The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 4

_ sufficiently convinced in time, that they would suffer too heavy a | LIFE AS WELL AS FOR THE LIVES OF SACCO AND VAN- | ZETTI! Srecsmanon "age Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Ctrike! Picket! Protest! Until the Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday rst Street, New York, N. Y Phone, Orchard 1680 C rhe A Daiwork” Te "SUBSCRIPTION RA | By Mail (outside of New York): | $6.00 per years $3.50 six months | 00 three months < only): $4.50 six months three months By Mail (in New Yo $8.00 "per $ =H Address a | THE DAILY WORKER, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } out « Street, N ks to w Fork, N.Y. Pelee Editors Business Manager under New York, No sf. tes on applicat Advert The Only Argument. Every step in the Sacco and Vanzetti case, from its very be- ginning, has brutal and cynical ruling class as that in America are those which appeal to their more sordid interests. hown that the only arguments possible with such a All the world may talk of the injustice inflicted upon these two martyred workers from now until three minutes past twelve tonight, and at three minutes past twelve the switch will be thrown and the current sent slashing thru their bodies. The ease of Sacco and Vanzetti is not decided on the basis of justice. | If there had been any intention to treat them justly, they would} not have been arrested in the first place, they would not have | been unfairly tried by a prejudiced judge, the U. S. government | would not have concealed, as it still does conceal, evidence favora- ble to them, and they would never have been convicted by the | jury. Senator Borah’s brazen letter to Jane Adams, stating that| the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti depend only on an inquiry into| their guilt or, innocence is mere addition of insult to injury. Neither will any appeal to mercy, as advocated by some of our friends in the liberal camp, have any effect on a ruling class with the traditions and the habits of cruelty and repression that | prevail among the mill owners of New England. These men| are the aristocrats of American capitalism, descended from revo- | lutionary war smugglers and semi-pirates, many of them, and used to browbeating and terrorizing the alien servants that come into their control. They have ruled by terror for generations, and their hearts are very hard towards appeals for mercy. If they | were susceptible to any humane request, they would not have | tortured their victims with such avidity as they show when they | make Mrs. Sacco walk past the electric chair on every trip to her husband, as they showed in their granting the reprieve on the tenth of August only forty minutes before the time of execution, and even then not informing the condemned until nearly a half} hour later. This is sheer deliberate torture, and indicates the love of cruelty, and belief in cruelty as a means of ruling. If the masters in Massachusetts had their way, it is hardly to be doubt-| ed that they would burn their victims at the stake rather than with an electric current. But when appeals both to justice and to humanity fail, re- cent events have shown that appeals to self interest are con-| sidered. The mill-owners of New England are a semi-independent | group of American industrialists, but they have their needs. In| the end, they are subordinate to Wall Street financial lords, as} are other industrialists. In the end, they have to have a market | for their goods. | And the wave of resentment, taking expression-more and | more definitely in strikes and boycotts, which, tho they do not | yet immediately touch the Massachusetts mill owners, must give | them a most uncomfortable feeling of insecurity, has saved Sacco | and Vanzetti until now. Pressure is both direct and indirect, | and the indirect pressure may be most efficacious. Wall Street, | expressing itself thru its favored journal, the New York Times, | has become somewhat doubtful of the justice of an immediate | execution for Sacco and Vanzetti. The reason for this is that! American financial imperialism requires a certain amount of dis- unity and partial cooperation from various sections of the world it has set out to conquer. A united front of debtor nations | against the U. S. A., on some sentimental appeal like the salva-| tion of Sacco and Vanzetti, popular among the working classes of those nations, might lead to embarrassing situations for Mor- gan’s deputies abroad, for Hoover’s agents everywhere. It might transcend the l'mits of the case; it might lead to the general theory that the U. S. A. is a Shylock nation, determined on its pound of flesh, and that theory is extremely bad for the pawn- broking business the biggest banks and the Department of Com- merce have been hard at work building up. It tears down in a few months a whole laboriously constructed and expensive camouflage of “friendship”, between vampire Wall Street and the sleeping nations of South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. What is the use of subsidizing a Pan-American Federation of Labor, to fool Latin America, if every Latin finds himself per- sonally insulted by the railroading of Sacco and Vanzetti to death ? If Sacco and Vanzetti die tonight, it will be in no small mea- sure because the working class of the world did not begin its real argument, the argument of strikes and boycotts and mass demonstrations, until