The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WERK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 197. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, b¥ mail, $8.00 por year. Outside New York, by mall, $600 per year. E DAILY WoO Entered as second-class ma'ter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., wider the act of March 3, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1927 1878, CER. Published Daily excegt Suaday by THE DAILY WOREBA PUBLISHING CO, 33 First Street, New York, M. ¥. end | FINAL city | | | EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW COURT ATTACK AGAINST “DAILY” IS MYSTERY |Current Events | @ By T. J. O'Flaherty about the Communist Party con- vention now taking place in New York City, do not bother reading The; DAILY WORKER, but take your| mental fodder from the Herald-| Tribune. In last Wednesday’s issue) of that paper we are told that the} convention is being held “somewhere in Westchester county” and that even! the delegates do not yet know the lo-| cation. This is the kind of rubbish} that appears in the guise of news in} the capitalist press. It is not surpris- ing that every intelligent worker looks with suspicion on whatever ap- pears in the boss sheets—even the} weather reports. * * * IORMER governor McCray In- diana, today quits Atlanta prison} on parole. McCray was once one of} the big guns in Indiana politics and respected by all who respect success} in polities and business. The governor was doing business with the aid of money deposited in banks by the thrifty Hoosiers. But McCray’s foot slipped and just as soon as it did, his fellow sharks grabbed it and he! found himself on his way to the can. But not having violated a criminal syndicalist law and not being a mili- tant trade union organizer he will be| forgiven and restored to the bosom of | bourgeois Indiana. of OTHER one ot those farces that international capitalism pulls off | periodically is now being held in Paris. It is the interparliamentary world congress where solons from many nations meet to blow off their bazoos and incidentially speek for the interests of the capitalist crooks they represent. Some people imagine that | plain its meaning. | POLICE HAND OUT MANY SUBPOENAS Editorial, Business and. Mechanical Staff Called Subpoenas wholesale were served yesterday on members of the editor- ial, business and mechanical staff of The DAILY WORKER, calling on them to appear before the federal) grand jury thi® morning at 11:30 o'clock. These are all the facts at hand at this writing in the government’s lat- est move against The DAILY WORK- ER, the exact object of which takes| on the nature of a deep mystery. Kelly Serves Subpoenas. The fact that subpoenas were served by Sergeant Kelly and other mem-| bers of the “bomb squad,” part of the New York police department, when; the summons was to appear before a} federal (United States District Court) grand jury, is explained by the claim that the police sergeant is | more familiar with the members of} the DAILY WORKER staff than the! of: |force of the United States marshal’s | | | When notified of this new govern-| ment move, Attorney Joseph Brod-j} sky, counsel for The DAILY WORK-| ER, declared he was unable to ex-| “Tt is a mystery to me,” he de- clared, { The stamp of Charles H. Tuttle, ) United States district attorney, was upon the subpoenas served, but when jhis office was called by The DAILY WORKER, those in charge refused to give any additional information. | Out on $1,000 Bail. | Members of the editorial staff of| those meetings encourage peace. Just The DAILY WORKER, including J. as little as would periodic meetings of | Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, second story workers enable the inno-| Alex Bittleman, with Bert Miller, cent sleeper to pound the pillow with ;Manager, and David Gordon. author a greater feeling of Security than he} of the poern,.“America,” are now experiences now. jing held for trial under $1,000 bail! * * * jeach, because of the appearance in| S a single-handed and self-serving The DAILY WORKER of Gordon’s tes a -_,|poem. They appeared in Judge! publicity agent Charles A. Levine jy ch). | ; 7 x ~|Lynch’s court recently when Sept. 6 is entitled to the non-stop medal for)... qocid ‘d ae . A ; | wa led on as the date for setting} continuous success in making the the Wine of <rial “ | i : i vine is |" ial on this charge. front page on sheer merit. Levine is) F S | an ex-junkman and owes so much It i oresee New Attack. : money to the government that he is| , b is not believed that this old liable to mistake himself for the Rex hare hee ses baraivn with we public of France. Being