The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1927, Page 3

end on pont A ves nets THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, THU DAY, SEPT. / PAUL CROUCH ON TOUR FOR ANTI- IMPERIAL LEAGUE Served Prison Term for Communist Agitation y CARL HABSSLER. MUCH GASH SPENT ON GRAFT PROBES BRINGS NO RESULT |Hope to Find Redfern, ‘Missing Flier in South) Venezuela, Is_ Report | WASHINGTON, Aug. Hope that Paul Redfern. missing Georgia to Brazil ftyer, may be found in the bar- ren stretches south of Venezuela was held out today in a dispatch to the }State Department from Willie C. Coa American minister to Vene-' Failing on Higher-Ups Release Small Fry Cook reported that a mail carrie An indignant counsel for the Citi- | and’ several inhabitants of the village of Nacareito had seen a plane about CHICAGO, (FP) 31.—The in-}3 o’elock Saturday afternoon over the|zens’ Union rises to denounce Judge i ; ch, jour-/Orinoeco delta, It wag flying sbuth-| Ke!by’ on milk ‘graft in is a nalist, n és In the intelli: | cast toward Boes Gran An hour 3 erizi i than | ies nae Pe ee Ml the U. S. army in| before the plane was sighted a heavy | worthless, and it has | Hawai and peace-time. political pris-| storm broke over the Orinoeco. region. | only served to s sly hamper fur- pi La iar bay none Sats All governmental agencies in Vene-| ther iny 4 fi i oa vay Ddecame move vivid when! zyela are endeavoring to find further} This report cost the city $60,000 mo walked into the Federated: Pres: an - | 4 , 4 & Office. Slender and erect in his more | ‘12¢¢ of Redfern, Cook said. Few peo-|aceording to estimates, and resulted # than 6-foot height, with dark hair and|Pl@ live in the region where the plane |in not a single indictment. tant friendly straightforward eyes, slow| “5 sighted. strist Attorney Pecora examined and gentle of speech, he lo: 1 any- the evidence contained in ninety-six ose , thing but the bewhiskered firebrand | of civil war and rapine imagined by the doddering courtnfartial that sen- tenced him to 40 years at hard labor. Organized Communist League. His crime had been the organization of a league of Communist youth while Stationed as a soldier in H ii. The ferocious goldbraid warriors would Have ordered him shot if the articles of war had permitted. As it was, the Lo department at Washington, far om the infuria stimulants, cut 87 years off the sen- tence and Crouch served the rest, with the usual allowance for good conduct as a prisoner. ‘Crouch is a Caroli the turn of the centu: He joined the Young People’s Socialist League at 15 and turned toward the radical gide when the party split in 1919. Becoming telegraph editor of the Statesville (N. C.) Sentinel he quit because of the reactionary censor- ship and enlisted in the army in 1924, for the Hawaiian garrison, in search of literary material, knowing he could buy his way out after a year if he chose. assigned to the journalism staff of the intelligence service and soon rose to sergeant. His task was to write publicity for the papers from an angle designed to popularize and justify the army and its way: boy, born at ting effect of insular At honolulu he was | |fat envelopes, submitted by Judge Kelby, and came out with the opinion that there was “nary” an indictment |in the whole lot. Mayor Walker turned the milk in- ion over to Judge Kelby last time it was under- one “higher up,” s involved in the Current Even ts (Continued from Page One) United States but for fear of ennui, {not having anybody to fight with, ex- | “*" jcept himself, Levine is gloriously | Stood that at 1 | upholding the traditions of the Fight-|@ powerful fig ing Race. |} milk scandal. Somehow or other the investigation | PRY the way, now that Henry Ford|seemed to have languished, for on * * * |¥ has apologized to the Hebrews for; March of this year, the Citizens’ |his ‘campaign of slander against| Union protested at the delay, and them, and incidentally paid for the| would not be denied. They ried |luxury of his belligerencyg the Irish) their complaint to Mayor Walker, who | world, a semi-catholic, semi-Irish-Re-| requested Kelby to make public “as {publican weekly in New York ‘is) much of the report as can be revealed taking up the fight. Using as an! without. interfering with ercuse a movie which is said to slan- : der the Irish people, the Irish World has embarked on a crusade against | the Jews which surpasses in vulgarity |and venom the worst that the agents | tions.” The bulky report came to light, and \then it was revealed that those | against whom the alleged evidence of the Black Hundred of the Czars|had been obtained were the smallest did in their hey day. Incidentally of small fry. The “powerful higher- the editor of the Irish World (a fel-| Up" who was to be “investigated,” low: by the name of Jones) wrote a/ failed even to get a mention. icious article against Sacco