The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1927, Page 2

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COUPON 8-20-27 DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Inclosed herewith you will find dollars for months’ subscription $1.50 or with my 20 NEWS- STAND COUPONS..... Please send me Offer No. ...... Name EAA ONG oo ey i sees vane hiente aha POMEL sors ouseises piseis | THE SPECTRE RUSH STRIKE PLANS AS SUPREME “COURT DOOMS SAGEO, VANZETT! (Continued from Page One) |day and join the Sacco-Vanzetti) | strike. They also urged the workers | Arrangements have been made for a | ns |to attend the Union Square demon-| stration at.4 p. m. Hit Class Murder. | Immediately after the court de-| | cision Miss Rose Baron, secretary of | | the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- | | mittee made the following statement: | “This ruling merely supports the | contention that we have been making | right along that the Massachusetts legal hierarchy is determined to make | ja class example of Sacco and Van-| |zetti and that the workingclass can} |hope for no justice in capitalist | courts. Strike Can Save Them. “Sacco and Vanzetti are now be-| fore the last court of appeal—the | united workers of the world. Organ- | {ized labor will now demonstrate its jdetermination not to permit the | slaughter of our imprisoned comrades. } New York labor will answer the blood- | thirsty decision of the supreme court | on Monday by showing its most pow- | erful weapon—the general strike.” | Although an unfavorable ruling} | was expected at the Emergency Com- | mittee headquarters the suddenness of the blow has served to whip up| |the necessary fighting spirit on the part of labor leaders so that from all | appearances the general protest | strike which has been called by the | | Emergency Committee will receive the | |Support of all organized labor irre-| | spective of political leanings. Officials of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee take the new death ruling to mean that New York will witness a large walk-out in view of the fact that conservative labor leaders yesterday said that they would swing into line if the ruling of the supreme court was against the | condemned men. | To Picket Prison. | Word was received at Emergency Committee headquarters that the Bos- ill GET ONE NOW il! 14-Karat Gold Emblem (Acttal Size and Design) W-CAP TYPE $1.25 mat Sent by Insured Mail for $1.50 On Receipt of Money by Jimmie Higgins Book Shop 106 University Place | New York City 5 or more $1.25 each. i : | ton Defense Committee has issued | national call for a march on Boston. mass exodus from New York. Labor} gation of students are preparing to} leave Sunday morning. The New York delegation will picket the Boston} State House and the Charlestown} Prison where the men are to be exe-| cuted unless the mass protests planned | to take place throughout the country prove effective. | Reward for Bombers’ Arrest. Miss Rose Baron, secretary of shed Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee | announced that her organization has | offered a reward of $1,000 for any) information which may lead to the | arrest and conviction of the person | or persons who were responsible for the bombing of the Sacco and Van- zetti juror’s home this week. The re- ward will be doubled if the informa- tion shows that the bombing was the work of enemies of Sacco and Van- zetti. The information must be in the hands of the committee before the execution of the condemned radicals on Monday night. Carlo Tresca’s Message. | Carlo Tresea, secretary of the Anti- Fascist Alliance of North America, issued the following statement yester- day: “As the capitalist courts have refused to listen to the voice of jus- tice, refused to correct the wrong done Sacco and Vanzetti, the workers must now*act, “The Anti-Fascist Alliance urges all workers to strike. The strike must be used to free our condemned com- rades. Workers! walk out Monday and be at Union Square!”: A CORRECTION Through an error, the name of the Workers’ Health Bureau appeared in the press of August 16th and again} under date of August 19th, among the list of political and social organ- izations who have offered their aid to the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee. We have been requested to correct this error and to state that while the Executive Committee of the Workers’ Health Bureau endorsed wholeheartedly the campaign to free Sacco and Vanzetti, the bureau, being a delegate body, cannot participate in the. activities of any organization, which might involve its affiliated local unions. Sacco and Vanzetti i ge for Post CALL FOR THE | August 2tst. | NEW YORK CITY: Section 1, 1 \Section 3, 17 delegates; Section 4, 1 | Night Workers’ Section 2 delegat: | NEW JERSEY: Newark, 4 deleg | YONKERS: 1 delegate. Y. W. L., 3 delegates. 6 |; Shall Not Die! DISTRICT CONVENTION The District Convention of District No. 2 will be held on Sunday morn- The apportionment of delegates is as follows: | Section 6, 10 delegates; Section 7, 5 delegates. 2 delegates, Paterson, 1 delegate; Jersey City, 1 delegate; Union City, 1 delegate; Perth Amboy, 1 delegate; Bayonne, 1 delegate. UNORGANIZED TERRITORY: 2 delegates. { All delegates are to be on time and bring their credentials with them. Signed: DISTRICT CONVENTION COMMITTEE. \ 15th street and Irving Placé, Sunday, 6 delegates; Section 2, 18 delegates; 1 delegates; Section 5, 11 delegates; es. ates; Passaic, 3 delegates; Elizabeth, Search for Planes Till Tuesday. