The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1927, Page 2

nice ert Page Two | ~ THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1927 LUIGIA VANZETTI TO SAIL WITH URNS SOON; 150000 VIEW DEATH MASKS IN MEMORIAL PROCESSION Thousands of Floral Wreaths Brought by New s to Stuyvesant Casino te tn Memorial Conmittes “Soo Bang Brutality of New York and vic r those who ar spects to the ally there i then sudde: pour into the x their fi yrs. Occasion the 1 work of the Sacco and Van- zetti Memo Committee, which ar- ed the ceremonies in Union are on Monday I wish to condemn utality of the police in handling 0,000 people assembled there,” Michelson, Secretary cf the en- of police While all ve Police at Union Sq, WHEAT FARMERS RIPE FOR FARMER-LABOR MOVEMENT CONVENTION DELEGATE STATES Alfred Knudson, delegate from the unorganized territory gto the Fifth Party Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party in New York City, reports that altho the wheat yield per acre is consider lars this year than last, the farme no better off. rly, Knudson said, it was or a farmer to get the nec- credit from the banks in order | Banks Squeeze Farmers. ary jto buy d, machinery, sto |but this now become in difficult. This year it is almost im- and- jpossible and the bank small ing the limit in secu loans. for | The wheat farmers of Northwes jare not only in debt for this y . outfit but for the sums have |had to borrow for from six to eight jye s ago. So that if the farmer is }to pull thru and just make this y | paymer he is wholly dependent on the price he gets for his wheat Farmers Leaving Old Parties. But the Northwestern is >| ments Rte one |more and more becoming aware that Sag .| the committee in a statement issued |there is no hope for him from the two a fs yesterday. old political parties and. that it is Bee consid eae “We will admit a huge mass meet-| not possible to solve his problem! ing of this kind is trying on the nerves of police officers, even though the people are good-natured and will- ing to obey traffic regulations ag were the crowds on Monday. But police officers do not need to express \door. Many of them are compelled to|their nervousness by riding their Jeave before they have ample oppor-| horses into non-resistant crowds, . by tunity to view the masks and the|‘nocking over baby carriages and swreaths. trampling children under-foot as they Macy (Wreaths Arrive. \did on Second Ave., or by suddenly Bee jleaping out at men and women from In-eddition to the wreaths received| 4 side street, as they did at Broome Monday, many more arrived yester-| Street, and beating and slugging de- day. They were from the Workers/fenceless men and women like a group Unity House, Hungarian International | o¢ grunken gangsters on a spree. Labor Defense, New : BAnERKS y Nev Masses, ey “Tf this is what is called protect- Board of the Furriers’ Union, Do-|ing a peaceful mass meeting, then no mgpico Di Sinti Joint Board, Shirts | meeting is safe in New York, and and Boys’ Wai Make: Union, someone will have to tell ud/how to Amalgamated Food Worke Union,| protect ourselves from our so-called Window Cleaners’ Union, Industrial| protectors. It is time the police de- Workers of the World, Painters’ |partment officials devised a policy of Union, residents of the United Work-|some kind in handling these meet- ers’ Cooperative House, Downtown ings, Slugging seems to be one of Jewish Workers’ Club, Anti-Fascist|/the orders of the day at present, and Society Masserano and several from| jf it meets with the approval of those : slwops where the workers took up col-|higher up, the citizens of New York lections to purchase a wreath, ould like to know it. Many children requested flowers' “Despite the intimidating tactics of as a rememb 4 the occasion. the police, indications are that over The request was granted in scores of 150,000 sympathizers have passed occasion. Six policemen and se jmembers of the mb squad are de-| tailed around the stand on which the] pmasks recline. see to that the passing wor do not linger, swoughly ordering them out thru a si bo: 2 of under the capitalist system, Knudson declared. Altho many of the farmers still remain in the ranks of the old parties, the dissatisfaction is so gen- eral that it is only’a question of an organized effort, a driving force, to crystallize it. The Workers Party must supply this driving force, sa Knudson. Leaguers are still rallying AMTER DESCRIBES GREAT PROGRESS IN ORGANIZING) HOPS IN DISTRICT NO. 6; ORGANIZERS REAL NEE No. 6, (Cleveland) now in New York City to attend the Fifth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, reports that the work of the Party in District No. 6 is progressing at Shop Work Most Important. cases. through Stuyvesant Casino, on Sec-|despite the fact that there are not Beat Up Demonstrators. on Ave., where the death masks|@ SU Because he Sacco and|of Sacco and Vanzetti are on view. | 4mze Vanze ning at 10th St. = eS and F m Goldstein was) ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Aug. | brutally beater then taken to 30.