The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1927, Page 5

| i THE DATLY WORKER NEW YORK, THU AY, AUGUSYP 25, 192% Page Five FULLER OFFERED D. OF J, FILES; REJECTED THEM WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Work ing desperately against time, three attorneys of international fame were in Washington but a few hours be- fore the electrocution of Sacco and Vanzetti, seeking to pry open the lid on the department of justice files. They were Frank P. Walsh, who gained renown as chairman of the industrial relations commission; Ar- thur Garfield Hays, New York at- torney*for the Civil Liberties Union; and Francis Fisher Kane, former U. S. district attorney at Philadelphia. Put it up to Fuller. Following a three hour conference with Acting Attorney General Far-/| num, they wrung from him consent for Governor Fuller, President Lowell ov Attorney General Reading of Mas- sachusetts to inspect the department's files relating to the case. An entire room in the department’s building js devoted to the storage of files con- cerning the deportation deliriums of 1919-1921. Telegrams were dispatched im- mediately to Governor Fuller and to President Lowell, asking them to in- spect the files and appealing for a respite. The statement of the defense counsel with the telegrams were re- Jeased to the press associations through Federated Press. Governor Fuller’s laconic refusai to do anything that might interfere with the electrocution of innocent men is now known to the world. es NEWS AND COMMENT LABOR EDUCATION |. LABOR AND GOVERNMENT | TRADE UNION POLITICS ° | Rens ee eee I ETP RE PULLMAN PORTERS | WIN RECOGNITION OF THEIR UNION ‘Negro Workers Win Big Victory After Fight Word that the Brotherhood of {Sleeping Car Porters has been ac- | |corded official recognition by the | United States Board of Mediation was |received at the headquarters of the/ junion, 2811 Seventh Ave., in a tele-| |gram from’A. Philip Randolph, gen-| | eral organizer of the Brotherhood. | Mr. Randolph now in Chicago! |where he has been representing the junion before the Railroad Board. The | Porters’ Union is the first labor or-/ | ganization of Negro workers on a na- \tional scale, and the disposition of its | case by the Federal Board has been louruy awaited in trade union, as well as Negro circles. | | Frank Crosswaith, organizer of the | ‘union, declared the decision of the |board in sending the dispute with the, | Pullman Company to arbitration con- | is | textile machinery 59.7%. “ORGANIZED LABOR—TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES Official Recorts Show Fewer Available Jobs By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). Cal's vacation days in the Black Hills might be troubled if he read the employment reports sympathy for the workers. The ment reported by the Massachuse June 1926. below the average for thé years the state was once famous have been! hardest hit. The boot and shoe fac-! tories are employing just half as/ many workers as in the 1919-1923! period Cotton-mills are employing | 72% of the number carried on the! mills 79.8% and manufacturers of The report shows that of the num ber employed in June only 77.59% were in establishments operating on normal fulltime schedules. The _aver- age weekly earnings stood at $24.44, The department.shows the percent unemployed by occupations « Building trades unemployed Bricklayers masons, plasterers Carpenters ‘ Electrical workers . Hod carrier: Lathers Painters and paperhangers Plumbers, gas and steamfitters ... Sheet metal workers means that a bad situation is growing worse. Factory employment in Massachusetts is now 4.8% This means that the number of jobs has fallen and bui ding dnborer from his; home state with any drop of 2:1% in faetory employ- tts departrnent of labor for June 20% 1919-1923, the period treated by the department as normal, and about 17% below 1914. The old line industries for which® with male workers averaging $28.85 and women $16.45. Unemployed in Mass., State. Thousands of building trades work- ers in Massachusetts were unemploy- ed-on June 1 in spite of the fact. that payrolls in the earlier period, woolen| the open season for construction was |‘ t ve |department of labor from 271 unions’ thruout the anthracite country, many in full swing. Reports to the st ith a combined membreship of 48,947 w job chiefly for lack of work compares with 19.9% on Ma and 27.4% on April 1. s follows: June May Ist 2nd « 16.6% 15.4 + 16.9 POLICIES AND PROGRAMS STRIKES —— INJUNCTIONS THE TRADE UNION PRESS LABOR AND IMPERIALISM HARD COAL T POLICE. TERROR Miners Denounce Fuller “WE DIE FOR FUTURE VICTORY," e battles for the great emancipation.” wow PROTEST DESPITE «- | SAY VICTIMS IN LAST MESSAGE Sacco and Vanzetti, Facing Death