The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 4

Sait’ Page Four SO nO AEB ATS TER AMES SPATS ITE LT PEORIA REE. REM THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927. THE DAILY WORKER ~ Published by the DAILY WORKE “PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, Phone, Orchard 1680 able Address: “Daiwe SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only) By Mail (outside of New York): 8.00 per year < months $6.00 per years $3.50 six months .00 three months ¢ s to THE D AIL New York, N. Y. ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DU 2} BERT MILLER... Editors ...Business Manager tered us second-class mail off 2 New Y ¥, SS. Wagectintie tates "on auslieatiol: Harvard Studies Cerebral Anatomy. Peter, semi-barbarian czar of Russia, afterwards called “the great,” decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, picked her head up in his hands and delivered a lecture on anatomy. Peter was a sac fiend who used to swing the axe over the heads of his victir 1 order to work up an appetite for break- fast. His t x” was the akomination of his day. He was spe- cially trained for his job. During his youth, spent in the streets of Moscow among the lowest criminal elements, he learned from s; afterwards he invention of new taught names to basest of iat required the his associates ‘act them new describe th But murder g or rather tha Lawrence Lc i 1s from the refined vard University in Boston, ton known as Cambridge. President A. f the three of the “advisory commit: tee” of capita keys who tried to whitewash Governor Ful- ler, Judge r and the original murder gang that conspired to| assassinate Sacco and orth at Har Newspaper 1 that the brain of Sacco is now in Harvard medical noo! | “studied.” It is useless to indulge in indignant demands as to how it got there; to ask whether it was by legal process or not. the hyenas of capitalism thing is certain, they can no longer what was once his brain that was shattered by the bolt of elec-| tricity hurled into it by the refined murderers at Charlestown prison and their associates of the Massachusetts state house and Harvard University. Capitalism knows no law but might. All| its crimes afe covered with the hypocritical cloak of legality. Perhaps these low prostitutes of Harvard, who conduct an institution for teaching the spawn of the capitalist class how to rob, murder and torture the working class are curious to learn whether the brain of a man with principles that are not for sale to the highest bidder are different from their’s and their asso- ciates’ brains. : Every act of the murderers of Massachusetts, who personify the vindictiveness of the whole capitalist class toward the work- ing class, increase the bitter, burning hatred in which intelligent workers hold the enemy class and its agents. The revolutionists must constantly remind the workers of.these atrocities in order | to fan into a red blast the flames of fury that must bring crash-| ing to the earth the whole rotten edifice of capitalism, erected |. upon soil soaked with the blood of the working clas Wilbur’s “100 Per Cent Increase” in Naval Armament. Secretary of the navy Wilbur has denied that he gave out an| interview st. ating that he would recommend to the coming session | of Congress “a 100 per cent increase” in the navy building pro- gram. Yet this statement was carried by all of the influential | Pacific coast papers and sent out by the press services. It is probable that Wi bur simply spoke out of his turn and voiced the intentions of the ts before a sufficient amount ef preparatory publicity work had been done. The Wilbur statement undoubtedly embarrassed the Cool- idge administration which is still clinging formally to its economy program and this is probably the reason for the hasty denial but} we can be sure that the sharpening of the rivalry between Britain | and America disclosed at Geneva will be utilized to the limit to| put over a huge naval program. The more open spokesmen of imperialism are already speak- | ing joyously of the possibility of authorization for 40 more} cruisers At a minimum of $12,000,000 each this will involve the tidy sum of $480,000,000. The cost of world domination is tremendous but the imperi- | alists are able to transfer it to the shoulders of the workers, farmers and the middle class. Both the capitalist parties are committed to the war program of Wall Street, both are instru- ments of the war mongers and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur | merely said what the leaders of both parties are thinking. Heavy taxation, militarization of the population, further ad- ventures abroad in conflict with other imperialist powers until a crisis arises making war inevitable—this is the future prospect for the American masses. ‘| A labor party based on a well organized and militant labor | movement is he b weapon for the struggles against this pro-| gram. Whoever is against it is an enemy of the masses and gives aid'to imperialism. Only a dolt expects anything from but the most outrageous violence. One} torture Sacco by prodding | Cossack Terror in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania state constabulary, a special corps of vi- cious thugs and gunmen, recruited from the scum of the earth, are always on the job when it comes to suppressing labor demon- | strations of any kind. Supplementing the numerous private | armies composed of creatures of a similar calibre maintained by | - the great corporations, this state police force tries to hold in| chains the slaves of the industries of that state. Riding rough-| shod over all the pretended constitutional safe-guards guaranteed | Wthabitants of this country, these marauders obey only the law 6f the coal and steel interests. Recently this police outfit has been busy suppressing dem onstrations against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The Workers in the slave pens of the Pittsburgh district realize that the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti was an attack upon the entire Working class and they meet to show their solidarity with the tens of millions throughout the world who are infuriated