The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGU 37 24, 1927 o and Vanzetti Murdered’ e> ee, ATHE DAILY WORKER A Sacco and Published by the DAILY WORKER PUELISHING Dai Except Sunday as 4 83 First Street, New York, N. Phone, Orchard 1699 3 ia fa Sen A ae Ca | F i SUBSCRIPTION 5 Saar tl (Continued from Page One) ; party thus did their share in forming the screen : - . il (in New York only): ~ By Mail (outaide of New York);/| | learning that’ American imperielism is more} hehind which capitalist justice worked swiftly | First Production of $4.50'six months §6.00 per years $8.60 six months | beastly than all other dark forces which have jad gurely. ' of mass murder. » mobilized to aid the miners. ‘ ’ troubles and the services the Guard ' gard to the “troubles” of corpora- 8 | tions.—E. A. Edenierg. |arranged by the Russian Benefit So- i * * ciety, Sund: August 7th. A Japanese Worker's Life in U. S. Let capit: t society know that we Dear Comrades: | Orchatd of Marysville, Calif,, which! three months d_ make out ch idress all mai Ss to 3 First Street, New York, Ac THE DAILY WORKER, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } . Editors Manager Advertising The Struggle Sharpens in the Coalfields 2oal fields the strike which is now in its fifth month lopments which we have come to expect in s kind, especially when they take place in a basic mnction has made its appearance as in southern Ohio, | companies have been authorized to employ gunmen | fs by obliging officials, officers of the ng the situation, the coal barons are hiring | e break up miners’ meetings, strikers are jailed, | 1k ub-herders have taken place, workers have aldom of the miners’ union, Lewis and nd the leaders of the American Federation of | ed Mine Workers is the most #mportant unmoved. | m for organization work in the non-union | srward. No program for relief for the} d their families has been forthcoming. It seems that | the coal barons are being given every reason to believe that the| union officials will not lead or even encourage any real struggle. | The re and file of the miners are fighting as they have| ys fought—without fear and without complaint. Receiving nothing from headquarters except diatribes against the left wing | section of the union, the members have at every opportunity met the offensive of the operators with mass picketing, marches into non-union territory and a solidarity which only the eoal miners | can show. | But these activities, valuable as they have been, are of too! scattered a character to bring much pressure on the coal barons. The most pressing need in the strike now is a national center and the organization of all these scattered militant actions into one national movement—a movement which can make effective inroads in the unorganized districts and secure and administer the financial relief for which there is now need and for which the need will increa | The Lewis machine has failed to lead the union in this strike just as it failed to lead into anything but black reaction and in- effectiveness before the strike. The left wing elements in the union will have to set up a} directing center for all strike activity if the union is to live. | Wiuter is coming on and then the coal barons will have both cold| and hunger as their allies. The whole labor movement must be! Organization of the non-union fields, stoppage of coal produc- | tion in these districts and the establishment of an efficient relief | machinery operating on a national scale—these are the minimum | requirements of the strike in its recent phase. Organizing ti. Machinery for Mass Murder - The unprecedented preparations made by the police in all large cities previous to the demonstrations in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti afford a clear insight into the primary reason for the organization and maintenance of such forces. Horse, foot and artillery were mobilized for these demonstra- tions. We dare 7 that even in times of revolutionary crisis in European countries tnere are no such preparations made as were evident, for instance, in New York for the demonstration in Union Square. The meeting was entirely surrounded by armed police, mounted and on foot. Machine-guns were placed on all buildings commanding the square. Every speaker’s platform was sur- rounded by a ring of policemen. Tear and gas bombs were stored at strategic points. A minimum of 2,000 police were on duty in| and around Union Square and the rest of the force was held in reserve—some 12,000 armed men could have been brought into action in a few minutes. What does this mean? | Tn our opinion it can mean nothing but a determination on| the part of the ruling class to take advantage of the present weak- | ness of the labor movement and upon the slightest excuse give the workers a sample of what its mercenaries can do in the line Only the broadening of the trade union movement by the in-| clusion of millions of the unorganized and the establishment of a| powerful labor party sending fighting representatives to public | offices can hold in check, a ruling class which, by its murder of | Sacco and Vanzctti and its warlike preparations to prevent mass | action by the workers, shows that it will stop at nothing to establish and maintain slavery in the United States. | S tters From Our Reade Haskell’s Complaint, Dear Comrade: | Major General William N. Haskell! si says: “The employers should employs about 100 men and women. About two