view, so that the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti may be estab- shall we mobilize this mass pressure! What instrument shall to rally the forces of labor! The DAILY WORKER is the bu- labor’s clarion call. Hundreds of thousands will down tools and congregate in solemn protest against this other effort to take the lives of our champions. We ask you to strengthen the power of that fied in the electric chair at midnight next Monday, August 22nd unless the workers of the world demonstrate |their solidarity by responding to the World General Strike called for that day. You, the underground toilers of the mines, know. full well the ghastly methods that the master class uses to keep the workers in subjection. Be- cause our comrades Sacco and Van- in as large numbers as possible at the latest by Monday.” . * * Negroes Pledge Support. Negro labor pledged its support in ithe forthcoming Sacco and Vanzetti general protest strike yesterday when | William L.. Patterson, president of the American Negro Labor Congress, wrote to the Sacco-Vanzetti Emer- gency Committee as follows: zetti were good fighters for the work-/ “fn accordance with the statement ing class and because they advocated issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emer= a new society, they have been framed | gency Committee informing organ- and are being brutally murdered. You| ized labor that a general strike will have been among their most loyal) be called for August 22nd, as an ex- supporters from the very beginnin® | (Continued on Page Three) IN ILLEGAL RAID ON LOCAL 22 Cart Away Furniture Despite Falsity of War- rant; Threaten Union Leadex Under the order ofthe Sigman clique and accompanied by & number of right wing thugs, Deputy Sheriff E. Plunkett illegally raided the offices of Local 22, of the Cloakmakers’ Union, 16 West 21st street, yesterday, and confiscated the furniture. Deputy Sheriff Plunkett yesterday raided the offices of the Joint Defense Committee on Tuesday onan illegal warrant and removed their property. Violating even the illegal warrant in his possession, the deputy sheriff, accompanied by assistants, Sergeant |niture that was not specified on the itemized list in his possession. Removal Illegal. Buitenkant, attorney for RIGHT WING THUGS AND POLICE = call, to give it volume and scope, by your contribution to THE DAILY Edward MacDonald and eight uni- formed policemen, dragged away fur- protested the removal on (Continued on Page Five) WORKER FUND. But he reckoned without his bankers. (Continued on Page Four) = DEMONSTRATE IN UNION SQUARE FOR SACCO, VANZETTI! Massachusetts that the working class accepts its relentless challenge and that they will not permit the butchery of our innocent comrades. FREE SACCO AND VANZETTI! S’TOP THIS JUDICIAL MURDER! DEMONSTRATE LABOR’S STRENGTH! | CN TO UNION SQUARE! SACCO-VANZETTI EMERGENCY COMMITTEE, ROSE BARON, Secretary. To The Workers Of New York:— | will be confronted with the corpses of Sacco and Vanzetti during the early | Sacco and Vanzetti will be murdered in a Massachusetts electric chair | | | part of next week. We urge every class-conscious worker in New York to be at Union Square on Friday, August 19th, at 4 p.m. See that your fellow workers swell the ranks of militant labor and make Friday a day to be remem- bered in the ranks of the class war. . ‘The workers of New. York must show the rapacious murderers of = _ unless organized labor rallies to the defense of our framed-up comrades. ‘The hearing before the Supreme Judicial] Court is a mockery of jus- || tice and is being held to disarm the workers and make them believe that | the courts will act to save our comrades. 2 Unless we make our demonstrations and strikes powerful enough we ° ws