and} And’ now Leonard M. Wallstein, 'Vanzetti, branding them as murder- | counsel for the Citizens’ Union, wants /ers, anarchists and atheists. | something done about it. ie ig bs | “Not only has the report failed to E hold no brief for plays on screen | develop evidence warranting prosecu- or stage derogatory to any peo-/tion,” says Wallstein, “but for over | ple, particularly an oppressed people, , year it has obstructed effective prosecu- | In February 1925 he was arrested | and we know that one of the favorite) prosecution, andr seriously handi- for his radical opinions and activity.) Weapons of the imperialists has been | capped any real investigation that He was soon on his way to a cell in| that of slander. The ruling classes | tay now be begun.” Alcatraz military prison, the isle of |0f all ‘countries have tried to laugh | Political opinion generally seems to bars and shadows lying just inside the | the Jews out of existence after they | i RRS eeLe POT i ‘ i |take the stand that the investigation Golden Gate in San Francisco bay.|failed to crush them by Ornette b whitewashed. And the job He put in 6 months at hard labor with| methods. The British represented the| Rae nee 3 3 pick and shovel and the remainder of |Ivish as buffoons. Every other | cost $60,000. his time in the prison tailor shop. | Power used similar methods against | TRE eee During his stay there over a score| their own subject people.. This) Oppose Exploitation of Potomac. of prisoners became converted to the | Tidicule was designed to create the | CUMBERLAND, M4, Aug. 31 radical cause. On a ballot of 60, impression that the peoples against | (FP).—Vigorous opposition to private prisoners 37 voted for Communism| Whom it was directed were not cap-! exploitation of the power resources of and. 23 against. Propaganda was|able of governing themselves. It| the Potomac River is voiced by the carried on while at work, Sundays | Worked. . | Distriet of Columbia—Maryland Fed- and during mealtime. On his release Fe be 3 | eration of Labor’s executive council. he received 64 pounds of mail that had been withheld by the prison censor. Grouch is now touring the principal cities as a speaker for the All-Ameri- ean Anti-Imperialist League. |OVING picture magnates are now| Representatives will appear before the | ™ capitalising the appetite for this kind of optic fare. The fact that E sens of them are Hebrews is no ex- anation of the matter. There are Trish film magnates and Irish film : \directors and Irish theatre owners Ferry when the Potomac Power Co. asks permission to build a series. of | power dams between that point and Washington. | The federation prefers the develop- federal power commission at Harpers | i Wwilik * {just as responsible. And they are all{ment of the Potomac as a national | Cruiser for Williams ‘willing to caricature and hold up to/ park, but insists that if power is to <i i 4 \ridicule the mothers that bore them rated from its falls, that th RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 31.— advantage of the profit-lust of mov-| ergy can be sold at minimum cost, President Coolidge is opposed to the ing picture barons and theatre own-| .. i Canada. proposal that the navy make-a fast We tp Stakes ey CR | eruiser available to take Liet. Al Wil- It-will not lay the blame squarely - 5 : a zs ( 7 F Peles ¢| PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., Aug. liams and. his plane to Venice for the where it belongs, i.e., at the feet o international air races, it was stated the profit system. Where Henry|31.— Lieut. Alford J. Williams, U. S. Ford failed, it is not likely that the|N., today deferred until tomorrow his here today. A trans-Atlantic service | Irish World will succeed in a cheap, | attempt to break the world seaplane is maintained, which is entirely ade- | quate for any | ignorant vulgar anti-Semitic cam-)vecord of 258.87 miles an hour, now such move, it was said. | paign. iheld by Italy. for which Their Lives Carry on the Fight Sacco, Vanzetti Gave j 4 i Support The Daily Worker, which led the struggle to save them, Defend The Daily Worker against the attack of those, who murdered Sacco and Vanzetti. Help to maintain’ The Daily Worker to carry on the fight for which Sacco and Vanzetti died. Answer the capitalist as- sassins with your sup- port of The Daily Worker in its fight FOR ae . Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti The Defense of Class War Prisoners | i. A Strong, Militant Labor Movement { © A Labor Party and a Labor Government “| The Protection of the Foreign Born The Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union 2 : Hands Off China The Abolition of All Imperialist Wars Here Is My Tribute to The Memory of Sacco, Vanzetti. DAILY WORKER. 