The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 2 7 A9eT RKERS TO DISREGARD LEADERS’ | SACCO AND VANZETTI TREACHERY rkers Will Strike Today in Protest Against Massachusetts Murders and A. F, of L. To All Fur Workers in the Shops of the Associ- ated Fur Manufacturers, Fur Trimmnig Association, and Independent Shops Our brothers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, after their years of torture by the capitalist courts of Massachu- setts, are now close to their doom. Nothing can save them from death except a demonstration of protest from the united ranks of the workers. BREAK UP BOSTON SACCO, VANZETTI sees ee DEMONSTRATION Fixed Bayonets Before | the work is very important and must Several Hurt; Four Are PARIS IS ARMED| PARTY ACTIVITIES CAMP AS WORKERS PROTEST MURDER NEW YORK- y JERSEY Help Wanted Volunteers |time to the Workers Party campaign | should report to Comrade Fralkin at At Once. who can devote some Replying to the statement made by socialist * leaders that they would not take part in the Saceo-Vanzetti 2st strike tomorrow, Miss Rose Baron, secretary of the Sacco- retti Emergency Committee, to saving Sacco and Vanzetti. : time to indulge in pettyfogging politics, but the action of : Ryan of the Central Trades said, ‘We have dedicatea our We do not think that this is and Labor Council and that of socialists and reactionary labor leaders, so-called, calls for) p characterization. Because we have called this protest ce in a last minute effort to save Sacco and Vanzetti we have called ‘red’. xe call have heen compelled to us yellow. 4) Scores Socialist Action. istory will record in terms of e those who like Pontius Pilate, ed their hands and turned our yred comrades over to the Mas- tsetts executioner; Tomorrow’s | 2 was called by the Boston Sac- anzetti Defense Committee, the} val national committee for the) *mned men. Only the Emergen-; ommittee in New York has the sge.to answer this call. It is well! we are on record, for the day is far distant when those who are ‘ying Saeco and Vanzetti will i before the righteous wratit of emancipated, militant workers of viea. We appeal to the individual bers of organized labor to ignore leaders’ cowardice and strike on lf of Sacco and Vanzetti at 3 ck today. Claessens, Ryan, lacoff, et al., the Judas Iscariots 1e labor movement, will be taken of adequately by the aroused cers of New York in due time.” Appeals .To Labor. ie following appeal is pub- d today in the radical labor * press which consists of The ‘LY WORKER; the Freiheit; Uj ‘e, the Hungarian daily; Empros, Greek daily; The Day; Russky s, the Russian daily; Laisve, the \anian daily; Eteonpian, the Fin- daily; the New York Volkszei- , with combined circulation, of pb than 250,000, The appeal Si | the workers of New York: Sac- and Vanzetti have placed their } in your hands. They have ap- led to the might of organized la-| yy, jto save them from the shatter- vengeance of the Massachusetts tric chair. They have given seven ts of their lives to the world etariat; they are now about to | their life-blood to the same je, ° Strike! fe appeal to you in this desperate ation to answer our strike call | down tools at three o’clock. Ig- » the cringing cowardice of your tionary leaders who have washed r hands of the life-blood of Sacco Vanzetti. Demonstrate your anity, your courage, your devo- to Sacco and Vanzetti. Orders no orders, down tools at three ock today and march on Union are. 3 nee: again fill this historic meet- place and demonstrate the mili- ‘ solidarity of the working class. e your fellow workers to down s. See that they answer the last i of Sacco and Vanzetti. Socialist Traitors. Ihe vulture-like | Massachusetts rts have given up our comrades to executioners and now the social- together with their reactionary r leaders, true to their historic) ‘s, have piously said; “We have} e enough—let them die.” Answer murderous attitude by striking iss Rose Baron, secretary of the co-Vanzetti