The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 1

i 4 i i We appeal to you in this desperate situation to answer our \ “have piously said: “We have done enough—-kt them die!” An-| Late aac eee SSO Se st SA Ay | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: | | FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR | j UNORGANIZED i FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK | FOR A LABOR PARTY THE f | Vol. IV. No. 188. | STRIKE AT THREE O'CLOCK, TODAY | FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI! To the Workers of New York: Sacco and Vanzetti have placed their lives in your hands. They have appealed to the might of organized labor to save them from the shattering vengeance of the Massachusetts elec- tric chair, They have given seven years of their lives to the] ; world proletariat; they are now about to give their life-blood for the same cause. strike call and down tools at three o’clock. Ignore the cringing | cowardice of your reactionary leaders who have washed their hands of the life-blood of Sacco and Vanzetti. Demonstrate your humanity, your courage, your devotion to Sacco and Van- zetti. Orders, or no orders, down tools at three o’clock today jand march on Union Square. 4 Once again fill this historic meeting-place and demonstrate ithe militant solidarity of the working £lass. Urge your fellow- |workers to down tools. See that they answer to the last plea SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 96.00 per year. ——_—_—_—— DAILY WORKER. Entered as senond-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., wader the act of Maroh 2, 1878 s NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1927 0ui2athind'So"G"nre sect New Tomek rR Tr | PUBLISHING CO.,, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents SAVE SACCO, VANZETTI! New York’s workers, when they gather by thousands in Union Square this afternoon to protest the impending mur- der of their two comrades Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, will be part of a mighty world-wide protest which is rising today from the toilers of every country. Strikes, demonstrations and boycotts are the order of the day. The call to strike, which went out from the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee and the International Labor De- fense here, has been issued by labor organizations all over Europe and South America. In many places the workers did not wait for an official call, but spontaneously walked out of shops and mines, factories and offices when the news came that the Massachusetts Supreme Court had denied the defense appeal and thus added one more act of persecution to the torture of Sacco and Vanzetti. Word came late yesterday that the wrath of Paris workers had brot out the military. ie ana pa, aay ee RICE Sa eS OREN; Not only word of strikes and demonstrations, parades, cable- THE COURT DECREES IT By Fred Ellis rams and resolutions of protest come from abroad, but very | definite threats of a boycott of American products are heard in / many places. There is a report that the International Federation of Trade Unions is planning an organized boycott by all its mem- bers. In the meantime, action has already been taken by a com- mittee in Geneva, Switzerland, and other similar steps may be jof Sacco and Vanzetti. The vulture-like Massachusetts courts have given up our comrades to the executioner and now the socialists together with their reactionary labor leaders, true to their historic role, | DOWN TOOLS AT THREE!!! expected soon. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis and the whole mid- dle west; Chicago, various parts of New York state and Pennsyl- vania, have plans for monster protest demonstrations today. The workers, roused as never before by the slow cruelty of the ‘courts and the government, are to gather in every large city by thous- ! | } ‘swer this murderous attitude by striking today. | | 1 -FREE SACCO AND VANZETTI!!! ON TO UNION SQUARE!!! | CRUSH JUDICIAL MURDER!!! Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee, Rose Baron, Secretary. | STOP EXECUTIONER! Resolution Unanimeusly Adepted ‘by Distriet\ 2 Workers (Communist) Party Convention For seven years Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two| valiant and militant workers in the cause of Labor’s emancipatio: have been confined in a Massachusetts jail under death sentence: on a trumped-up charge. class of America and to the world proletariat. Nota single one of the legal rep-% resentatives of the capitalist state has intervened on behalf of a. new j trial for Sacco and Vanzetti notwith- standing the enormous amount of new evidence sumbitted and notwith- ; standing the enormous mass protests | of labor the world over, not because ; they were actually convinced of the | crime attributed to Sacco and Van-/ zetti but because in the persons of; these two fighters they wanted to! “deal a blow to the whole working} class, , | The world proletariat, however, | knows that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted not on account of any crime but. on account of fighting against capitalism, for the overthrow of capi- talism. The flagrant and brazen murder is being legally committed in the face of an outraged mankind. The machine of capitalist justice must be vindicated and the integrity of the capitalist state machine must be de- fended at the cost of the lives of | ers-of America to make the day of two men who have given their all for) August 22 a day of a general