33 First St., New York, N. ¥. Tnclosed you will find ...m... dollars as my tribute te memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, and as my_contribution to help the Daily Worker carry on the fight, for which they have given their lives, The Abolition of the Capitalist System |Plattsburg Camp Near Time for Its Closing: PLATTSBURGH, N. Y. The final phase in the trai 1,820: military students starts day, August 29th. .ccor “ng to sa‘litary officials th been one of the most suc amps ever held at thi Unser the direction of rezul serve offi¢ers commander’ by Cole John H. Hughes, the student drilled im all the. modern ence, Jersey Federation | Of Labor to Meet September 13-14th (By IRVING FREEMAN) The ek eae 8 Australia (FP.)—Legis- NEWARK, .N. J., Aug. 31.—The | ernment is det ed at all costs to|!ation has been introduced by official call for the 49th annual con-| break the milit it of the Salon- | labor ment in’ New South's vention of the New Jersey State Fed-| iki to ho, together | V dchiosdiies p Suerent eration of Labor went out last month. The conference will take place in Camden Sept. 18th and 14th. Dele- | gates from all local unions and cen- tral labor bodies will send delegates. Many problems will come up for so- lution. - In the past year the courts | have made a farce of the anti-injunc- tion law; every bill favorable to labor | was killed by the politicians assem- bled in Trenton, Passaic strikers re- main in the penitentiary; judges are willing to do the bidding of the bosses and there..remains the job of organ-| izing the bulk of the wage workers | who are unorganized, While many opposition candidates to the machine will come as delegates we can safely predict that instead of | taking decisive action towards organ- | izing the unorganized, organizing al strong Labor Party the convention | will go on record as in the past. The progressives will not be powerful jenough to overcome the poison virus | of the Hague machine thru Jennings, ete., coming from Jersey | | Brandle, | City. | These democratic labor politicians \are in the trade union movement for |their own ulterior purposes. There | will be a change of the state secre- itary and a good Hagueite will be {chosen. Until the progressives throw | off their faith in the officialdom they ‘will not succeed in breaking down the machine ‘in control of the State Federation of Labor. No progressive \ resolutionsgwill be passed and no mili- ltant action taken to overcome the ‘menace of injunctions, organizing the unerganized and organizing a Labor Party for 1928. Police Raid Impromptu ‘Los Angeles Mourning} ‘For Sacco and Vanzetti, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 31.— A few minutes after the news of the jfate of Sacco and Vanzetti was | flashed over ther wires, hundreds: of | | people crowded the assembly hall of | the Co-operative-Center Building to \hold a memorial meeting, without any | | previous arrangements. © Police and detectives swarmed about the hall, at-| tempting to prevent the throngs from ‘entering the building and threaten-| |ing the speakers with arrest. Wm.) Schneiderman, M. Karpiloff, and! Frank Spector delivered memorial ad- | dresses after which the audience arose | jand sang the Workers’ Funeral March | | with deep feeling. | | The police tore down the black) |banner of mourning hung over the} | building. Hurried preparations were | |immediately made for a large mem-; ‘orial demonstration Thursday. | Workers Party hall is still being guarded, and the homes of Tom Lewis and other leading Communist of this city are being periodically raided and searched. | BUY THE DAILY WORKER ; AT THE NEWSSTANDS Latin-American nations in general and Panama in particular have just been warned by the state department that their membership in the League of Nations will not save them from perialism wishes to drive with them. Panama has been trying to shield her- self from a treaty which the state de- partment is forcing on her by the claim that its provisions conflict with her duties to the league. In a for- mal announcement, department offi- cials. assert that the new Panama- | American treaty does not impair Pan- ama’s rights. ’ Panama however is by no means so sure about it and the Panama Fed- eration of Labor in partiinlar is put- ting up a hot battle agaiust ratifica- tion of the document, which in effect signs away what shreds of independ- \ence the little nation ever possessed. In the next war, apparently with Great Britain, for which American military, diplomatic: and commercial interests are preparing, Panama must also embroil herself, the new treaty provides. . f Makes A ‘Slave State. While franker than the treaty of 1903, which legalized Roosevelt’s in- Colombia and the subsidizing of a successful revolution, this new docu- ment evidently aims at the same end, F DEPUTIES TRIED 1 Immunity I \faties were demanding the right of the jlation among GREEKCOMMUNIST Our Letter fr atl Page Three om Australia Fascist Confat. ’, Australia (FP.) ughout A ] a conf a mountain resort near ing the second we 2 that the the the ence IN WHITE TERROR Revokeds | yithout » ly Also Sued polit their goodwill”, tending through of the Titalian porter: has little influence out: Should with Austr izations ar ith the “ posi- Red Dai ities.” ATHENS, Aug. of the action of the governme tional imr t munist deputies colac tried f result y Greek the constitu- he Com- Rapani- ut to be The charges grew out of the recent demonstvatior the militant to- are 4 bacco workers in Saloniki in which| ‘Pe tascists a warm t when the police|°Ccasion warrant. one man was * * - Restrict Chinese Workers. SYDNEY. Chinese workers in furni: of the tex- remaining on the prem nen, have with the pow tile-workers, miner declared. their willingness to fight |ay’s work is ended. They must now ide by side with the Greek Commu-| leave the factories at 5 p. m. of an nist Party for the rights of the ex-|@Vening and not return before 8 a. m. in the morning. work on Saturday da: The Furniture Trai 1 officials have been granted the right to enter the Chinese factories to see that the law is being obsery A previous law observed Chinese to be on factory premises after they had officially finished their work. If they were caught at work they were all “working proprietor: and if they were not “partner was a case of “no ye competitors again ploitel Greek workers. | “The incitement to revolt” with which Papanicalaou and Soulam are charged consists in their speeches to the Saloniki workers who were} demonstrating aga’ the infamous Workers’ Security Fund, disable- ment insurance fand established by law, into which the workers have to pay 4 per cent of their wages. The tobacco bosses are t fund and collect the butions. The two Co Chinese al- leged that the Chinese did not know workers to elect their own repre-|°©5°¢ . 7 sentatives as trustees of the fund| Might from day, neither did they ok maliaiy tiie Waid: diachione serve week-ends and public holid * » * Daily Communist Paper Attacked As a further step in the govern-| ment’s drive on the Greek workers the Greek Communist daily, “Rizo- SYDNEY, Australia (FP.) — The New South Wales Labor Government has approved of plans for the estab- pastis” is also being sued by the gov-|lishment of a government-owned rnment on charges of inciting to re-| Wireless ice in the state of N. S. volt, “Rizopastis” ha: wide circu-'| 7 The scheme will co-ordinate and the mi t Greek develop the wireless services now workers and trade unionis' e con- | 7 government de- a departemental cation in order to nt work, and pro- relay stations for a central station. from the ex- ing station at provide tem of commur acilitate gov * # Soviet Union Workers. BOURNE ia (FP) administration, government Russian _immi- country a “red” ME arriving are scrutiny and in lowed to ty Russians who fro Chi: ver" rom China were government was nbs or “Bol- South Paci- er since the e Samoan I8- ed New > been more ase of the their tribal eus- forts to get d—the New to British Recently, the native peti- tioned the government to be allowed »|}to go to New and so that théy could st e their case for a return to the old time customs, but the New Zealand government refused to is- sue them passports, The govern- ment’s action evoked considerable the natives and the as now interpreted this n attempt to ferment jnative d tent! The latest action jof the g¢g nment has been to |threaten white inhabitants in Samoa portation if they do not cease g their sympathy towards the sympathy with government h npath | exterid nat | The ten Communist deputies in the} |mational parliament at Athens have protested vigorously against the pro- posed governiment increase of the con- sumption taxes to 235,000,000 drach- | mas. The government succeeded in introducing the measure, however. French Labor Unitgd) In Growing Attack An) The American Légion! Eesashionudt deatn Pasie One) ¥ CUBA *oligarchy. Thus it appears that this shameful procedure on the part of the Pan-A. F. of L. has given the Machado dictatorship encouragement to further their plans for crushing completely the Cuban labor move- ment, : The Machado government has an- nounced the confiscation of 22,000 documents which refer to 680 active trade-unionists of!members of the Cuban working clase But very little as yet, is| and anti-imperialist. movement, many THE MACHADO TERROR I By J. NEVAREZ. The terror against the Cuban work- ing class initiated by the government) of General Machado, in the interest of the Wall Street sugar holders still continues and exacts its toll from the! ranks of the workers, taking its best elements. Some months ago it be- came known to the world that the Machado executioners have deprived more than 200 their lives. and thru statements published in| known of the grim deeds of Machado,| of them Communists, out of which ‘L’Humanite, daily organ of the/|in theoutside world, because of the|118 have been indicted and will face a French Communist Party, have at-|censorship, |farcical trial, torture in the prisons tacked the meeting of the Legion. | In spite of the disclosure of the) and execution. The united protest that is arising | Machado terror made by Chester W)) fare > against meeting of the Legion is evi-; Wright, erstwhile secretary of the| + Ap. eon denced by the declaration of the so-| Pan-American Federation of Labor,| CHICAGO, (BE) 206 ae bor-d cing machinery invades the The | BAR LEAGUE FROM HELPING LATIN-AMERICA WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (FPP).