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| ii THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. AUGUST 26, 1927 at-2°P.. Mi, SUNDAY, AUSUST 28, ALL DAY, Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Music = Open Air Opera Carmen — All Star Cast—at 8 P. M. For the Benefit of the Joint Defense Committee and the Brave Fight Cloakmakers. of the Furriers and JAMBOREE HUNDREDS OF WONDERFUL ATTRACTIONS PLAN MASS MEM ORIAL FOR SACO, VANZETT AT BOSTON ON SUNDAY Thousands of Workers to Follow Bodies of Labor’s Martyrs to Crematory BOSTON, Aug. shoulders of friends next Sund mation. Thousands of workers are expected to follow the coffins at that time de- spite the fact that only 200 “official” mourners. are permitted by a city or- dinance in the absence of a permit to parade. Police -Bully Hall-Owners. Police here have succeeded in in- timidating owners of halls from rent- ing a place whore the bodies of the two murdered men could -be-viewed. Meanwhile, a constant stream of workers gathered at the little under- taking shop of Joseph Lagone on Hanover street today to pay tribute to the framed-up ims. Seores of workers were from near- by cities and towns, and hour by hour the gathering grew in size. Guards, of Honor ChoSen. Police were ealled to the little funeral chapel to keep workers from demonstrating. Day and night guards of honor |Veterans, which has as officers none |"@¢é- Then there will be relay races,|hai, was captured today by General} .—The bodies of Nicola Saveo and Bartolo. | co S meo Vanzetti will be carried thru the streets of Boston on the /Sion ofthe Boro Park Workers Club fternoon prior to their cre- COMMON SOLDIERS QF GREAT WAR IN AN ORGANIZATION, \Protested Execution of |” Sacco and Vanzetti - CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 25.—The. re- actionary American Legion attacks Sacco and Vanzetti for their working | class “actions, and approves of. their ; execution, but the American Legion | does not vepresent the rank and file of the veterans of-the World War. The common soldiers have forme: | an organization, ‘the United America: Jamboree Next Sunday for the Joint Defense U. §. FLAGSHIP SHELLS CHINESE TOWNS ON RIVER ‘No Attempt to Discover How Many Killed (Continued from Pag opera tickets One) limited, should be. bought in advance. Workers Clubs To Participate. All the workers clubs of New York will help in the work of the mass car- nival. Every club will have its own concessions. The principle conces- y of | will W 2 the skooter. The Downtown Club will have the shooting , the Venetian canals and the Ke SHANGHAI, Aug. 25.—American | galle: naval officers, who have been having {house of nonsense. All membe a dull-time since their slaughter of ele clubs are® requested to r r| Chinese at Nanking, had a little ree- jat the Headquarters if they wish to! reation yesterday when the U.S. S. erve on any committee. All com- Isabel, flagship of Admiral Hough, mittee members are to be at the park delib: ely ran into a battle between not later than 9 a. m. Sunday morn-/the } ing army and the army of jing, where they will be assigned to/Sun Chuan-fang: These two bodies york. of tro were firing across the river, The Bronx Workers Club will take|and bullets hit the bel, which then charge of the entrance to the arena.|fired into densely populated villages Other. clubs will be announced short-|/on both sides with its heavy arma- ment. The number of Chinese killed mployment Bureau. |is not known. No invéstigation was All workers who want to serve on|made. One American sailor is said committees will-be able to register atjto have been wounded. the employment bureau from which| With the northern troops of Gen- all assignments for work will be|eral Sun Chuan-fang only 50 miles | made. from here today, a battle for the pos- |. Among other features at the jam-|session of Shanghai, prize customs- |boree will be an athletic carnival to| collecting port in China, appeared im- |start at 10 a.m. Some of the events, minent, with both land forces and the |that have been arranged are; Potato| Chinese