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

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, be sure to get them both, Vol. IV. No. 199. U.S. WAR VETERANS DIS . ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per xear. Outside New York, by muil, $600 per year. Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N.Y.) muder the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927 WN LEGIO Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 33 First Street, New York, M. ¥. | {NAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ¢ N CONVENTION Grand Jury - Continues Secret Quiz ir in Attack on Daily” MORE WITNESSES. MASSACHUSETTS “JUSTICE” COMES TO NEW YORK ARE QUESTIONED BY U,S, ATTORNEYS — } Inquisition Will be Kept Up Next Week Additional witine: called during the second day of the secret attack being developed before the federal grand jury in New York City against The DAILY WORKER, Among these were Whittaker Chambers and Harry Freeman of the editorial ff, and Jack Perilla, Fannie RoSen, Beatrice Jaffe, Anna Lawrence and Florence Geller of the business office. Anna Lawrence,.the switchboard operator, was recalled for the second day’s. quizzing. Among the others called on the first day, but who were not obliged to re-appear yesterday were Nancy Markoff, stenographer, | and Sender Garlin, of the editorial staff, and Harry Tamer, proof read- er. George F. Leisure, assistantUnitéd States attorney, who is conducting (Continued on Page Three) ; MILITANT LABOR URGED BY |. L. D. TO SAVE “DAILY” Wreing militant workers to back} The DAILY WORKER in its,struggle | for existence, and to organize front in defense of its editor: P. Cannon, secretary of the Interna- | tional Labor Defense has issued the following statement: Sees General Attack. “The summoning of the DAILY WORKER staff before the federal grand jury and the threat of a new assault against the paper is,a part of a general attack that is being launched against the American sec- tion of the labor movement all along the line, “The capitalists have executed Saeco and Vanzetti; but as we pre-, dicted their’ vindictive - persecution | does not stop thefe. Since the Sacco- Vanzetti case’ was an issue of the (eonsineds oe on neue Two) U, S. IMPERIALISM AGAIN WAR-MAD, SUMMERAL SHOWS: WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Continu- ing the preparedness campaign in| which he is a prime mover, Major- General Charles’ P. Summerall, Chief | of Staff of the United States Army, outlined the war situation which he | believes will face the United States in the near future, at the opening session of the twenty-second term of “the War College. , U. S. Imperiaiism Against World. Significantly General Summerall’ stressed the necessity of not viewing the coming war in the light of the, experience of 1917, “It must be born in mind,” he said, “that no two situa-| were —By Fred Ellis a ad Court EX-SERVICE MEN REPUDIATE PLANS. FOR ORGY IN FRENCH METROPOLIS; PLEDGE SUPPORT TO WORKING CLASS i United American Veterans Denounce Yicious. Acts and Utterances of Legion Rowdies .CHICAGO, Sept. 2,—The rising ‘sentiment among the veterans of the late war against the publicity stunt expressed in the Amer- ican Legion’s trip to Paris has been crystallized in the following cablegram sent to President Doumergue by the United American Veterans, Post 1, Chicago: M. Doumergue, President of the French Republic, Paris, France: Contrary to its claims, the American Legion is not rep- resentative of the American veterans numerically or ideo- logically, therefore the American veterans cannot be held accountable for irresponsible acts or utterances of the Legion. The United American Veterans desire to convey to the vet- erans and citizens of France its sincere greetings —UNITED AMERICAN VETERANS, by Jack Braden. The United American Veterans, an organization of overseas servite men who were unable to stomach the “boots and spurs” corps which compose the American Legion, is an organization of veterans regardless of race, creed or color. These former soldiers who really went thru the hell of the imperialist war have “pledged themselves to support the labor movement for all time.” The | address of the United American Veterans is P. 0. Box No. 1807, Chicago. LEGION LEAVES VETERANS IN U.S, WHILE OFFIGERS RIOT IN FRANCE tsi cates Make Up se bulk of Paris Joy- Riders; Poilus Hostile The American Legion, the “camp cootie: the |not represent the soldiers who fought thru the imp; overseas veteran is disgusted with the tactics of the ‘ |the “boulevard shock-troops.” The workers who were herded into the American fo: by the draft, or who signed up at the beginning of the war in the mistaken belief that they “home-servicemen” do ist war. The real ‘silk-stocking brigade,” Sigman Hails Gold and Hyman to | were fighting for an ideal, have come > Pe 7 | back home and have had ten sober | , Morris Sigman, CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGES PRESSED AGAINST-LEADERS, Oscar Mileat Writes | From Jail Ben Gold, Louis Hyman and Joseph | | Boruchowitz, leadérs of the militant | needle “trades workers have been | served with subpoenas to appear in the first district court next Thurs-} day as defendants in a suit for crim-| inal libel which has been filed by the union-breaking | president of the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers’ Union. In addition to the above nawieds| the editors and business manager of | ithe Jewish Daily Freiheit have also been served with subpoenas. The} suit is based on a series of articles | tions in war are alike. Not again can; printed in the needle trades weekly, we expect allies to constrain the enemy | | Unity, of which Gold, Hyman and for more than a year and furnish us| Boruchowitz are the officers. They with all essential munitions while we | were latter reprinted in the Freiheit are organizing our armies. Rather land The DAILY WORKER. must we visualize war as coming sud-| The articles reveal to the cloak and denly, without our desire or expecta-| dressmakers