The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY FOR THE ORGANIZATI UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY WORKER FIGHTS: N OF THR Vol. IV. No..195. | THE DAILY WW’ Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. ¥., wider the act of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, Yy mail, $600 per year, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 38 First Street, New York, HM. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 30,000 HONOR SACCO AND VANZETTI IN NEW YORK; MOSCOW WORKERS MOURN M al —___—_ | Current Events t MEMBER of the New York police t force that has been very much in « evidence recently saving the country } from the radicals, is under lock and ¥ key charged with the murder of a paymaster for a construction firm. | It must be admitted however that the suspected murderer had a noble and seek wealth. } build a home for his “fiance. Since the home is the cornerstone of mod ern civilization it would seem that the prosecution is in a fix to devise-an appropriate punishment to fit the crime. * * * jobs policeman is said to have had a good récord on the force, which may mean that he was handy with the club and quick on the draw and that he never hesit: ' on anybody he suspected of having j designs on “lawr an’ order.” After all there is not much. difference be- tween the action of this policeman who shot and robbed the man he was pledgeli to protect and that of A. B. Fall, who peddled the government naval oil reserves consigned to his care. 5 of the public wealth which the vari- ous governments are organized to protect would have their necks bro- ken most of our patriotic public ser- vants would turn their offices into high-jack joints. * * * MES: James Hastings Snowden got on the front page last Monday but it cost her $100,000, which may be a small price for the wife of the wealthy oil operator to pay for such rr plicity. The lady wore $250,000 worth of jewelry while, participatittg in the “Hampton Follies” given for the benefit of a local hospital. She still has $150,000 worth of jewelry left. No need of taking up a collec- tion for the poor thing. In “The Rising of The Moon,” a play by Lady Gregory, there is a line which reads: “The gown she wore was red with gore.” The gown worn by °Mrs. Snowden, decorated with a quarter million dollars worth of jewelry was red with the blood of thousands upon long hours to enable this parasite to appear adorned like a glittering but- terfly. eed Ts ACCO and Vanzetti were burned to death in Boston ‘because they wanted to change the world that en- ables one woman to load her body with a quarter of a million dollars worth of jewelry while millions of workingmen cannot dress properly for either,ghe heat of summer or the winter cold. This is the society that is protected by battleships, war planes, poison gas, soldiers, policemen, preachers, capitalist politicians, venal * * * A QUARTER million watched the remains of Sacco and Vanzetti being taken to the crema- torium where their bodies were turned into‘ashes. This was Boston’s farewell to the two workers it mur- dered. But the Boston that watched the procession with wet eyes is not the Boston that “directed the execu=- tioner to pull the fatal switch. nd the day will come when another Bos- ton will build a monument to Sacco and Vanzetti, on the ruins of the system that sent them to their doom, . * Te way of the doer of good deeds is often strewn with thorns. Listen to the story of Mr. Thomas Ring, a wealthy Michigan lumberman who felt. that Michigan was a fine place to make money but not an exciting place to spend it in. So he sold out his interests and left for Paris with the boodle. Ring was a case of over correction it appears. A good rotar- ian in Michigan he frequeyted the Latin Quarter in Paris and was quite popular with those who expect to be- come famous poets, painters and novelists some day, but for the mo- ment would give their gizzards for a hot meal. * * LONG came an American seulptor and approached Mr. Ring with a little ash tray which he thot would have a big sale during the American Legion convention. Ring being pa- triotic as well as good-hearted en- tered into the spirit of the thing and led the sculptor to his inn keeper, as they used to say in the good old days. Thomas being a good customer the jovial hotel man purchased two ate and drank his fill. | with the emotion of having performec (Continued on Page Four) Ring wept worthy ambition as’ an incentive to} He wanted money to} to use both} But for fear that the owners | 1 thousands of wage slaves who toiled ; editors and equally venal professors. | of workers hundred ash trays and the sculptor QUARTER MILLION WORKERS participated in the “March of he bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. : HONOR LABOR’S MARTYRS Sorrow” in Boston Sunday afternoon prior to the cremation of THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IN SOVIET asses Gather in Silence Thruout U.S. S. R. at Moment of Class War Victims’ Funeral (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | OSCOW, U.S. S.R., Aug. 29.