nayy participating. f ‘aces, three legged races, sack race,) Tungchow, a river port on the at man’s race, bald headed man’s| Yangtse River, 50 miles from Shang- The E were ‘chosen from among workers| who were officers in the army, and is | S0¢cer game between two teams of Cheng Chun-yeen, commander of Sun to stand at attention at the head of each bier. Can't Get Hall. The little funeral parlor had to be used because the committee in charge was balked by the Massachusetts murderers in every attempt to hire a hall for the purpose. The bodies awill remain in the chapel until Sunday afternoon. At that time a speaker of national prominence will deliver a funeral oration. Workers Pour Into Boston. From the chapel the bodies will be conveyed to North End Park, from which will start across the city a “march of sorrow.” Later, following cremation, the ashes of Sacco will be turned over to his -widew.. The.ashes of Vanzetti will be carried to New York and thence home to Italy by his sister, under present tentative plans. A tour of the country by a delegation carry- ing the ashes of both was still under discussion. \Extra police details today were or- dered out for Sunday afternoon as a large influx of workers from sur- rounding cities and towns was €x- pected to view the funeral procession: It was announced today that the Harvard Medical School has the brains of Sacco and Vanzetti. 4 * * * Writes to Prof. Dana. _ In a letter to Prof. Dana of the new School of Social Research in New | York city, Vanzetti, just twelve hours before he died, said the thing ,he wished more than all/ else was that “our case and our fate may be un- derstood in their real being and serve as a tremendous lesson to the forces of freedom—so that our suffering and death will not have been in vain.” New York Federation of Labor Elects Old Slate Again (Continued from Page One) on the convention by president John Sullivan. An open court hearing with | was closely guarded in the Royal | foundation for the report of a secret | hoth sides represented before a tem-/Sinaia Palace today to prevent his|"@¥¥ agreement existing between | porary injunction is granted is asked | exposure to the dangers of infantile Great Britain and Japan, as exposed hy the state ‘body, following the pro- posal of the American Federation of Labor, Sullivan said:” “Legal authorities tell me that the granting of injunc- tions as it has beer done in the past js a usurpation of power on the; part of the judges, and our own_investi- gation has shown that a majority of |. the injunctions have been issued on false affidavits.” Old Party Politics. * Half the members of the state in- dustrial survey commission, all but one of whom are republicans, have ad- dressed the convention. Several tried to swing the labor federation from its opposition to fouryear terms for state officials, elections to come in presi- dential,campaign years, The state federation members are predominant- ly democratic. The survey commis- sion takes credit for the 49 and one- half hour law passed by the last legis- lature instead of the 48-hour law for women sponsored by the state federa- tion. “ » Arthur MacDonald asked aid for the organization of upstate mill workers in the United Textile Workers Union, Patrick Shea, otganizer for the Amal- gamated Assn. of Street & Electric |) Railway Employes, reported on the New York city subway situation. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT ‘senate floor leader, for, president” THE NEWSSTANDS’ ~~{ublican State Central Committee. j trade union in its composition. This j; organization protested the electrocu- |tion of Saceo and Vanzetti. Rabi Buchley Took Relief Money, Trial Evidence Indicates The trial of Dx Samuel Buchler, former State Deputy Attorney Gen- eral, who is charged with perjury, was continued before Federal Judge! Harry B. Anderson, here y sterday. | Most of the time’ thi¢ morning was | taken up with the reading by Assis-| tant United States Attorney David! \w. Peck, of the testimony given by) |the defendant bef the federal grand jury prior to his