The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1927, Page 2

‘Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY / WORKERS ARE URGED TO BUILD THE | | TRADE UNION PROGRESSIVES ON COAST FIGHTING INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE FOR MILITANT ACTION ‘Moore, Jailer of _ Passaic Strikers, The Capitalist Press Is No « Place to Discuss Lessons of (Continued from Page One) {b ultra-reactionary forces and is not members of the Central Labor Union) ¢ tive. |of Los Angeles that is now expressing! In’Portland, Ore ‘on, the only union F i T S d V tt (Continued from Pc f the whole frame-up against |itself. Recently the labor council] of any sapoitahee ie the Carpenters. a e O acco an anze 1 cores Free Speech . and Vanzetti did not die as ¢ f i LW be laid pes weer all local uni in de- Strong Progressive Group. a | Ree of crimes com i of America get a | monstrations for Sacco and Vanzetti Santino macok, avo Bik i SET | —_—— LL but ieee noni the brutal manifestations and when the unions started to do Bic Vise A at tern By 4 LOWS ERGDARL, By IRVING FREEMAN. mes of the federal d& els che a ee fo ae the orders cancelled at the} the Central Labor Council on the SPRING LAKE, N. J., Aug. 31—~ ‘ ie of the j aE Pe ee eck ae oe a NOEs lévin said , charge of being Communists. The re- LDINO FELICANI, member of ¢ An excellent confession of the |Governor A. Harry Moore, democrate State of Aves shal eeuthé coon chic Unions Gain Membership. actionary forces hoped that would act) the Sacco-Vanzetti_ Defense | bankruptcy of anarchist theories | elect has pitched himself on the bande eee ice ‘ : ibility According to Levin the Electr us the death knell of the progr €! Committee of Boston, on two 6c- has just been ‘made by Ephim Yar- | wagon of professional patriots last vom a [and M chinists’ Unions are gain movement there. But they ulated! casions at least since the execution | chuk, a Russian ex-anarcho-syndi- |week in his speech before the Mone ae + case where the | Membership Los Ange The | wr for today *d*Strong -group-of| of the two wor cola cco I calist, ina Jeter to the Pravda | mouth County Historical Association, capital clash with the in-|>Uilding trades of Hollywood, the| progressive delegates sit in the coun-| and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, h (June 15, 1927), the central organ jhe declared, “that under the guide of commun! power as a italism and ciety. Capit of the power of destroyed in Sacco anc of its enemies. In capitalist state Philosophy ms isregard nistic state the capitalist not disregard antagonistic phies. It str’ proves with co will never c but will giv tial force of the prolet Into one revolutiona Expose Capi Ym the face of this prove of capitalist justice it becomes the fluty of the Party to tear the false masks of fairness and e from W. Virginia Labor Calls for Unions --For Unorganized By Federated Press. capitalist orship, PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 31.| Adoption of a program ealling for state-wide campaign to unionize the | anorganized workers of West Virgin a closed the twentieth anniversary tonvention of the state Federation of Labor. President John B. who was-reelected without opposition, will take charge of the enrolling of | she hundreds of volunteer organizers the convention expects to assist in the drive. Easton’s recruits will work hand in hand with the various international | anions, the state federation furnish- ng the unifying force. Miners Union Week. The twentieth anniversary conven- tion opengd with building jrades, orinters, glass workers and other delegates from the non-mining occu- gations in control. The once power- ful West Virginia miners’ district | outrage and to s in its true light The | mination to end capitalism. Easton, ll transmit to e from the case, nnot come It sighs ggle of $s against capital and its in- tion Must Build LL. D. * The Party shall draw the attention ity of preparing, thru ng and strengthening of the al Labor Defense as a pro- apon, again: the ever- reatening danger of persecution. e Workers (Communist) Party Jo all in its power to make the ory of Sacco and Vanzetti a hed tradition of the American g class, to plant in the hearts merican proletariat revolu- tionary hatred against capitalism and into their heads revolutionary deter- unions have shrunk to a shadow the powerful organizations of—<#0,I members and more than once domin- ated the state labor gatherings. Will C. Thompson, secretary-treas- urer of District No. 17 of the United Mine Workers, took the floor the first afternoon and made an appeal for aid from the rest of the labor move- ment. Referring to the strike still continuing in parts of the Fairmont (northern) field and the meetings be- ing held in the southern regions he said the job before the U. M. W. of A. was a huge one, and the other | trade unions must lend their full sup- port if it was to be successful. Tell of Attack on Unions. Mining is the basic industry West Virginia and with the defeat of the miners’ union the whole labor movement has suffered. Delegates from the Typographical Union told |how the two leading newspapers of Charleston, the capital city, have gone open shop in the last Building tradesmen told of attacks on their organizations. Realizing that a vigorous counter-movement was necessary the convention voted for the organization drive from which much is expected. