The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday N. Y. Address Phone, Orchard 1680 33 First Street, New York, Cs Daiwork SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year: $3.50 six months $2.50 three months (0 three months Address all ma i make out chec THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE ....Business Manager York, N Sacco and Vanzetti’s Court of Last Appeal ¥s the Working Class! Yesterday the full bench of the supreme court of Massachu- setts sent Sacco and Vanzetti back to the death house in Charles- town prison, from whence they were removed on the morning of | August 11th after a respite a few minutes before the time for-| merly set for them to be burned to death to satisfy the vengeance | POLICE ARRESTING SACCO-VANZETTI PICKETS IN BOSTON About eighty Boston police charged down on the group of pickets before the state house in Boston just before the last reprieve, and surrounding them, made arrests. four of the pickets. The other police are standing around the group. The pickets are, left to right: Louis Gilbert, Exec. Board Upholsterers’ Union; Harry J. Cantor, member Boston District Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party; Alfred Baker Lewis, Sec’y, New England District of Socialist Party; Gus Here are shown two policemen, clutching Gala Performance of? “Carmen” at Starlight’ Park Next Sun. Night Next Sunday, August 28th, at the Starlight Stadium, Bizet’s opera “Carmen” will be presented on a very elaborate scale for the benefit of the Joint Defense Committee. There will be 250 voices taking part in the per-| formance, in addition :to the large ballet arranged by Alexis Kosloff of! the Metropolitan Opera House, fea- turing Rita De Leporte, The cast for “Carmen” will include several young American singers, in- |elading Pauline Kittner, who will sing the role of Micaela, and Willard Fry, | |a young New York baritone, as Esca- |millo, Alice Bussee will have the role of Mercedes. The rest of the cast Will include Martha Melis, noted American contralto, who will sing the stellar role of Carmen, Salvatore} Sciaretti as Don José, L. Dalle Molle} Will play an important part in’the as Dancairo, P. Calvini as Remen-|new George Middleton production dado, E. Palazzi as Morales, Josephine | “Blood Money,” which opens Monday LaPuma as Frasquita. This perform-| night at the Hudson Theatre. ance will be conducted by Maestro G. of the capitalist hyenas who are determined, through murdering} Shklar, District Organizer for Boston District, Workers (Communist) Party. these innocent workers, to slap the faces of all workers. With the same brutal and cynical contempt and prejudice that has characterized the whole gang of political lackeys of the decadent Back Bay aristocracy, the four judges of the supreme court—Henry K. Braley, Edward P. Pierce, William:Ulm Wait and James B. Carroll refuséd to entertain the charge of prejudice against Judge Thayer, the first Jeffries who sentenced Sacco and By MICHAEL GOLD. I am writing in Boston on Wednes- Every Day a NewSacco Frame-Up had been bombed, releasing it to all the newspapers. This letter placed the secret of the mass-deportation Simeoni, Fifty members of the New York Symphony Orchestra will fur- nish the music. many interesting acts. Other inter- esting items will be the “House of Nonsense,” a visit’ to the “Gold Mine,” and anti-red frame-ups, the secrets] % The opera mentioned above is not|the Skooter, Ferris Wheel, and a trip the only feature which the Joint|in the Lovers’ Reel. Dancing will be Defense Committee has arranged for|free at the Open Air Casino. The en- the visitors on that day. There will| tire cost of the jamboree will be fifty also be a big vaudeville show, with’ cents and one dollar. Vanzetti. They evaded action on the writ of error by disclaiming jurisdiction and declaring that not the full bench, but only a single the blame for the explosion squarely | of thousands of upon the friends of Sacco and Van-} day. By the time this article appears immigrant homes the Massachusetts Supreme Court cow judge could issue such a writ. Likewise they evaded the question of a new trial on the technicality that such a request must be made before sentence is passed. The whole procedure was a ghastly farce—a lawyers’ game —in which the question of life or death was theoretically lost sight of. But in reality the learned judges, like the butcher Fuller’s “advisory committee” composed of the servile eminences of university faculties and the bench, were there for the specific} purpose of trying further to conceal the designed murder of two} italian workers whose only crime is that they endeavored to or- ganize workers for a fight against the