strike} |co and Vanzetti and by its protests | The sentencing to death and the refusal to grant a new-trial | to these victims of class justice is a challenge to the working | come. American capitalism wields} the executioner’s weapon once more! to assert its supremacy as a class | state equipped with class laws and class institutions. | The working class must meet that challenge with a’ manifestation of power. The working class is hostile to the class domination, class rule and class justice of capitalism. More than oncg@ during the past seven years has the working class stayed the hands of the executioners of Sac- ond vigorous manifestations aroused the interest of every thinking man and woman. The working class must | now redouble its efforts. It must form a strong unbroken united front of all the toilers-against the culmin- ation of the crime against Sacco and Vanzetti. The convention of District No. 2 of the Workers (Communist) Party is- sues this appeal to the working class of this @ strict as well as to the work- | FIGH ; i | \Yidly towards the Kwantung province their class brothers and who even in| of millions of workers, a day of mass the face of the mést excruciating tor-| demonstrations and protest meetings |) tures never for a moment wavered | in order to achieve an eleventh hour! in their fidelity to the cause of the|yescue of our condemned fellow-! working class. Capitalism is assert-/ workers, The District Convention ing its authority because it wants to’ pledges the most active support of its |) teach labor a lesson for the time to’ members as well as sympathizers in| yaaa Fe she: _ this historic struggle. It calls upon WORKER PEASANT every meniber and sympathizer to ‘ serve as a model example for the} factories, plants, railroads, docks, of- City and environs to assemble at 4 o'clock for a monster mass demon- AGAINST CANTON stration at Union Square. | The Convention records the new perfidious action of the socialist par- _ty and the union bureaucracy in re- ‘i HONGKONG, Aug. 21.--Informa- }fusing to jein this momentous tion has been mpceiee here that the | struggle for the cause of labor. Dur- troops commanded y Holung fee aa | ing the whole struggle for the libera- Ting, in rebellion against the bloody | tion of Sacco and Vanzetti the social- Wuhan government, are moving rap-/ist party and its allies paid only lip service to the cayse of: Sacco and Vanzetti, not appealing to the work- border, and that workers and peasants are joining them along the way. class after midnight of August 22. i The capitalist class courts and state machinery heard with startled ears the tremendous pro- vest of the workers in leaving shops,|test of the workers of the world, and for a few days hesitated, slowed up, and readjusted its M IE § MOVING |fices, ete., at 3 P. M. Monday, ‘August | Plans, utilizing a few more devices of delay and judicial trickery—only to quiet the protest of the A | 22 and the workers of New York|working masses. 4 ‘ The reprieve was only a ruse of the bourgeoisie to quiet the workers and make it easier to go ahead with the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti! rejected all consideration of the new evidence which proves Sacco and V. whole world, including the judges who pronounced this murderous verdict, knows full well that the evidence offered to them, which would have bee offered AND VANZETTIE Declaration by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party Our working class brothers, Sacco and Vanzetti, are doomed to be murdered by the capitalist The “full bench” of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court has denied a new trial. WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY FIFTH NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK, AUGUST 30 | |the execution of class enemies. With the armies striking towards Canton are Tan Pin-shan, former minister of agriculture at Wuhan, and member of the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Tu-sui, and other active Jeaders of the Chinese labor and peas- ant movements. There is information here from Ja- panese sources that Wuhan has sent 20,000 troops to Nanking, to fight ers to fight for their class cause but | to the authorities in the name of so-| , called humanity and justice. During all this struggle the socialists and their allies were as much afraid of the mass movement of the workers as were the legal representatives of the capitalist system themselves. At| | the crucial moment they preferred thru the officialdom of the New York Central Trade and Labor Council and (Continued on Page,Two) ne | | | | | | TO THE END FOR SACCO America. ® In London and Paris, where the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti has been championed with such splendid cour- age that the authorities tremble for the comfort of American representa- tives, there are to be mass meetings and demonstrations in front of the American consulates. American busi- ness men are openly threatened in the radical press. and by the government officiais are urged to keep of sight on Monday. Germany, which had huge meet- ings in all large cit as soon as the Supreme Court ne arrived, will continue the protest today with gath- erings where thousands of workers— who are exploited so harshly by Ame- rican as well as their own capitali —will denounce the brand of “justice’ we mete out defenders of the work- ing class. All over the Soviet Republic have come great cries of indignation against the crime which grows