The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1927, Page 2

Page ‘Tre THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST VAIN TO PREVENT CITY HALL MARCH Cossacks Swing Clubs and Blackjacks the swinging clubs, fists by ndreds of detectiv five hun- ators, of a band of ten of dred demonst thousand, broke thrn the police net that had been thrown Hall Plaza, a ment in ¢ around City i their senti- ice of the mayor s before the Hall P. All along the > of march, from 1éth St. and 2nd Ave. to Mulberry and Canal Sts. the police mobilized from point to point, attempting to| break up the singing, cheering,| marching throngs. Clubs nd Black | ly, but to Jacks were swung unc | deter- | no avail. The workers mined to 2 at City Hall, and make know ° ity government the divection of their sympathies. Cordon of Police. Police officials, alarmed when they] could not cc 1 the situation, placed | a cordon police around City Hall) within a 3 of ten blo Only | : z | one person at time was permitted | thru the police dragne’ Hundreds of wo s got through the police lines, defiantly booing, ut- terly oblivious to the swinging clubs and blackjacks. Ten high-powered! Packard cars, packed with detectives, raced down Centre St. with sirens} Screaming their haste, and when five} hundred demonstrators attained their! objective, assembling on the steps of | City Hall, the detectives jumped from the and descended on the mob. Cossacks Beat Demonstrators. | For fully half an hour, pandemon- | ium reigned as squads of detectives ran from one point in the park to| another, chasing before them scores | of brutally beaten demonstrators..The net was tightened, and finally, the} five hundred demonstrators were} chased away, with broken heads,! fractured jaws, bleeding noses, black e and clothing torn and damaged.| New York's police had again earned the name of “Cossacks.” Even though the police anticipated the event, the demonstration was suc- cessful. Twice before, workers en- raged over the injustices dealt them and their class by capitalist judges, had paraded thru the streets of lower Manhattan, and once before they had attained City Hall. Women and Children Beaten. Scores of men, women and children were brut: beaten by members of the indust: squad and a regiment of police at Bayard and Mulberry St. skirmish last night. Wielding their clubs and black- jacks, the police and detectives hit the workers without mercy. ose re- COURTESY N YORK DAILY ing allowed to continue along Second Ave. By the time the demonstrators reached East Houston St., there was two parallel parades,-one~on- Second Ave., and the other on the Bowery. At East Houston St. the workers on the Bowery rejoined the main line} of march. “ Many Spectators Join. Then they entered the Italian sec- tion of the east side, marching thru/ workers that started to run for safe-| Chrystie St., Delancey St., Grand St., | ty at the approach of the police were| Mott St. and Bayard St. At Bayard followed by the cossacks who threw! St. the line was broken up by the po- many workers down and then con- : tinued to beat them Not in many have the police showéd such viciousness. Thein or- ders were to maim, not arrest. John|neighborhood. Many workers left J. Broderick, head of the industrial! their homes and joined the parade. squad, was the most aggressive. He of children joined in. wielded his blackjack, a heavy pipe ago, after listening to covered with tape, with fiendish twenty speakers at a meeting under smile. When the demonstrators ‘were | the aus} of the Sacco-Vanzetti routed Broderick appeared to be Emergency Committee, five. thousand fatigued from his brutal performance.| workers paraded thru the east side 10,000 In Parade. and assembled at City Hall, where, The program was the aftermath of! for minutes, the Union Square several uns ul attempts by the! meeting was reopened by the au- police to break up the parade of more dience, than 10,000 workers. When the Union From 14th St. down to Canal St: Square meeting ended at 6:20 p. m. thousands of workers surged towards the Jewish Daily Freiheit where they Sang the International. The crowd was so dense that they had to move! at a snail’s pace. Police then went among the workers and confiseated berry St. where women and men of all the banners that the workers were the neighborhood attempted to halt carrying. Mounted police then went! the brutality of the