—,the vassalage of the little state whatever hard bargains American im- | terference in the internal affairs of | tions against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti last week. Deport Tass Correspondent. Jules Broune, Paris correspondent for Tass, official news agency of the/ Soviet Union was deported from the country for sending honest reports of the Saceo-Vanzetti demonstrations to the U. S. S. R. Broune was de- ported despite the fact that a pro- test was lodged by the Soviet ambas- sador, | Sixty workers are still being held | by police authorities for having par-| ticipated in the monster Sacco-Van-| zetti demonstrations last week. Boston Liner Floated Again. } | POCASSET, Mass., Aug. 31. — The |Eastern Steamship Company New|} {York to Boston liner “New York,” which went ashore today in the sand north of this place as she was about to enter the Cape Cod canal, was ps heae again after a wait of almost | five hours for hi |; through which the Panama Canal |runs, Although Panama is forced to declare war against whatever enemies’ | the United States may have, this is | nothing new. Panama was dragged into the world war the day after the | United States declared war on Ger- many. On that same day, April 7, 1917, Cuba was also dragged in, Both | Panama and Cuba are thus virtually | dependencies just as Hawaii and the Philippines, | But the status of Panama as a mem- | ber of the League of Nations has ruf- fled Washington diplomats. The league has bothersome provisions con- cerning the declaration of war by its members which cbyiously would pre- | vent Panama from being plunged into jwar just because the United States | ordered it. That these provisions are valueless and of no effect insofar as Latin-American nations are concern- ed, is made plain by the state depart- ment’s pronouncement, which is a warning to the League that it had better not butt in on the private deals which the United States forces on its «uasi-independent vassals in the Car- ibbean. The pronouncement is a hard blow at the League’s prestige in Latin- America and is official notice to the selves that the League can save them selves that the leageu can save them from the ‘colossus of the North, " \cialist confederation, which refuse to|the recent congress of that body big printing establishments in the |participate in the mass demonstra-|failed to take any action or vent the cities, skilled workers are being slightest protest against the existing) ¢rowded out and the printing crafts state of affairs in Cuba. On the con-! unions face heavy burdens of unem- trary, the delegates sent by Machado} ployment. Chicago Typographical to this so-called labor congress, and) Union No. 16 is assessing its em- the cable greetings from this mur-) ployed members 1 per cent of their derer of the Cuban workers were,| earnings to aid the members unable ironically enough, seated and accept-| to, find work. Pres are also ed, and the Machado agents were per-| finding it difficult to disc mitted. to whitewash the Machado| jobs to go around. “See Russia for Yourself’ A Tenth Anniversary of the _ Russian Revolution! Second Tour --- Six Weeks Environs Leningrad Moscow Extensive celebrations throughout Soviet Russia will usher in the Tenth Anniver- sary of the Russian Revolution this Nov- ember. The Moscow Art Theatre and sim- ilar artistic and cultural organizations are elaborately preparing to make the occa+ sion a memorable one. Members of our fall tour will witness the history of Soviet Russia from its world-shaking inception to its present prosperity vividly portrayed in pageant and festival. Visiting delegations expected from all countries compel ua to mit the number accepted to 100. “If we were a royal or diplomatic delegation we could not have received more attention, consideration, hospitality and ovations.” “Russia was a revelation! that exists cannot be seen elsewhere... + to another world.” Such a spirit and enthusiasm It is like going (Excerpt from a letter written by a prominent participant in our first tour.) QE Covers All Expenses— 3m $575 From Sailing to Return $575 WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave. New York Algonquin 6900 t Achievement in History” “The Greates