The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 1

THE MEMORY OF SACCO, VANZETTI WILL NOT DIE! WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW OF NATION-WIDE MEMORIA L MEETINGS THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: | FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THB | UNORGANIZED POR THE 40-HOUR WEEK ce fe A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY WORKER. | Mntered as second-class matter at the Post Oftice at New York. N. ¥. Vol. IV. No. 190. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Now York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927 uuder tke act of March 3, 1878 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 33 First Street, New York, M, ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LABOR PROTESTS MURDER OF SACCO, VANZETTI; 150,000 PARIS WORKERS MARCH ON U.S. EMBASSY WORKERS PARTY HITS BRUTALITY OF PA. COSSACKS Start Move t to Aid Men. Arrested at Cheswick BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23.— Over | 20 miners have been arrested as a | result of the riot at Cheeswick | where state police broke up a Sac- | co-Vanzetti demonstration. They | are charged with inciting to riot. | The police are searching for a man | whom they accuse of shooting a | state trooper. The International Labor Defense is handling the case. It expects to organize defense conferences thru- out the district. * * * PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23. — Scoring the smash-up of the Sacco-Vanzetti)| demonstration at Cheswick by mcunt- | ed state troopers armed with..guns, | clubs, tear gas hombs, the Workers (Communist) Pariy, District 3, has is- sued the following statement condemn- ing the brutality of the state cossacks and calling upon all of the workers of the district to organize defense committees for the protection of the} arrested men: | “A riot took place yesterday at Cheswick, Pa., where severai thousand miners, women and children gathered” together in order to discuss the case | of Sacco and Vanzetti. A number of mounted state Fal sy ers armed with guns, ciubs and teat| gas bombs in a most brutal fushion | rode into this peacefui assemblage, | trampling and wounding hundreds of | men, women and childrer. The state troopers who are kept in| this district for strike breaking pur- | noses and who are solely resporsible | for the hundreds of casualties which rvo the result of this riot cre still at liberty. Instead a number of miners who |the route. ee | i ‘Argentina Workers to Strike Indefinitely in Protest Against Murder BUENOS AYRES, Aug, 28. Workers affiliated with the 4 gentina Regional Labor Vederation | voted to strike indefinitely ia pro- | test against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. ers belonging to other national la- | bor organizations remained away from work in protest. Reports from Rosario state that workers in sugar refineries and railway plants and railway shops thruout central Argentina failed to report to work. Police fired into crowds of de- monstrators while mounted troops ee thru masses at demonstrators. FINE. 154 BOSTON PICKETS; ARRESTS TOTAL OVER 250 Sing International at Death House Protest BOSTON, Aug. Strations marked the Nicola Sqjgo ‘and Bartolomeo Van- | zetti. . Hundreds of work- | i 23,—Mass -demon: | murder of! Singing the International several | hundred of workers, many carrying placards, marched ‘across the bridge from the @y proper into the Charles- | town district. Their objective was | state prison but a detour was under way to Bunker Hill when police des- cended on the marchers in Thompson Square. Foot and mounted polic jcharged the parade, whose ranks had been augmented by spectators along In the crush under the Jelevated structure at Thompson were beaten up and trampled by the | Square, twenty persons were arrest- yolice horses are under arrest charged |ed. They were charged with “violate | with inciting to riot. Jhey are im|ing a city ordinance.” danger of being railrosded to jail. The! “Mother” Ella Reeves Bloor, Oak-| Workers Party most emphatically | land, Cal., who was talking at a. union | condemns the unwarranied brutal ac-| meeting in the north end and went _ sentence by the United States su- tion of the state troepers and calls | upon all workers of tr istriet to | proceed immediately with the forma-- tion of defense commttces in order | to make it possible to provide the ar-| rested men with the necessury legal | protection. We call upon all workers’ | | (Continued on Page Three) { to a window to address two thousand | |persons outside of the street was ar-| | rested and charged with “inciting to riot.” Another “riot call” was sounded | when, upon her release on bail, “Mother” Bloor returned to the union (Continued on Page Five) “WE DIE FOR FUTURE VICTORY,” SAY VICTIMS IN LAST MESSAGE Sacco and Vanzetti, Facing Death Chair, See Triumph for World Workers BOSTON, Aug. 23.