police with mops on the sidewalks and drove .the work-| and brooms, reinforcements from the ers towards 14th St. Elizabeth Street Station arrived in Cheer Workers Party Office. time, and after arresting six demon- When the marching workers passed) strators the police dispersed the the headquarters of the Workers (Communist) Party, 108 East 14th) Yesterday, St. they stopped to cheer. Suddenly meeting in Union Square had been ad- members of the industrial squad who journed, again a mass move had been hiding in nearby stores’ march to City Hall was manif swooped out on the street and started the ranks of the workers. to hit right and left. For about three hours, they battled the police and even seconds ‘the streets were elear of dem-| when police lines were thrown around onstrators. But the thousands of|Cjty Hall within a radius of ten workers who were still eoming from | blacks, hundreds broke thru, and five Union Square quickly filled up the! hundred reached their geal, only to space of the dispersed workers. experience the most brutal mass beat- At this period the industrial squad’ ing ever administered a crowd by capi- was given orders to go to the Jewish! talist cossacks. Daily Forward, 175 East Broadway. | lice. As they marched thru the Italian section the demonstrators were joined demonstration by sheer brutal‘cy, Un- til the demonstration veached the heart of the city’s Italian quarter, the police efforts were fruit At Can- al St., after a bitter skirmish in Mul- crowd. .20 p. m., after the ery facility available for putting Rumors had been circulated that that| down mass uprisings was fruitlessly was the destination of the demonstra- employed by the poli department. tors. Sunday, in anticipation of such demon- Boo Socialists. * 4 , | Stvations, all lower Manhattan was Continuing down 14th St. the work-| mapped out by police officials, and “rs booed the office of the Secco- squads of patrolmen and detectives nzetti Liberation Committee, 231 e were assigned to strategic points. In Hast Ith St., a socialist organization | spite of this, and of the faci that that had gone on record against yes-| they were clubbed all along the’ line terday’s strike, | by squads of heavily armed cops, they The workers turned into Second) carried on. Aye, and started to niareh south.| “A squad of twenty motoreycle cops, They sang the International, cheered tive of whom vode in armoyed cars. for. Sacco and Vanzetti, and booed | rode along with the lines of demon Fuller, Thayer and the others respon-) strators and from point to point. in- sible for the murder of the two work-! dulged in a slugging orgy. Ten high- ers, powered Packards, crowded with de- \tectives, followed the Police Divide Parade. tic. Uniformed men under the Com-| with fifty reserves, were shifted from mand of Capt. James Hamill started) point to point. But to no avail. to divide the marchers. At every BUY THE DAILY WORKER crossing part of the parade was driv- en into @ side street, the tail end fe AT THE NEWSSTANDS x by thousands of those living in the | the police attempted to break up the motoreycle | The police then started a new tac-) squad. Three putrol wagons, manned | lidge rode into the presidency on the posed campaign’ against MIRKOR 50,000 Demonstrate in New York DEMAND RELEASE OF FRAMED PAIR AT HUGE MEETING Cossacks Equipped with Machine Guns . armor. h ed motor pressure fi se, 1,000 cop: and mounted—all of the equipment of the New department—50,000 Union Square join in the dew liberation of Nicola Sacco tolomeo Vanzetti. fhousands Drop 1 Def; actionary. “ trade unionists yesterday in an elev to stay the execution framed-up victims. Electrifying bursts swept the great. m |the yerdict of the dustrial over! was means of assassinating who dared to challenge their author- ity. two Warn Murderers! From 5 platforms crected on the north side of the squ speakers warned that if the bodies of Sacco ‘and Vanzetti are shattered in the clec- | trie chair the angry protests of m lions of workers will resound thru- out ;the whole world. Wild Outbursts of Cheers. Tho scheduled not to commence un- | til 4 o’cloek the north side of Union Square was one black mass almost an hour before. Intense enthusiasm greeted the various delegations of la-! bor and fraternal organizations they made their appearan A con tingent of women of Passaic, repre- senting the United Conncil of Work- ingelass