—Prospects of a take-off by “Old| Bellevue Ho: where he is now/Glory” for Rome within the next heing held. police are trying to|twenty. hours waned Monday, when laim ‘that he is in a tactic in+|Lloyd Bertaud and Jones Witt Hill | Stituted against demonstrators, when Powers Hapgood recently rested in Boston. was ar- soggy stretch of mud from the recent downpour. “The Drawings in This Book Axe Aflame With the Idea of the Class Struggle—” : The, gee Gaceo élid , Gnzelli CARTOONS... THE DAILY WORKER Setup Jee A SPLENDID INTRODUCTION BY Joseph Freeman NivH LLIS has given us in this book an in spiration to carry on the brave fight of Saceo and Vanzetti. “The drawings—like their conduct call not for mourning but for strug- gle’—says Jos. Freeman, noted writer in his introduction, Drawn in the heat of the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti these inspired cartoons are a beautiful mem orial tribute to the memory of two brave workers. Here is a book that will speak more than you possibly can to the man in your shop and trade union. Only one cartoon has been placed on each page. EVERY PAGE IS SUITABLE FOR FRAMING. The book is large 9x12 inches on heavy antique art paper. Send for a copy today." The price has been low- ered practically at cost to assure the widest possible distribution in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. 25 Cents Each Send a dollar for four copies! Ps — ® THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO., 33 FIRST ST. New Yorw and in publishing shop papers, bulk of the activi mobile industries. shop papers being published. ing published, are tho irregularly, | nuclei. Miners Show Fight. | depend for their labor supply chief] on the South Slavs, Poles and Rus sians, tho their are large | mines. |who are purposely hostile the propaganda of the bosses. In discussing the situation in the Ohio coal fields, Amter declared that the miners are showing a splendid fighting spirit for they know that if bosses succeed in making the Ohio fields non-union it means the smash- ing of the union thruout the country. But the leaders are weak or fake Workers Rescue Speaker From Jai by tins’ Ferry, a coal town where the police revoked their permission for a Sacco and Vanzetti protest meet- ing, and arrested the Workers Party the miners and steel workers streamed thru the streets of the town in ‘thou- sands in order to rescue the speaker from the jail. \the anthracite field is so terrific that | the delegates from District No. 3 to |the Fifth Convention of the Work- ers (Communist) Party now being jed that their names be omitted from the reports they have made of the | conditions in the hard coal region. Miners Fight Against Obstacles. Thousands of anthracite miners are) | out of work and wages are worse than) lever but the fight to strengthen the) union in the hard coal district goes| lon unflinchingly. Though whole} companies, like the great Hudson Coal | |Co. which operates mines all thru the | |anthracite, have shut down 100 per! icent, the miners have a strong fight-| ing spirit and are carrying on the | struggle despite the weak or treach- jerous attitude of their union leader- ship. Wages have generally never been |so bad altho there has been no cut | which embraces the whole industry. | But. the coal companies are carrying \thru a wage slashing system by cut- ting miners’ wages in isolated dis- triets. | Thru the Sacco and Vanzetti agi- | tation carried on by the efforts of the Workers Party and the International Labor Defense in District No. 3, the “Many of the former Non-Partisan| the ‘ound! sota.” Israel Amter, Organizer of District a speed which has not been equalled) industries in Ohio, according to Am- before in the history of the District) ter, is the formation of shop com- and is only retarded at present by a) mittees. dearth of comrades fitted to organize} what can be done in the factories and the field which lies open to the Party.