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT -THE NEWSSTANDS “The Drawings in This Book Are Aflame .With the Idea of the Class Struggle—” | world mov [pointed a spe hat’ justice thi J pie th ean workers to the im-| |can workers are brot into the st A workers of | year. expire at the same time. | salmon fishing center in the world is | than 1,000 members. | City Police Hand Out | ever, to serve subpoenas on the mem- militant various Also a s are large body of found -in -the picture center has ap-! cil. al committee to con- tinue the organization work. Even e actors and actresses are planning) The lumber workers are to become union my y joining iz They, number more th p the Equity Associa is their step towards their |answer to the producers threat to cut/orgization has been ainong the their salaries. higher skilled shingle vy who The most unorganized workers in have been organized in (¢ Har- q| bor, Kalamo and Ballard. out 2,- also poorly paid} ° : 3 : rs. Recently in the|°00 men-are in this union. 5,000 workers who! Organized 160 per cent. went there in response to a call, were] In Gray’s Harbor they are organ- | left stranded due to a disagreement | ized 100 per cent. In the other places between the packers and the fruit| the figure is not quite so high. Re- growers, {cently a strike took place at Kalama Work As Slaves. | which resulted in an increase of four} In the Imperial Valley many Mexi-|cents a thousand in the amount ot work done. peach by special privileges and are kept under virtual peonage. Work for unusually low wages fruit packing, cotton picking farming. Recently then| Plans for the organization of the] 1ey|other lumber workers are going for-| at|ward. The average pay is $3 to $3.50! and|a day for 8 hours. The bosses are| |attempting to raise the work day to| the unorganized lumber|10 hours. were given a $2 slash in| Referring to the growth of the| wages. These highly exploited work- party, Aaron Fislerman, district or-| ers are mostly in the Sugar Pine and| ganizer off the Party at Seattle, said| Red Wood sections of the state. that durig the last year 240 new! In Oakland there has been formed| members were secured in the district. a confernece to work for the repeal| The Party has recenlty opened a new of the state criminal syndicalist law. headquarters in a three-story build- unions Twenty are represented injing. An open forum and 10 classes this organization. The Building} will be started on September 18. Trades Council of Oakland is support-| The Party has participated in ing this move. many united front movements dur-!| ing the last year. They have been| on such important questions as Sacco and Vanzetti, Hands Off China and/ other subjects of international im-/| portance. Tells of Frisco. Ernest Ettlinger also from Califor- | nia told of the labor movement in San Francisco. He told how six year ago} the open shop drive was started | against the building thrades unions, and of the general strike of 1921. The strike of the 2,000 carpenters M F X ic A N PARTY that started in April of last year and | ended in a defeat this January was also referred to. After their defeat GREETS THE aTH U, S. CONVENTION the rank and file decided to get rid Sees U. S. Imperialism | of the reactionary machine within the | defeat. According to Elltinger, the As Commen,Enemy largest carpenters’ local in San Fran- cisco is supporting wholeheartedly this rank and file movement. For Joint Agreement, Tn the painters’ union the progres- sives are advocating a joint agree- | ment between all building trades | unions and the bosses, all of them to They are also propogating the five day week. Every building trades union in Los Angeles is being visited to gain their support for the struggle. Arrange- ments for a large labor day parade in Los Angeles are now being prepared Conditions in Oregon. Delegate Sulo W. Syvanen of the | Finnish Communist Daily Toveri, As-|and Alex Bail. ‘ | toria, Oregon, recited the ocnditions| The press committee consists of J.| in the state of Oregon. | Louis’Engdahl, William F; Dunne and| According to Syvenean the largest | Robert Minor. | Following these preliminaries the convention recessed to allow the cre- dentials committee to get to work and consider the challenges that had been made of délegates in several dis- | tricts. Herald-Tribune as Provocateur. On the opening day of the conven-| tion the New York Herald-Tribune| appeared in the role of provocatuer, | very evidently seeking to incite gov- jernmental action against the Workers | (Communist) Party. It printed a lur-| Many Subpoenas For lid story declaring that the conven-| U.S. Gover nment tion was being held in secret “some-| where in Westchester country.” | In speaking of the convention the| |Herald-Tribune declares that: | “The actual place of meeting is be-| ing kept secret by the Communists. | It is known only to delegates and de-| partment of justice men operacing as active members of the Workers Party. union that was responsible for their | (Continued from Page One) man-of the evening session. The. var- ious members of the presidium will} interchange as chairman during the} sessions of the convention. The credentials committee was se-| lected to consist of Jay Lovestone, Jack Stachel, Abram Jakira, John J.