indictment. According to the testimony read,, Buchler admitted having collected $40,000 thru the sale of lead pencils} in the mails for the relief of Jews in. Transylvania. Buchler only, turned over--$15,000 to the relief organiza-| tion claiming that he used the , bal- ance of the money for expenses. Mechanic Blactrocated |... While He Is at Work Walter Hanson, 30, of 60th St., Bay | Ridge, Brooklyn, a skilled mechanic, | ea killed yesterday when the cur- | rent from high tension wires of the | New York and Queens Electric Light | Company wire at 90th and Flushing Aves. Jamaica, Queens, passed | through his body as a cable he was! handling on the roof of the new Y. | M.C. A. building at that point brush- | ed against him. { Infantile Paralysis in| Rumania;King Guarded. BUCHAREST, Aug. | Michael, infant ruler 25, — King of Roumania, | paralysis, an’-cpidemie of which is | vavaging the Roumanian capital. | Twenty children were known to be | dead and ‘130 others in Bucharest thave been stricken with the disease, it was stated. Army Cripples Another Flier. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — An} army airplane, carrying mail to Presi- dent -Coolidge at the Summer White | | House at Rapid City, S. D., crashed | this morning near Bridgeport, Ne-| braska, according to a message re-| jceived this afternoon by the post of- | | fice department from the relay point at North Platte. The message stated the pilot, Lieut. Daniels was “seriously injured,” and | | his companion, Sergt. Barlow had both | legs broken. Brazil Non-Stop Flight. Sh BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. 25,—Paul Redfern, young Georgian “aviator, made ready today to hop off on a non-stop flight of 4,150 to 4,600 miles, to Rio De Janeiro, Pernambuco or some other point on Brazilian soil. | 4 Kansas’ Favorite Son, ¥ TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 25.—A call to Kansns Republicans to unite “to fight ‘or the candidacy of Charles Curtis, was, issued here today by Seth G. Wells, chairman of the Kansas Re- |ted States army instructor assigned ‘to train the (camp here in a sweeping reduction) |girls. For the first time in New|Chuan-fang’s eleventh army, who is | York two girl teams will oppose each|now reported to be planning an at- jother. A great time is assured. The| tack on Liuho as the start of his, ad- Czechoslovak, Hung: n, Scandin-| vance overland on Shanghai. avian, tne Young Workers and many | The Nanking forces have 9,000 other workers’ sport organizations'troops concentrated at Liuho, and will participate. | were rushing reinforcements \there to- The many concessions taken over by \day. the Defense Committee will bear placard of the committee. Every- body is urged to patronize these con- | cessions. | Admiral Sells Out. General Chow Feng-chi, former Sun Chuan-fang commander who turned Nationalist, has switched sides % * * again and so has Admiral Yang Shu- The following named are requested|chwang, commander of the nineteen to call at the office of the Defense, Nanking warships. Yang Shu- 41 Union Square, Room 714 at once;|¢chwang is reported to have sold out I. Beck, Sam Morowitz, M. Reishow-|to the northerners for $500,000. sky, Louis Weiss, H. Fishkin, Sarah eee Fei in, B. Weinstein and Frieda Weinstein, : Another Earthquake. LONDON, Ang. 25.—Ten persons were injured today by an éarthquake ‘which damaged a section of the city Japanese Get Realism saa. _ of Tsinan, China, rdnig to a Cen- Into War Pragctite; (fui News dispetch fom Tokyo. Kill 118 Naval Men Srey ee a Two Thousand Raincoat TOKYO, Aug. 25.—One hundred ‘ i and eighteen Japanese sailors are Makers m Boston Walk missing in the smash-up of four war- | ships during night maneuvers, official bulletin disclosed today. BOSTON, Aug. 25.