HouseWives, paraded thru the vast crowd. Placards containing the word: Know Whét Frame-ups “They Shall Not Murd 'ers,” and many others we y the marchers. “We and hight | carried Police Stop Parade. A large group of I. W. W. mem-, | bers attempted to parade about the! square before the speaking started, |but were stopped by the poli ho de- clared that no permit ha: n is+ sued by the city authorities, “Just as the mediocre Calvin’ Coo- | ‘backs of the Boston police whose strike’ he falsely claimed to have broken,” declared William W. Wein-| | stone, secretary of District 2 of the | Workers (Communist) Party. “so rs ( a “The Fight foi Sacco Aud Vanzetti Is Fight | Of Workers, Says Pravda | | MOSCOW, Aug. points out the nearer the moment | of the execution of Sacco and Van- | zetti, the clearer it grows that the 2. — Pravda struggle for -their safety is the| | Pp struggle. re, Communi: by sheer force of things become the leaders of the movement and are fighting | ntiringly for the disconnection of curt chair. It is no fault of the Communist | | the social-democrats ‘are sabo-| | the struggle for the life | | anzetti, our S they are no Com- s members of the Party and) | t leading to the electric the Lommunist International. We appealed and will appeal un- til the v last moment that the pro at should. tear the inno- cent victims from the hands of the | | hangmen. History will decide to! | whom were addressed Sacco’s words: “I will always feel grateful | | to those -who tried to obtain free-| | | dont for me and Vanzetti.” ' Fuller of ‘achusetts hopes to ride into the pr on the shattered id Vanzetti.” | + Gold, f the Joint Board of the Union, re-| ceived a tremendous ovation when he} mounted the platform. “The assassi- nation of Saceo and Vanzetti,” he warned, -“‘will be the signal for a ous anti-labor|campaign aimed to strip the workers of America of their | most” fundanrenta}’ rights and liber-) ties?” ms | “Sacco and Vanzetti,” said Olgin, editor of ‘The Hammer,” dish Commuaist |monthly,° “will for- | ever remain the §ymbols of working- class. martyrdom.| Two simple work- ers »roese -to magnificent heights in speaking for theit class.” | Louts ‘Hyman, manager’ of + the) Joint Board of tha Cloak and Dress- makers Union, another of the speak. ers, denounced the reactionary heads | of various unions who opposed a gen- eral strike to free Sacco and ‘Van-| zetti. “The workers of /imerica have | thus been given an excel!*nt example of the treachery of their official spokesmen,” . | “From the quiet little. courthouse} in Dedham, Mass., the case of Saeco | and Vanzetti has become known thru- | out the whole world,” declared J. Ben Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY, | WORKER, “If they are murdered in| the electrie chair, this will be an en- couragement to the ruling class of the United States to continue its pro- | Soviet | Union and the Chinese Reyélution, It) will be a signal for a general offen- sive against the American workers,” | William: F, Dunne, editor of The) DAILY WORKER said that the mur.) | ican working class in the future, Chie | and dressmaker’ union. tional Labor Defense; Ludwig Lore, editor of the “Volkszeitung”; Carlo ‘Presca, editor of “Il Martello”; Charles Kiss, editor of ‘Elore”’; Mor- ris E. Taft, manager of Local 41, In- by ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ AS! Union; I. H. Wagner, president In- derevs of Sacco and Vanzetti, do not} think of them as individuals. they vision them sitting in the elec-) to -national udents’ Organization, tric chair,” he declared, “they do not) Vere speaker see the forms of Sacco and Vanzetti, Irving Potash, of the Furriers’ but a composite picture of all rebels] Joint Boarii\ Malechy Upabeine elitor against capitalism’s ,rule. |“The Freiheit”; Schacno Epstein, as- me for Resolutions Passed. sociate editor, “The Freiheit”; A. Per- Declaring that the time had rassed}etz, Luis Quintilliano, A. Ramuglia, for the adoption of vesolutions the! Richard RB. Moore, of the American chairmen at the five platforms de-' Negro Labor Congress, added voices. clared that the workers of the world Protest Tremendous, Says Committee had already shown their di While the monster demonstration the pretenses about ‘ was in progress, Miss Rose Baron, concerns the lives of secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emer- working ¢lass. ; ney Committee w! At 6 o'clock as the