— row, our mistakes, our letter to those who fought for written on Monday. No Faith In Courts. “August 21, 1927. “From the Death House of “Massa-| chusetts State Prison. “Dearest friends and comrades of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Commit- | tee: “After tomorrow night we will be executed, save a new staying of the reme court or by Governor Alvan. T. ‘uller. “But now it is 5.380 in the after- oon and no one has returned yet. | This tells us there is nm good news. { almost tells us that their efforts | ave failed and that you are spend- | \g these remaining few hours in des- tiring efforts to prevent our execu- mn. \ “We Are Not Vanquished.” ‘In a word, we feel lost. That we and have to die does not diminish appreciation and gratitude for “Just treasure our suffering, our sor- defeats, ture battles for the great emancipation.” These were the words penned by Sacco and Vanzetti in a 0 A few minutes after Tuesday midnight the two framed-up workers were murdered. The letter follows in part: ® i our passion for fu- their freedom. The letter was your great solidarity with us and our , families. “Only two of us will die—our ideal, | you, our comrades will live by mil- lions. We have won. We are not van- quished. “Just treasure our ‘suffering, our sorrow, our mistakes, our defeat, our passion, for future battles for the great emancipation. “We embrace you all and bid you our extreme good bye. Now and ever, long life to you all. Long life to lib- erty. “Yours in life and death. “Bartolomeo’ Vanzetti. “Nicola Sacco.” The hall in which the bodies will lie in state here will be filled with posters and banners in all languages and wil recall every stage of the seven year fight that was made to save the men from the chair. CARRY ON! \ @ * /The Sacco-Vanzetti Murder Manifesto of C. E. C. of Workers (Communist) Party ACCO and VANZETTI have been murdered. have been thrown at the feet of the working | class whose companions they were. Two leaders of the workers have been murdered by the cap- italist class of America—murdered as a sign of the contempt and hatred and fear which the cap- italist class feels for the working class. This is murder under the forms of capitalist law. It is the law of capitalist dictatorship, now exposed to the eyes of the working class of the Be sates stripped of the hypocrisy of “a fair trial.” ree te HEY say they have ‘executed two anarch- ists” for a crime. But what the capitalist courts and the capitalist class have done, is to issue an insult and a challenge to the working class of America and the world.. The electric current which tortured and destroyed Sacco and Vanzetti, conveyed to the workers of this and all countries the declaration of intensified class war of American capital against labor. It served notice that American capitalism, now grown more wealthy and more powerful, more arrogant and cruel than any other ruling class that the world has ever known, intends to use a free hand for the ruthless extermination of all which re- sists its power. || It is not a question of two individuals’ lives; Sacco and Vanzetti are murdered because they had become symbols of the organization and the struggles of the working class against the cap- italists. Their execution is the forerunner of still more arrogant and ruthless offensives against the trade unions, against all workers’ or- ganizations and especially against the militant section of the workers. The dicision of Governor Fuller, whites was really not a decision only of Governor Fuller, but especially of his masters, the powerful finan- cial and industrial capitalists of whom he is but | the cringing servant,—this decision is related to | The lifeless, bloody bodies of two brave men | | tice of the capitalist class. | all of the struggles of the workers of the pres-| ent time, and to the particular stage of American | imperialism. The decision to execute the work- ing class martyrs is related to the present drive | to destroy the United Mine Workers’ Union. In Ohio troops are row turned loose upon the strik- ing coal miners. It is related to the capitalist | war against the needle workers in New York. | * * HIS monstrous crime shows the real charac- ter of American justice. It is the class jus- If many workers) have wondered how it was possible to condemn | these two brave men to death in the face of the public knowledge that they were innocent, this | was only because such workers did not under- stand that capitalist justice means merely the merciless suppression of the working class, in order to help the capitalist class to pile up wealth thru the exploitation of labor. The murder of | Sacco and Vanzetti will open the eyes of many | millions of workers to American justice—capi- talist class justice. “American capital is powerful and can destroy its enemies,” says Fuller, the flunky and mouth- | piece of his class. But millions of workers look | on and learn to understand and to hate the ene-| mies and exploiters and murderers of their class. | © ke | In every country of the world the honest work- ing class, and even. sections of the middle bour- | | | geois, spit in the face of American eapitadiam. | | Every American embassy, every American con- sulate and every American business establish- | ment in foreign countries, stands out before the | workers of those countries as a house of shame. | | Thus the exploited classes of the whole world are learning of the danger they face in the ris- ing power of American imperialism. They are (Contin? on Page Four) | mated: POLICE WOUND HUNDREDS IN EFFORT TO QUELL MONSTER DEMONSTRATION Memorial Mass Meetings Thruout World Are Planned; Denounce Massachusetts Murder PARIS, Aug. 23.