| it is only a question of. sufficient or- The most important work which is| effective our activity among the shops being pushed in the Ohio District,| of District 6. ‘ ient number of trained or-) forts in protesting againgt the mur- to cope with the demand, is|der of Sacco and Vanbetti. our work in organizing the shops!the attitudes of the Central Labor The | Council ard the socialist party that y is concentrated in| refused the steel, mining, rubber and auto-| Workers Party, the demonstrations There are, af present, nuclei func-| Conneaut, and Canten c: * ; a ;, |. | tioning in 26 shops in eleven of which| sands gf workers. inspected the runway and) found it a} regularly | processions in a number of these big Shop papers are also be-| industrial towns were ithe largest ever in| held“there. shops where the Party possesses no” The industries in the Ohio District \with the shop papers, the Party in native | the demands of the workers for the | American elements, especially in the| election of Shop committees or for The Party is learning now to | unionization |solve the problem of cooperation be-| exist. |tween these different racial groups| workers have seen thru the Sacco and Comrade Amter tells how, in Mar-| member who was trying to speak.! PROGRESS BEING MADE IN DISTRICT 3 IN SPITE“ OF GREAT DIFFICULTIES, IS DELEGATES’ REPORT / The terror of the coal companies in? held in New York City, have request- | their leaders who accept office under} the banner of the republicans,” he} continued. “And there is very little} to hope from the leaders. But the increasingly bad conditions are de- taching these progressive farmer ele- from the old parties and a 1 Farmer-Le yvement is con- y exyi2cted to crystallize before | elections. z' North Dalxota Farmers Call For’ | Farmer-Labor. “The general feeling thruout the| t country may be gauged by the} resolutions passed: recently at a far- mers’ meeting at Williston, North} Dakota. In clear, terse language the farmers: decided that the time has come for them to make a formal k with the .old parties and to » the Farmer-Laber Party a real in, the coming campaign. The farmers have begun to realize leaders daily ‘and con- | tinually forming alliances with the | a business interests, with} ening to swamp the wheat | mer on all si and no real re-| f in sight, his sole hope lies in a} ong unified Farmer-Labor Party: | to accomp! this object that the calling of a Northwestern Far- mer-Labor Convention which will in- elude all the elements in the wheat lands now being proposed. “Tt the task of the Workers It is Party to vitalize and organize the} now emerging political consciousness | of the Northwestern farmer and to ist him in his effort to establish} a mighty Farmer-Labor movement in Dakotas, Montana and Minne- On the other hand, he tells/the story of Earl Daugherty union léader, who ordered back the strikers who were marching to plead with the miners in the Hocking Valley fields. The problem in all the important The shop nuclei have proved ganizers in order to make still more District No. 6 made tremendous ef- Despite a united front with the in Akron, Cleveland, , Youngstown, led oyt thou- ‘he meetiniss and Saceo and Vanzetti Work Wins Workers. Thru its agitation in the shops and istrict No. 6 was able to tie up its ruggle for Sacco and Vanzetti with where unions do not Thousands and thousands of | Vanzetti demonstrations that the Workers Party is the only Party lead- ling the masses. The best elements in the International Workers of the | World and the socialist labor party | have been won over thru the fight! against the Boston murders. Organizers Needed. | Much credit for the success of the| . | Saeco and Vanzetti fight must go to} | the International Labor Defense which | successfully. organized meetings and demonstrations thruout the state. | While much of Ohio remains to be} leffectively organized. especially in! the western half of the state, great | strides forward have been made, and | our future success depends in great } measure on the number of organizers | we can send into the rubber, ~auto-) mobile and steel mills and the mines. thracite have come to see that the Workers Party is the only party with: a militant mass policy. It is the only party which is fighting the battles of | the workers, Aid the Soft Coal Miners. | The work of the fractions in the |union, while hampered by the reac- tionary policy of such leaders as President Rinaldo Cappellini in Dis- trict No. 1 is slowly but effectively making itself