near- er and nearer with each failure of the .legal moves. Every village knows the story of Sacco and Van- zetti and has uttered its condemna- tion of those who have planned these | workers’ doom. Writers, artists,! peasants, factory workers have is- sued calls to their’ brothers in Ame- rica to stop this terrible murder. |THE BEGINNING OF A NEW | stitute }and ax -MILITANCY AND STRUGGLE FOR LABOR MOVEMENT ands to voice such a cry for justice as has never been heard in South America Hears. calls have been heard not only in North, but also in South Ame- rica, and Buenos Aires is once again planning a general strike today in behalf of the two Italian radicals. They were the first to start a boy- cott of American products, and this surest way to affect the point of view of the American capitalists is ROW being adopted elsewhere. While the workers thruout the world demonstrate thcir hatred of i ice as it is being revealed in Massachusetts, many liberals here and abroad have been voicing opposi-+ tion to the Supreme Court’s decision stay of execution to permit a thoro review of the case. * * * yalsh, former chairman f bor Board and a noted labor attorney, declared in a tele- gram to the Citizen National Com-~- mittee at Boston that failure of the United States government to open the Department of Justice files in the Sacco-Vanzetti case “would con- loodstain upon the nation flection upon the decent ad- of justice.” * * . Samuel Untermyer, another attor- ney who has presented labor on (Continued on Page Two) Th 0: ministrati ae “MAKE THE STRIKE TO SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI EPOCH OF ORGANIZATION, | By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. dered in Massachusetts. The war is the class war and the prisoners are Sacco and Vanzetti— two workingmen innocent of any crime except that of loyalty to their class. civilized warfare do not apply. So amply has this fact been demonstra- ted that not even the spokesmen’ of the capitalist class dare any longer to speak of justice in the abstract in connection with the seven-year tor- ture of Sacco and Vanzetti. EFORE the eyes of the whole world these two war prisoners are be- It has | having sated every jaded sadis anzetti to be innocent. The] pulse in a seven-year se |; The action of the Massachusetts The fifth national convention of the Workers (Commu. | |“UPteme court proves that this is not /Communards, hard as the iron and nsit) Party of America will be held in New York City. It will open with a mass meeting to be addressed by nationally prom- inent speakers on Tuesday, August 30th, at 8 P. M. All details as to speakers for this meeting and arrange- ments for the convention sessions will be published short f ing done to death. With a cold brutality that speaks volumes to in- telligent workers the class enemies of America’s toiling millions, after torture chambers of M prepare to smother the fe at a new trial, does not merely! or jige which still flickers in the ~———= | raise doubt of guilt, but absolutely] hreasts of their victims. | proves that Sacco and Vanzetti had | |nothing whatever to do with the -{ |erime which serves as the excuse for UT let us understand that there is nothing personal in all this Horror --except for Sacco and Vanzetti. Cold as the shimmering bayonets which let out the lifeblood of the steel which form the base of modern capitalist industry, as impersonal as tice of American capitalism has reached out and taken two hostages from our ranks. AKE no mistake, Just as the de- g DA prisoners of war are being mur-| To this case the ordinary rules of} made an image of those they desired to destroy and burned it, believing that its living counterpart would die, so do the rulers of America, altho freed from this old superstition, be- lieve neverth s that by destroying Sacco and nzetti they will cow America’s workers and by this fear- ful example drive from their minds all thot of rebellion. HE murderers of Sacco and Van- tti think not at all of them as ind uals. As they vision them sitting in the elec chair, they do not see the forms of Sacco and Van- zetti. They see seated in that scientific instrument of class justice, in itself (Continued on Page Four) Italian Trade Union Leaders Fight Black Shirt Fascist Terror MILAN, Aug. 21.—The self-liquida- tion of the Italian General Confede- ration of Labor (C.G,d.L.) while a ter- rific blow against the Italian workers has not had the effect the fascists | hoped: : At a meeting of the anti-fascist labor leaders in Milan it was decided to take increased measures for the re- | building of the Italian labor move- jment. Thousands of copies of the } | CHICAGO, Alig. 21.—Farl Browder, | the deadly current which is to drive | illegal pope Bataglia Syndicale have who recently returned from a trip in| the spark of life from them and char | been distributed by the workers and the course of which he made a minute | their bodies to cinders, the class jus-|an appeal for assistance against study of conditions in revolutionary China, will lecture on the Chinese Re- fascist terror has been made to the International Trade Union Alliance. THINK OF THE SUSTAINING the socialist party to stab in the back (Continued on Page Three) ly. Committee for the Preparation of the Party Convention, | | yolution in Clayton Hall, 9th and Gir- : JAY LOVESTONE, WM. Z. FOSTER. : oe on Chicago, at 8 p. m., Wed- against the Northern war-lords’ at- “(Continued on Page Three). i yotees of ancient witch-craft}FUND AT EVERY &™