The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1927, Page 2

aes age Two SACCO - VANZETTI COMMITTEE HERE ANSWERS CHARGE Rose Baron Replies to Boston Defense rgency cretary, replying to Boston I ement Committee that the om- mittee cz > money which York Sacco-V tivities The statement in ads as fol- lows: “We would prefer not to be drawn into a controve m the question of the expenditur unds w the bodies of « r red ¢ searcely cold, cusations of the must not go ur “Our tre Robert W. Dunn, when called submitted a state- ment of our es to the Boston Commit pecific charge that | the Eme mmnvittee collected $7,000 and o sent to the Boston Committee $300 is a deliberate mis- statement of fact. On November 17 1926, our committee organized a} mass protest meeting at Square Garden and spent $6,186.21 for the rental of the auditorium, ad- vertising, printing, postage, ete. The total receipts for this occasion were $5,450.92; it will be seen, therefore, that this committee incurred a loss on the meeting of $ . Sent Them Check. “Six months thereatfter the Bos-| ton Committee being desperately in need of funds called for -help and al- though our committee only had a bank balance of about $400 at the time we mailed them a check for $300. “At the time of the Madison Square demonstration the Boston Committee had complete faith in the “mercy” of the Massachusetts courts while our committee on the other hand believed that Sacco and Van- zetti could only be saved by the united action of the workingclass Time has vindicated our attitude. The “merciful” Massachusetts courts butchered Sacto and Vanzetti in spite of Boston Defense Committee. “The Sacco-Vanzetti Committee has carried on an intense campaign for the liberation of our dead com-| Madison }| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, JESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1927 BODIES OF SACCO AND { THOUSANDS OF WORKERS passed thru the undertaking parlor in Boston in which the burned bodies j of the two martyrs lay. VANZETTI LYING IN STATE Protection | ES Harold H, Hartwell of the ¢ | Central Worcester (Massachu- | setts) District Court has set. sail | for France. | | The farewell tendered him by the judicial harlots of his home state, | now internationally notorious be- | cause of its lynching of the two workers, Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti, was affectionate in the extreme. Lynchers, es- | pecially the lynchers of workers, | stand upon the common ground of | lust for human blood. | But it-may be taken for granted that justice Hartwell will receive quite a different welcome when he lands on French soil, where the workers will recognize in him an- other connecting link between the | slaughter of Sacco and Vanzetti and | | the interests supported by the | American Legion, fascist aid of the American reaction, that has this TOR SENT SACCO AND VANZETTI VICTIMS OF CLASS HATE, SAYS MARY DONOVAN IN FUNERAL ADDRESS BOSTON, Aug. 29.—Mary Donovan, stitious fear of an emotional religion. jone of the members of the Sacco-| Their minds were blinded by their Vanzetti Defense Committee, tod lfish passion to reach Heaven. The delivered the funeral oration over the; minds of those who have killed you |bodies of the two executed men just|are not blinded. They have com- |before they were cremated, Her ad-, mitted this act in delibereite cold dress follow blood. 1 WA “For more than seven years they icola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- you came to America seeking} had every chance to know the truth freedom, in the strong idealism of|about you. Not once did they even youth you came as workers search-| dare mention the quality of your ling for that liberty and equality of| characters—a quality so noble and jopportunity heralded as the particu-|shining that millions have come to jlar gift of this country to all new-|)be guided by it. They refused to comers. You centered your labors in} look. They allowed the bitter preju- Massachusetts, the vefy birthplace of dice of class, position and self in- American ideals. And now Massa-| terest to close their eyes. They cared chusetts and America have killed) more for wealth, comfort and institu- you—murdeéred you because you were) tions than they did for truth. You, | anarchists. | Sacco and Vanzetti, are the victims | “A hundred and fifty years ago the} of the crassest plutocracy the world lcontrolling people of this state hang-| has known since ancient Rome. {ed and burned women in Salem—/ “Your execution is one of the |charging