The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 6

ted 7 —— MANY WORKERS HELD IN JAIL AS AMERIGAN LEGION COMES Charge Poincaré Government Plans More Drastic Measures 1 Police Seek to Terrorize Pa PARIS, Aug. 28.—While the frightened Poincaré gov- ernment is doing everything in its power to counteract the | fury of the French workers against the celebration for the | American Legion in Paris, it is pursuing a policy of ruthless | terrorism against all workers as a result of the Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrations here last week. | THOUSANDS HELD ON FAKE CHARGES. Orders to hunt down radical! working men and their leaders relentlessly have been issued to the French secret | service by Albert Sarraut, the minister of the interior. | Hundreds of workers have been seized merely for the pos- | session of weapons or for having identification papers which the French police declare to be invalid. Thousands of work- | ers in the provinces are being hunted out and arrested on charges of being “foreign agitators.” | It has been announced that the government is contem- plating still more drastic action against the workers in the near future. The raids against the French workers are part | of the same campaign which is being conducted against the leaders of the French Communist Party and its organ, | ’Humanite, whose acting editor, Vaillant-Couturier, is now | threatened with imprisonment on a charge of inciting to} y riot during the recent Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrations. POLICE INFEST PARIS. The Communist Deputy, Marty, who is now serving a term in solitary confinement deprived of all privileges, for alleged attempts to cause mutiny among the soldiers, will also be prosecuted again under the new offensive. | Police terrorism is visible on the streets as hundreds | of armed mounted and foot gendarmes patrol the boule- | vards. The United States embassy is still heavily guarded, | and every measure is being taken to prevent the flight of | the American tourists from Paris which was threatened after the first Sacco and Vanzetti processions. Special precautions are being taken to make the stay of the American Legion comfortable. President Poincare has announced that he will attend most of the Legion cere-| monies altho he had originally planned to be present only | at the official dinner of reception. A group of officers important in the American Legion, headed by James Barton, national adjutant, have laid a wreathe oz the grave of France’s unknown soldier as a final touch to the “purification” farce which followed the framed up “desecration” by the Reds during the Sacco and Van- zetti demonstration. YOUTH INTERNATIONAL CALLS ON ALL WORKERS TO STRUGGLE Brands Yellow “Leaders” Who Aided Mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 28.—The Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Young Communist Interna- tional has issued the following appeal to the young toilers of the world: U. S. DEMOCRACY IS DICTATORSHIP. “Face the mighty volume of world wide protest against American imperialism for the murder of Sacco and Van- zetti. This despicable travesty of American “justice” is a clear lesson to all workers of the true nature of American democracy. It exposes the democratic rule of the United States as nothing but the relentless brutal dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Only the overthrow of capitalist rule and the establishment of working class power can prevent a recurrence of the cases of Sacco and Vanzetti. “Preparation for the overthrow of capitalist rule is the first lesson of this execution. In preparation for an open onslaught on the Soviet Republic, the bourgeoisie are try- ing feverishly to stamp out all active proletarian defenders of the Socialist fatherland in the capitalist countries. The bourgeois prisons are full of working class f: ighters among whom are the flower of the Communist youth movement. The reaction gathers more victims in its claws. YELLOW “LEADERS” MURDERERS, TOO. “The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is the signal for the fascist murderers of the whole world to strengthen | their tyrrany. The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti is a blow against the whole working class. It is the beginning of fresh persecutions and thereforé hundreds of thousands of workers have shown their determination to fight the class justice of their rulers. This was made possible by the as- sistance rendered the American murderers by the yellow reformist “leaders” of the American working class whose noble example has worthily followed the leaders of the Amsterdam and the Socialist Internationals of Europe. “For this reason, a mighty protest of the workers of all | countries must be a declaration against those “leaders” whose championship of ‘electric chair democracy’ and their |. refusal to organi~ Aolutionary mass action was respon- sible for Sacer" vanzetti’s deaths. --@HT FOR CLASS PRISONERS, “Spontaneous demonstrations by the workers of all! countries must be the beginning of a mass campaign against class justice and for the release of all class prisoners. ris as Thousands 1 Are Seized AT THE BIER OF SACCO AND VAN ee A countless stream of workers passed the bodies of the two slain workers as they lay in