at the| abominable crime of Fuller, Thayer, the eminent university pro-| fessors and the rest of the Massachusetts assassins, The state cossacks, ever loyal servants of their masters, use the most vi- cious tactics to break up these demonstrations. They started a riot at Cheswick, Pennsylvania, in the Pittsburgh district the day | ufter the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, during the progress of a! demonstration. In their irresponsible rampage one of their own! number was shot—probably by another cossack. Guns, clubs and tear-gas bombs were their weapons against peaceful and defense- Ae | |less workers. |order to put a stop to the offensive against the working clas |placed the name of William Green, president of the American} | ernments. ‘class the fact that only their own paper would avail against the |mass movement and encouraging the working class to unleash |held Sunday afternoon, LUIGIA VANZETTI AND ROSE SACCO | Rose Sacco, wife of Nicola Sacco (right), and Lugia Vanzetti, sister of Bartolomeo Vanzetti. On them the blow falls heaviest. They arrested twenty workers and accused them of inciting the riot the troopers themselves had started. It is reported that they are looking for the man who shot the cossack. | Evidently they are preparing to frame-up someone. | More than ever is it now imperative that the workers start | organizational drives to create weapons of defense and offense | against the ever growing viciousness of American capitalism. The answer to these attacks must be the creation of labor | parties to challenge the political power of the oppressors and| murderers, strengthen the unions, build up the defense societies | of labor, fight for the protection of the foreign born workers in| in the United States. | Effective Defense of Victims of Class War. The manifesto of the Central Executive Committee of the| Workers (Communist) Party on the murder of Sacco and Van-| zetti by the voracious bloodhounds of capitalism carries out the} best traditions of the revolutionary movement, inasmuch as it} not only properly stigmatizes the murder crew in Massachusetts | and extends the denunciation to the national government, but also fearlessly criticizes the weaknesses, the hesitations and vacilla- tions and open treachery of the so-called labor and liberal ele- ments who did as much to send the victimseof class vengeance to their deaths as did Fuller and his murder crew. «| In the front ranks of th alleged spokesmen ‘of labor who| serve the interests of the assassins of the working class must be | Federation of Labor, who refused to use his office to aid the two} champions of the working class; those valiant Italian workers who without pay or any hope of reward except the approval of the workers among whom they toiled, fought a battle that Green and his ilk would shrink from fighting. Undoubtedly a word ;from Green would have resulted in nation-wide demonstrations that would have embraced not only the three million organized workers, but millions of unorganized. The executive council of |the American Federation of Labor had the power to stay the hand of the executioner, yet it refused to use that power for the reason that its role is that of defender of the capitalist class and as- sistant executioner of the working class. The manifesto of the Party points unerringly to the destiny of the corrupt labor bu- | reaucracy as sinking ever lower in the service of capitalism as the class struggle sharpens. Closely akin to this venal bureacracy is the officialdom of \the socialist party who resorted to the most pessimistic propa- ganda such as proposing a “day of mourning” instead of rallying the workers to a determined struggle. This sort of insipid prop- aganda became, in this case, positively murderous, as it tended to spread defeatism and despair among the ranks of the working | class. Certainly one of the greatest of all handicaps was the han- dling of the case by the liberal and anarchist elements who gained control of the Sacco and Vanzetti defense committee in Boston, and placed their hopes in legalistic juggling, while endeavoring at zll cost to appear eminently “respectable.” The manifesto of the Workers (Communist) Party declares that the only hope of the workers is to rely upon their own mass power to combat the murderous conspiracies of the capitalist gov- In the long fight for liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti it was the Communists alone who constantly kept before the working murder conspirators. Had the other defenders of Sacco and Van- zetti devoted half as much energy to aiding in stimulating this its fury against the Massachusetts butchers and the puppets at Washington we would today be celebrating the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti instead of teaching to the working class the lessons |of their martyrdom. Youngstown Workers | Party to Hold Picnic YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 26.—The | annual pienic of the Workers (Com- GET ONE NOW 14-Karat Gold Emblem munist) Party of Youngstown will be August 28th at Stop 28, Sharon car line. District Organizer I. Amter of Cleveland will be the speaker. A program of entertainment is be- ing arranged by the committee ahd | a large attendance of steel workers | is expected. ‘ | ¥-CAP T'PB $1.25 Sent by Insured Mail for $1.50 On Receipt of Money by Jimmie Higgins Book Shop 106 University Place Yerk City 5 or more $1.25 each, rge for Postage. Keep Up the Sust ||| BENEFIT OF THE JOINT Liberty in Boston To those not actually taking part in the swift moving chain of events revolving around the burn- ing of Saceo and Vanzetti, it would be difficult to comprehend and correct the complete sig- nificance of the distorte if-told stories which were blazoned in s in the capitalist press thru the The kept press of Boston with few exceptions, has gone out of it’s way, since Goy. Fuller white-washed Thayer & Co., to whet the avpetities of its readers for the approaching execution by placing side by side pictures of the martyred workers and pictures of a juror’s house which was “mysteriously” bombed last week. Police terrorism was complete in every