Emergency Commit-! when asked if tomorrow’s strike jid prove successful said, “I have licit faith in the deep sense of nanity of the workers of New ‘k. In spite of the sabotaging tac- of the socialists and their reac- ary friends, | am sure that hun- lids of thousands of workers will wer our appeal. Sacco and Van- ti have ceased to be two unfor- ate framed-up workers and have ome symbols of the oppressed sses throughout the world. They ve stirred tens of millions of Euro- n strikers to strike, | am sure t New York labor will not ignore appeal of Vanzetti and his. un- rtunate comrade, Sacco, wHo said, av only hope lies in the united ac- in of the working class.’ ‘With the disgusting fawning for ich the ‘pinks’ are best known, y have decided to ‘respectfully ap- al to Governor Fuller.’ If appeals d any potency Sacco and Vangetti ruld have been freed Jong ago. But ‘\s is not a question of appeals or ectful urgings, mass strike action lvatiow for our imprisoned com- es. ‘Chis is the only way.. I am Il be splendid.” % ceording to officials of the Emer- But those who have refused to answer the show their Standard and it is a! Union, the Cabinet Makers’ Union and 10,000 workers belonging to the International Union of Fur Workers. | The Union Square mass meeting | which has been called by the Em gency Committee for 4 o’clock is pected to be the largest demonstra- tion of its kind in the annals of the, American labor movement. Miss Baron, secretary of the committee,! expects more than 50,000 workers to! take part in the demonstration. | Prominent Speakers. 1 Four speaking stands will be erected to take cave of the enormous turnout which attend the demonstra- tion. The following radical speakers will addvess the meeting: Leonard Abbott, former editor ‘Current Opin- ion”; Richard Brazier; John J. Bal- lam, National Progressive Textile Committee; August Burckhardt, Pro- tection of Foreign Born Workers; P. Pascal Cosgrove, Amalgamated Food Workers; Pat Devine, organizer New York section, International Labor De- fense; Louis Engdahl and William F. Dunne, editors of The »-DAILY WORKER; Rebecca Grecht; Louis Hyman, manager Joint Board Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union; Bishop Paul Jones, Fellowship of Reconcilia- tion; Charles Kiss, editor Uj Klore; Harry Kelly, Modern School; Charles Krumbein; I. Lattimer, . manager Suitcase and Bagmakers’ Union; 8. Liebowitz, assistant manager, Joint Board Furriers’ Union; Ludwig Lore, editor New York Volkszeitung; Rich- ard B, Moore, organizer American} Negro Labor Congress; Moissaye J.| Olgin, editor Freiheit; A. Peretz; Luis Quintiliano; A. Ramulglia;} ateo Rieo; Jack Stachel; Morris E. Taft, manager Local 41, International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union;) Carlo Tresca, editor I] Martello; I. H.| Wagner, president, International Stu-! dents Organization. | Also James Walsh, leader of ‘last | year’s traction strike; W. W: Wei ‘ay? stone, secretary District 2, N. Y.) Workers (Communist) Party; Bert | Wolfe, director Workers’ School; Rose | Wortis, International Ladies’ Garment | Workers’ Union, Local 22; Ben Gold, manager Joint Board Furriers’) Union; Irving Potash, International) Furriers’ Union; Otto Huiswood, Ne- gro Congress; Ben Lifshitz, secretary Jewish Federation, W. P.; Melech Ep- stein, editor Freiheit; Shachne Ep-! stein, editor Freiheit; Chester A. Bixby, Fur Workers’ Protective | Union; Anthony Bimba, editor Laj- sve; Alexander Trithtenburg; Harry M. Wicks, assistant editor DAILY | WORKER; Louis Bau, Photograph-| ers’ Union; Kate Gitlow, executive | United Council, Workingclass House- | wives; Rose Baron, secretary Sacco Vanzetti Emergency Committee;| Rose Pesotto; N. Napoli, editor 1]! Rose Pesotto;; N. Napoli, F. Coco, | editors Il Lavoratore; F. Camardo. Republican Protests. In eloquent reply to those reac tionaries who insist that all the ac- tions of the Sacco and Vanzetti sym pathizers have been red propagan- dists is