—More than 2,- Ninety members of the crew andj000 raincoat makers, a majority of the commander of the Destroyer Wa-|them women, responded to a strike rabi were ‘officially reported lost |:call. in sixty. local shops today. when the Warabi sank to the bottom | The strike was to enforce demands after colliding with the Cruiser Jintsu. \for a wage increase averaging from Twenty-seven hands on the Destroyer | 90 to 25 per cent and a renewal of the Ashi were also unaccounted for and | 42-hour week agreement. are feared to be dead in the collision | of the Ashi with the Battleship Naka. | On board the Naka was Imperial | Prince Fushimi, He was saved. theh third time in as many nights, The double collision is believed to | Captain Frank Courtney was forced have occurred during maneuvers in ato postpone his trans-Atlantic flight smoke screen early today. The dis- | this evening when his Dorfiel Whale aster halted the naval exercises off | failed to rise from the i u seaplane Mihozeki. water. Madang made three attempts e to get the machine into the air-but without result. Returning to land, Kellogg Insists There “ 3 Courtney would not make any deci- Is No Naval Agreement | sion as to when he would again make Between Britain, Japan °°" Courtney Again Postpones. Flight. CALSHOT, England, Aug. 25.—For WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — Te Gale Delays Six Ships tate department cy t state department today i: dl e | and 170 Passengers usual official denial that there is any | Six passenger vessels from Euro- pean cities were delayed by a gale today in a story printed in the Wash- | that swept the coast for 26 hours. ington Post. | The ships carried a total of 1,700 ORLY Sot Ne BRO | passengers, and about 500 officers Army Reduces Drill Staff. |and crew. No mishaps were reported. PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Aug. 25.—| Colonel Adolphe Bucuet, senior Uni- New York National Guard in military tactics, is among! the officers who have left the state of the staff drill masters on duty. Five Die in Gasoline Fire. NORWALK, 0., Aug. 25.—Five persons were dead here today, as the | © result of an explosion in the home of Homer Hicks, in Greenwich, near here Wednesday night. The explosion eccurred when Mrs. | Hicks is said to have used gasoline in a coal oil stove, | | A Workers’ Co-optrative SUMMER RESORT in White Rock Mts. WINGDALE, N. Y. All: conveniences; all sports; hiking; fishing; rowing; swim- ming; dancing; amusements, FOR REGISTRATION AND IN- FORMATION: “Prejheit” Office 2 to 8 P. M, 135 Lexington Ave,, Unity House, and Harlem Co-op- erative House, 1786 Lexington Avenue, New York City, . BUSSES leave Codperative House, 1786 Lexington Ave., cor. 111th St, Saturday at 1:30 and Fridays at 6:30 P.M, Ten Dead In Formosa Quake. _ LONDON, Aug. 25.—Ten persons were killed and many were injured today in a severe earthquake in Southern Formosa which destroyed some 200 houses, according*to a ¢en- tral news dispatch from Tokyo. Sing Sing Officials Find Boat. OSSINING, Aug. 25.—Acting War- den John Sheehy reported today that the stolen rowboat, in which Harry Nelson apd Joseph Shedosky made a daring escape from Sing Sing last week, has been found on the west shore of the Hudson River. ~~ ” were killed and a hundred or more! Out for Higher Wages) ~ PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY | { | STARLIGHT PARK, 177TH ST. EAST Press Experts to City ‘Housit g Bill —— Fight Over Right Passed by Estimate } | ' | jthe Joint Defense affair at Starlight }Park at 10 a, m. We need com ; ‘to serve on committees. Arti ‘food should be donated, delicat i, ‘cial | meats, bread and cakes. Notify Joint | NoP-officia Defense Committee, 41 Union Square. Volunteers wanted to sell the, Sac- GENEVA, Aug. 25.—The figh eal news agenc is feared is an attempt by al or governmental news oft lcies at establi ng 4 nop co-Vanzetti memorial cartoon book rae Soo An dts dae and The DAILY WORKER at the ip Mice ted spare ¥ es. Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meeting.