mes rotest and also the sty about to conclude the speak following statement: taneously asked. the andience “T am very pleased ai this s on the question of freetom for Sacco turn-out. This is ‘our answer to the and Vanzetti. The huge throng lifted | ;eactionary labor leaders of New York their hands shouting for the freedom | and their socialist henchmen. This is of the two innocent worker ample proof of the solidar of the Speaker after speaker during the; militant labor groups of this city: three hours that the meeting contin-|'phis is New York’ awer to the ued warned that the crime about to be perpetrated in Massachusetts would t be forgotten for many years, Th pointed out that never. in’ the hi: tory of the labor movement in thi country, had’ the ruling class int] country been so fiendish and murder- ous as they have shown themselves to be during the seven years that Sacco and Vanzetti have been tor- tured.in the Massachusetts prisons. Delusions of “Justice.” They pointed out that the delusions of the liberals that the two workers would ultimately be freed merely be- cause’ individuals of prominenee had taken an interest in their behalf had proved itself to. he hollow, and would serve as an object lesson to the Amer- |Fullers, the Thayers and Lowells.” to come into the offices of the Emer- gency Committee that scores cf out- law strikes were taking place through- out the city. A dozen workers or so would down tools and walk out of: the factory in answer to the appeal pub- lished today by, the Emergency Com- mittee urging workers to ignore their ‘leaders advice not to heed the radical ‘strike call. These small outlaw walk- cuts spread from shop to shep until tens of thousands were out. ’ Although the strike was called for three o’clock in the afternoon, several units went out before the scheduled ‘time. Local 2, 3 and 88 of the Inter- {national Furriers’ Union in Brooklyn, |members of the “right wing” group. (quit at ten o’elock in open defiance of their president’s order not to heed Included among the speakers at the meeting. were Leonard Abbott, for- | mer editor of “Current Opinion”; John | the Emergency Committee strike call: -| J, Ballam of the National Progressiv The yorkers employed by William Textile Committee; J. Louis Engdah! p. Goldman & Co., of 241 Varet St., and William F’. Dunne. editors of The’ Brooklyn, downed tools in spite of the DAILY WORKER, August Burk- fact that the factory is controlled by hardt, of the Association for the Pro-| Amalgamated ©lothing Workers, 2 tection of Foreign Born; Moiseaye J. | “right wing” union. Nearly 1,000 Olgin, editor of “The Hammer,” Com- clothing workers employed on the munist monthly; Louis Hyman, man- three floors of the piant downed tools ager of the Joint Board of the cloak /at ten sharp. } Members of the Shirt Makers’ Ben. Gold, manager of the Joint} Union. employed by the Vogue Shirt: Board, Furriers’ Union; Paseal Cos- |Company, 28 West 23d St., struck at grove, Anialgamated Food Workers; /12 sharp and held an impromptu meet- Pat Deyine, organizer of the Interna- | ing in the factory, SPECIAL TOUR ARRANGED TO VISIT RUSSIAN TENTH, ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION = In a letter to Joseph R. Brodsky, President of the World Tours, Inc., | | the Society for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union states tHat com- plete arrangements haye been made for a special party of tourists to visit the principal cities of Russia, on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Russian Revolution: This party is limited to not more than one hundred persons, according the announcement given out at the’ office of the World Tours, at 69 Fifth Avenue, First floor. ks are now open for reservations. The first group of tourists is now homeward, bound, after a most successful trip, which left New York on July 14th. eee -- 7 + SaEEEIRERPmEEIEaEneneeeeeael ? “SF =e | : At Earlier in the day reports began} — | FOREIGN BORN 10 REGISTER; DAVIS DRIVES ON LABOR Registration Will Mean \Czarism for U.S. Labor: | Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, Congressman Albert Johnson, chair- man of the Immigration and Natur- alization Committee of the lower house of congress, and other public officials who have long been active in favor of-a system of registration and finger-printing that would classify as semi-criminals all foreign-born work- ers are