felt, The most impor- tant problem outside of the organi- zational work which n$w confronts the Party in District No. 8 is that of extending aid to the striking soft coal miners. This is a task which the entire membership of District No. 3 must marshal its forces tc accomplish? The conditions among th» soft coal miners are worse than in the anthra- cite and the Party can accomplish real work in this situation. Sacco and Vanzetti Protest Effective. The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti created an extreme tension thruout the hard coal districts and the Party bent every energy to the calling of protest meetings and processions to secure the release of the two victims. Hundreds of miners have been brot closer to our Party thru this agita- tion, the delegates believe, and the K | “funeral of Nicola Sacco and Bea full success of the Party’s activity miners and other workers in the an- has not even been felt yet. [in the region are striking. Owning Class Fears the Field of Class Struggle in the Textile Industry By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, the impressive | its “account of tolomeo Vanzetti, Sunday, the Bos- ton Herald said: “The strangest procession Boston has ever seen passed thru the rain- soaked streets yesterday behind the bodies of. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.” But Boston is destined to See yet stranger si s. From the soil of the working class struggle, en- riched by the blood of our mar- tyred there painful ises the power of labor, organi militant. That will not only be a sight for Boston, for Ma 2 for New England. It will be an unwelcome sight for those who put Sacco and Vanzetti to death in the electric chair. It will be like seeing the ghosts of the dead dead, Sacco and Vanzetti died that the power of labor in New England might grow. While Attorney Gen- eral Arthur K. Reading, of Ma: chusetts,.tells the members of the National Association of Attorneys General, gathered in convention at Buffalo, New York, that Sacco and Vanzetti were given a “fair” trial, the actual pauperization of the tex- | tile workers of New England con- tinues. Attorney General Reading thus tries to bolster the lie that sticks hard in throats of the Massachu- setts murder crew, while forgetting the actual industrial conditions in Massachusetts that will bring other Saccos and Vanzettis into the field of the class struggle. The monster erime committed against Sacco and Vanzetti has convinced new millions of workers, not only in the United States but thruout the world that there can be no “justice” for workers under the capitalist system. Capitalist injustice to labor thus becomes more apparent than ever, in the courts, in industry, everywhere. ae ne. While the attorney general of the | mill barons @f Massachusetts is | peddling his piffle in Buffalo, the | agent of America’s industrial over- | lords, Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, is sending out his prop- aganda, thru the governmental “bu- reau of the census” aiding the prof- iteers in the textile industry.» .No.; effort to aid labor, but, to quote from the circular issued: “To aid business executives in analyzing tendencies in production, prices, stocks, exports, etc., in the | textile field, the Department of Commerce has just published the Textiles Section of the Record Book | of Business Statistics. In this Bul- letin, which will be followed by sections relating to other indus- tries, there are presented statistics month by month from 1909 thru 1926, were available, on the vari- ous phases of the cotton, wool, silk, rayon and other textile industries. The statistical data are supple- mented by descriptive text, illus- trating the actual uses of this ma- ! terial by business concerns in plan- ning sales and production policies, ' purchasing, ete., thru the publica- tion of these data curently in the Department’s monthly ‘Survey of Current Business.’ ” * ‘Mus the government that mur- dered Sacco and Vanzetti shows its eagerness to) aid the textile barons | directly benefitted by the lynching of these two workers. At the same time the socalled “department of labor” of the gov- ernment, preSided over by Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis, the Pittsburgh banker, develops its at- | tack against the foreign-born and , inaugurates a campaign for new deportations. ® * * * One need only look at the actual statistics to learn the rich prize | that New England’s industrial oli- | garchs had staked in the slaughter of Sacco and Vanzetti. They believe that the lynching party at the Char- lestown State Prison, on the night | of August 22, will help them main- | tain the slavery conditions outlined | in the reports of the bureau of la- bor statistics of the department of labor, conditions that mean an in- ’ nothing. creasing pauperization of the work- ers in this industry. itis important to keep in mind that what is true of the textile in- dust merely parallels similar de- velopments in other industries, thus drawing in the whole American working class. * The textile industry is one of the oldest and the biggest in the de- velopment of American capitalistm: In recent years it has shown, thru actual figures, a decrease in the number of workers employed, a de= crease in the workers’ earnings, while at the ‘same time revealing an increase im the hours of labor of those- still permitted the luxury of having jobs. The figures are: Number Weekly Hours Workers Earnings perWeek 445,000 $24.86 51.8 425,000 485,000 1926 445,000 * * * Squalor and misery follow in the wake of those figures revealing meager wages and the long work week, These conditions gave rise to the repeated titanic struggles at Law- rence, Massachusetts, and more re- cently at Passaic, New Jersey. They are duplicated from New Bedford and Fall River in the New England North to the newest mill village in Alabama or Texas in the Far South. x * * Other facts brought out, as re- ported by Harvey O’Connor in the Federated Press, are as follows: “Of the 82,000 workers studied in the 151 representative mills in North and South, fully 36,000 or 44 per cent were women. In many | states, particularly in New Eng- land, the women are in the major- ity. Down South the labor of men is so cheap that the cotton mill owners can afford to hire more of | them than women. The labor of children® is thrown in for nearly That solves the family problem of what to do with the kids when both father and mother work in the mill.” : * * * In Massachusetts, “The Common- wealth” that murdered Sacco and Vanzetti, the seat of ‘capitalist “kultur,” an average wage of $20 is paid for.a 48.5-hour work-week. Rhode Island jumps the work-week to 50 hours and Pennsylvania to 62. In Virginia, on the edge of the | | South, $16.75 is considered enough for 55 hours and in North Carolina, most advanced of the new indus- trial southern states, $16.13 is paid for 56 hours’ work. Wages are lower in South Caro- lina and in Georgia sink to $14.25 and in Alabama to $13.26. Georgia works her mill hands 57 hours~a. week. Scores of mills in the Caro- linas and Georgia impose the 60- | hour week on hteir workers. Usu- ally it is split into the 11-hour day with five hours on Saturday. In the Carolinas the 55-hour week is the most common with 10 hours a day and five on Saturday. * * . The attorney general of Massa- chusetts, Reading, reports to his fellow attorney generals at Buffalo that it is the Communists who have been most active in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, but, he declares, “Fortunately, America does not of- fer a fertile for Bolshevist ideas.” ke ae The mere fact that the panic- stricken textile capitalists of Mas- sachusetts sought to terrorize the mill workers of New England with the spectacle of Sacco and Vanzetti done to death in the electric chair gives the lie to the claim that “All’s Well In New England.” They know that the workers chafe at their chains. They know that the mur- | der of Sacco and Vanzetti has only increased the discontent of labor. They know that the slavery condi- tions in the textile industry »breed increasing resistance on the part of the workers. Thus the class nature, of the struggle, that the spokesmen of the owners of industry seek to min- imize, continues to grow. The Com- munists are in the lead in the or- ganization and the direction of that struggle. Mexican Mine Strike, Protest of Murder of Sacco, Yanzetti Grow MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30.