—Yesterday Moscow presented | an inspiring sight as great crowds of workers assembled in the open squares, gardens, parks, clubs and theatres for the purpose of joining in the mournings protest meetings on the occasion of Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s funeral. | Hundreds of Saccos and Vanzettis in Jail. The orators speaking at the meetings emphasized that the’ execution of Sacco and Vaiizetti is one of the endless acts-of violence in the world-wide action of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat. The political emigrants, Comrades Bach from Latvia, and Berg from Poland, who were recently set free from the prisons of those countries de-?— for Wee clared that hundreds and thou-- Mayor Walker Flees sands of Saccos and Vanzettis'. Fyom Berlin Workers are awaiting their turn in the) gaols, in exile or at hard labor. | to Resort for Swells In Poland the number of political] prisoners alone amounts to 6,000 and} tors A his departure from Berlin wher, small Latvia is seeking £0, equal, the| vorkers greeted him with boos ond great powers by its cruelties. %. | |hisses, Mayor James J. Walker has Poland Prepares for War. |arrived here and is hobnobbing with “Three weeks ago I left Poland, exiled kings and nobles. said Berg, “and the Polish bourgeoi ‘| Mayor Walker constantly wears the { BADEN BADEN, Aug. 29. —After were making hasty war preparation§.| red cross decoration given to him by (Continued on Page Five) | ‘President Hindenburg at Berlin. ATTEND THE STARLIGHT PARK JAMBOREE AND | | ANSWER THE ATTACKS OF WOLL AND SIGMAN! TO ALL WORKERS OF NEW YORK: (A call fo the workers of New York from the Joint Defense and * Relief Committee). | “Workers of all trades! Again the Joint Defense and Relief Committee | has to™eall on you to support it in its future activities. Up till now} | every call of the Joint Defense has been answered by you and only due! | te your active support did we- succeed in repelling all the attacks of the | Sigman, McGrady clique upon the organized workers of the needle trades. | | The affairs that the Joint Defense Committee is arranging are not} | for the purpose of enjoyment only; they are for the purpose of raising | funds to carry on the fight and support the families of those who were \imprisened due to the frame-ups of the betrayers of the working class. 7 You have made good’ the losses that the Joint Defense has had due’ to rain at the Coney Island Stadium Concert and you showed up in large masses to the postponed concert at the last minute. You will have to make good also the losses that the defense committee has suffered due to the rain last Sunday, August 28th. ‘ The expenses for this affair are between 9 and 10 thousand dollars. The money was borrowed and is to be repaid; the families of the im-| prisoned workers are waiting for their checks. We have to pay them. Money is also necessary to begin an offensive against the reaction- aries of the needle trades and to begin an organization drive to bring back shops to the union. YOU MUST SUPPORT US IN THIS! i Whatever your plans may be for next Saturday, whether you want to go to camp or hiking or to any. other place you must postpone it until | Sunday, You must show up to the Starlight Park on Saturday, September 3rd, to make the affair a large success so that the Sigman clique will not be able to celebrate the losses of the Joint Defense Committee. Remember! You must be at Starlight Park and >ring your friends!) JOINT DEFENSE AND RELIEF COMMITTEE, CLOAKMAKERS AND FURRIERS. ~ | 4 ION MOURN FOR SAGCO, VANZETTI TFaller’s Advise Dies As 300,000 Workers in | | | Boston Protest Murder BOSTON, Aug. 29.—Following| the protest of 300,000 workers here | | yesterday against the murder of}, Sacco and Vanzetti, Charles Sum-| ner Smith, senior member of the} Governor’s Council, died from| | shock. \{ Smith, a big banker, was one of| | the laders of the pack that howled| | for the blood of Sacco and Van- | zetti. ~e POLICE ATTACK WORKERS MARCH ON CITY HALL ‘Procession Follows the Union Sq. Memoria! Scores of workers were fiendishly beaten andewomen and babies tram- pled upon, when a squad of police hiding in Broome St. swooped down upon 2,000 workers marching from URDERED COMRADES BRAVE HEAVY RAIN TO PAY TRIBUTE TO DEAD WORKERS AT UNION SQUARE Cheer Mrs. Sacco; Workers Sing International; Death Masks in Marble Urn In spite of continual showers, which turned into a down- |pour just as the memorial meeting opened