too late for those first effected, the finan- ciers of New York, to coerce their New England satellites. It will be because the New England textile manufacturers were not loss in trade to pay for the satisfaction of burning to death a couple of hated labor leaders. But if the punishment inflicted on New England trade and | Wall Street imperialism is heavy enough, the Sacco-Vanzetti strikes and boycotts may save some other lives in the near fu-} ture. The strike and the boycott, along with that virile school in socia] facts, the mass demonstration, picketing and parades are not only the only argument by which Sacco and Van-| zetti in the death house today will be brought out of it alive, they are the surest protection in the future against other cases of like nature. DOWN TOOLS TODAY! YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR OWN | tional crime against § been less stirring of the | | dates | storied Boston, “cradle of American} Last Minute BOSTON, Aug. 21.—Boston and New England have become a grave- yard, It sounds incredible, but here at the very scene tti is being committed, there has ocial con-} ience than in any other city of the! | } world. * * * There was a meeting of labor union| the rebel glory of Bunker Hill andj speech against all Reds, anarchists, delegates last night to discuss the; Gettysburg, are shaken by a rat-like| Bolsheviks and readers of “The Na- protest strike. About fifty workers | were present, mostly from the Italian | Barbe Unions, from the Up-} holsterers’ Union, and from the Jew- ish needle trades. Where were the} American worke: They were at; home drinking homebrew and playing} poker. Or they were rea | tabloid n apers, with their scare} stories of proposed bombings. Representatives of the Sacco and | Vanzetti Defense haye tried all thi week to get, into the meetings of dif- ferent local unions. The fat bull-} necked grafters of Irish descent w exploit the A. F. of L. machine in t | benighted city refused them ad-| mission, and sneered at any request for an open discussion. These pork- fed labor. tories with Wall Street minds are helping in the eruci on of Sacco and Vanzetti. They are helping as gleefully as they helped in the frame-up of Tom Mooney in California. They alw: can be counted to help capitalism, in this as in other crises. * * * There is a complete sinister silence in all the newspapers. One of the editorial writers on a Boston paper won the Pulitzer Prize with an edi- torial pleading for “fairness” to Sacco and Vanzetti. That was almost a year ago. This past month the hero of the Pulitzer prize has uttered not even a mournful sound. The man is evidently dead. All the bright breezy newspaper liberals are dead in Boston. There are scores of them who read the Nation, the New Re- public, the American Mercury, and other “fair” and “liberal” shee’ There are scores of them who know at first hand the truth about Sacco and Vanzetti and the truth about Bos- ton. But they are dead. They are drinking bootleg somewhere, shoot- ing craps, and trying hard to forget the depths of their mental slavery. Not a word in the “free” press of Boston. Not a word from Boston’s liber- terain aristocracy. Boston has, been known as the cradle of American lib- erty. It was here that the American Revolution was begun. It was here that King George’s private property was dumped into the harbor by direct actionists at the Boston Tea Party. It was here that Bunker Hill was fought. It was also in Boston that the flame of the Civil War to free the slaves was lighted. It was here that a mob of high-nosed, blue-blooded Yankee | aristocrats rescued at the cost of two lives the runaway slave Anthony Burns from the federal authorities. + ae se The men of Boston fought at Bunker Hill in the revolution of 1776. | The men of Boston rescued Anthony Burns in 1860 and helped launch the second American revolution. The men of Boston, in 1927, are lynching Sacco and Vanzetti. In those three | is contained the tragedy of | Boston. Yes, this is a dead city. | All that is left in these weer | hearts is a great fear. They are afraid oftheir own workers. They | are afraid of the immigrants. Sacco | | homes. Even the insurances com-} panies are on active duty. They! ; men | Charlestown jail and they are to be | higher-up; 'to the next step in the great chess *| and arrests. | speaks not a word. | President Lowell of Harvard who | perfumed the By MICHAEL GOLD | | ‘and Vanzetti are a symbol of the, immigrant rebel worker whom they could not ‘completely enslave. They} workers. ‘inger. migrant lynchings. tions, m: d. These decadent Yankee mas- ters, those blue-blooded inheritors of | rintings, deporta- | fear. | * * * | Bugles sound in the street. I look | out, and see a regiment of state} militia marching grimly by, bayonets on the alert. Aeroplanes whirl in the sky. Last night as I went by the; ing the} postoffice there were scores of silent} This is the man who went around men with rifles on post. Every po-} liceman in the city is on 24-hour re- serve duty, sitting nervously in the} tation houses waiting for battle. The fire department is mobilized. The} American Legion is guarding certain} e filled the newspapers with great | rtisements, Warning the business- | to insure themselves against | riots and explosions before it is too late. fF The newspapers spread scare after | seare. Now the vast Boston subway | is to be bombed—now a certain rich} man’s home, now a public building. And every