—The strike at the Amaparo mines is still continuing despite the arrival of fed-| eral troops despatched at the request of American officials the Excelsior says today. The strikes coupled with the growing Sacco and Vanzetti pro- test have frightened American mine magnates. Altho the mines are still shut down there has been no destruction of prop-| Canada Fliers Hop Off; Enroute to London; Will Get $25,000 for the Trip LONDON, Ont., Aug. 30,—Capt. Terry Tull and Lieut, James Metcalf | hopped off in their plane “Sir John Carling” in a non-stop flight from London, Ont., to London, Eng., at 5.50 Monday morning. The successful trans-Atlantic hop} _ of the “Pride of Detroit” carrying Ed- ward F, Schlee and William 8S. Brock on the first leg of a round the world flight encouraged the fliers. The Canadian fliers were confident Eugene Lyons Now Writing Story of — Sacco and Vanzetti The complete sto case which ended with the death in \the electric chair for acco and | Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be recounted jin an illustrated book to be published if the celebrated | Soon by International Publishers, Inc. VIt is being written by Eugene Lyons, ta newspaperman and m ine writ- {er who was in close touch with the }ease from its inception more than | Seven years ago, z rding to the pub- | lishers’ announcement. | “Thetbook will be a straigh orward jand dramatic story of the and \deaths of two alien workers in Amer- jica,” thé publishers state. “It will | be succinct, yet full enough to include jail the essential facts of the arrests, | the legal battles and the unprecedent- ed international protest. |= “We have gotten Mr. Lyons to be- }gin work on the story immediately, while the memory of events i® fresh and the r sily avail- able. He is revealing the soi jof Sacco and Vanzetti, obse jers at the time of their |bols of economic and soc jat the very heart of the world today. | Nothing since the war has so tested | the consciousness of the world the )Sacco-Vanzetti case. Nothing has so |shaken people out of their smugness | and indifference.” Internatiénal Publishers hope to | have the book off the p sometime in Octobey..-They indicate that in- | quiries for translation rights in sev- jeral languages have already been |made. Because of the world-wide in- terest in the case it is likely, they state, that it will be widely circulated | in countries speaking Italian, German, | French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and other languages. The announcement says that “The | autkor-conducted the publicity in the |case for more than a year immedi- ately after their con ion—the year during which the protest in America }and broad grew to towering propor- |tions. He followed developments in- timately since then. He learned to know Sacco and Vanzetti personally }and also knows a great deal about | their background, having lived in | Italy.” ‘Los Angeles Police Smash Protest Pen Secret Press Lies (By a Worker Correspondent) | “LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug {The police and Uncle Sam’ | serviee men have “uncovered” plans for a gigantic m of death by Los -Angeles workers in protest | against the executions of Sacco and | Vanzetti, according to the press. A | man and a woman were caught in the | “criminal” act of “carry a ecards bearing photograph: | death men into a building.’ | eards were seized and turned over to ithe police intelligence bureau, in- {famous for its lack of intelligence, ac- {cording to August Vollmer, former \ chief of police heye, who is a noted expert-in the man-hunting. Federal agents were also notified, reports | stated. | Flimsy Police Li | What became of the man and | woman “apprehended” is a secret up |to this hour. Their names were not even mentioned. The “dicks” are | looking for a secret printing shop at |present. They expect to uncover | “thousands of placards and radical | literature bearing instructions for the | formation of a secret ‘union’ and the institution of a boycott.” Meeting Broken Up. were both broken up by the police in the Boyle Heights section recently. The bomb squad has also been very busy these days trying to beat the records of Mitchel’ Palmer, former U. S. attorney general, and Wm, J Burns. : ‘ The following: story will explain what have been found here to date: “When ‘Stubby’ Phillips, electri- cian at the Hall of Justice, deposited a gunny?sack there containing grass he was taking home to feed his geese, a passerby reported to the sheriff’s office that a bomb had been planted. Several deputies responded to the call, only to find the sack of grass and explanation’ by. Phillips that he had left it at the corner of the building while he went to a park- ing station for his.car.” ad $2,50 CLOTH BOUND erty and no one was injured. The! of success, which will mean a prize of | ‘Phe DAILY WORKER PUB, CO. miners at a number of other camps « . f ‘of London, Ont, $25,000 offered them by Charles Burns 33 FIRST ST. NEW YORK, N.Y, An open air meeting and a parade_ vs ‘ | —————— —_