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ian “GLASS STRUGGLE THE DAILY WORKER TIGHTS: FOR THE ORGAWIZATIGN OF THB | UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK NSS cee etait and OA A LABOR PARTY THE DAILY Entered as second-class matter a t the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., wader the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Vol. IV. No. 192. nt Y, PROCESSION, DEMONSTRATION FOR SACCO, VANZETTI ON MONDAY Police Try to Bar Meetings from Halls; Jegotiate for Yankee Stadium Despite /he difficulty encountered in obtaining a hall or open- | aix stadium Jor a Sacco-Vanzetti memoria! meeting, due to police | pressure being brought to bear on hall owners, the Sacco-Vanzettt | Emergency Committee will carry out its original program on | Monday. A mass procession in which the ashes of Bartolomeo Van-| zetti will be carried by persons active in the defense is being / planned for four o’clock on that day. street near Third avenue. The Emergency Committee is working in cooperation with | the Boston committee which is arranging the funeral procession in Boston on Sunday afternoon. A meeting held at the Labor Temple last night discussed plans for the memorial demonstrations Monday. pices of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee. Negotiations. for the use of the Yankee Stadium are now being con- | ducted by the-Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee, following the refusal | of Tex Rickard, owner and fight promoter, to permit the use of Madison | Square Garden. Rickard was once charged with raping two fifteen-year-old | girls; the charges were later withdrawn and the cases settled out of court.) The Tammany Hall police department is advising the owners of halls | and other large meeting places here not to rent them to the Sacco-Vanzetti | Emergenty Committee which is arranging a memorial meeting for Monday. The local authorities are doing everything within thesr power to pre- vent the local workers from paying ae last respects to the murdered workers. POLICE CARRY ON TERROR CAMPAIGN AT BIER OF SACC@’ AND VANZETTI BOSTON, Aug. 25.—Police last night invaded Langone’s undertak- “ing parlor, where the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti are being viewed by hundreds of workers before they will be cremated next Sunday, and _ arrested Mary Donovan, secretary of the defense forces. Spies of the police department have been watching every opportun- ity for provoking trouble, and when Miss Donovan attempted to place a\placard on the coffins reading, “Did you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards—Judge Thayer,” police broke into the room and started to drag her away. Many of the workers who made protests were beaten up by the Boston cossacks. < *cireles are participating in it out of purely pacifist motives. But its large | proportions and the variety df ele- | ments composing it prove that in bourgeois countries there is discon- tent with the terrorist tendencies of capital in its war on workers and has the deepest social roots extending it- Li} |self not solely in the proletarian 5 ranks. But the hegemon of the move- ment belongs of course to the revolu- Sette |tionary proletarian Communist ele- MOSCOW, Aug. 25.—Pravda points | ments. j out that after the execution of Sacco “ and Vanzetti the campaign of protes' | Antomasoual Cieree ee: against this cruelty of the American; The bourgeoisie of all countries are bourgeoisie not only did not weaken advancing therefore in a more or less but its strength actually increased. | united front against the movement; The Paris events have exceptional |i Some places with great “energy. political international importance, rep- This results in class warring against resenting as they do the greatest re- class on an international scale. volutionary street conflict of work-| Such is even now the chief result / men and bourgeoisie that has occurred|of the campaign of protest carried on against the execution. in France many years. In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $600 per year. WORKERS OF PARIS PLAN TO HONOR ASHES OF VANZETTI AT ANTI-LEGION DEMONSTRATION Seales By Wm. ( The ashes will arrive at | that time at the Grand Central terminal, and according to plans | the procession will make its way to the Central Opera House, 67th) The meeting Was held under the aus-| The movement of protest is ever penetrating reformist circles, the in- « tellectual petty bourgeoisie and the rank and file of the population. The motives of this protest are sometimes quite different. Many Communists must not for one sing] instant felax this movement. The lat- ter is and will later on become in a yet more serious/stage the way of. leading to a victory of the interna: tional revolution. ——$—$—=—$—— SACCO-VANZETT| OF THE DAILY WORKER TOMORROW Among the Contributors Helen Black, William F. Dunne, J. Louis Engdahl, William Z. Foster, Michael Gold, Charles Y. Harrison, A. B. Magil, M. J. Olgin, Ww. Ww. Weinstone, B. D. Wolfe. Drawings by, Gropper and Ellis. Two Full Pages- MEMORIAL ISSUE of Photographs _ / Admission to the opera is $1. | “THIS: Is OUR “ANSWER! | | | | | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927 JAMBOREE-NEXT SUNDAY FOR THE JOINT DEFENSE Starlight Park Scene of Big Affair The greatest gathering of workers ever held in New York will take place Sunday at the Joint Defense Committee Jamboree at Starlight Park, East 177th St., the Bronx. Starlight Park will open at 10 a. m. Sunday and the Jamboree™ will last till 2 the next morning. A spe- cial feature will be open air and in- door dancing, with two jazz bands supplying the music. Admission to the park is 25 cents. A combination ticket is 50 cents and is good for ad- mission to. the park, reduced rate on bathing and free” dancing. In the evening the opera “Carmen” ill be produced. Many famous sing- rs are in the cast and a full sym- jhony orchestra will accompany them. ‘Re- served seats are $2 and $1.50, The (Continued on Page Five) Right Wingers Are Driven Out of Shop By Angry Unionist Ten right wing gangsters driven out of a cloak shop at 32 West 21st St. yesterday morning when they | attempted to force the workers to} register with the Sigman Interna- tional. The workers refused and shoved them out of the building. The cloakmakers informed the| thugs that they are members of the union and they have no intention of | registering with strikebreakers and friends of the bosses. They were then told to get out. When they were leaving the building the gangsters saw several cloakmakers standing at the entrance. Loans their brave ap- pearance they telephoned for the po- were | lice to escort them back to the right wing office. ~|of Schenectady, | Schilling of New York and John T. ‘Chinese Ask Boycott _ Of United States for Sacco-Vanzetti Murder | SHANGHAI, Aug. 25. — The oe nese Federation of Revolting You today attacked the United States fos the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. | Pamphlets were distributed along the Nanking Road denouncing “the un- | reasonable execution of two of the | proletariat,” and urged “the prole- | tariat of the world to rise up and | avenge the death sentences.” The pamphlets called upon the Chi-| nese workers ‘‘manifest their feelings by boycotting United States goods.” N. Y. FEDERATION OF LABOR ELECTS OLD SLATE AGAIN : Will Urge State Pension All AgedUnionWorkers SYRACUSE, ‘Aug. 25, — John M. Sullivan of New York City was re- elected president of the New York | State Federation of Labor at the state | | convention here today. | The entire slate of officers received | | veelection, including vice-presidents | Thomas J. Curtis of New York City, Emanuel Kovelski of Rochester, Jos- eph A. Mullaney of Elmhurst, Long | |Island: John C. Imhof of New York | City; C. F. Conroy of Buffalo, Botty |A. Hawley of Brooklyn, Joseph P. | Ryan of New York City, William BE. | Brown of Utica, Michael J. Fanning Albert W. Sherman of Syracuse, William ‘MeGrory of Yonkers, Jeremiah Ryan of Bingham- | ton, John M, O’F lon of’ Troy, secre tary-treasurer, F. X. Sullivan of New York City; legal adviser, John O’Han- lon, John J. Doyle of Buffalo, Miss Mabel Leslie of Brooklyn,, John M. O’Brien of Syracuse, members of the | legislative committee. A drive to secure passage of an old uge pension law at the next state legislature session will be made by the | Federation asking that aged union workers be supported instead of be- ing forced to seek relief in poor houses. “% Efforts to limit the issuance of in- junctions in labor disputes was urged (Continued on Page Five) ; however, will be repre: PUBLISHING CO. ORKER._ FINAL [ “FINAL city | EDITION a Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 38 First Street, New York, N. ¥. woooe MEMORIAL FOR MAR URGED AGAINST FA Price 3 Cents YR YRED WORKERS ISCIST FESTIVITIES Drive to Bar Caton onde: Re ef Poincaré Government's .—The Sacco- France has asked that the ashes of Vanzetti September 19th, the date of the opening PARIS, Aug. 25. convention. September 19th has been annour day of mourning for the murdered men and in the demonstrations against the Ame repeatedly applauded the murder L’Humanite this morning Paris never will forget that the American Legion, after says: dly in Spite Edict Defense Committee of be brought to Paris of the anzetti American Legion the committee as a ashes wiil be used which has Legion, workers of the iwe “The classes of congratu- lating Fuller for his grime, caused the blood to flow of several hundred Parisians.” PLAN TO BAR LEGION. Plans to prevent the convention of the America September 19th are going ahead despite the Minister intention to permit both the Legion p: The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti has crys Sarraut’s vention. n Legion on of Interior je and con- American as well as anti-capitalist feeling and the campaign to bar the Legion from Paris is pee gaining support from all quarters. The yelp of approval arising from | American Legion poste thruout the country when the two framed-up| |workers were murdered, deseribed in has} \L’Humanite, Communist paper, accelerated the move to keep the Le- | gion from parading in Paris. The ,resolution adopted ..by... the . Kirby Stewart Post praising Governor Ful-| ler and other Massachusetts officials | “for their conduct in the Sacco-Van- zetti affair in the face of the opposi- tion by foreign elements” is quoted in | Humanite. |smecting of hundreds of wor i South Africans Burn 'U. S. Flag as Murder |Protest; Will Boycott JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 25.