detail, their job being to vigorously suppress every voice, be it ever so meek. that raised in protest against the carrying out of the last act in this tragic holo- caust, I was one of a group that comprised the second platoon of pickets in front of the State House. The sidewalk was lite swarmed with police both in “harness” and civilian clothes, while mounted police rode leisurely up and down the street. Hordes of newspaper reporters and camera-men made traffic difficult and the crowd which filled the north-west corner of Boston Common was rapidly growing: in size and was forced back to the center of the Com- mon by the police repeatedly. Our picket line was given the usual order to dis- perse, but being firm in the conviction that we were exercising’ our rights of peaceful persuasion as aranteed by law, we continued to move along the curbing in , determined manner holding our placards A detail of reserves swung around the corner and were loudly applauded by a group of legion- naires, just leaving the State House after going thru some form of ceremonial hocus-pocus, and in a few seconds we were pounced upon and. rushed against a stone wall. The police were ordered by their superiors to “take a good look at these people, so you will know them when you see them again,” which was followed by the nd march” to the Joy Street Station. Several times during the long walk to the jail we were cheered and applauded by sympathetic workers and liberals from Beacon Hill. The noble blue-coat who escorted me was of a questioning turn of mind. He inquired if I believed in god and on receiving an answer in the negative burst out: “That’s what the trouble is with all you people, no respect for god’s Jaws and no respect for courts.” He suggested that I should read Pope Pious’ Encyclical and learn something. I agreed on condition that he familiarize himself with the writ- ings of Marx and Engels, as I believed as two mem- bers of the ige-earning class we should share our literary views. Once lined up in the station house we were search- ed and booked and I was relieved of my copy of The DAILY WORKER by an understrapper who barked out that “papers like that don’t belong in THIS countr: While being assigned to our cells we were given rousing welcome by our fellow- workers of the first picket line. Some one raised his voice to the tune of “Solidarity Forever” and all hands responded with a vigor that made our filthy old cell-rooms ring. Meanwhile the women, par- ticular those comrades of foreign birth, were herded in the guard-room where they were forced to put up with all sorts of insults and indignities from the cops. These girls were not to be bested, however, and when asked by the “brave officers” when they were going back to “Rooshia” they were quick to reply “When is the Boston police force going back to Ireland?” More and more P kets were brot in, each new group being given the same welcome When the cheering subsided the first ques ed our newly arrived comrades was: “How of you were taken in this time and how many more are waiting to go on the li Evidently the thunder ces chanting the ‘Internati was more than our hosts could endure for three cops walked to the end of the ce orridor where they stopped for a bit and then ked out grinning sheepishly. Our noses soon discovered the. meaning of their mys- terious mission when the sickening fumes of a “stink bomb” was wafted into our close, damp cel By the way, th crime under Boston “law,” but after all weren't we only ? What difference? The ladies in the smok given a taste of chivalr: stink bomb-throw: room were also sed by Bostons’ of law and order. Perhaps this was not enough, for when several of the ladies. requested the privilege of using the toilet they were ushered into our cell room section and in plain view of the male occupants of the cells they were told to use the vile accommodations of an empty cell where all the scum of the underworld are confined. Later in the day Powers Hapgood arri 1’ up in our section. After the situation “outside” he joined 1 cheering until he was suddenly t ang patsked away te wad P. ved and was tily . outlining in singing and ken here his. cell Deriieps the “most inte: ng part of our behind the bars was the sifting out of “fellow. ’ whe were suspected of stool-pi $ f was brot in, a roll-call of each cell w: Everyone was asked to give his cell-mates, his hame, address, occupation and reason for being on tHe picket line. All were able to give a satisfactory ac- count of himself excepting one stranger on each side of the jail. These two had been busy thruout the early partiof our ,” while our bail was being arranged, in asking all sorts of trick questions, etc., and had aroused suspicions. One of these fellows was found, I was told by one of the pickets, with a gun on his person and was later observed chatting with an officer before being assigned to one of the cells, which held from four to five prisoners. When he was asked point-blank by his cell-mates, why he was in Boston, he replied, “I was sent by a certain organization to do a certain thing.” What the or- ganization was and what the “certain thing” could have been is best answered by the fact that he was nowhere to be seen when the pickets were arraignd in court Tuesday morning. After being arrested for carrying a placard on the Common. William Patterson, president of the American Negro Labor Congress, was told by the arresting officer that “thi: the first I have seen a Nigger bastard who is a Communist.” Patterson was singled out by a mounted policeman who tried to ride him down, only the fact that he, (Patterson) dodged around a tree saved him from the sharp hoofs of the horse. After being released on bail Patterson took his place on the State House picket line and soon found his way into jail where once more he was the object of the vicious race-prejudice of thick-skulled police. These are only a few instances of some of the examples of rabid fascism prevailing in Boston, they are the facts which never see the light of day in the capitalist papers until given the “proper” angle by labor-hating editors. 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