using the publicity attendant upon the Sacco-Vanzetti agitation to try to force through congress their schemes. Workers’ Registration Tzarist. The Council for the Protection, of Foreign Born Workers, organized for the purpose of combating such legis- lation which they charge is in viola~ tion of all the traditions of this coun- try, points out the menace to foreign- born workers and to workers in gen- eraF involved in such proposed legis- lation. The system of registration of aliens as proposed by Davis and Johnson would compel all aliens to register and pay a fee and to renew their identifi- cation cards every year. When they move from one part of the country to another they will have to register with the postmaster in the vicinity in which they stop. This is a system of tyranny that has been abolished in the most reactionary countries of Europe. It contains all the worse ele- ments of the old tzarist-system of Russia. Davis Calls On Factory Bosses. Secretary of Labor Davis reveals the real purpose behind his demand for registration of aliens when he urges the management of industrial plants to aid in such work. As it is well known the great basic industries of the country are manned for the | most part by foreign-born workers | who are forced in many instances to | live under the most oppressive con- | ditions. Most of these industries are | violently anti-union. A system of reg- listration of foreign-born workers would enable them.to maintain effec- tive black-lists of workers who would not submit to any cruel impositions on \the part of the employers. Furthermore, the Council for the Protection. of Foreign-Born Workers | pcints out that in case workers gained | influence among their fellows the gov- ernment would be able to come to the ‘aid of the industrialists by charging them with illegal entry or bringing |some other technical charge against | them that would force them out of the industry and entail great hardship for them and their families. Since the | war there has not been such a volume | of immigration, as before the war, hence many. of. the poor, half-literate alien workers who are now in the country would be easy prey to such j legislation. Many of them who have |been here for years and acquired |families in this country have long ‘ago forgotten the name of the ships they came over on and others have | even forgotten the date. U. S. to Be Vast Prison. The system of importation of great numbers of foreign-born workets. waS | practiced by many steamship. lines | ow ng hand in hand with the indus- trialists of the country. After arriv- ing in this country these bewildered workers were taken to their places |of employment, where they were quartered with other workers who speak their language. They were iso- lated into Wational groups in certain industries and never had opportuni- ties to come in contact with American life outside the narrow confinés of their localities. Instead of encourag- ing naturalization and endeavoring to bring these workers into active par- ticipation in American political life, the labor policy of many corporations has been positively to discourage such naturalization. Speaking different languages the workers are not so likely to organize to improve their conditions. The proposals of Secretary of La~ bor Davis and Representative John- son would turn the nation into a vast penitentiary, with the employers as self appointed keepers. ; aH * * * Pennsylvania Council. HARRISBURG, Pa,, August 22. — Plans for the conference to organize a local branch of the National Coun- cil for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers are going forward. It will be held Wednesday, August 31. at Car- penters Hall, 25 So. Second St. The state conference will be held Septem- her 4-5. The conference cal as follows: 4 “An attempt is nade to register aliens living in the United States, to { koep them on parole as if they were \ ctiminals. Measures introduced in Congress pYopose that aliens pe fis ger-printed, photographed, registered and taxed. They are to carry ‘pass- ports’ and the police are to have the right to search persons and homes, Proposed punishment is to be a fine, iraprisohment and depurtation. “4 “Wall, Street is behind the move- ment to registér aliens. Such a mave- ment is undemocratic, un-American ‘and must be defeated. We must pre serve our cherished American liberties ce ph ae ], reads in part