the un- dertaking parlor of Joseph Lagone in the north end of Boston. The room was deluged with flowers brot by the mourners. ZETTI | { | | WORKERS HONOR SACCO AND VANZETTI remains. bodies could lie in state. Since the bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were taken to the undertaking parlor of Joseph Lagone in the north end of Boston, over 40,000 workéfs are estimated to have viewed their A conspiracy by the Boston police department made it impossible to obtain a large hall where the Owners of halls in the city were warned not to rent their establishments. By JAY LOVESTONE. HE mass pressure of the American and European working classes on-| ly could delay but not paralyze the} hands of the Massachusetts murder-} ers. If-only the American proletariat} were more powerful, Sacco and Van- zetti would be alive today. It would be foolhardy to consider the Sacco and Vanzetti case only as an incident involving the lives of two workers. The issues-are far deeper. The fight has been not of individuals against the judges or a governor. The Sacco-Vanzetti campaign has been a fight of class against class. It has symbolized with painful clarity the methods, the ruthlessness, the en- ergy, workers. The courts, the executives, ants of imperialism, every wheel and rod of the whole governmental ma- chinery of oppression “have -been thrown into wildest motion against two workers because they were ene- |mies of the capitalist class. Due to {the fact that the agitation aroused jover this case in time developed is- |sues of deep-going, fundamental class Murdered -- le the determination with which} our capitalist class is fighting the i ¢ the press, the church, the labor lieuten-| - But Not Forgotten! French Town Council ¥ Orders .Street Named for Sacco. and Vanzetti “ae | PARIS, Aug. 28. — The town! | couneil of Montreuil, has ordered | | the first new street constructed | | within its limits to be named for | Sacco and Vanzetti. The red flag! | over the mayor’s house has been | | flown at half mast since the mur- | der by order of the municipal coun-\| cil and will. be. continued so for eight days. Montreuil is a town in| the so-called “eordon rouge,” the belt of the red workers’ villages hich encircle Paris on all sides. | | First and foremost we must revolu- tionize the trade unions. <A mighty | revolutionary trade union movement |eould have dealt the heaviest body- | blows to the Fullers, Thayers, and the other murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti. | If we had had a mighty mass labor | party, the Coolidges and the Harvard! | professors would not have dared play | relations, even. such>“liberal”’ bour- geois as Borah, Holmes, and Brandeis lined up with the state-paid killers, | When it is a question of the last re- |sort of the capitalist class as a class the petty-bourgeo’ under manifold | pretense and covered phrases, dseert the enemies of the big bourgeoisie and line up with the big- gest capitalists against the exploited }masses and their champions. #7) % HAT is the lesson of it all? We must build a monument to the memories of Sacco and Vanzetti. It must not be a memorial of stone. It must not be a lifeless tribute to} valiant fighters of the proletariat. * |actionary, hangmen, the role they did in the execution. of | Sacco and Vanzetti. The American workers need a labor party and need! jit soon, | Canee aed against the proletariat as a class, then| FHRUOUT: the campaign, the Com-jlabor party, a giant: International La- munists. and the Left Wing, the } by barren | revolutionists and the militants, have! ty--this is the monument we must been the shock troops against the re- A virile mass} |International Labor Defense Council! THE PRIZ. By HENRY REICH, JR, (The brains of Bariolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco were removed | ‘and sent to Harvard University—News item.) The revolutionary class struggle is the best and most fitting monument | to the martyrs. A powerful revolu- | tionary movement is the monument, we must build to Sacco and Vanzetti. * The State has had its vengeance. They are dead. . Yet stay! One more Their bodies having slain, is the best guarantee for saving the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign from many errors caused ‘by the pressure of an- archists and so-called socialists, and for organizing huge demonstrations and protest - movements. to cripple the capitalist justice dispensers. Build- ing the International Labor Defense is building an auspicious monument to Sacco and Vanzetti and the best insurance against the recurrence of murder of workers. But it is only a growing, fighting Communist party that can lead and unify the workers, exploited farming and appressed- colonial masses to vic- tory over the ruling class. It has been the Workers (Communist) Party whose membership has been. the driv- ing force in-the tremendous mass movement developed in the United States in protest against the murder- ous capitalist dictatorship. It was the Communist International“which has inspired and led the splendid demon- stration thruout the world against the bloody American — imperialist clique. Yes—let us build a towering monu- ment, a living monument, to the workers who have died so bravely be- eause they were sworn enemies of the capitalist reaction. * A