inhuman degradation im- posed upon them by their slave masters—the mill owners of Mas- sachusetts. This latest decision means but one thing and that is that Sacco and Vanzetti are to die on Monday night if the ruling class has its way. The chances of intervention by a United States su- preme court judge are very remote. Justice Oliver Wendell | Holmes has already refused to intervene and it is hardly likely that any of his associates will consider any other action. | The case is now before the bar of the working class for its final disposition. It cannot be settled by argument, but only by power. Upon the working class of this country and of the world rests the responsibility of generating between now and Monday night such terrific mass power, such a concentration of forces that the criminal conspirators will not dare carry out their mur- derous plans. In this country the reply to the refusal of a retrial must be a strike to open the gates of the death house and of the prison and permit Sacco and Vanzetti to again take their places in the labor movement. As to the decision, it was fully expected. No revolutionist certainly was so stupid as to believe for a moment that the kept judges who befoul the bench in Massachusetts would dare give the victims a chance to expose before the whole world the das- tardly lengths to which their persecutors have gone. The decision was partially prepared for by the agents of Governor Fuller and his committee, A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard Uni- versity ; Samuel W. Stratton, president of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology and Judge Robert W. Grant, a corporation lawyer, who bombed the house of a juror—probably with the juror’s knowledge and consent—in order to endeavor to reverse the public damnation that has been heaped upon their heads for their roles as murder conspirators. Let us remember these men and if Sacco and Vanzetti die in the electric chair they must be forever stigmatized as the murderers who carried out the wishes of the capitalist outfit that for seven long years has howled for the blood of these two men already martyred a hundred times The court of last appeal for Sacco and Vanzetti is the work- will have probably delivered its deci- sion in the matter of a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. Prophecy belongs zetti, and informed them that such} measures would not intimidate the brave bourgeoisie of Massachusetts \I also predict that any new trial will from its duty. (Which duty? To execute two innocent workers?) It was a jingo letter, a war letter, a letter breathing vengeance and pas- |sion and prejudice. It was the let- ter of a bitter enemy, determined up- on blood, not the letter of a governor pledged to a fair trial. After all, are |Sacco and Vanzetti on trial for acts such as these? When they were first jarrested and tried, the anti-alien and ; 'Y |anti-red raids of Palmer were in full Saceo and Vanzetti sympathizer in| tide: Sacco and Vanzetti were anar- this brutal decadent city. chists, but they were not tried for For no trial in Massachusetts will | anarchism, and they are not being ever free Sacco and Vanzetti. Every!tried for anarchism now. But Gov- clerk, suburbanite, petty bourgeois|¢rnor Fuller, helped by the man who climber, Babbit and Sunday school| threw the bomb, has deliberately set graduate in this state has been irre-/ forth to ereate anew the war hys- vocably prejudiced against the two|teria, the lynching spirit that ran the Italians. The Arrow Collar mob is|two Italians down seven years ago. now as inflamed against all dissen-|[t is not a worthy role for a “great” ters as it was during the war. Does| governor with his eye on the presi- an atheist hope for justice from a|dency. It is not legally fair; it is jury of holy rollers? Does a Jew! not even humanly decent, or clean, or hope for justice from a jury of Rus-|honest. It is a‘ lynching, and it sian monarchists? Does a Negro throws a cruel light upon the alleged hope for justice from a jury of small | impartiality of the governor’s report town southern whites? Radicals hope|last week. No man who wrote this as little for justice in Massachusetts.