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—A dead- line in the search for the missing Dole flyers was set by the navy to- day. Admiral R. H. Jackson, directing the navy’s search from a destroyer in mid-Pacific, advised the navy depart- ment that he would continue comb- ing the Pacific until Tuesday, Aug. 22, | leaders, prominent liberals and a dele-| Keep. Up the Sustaining Fund Sister of Vanzetti Comes to Aid Defeat Murder Plot | of American Ruling Class By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! “Lang Live Sacco and Vanzetti!” The demand thundered thru the giant pier of the Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd., Friday ‘| meo Vanzetti, in New York: from | her home in Italy. | * * * Rose Sacco, the wife of Nicola Sacco, condemned with Vanzetti to die in the electric chair, Monday at | midnight, was there to meet her. | So were hundreds of workers, | many of whom have already been in jail themselveg in the fight for the liberation of Sacco and Van- zetti, including some arrested on | the picket line, around the state | house in Boston. It was they who raised the ery of “Long Live Sacco and Vanzetti!” They raised it in the face of the scores of police scattered everywhere. Luigia Vanzetti arrived with the conviction that, “There is still a hope” to save the lives of Sacco | and Vanzetti, ‘and she is going to to exert every energy between now and Monday midnight to fulfill that hope. One of her first acts was to deny | the poisonous report spread thru | the capitalist press that she had | eome to this-country to win her | brother back into the fold of the | Catholic church. Instead she declared steadfastly that one of her first acts would be to seek an interview with Governor Alvan T. Fuller, of Massachusetts, in which she would demand the lib- eration of her brother and Sacco. | * Betecg | For the first time in the history | of the port of New York, the | \ largest in the world,-a woman of the working class dominated. the day’s ship’s news. Scores of cele- | brities, who usually Have their in- ane gossip printed as inspired wis- | dom, were forgotten in the rush of a hundred reporters and a score of SUPREME COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS GIVES FRONT TO MILLIONAIRE’S CRUDE MURDER PROGRAM (Continued from Page Ane) under the provision of chapter 2, sec- tion 1, article 8, constitution of the Commonwealth. St “The application having grounds of newly discovered evidence and for revocation of sentence at the hearing of the motion, the trial judge refused not only to rule as requested by the defendants but denied the motions and the defendants excepted, raising the question presented by the record in the first of the cases at bar. “TIt-is contended that the affidavits in support of the motions show such prejudice against them by the presid- ing judge at the trial on the merits that they have been deprived of their constitutional rights to a trial by judges as “free and impartial as the lot of humanity will admit’ by gen- eral laws section 278, 20, as amended by statute 1922 chapter 308, Reject Bias Evidence. “A motion for a new trial in capi- tal cases eomes”too late if made after: sentence has been pronounced. It is within the limitation expressed in the statute: Commonwealth vs. Rollins, 242, Mass. 427, 430. Dasealakis vs. Commonthwealth 244, Mass. 368, 569. Commonwealth vs. Sacco, 255, Mass. 369, 410. See states Cushing, 11, R I 31, 3. “Now come to so much of:this mo- tion as asked for a revocation 6f Sen- tence the proceedings already referred to before the motion was filed when reviewed, show-no“ error ef Jaw and the cases were ripe for sentence or judgment. The jurisdiction of the trial court ended under St. 1922, C 50, 8, par. 1, when the defendants were committed to execution. “Application for such motion for revision’ of sentence is like a motion for a new trial. (Commonwealth vs. Lobel, 187, Mass. 288, 209). The de- show error. “The judicial conduct df the trial judge in hearing and deciding the motion based on his own alleged bias or prejudice although urged in argu- ment by counsel for the defendants need not be discussed because as we have just said neither the judge nor any of his associates had jurisdiction to entertain the motion. Deny Writ of Error. “The second is/a petition for a writ jof error filed in this court August 6, 1927. It was heard and «denied sub- {ject to the petitioners’ exiuption by a single justice on the petition which edéntained the following assignments of error, “Number 1. It appears from the affidavits filed and made a part of the record of said cause in the su- \ster Thayer the justice of said court who presided over the trial of said cases and who subsequently passed upon various motions with respect thereto was so prejudiced against your petitioners and their counsel from the time of the beginning of said trial to and throughout hearings and rul- ings upon said motions that your fendants, therefore, have* failed to; perior court that the Honorable Web-. petitioners have not had such a trial | as that to which they are entitled un- der the constitutions of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts and of the United States of America and) that they have not had such a trial as | constituted due process of law within | the meaning of the Fourtheenth Amendment to the Federla Constitu- tion nor a trial by a judge as free, | impartial and independent as the lot | of humanity will admit as required | by Article XXIX of the declaration | of the rights of the inhabitants of the | Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1 Backs Thayer. “It appears from the record of the | proceedings including the substance | of all the material evidence offered | at the trial that the finding of the/| jury was plainly wrong. - “It appears from the record of the > proceedings including the affidavits | filed in support of the several motions | for a new trial that the findings of | fact made by the presiding judge in} passing upon the petitioners several | motions for new trial be plainly wrong. | “It is provided by General Laws| Code 250, paragraph 11, as amended} by St. 1925, C, 278, paragraph 1, and St. 1926 C, 329, paragraphs 17 that not issue unless allowed by,a justice of this court after notice given to the. attorney general or to other attorneys | of the Commonwealth. | “The wording of thé statute is clear and must be construed as meaning | that the issues of issuance of a writ | of error in the capital