months ago, I was taken ick from the arsenic poison of the | Spray and asked the boss to take me| Lot 1 support the|to a doctor but was refused, After| National Guard becaus: y time the; the few days rest at the hospital I| big corporations have trouble they recovered, ce then I have been generally call upon the Guard for asking the boss for compensa ion, but protection’ he says “this and that.” I was| It presumed obliged to re the case to an at- | jtorney. However the case has not been settled yet. | Such is our life—T. Yani. is he means labor renders in breaking strikes. what the Guard is for? I always thought a Guard is for| Is that the purpose of maintaining order and | : “ak Ste | favoring neither s | Defend DAILY WORKER. I think you will perform a service} Enclosed you will find a money- to the cause of union labor if you in-| order for $20.00 which I send as a vestigate Haskell’s record with re-|donation to The DAILY WORKER, | The money was made on the pienic |are the working class and we defend T am a slave at the Howard Reed our weapon The DAILY WORKER. —D. Fedoruk, Haverhill, Mass. | to strike the work \ The Workers (Communis ‘son proposed to the socialist party and to all! | | alignments, is not so v ee Keep Up the S ever threatened to ruthless domination of all "| peoples and the exploitation of all who teil, | The national govetnment at Washingtor. still attempts to hold before itself the ragged yeil of legal form which places the responsibility for this crime solely upon the State ef Massuchu- setts. But the workers of other countries have al-| seen what American workers must also} t the government of the United States, | servant of Wall Street) as guilty of this horri- maller flunkies of the courts and executive mansion of Massachusetts. terfere | tial powers of the United | Coolidge let. Sacco and) Vanzetti die because Coolidge’s masters wanted | in the face with this! ready in Coolidge, the in Washington, are fully ble murder as are the s Legal forms do not ir when the big financi States have a desire. g cla crime. + 8 '® UT the loss ef the lives of our martyrs also | lies at the door of some wh appear before the working clas Vanzetti’s “defenders.” could have saved Sacco and Vanzetti,—have a It is necessary to speak | plainly. Those who have appeared as “defend- ers” but who have at the same time obstructed the only forms of.action which would have and worse form their actions as protectors of the; capitalist institutiins, during the growing of- ED! with actions their class. have chosen to as Sacco’s and | class front. With such leadership the working | clase would have many “dayg ef mourning.” Me a i T is necessary to draw the lessons from the tragedy which tas befallen us. | .. The workers mut understand that when the | arm-straps and le¢-irons of the electric chair | the Empire Theatre Monday, Septem- [are taken loose from the dead bodies cf our | ber 5th. brothers, Sacco ard Vanzetti—THE ATTACK | UPON THE WORI ING CLASS IS NOT END- We must un¢erstand thet this is but the beginning of a nev intensification of the big offensive of capita’ against labor. can capitalist class feeis itself powerful beyond all precedent; the: proceed with the murder, |the Hannibal role now played by confident that the -vorking class will offer little | resistence;.the recistance (insufficient though | it was) stirs the capitalist class and all its agencies to even more efforts to suppress work- | ing class organizat ons. pect more attacks 2pen their trade unions, and | especially upon the most militant sections of | mcrstein Theatre will be placed in re- It is necessary to redouble every energy now to strengthen the whole working The Ameri- The workers must ex- * * * | HE William Gr+en sort of leadership in the trade unions will be driven to repeat in ever by their actions served to turn the electric cur-| fensive and the cor sequent sharpening of strug- rent into the bedies of our working class mar-| gle. tyrs. It is plain that nothing but the most pow- | playe: erful mass movement could have saved these) Sacco-Vanzeiti cas2—must learn that only by | October. men. The executive council of the American] the energetic building of the left wing in the |°P¢Tett? next month. | Federation of Labor refused to sanction a gen-! trade unions, together wi eral strike of protest against the execution. The strengthening of te trad executive of the A. F. of L. The workers must learn from the role | d by the trade union bureaucrats in the | commence the building and nions inside of the ued just enough | A. F. of L. and als: the independent unions, and words on this case to keep themselves from be-| by throwing off tlie leadership of trade union ing branded as friends of the hangman. they refused to use the mos t William Green, the agent of American capital-| ism in the ranks of the workers, has served his masters again, but in a more hideously cruel way than usual. * * * é gee a powerful mass movement could have saved Sacco and Vanzeiti. be put into motion except by the united efforts of all possible forces of the working class organ- izations and such as claim working class char- aeter. other organizations claiming character, to form a united front cf ALL for) \ the tremendous task of saving our working class heroes under the shadow of death. The Work- ers-(Communist) Party was at the time in a struggle with the socialist party, which was | helping the employers to break strikes and de- stroy trade