| bitter letter inciting the mob ever Sacco and Vanzetti are in the) had an atom of fairness in his heart clutches of something greater than | at any time. legality. They have become symbols More Prejudice. |of the world revolt of the proletariat.) The juror whose house was bombed The bourgeois mob of Massachusetts | carried no insurance on his house. He has been whipped into a war psy- is a relatively poor man. And so the chology, and nothing less than death| povernor, in his letter, promised him for the two workers will now satisfy |that the state would cover his pro- them. Pick a jury from this mob norty loss. And a movement has al- (and what other jury can you get in | so been started in the newspapers to this stabe) end the Reve ee lynch- |raise small individual contributions to ing will culminate in an execution. make up a fund for this purpose. It is almost a hopeless situation. What is the object of this but to The Governor Leads the Lynchers. | arouse prejudice? What is the ob- |ject of this but to make every busi- In the past few days several events | S have demonstrated this atmosphere/¢SS man or clerical worker who again. One would have thought the| Wns a house in. the suburbs feel exposure of Judge Thayer's unguard- | Strong bonds of sympathy for their ed hatred of the two Italians might |fellow-householder whose home was have made the officials more care-|bombed by the wild foreigners? ful. One would have deemed the ti-| What does this all mean, anyway, tanie indignation of Europe enough| but a political campaign conducted to at least make the Massachusetts |>y skilful campaigners to inflame the oligarchy cautious in keeping up its middle-class mind against Sacco and to the tribe of gypsy fortune-tellers; yet I risk the prediction that the Su- preme Court will: not grant a new trial. If I am wrong, and I hope I am, be as unfair as the other trials, and will again ‘convict our unfortunate comrades. I feel this way because I have been in Boston this past week, and despair seizes the heart of any shattered, of thousands of working- | The New Plays class martyrdoms. The secret of the death of Salsedo is there—that unfor- tunate friend of Sacco and Vanzetti |who was tortured for three weeks in the offices of the Department of Jus- j tice in Park Row, at the end of which time his body was found in a heap on the pavement, seventeen stories be- | low the place’ of his torture. | | How did the Department of Justice} work? What provocateurs arranged| that bombs be thrown?) What agents | ferreted their way into anarchist and! Communist groups preaching vio-| lence? in factories, and “marked down the! earnest, the studious, the social-mind- ed among the workers for punish-! ment? How was the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti conducted? eral ex-agents of the Department of | Justice have confessed to some of the} details, but the whole story is still| locked up in those files, \ | i Back To the Death House. In a few days the Supreme Court! will give its decision. The warden of} Charlestown prison has said that if| it is adverse, he will put Sacco and Vanzetti back in the death-house. It is hard to realize; but in a few days the two workers may be back where they were a week ago. Bourgeois} Massachusetts is relentless. Its blood| is up. During newspaper here has had the courage} or desire to speak a friendly word| for Sacco and Vanzetti. It might lose | them circulation. | Certain sentimental bourgeois apol- ogists have trilled lyrics. and rounde- lays in praise of Governor Fuller’s “courage” in coming out against the two men. But it was not courage— it was the reverse. It was the Yan- kee shrewdness of an ambitious poli- tician. The influential Boston mob is determined to get Sacco and Van-! zetti—and the governor is leading them. His eye, like that of every governor, is cast-on the presidency, and he hopes to follow Coolidge who} landed there by similar courage in| breaking the police strike in Boston.| Deliver us from the “courage” of | What stool-pigeons worked | © Sev-|~ this week not a single | - MONDAY. “BLOOD MONEY,” George Middleton’s dramatization of H. H. Van Loan’s story, will be presented by Mrs. H. B. Harris at the Hudson Theatre Monday night. Prominent in the cast are Phyl- lis Povah, Tom Mitchell, Malcolm Duncan, Reginald Barlow, Harold de Becker, John D. Seymour, Beatrice Nichols, Robert Brister, Lawrence Cecil and Kate McComb. “HER FIRST AFFAIR,” a new comedy by Merrill Rogers, will open Monday night at the Bayes Theatre, sponsored by Gustav Blum. The players are: Aline MacMahon, Stanley Logan, Ethel Wilson, Anderson Lawlor and Grace Voss. aan A UNITED ACTORS, Inc. present The LADDER by J. FRANK DAVIS CORT THEATRE ‘8th STREET EAST OF B’WAY Special Summer Prices—Best Seats, $2.20 (No performances Saturday) THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION THE SENSATIONAL MOTION PICTURE IS HERE! See the actual events and actual persons who figured in the great upheaval WAR! FAMINE! REVOLT! The Cast: LENIN, TROTSKY, KERENSKY, RASPUTIN, T THE NOBILITY, THE MASSES ble All Play Their Part in This Picture “Greater than ‘Potemkin’ because this is not acted drama, but the real actual