them with witchcraft. The|blackest crimes in the history of |shame of those old acts of barbarism} mankind. It is that and more. ean never be wiped out. But they) rible enough would it be if the kill- jare as nothing beside this murder|ing of you had been ordered by the which modern Massachusetts has| political and material powers alone. }ecommitted upon you. The witch| How much more horrible it is to have | burners were motivated by the super-\this act sanctioned and even blessed Hor- | rades. We rented halls, printed sta-| Labor Defense. tionery, leaflets and literature and “We consider it an act of extreme every cent that we collected can be|bad taste to indulge in irresponsible honestly accounted for. We have no| accusations before the funeral of our paid officials and even our head-|comrades. We will not reciminate, quarters and office machinery is|on the contrary, we invite the Boston kindly donated by the International Defense Committee after the funeral | York’s militant Labor concurs.” to inspect our books at any time which is convenient for them. We have nothing to conceal, and we are proud of the work which we have done in the effort to save Sacco and Vanzetti and in this view New — Postponed to Saturday, GRAND OPERA “CARMEN” Sept. 3 GRAND OPERA FULL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KREMANN Director OPEN AIR DANCING 50 Cents Admission and Dancing $1.00 Admission, Dancing and OPEN AIR OPERA “CARMEN” BENEFIT OF PHE JOINT DEFENSE COMMITTEE The Hawaiian Dancing Girl STARLIGHT Well Known Opera Siars EAST 177th STREET, BRONX, N. Y. MARTHA MALLIS Soprano Saturday > SEPTEMBER 3 VAUDEVILLE SHOW Roller Coaster — Ferris | Wheel — Skooter — Gold Mine—Loyers’ Reel—House | of Nonsense Buy Tickets at DAILY. WORKER} 108 East 14th Street | FREIHETT 30 Union Sq. | JIMMIE HIGGINS } BOOK SHOP 106 University PI. | JT. DEFENCE 41 Union Sq. PARK |] Friday, admitted yesterday that all | NORWEGIAN UNIONISTS SEE SOVIET UNION, ENGLISH — iby those “who pa: among us as rae leaders of intellectual and spiritual : toon: power. The blatant exulation with| Parades under the name of @ "co which they aided in your death is the} VeMOn- % é 5 final sign that the act of killing you! A 7 tA a ae Justice Hartwell goes to France ee . " i ion. ‘arewell was ship of money and position—against epee Worcester, Masa. you as symbols of another class—the | which is also the home town of workers and all others aspiring to| Judge Webster Thayer, who acted realize the true niéaning of life. as the lynching judge in the mur- | “Triumph In Death.” | der of Sacco and Vanzetti. | “Tf it had not been for these | As if fearing the wrath of the things,’ said Vanzetti shortly before} workers of France, the members of | shis death, ‘I might have lived out| the Worcester County Bar Associa- my life, talking at street corners to| tion, that attended the farewell ban- | scorning men. I might have died,| quet, joined in adopting a resolu- year chosen Paris as the scene of its annual drunken orgy, that unmarked, unknown, a failure. “Now| tion, not supporting the integrity of | we are not a failure. This is our| or eulogizing the legionnaire judge, | career and our triumph. Never in| Hartwell, however, but commending | the lynching judge, Thayer, on the | part that he played in putting Sacco | and Vanzetti to death in the elec- trie chair. Judge Hartwell, however, will no | doubt carefully carry a copy of this | our full life ean we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for} man’s understanding of man, as eel we do by an accident, Our words—| our lives—our pains—nothing. The} taking of oux lives—lives of a good| shoemaker and a poor fish peddler— | all that last moment belongs to us—| ; i." i that agony is our triumph.’ | wave of -working class SL atte | é bth Meer «;,| aroused over the monstrous crime | an ese sagen Si ac eae committed against the two Poker: ‘i . Sacco and Vanzetti, which Frenc of torture and your last hours of} labor gnizes, as it should, as an | supreme agony are the living ban-| sttack against the world’s working ner under which we and our descend-| Gass, ants for generations to come will * * * march to accomplish that better|, First of all, French labor will not {world based on the brotherhood of| he misled by the flowery verbiage jman ‘for which~ you died. In your| ysed to condone the crime of the | artyrdom we will fight on and con-| murderous ruling class of Massa- yer.” | ehusetts.. The resolution reads: Every marcher’*had a’ red arm band “The members of the