Chair, See Triumph f BOSTON, Aug. 24. our - mistakes, | ust our r to those who fought for written on Monday. two framed-up workers were mut The letter follows in part @ No Faith In Courts “August 21, 1927 “From the Death House of assa- | As Sacco, Vanzetti Die |chusetts State Prison. SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. De- the attempts of the police to ze Saeco and Vanzetti meetings mass protests against the murder of ney City, Shenandoah, Luzerne, Old Forge and The police broke up break up meetings in Wilk Seranton and other coal towns. Pittston, Nanticoke. Barre, WILKES-BARRE, Aug. Police here stopped a Sacco and V etti protest meeting by putting pressure on the owners of the hall and then revoking the mit had been previously granted, Y. M. C. A. whi ndicated that 18.4% were out of a the two innocent workers took place. a tes court or by Governor Alvan This| Large meetings were held at Maho-. ‘Uller. attempted to This tells us there is no good nev to meet which lost and have to qie The | our had given the use your great Solidar of their auditorium for the meeting! fa’ “Dearest friends and comrades of | the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Comimit- te “After tomorrow night we will be executed, save a new staying of the} sentence by the United States “But noon it no one now and It almost tells. us that their e have failed and that you are sp ing these remaining few hours in des- pairing efforts to prevent our execu- tion. “We Are Not Vanquished.” | “In a word, we feel lost. That we ot diminish | itude appreciation defe. These were the words penned by ; against treasure our suffering, our sor our passion for fu acco and Vanzetti in a their freedom. The letter was A few minutes after Tuesday midnight the rdered Buffalo Gathering, — Hugest in History, Hears Wicks Speak 24 Twen' vpathiz Sacco and here, the staged im meeting taken emonstration, rs Party that only every Harry told the it vord of Fulle veen Sacco The speaker ze so that | The department, through J. Edgar | stitutes a great victory for his organ-, Many Massachusetts industrial ci a i: eign ' epee F AOuie toe. ob Sea uack 3 ight never \ Hoover, chief of its bureau of in-lization. Mr. Crosswaith said: | ties show unemployment among build-|tendency of industrial activity in both Switenly withdrew it. ho Cily two of us will die—our ideal, again: be’ possib urged the . vestigation, on the same day Company Fought Recognition jing tradesmen above the average. states was arrested in June. In both ve ponice also attempted to dis-/ you, our comrades will live by mil-| building’ up of a x Labor Party, < Ss , ig } vompany dhs eg ee ‘ oF vorking,| States the level of employment is,"UPt a meeting on the City Square on lions. We have won. We are not van-| of the Communi and fi mitted the release of an‘ inspired sti “Arbitration means recognition of| Worcester reports 39% not working, | states the . aploy Ol ihe: Ghewasc that: (he-tigme: ok ie ished jot the Communist P: and the In- by William Hard explaining what it| thé Brotherhood as a legitimate rep-| New Bedford 36.9¢, Springfield 23% (nearly 5% under June 1926 and ap- ey: hd ee aid | OT ee ae ee ternational Labor Defense, and the |, choose to regard as its attitudte ive of ters. .!and Holyoke 22.8% out of work. proximately 15 under June 19 gia, a speaker, did not appear on the “Jyst treasure our. suffering, our| strengthening of the trade ufions gi resentative of the porters. The com \ y Bee permit : | . 5 toward Sacco and Vanzetti. Hoover, | pany fought such a step bitterly.) Less in Factories. The Illinois free employment agencies ‘ bass Srteabie: cagki eee Wea sorrow, our mistakes, our defeat, ourjagainst the bureacracy’ which had although not quoted directly, adopts| However, we are happy to learn that) June employment reports from report 180 applicants for each 100 anwar amid Gat “oh i ene passion, for future battles for the/ failed in its duty. f the same attitude he held in an inter- {the board has overruled the company|New York and Mlinois’ indicate that: Jobs, this being the worst June since aiies cae: fee Ps rare S WAS great emancipation. James C. Campbeli, secretary of |} view obtained recently by Federated sng has sent the case to arbitration. | unemployment among ‘factory work-|1921 when’ the applicants for each mie weed i as UB oat gD GRELN we ee you all and bid you|the Moulders’ Union Press. It is that: Saceo and Vanzetti were under sur- veillance as members of the Galleani group of anacrhists, The departnient already had Salsedo and Elia, other members, in custody. Salsedo was either murdered or committed suicide while in jail. Elia was deported.” Found Only Innocence. The department placed a spy, Car. bone, in a cell next to Sacco to gui