occurrences of the Russian Revolution.” At B. S. MOSS’ Refrigerated 2nd SENSATIONAL MEO THEATRE wel 42nd STREET and BROADWAY A Film Arts Guild Presentation over, pretense of legal fairness. Vanzetti? these politicians! It is the courage| Little Theatre GRAND % a : ‘ 3 And why all these advertisements|of Nero, bravely burning Christians | MY . | 44th St, W. : The ruling class agents have spoken their last word. But this ogrclingaee Persecu|in ‘the Boston newspapers of insur-|at the stake, and vshening to basis What the Daily Worker | feening 96287. STREET But their verdict must not, it cannot stand! tion | See tee a Wea on ance companies, warning, property| timidated” by them. It is the courage M [SND THURSDAY: 2:30 FOLLIES origina ge Thay eans to the Workers | - ing class! In this country mass demonstrations and strikes! In Europe and other countries where there is an audible working class, mass demonstrations in front of embassies of Wall Street; boycott of American goods; refusal to be seen in the same daylight with members of the American plunderbund. of these two workers! re ; i ‘ tory of the world’s proletarian] 4 bi: York 1.00 aati. 4 " - | kill anyone. It was set off at exact-|It is one of the last glaring exam- a + Rosenblatt, New Yor! 4 * Wa f Flood Relief in the Soviet Union ily the right time,*in order to make! ples of that Spanish Inquisition that sadn ; S. Tripysi, New York .. 1.00 HANTTHORNE | BAT 4 | Wikt J . \the first page of the newspapers a|captured the land when the New Re- Two simple men—a fish peddler|I. Faslowny, New York . 00) 6 & KE THENNING | WARD The Soviet, Union is confronted with a devastating flood in Viadivostock and the maritime province of Siberia, that is on a owners to insure themselves against riot, explosions and so forth? There is something fishy and dreadful about it all; there is something tragic about it. That is why I believe Sac- co and Vanzetti can never be ac- quitted before a Massachusetts jury. They have already been tried and Dedham seven years ago. Yesterday| on the morning when the Supreme | Court was to conduct the hearings on} a new trial, a bomb was exploded at! the home of one of the original jurors(| who found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty. If the bomb were the contribution some skilful “public” agent. It was|now. It places it on its true basis— ‘exploded very carefully so as not to the Sacco-Vanzetti case is a war case. of General Gallifet, shooting 10,000) workers in cold blood, defying them to resist. It is the courage of men who have lost all human values, who like Mussolini, would slaughter their best friends in the insane thirst for political power.’ If the leader of a foaming mob of lynchers whips them| stand against the bourgeois mob is worthy of a golden page in the his- = A ‘ : .., |of some anarchist friend of the two itie:'t in| further in their passion, the world 3 : teikt And finally in Paris, let the workers of that city of magnifi- men, it would be a bit of insanity. It pated Aen oe ™) does not call it courage—so why is uw ane ni ae x H BW. an HomDAS cent revolutionary traditions, refuse to tolerate the gathering of | would be an example of the childish The National Hope. Governor Fuller “courageous?” L Rivkin, Newyork, i - members of the American Legion, who have gone there only to egotism, neuroticism and undisciplin- | The one hope left for our comrades! _ No, the only courage shown so far FR, Cantor, New ok | GRI glorify the predatory role of their Uncle Shylock. ed emotion which the anarchist move-|is that their case has overflowed the| i" ibe gee ae pee that of two im-|N_ Stoller, New York .. 00 5 QUA Let labor act and the hand of the executioner will not dare |™D* has become. ? state borders. The drive to force the) ™iany elas Orato aot out Pose 8. Firstmon, New York ; 00) | baa ] Wiaow the bolts of chaihed lightning that will sh: ind hodiee But it was not an anarchist bomb,, Department of Justice to open its id 1h ane Mignity, their steadfast} G. Tugarra, New York ! 00} CLIVE BROOK in. | hro’ & g that will shatter the bodies|j_ was doubtless a bomb placed by/|files makes the case a federal issue | \¢¢@U8™, eir unflinching moral} Mf. Gerst, New York ... 2.00} ATREMENDOUS LOVE STORY OF WARTIME... ——~THEATRE GUILD ACTING C The SECOND MAN J ) Thea., W. 52 St. Evs, 8:30 GU Mats. Thurs. & Sat., 2:30 | | More Encouraging Contributions || to Our Emergency Fund. 1 | | S. G.-Wolf, Baltimore, Md. . Peter Sapan, Baltimore, Md. B. Sansky, New York .. 