} Ballam and John W. Johnstone. The financial committee includes Jay Lovestone, William W. Weinstone | located in Astoria. The fishermen there have organized themselves into a federal union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. It is known as the Columbia Fishermen’s Protective Association and has more The carpenters union in the same city is dominated (Continued from ‘Page One) tion of the Workers (Communist) Party. No effort was made, how- bers of the staf of “The Daily” at- tending the convention. Warrants are outstanding against J. Louis Engdahl and Alex Bittleman to make an an Commun the capitalist pr tack on the Ame movement. , an anarchist tti were made no d 0 erence to the in the United other country. nd Vanzetti were the wi oned, placed on trial for i s and sentenced to death by the capitalist state. Commu- nists made every effor no sacrifice, to achieve tion. There should have been no dif- ference between wo. and work- ing class organi to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the elec- tric chair. Unfortunately there were differences. There should be no differences to- day among the workers to build for the unity of American labor and the development of its power, in memory of the heroie fight waged | by Sacco and Vanzetti. But un- fortunately there are differences. Communists are first in the effort to overcome these differences, to cement the unity of labor. * * a In attacking the Communist movement, Felicani does not do so on principle. He resorts to the age- long subterfuge of raising the ques- tion of finances. The International Labor Defense and the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee of New York City have | both carefully, repeatedly and pé tiently answered all of Felicani’s criticisms, In addition, it may be said, how- | ever, that Mary Donovan, secretary , of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- mittee of Boston, in a statement to The DAILY WORKER last Satur- day, specifically repudiated the statement attributed to her in the New York WHerald-Tribune and other capitalist papers of that day to the effect that $500,000 had been 3 ists and never | say ? raised by Communists | come the duplicity, cunning and or~ | ganized resistance of the bour- | geoisie and their henchmen. aceounted for, which Felicani again alluded to in his interview in the capitalist press yesterday. It is an immediate duty of the Boston Committee to officially repudiate the slanders that have | been circulated in its name, and credited to Felicani, who is es- pecially obligated to give his views thru some other medium than the press of the enemy class. * # 5 Felicani, as an anarchist, may disagree in principle with the Com- munist program. altho it is difficult to understand how any intelligent worker needs better proof than the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti themselves to refute anarchist theories The revolution moyement that is actually threatening the capi- talist social order does not consist of workers who believe in the an- archist “negation” of power; of those who believe in individual terror and a passive “refusal to deal with the state,” but it is made up of workers who carry on an un- ceasing struggle of the proletariat for all power, for the destruction of the capitalist state. Such work- ers cast their lot with the Com- munist movement. * * * Let not Felicani debase the strug- gle, over the principle to a squabble over finances. That is a mere trick. It was the trick used by Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jew- ish Socialist Daily Forward, to hamper the work of the Friends of Soviet Russia, in the days of famine in the Union of Soviet Republics. | tory. That is his right, | of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Yarchuk writes as follows: “Dear Comrade Editor,—Please be good enough to print the following declaration: “Since 1903 I have been in the ranks of the revolutionary” move= ment and down to the present time belonged to the anarcho-syndicalist | wing. I took an active part in the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, working in Kronstadt. I participated in the formation of the Anarcho-Syndi- calist Confederation and bitterly criticized Bolshevism. I was ar- rested several times and in 1921 was deported from the Union of Soviet Republies. “Looking at the post-war West-- European revolutionary movement in general and at the anarcho- syndicalist movement in particular, T was foreed to put the following basic cuestions to myself: 1. “Can the revolutionary move- ment successfully develop when not headed by a strictly cehtralized party—as the anarchists believe? 