a patriot he yee subpoena on contracted business relations vwith | PLY WORKER staff yesterday. Uncle Sam during the war but Sam 5 his new attack was launched on} evidently considered himself jilted out the OnEIDS day of the Fifth Conven- of half a million dollars and was so (Continued on Page Two) sore on his unfaithful partner that he — would not confer the crane! By Union H Idi 3 honors on the former dealer in cast- off things after his successful pas- | sengership to Germany. j * * * | | eA is an ambitious fellow and] will not return on a palatial liner, as did the other air heroes. He has} gotten into so many fights in Europe} that the militarists of Germany .and| France may decide to postpone the next war for another generation. | 3 Having licked everything in France| All local unions of the New York fo Start Canmaion F you want to know the “real” tact FoR GOVERNMENT ~ HAT WILL BE ALL FOR YOU, MR. GREEN U.S. Imperialism Common Ene —By Fred Ellis / _ 7 WORKERS PARTY CONVENTION GALLS ON WORKERS TO BUILD POWERFUL INTERNATIGNAL LABOR DEFENSE The resolution unanimously adopted by the great gathering assembled in Central Opera House * * * AMERICAN capitalism is at the height of its power. But while it pursues its profit interests with ruth- less brutality it is neverthelss, anx. ious to hide the face of its dictator ship behind a mask of democracy and justice. The contradiction thus cre- ated a merciless capitalist dictator- ship operating under the guise of a benevolent democracy, has given birth to the institution of frame-ups so often perpetrated. in America by organs of the state power. The capitalist dictatorship desires to destroy its political enemy; but it cannot do it openly for fear of de- stroying, at the same time, the demo- cratic illusions of the masses. There- fore the political enemy is charged with a common crime which he never committed; a crime is fastened upon him by perjured evidence, obvious dis- erepancies in the evidence are smooth- ed over by rulings of a judge who is a party to a frame-up; an atmosphere | of prejudice is created and carefully nursed; and the result of it all is the covering up of an unwarranted per- secution of a political opponent with the cloak of a righteous defense of Levine jumped into his air flivver and| Joint Board of the Workers Union almost knocked England into the| Will meet tonight to prepare for an} that the intrepid adventurer would {registered workers are asked to at- fly alone on his return trip to the| tend. \“the need and the suffering of the fur workers has already exceeded all jning into the thousands.” ANSWERS CHARS |; Cutters local 1 will meet at Royal | Hall, 85 East Fourth St., Operators | local 5—Manhattan Lyceum; Nailers | % | The vague and totally unfounded | rank and file meeting held last njght charges of “misappropriation” lev-/st Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East tee, the International Labor Defense! or5 of th Paolit and the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency | °"_° a ld wien the role played by the I. L. D. and) the weak, ineffectual role by certain, tary of the International Labor De- fense. Irish sea. Everything was more or| aggressive struggle on the part of the | less hurt but Levine. It is reported|members. All registered and un- (Continued on Page Three) In the call for the meetings, Ben eee Os eS Gold, Joint Board manager says that JAMES P, CANNON bounds. The army of unemployed is growing weekly and is already run- 4}. local 10 Stuyvesant Casino, 142: Sec- ond Ave., and Finishers local 15 at | Astoria Annex, 64 Fourth Street. Several hundred fur workers at a elled by Aldino Felicani, of the Bos-| Fourth St., decided to conduct a fight ton Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Commit-| for an aggressive policy by the work- Committee were branded as a smoke} sereen to hide the differences between members of the Boston Committee, | accoring to James P. Cannon, secre- “There is nothing new in Felicani’s | “It is| FRENCH LABOR UNITED IN DRIVE ON AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION statement,” Cannon declared. merely a repitition of the old lies that| have been hurled at us thruout the) entire campaign. Any time we tried to do anything for Sacco and Van-) zetti these people wanted to limit the Defense Committee to collecting funds to give to lawyers and to soft- pedal the protest movement of the workers. “They never had any criticism to} offer of William Green and the other |ber 19th. ' traitors who betrayed Sacco and Van-| Describing the Legion parade and zetti to their death.” j convention as an “outrage to the uni- |. Gannon will issue a