yesterday afternoon, |more than thirty thousand New York workers filled Union Square pe pay their final tribute to their murdered comrades, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The crowd which began gathering before four o'clock was repeatedly driven to cover by the storm, but came back to the wet and muddy square each time that the skies cleared. The determination which shone in such banners as “Long Live the Spirit of Sacco and Vanzetti,” “The Memory of Sacco and Van- zetti Will Never Die,’’ was evidenced by the resistance of the throng to all brutalities of the police. They kept constantly push- ing and attempting to irritate the crowd, seeking an excuse to break up the meeting. But they were as unsuccessful as the rainy skies, and the meeting enthusiastically proceeded. Interspersed with the speaking was? the singing of the International, which| them out of the waiting ‘room. and |even away from the streets near the rose spontaneously from first one| ~~. 7 vs section then anohter of the vast crowd, | Station. Not only mounted and’ Zo9t and was part of the greeting to Mrs.| police drove ruthlessly into the crowd, Sacco after the workers had cheered|>Ut armored cars were on hand and her for nearly ten minutes. jhe bomb squad was closely watching Mrs. Sacco arrived with the party] 2 that'went on. from Boston at Grand Central at 6.10) The Boston party was met by a almost an hour later than they had; New York reception committee com- been expected. With her were Mrs. posed of Mrs. Clarina Michelson of Jessica Henderson, of the Citizens’|the Memorial Committee, Rose Pe- National Committee; Aldino Felicani,| Sotta of the International Saceo-Van- of the Boston Defense Committee;|Zetti Committee, Miss Rose Baron of Ella Reeve Bloor, and H. S. Van| the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- Valkenburgh of the International) mittee, William Weinstone of the Sacco-Vanzetti Committee. Powers| Workers (Communist) Party, Ben- Hapgood had arrived from Boston on| Jamin H. Fletcher of the I. W. W., the earlier train. Bi Polisuk of the Student Saceo- : . anzetti Committee and Leonardo Greet Committee at Station, | wisina of tha-Ttalian. Chamtbian ae » | present. time. | The cossacks hit right and left. }When some workers started to run ‘for safety the police threw their CONVENTION OF clubs at them. Many men were hit {upon the head. When they fell the PARTY TONIGHT <=: continued to hit them on the back and other parts of the body. s + eee Beat Young Mother. Several women were victims of the . | Communist Mass Meet jctice brutality. Mrs. Marie Pre- at Central Opera House | vinzio wh was standing by her door | step with her baby was knocked down ; 4 Pi |by the police. The baby was saved Go opens lect eas | tom injury by the mother letting opis eemecredr in. thin city aoa! herself fall to protect her child. Mrs. tically all the prominent members of Celia Katillio, an elderly woman the Workers: Party will attend ‘and | S2inted when the police started their many of them are in™ town at the (Continued on Page Five) 8 p. m. Among the speakers will be} U.S, REFUSES TO rie TARIFE INCREASE The meeting will not be one of the} usual sort of welcoming meetings, | where everyone repeats the same old’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — The slogans, but will deal with the press-| State Department will resist any at- ing problems that face labor at this| tempt on the part of China to put a time, including the major question of! program for tariff autonomy into ef- Tonight a mass meeting to cele-| brate the opening of the Fifth Con-} vention will be held at Central Opera) House, 67th St. and Third Ave., at} © FE | Union Square to City. Hall after the a i jend of the memorial meeting yester-/ day evening. More than 5,000 workers had’ gath- ered in the station to greet her and her companions, in spite of the fact no mass delegation had been planned. |Labor. They were escorted out of a | special entrance at 45th Street and | Vanderbilt Avenue and there the Boston and New York groups* took the new threat of world war, the les- sons of class collaboration, the fight against imperialism. Other questions will be the labor party, the organiza- tion of the unorganized, the drive for recognition of the Soyiet Union and the tight to get the armed forces of American imperialism out of China. N.Y. Democratic Confab | in Albany on Sept. 29 ALBANY, Aug. 29.