information. The department had operatives sta- tioned in the court room during the trial to report on Sacco and -Vangetti and on anarchists visiting the court room. § The department spied on members of the Saeco-Vanzetti defense com- mittee in Boston. The New York office spied on ‘mem- bers of the Galleani group to see if they had received moneys suddenly after the South Braintree holdup. The spy Carbone discovered. noth: ing. No action was taken against th anarchists visiting the trial. No ac- tion was taken against members of the defense committee. No money was traced to any members of the Galleani group. Thus despite the ef- forts of a score of agents, the depart- ments admits it was never able to trace criminal activities of any kind to any members of the Galleani group. Hooyer Embarrassed. The department, according to Hoover, is anxious to have ‘its files inspected by Fuller or Lowell. The world, which cannot differentiate be- tween the United States and Massa- chusetts any more than we can be- tween Great Britain and Warmick- shire or France and the department | of the Seine, believes that the de- partment of justice is largely respon- sible for the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. And whatever the fine legal nice- ties of the case are, it is indisputable, Hard deelares, that the deportation deliriums are an outstanding feature of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. That de- lirium was engineered by the de- partment of justice under A. Mitchell Palmer. That delirium was respon- sible for the “consciousness of guilt” which Sacco and Vanzetti are said to have shown when arrested; but it was consciousness of radicalism, not .mur- | der. Judge Thayer told the jury however that their consciousness of guilt was the outstanding evidence | “All of the elaborate and extensive | ers is growing worse. This contrasts | 100 esearch made by the Labor Bureau, with last year when the downwardathe f tshowing the actual conditions under} [which the porters work, the wages | {they receive, the amount of tips re-| !ceived monthly by the average por- ter, the total occupational expense of @ach porter, the number of hours and the total mileage covered by the por- ter during the 400-hour work month will ‘come before the arbitration. | Also the actual cost of living for the} porter with and without a family, the actual wage increase granted the |porters since their employment by jthe Pullman Company some fifty- |nine years ago will be presented to the Board of Arbitration. A .sys- tematic comparison between the work jand wages of the porters and the) other railroad workers will also be; submitted.” / | Legal Battle. | Mr. Crosswaith explained that dur-} ing mediation the attorneys of the | Brotherhood coyld not legally appear and argue the organization case. Be- fore the Board of Arbitration, how- ever, the full legal battery of the Brotherhood will be called into ac- tion. The chief legal advisor of the brotherhood is Donald R. Richberg, co-author of the Watson-Parker Act which. created the Boards of Media- tion and Arbitration, | | Associated with him are Henry T.| | Hunt, former member of the old U.} |S. Railroad Board and ex-mayor of) Cincinnati; Frank P. Walsh, Samuel |Untermyer, Arthur Garfield’ Hays, ‘Amos R. E. Pinchot and ©, Francis | Stratford, prominent Negro attorney | |of Chicago. Organizer Randolph left New York} on July 11th for Chicago, having been summoned there by Edwin P. | Morrow, member of the U. S. Board jot Mediation. The actual mediation /began on the morning of July 12th and has been in progress until the ‘decision recommending arbitration | was reached. 1 Jingo General Dies. Major-General Robert Lee Bullard, |retired, and Mrs. Ella Reiff Wall, of |New York, were to be married today! \at_the home of Mrs. Wall. corel In obtaining their marriage license FP osolecig 4 at the Municipal building, | General Bullard gave his age as sixty- | two. Mrs. Wall gave-hers as fifty- - | 900,000. RAILROADS CUT DOWN ORDERS FOR EQUIPMENT: SURE OMEN OF DEPRESSION; UNEMPLOYMENT |p Berlin Saceo- By. LELAND OLDS. H (Federated Press.) | A drop in railroad expenditures in- | volving the jobs of thousands of) workers is predicted in a statement | by the bureau of railway economics | based on reports coyering the capi-| first 3 months of the year. The bur-| eau, an employer body, forecasts ex- penditures for the entire year at the lowest level since 1922. i The bureau’s figures afford one, explanation.of the slowing down of industry which has., been noticeable, since the beginning.of the year. The- enormous purchasing power of the railroad industry furnishes to the financiers an effeative device for speeding up or slowing down the, country’s economic life, Through or- ders