Worcester yith the inscription “Justice, Cruci-| County Bar Association extend to ied August 22, 1927.” Two workers} Mr. Justice Webster Thayer their were arrested by the police. | felicitations and hearty approval of At the crematory the police| his judicial conduct in the recent stopped the selling of the Nation,| trial of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. liberal weekly. | His fairness thruout the long and | setae | tedious-trial in preserving for the an effort to buffet the mounting | * * * heartily commended. Ever »alert | for exact justice for the defendants realizing his duty to the great Commonwealth which he so honor- ably serves, we applaud his stand A the right thinking and sober ;desk at the summer White House to-| oaahe citizens oF the Common- lay, prepared to dispose of a WES wealth.” jaccumulation of business. A ‘ | During the seven days he was int} It must have taken even a law- Th the two behead weeks of his | fendants, Sacco and Vanzetti, seek- + |vacation Goolidge expects to receive | ing “justice” in his capitalist court. | “first hand” information concerning | ‘The workers of France already a number of problems confronting the know that Thayer, one of the administration. To date, Senator| leaders of the Massachusetts lynch- |part of the week. anarchistic bastards?” | | Meanwhile, Coolidge is dividing his Thayer not only made this state- | time between fishing and horseback} ment, in this form, to Professor \riding. Richardson, at a football game at Hanover, New Hampshire, but he defendants all of their. constitu- ® ' | For Big Navy; His 5 for upholding of the law, at any cost, to the end that the sacred the Yellowstone National Park a| yer or a judge in his cups to write |number of matters of official busi-| such piffle, even in the state of | Hiram W. Bingham, Republican, of | ing mob, after its conviction in his Connecticut, leader in the fight for a} court of Sacco and Vanzetti, asked repeated it in various forms, at different places, during the time tional rights, which at that time | met with the open and public ap- Vacation Soon Over traditions of Massachusetts, that RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 29. a this is a government of law and no’ ness developed, all of which it is said| Massachusetts. Let us remember | | the actual attitude of the “impar- | huge air force, has the only sét en-| Professor Richardson, of the law” |gagement, but others are expected.| department of Dartmouth College. | No Clue to Flushing Murder. Detetcives working on the mystery that the Sacco-Vanzetti case was “in his court. | a x lof the headless male body found in a proval of defense council, is President Coolidge came back to his} pe i el ee ee jwill require his personal attention. | tial” judge, Thayer, toward the de- | Bingham will arrive here the latter “Did you see what I did to those | ravine in Flushing Manor, Queens, ° | clues in the case had failed. Felix Frankfurter, professor of | WORKERS PLAY SOCCER WITH U. 8. S. R. WORKERS: | NORWAY UNIONS VISIT U. S. S. R. ! MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Aug. 29.—The Norwegian Labor Delegation, numbering 120 persons, is leaving Oslo on its way to the Soviet Union. The | Delegation was organized by the leaders of the most important Norwegian labor unions. The Delgeation will stay about one month in the U. S. S. R. * * * | | ' ENGLISH WORKERS PLAY SOCCER. | Accepting the invitation of the Central Council df Labor Unions of the \from England for the purpose of participating in sport competition. They | will stay in the U.S. S. R. about one month. The first game will take place on Aug. 28 in Moscow. { * * * | RATIONALIZATION CUTS COSTS. 1 64% of the reports discussed at the Industrial Commission’s conferences with the Moscow Textile Labor Union deal with the rationalization of pro- duction. The result of rationalization in some factories is that production bray pesca been lowéred and the average production increased from [to 20%. , ‘= cub ii fi Find His Resolution No By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, resolution with him to France in |. in France Harvard University, in his The Case of Sacco and Van- n analyzing the 25,000-word ion that Judge Thayer handed down in the demand for a new trial, says: ¥ “T assert . . . without the slight- est fear of disproof, that certainly in modern times Judge Thayer’s | opinion stands upmatched, . . . for diserepancies between what the record discloses and what the opinion conveys. 