~The voters of New York state at the next election will act on the second largest num- ber of proposed amendments to the state constitution presented for con- sideration. But that is not being considered. to any large extent, all interest being centered in the demo- cratic party convention thit will open | ‘here on September 2. All! local. poli- ticians are waiting for its opening L. LANDY, Manager, ~~ | a 4 | | | | | with eagerness. fect this fall, it was learned today. The legation at Peking and the con- sular offices thruout southern China have been sent instructions to lodge “strongly-worded protests” against any increase of tariff duties. State Department officials, refuse to say what action would be taken if the State Department’s “protest” proved unavailing. Despite repeated promises made by the United States and the provisions of the Washington treaties for in- creased customs duties, the State De- partment will resist taxes that are so “high as to work hardship upon Amer- ican firms shipping goods into China. * * * _ Nanking Forces Defeat Sun. SHANGHAI, Aug. 29. — The mili- tarist. feudal forces commf@nded by Sun Chuan-fang are being driven back by the Nanking troops, according to reports received here. They crowded the lower waiting room to capacity and a dramatic tenseness pervaded the crowd as they waited for the ashes which they expected to F arrive at any minute. | They arrived just as a heavy rain But half an hour before the delayed | Started, but in spite of it Mrs. Saeco Boston group arrived, the police be-| mounted the central platform and gan dispersing the watchers, driving (Continued on Page Two) jautos and went direct to Union | Square. Brave Heavy Downpour. VICIOUS ANTI-LABOR CAMPAIGN OF AMERICAN LEGION EXPOSED Here are a few examples of the vicious anti-labor activities of the American Legion whose convention on September 19th the French workers are fighting to bar from Paris. They are taken from “Professional Pa~- triots,” edited by Norman Hapgood and published by Albert and Charles Boni, BEAT UP_NON-PARTISAN LEADERS. “At Great Bend where a Farmers’ Non-Partisan League~meeting was scheduled, four speakers on the way to it were beaten up, two of them tarred and feathered. The men who were beaten and tarred were J. O. Stevic, editor of the Non-Partisan Leader, Carl Pearson, a veteran of the World War, while ex-Senator Burton of Kansas and George Wilson of Oklahoma who were together in the car were forced to get out of the country.” BREAK UP LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING. “At Wilkes-Barre a Lenin memorial meeting conducted by the Workers (Communist) Party was broken up at the point of rifles by a crowd of Legion men who marched from their hall for that purpose, and who forced the audience to leave the hall and salute the American flag. The action of the local post was backed by others thruout the country who wired their approval.” STOP DEBS MEETING. “The Legion specialized in stopping socialist meetings addressed by Eugene V. Debs, concerts by Fritz Kreisler and showings of a’ film depict- ing conditions in Russia entitled the “Fifth Y bas HALT ANTI-WAR CONFERE E. “The Legion chapter at Concord, Mass., attempted in June, 1926, to prevent the New England Fellowship of Youth from holding a conference there. Eggs, stones and stink bombs were reported among the missiles used without avail in this Legion-inspired attempt to intimidate college students interested in peace.” - OTHER “PATRIOTIC” ACTIVITIES. “Other ‘patriotic’ activities of the Legion have been to oppose amnesty for federal and state political prisoners, convicted solely for expressions of opinion during the war; anti-radical propaganda in the public schools through contests for prizes for essays against radicalism; co-operation with the United States Bureau of Education in an anti-chauvinistie pro- gram for American Education Week in 1924.” TRY TO BREAK PASSAIC STRIKE. “The most recent strike-breaking effort of the Legion occurred in Pas- saic, New Jersey, in the winter and spring of 1926. The local Legion post opened a ‘relief store’ to discourage picketing by giving food to workers ee stayed off the picket line.” ne nate AGAINST \ War, The Sacco-Vanzetti Murder, Class Colla’ tion, “mperialism, & Capitalism, ~ DEMONSTRATE — 5 a Welcome The Fifth Party Convention Tonight at 8 p. m. Central Opera House, (7th St & Third Ave PEAKERS: ¥OR The Recognition of the Soviet Union, ‘The Chinese Revolution, Organi- zation of the Unorganized, Labor Party, Powerful Fighting Unions, For a Workers’ d Farmers’ Government. + pee omen r= Jay Lovestone, Ben Gitlow, Earl Browder, William Z. Foster, James P..Cannon and Max Bedacht and others. vey ADMISSION 50 CENTS ~ Two Workers Killed in ‘Broadway Limited Crash PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 29.—Two enginemen were killed and two other members of the crew injured, one | seriously, when the Broadway Limit- led, fast Chicago to New York train |was wrecked this morning just east |of Gallitzen Tunnel, 12 miles west of | Altoona, Pa. , | ‘The train was being pulled by two locomotives and the lead engine left | thetreck. / |