2. “Can the social revolution be victorious without the dictatorship of the proletariat ? 8. “Ts the road chosen by the Communist Party (Bolshevik) lead- ing to Communism? “During the process of my work and deliberation on these questions, and after long discussions with an- archists I must admit that! 1). “Only a strictly centralized party, led by experienced, tried and true’ fighters with a clear and exactly defined class-proletarian ideology, can lead the revolutionary movement of the proletariat. Such a party is the Party of the Bolshe- vik-Communists. 2). “The experience of the Rus- sian Revolution must convince every honest revolutionary that a trans- fer to Communism from a Capi- talist State is possible only by means of force. Only the dictator- ship of the proletariat can over- 8). “If the process of the de- velopment of the Russian Revolu- tion has dispelled all illusions (ine cluding my own) on quickly sur- mounting the resistance of the bourgeoisie, on a painless transfer to Communism, then these vision- aries are alone to blame for this, for they were unable to penetrate the secrets of the dialectics of his- Taking into consideration all the conditions and circumstances that had accompanied the development of the Russian Revo- lution I must say straightly that the road shown by the Bolshevik Party is the only true and possible road that can lead us to the com- plete triumph of Communism. “With comradely greetings,—Ep- him Yarehuk.” Years of difficult struggle against capitalism in this country still face the workers of America. The capitalist class is most in- terested in confusing the workers in tMis struggle. It uses its press most ably in its effort to create this confusion. In spite of the capitalist class and its.press, the workers must learn the lessons of the fate meted out to Sacco and Vanzetti, and build its power for future struggles. Communists have full faith that, once learning this lesson corectly the workers will turn in full eon- fidence to the leadership of the American Communist Party and the Communist International. Governor Issues Proclamation. | Jersey? free speech we permit some folks to | talk and try to take the white stripes jand the blue stars out of our flag and make it all red.” “Tt is unfortunate that some newse papers and the so-called intellectuals give their aid to radicalism in Amer ica.” Real Hundred Per Center. Governor Moore sets himself up as a 100 per center and classes all citi- zens who disagree with him as radi- cals. This lick spittle who is in of- fice in Trenton only because he is the puppet of Mayor Hague in Jersey City not so many years ago was a worker. Today because he has played the game of politics he is the gov- ernor of New Jersey. Not once has he raised his voice or used his offices in the interests of organized or unorganized labor. At the last session of the legislature every bill introduced favorable to lab- or was killed and never adopted. The Passaic strikers framed in the tex- tile strike of 1926 are still in jail in Trenton. No pardon has been given them by the governor. In making the above speech Goy- ernor Moore was exploiting the Sacco- Vanzetti case for political purposes. The democratic national convention ia coming. They need a candidate for the presidency. Governor Moore sup- porters have already announced him as a candidate in the 1928 race for the presidency. Will the workers of New Jersey permit this ambitious political performer to fool them as he did when he was elected to office or will they proceed to organize a pow- erful Labor Party that will fight for and protect the interests of labor in The Tragic Case of SACCO and VANZETTI In Special Features in the New September Issue of the New Masses HEYWOOD BROUN The noted columnist of “The New York World” writes on “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti.” MICHAEL GOLD describes the city of Boston during this most exciting time. JAMES RORTY contributes a poem on Saeco-Vanzetti. ART YOUNG has drawn one of his brilliant cartoons. OTHER FEATURES on varied subjects— drawings, cartoons, ar- It is the subterfuge used by the reactionary bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor in avoiding a direct struggle over- |on state charges growing out of the| “Altho New York is given as the | publication of the poem “America,”|convention city in the call, it was learned yesterday that the meeting jon which Dunne, Miller and Gordon iN be ‘ h i Wee ‘have already been tried and convicted, | Place will be eo a principle with the progressives and DAILY) the left wing. At the time of the trials Engdahl was | chester county’. in Moscow, while Bittleman was in| It became known to The |Chicago. Detective Kelly has in-| WORKER that the following telegram ee ae |ferred