REVOLUTIONARY. class strug- gle, a mighty revolutionary move- ment, militant trade unions, a mass em bor Defense, a mass Conimunist Par- build to Sacco and Vanzetti. Our martyrs were murdered. But they shall not be forgotten, most ghastly act remains. each vomrade’s head | the executioners. ? oa ized in Raids | ORLD COMMUNIST SPOKESMEN & DENOUNCE THE BOSTON MURDER (Continued from Page One) a proletarian dictatorship can we abolish the capitalist dic- tatorship and create a real Communist Society.” Remele, representative of the German Communist Party, writes in the same issue: “The heroic protest demonstrations, general strikes, mass demonstfations, resolutions and boycott against the murderous capitalists in all countries proves that the In- | ternational proletariat cannot continue longer as participant | in the rapacious domination of imperialism. The numerous | victims in different countries during the protest demon- | strations against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti prove that the rulers of all capitalist countries feel their bond with This should be a new stimulus for revo- lutionary emancipation in the fight of the proletariat of all countries.” FUNERAL NOT THE END. In another article, Maggie, representative of the Italian |Communist Youth, writes: “The bourgeoisie is mistaken in imagining that every- thing will end with the funeral of Sacco and Vanzetti, These two brave workers died revolutionaries and for the Revolu- tion’s sake. The earth which received them must be eman- cipated from the slavery of capitalism. The crime must be revenged, and the necessary conduct must be @ tenacious fight against bloody capitalism.” The powerful revolutinary wave of protest and the fight of the working masses in a united front under the leadership of the Communist Party against the murder is of tremendous significance, according to Kabachiev, repre- sentative of the Bulgarian Communist Party. WORKERS WILL OPPOSE WAR ON U.S. 5S. R. “This mighty revolutionary movement taking place in all countries,” he writes, “proves that in impending im- peralist and counter-revolutionary war against the U.S.S.R., the international proletariat will fight in a united front for the U.S.S.R., and this will inevitably result in an all-world civil war for the overthrow of the capitalist regime. CALL FOR AMNESTY. “The fascist bourgeoisie of Bulgaria supported the English and Italian imperialists and tore out tens of thou- sands of victims among the Bulgarian workers and peasants. Even now thousands of workers and peasants are confined in prison. The international proletariat should raise its powerful voice for general amnesty for political prisoners of all countries and a cessation of the regime of white terror.” “Sacco and Vanzetti Di Above the giddy whiteway chatter, Above tough Bowery’s viler clatter, Above the concentrated patter— Clamor, too—of a seething scatter— Brained New York, beneath its Gay, flaimboyant midnight sky, Rose’ a noisier, vender-cry, Emphasized with gleeful caper: “Sacco and Vanzetti die— Get yer paper.” “Yea, they've killed ’em, suxe, electro-killed ’em!... - Get yer paper—Sacco and Vanzetti die. . . . Here’s yer paper, mister .. . oh, say, mister: Change? From a measly dime? Holy blister! He’s a baldy-eagle-pinion twister! Sacco and Varizetti die— Get yer paper,” That’s the caper! “Saceo and Vanzetti die.” i. And this! the sordid cry, which rends Manhattan’s skys As midnight passes by, two tortured humans. die. oe “Get yer paper”—but, one headline is enough! Why waste a nickle on homicidal stuff? Pitiful; shrewd venders’ cry: “Sacco and Vanzetti die— Get yer paper.” Judicial attitudes had ruthless killed them. Legal-murder caper: Read your paper. While Law—the Technical—had heartless willed them Too long—too long-delayed if righteous end, With Humanism a too-belated Friend Where modern Justice dared not even lend An ear, nor ease its oft—too oft-encumbered eyes Of bandages—black statutes of the ancient Wise. ‘ Up to ultra-brilliant skies Pleasure whirls half-drunken cries, While each raucous vender tries His skill on passers by: “Sacco and Vanzetti die— Get yer paper.” Read your paper—that’s your caper— Learn the reasons why, Sacco and Vanzetti die. With free unbandaged Justice we might justly punish crime Not martyrs make of criminals, nor angels out of slime, And humanizing Honor would regard the work sublime. . |Not thrill the world with horror, as some midnight passes by When Saccos and Vanzettis may unjustly have to die. New York, 1927. \ —WILLIAM F. SAYNOR. | Let us translate our plan into more -They seize and ghoul-like loot it of its brains Specific steps. What can and must! the American workers do to make it impossible for further murders. of | workers by exploiters, by the capi- talist judges, governors, legislators | and wardens? ’ hee “Organize memorial meetings everywhere Sunday at one o'clock. Young workers of all countries, fight for the release of all clasS War prisoners. Let International Yout Day be a demonstration to signalize to the workers’ ang’ and their preparation for Working class rule.” And send them up to Harvard where in pride Sits bloody Lowell, gloating o’er his prize, Not fit to wipe the shoes of those who died ' Whose’ noble brains he takes to analyze! ) t — isl 5