full statment|versal mourning for Sacco and Van-| thru resolutions adopted ag Petes : ; ” the General Confederation of’ (Continued on P Socialist Federation Joins Left Wing in War Against Fascist Gathering PARIS, Aug. 31—Even the Gen®Labor has followed the lead of the eral Confederation of Labor, social-|left wing workers of France in de- ist-controlled federation, has joined|nouncing the fascist gathering. The the nation-wide protest against the| confederation will have nothing to do American Legion Convention which! with any ceremonies connected with is scheduled to open here on Septem-|the Legion Convention, a statement issued yesterday declares. Workers Continue Campaign. For several weeks French workers, at meetings Three) society-against the attacks of a com- | mon criminal. | created in America a long series of | perpetrated judicial murders which in- ariably accompanied intensive con- flicts between capital and labor. Thus the eight hour movement of American labor in the eighties was | stifled for a time by the victimiza- |tibn of the Haymarket martyrs in 1887; the strikes and struggles of the metal miners of the west resulted in jan attack by American capital through a frame-up against Haywood jand others; the continued unrest of | the underpaid textile workers of New | England inspired the Massachusetts authorities to the frame-up against Ettor and Giovanitti in Lawrence; the desire to break down the resistance of American labor against the war brought Billings and Mooney as vic- der the shadow of the gallows. And the general unrest of labor after the World War was attacked by American \capital through its wholesale persecu- tion of foreign-born workers by the deportation delirium of the then At- torney-General of the United States, Mitchell Palmer. The outrage com- mitted by the prostituted capitalist | justice in the legal murder of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was an outgrowth of this delirium. i Persecute Foregin-Born. | Jt was during this peritd of whole- sale persecution of foreigii-born work- |ers that a thoroughly corr apted police department in New York and an equally notorious corrupted federal department of justice attempted to movement of America a blast of ex- plosives in Wall Street which was either planned by police agents or transported through the streets of the city for building purposes with dis- regard of the most elementary pre- cautions. All police organs, city and federal, worked feverishly to cover the trail of the real cause of the explosion an attempted to fasten it as a crime upon the revolutionary movement. ~ With This method of class warfare has | tims of an outrageous frame-up un- | ‘Tuesday night to greet the delegates to the Fifth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party ‘ealls upon American workers io build the International Labor Defense to curb legalized murders |like that of Sacco and Vanzetti. The resolution declares that it is the duty of the Workers (Com- H « | munist) Party of America to expose the nature of capitalist justice. The text of the resolution EP TES ant t follows in full: Oe pars : hird degree methods which. would ave been accepted with joy as welcome addition to the techniaue of |any medieval torturer, they attempted jto get “confes from innocent victims. these, tortured to |death, was unquestionably thrown out |of the windows of the department of justice headquarters in Park+ Row, w York. This victim, the Italian worker Salsedo, because unwilling to | perjure himself against his comrades |in favor of a frame-up of the depart- 2 | : 5 | brutality of this department with his {broken limbs end his mangled body. | | Salsedo was a friend and comr; lof Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti. The latter protested against |the outrageous murder of their com- |rade and thus drew the hatred of the commissioned framers upon their own persons. Sacco and Vanzetti Murder | The fedéral department of justice {and the judiciary machinery of the State of Massachusetts co-operated in and are both equally responsible for the frame-up which ended in the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Sacco (Continued om Page Two) y of All Workers MEXICAN COMMUNIST PARTY GREETS FIFTH CONVENTION OF THE WORKERS \ (COMMUNIST) PARTY IN NEW YORK Expresses Hope for Complete Unity of Brother | Party in This Country Fraternal Communist greetings were received by the Fifth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party yesterday from the Communist Party of Mexico calling for increased struggle against. American imperialism, the common enemy of the work- ers of both countries. ram, read by |the convention