for cars andr locomotives, rails, structural iron, tools, machinery and other supplies’ the railroads afford jobs to something dike 2,000,000 work- ployed in transportation. Less Equipment. } Capital expenditures of the rail-} roads for new equipment, additions, | etc., the first 3 ‘months of 1927, amounted to $155,022,000, a decrease, of $10,678,000 compared with the) same period of 1926 and of $14,278,-' 000 compared with 1925. Capital au-| thorizations for £927 as of April 1) amounted to $724,853,000 compared! with $821,880,000 the same date in! 1926 and $750,000,000 in 1925. From| these figures the bureau estimates’ run between $700,000,000 and $750,- in 1928 $1,059,149,000. | Steel Orders Drop. The reduction in railroad expendi- tures is reflected in the state of de- pression which prevails in the rail-| way equipment industry which in turn’ involves a reduction in orders for) steel. In the first half of 1927, ac- { jobs rose to 240. In June 1926 nre was 138. their books orders’ for 15,122 cars compared with tinfilled orders for 31,- 487 in May, 1926. The irregularity of railroad pur- chases , over va) period. of . years: ‘is shown in the following figures for number of freight cars and locomo- | tal expenditures of class 1 carries the |tives ordered: Rail equipment. Freight orders ears Locomotives 1913 4 3,467 1914 80,264 1,265 1915 109,792 1,612 1916 2,910 1917 2,704 1918 2,802 1919 272 1920 2,187 1921 274 1922 2,668 1923 2,066 1924 ° 1,484 1925 1,065 1926 68,524 1,362 The years 1905.6 saw the peak of ers in addition to’ those directly em- railway equipment orders, with 341,-|tonight murdering Sacco and 315 freight cars and 6,265 locomo- tives ordered in 1905 and 310,315 freight cars and 5,642 locomotives in 1906, Equipment manufacturers point out that this irregularity of railroad ordering not only intens' the fluctuations in the country dustrial activity but also increases the “ cost of equipping the railroads. From labor’s standpoint the pres- ent handling of the enormous railroad purchasing power is unquestionably a menace. It renders one important branch of the metal trades very dif- that expenditures for the year will|ficult to organize and by intensifying | depressions it tends to undermine Last year railroad capital wage standards. But this can hardly and jeading the expenditures totaled $885,086,000 and be changed until the control is taken everyday struggle against the bosses. from the profiteering interests. Un- der unified control this great power could be handled in the interests of stability. Peg Up Mexican Peso. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24.—In an our extreme good bye. Now and ever, long life to you all. Long life to li d= | as Judge Thayer William Green as a.crin and G 1 erty, | ler. 19 Fell res p i: snag MPR NPE Og Pa The Rev. H. J Hahn, who was te: he < EEN cently arrested for picketing in Bos- Brienne | Ni epepety. jton, asserted that the Massachusetts Nicola Sacco. uthorities had plotted the murder of The hall in which the bodies will; Sacco and Vanzetti. je in state here will be filled with| pesters and banners in all languages and wil recall ever age of the seven year fight that v made to save the men from the ch: Vanzetti Protests BERLIN, Aug. 24.—Kighteen work- ers were arrested in Berlin for dem- onstrating before the United States emba, The arrests were the cul- mination of *the’police ferocity which has marked the efforts of the Ger- . ie in Detroit Protest; /man officials i] The workers of Germany continued’ { | right up to the last minute to agitate . | |for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. a 0 [ | oycott |More than twenty meetings were held jin Berlin on the night of the murder | while mounted and foot police heavily armed guarded all the street DETROIT, Aug. 24.—One worker | ap-\is under arrest today and three police-| |proaches and had machine gunsimen and a ilian are recovering | planted on vantage points. ‘from slight injuries suffered when! Workers who secured a buitding in'the- police attacked a gathering of the center of Berlin have painted’’10,000 persons who met in Cadillac! across the side in yard-high lette: Square Monday in a final protest “America’s christian dollar justice is against the electrocution of Sacco and! an- Vanzetti. | zetti. Men, pause and think in this last hour.” George Moll, 29, was arrested after | a cop had beat him and struck back. At the conclusion of the meeting the huge crowd surged toward City Hall with cries of “life for Sacco and Vanzetti.” In the battle waged by 250 policemen against the mob, Ser- geant Edgar Lewis and Patrolman James W. Gill were injured slightly. A spectator, Barney Di , 41, was struck by a missile. His injuries are r. U. E. L; Plans Big Jamboree at Forest Park, September 4 CHICAGO, Aug, 24.