the following statement from a good republican and conservative, editor of a well-known monthly per- iodical: Dr. Henry Knight Miller, editor and publisher of “Psychology,” aj monthly publication with over three hundred thousand readers, today sent the following telegram to President! Coolidge, he informed Rose Baron, secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee: Denounces Execution. “Tam neither an anarchist nora Communist, but a Yankee and a re- publican, both paternal and maternal dating back to Mayflower days. I feel that Sacco and Vanzetti have been condemned at the bar of justice | | | i | by the state, There is a strong pre- their case. In behalf of three hun- dred thousand readers of our maga- zine I urge you to intervene to save our fair country from the impending blot of shame.” Arthur Howland, managing editor of the same publication, said to Miss Baron, “It has often been said that if Jesus of Nazareth came back to earth he would be crucified again. From my personal knowledge of Vanzetti's character I am convinced that it is ; Precisely this kind of tragedy that is (about to be enacted now. So far as Committee the following rike and demonstration: he Hotel and Restaurant Work- ’ Union, the Amalgamated Food rkers’ Union, the Iron Bronze »kers’ Union, the Shoe Workers’ otective Union, the International bor Defense, the Bakers’ Union, Millinery Workers’ Union, the ‘otherhood of Painters and Decora- s, the Marine Transport Workers’ i his guilt is concerned I am firmly convinced that both he and Sacco are as completely innocent of the crime as that I myself am. : “Tam afraid there is little hope’ that the impending tragedy can be averted but the intervening moments | Committee is working jointly with all | statement to | ' and are being ruthlessly put to death | sumption of miscarriage of justice in! Sacco and Vanzetti look to you to raise such a cry of in- dignation that the officials will not dare to kill them. You American Embassy must make your mighty protest today. This is your last aor tas _ RGF pai PARIS, Aug. 21.—The streets lead- chance. Tomorrow it will be too late. e Jing to the American embassy today Strike today, at 3 o’clock, and come with your fellow- |took on the aspect of an armed camp.| workers to Union Square at 4 p. m. to take part in a mighty |Infantrymen with trench helmets and| mass meeting of protest. Join with all workers thruout the fixed bayonets and mounted republi- can guards reinforced the police force to the em- nst any world in striking against the attempt of the state of Massachu- setts to murder ‘Ncco and Vanzetti. Every fur worker should be at Union Square to raise his voice in protest. -SACCO AND VANZETTI MUST BE SAVED! STRIKE TODAY FOR THEIR FREEDOM! JOINT BOARD FURRIERS’ UNION. B. GOLD, Manager. jguarding all approaches bassy as a precaution | Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration A group of more than three pedes- | trians is not allowed to y 2 ler, and all suspicious ind jrequired to show their identity jloitering is permitted. Troops are guarding the the consulate is licemen. There 4 troops and polie {while ample rei readiness. Police are poste jthe statue of Washington |around the hotels frequently used | Americans. while | 50 po- than 500 | in SHIPLACOFF’S UNION TAX IS EXPOSED BY HELPERS BELONGING TO ORGANIZATION (Statement by a Group of Helpers.)¢a scale is nothing less than On August 16th an article by A, I,| tion wages. Shiplacoff, manager of the Interna-| 4. The non-classified helpers, such| tional Pocketbook Workers’ Union,’@5 general helpers, packers, examin- appeared in the Jewish Daily “For- ets and trimmers, who make up the ward” where he slanders the Jewish /argest part of the section receive no “Freiheit” and “The Day,” because Protection at all, for the agreement these two newspapers dared to ex- ignores them completely. ers. Police looked on during the pose to the workers of our trade the Bosses Take Advantage. Faspacba and the. display of banners| manner in which the “great chief” at-| The employers take advantage of| oO incing American imporialism and tempted to smuggle thru a $30 tax the fact that the above enumerated |" ‘tates or perisham. 