case rests in the sound judicial discretion of the} single justice to whom the application is presented. “If we were to decide otherwise the plain intentions of the legislature to discourage and prevent unnecessary delay, would be defeated. | This ap- pears in note 10 of the draft revision of chapter 110 on a proposed revised statutes on page 224 in the report of the commissioners to revise the gen- eral statutes of the Commonwealth.” * * * Thayer Gloats Over Decision, i FITCHBURG, Mass., Aug. 19. — Judge Webster Thayer, sitting here today in the so-called “cattle fraud! cases,” read the supreme court deci-! sion and after reading the document, | he smiled as he waved away would- be newspaper interviewers. ‘DO AS TO SAVE SACCO BROWDER. in capital cases a writ of error shall | THE CHINESE Wile I was in Hankow in May, the All-China Labor Federation, altho in the midst of their own most severe civil war, in which the Chinese weekers were laying down their lives, yet found time to call a special meeting to adopt a protest agaiast the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, and staged a one-day demonstration strike. What the Chinese workers ‘can do for our brothers in America can]. surely be done by all of us in the United States. country protest by strike and»demonstration on August 22nd.—EARL afternoon, on the arrival of Luigia Vanzetti, sister of Bartolo- © photographers to report, in words and pictures, the coming of the sister of Vanzetti, twice condemned | by the ruling class of Massachu- setts because he was “a radical.” * * * The first class passengers stood | aghast at quarantine as the ship news reporters came aboard and gave all their attention to Luigia~ Vanzetti, a slight, careworn, mid- dle-aged woman travelling second class, The parasite rich, jamming the pier with their baggage being inspected. by the customs officials, again eyed her as she was taken away in the care of Rose Sacco and Mrs. Jessica Henderson, of Boston., They whispered among themselves, confidently, but. then many paled as the throng awaiting Miss Vanzetti outside the pier, hay- ing been denied admission by the police, joined in demand, “Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die.” Cad ee “We expected it!” That was the only comment of | Mrs. Saeco, of Miss Vanzetti, of | other members of the committee, as the news came from Boston, even as the great “Aquitania” docked, that the state supreme court of Massachusetts had de- clared that, “Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!” At the same time they were all eager to learn of the development of and the response of the workers to the strike plans in New York | City and elsewhere, * * * “My father did not want me to come,” said Miss Vanzetti, The father had been in “America” 40 years ago and Had felt the per- | secution of this nation’s ruling class against workers, The father had returned to Italy. Today the daughter returns again to this country to fight this same capitalist class persecution that now has Sacco and Vanzetti in its grasp, trying to put them to death. . *. * She has had trouble in coming. She left Italy with a passport bear- ing an Italian visa, but for some reasons with which she was not made acquainted, the officials of the Volendam, the big liner of the Hamburg-American line, would not accept her as a passenger from Boulougne-sur-Mer, France, after she had missed one ship from Gen- oa. She finally secured passage on the “Aquitania,” but only at great expense, as a result of the delay. But between the departure of the | Volendam and the Aquitania she was the center of huge demonstra- tions held by the workers of France against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. It must be that Luigia Vanzetti comes as the symbol of the unity of protest of the workers of Europe and the United States against this murder plot of the American capi- talist reaction, The mere presence in this country of the sister of Vanzetti should help spur every worker to renewed pro- test—the giant protest that will cheat the electric chair of its vic- tims, that will restore Sacco and Vanzetti to the workers of America and of the world. fea 6 Series of Articles On China Written by Earl Browder; Start Monday Do you want to know the Chi- nese situation? To understand the forces moving back of the con- fusion of warring generals and the real revolutionary movements tak- ing shape? You must understand the peasant question in China, Most of what is“written about the land workers of China in the Amer- ican press and in books of travel is false and misleading. Earl Browder, secretary of the Pacific Labor Unions Congress, just re- turned from extensive travels in China, is writing for The DAILY WORKER a series of articles, of | which the first ones are on land ownership, peasant life and peas- ant organizations in China. The first one Monday: LAND OWN- ERSHIP IN CHINA. | WORKERS HAVE DONE| AND VANZETTI Let every worker in the We Will =. ANSWER The Death Sentence No class conscious worker will fail to understand the dire meaning of the Death Sentence handed down by tha Supreme Court of Massachusetts. j | The Death Sentence against Saeco and Vanzetti is meant as a death. sentence against the labor movement. i It means not only a determination to burn up the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti. sae. aie It means that the capitalist class of America is determined to destroy, root and branch, the body of the labor movement, es aE We will accept the challenge. © Fae’ We will fight it to the finish. f ee We will rally every ounce of strength behind the fight to free our comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti. + * & ae >. We will take up with renewed energy the drive for Five Thousand New Readers for the Daily Worker, the paper which is carrying on the fight for the two convicted men, ’ the paper which is carrying on the struggle for the emancipation of the | working class, for which Sacco and Vanzetti are condemned to be tortured to death.