|* a ssion of the int experts when M. ented to the confer-| “ conference of pr ’| Koenigsberg pr ked by Heck- Report at local office, Daily W 108 Kast 14th street, at 6 p. m. fore the meeting. }ence the draft of a substitute resolu-| | “aed ‘tion concerning property rights in| the bill Rooms Wanted. ba haces i inteerst Rooms wanted for comrades }to} !5!8 draft, which the independent ‘i i ; > agencies sted to Mr. Koe stay during convention time. Inquire te sige? deat a ° - eee at Workers’ School if you can put} oe ‘dee ahi oe subs : u jup one or mote comrades free, of | ‘7° ° Up By tne. secre t | the League of Nations, at the in | charge. Ten more comrades from the of the official név their affiliated agenci pendent agencies d ; i agence anthracite coming. Ag | x | ATTENTION SECTION ONE! | AN Agitprop directors and unit! correspondents of Section One are} urged to attend a special meeting tonight, at 51 East 10th St., at 6 p. m. sharp. Two very important matters con- | cerning the success of our open air} | meetings and the special section issue | of The DAILY WORKER will be} taken up. | mono- al agencies. te a Eighth Ave. Real Estate Men Start Campaign Eighth A an effc propert arrest of salesmen The Eighth / recommended that dermen y help them put feet. Belgian Police Use Swords and Trample Protesting Workers te interests In of the r the ewalk ve. red gsociation has Board of Al- * * * } Help Wanted At Once. j Volunteers who can devote some} |time to the Workers Party campaign | $ | should report to Comrade Fralkin at BRUSSELS, Aug. —Belgian po- | the District Office, 108 East 1th St.|lice with drawn swords charged a | The work is very important and must | procession of 2,000 workers who were be attended to at once. ; protesting against the electrocution | eo |of Sacco and Vanzetti in the center ‘of Brussel esterday. ‘The marchers 'Harlem Fire Endangers Workers in Tenement { Labor Organizations | were proceedifg from a meeting held} ° Workers livin the four-story | - junder the auspices of the Sacco and| tenement buildi 82 East 109th | Anti-Fascist Picnic. | Vanzetti Committee when the police | St. narrowly escaped death | The feminine group of the West| Made their attack. The defenseless! terday morning when flar and Side Branch of the Anti-Fascist Al-| Workers, men and women, were liance will hold a picnic for the bene- | ttampled or beaten with the swords fit of Italian political prisoners Sun- | @nd clubs, but reformed and attemp- |day, September 18 at Lemans Park,| ted to finish their protest during the | North Bergen, N. J. night. smoke rapidly spread thru the flimsy building. When ings immed the vered iven and d to the street, injured in ex- Two ustaining Fund'''tinguishing the is NOTICE TO ALL OUR READERS * E Soccer League Meets Monday. Keep Up the The next meeting of the Metropoli-| tan Soccer League will be held Mon-| day, 8 p. m. at 854 Jackson Ave., the) |Bronx. All soccer clubs and other or- | ganizations who have soccer teams |should send two delegates to this} DAILY, WORKER, 33 First Street, New York City. N. Y. i ee ae ae, | Ask your dealer to increase his order if he is selling out. Furriers’ Nominations. Fc Kel ton at Ss Seageee a WP CBSE Ey tots RRS Raa oeia Fuge) Nominations for all paid and un-! paid; officers otethe' “Fortiers gotagey Address. oo eesti eves cee eens cseeke scans trate bseuegaba cena tan Board will be made at meetings of} the four locals next Thursday, 8 p. m. PGrOngh sic cbatnd saa ve ba a ue All nominations will be made from! Wants...) 6356: more copies of The DAILY WORKER the floor. This will be the first and! only opportunity for nothinations, | RRMOUSON TOE Fen a Unt e sss ekier Aca ue wate y Hes shines os Oe Local 1 will meet at Royal Hall,![ 4 qaress : 185 Bast Fourth St Local 6 at Man: | Fe ah a ICLP EL AeA Or ea hattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., ORG 5: 5 ARMA s MAW Gone Gale cohen Local 10 at Stuyvesant Casino, Sec- ond Ave. and 9th St. and Local 15 at} = Astoria Annex, 62 East Fourth St. | NATIONAL BAZAAR DAILY WORKER and FREIHEIT | } | Will Be Held ip Patronize Our Advertisers. | || Madison Square Garden -- October 6, 7,8 and 9th Organizations and mdividuals are urged to IMMEDIATELY COLLECT ARTICLES for sale at the Bazaar. This affair is being held in the biggest hall in the world. “Enormous quantities of articles are required. 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