2 for the helpers and a $60 tax for the|¢lass of helpers who are not protect- p % mor guard, are tarva- Workers Parade. A mass parade of w aded the boulevard ou s of Paris and went to attend a demonstration} at St. Gervais. The rain and cold did not dampen the ardor of the parad- mechanics. ed by the agreement to reduce the fe saveorning. he te AN a is a waranteed minimum scale of the|®¢Presentatives o of ae Among the many lying statements ®' 5 | Protected By Police!” is displayed in classified helpers, Instead of calling to be answered. He states that the UPOm the union for classified helpers union won a minimum scale of Sole tee teres ren bad aercies Help. per week for the helpers, We de- ebiHeNia dead lettar nu diamant Liles ee aac 5. The employers look upon the| Editorially, L’Humanite SAYSig a FIG is .,| helpers as an inferior class of work-} “The French government een oh Mine seth ro oe for helpers oy and exploit them in the worst pos- | complicity with the American assas- before, for the following reassue. | Sible manner. ~The officials have the|sins in guarding the embassy in Paris Ceaiditions Aoeitee tha Hike. |same attitude towards the helpers as|night and day, But these precautions tha Geitlesek adalat eee fi .|the bosses and treat us in a most hu-|are in vain; the imperious voice of Isekethocle: Neliele asa jade °F imiliating manner, |the proletariat must be heard.” the minimum hes become the won| 6 The office takes little’interest to| ‘There has been a renewal of the pay € MAXI) understand and protect the interests| threats against the American Legion 4 | j « a venti a re French govern- 2. Many helpers received $30 pent the helpers. At atime when many|convention and the French govern week and sometimes more during the the Communist newspaper L’Human- ite, which is in the forefront of the fight for the condemned men. L’Humanite’s Editorial. found in Shiplacoff’s article one has | | helpers. are jobless the office does} ment and police are not overlooking ‘ see; jnothing to prevent the bosses from|any step to protect the Legionnaires busy season, even before this “Bree-/taking up boys and girls from the|from the enraged French proletariat. eae ate Sheets | street, contrary to the agreement, an-| _3-Most of the helpers have been| 4. the "pretext" that they only need{dalous manner for the “sin” of at- in the trade for 5 or 6 years and are 4 | i: 5 int h 4 3 j|general help. Thus the wage stan-|tempting to enforce the point in the good mechanics. $30 per, week for! , ir Seg ae calli for p helper to} : jdards of the helpers who work in the;#gteement calling for one helper these helpers is a crime, for a great} 4 ees . | eketbook The official- 7 5 ‘trade for years are reduced. one pocketbook maker, e officia number of them are married and Bitchy 7. The point in the agreement call. | dom not only deposed the committee, | : z -\ing for the abolition of the system of | but suspended all the members of the The International Saceo-Vanzetti | two ‘helpers to.one pocketbook Iaker {committee trom. the ‘unign. jai Committee has issued an appeal to which aimed to improve the ¢ondi-| Our officials think that the hel pers, all the workers in New York to co-|tions of the helpers as well as the|Who are mostly young OTR ADE San operate in the strike and demonstra-| pocketbook makers is not being car-|¢@sily be ignored. But when it comes tion planned for today. 