boob, yokel, blueblood or Trish policeman and his relative | buys and believes these newspapers. ae alas It is a panic. It is a lynching. And} for what? There are two lonely im-| migrant workers in the death house in electrocuted Monday night. And so} the city moves in fear. And the men} who heave created this panic, rub their hands delightedly. When this is over, they will move on game. They will be ready for their | mass attack on the immigrant work- | ers then—their registry bills in Con-| gress, their deportations, their raids | The Charlestown jail in across the | historic Charles River from Bos-| ton, that placid stream of which the good Longfellow wrote so placidly. Charlestown is an industrial quarter of the city, a congeries of slum streets and grimy factories, of lumber yards, freight sidings, ugly shacks and tin ean dumpheaps, a fitting industrial | background for the murder New Eng- | land industry. is about to commit. | * * * | Go a mile down the same bank of | the Charles and you come to Harvard, the cultural mask of that murderer, Harvard with its sleek lawns, its noble elms, ‘its quiet redbrick old buildings where genteel scholars la- bor at science and art. Sacco and Vanzetti are being-tor- tured in the Charlestown jail, and Har- | vard, the home of science and art, | Harvard even has helped in the. torture. It was murder. This little man is descended from James Russel Lowell, who wrote fiery abolition poetry. This little man hates Jews, and tried to keep them out of his college. This little man is a friend of millionaires, and they support his college. This little man is proud that he is a Nordic, a Lowell, a blueblood, a Boston aristocrat. cea Sees Governor Fuller, another of the executioners who will turn on the switch today, is of a different category. He is a self-made man. He | bombs are placed. began in life as a bicycle racer; then | he opened a bicycle repair shop; then | when automobiles came in, he landed} here the interna-| will kill Saeco and Vanzetti first, | the Packard agency for New Eng-} co and Van-| then they will turn on the other im-| land, and earned about 10 million dol-! headliners at the Palace this week. There will be|lars before he went into polities.| Jack Donahue, continues as Master Once he was denounced by Sam Gom-| ysterias in New Eng-| pers at an A. F. of L. convention for| Others on the bill include: a notorious lockout. man he As a Congress- | made a rabid murderous tion.” | Judge Robert Grant, who helped in| the execution, is an old senile Boston Brahmin who once wrote a mad vio- lent book denouncing Italians. It can be found in any library. i Judge Thayer one need not discuss. | asking his golfing friends during the_| Saeco and Vanzetti triz “Did you see what I did to those anarchistic | bastards?” Yes, New England is made up of | such as these. And these are the men who have thrust Sacco and Vanzetti back into the deathhouse. It is such as they who inflame the minds of the ignorant Boston masses with stories of bombings. It is such as they who know when and how those It is such as they who spread the fear in New England these last wild hours. * * * A telephone girl says over the wire to an Italian who is sputtering at her in broken English, as he tries to get a number: “Ah, shut up, yeh ginny rat, wait till you see what we do to yeh on} August 22nd.” | A timid little groceryman remarks | to a customer: | “Yes, I think maybe those two Italians are innocent, but we gotta| kill them, aint we, or we'll all be bombed in our beds, wont we?” A clerk drinking ice cream soda at a fountain: “All them Italians look like mur- derers to me, anyway.” ’ A young sailor prowling about Seollay Square on the hunt for} women: “They ought to be killed. They in- sulted the American flag.” A gracious tranqil matron in a Beacon street drawing room, while the mellow light filters through vio- let panes: | “Yes, there is some doubt, but one| must believe such good men as President Lowell, must one not?” * * * The master class in again killing two workers. The workers of the| world are rising in protest. But in Boston, the scene of the crime, most of the workers have accepted the viewpoint of the masters. That is one of the tragedies in this great world tragedy of our time. It is not the last word on this mat- ter, however. Boston is a city filled with landmarks and famous old houses saturated with the history of the first American revolution. There will come a time when a new revolu- tionary landmark will be visited—the death house at the Charlestown jail. And Americans will speak of Goy- ernor Fuller and President Lowell, as they now speak of Benedict Arnold, and they will speak of Sacco and Vanzetti as they now speak of Abra- ham Lincoln and John Brown. 4 But Sacco and Vanzetti must not ie! Wire President Coolidge at Rapid City, S. D., for federal intervention! Strike, picket, protest until the last minute! Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! Make Strik © (Continued from Page One) a symbol of technical progress—the gallows belongs to the feudal period as crucifixion typifies the slave era— not Sacco and Vanzetti but a com- posite picture of all rebels against Capitalism’s rule. Ee killing two workingmen American capitalism serves notice upon the whole working class that it intends to give no quarter in the class war. Rulers always have depended upon death as their ally when their false- hoods have been exposed and shat-| tered by the resistless logie of the class struggle. American capitalism is no exception. The hypocricy, the cruelty, the sor- did character of the boasted institu- | tions of America are seen once more | now in all their nakedness ten years} after the world rang with the de-) nunciation of the crucifixion of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. ROM the Pacific coast the deadly class justice of America’s rulers} crept eastward until it ensnared two workers on the Atlantic seaboard. In liberties,” the executioners are busy ‘hey are murdering, they think, | and they smile at the thot, every fighter in the ranks of the labor! movement. This unconcealed joy with which the executioners go about their task springs from this fact | alone —that Sacco and Vanzetti} personfy for American capitalism the rebellion that burns in the hearts of millions of their fellow-workers. ACCO and Vanzetti shall not die! Their bodies may be charred to a crisp in the electric chair but Sacco and Vanzetti will not die. They will live in the white hot heat of the dood war, their names will be a battle cry, their memories an inspiration, their] e Begin a New Epoch deaths a debt for which an army of organized workers will exact pay- ment measured by the scales of class justice—workingclass justice. The workingclass of America and of the rest of the world already has tried the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti. The verdict has been ren- dered. 3 It is Guilty. ENTENCE has been passed—but suspended. Suspended not be- cause we await atonement, for this never will and never can be made, The sentence passed by the masses upon their masters, the slayers of Sacco and Vanzetti, is suspended while we prepare to carry it out in a way that will leave no doubt of our strength or of our intentions. But today we begin to prepare. We read.aright the. program ofthe capitalists of America. Sacco and Vanzetti are only the first two of Sigman Must Be Taught His Last Lesson. | The Sigman raid on the office of| the Joint Defense was,an attempt to destroy the.work of the Committee. The intention to destroy the am- munition depot of the Cloakmakers| and Furriers, by stopping the supply of ammunition he thought he would demoralize the ranks of the fighting workers, and in this way break up the | Defense. This must be given the answer that it deserves. Sigman must learn that just as he could not de- stroy the Joint B of the Cloak- makers and Furriers Union, so he -epoch-of organization, militancy and lentire progressive our class to enter their death chamber to serve as a warning to other rebels. EF we save them from death so much the better. It will be a sign that we are not entirely powerless—that we have made a beginning at our task. If their lives are taken we will build such a monument to them as America has never seen. We will build over their graves a labor movement which will be a fortress inpregnable to the attack of the bloody bands of capitalism, a fortress from which as a center there will go forth the armies of the toiling millions of America to fight and con- quer both in the daily and ‘the final struggles a ruling class which lives by robbery bulwarked by murder, Make the strike to save Sacco and Vanzetti the beginning of a new struggle for the American labor and revolutionary movement, will not be able to hinder the work | of the Joint Defense Committee. The movement must rally to the Joint Defense Committee and give it the fullest support in order to deliver the final blow to the Sig- man clique. é The Starlight Park Jamboree of August 28th was arranged by the De- fense Committee for the purpose of raising enough funds to carry the struggle to a successful conclusion. It must be a 100 per cent success. Starlight Park must be crowded to capaci*™. Two New Noel Coward | Plays Scheduled for | Early Production | Grace La Rue will be one of the} of Ceremonies for a second week. | Harry | Roye and Billie Maye, assisted by | Charles Embler and Boyd Davis; Mr.| and Mrs. Coburn in a condensed ver-| sion of “The Better ’Ole” by Bruce! Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliott with| music by Herman Drewski; Marjorie | White and Ed Tierney; George and} Jack Dormonde; Gus Fowler and Bob| Anderson. | Odette Myrtil; Karyl Norman;) Benny Rubin; Will and Gladys Ahearn; Moss and Frye; Kharum;) Paul Decker and Company; Les Jardys and Bob Anderson form the! vaudeville program at the Albee in! Brooklyn. The Polish star is being featured in a new screen play “Barbed Wire” showing at the Broadway Theatre Moss’ Broadway this week is fea-| this week. turing Will J. Wart in his. short sketch “The Story.” Pat Henning,| Which is as yet unnamed. Noel Hawthorne and Cooke, Ted and Al| Coward will appear in “The Second Waldman are other acts on the bill., Man” in London some time in ; October. Noel Coward, the English play-| wright whose play “The Vortex”} Beatrice Lille, the English Come- created quite a sensation two seasons; dienne who appeared here in the back, is listed for several plays this} Charlot revues, will be seen in a new season. At least two of his plays are| musical show, “The Little Darling,” certain to be seen here. The Chanin’s} which Carles Dillingham will produce. will produce “The Marquise” and the Guy Bolton, Bert Kalmar and Harry Actor’s Theatre have the other— Ruby wrote the book and lyrics. 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! 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