unions in New York City. But sinee there are still some workers who blindly think | | the socialist party a working class hody, | | Workers (Communist) Party offered to ferm a/ united frént for the calling out of all working | class forces into the figid for a demons | that could have been effective, party wanted no mass demonstration, wanted no unity of the working class. The socialist party is not a party that | Its answer to the sentence of death of | Sacco and Vanzetti, was to propose a “Day of | Mourning.” This proposal could only serve to. quiet the working class while the execution pro- | It was merely a followihg- in the wake of the petty-bourgeois liberal elements. | was typical of the present historica! social-democratic parties of all countries, and of | the Second International to wi | Mr. Morris Hillquit, Mr. James Oneal, Mr. Abra- | ham Cahan and the other leaders of the fights. ceeded. But | bureaucrats who ave agents of capital—only by effective means. this means and by taking up the militant strug- ) Party for that rea- But the socialist! and died. The w This could not capitalist class, can be effective. working the methods or the) tion gie of the workers’ organizations against the |_ White Wings” was shown here last capitalists, can the effectively defend our class —ihe class for which Sacco and Vanzetti fought | ers mast learn from jhe part played | by the socialist pz another one of the agencies which confuse and | blind the working class in the interest of the rty, that that party is only d viding and ‘misleading. the | workers in the hour of crisis when only unity | and militant action under courageous leadership * * EPROM the way ir which this case was handled by the “respectable liberals” who gained control ef the dircction of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee. thru the ceasistently con- |on record in support of tre Joint De- fused and indivicualistie policies of certain |fense. A resolution was tead on the workers enjoying -he confidence of Sacco and Vanzetti—the worl-ers must learn not to adopt tie leadership of the petty- bourgeois defenders of capitalism, when they are engaged in a life-and-death struggle with capitalist hangmer. the bitter lesson thit it is not by the individual- istie methods of th» anarchists, nor by the only slightly different “respectable” methods of the | liberal reformers, that the great mass move- The workers must learn | ments can be set ix motion which can save the hate the courts stitutions of the This} role of the! ch it adheres. | lives of our class n artyrs and win its battles. The workers mist learn to distrust: and to o the capitalist government, and to rely upon ‘heir own organized working class strength outs de of and opposed to the in- cpitalist state. Only the or- ganized mass pow r of our class can win con- cessions from the ruling class as a by-product of class struggle, «nd only this same organized mass power win ‘he ultimate victory of our! elass of which Sacco and Vanzetti dreamed, an socialist | fer which they diec. —— > Labor Accepts the Challenge | China in Philadelphia, i ‘Earl Browder Speaks On Clayton Hall, August 24 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 28.) —Interest in the Chin revolu- tion amongst the Philad ia workers has received a stimulus in the announcement’ that Ecrl Brow-| der will lecture on that subject, Clayton Hall, Hutchison and Gir- | ard Ave, (near 9th and Girard). | The lecturer is well qualified to ex- | plain the Chinese revolution, hav- ing been an eye witness to many of | the changing scenes of the Chinese revolution, had close contact with | the Chinese labor movement and its leaders, and in his ¢ as Secretary of the Pan-} ic La- |bor Congress has accumulated much knowledge. | The Chinese revolution in its lat- est phase, which because o 3 porary recession and its 1 under- . Will & of the | terpreted by a meml mintang, P. T. Lau, | retary to the mayor of ¢ | Those intenested in uneers' ing the significance of the Chinese | revolution and | tects cannot aff ie this lecture. Admission 10 cents. Pro- ceeds for Chinese re staining Fur’ i Wednesday, August 24ih at the | | hellcanie: , order of society, and have told the | {he murder of Sacco and Vanzetti THE is death of Sacco and Vanzetti o llenge to the toilers of all i tries, to everyone who is not a of the imperialist bankers and. terests that dominate the By the murder of Sacco and Van- zetti,’ capitalism has affirmed its domination, it has demanded and obtained its pound of flesh, but at | the same time .it has exposed the | of American justice, the | show and hypocrisy of American | democracy. | Saceo and Vanzetti murdered by the bloody hands of | capitalist justice which have crushed out the lives of these two | nt fighters for the cause of | the working cl . have been | ti died as they ing enemies of | m and the capitalist state, | unwavering champions if the cause of labor, appealing to tte last mo- ment to the workers oi’ the world to fight on ‘for a new and better workers of this country that capi- ist dictatorship rules, and labor an obtain no justice. Labor accepts the @hallenge. It knows that the case of Sacco and Vanzetti-doeg not stand apart from tho class struggle. It. knows that ‘will be followed by new repressive laws, renewed attacks upon foreign- born workers, new frame-ups ‘and new. attacks upon the wages ‘and working conditions of all labor. | ow of mer vec'ed that his payrolk was $84,000 hieuer than his allotment. The working’ class will fight against these violent onslaughts _ upon its rights. It will draw cour- aye and determination’ from the brave stand of Sacco and Vanzetti ad from the heroic and unex- aripled fight of the workers of the er tire world for their freedom. La- bev will not be cowed by this foul and ghastly murder. It will answer ths blow against the cause of the working class by organizing many ard powerful unions, by organizing | ths unorganized workers, by es- | te lishing a mass labor party, by ging an unceasing class struggle ag ainst capitalist rules, by helping to build up a strong Communist Pi ity in this country that will lead the workers to their emancipation. ilions. olidarity of the work- s in its struggle against — District Executive Ne. 2 (New Workers (Communist) William Weinstone, Gen- P; rty., eril Secretary. VASHINGTON, August 23.— Tw. om y-five agents in the New York pre Se; mour Lowman, Assistant Secre-| tar > ition office will be dismissed, of Wreasury, announces. Towman said that an examination he books of Chester T. Mills, for- New. York .Administrator, re- > and Vanzetti are not dead. | cause lives in the hearts and | Long live the | Actors’ Theatre | | Elaine Temple and Frederick Monti | will Be the only new members of the | company supporting John Cumberland in “Pickwick,” the Dickens classic which Frank C, Reilly will present at \ | “Black Velvet” by Willard Robert- | son will be sponséred here by M. J. Nicholas’ with Arthur Byron in the | leading role. The play is now in re- | hearsal. Pedro de Cordoba will take over Philip Merivale in “The Road to Rome” at the Playhouse on the firs of September. Merivale is going into | | the new Belasco production, | “Golden Dawn,” Arthur Hammer- | |stein’s new musical play, with which he producer will open the new Ham-| | hearsal today. Louise Hunter, Robert | sholm, Olin Howland, Marguerite | |Sylva, Paul Gregory, Reginald Pasch | |.and Gil Squires are in the cast. Otto | | Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd, | are the librettists, and Emmerick | |Kalman and Herbert Stothart, the| composers of “Golden Dawn.” | The Shubert’s are casting ~another | | company of “My Maryland,” the Dor- jothy Donneliy-Sign ynd Romberg} operetta. The new company will a Boston engagement in New York will see “the | The new Philip Barry play “John,” | pele is based on John the Baptist | will be presented here sometime in |Cctober by the Actors’ Theatre, ac- |cording to an announcement froth | Guthrie McClintie who will direct the | production, Barry’s fantastic play| | Season. | | “Mr. What’s His Name,” A. H. | Wood’s first production of the season opened the new Cort Theatre in Jamaica Monday night. Lynn Over- /man is the featured player. INK OF THE SUSTAIN) TH FUND AT EVERY MEETI Solo dancer of the Metropolitan Opera House, who will appear in the special performance . of “Carmen,” which is being given for the benefit of the Joint Defense Committee, Sun- day night at Starlight Park. Little Theatre GRAND ~ 44th St., W. of B’way. M. NEES T AND THURSDAY, 2:30 FOLLIES The LADDER All seats are reduced for the summer. Best Seats $2.20, Cort Theatre, 48 St. E. of B'way. Matinee Wednesday. . N 0) at REFRIGERATED Sensational Week RUSSIAN REVOLUTIO fetal Events 6 Posonsin , { and & E the Greil Upheweul ther sok (2) “U-BOAT 35” | | By CHARLIE CHAPLIN i ta“ HIS PREHISTORIC PAST” A Film Arts Guild Presntatiog | Geen nn ee | | | A conference of 45 Workmen Circley | branches held at the Jewish Univer- | sity, 126 East 16th St., N. Y. C. went | present situation in the needle trades, jand unanimously adopted, and finan- cial and moral support to the Joint Defense and Relief Committee which is at present the ammunitioa center of the cloakmakers’ and furriers’ fight’ was pledged. The resolution especi- lally stressed the importance of the present campaign to organize a strong jilitant Workers’ Self Defense that | will supply the necessary funds week- |ly for the fighting cloakmakers and |furriers. The conference also decided to call upon all members of the W. C. |branches to join the Workers’ Self Defense and help win the struggle o! the needle trades workers against the reactionary betrayers, the Sigman clique. b Sigman Injured It. , ) The needle industry must Le healed of the wounds inflicted by the Sigman band, The work of the defense is very important in the present fight. Concerts, balls, carnivals, are the megns by which thousands of dollars are raised with which to further the struggle and repel the attacks of. the Sigman gang. An army of several thousand workers and sympathizers that will bring in ammunition weekly will assure a successful outcome of the fight. Every worker a member of the Workers’ Self Deiense. Every class conscious worker must help ex- terminate the blood-hounds of the la- bor movement. The campaign of the Workers’ Self Defense must reach all workers’ organizations, Workmen Circle branches, T. U. E. 1... workers’ clubs, local unions and other organi- zations. The Sigman ailempt to hin- der the August 28th Starlight Jam- boree must be answered. Sigman, knows very! well that a successful af- fair will bring in thousands cf dollars and will help us in our fight. He therefore seeks to hinder the success of the Jamboree, but his attempt avas a failure because a day later with the help of the workers, ‘new furniture was brought in. 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