25,000 womi document cannot accurately be described otherwise than as a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations. The disinterested inquirer could not possibly derive from it a true knowledge of the new évidence that was submitted to him as a basis for a new trial. The opinion is literally honey- combed with demonstrable errors, and infused by a spirit alien to judicial, utterance.” Dr. Morton Prince wrote at the | time that any expert psychologist reading the Thayer opinion “could not fail to find evidences that por- tray strong personal feeling, poorly concealed, that should have no place in a judicial document.” It was this opinion handed down by Judgé Thayer that: caused the conservative Boston Herald, which long-held the view that the sen- tence against these men should be | carried out, to a frank reversal of its position. It declared editorially: As months have merged into years and the great debate over this case has continued, our doubts have solidified slowly into convictions, and reluctantly we have found our- selves compelled to’ reverse our original judgment. We hope the- supreme judicial court will grant a new trial on the basis of the-new evidence not yet examined in open court. We have read the full -de- cision in which Judge Thayer, who presided at the orig- inal trial, renders his decision against the application for a new | trial; and we submit that it ¢arties the ‘tone of the advocate rather | than the arbitrator.” * * * Similar testimony against the Webster | HONOR SACCO AND VANZETTI IN N.Y, Speakers Cite Loyalty to Working Class (Continued from Page One) smiled a weleome to the cheering workers who had gathered by thou- sands in spite of the threatening clouds. She remained for a short time and then was taken to the Hotel McAlpin, while the other members of |the party stayed to accompany the {memorial urn to Stuyvesant Casino. This impressive memorial which is surmounted by. a clenched fist bears in red letters the inscription “Sacco- Vanzetti, Martyred by American Plutocracy, August 23, 1927.” 3 Honor Dead Workers. Following Mrs,. Sacco’s ‘departure, the speakers representing various par- ticipating organizations paid their re- spects to the two dead workers, and pledgéd the support of the workers to the task of keeping their memory always alive. In addition to H. S, Van Valkinburgh, W. W. Weinstone’ and Rose ,Pesotta, Ben Gitlow, represent- |ing the Workers~(Communist) Party spoke, and also Carlo Tresca, William L. Patterson of the Negro Labor Con- gress, Benjamin H. Fletcher of the it. W. W., L. Frisina, James P. Cannon of the International Labor Defense, |Pat Devine, . Rebecca Grecht and Powers Hapgood. | Defense Committee Breaks Promise. As the workers began gathering in Union Square to pay their last tri- | bute to the remains of their martyred brothers, Sacco and.-Vanzetti, word reached. those in charge of the mem- orial meeting that the party from Boston has missed the scheduled train ‘and would reach New York an hour late. With this came the news by press wire from Boston that the ashes of the two workers were not laccompanying the party, due to a ‘last minute controversy with the Bos- | ton Defense Committee. This act on the part of the Boston |committee was a deliberate repudia- ‘tion of all their promises and ar rangements completed early last ‘week. The committee had provided | Mrs. Clarina Michelson with written \eredentials, and had authorized her as a member of the Sacco-Vanzetti |Memorial Committee of Boston to ‘come to New York and prepare the “judicial conduct” of Judge Thayer | memorial reception for the ashes. could be cited thru many columns. | With’ the Memorial Committee, the _U. S. S. R., sixteen worker football players are coming to the U. S. S. R.| ° This should be sufficient, how- ever for any open-minded worker in this country. It is more than sufficient for the workers of France who will convict the honorable judge, Harold H. Hartwell, of Wor- | cester, Mass., immediately he pre- | sents himself in France, thru the | mere fact that he carries a resolu- | tion lauding the capitalist judge, Thayer. Be * Even in the United States the rank and file of the American Legion itself seems to be waking up. This is shown in.a letter just received by The DAILY WORKER | signed “American Legionnaire.” It reads in part as follows: “Just a word of encouragment from an American Legionnaire. Praise to you for your outstanding fight for Sacco and Vanzetti. “Last Friday night I watched the Chicago cops violate the laws of the United