5. MOSS’ P. Garkae, New York .. G. Tugarra, New York . EF”): few hours before the Supreme Court met. Worst of all, a well planned publicity campaign against Sacco and public group and other Wilsonian liberals “willed the war” to save democracy—in Europe, and shoe maker—are caught in a great net, and tortured inhumanly for seven years. And they grow un- B. G., New York B. Pastorsky, New York J. Trast, (collected) Palisade, CHARGED Wi Jackson, Flourtown, Pa, .....2.00 much smaller scale thus far than the great Mississippi flood that|Vanzetti. was immediately released,| What secrets gory and horrible res-|4¢"_ that persecution—they reveal ISNA orate need Sioa 3.95 Andy Sakrison, (collected) Beverley caused so much frightful suffering a few months ago. after the first story had proven suc-) pose in those D. of J. files? No won- sHemige Nee ee Ab hl yn ile a aay stergion, saree One ’ ne Hills, Calif. «20.0... 6.00 10,00 But the Soviet Union has shown how a government that|cessful—that first’ story being the|der Coolidge and other government] ("8° Bives one a pride in the /C."Abramides, Niles, Ohio ...... 1.00 John Wild, Gloversvilie, N. Y. places the lives of the inhabitants above profits can meet and overcome such a situation. As soon as the reports reached Mos-| officials fight to the last gasp to keep the files locked! The secret of Tom Mooney’s crucifixior| is there— | bomb. | Governor Fuller immediately sent ja letter to the family whose home workers—in the revolution — this casual selection, this accidental choice of two immigrants to speak for the world’s workers, and suffer for them. V. S. Ware, Long Beach, Calif. .1.00 M. Leskovitch, Battle Creek, Mich. 10.00 J. D. Reidy, Bickmore, W. Va. A | T. Richter, Fordson, Mich, ......1. | Hungarian Singing Soc. Branch, i i i sople’s Ci ye ‘ — | Ni Cicas 10.01 cow a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars (cabinet) SSS = iaise They were never heard of before—| Rosa, that quiet, beautiful Italian! J. Katchmar, (collected) iaaslee | was called and a million roubles was instantly placed at the dis-| session of congress to appropriate money. for the simple reason | they made shoes, peddled fish, were| girl who has never wept once in all) N.Y. 1 i posal of the sufferers and in addition special relief corps were sent in to give all conceivable aid possible. The result is that the pop- ulation has escaped the harrowing experiences that characterized the Mississippi floods in the United States. How different is the attitude of the United States govern- ment toward its flood victims! Not one cent was contributed by the goyernment at Washington. Hoover, the secretary of com- merce, was sent to the flood area to aid the bankers salvage all that they could get out of the suffering of the masses. Instead pf relieving misery he preyed upon it. No money has been ap- oropriated and President Coolidge even refused\to call a special that there is no possibility of the Well Street bankers making profits off the investment. This serves to emphasize the difference between a class gov- ernment of the capitalist class such as we endure in the United States and a class government of the workers and peasants such as exists in the Soviet Union. H As for us, he the latter, but we are not going to Russia to enjoy it, as the super-patriots desire us to do, but we will stay right here and fixht until we destroy the class government that serves the interests o& Wall Street and replace it with a workers’ and farmers’ gvoernm®gt. ; ' lowest of the low in the social scale. And now they speak in great accents —every word and gesture has the ring of history. The rose to the tragic immensities of their plight, and a whole world has listened to them, and found then worthy of their situation in the tragedy. Vanzetti even in these last nerve racking hours, has been busy writing social testament that is, said by those who have seen it to be his best fort. Sacco is still as game as ever, and chats with his brave wife, these terrible seven years, but has faced her ordeal in the spirit of her husband. Both of the anarchists, have known from the beginning that they would not be saved through the legal red- tape and obscurantism that has wrapped their case. They have daily, in the shadow of a hundred deaths, placed all their faith in the working- class of the world. We must not dis- appoint them. ly a World Strike can and Vanzetti now! free Sacco % it PPE: LO pe ite re 6.00 | Geo. Supert, Las Vegas, Nev. ..3.50 | Superior St, Nue. No. 5, Superior, | Wisconsin 17.56 | Pauline Grekin, » Mich. ..3.00 Louis E. Ostrowsky, Detroit, MAG hy Ott casks apitalee sys Sarah Victor, Detroit, Mich, John Suma, Detroit, Mich. ...... Shop Nucleus No. 6, Detroit, MeN ey sie $4.9 eisieis te «aces IO) G. Kane S. 5, Detroit, Mich. . Collected on Karl Marx Statue, De- troit, Mich. ......... 00 B. Strucil, S. 4, Detroit, Mich. ..4.00