—All prepara- tions are being made to make the i lao L. Picnic on Sunday, Sept. i 4th a success. Chicago workers will "t serious. | gather on that day in support of the Shouts of assent rose when the| only left wing organization struggling | orators urged a boycott of all Massa- against the reactionary labor fakers,chusetts products as a retaliation now in control of the Chicago unions| against the execution of the two workers in their radicals. Under plans being made all union labor in Detroit will unite in | The picnic will be held at the Al- the proposed boycott. |tenheim Grove, Forest Park. Take! ~ esha | the Forest Park “L” to the end of the ‘line and walk from there to the grove | or take the Madison Austin St. Car to the end of ‘the line, and take exten-' sion car to the grove. In addition to Chicago workers are ‘effort to reduce Mexico’s silver coin- | dancing all day there will be all kinds | cording to the U. S. Department of | age and to improve the exchange/|of other amusements. Tickets can be secured at 156 W.| AGO From the PHILADELPHIA WORKERS BOOK STORE 521 York Ave. PHILADELPHIA PA. invited to attend the 8th Annual Picnic against Sacco and Vanzetti. | two. Commerce, locomotive manufacturers "te, the department of the treasury ee ttt. ee Bullard has made himself notorious Workers of Geneva Continue to Protest. Against the Murder GENEVA, Aug. 24.--Drastie police precautions were taken yesterday to guard the United States consntate building following the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration last night when one person was killed and 80 wounded, i cluding five policemen, Pourtecn arrests were made. A demonstration of 5,000 that had gathered. in Plain Palais—the Central Park of Geneva—-marched through the streets. Hotels and stores were attacked and all the windows jn the United States consulate were smash- ed. There was considerable pillaging. After charging the mob three times the police finally dispersed it. There was much shooting with revolvers. Further. violence on the part of the police was feared this afternoon when the Communists planned another de- monstration. a Oral in his writings about the world war ‘by his slanders on the Negro race, and by his jingoistic hundred per cent ut- terances since, Evidently something in his ‘front charmed his elderly bride. | Keep Up the Sustaining Pund Bam built only 570 engines, compared with | 901 the first half of 1926. In June they had unfilled orders on their books for only 893, compared with! 667 in June, 1926. Similarly in the: first 4 months of the year car build-! ers turned out 16,251 freight cars, compared with 28,271 the same per-' iod of 1926. In May they had on) \today ordered withdrawn from cireu-| Washington St., Room 26, 1113 W. lation 850,000 silver pesos. Presser Must Serve Another Year. Tzzy Presser must remain in prison for a year longer, even though twelve Years have passed since Presser was Sing Sing. He was so informed at Sing Sing. | Washington St. 19 S. Lincoln St., | “Vilnis” 3116 S. Halsted St., 2003 N. | California Ave., “Freiheit” 3209 W. ‘Roosevelt Rd., and from members of |the league. Do not forget—Date— Sunday, September 4th.—-Place, Al- ‘sentenced to serve twelve years in tenheim Grove. | ‘Arveatina Workers to : - Strike _Indefinitely in Protest Against Murder BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 24. — || Workers affiliated with the Ar- gentinna Regional Labor lederation || Voted to strike indefinitely in pro- | | test against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Hundreds of work | ers belonging to other national la- ber organizations remained awa: from work in protest. i | Reports from Rosario slate that workers in sugar refineries’ and’ | railway plants and railway shops" thruout central Argentina failed to | report to work,’ an i Pi | Police fired into crowds of de- monstrators while mounted troops | rode thru masses demonstrators. 7 Woolaroc Wins Air Keep Up the Sustaining Fund, of the | TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th, 1927 at ALTEHEIM GROVE (German Old Peoples Home) Games-—Sports—Dancing—Refreshments Music by Union Ofchestra. DIRECTIONS xtension ca W signs to Steamers leave Chestnut St. Wharf Party members, as tickets sold at ATTENTION, PHILADELPHIA! Excursion to Riverview Beach For the benefit of THE DAILY WORKER On SATURDAY, AUGUST 27th Bathing Dancing High class amusements TICKETS 60 CENTS, CHILDREN 30 CENTS. Get tickets at the DAILY WORKER office, 521 York Ave., or from DAILY WORKER. Admission 50 cents. tin Avyenu or take end of to end street cay® to Forest Park lL 4 | | 8:30 A, M., 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. the box office do not benefit The