States and of decency. I | never knew what the Word ‘provoca- | teur’ meant until I saw the Chicago And in the town | police in action. of ‘Big Bill,’ the great champion of the pee-pul. I am a man who saw | the dirty end of the war wjth the Second Division, Expeditionary Forces. The trouble with the Legion is that there are too many cheap training camp heroes in it and at the head of it. “I think it may be time that someone should mention the fact that there was more treason spoken at the front than there ever will be in the steel mills. “T don’t care a hang myself | whether we ever get a change of | government, but I admire your guts, and I admit that your paper is a necessity. At some other time I will disclose my identity. Suffice it to say that I am a bona fide vet who got his belly full a BelJeau, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Champagtie, and Meuse-Argonne.” * * * There is much that could be writ- ten in reply to this letter. This “American Legionnaire,” altho he feels that something is wrong, does not realize that the Legion is a capitalist institution supporting the profit system. The French workers were in the war longer and they learned better the meaning of the capitalist war. Let American labor learn by | watching the struggle of the French workers. against their own mili- tarism that greets that form of this country’s militarism that goes to France as the American Legion. Sacco-Vanzetti Float _Refused at Parade A float depicting the Sacco-Van- Zetti case was refused admittance to the annual Asbury Park baby parade by Arthur F. Cottrel, director of the carnival. He said that he did not believe it was a fitting subject. | Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency’ Commit- tee, the International Sacco-Vanzetti Committee and large numbers: of labor and fraternal organizatio: thruout the city Tully cooperated. 4» Socialists Sabotage. The only: exception to this was she {socialist party which did what it ‘could to sabotage the meeting, being determined—like certain members of |the Boston Defense Committee—that ‘this should not be. a mass memorial for Sacco and Vanzetti. However, plans were completed’ for | the workers to gather by thousands; and in spite of the Boston Commit- tee’s betrayal, the workers honored the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti in a demonstration that made observers confident that the tyo ‘martyred workers will never die. ilowers—red ‘roses, asters, carnations—sent by labor and fraternal — organizations thruout the city began arriving long before 5 o'clock and were placed |around the platform and banked -on | the sides. Fs Stands Draped. oe Red and black draped the stand and surrounded two large pictures of {Sacco and Vanzetti which hung in (full view of the crowd. In the center back ofthese portraits the memorial |urn was set when it arrived and its @urmounting clenched fist rose high above the heads of the «workers as a | symbol of the threat which the or- | ganized “workers make “against the | foreés- Which: killed= their comrades, ~ ©=Mrs. Rose Sacco Arrives. Im the delegation from Boston came Mrs. Rose Sacco, Aldino Feli- cani of the Defense Committee, Mrs. Ella Reeve Bloor Mrs. Jessica Hen- derson of the Citizens National Com- mittee, Powers Hapgood, and W. H. |Van Valkenburgh of the Internation- al Sacco-Vanzetti Committee who en- deayored to force a last-minute des- patch of the ashes as had been pro- mised. This delegation had to con- tent itself with bringing the two death masks of Sacco and Vanzetti which are now on view at Stuyvesant Casino beside the memorial urn which (was désigned by Adolf Wolff to cover the: ashes, spo Police on Hand. i=:Promptly at three o’clock the first “policecontingent arrived at Union | Square, looking for trouble, ‘together | with the first band of newspaper |photographers. A small squad of | mounted police was on hand too, keep- ing the square free for the four or | five hundred which arrived at four o'clock, They were lined up for roll call, and were soon reinforced by more mounted police, armored cars and, motorcycle squads with dozens og gold badges and stays and white caps, and automatics prominently displayed on hips. * One entire squad was despatched to the inside of the park building for emergency call, The rest were lined up solidly around the square with the armored cars in their usual spot on 17th St. and the mounted cops mob- 1 _jilized ‘on Broadway. THINK OF THE SUSTAINING! BUY TI ILY Wor i CAT EVERY MERDINGES at tim NewssraNps. | h