—Bitter in their resentment against the murder of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the Massa- chusetts electric chair, over 150,000 Paris workers today joined in one of the most fiery demonstrations in years. Defying hundreds of armed police, machine guns, and all the death-dealing equipment at the city’s command, the demonstra- tors, led by Communists, staged a miniature commune and erected a barricade on the Boulevard Sebastopol. Hundreds, including police, were injured in the battles and an equal number of workers were arrested. DENOUNCE MURDERERS. Shouting, “Sacco and Vanzetti will be avenged”; “Down with the Yankee murderers,” the crowd made their way toward the American embassy, but were halted by several lines of bayonets. Hospitals thruout the city reported many casualties, but the num- ber has not been determined. Around the Etoile section, which is the fashionable American | residentiak section, the “Internatie 1a!’ was sung and the demon- strators shouted, “Down with the American murderers.” Warning to the American Legion that it would be impossible for them to hold their proposed convention in Paris next month |was contained in speeches at numerous protest mass meetings held during the day. * * * Strikes; demonstratiors and boydotis are being held thruout the world in denunciation of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. While plans for monster memorial meetings were being rushed in cities thruout the United States, workers in Argentina declared an indefinite strike to protest against American capi- talist justice, Geneva workers staged enthusiastic demonstrations before the American consulate and the League of Nations build- ing, and workers in Moscow, Paris, Berlin, London and Copen- hagen condemned the murder of the two framed-up workers at huge mass meetings. Plans for nation-wide memorial meetings for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have just been completed. A confer- ence composed of representatives of the International Labor De- tense, the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committe, and the National Citizens’ Council met in Boston yesterday and appointed a com- mittee to make tentative arrangements. This includes Powers -|Hapgood, now facing a six-months’ jail sentence for attempting to make a speech on the. Boston Common last Sunday; Michael | Gold, editor of “The New Masses’; Ann Washington Craton, Al- jfred Baker Lewis, Clarina Michaelson, George Krasko, Harry J. Cantor, member district executive committee of Workers (Com- }munist) Party of Boston, and R. Zelms. Call For Facts of Frame-up. ue Another committee was also chosen| which will soon send out a call for} a national conference to be held ar New York to demand a complete sen- atorial investigation into all the de-| tails of the notorious frame-up which culminated in the execution of Sacco| and Vanzetti in the death chair ear- ly yesterday morning. The murdered workers will be cre- Eighteen Arrested In Berlin Sacco- rorine. ‘Vanizetti Protests afternoon at a meeting of friends and| BERLIN, Aug. 23.—Eighteen work- relatives including Sacco’s widow and | ers were arrested in Berlin for dem- Vanzetti’s sister. | onstrating before the United States It was also decided to let the bodies | embassy. The arrests were the cul- jlie in state for two or three days in | mination of the police ferocity which |some hall, if permission can be ob-| |has marked the efforts of the Ger- tained from the health authorities.’ ™an officials Then there is to be a monster funeral! The workers of Germany continued procession to the Forest Hill crema-| right up to the last minute to agitate tory. for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. Vanzetti’s ashes will be taken to| More than twenty meetings were held Italy by his: sister, Luigia, and Sac-|in Berlin on the night of the murder co’s will be turned over to his wife. while mounted and foot police heavily This plan for disposing of the| armed guarded all the street ap- bodies was approved after several | proaches and had machine guns had been considered. One suggestion | planted on vantage points. |that was made was to take the bodies! Workers who secured a building in to memorial demonstrations thruout/the center of Berlin have painted the country, including New York,| across the side in yard-high letters: Chicago and San Francisco. “America’s christian dollar justice is A memorial parade for the two|tonight murdering Sacco and Van- workers will be held at the North) zetti. Men, pause and think in this (Continued on Page Two) ‘last hour.” | “Fifth Party Convention to Open With Mass Meeting At Central Opera House, Tuesday, August 30th | WORKERS of New York City and vicinity will join in welcoming the | | Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party by. | attending the Mass Meeting planned for Tuesday night, August 30, at the| | Central Opera House, 67th Street, near Third Avenue. The gathering | will be under the auspices of the Party’s Central Executive Committee. Admission will be 50 cents. 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