—The American flag has been burned here on the steps of the y Hall by a had gathered to protest against “the killing of Sacco and V ti. Boy- cott of all American go: urged as the expr on of the solidarity of the South African wo: | American workers. WALKER DODEIN ANTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE IN ABOUT BERLIN 7 AVOID PROTESTS Workers Remind Him of Murdered Sacco CHICAGO, Aug. zation to fight the frame-up s. GREATER ORGANIZATION CAMPAIGN lis Attention ta Maasiioy C: Mooney Cane Centralia Case; Warns of Cheswick Frame-up —The nation-wide campaign of organi- ystem of whi and Vanzetti was a part, was called for BERLIN, Aug. 25.—Heavy police by the Executive Committee of the Inte h the murder of Saeco y ina manifesto issued ional Labor Defense ne guards, many of them in plain clothes |which played a leading part in NG Protest movement in behalf of so they can mingle with the crowds and thus avoid embarrassing the gov- | ernment by their numbers, are as signed to Mayor Walker during his | stay in Berlin. The German proletariat is so de-| termined to show its resentment over | the executior of Sacco and Vanzetti ithat if it were not for the ingenuity of the mayor’s guides and guards in| dodging him around thru back alleys, tand up side streets when he wishes to leave his monarchist hotel, he would probably get a shower of bricks | as a welcome. Hid In Menagerie. One clever trick practiced on the | lentry of the mayor into Berlin was to have him avoid the reception com- mittees at the main station on Fried- |richstrasse by getting off at the 200. In the zoo the mayor seems to have \heen quite safe. and waiting automo- biles rushed him from there to the | American embassy, and then during the dark, to the Hotel Ehre. _Monarchist Friends Attacked. The flag war continued te rage about Mr. Iker unabated today. As a result of the big hotels persistent re fuay to fly the German republican the refu mayor Berlin to attend ahy na hotel which does not fly the re pub- liean fla The Prussian. s' ernment. joined with the Be inner to t the K: vy the Am The German Natio: retary of State Schnube representing Foreign Min }mann. President Hindenburg and his jofficials are more than suspected of monarchism, anyway U.S. Amhassader Dodges. The “flag war” brought a sugges- today that American Ambassador (Continued on Page Two) the two labor leaders. The manifesto draws attention to \the case of Mooney and Billings and lother class-war prisoners who have ‘been victimized under the frame-up system, and warns against the prep- aration of new persecutions against the workers. Particular attention is ‘ealled to the arrests of more than/ twenty miners in Pennsylvania in connection with the breaking up of a protest meeting for Sacco and Van- |zetti when more than a score of work- ers were wounded and one state troop- er-was killed. Reciting the work done by interna- tional Labor ‘Defense, the manifesto shows the part it has played in pro- viding legal defense for hundreds of workers, in organizing protest movet ments, giving publicity to cases and |providing material support for cl war prisoners and their depend It calls for the broadening and ¢ (Continued on Page Three) World Girdler On Way. ‘OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me., Aug. -The world-girdling plané-“The Pride of Detroit” finished the first leg of her round-the-world hep at 1.05 o'clock this afternoon (Eastern dard time) 9: !many of them. HAMBURG LABOR HALTS ATTACK ON SACCO MEMORIAL HAN ue across t night kupa tti i demons ‘ation. was killed and @ ber of worke wounded as the it of the polic ack. A showe® nes greeted the nolice when they on the demonstration wielding wis n pol huge S: One policeman e on the demonstrators pistols, the police wounded * * . More than 40,- ted before the re last night to pro- nurder of Sacco and BERLI} 000 ¥ impe Aug. 25. demonst castle he Vanzetti ct L. 0. ARRANGES SACCO-VANZETTI ~_ MEMORIAL MEETS CHICAGO, Aug. etti memorial meetings thruout the country are today announced by the national office of the International Labor Defense. Hundreds of thous- ands of workers are expected \to at- tend meetings on Sunday and Mon- tion from the republican newspapers | day. Memorial meetings so far arranged | by the International Labor Defense for New Yo THRUOUT NATION ¢ united front committees will be Milwaukee, Monday; ‘Phila- Cleveland, Satur- Sunday; Buffalo, d Rapids, Sunday. are being arranged , Monday, Chicago, De- troit, Dulith, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Prominent speakers will ad- dress the meetings. at Sunday; Other mee \ ) g class with the 4 Lett 2

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