that these charges would be|has been received by Mr. R. A. Hol- F elicani, however, is also quoted | pressed. lcomb, managing-editor of the New| as stating that the Communists of’ | Ask About Sacco-Vanzetti Case. | York Herald-Tribune, 225 West 40th} America are more concerned in In questioning members of the staff! St., New York City: spreading their propaganda than in jof “The Daily,” the visiting squad of! “Please assign two star reporters| aiding our comrades who died in the police department showed con- and Mr. Fred B. Marvin, editor of the| the electric chair. ; | siderable interest in the Sacco-Van- | late New York Commercial, t6 go| If Felicani makes this charge, | gunning with me somewhere in West-| and he has not denied it, then he | zetti case. } “You have been pretty busy during | chester. (Signed) Percy Parlor, Red ard bbe ia seat wagers Ginny cue the Sacco-Vanzetti case, haven't | Agent, Department of Justice.” | a 4 you?” was the suggestive question Convention Held in Public. | from those demanding the libera- | pat to draw out an answer. Of course, no effort was made to} he on te ial Setiabiol ares Members of the mechanical staff neti ron- ie Communist movement wa; jeep, the: meeting. piace ict sho,con the struggle for the release of all ticles and stories by noted writers and art- ists. ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 831—A pro- clamation issued by Governor Smith calling upon all citizens to aid in celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the political beginning of the state at Kingston, September 10 and 11, was being circulated today. Wirn a SpLenpip Inrropuction BY Joseph Freeman LLIS has given us in this book an in- spiration to carry on the brave fight of Sacco and Vanzetti. 25¢ a Copy on Newsstands Subscription $2.00 a Year Bond Salesman a Suicide. } CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 31.. — Albert A. Walters ,New York bond house representative in New England, who committed suicide in his apart- ment here by shooting, did so while mentally deranged and after he had informed his wife by telephone of his intention it was learned today. “The drawings—like their conduct ~call not for mourning but for strug- ’—says Jos. Freeman, noted writer n his introduction.’ Drawn in heat of the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti these ‘ed cartoons are a beautiful mem orial tribute to th iory of two brave workers. Here is a book that will more than you possibly can to the man in your and trade union. TO DAILY WORKER READERS A special introductory offer of $1.00 for 5 Months uy BUY THE DAILY WORKER NEWSSTANDS ) Only one cartoon EVERY PAGE IS St book is large size—9x paper. been placed on each page. \BLE FOR FRAMING. The * inches on heavy antique art Send for a copy tod ered practically at cost to distribution in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. 25 Cents Each Send a dollar for fom The price has béen low- ‘e the widest possible copies! pean " THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO New York i © 3 FIRST Se japproved of various material going were questioned as to the manner in| yention secret. While the Herald- which The DAILY WORKER was| tribune was spreading its “fake” the gotten out, who handled copy and who| New York Times was appearing with the news of where and When the con- Kept Charges “Dark Secret.” |vention would be held, i, The three plainclothes men who! This news was also published in de- served the subpoenas on members of| tail in yesterday's issues of The ; 4, | DAILY WORKER. any information. ‘The sections of the, Tt, Was also announced at the mass law involved in the serving of the meeting held at the Central Opera subpoeanas was kept a dark secret. | House on Tuesday night. % In the hope of serving the rest of | Reporters Arrive at Convention. the staff with subpoenas, the plain-| When the delegates gathered at clothes men loitered in the building the convention hall Wednesday morn- for several hours. into the paper. |ing there were plenty of reporters They asked for the editors and the present from all the New York dailies business manager of The DAILY and the city press association. They WORKER, who were out of the build-| did not take the fiction story in the ing at the time. } Herald-Tribune seriously. ¥ class war prisoners, just as it fights for the emancipation for the whole working class. Even the Boston Committee must now confess the complete bankruptcy of its policies, dictated in great part by bourgeois lawyers and other non-working class elements. % * * It is in fact the bankruptcy of anarchist theories, especially in waging such a struggle as was needed in the fight for Sacco and Vanzetti, that draws many work- @rs with anarchist sympathies into the ranks of the Communist Inter- national. This occurs not only in “the United States, but over the en- x tire world. AT THE $2.50 CLOTH BOUND . . The DAILY WORKER PUB, CO, 3-PIRST ST. NEW YORI THE NEW MASSES 39 Union Square NEW YORK, N. Y. Enclosed $ mos. subscription, for