4 jvied out. If this were done it would|to collecting dues and levying taxes ,_ This committee also urges all who/ make it possible for a large portion|UPOM us, baba: the Antevest on She ig can go to Boston and participate in the |of the helpers, who ate in the trade| fice grows and grows in ever larger protest to be staged there against the |for years, to become mechanics and| Proportion. execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. |thus enable them to make a living | The International Sacco-Vanzetti | wage. Made No Attempt. { The officials of our union have} never made the least attempt to en- force this point. On the contrary, the An Answer to Senator Borah. \officialdom put obstacles in the way | The International Sacco-Vanzetti of those members who insisted upon Committee retorts to Senator Borah’s | the enforcement of. the above clause. Terie. Addarhy that the | Phe officials. went so far as to de-| senator from Idaho is running true | Pose the hee, bic oll de Laer aaa to form, referring to his part as spe- makers Re mneee ve teathieioaiielcesl cial prosecutor in the attempted | ~esmeeme frame-up against Haywood, Moyer | and Pettibone, twenty years ago. } The committee brands Borah’s con-| demnation of Sacao and Vanzetti-as typical of a ‘man who owes his po- | litical position to the mining inter-| ests of north-west. According to this | committee Borah has pillored himself | as a traitor to the cause of human | liberty and has placed himself in the same category as Mr. Ralph Easley, | The DAILY WORKER of the National Civic Federation Com- | Advertising Dept. mittee. | 33 First St, New York City. BOOKS other committees regardless of affili- ation in the fight to save the two con- demned men. AMALGAMATED FOOD WORK ERS Bakers’ Loc. No, 164 Meets 1st Saturday in the month at 3468 Third Avenue, Bronx, N. Y, . Ask for Union Label Brend. Advertise your union meetings here. For information write to That Bosses Fear and EVERY BOOK REVIEWED OR ADVERTISED IN The DAILY WORKER you will find ut THE JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP 106 University Place NEW YORK. EARLS eT ' DAILY WORKER CONFERENCE === H a) | | | | i | has been postponed to take place on Monday, Aug. 22nd at 8:00 p. m. at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place. and Labor organizations should send their delegates. WORKER Office, 108 East 14th Street. Workers Party branches Inquire DAILY Tel. Lehigh 6022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST Office Hour: 30-12 A. M. 3-8 P.M. Dally Except Friday and Sunday. 249 EAST 115th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. | ( cisipaeis Ve RS a ‘llr. J. Mindel Dr. L, Hendin _ Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 FOR A. FRESH, WHOLESOME VEGETARIAN MBAL Come to Scientific Vegetarian Restaurant 76 E, 107th Street © New York, Spend Your Vacation at WHERE DO WE MELT TO DRINK AND EAT® At the New Sollins Dining Room Good Company Good Feed Any Hour BETTER SERVICE Any Day | 216 Bast 14th Srteet New York =) _ Tel. Orchard 3788 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY SPREET Cor, Eldridge St. New York { A Workers’ Co-operative SUMMER RESORT in White Rock Mts. WINGDALLE, N. Y. Phone Stuyvesant 3816. John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES. A place with atmosphere __ where all radivale meet. 23 Scocaren All conveniences; all sports; (sig ROAR GIETSIC Pores 302 E. 12th St. New York hiking; fishing; rowing; swim- ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY ming; dancing; amusements.. FOR REGISTRATION AND IN- STUDID OR OUTSIDE’ WORK should be spent in every form of pried on 1 t humanity iheae nou and se shall not be sacrificed. Patronize Our Friend Sea he he 5 FORMATION: “Freihelt” Office 3 SPIESS STUDIO bos wage boo Se ae a taatath 54 Second Ave., cor. Srd St. Vegetarian Restaurant Avenue, New oYerk cts Ne. B 1786 Lexington Ave. cor. 111th St, ima at 1:30 and Fridays at 6:30 P.M. : 1600 Madison Ave. PHONE: UNIVERSITY ers promen- | be attended to at once. . Arrested Postpone Daily Worker Meeting. (Special: tthe Dally orl DAILY WORKER conference has) posTON, Aug. 21.