assembled | 15th Street, was as follows: | | Lovestone, to ving Place and “The Mexican Communist Pariy the Fifth Convention of its Brother Party, the Workers (Com- munist) Party, wi g the outcome will be complete unity. Yours fcr the overthrow of the ce 2 enemy —American Imperialism.” greets Enthusiastic applause greeted the reading of the telegram. | There has always been the closest co-operation between the Com- munist Parties of the United States and Mexico. Recent conven- | tions of the Mexican Party have been attended by fraternal dele- gates from our Party. The receipt of the telegram of greetings would indicate that the Mexican Party is not planning to send \a fraternal delegate to New York for the present convention. | / Greeting from Pittsburgh. The convention also received BRAIRBE CO IVE a telegram of greetings from a |ment of justice had to testify to the | | |with “Greetings and hopes for complete unification.” | The business sessions of the con- | vention opencd Wedneadayy. , follow ing the enthusiasti¢ demonstration in the Central Opera House, Tuesday night, addressed by Jay Lovestone, William Z. Foster, Ben Gitlow, Wil- liam W. Weinstone, Robert Minor, of |the Central Executive Committee; |Herbert Zam, of the Young Workers |League, and a representative of the Pioneers. Select Presidium of Five. After the reading of the agenda proposed by the political committe presidium was elected as follows: Jay Lovestone, Benjamin Gitlow, Max Bedacht,. William Z. Foster and Wil- liam W. Weinstone. Acting Secretary Lovestone was |chosen as the chairman of the aiter- |noon sion, with Foster as chair- (Continued on Page Two) street nucleus in Pittsburgh COAST FIGHT FOR MILITANT ACTION ‘Delegates to Convention Tell of Struggles Delegates from the Pacific Coast now attending the Fifth National Convention of the Workers (Com- ) Party I y Plaza, 15th ving ace told a repre- of The DAILY WORKER ntative yesterday of the sit n in the labor movement in their sections of the country. Emanuel Levin, dist organizer in California de: 1 trong op- position to expulsion of progressive (Continued on Page Two) KUOMINTANG IN AMERICA DENOUNGES WUHAN GOVERN AS REACTIONARY \His Failure to Loose Forces of Revolution; Supports Mme. Sun (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | & : | Central Committee of the Kuomin- in America has passed a resoiu- ernment tion to strictly 7 sen’s policy of cooperation w {Communists and the Soviet jand the lo peasants revolution. The Oakland and San | branches thave passed similax tions and the San F has also issued a long manifesto orously supporting the above policy in the Kuo Min Yat Po, the daily organ of the Kuomintang in America Union sing of the workers and REPLIGAS OF SACCO AND VANZETTI DEATH MASKS FOR NATIONAL TOUR PALO ALTO, Cal. Aug. 31.—The| ; -| that Mme. Sun Yat -| to Moscow lay at the door of the militant labor | ‘Chicago and Other Cities Request Copies for | Memorial Meetings The death masks of Sacco and Van-»masks were no longer there. They \zetti were taken back to Boston mid-| viewed the massive pyramid topped night Tuesday by Mrs. Rose Sacco, by a worker's fist and the many |so bronze replicas can be made. Work- wreaths that were on exhibition, ers in Chicago and other large cities} Last night ended two day of an ‘who have been arranging memorial |meetings will display the copies of| the masks. All day yesterday up to midnight thousands of workers continued to visit Stuyvesant Casino even tho the} almost continuous stream of workers into the Casino. The arrangements committee originally intended to have it open all night but the police de- partment compelled the closing at midnight daily. Agrarian gand is car paign suppo litant cam- wing pol- goon a icies. * . * to Moscow. ived by The cow state is on her way ne Chen, for- reign affairs -im Sun on DAILY WORKER fr with f mer minister of f the Wuhan government Mme Sun and Ev Chen de- nounced the Wuhan government whem it turned counter-revolutionary. * * * ne Borodin in Moscow. COW, Aug. 31.—Michael Bo- rodin, adviser to the Wuhan govern- ment before it turned revolutionary and one of the leaders of the Nation- alist movement in China has arrived here. -atrolman Gets Five Dimes as Rockefeller Goes on Spending Orgy MATAWAN, N. J., Aug. %1.—John D. Rockefeller has been on an orgy of spending again. The aged millionaire gave Patrolman Leroy Sproul five new Rockefeller dimes today. A motorist disregarded Sproul’s warning whistle when he passed a traffic signal. The next car was stopped by Sproul who ordered the chauffevr to pursue the offending | automobile. Sproul turned to the passenger and ph ts hy Rockefeller.