that Sigman owns and tion, and in spite of yevery course of | operates an amusement park at Storm | action to avert it. “Whether the enemy strikes on our | cperating with the bosses in New mainland or overseas, We must pour} York against the workers, he is help- soldiers into the theatre of operations| ing his wife aun the park. ‘The arti- | (Continued on Page Two) ‘eles disclose among other things the | Ps Scion {OPEN AIR OPERA “CARMEN” | Lake, Iowa, and when he is not co- | | Yesterday—Sacco-Vanzetti! ; Today—the Daily Worker! The scorching fires of the electric chair, that altar of American capitalist democracy, have hardly cooled before the bloodhounds of the ruling class again take up their furious hunt for those who dare to speak in the interests of the working class. On Thursday and Friday, members of The DAILY WORKER editorial, business office and technical staff were sub- jected to secret star chamber proceedings preparatory to the next assault of the capitalist class, Not satisfied with the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti, these Torquemadas of the Inquisition of 1927, now seek to destroy The DAILY WORKER, that weapon of the working class, which is pledged to carry on the work for which Sacco and Vanzetti, so bravely gave their lives. The working class has shown in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti how determinedly it can fight to protect its champions. Many workers held back, laboring under the illusions of cap- italist democracy, nourishing sofme hope in the justice of the American capitalist government. But the case of Sacco and Vanzetti has taught the workers an unforgettable lesson. We have learned to rely only upon labor’s united powez and strength. The new attack upon The DAILY WORKER will be met with all the hatred and determi- nation which the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti has inspired. “The contributions to the “GUARD THE DAILY WORKER FUND” will be the symbol of our unshakable determina- ee to ae for the protection of labor's. spokesman, The DAILY WORKER. “Mr. Sigman was greatly incensed cmp er eat STARLIGHT PARK JAMBOREE TODAY vam coe oe TQ) DRAW THOUSANDS OF WORKERS | trayal of their interests to have) the & union president conducting a business} Thousands of left wing workers of| re bys ey i ap si hn Fe enterprise of any kind. They have : ¢ He» all trades are expected to flock te) next morning. The Jamboree is ex. been outspoken in their denunciation Starlight Park today for the igipnt [pected to be the largest and mos of Sigman since they Jearned of this| Jamboree. They will combine the| impressive affair ever arranged. b: |secret business venture which has | pleasure of a good day’s entertain-|2"Y labor organization,in New Yor been absorbing the time of the man | ment with the pleasure of dealing aj pass Numerous workers’ clubs and who was supposed to be devoting him-| plow to the reactionsry Sigman, ther -workers’ organizations hi ( (Continued on Page Ghree} ‘elique jn the needle Aracks. | employed there. | by these articles, yesterday, “because he knows that | (Continued gn Page Three) ave | | years to think things over. They have | jthought a great deal. And one con- | clusion they have definitely reached is that the American Legion repre-| sents not the rank and file of the sol- | diers who saw service at the front in| | 1917- 18 but the~ influential. fellows, |the non-combatants in the quarter- | master division whose only smell of | |powder was on a_“mademoiselle’s | face. “For Wall Street!” The American Legion’s ery of For | God and Country is really a cry for Wall Street and the capitalists. The American Legion, if it serves any Bu pose whatever, serves the bos an organization of scab herders ca scab protectors. Most of the former service men were workers before they | were sent across the ocean. And moft of them have been workers since theys, came back. And most of them have learned the lesson that the American Legion has taught: that it is a sub- sidized organization whose purpose is to see that the workers do not think | for themselves and that they are kept defiant to the bosses. Legion Subsidized. The luxurious quarters which \the Legion maintains in many posts were | not paid for nor kept up by the dues} lof the membership. These headquar- ters which are used as decoys to lure in the new members are paid for by someone and for some purpose.» And | ~|the worker who was once a soldier ; knows what purpose the Legion }serves. He has found it out every me he has been on strike. He ha een it in a trail of lynchings. and ictimizations across the whole nited States. | The worker who is a_ veterar knows, too, why the American Legion maintains its intelligence bureau to - _ALL STAR CAST — HUNDREDS OF WONDERFUL JAMBOREE ATTRACTIONS [TODA Y, SEPTEMBER 3, ALL DA of the Furriers and Cloakmakers. For the Benefit of the Joint, Defense Committee and the Brave Fight STARLIGHT PARK, 177TH ST. EAST hip up interest in patriotism and | Americ: in the schools and social He knows why the Legion offers prizes for the best essay on “Our F “My Country” or “Wh a Has Done for Me,” ete. The worker who was once a soldier has seen the Legion’s hand |behind too many broken strikes ever to be hoodwinked by the show of good fellowship with which the Legion cloaks its activities. s Not Going to Paris. The pr nt American Legion trip to Paris is being held without the (Continued on Page Two) STRESS DANGER OF WAR AT STH PARTY MEETING Lovestone Makes Re- port to Convention Stressing the war danger, especi- ally the attack of the imperialist powe against the Union of Soviet Republics, Jay Lovestone, acting sec- retary of the Workers (Communist) made the report of the central executive committee to the fifth Con- vention of the party meeting in Irv- ig Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th Street. War Rapidly Approaches. estone declared that a world war is rapidly approaching. The imper- ialist nations of the world are laying (Continued on Page Three)