—Mounte been postponed to take place on Mon- ice drove $0,000 people off the Bos: day, August 22 at 8:00 p. m. at hrv- thin after where ing Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl.' 4; amie tas ein Vee Workers Party branches and labor . Pe are organizations should send their dele- nt tin pickobe wien gates. Inquire Daily Worker Office, 108 E. 14th St. ; signal for the police their horses into ing mostly of work- ired several ers, the local cossacks i Labor Organizations aah | pe man ng to receive Cleak and Dressmakers’ Meeting. | ™e¢ attention. A series of block meet UORRATE «Mere gt See held\next week by the Joint were: Polly Hollida arina Bene Wee at the Jolt chaelson, Wi.’ Patterson and Mor- Cloak and Dressmaker will all be h 16 West 2 Monday I SA zett ppear as an- s of 23d, 24th and | “© abe Wey } hen they saw sday: Workers of 26th, 27th e) 0s aa rsday: Workers of 35th St Arrived ‘Early ae SN The workers poured imto the Com- ea ap ee |mon early today. By 3.30 p. m. over he ties soot Fig ets Mondas.’ 4.000 were present. Police and de- 2 ress ection, “rade “non tectives constantly mingled with the Education League will hold a meet-| " ’ ¢ crowd awa rs to break up ing tonight, 8 p. m. Manhattan | ¢he demonstr: pearance of Lyceum, 66 East Fourth the placard carriers was the oppor- tunity the police were waiting for. Custom Tailors and Bushelmen. Charging brutaliy, the mounted po- The organization and monthly meet- | lice knocked several people down. All ing of the custom tailors confiscated and de- bushel- | the placards w: men will be held tonight 8 p. m. at|stroyell. The of the crowd was Bohemian Hall, 321 East 73rd St. | then driven off the Common. : So the workers were forced to hold "Needle Workers Mect Wednesday, | {heir meeting in a. hall which was Hungarian needle tr: s workers heavily guarded. j will meet Wednesday, 8 p. m, at 550, 1m fact the town/is under complete East 81st St. Ben Gold and Louis| 8084 today. The guards around the Fvthen will seeak. Federal Building are armel with long , 4 * « rifles and have bayonets hung’to their cartridge belts. All other public; buildings are sim- ilarly guarded. The Boston police‘have gone on 24- hour duty, the riot squad has been remobilized, National Guardsmen are ready for call and state troopers are on the job. Iron Workers Meet Tomorrow. An important membership meeting of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union will be held this Tuesday eve- ning, at 7 East 15th St., 8 p. m. Re- ports concerning conditions in the trade, the actvities of the union and its financial standing will be given. ferences The union is also announcing that all SHIC 2 Panes those who are working in non-union _ CHIC AGO, Aug. 21—Puneral ser- shops cim become members of the | Vice’ for the late J. Ogden Armour, union at reduced initiation fee. LN arise ae Ae ee information apply tothe office of the | PACkIns ‘che ee Hie titan CREE ICE SBE which is famous for killing U. S. sol- diers with “embalmed beef,” will be held here Tuesday, Aug. 30th, it was announced today following receipt of a cablegram from his widow in Lon- don. STEP! Repair Your Shoes at the COOPERATIVE SHOE REPAIR SHOP 1191, 6th AVENUE, Bet. 25 and 26th Sts. QUALITY WORKMANSHIP 25% REDUCTION TO STRIKING WORKERS Bring your family’s shoes to repajr in the morning and they will be ready at night. The First Union Shoe Repair Shop in union. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! WATCH YOUR the City. | YOU and I are WE. We are Cooperators We are Working Together We are Building Together We Own Together The Cooperative Restaurant and Cafeteria at 30 UNION SQUARE Be One of Us BUY SHARES Become a Member DO IT NOW Information in Store 80 UNION SQUARE N. POLAK, Secretary Prolet Cooperative Stores, Inc. (Proletcos) NATIONAL BAZAAR Will Be Held in Madison Square Garden --- October 6, 7, 8 and 9th Organizations and individuals are urged to IMMEDIATELY COLLECT ARTICLES for sale at the Bazaar. This affair is being held in the biggest hall in the world, Enormous quantities of articles are required. DO YOUR BEST TO MAKE THE BAZAAR A SUCCESS, *