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Cosgrave Runs for Several Offices; Defections Worry DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 5.—Presi- dent Cosgrave of the Irish “Free” State has placed himself in nomina- tion to run for the place made ‘vacant in the Dail when James J. Walsh; postmaster general and leader in the Sinn, Fein party, dramatically left the government,a few days ago. Cos- grave is determined to be elected, as is evidenced by his running simulta- niously “in three different districts, Cork, Carlow and Kilkenny. It is admitted that Cosgrave and his pro-English backers will have a harder party to leave it. and left the country, merely placed themselves outside the reach of governmental vengeance, without saying anything. The elec tions are on September 15. The government is trying to make 4 capital of the proclamation of th Fianna Fail (De Valera’s party) that they regard the compulsory oath of allegience to King George as a mere formality. Cosgrave agents appeal to the Catholic superstitions of the peo- ple by saying, “Don’t let the per- Jurers win.” Alderman Jinks of Sligo, the Fianna Fail member who saved Cos- grave’s government at the test vote by dodging out of the room is run- ning again, but as an independent. Brazilian Capitalists Also Fear Communism; Bar Soviet Union Envoy RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 5.—Per- mission to land upon Brazilian soil was refused by the police today to Boris Kraewsky, Soviet Union com- mercial envoy, and Roberto Hinejosa, former Bolivian legation secretary in this city, because of their Communist opinions, says an unconfirmed rumor in this city. ANEW NOVEE Gplon Sinclair $2.50 cae BOUND The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 FIRST ST. NEW YORK, N. Y. The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti By Felix Frankfurter. All the facts and testimony explained in popular style by a noted lawyer and Haryard professor. Cloth, $1.00 The Sacco-Vanzetti Anthology of Verse Edited by Henry Harrison. A collection of poetry by Seventeen noted poets, —25 DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 83 First Street, New York. time because of the recent | tendency of many elements in their) Walsh resigned: others have| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, 8) MINISTER QUITS \ | James J. Walsh, minister of | posts and telegraphs of Ireland, | has gone to Italy after refusing } to retain his seat in Executive Council or participate in gen- eral elections (Internationa) Newsrecl) | | | | | | Current Events | (Continued from Page One) final victory over the robber sys- tem that keeps their noses at the grindstone of wage slavery. * * * sent great masses of workers its importance was not lost on the cap- italists and on their press. The lat- ter paid much attention to it, the more pains were taken t0 give the public a distorted picture of the pro- ceedings than to tell the truth. The imperialists are nervous despite their great power and fear the spread of the Communist message among the working class. new world war is looming omin- ously on the horizon. The preda- tory Wall Street barons are plunder- ing South America and Asia and ready to shed the blood of hundreds of thousands in the hunt for profits. Great Britain is busily engaged or- ganinzing a steel ring around Soviet Russia. There are rumors that France is about to follow England’s example granizing a steel ring around Soviet Union. On all sidés are indications that world imperialism is getting ready for another bloodbath, hence their nervousness lest their aims be made known to the workers and their plans jammed as a result. * * * ARY BAKER EDDY, the founder of Christian Science has chased McPherson and Dr. John Roach Straton off the front page. Tho dead she speaketh. In fact the lady has done more than that. She is said to have reappeared in the person of a twelve-year-old girl who will soon get down to busines# saving the dead and doing similar chores in order to prove that death is a big fake. When the young girl has proven her case she will ascend to heaven without dying and let it go at that. Yet, people who believe this dope manage to make a living. Indeed some of them make millions. Py en tm Cee DEPEW, now in his ninety-third year saved his first $100 in 1861 and lodged it in a Peeks- kill bank. A few days ago he visited the bank and found his nest egg had linereased and multiplied until it amounted to $1,100. What a wonder jinstitution this banking system is? \Mr. | my ch so that he never even went to look at his treasure until last week. Yet it grew. Perhaps it was invested in Michigan beet fields or in South- ern textile mills where little children work long hours for a starvation wage. What did Mr. Depew care if \the blood of little children was con- i; gealed into the $1,000 increase? The | robber system is blessed by the chris- | tian god and the law of the land. TOKYO, Sept. 5.—Authorities to- day granted the necessary permission for the Pride of Detroit, the round the | world plane, to land at Toyko, The of the existing China quarantine. CIVIL WAR IN NATIONALIST CHINA — A dramatic eye-witness’ account of a six months’ stay in China, as a member of the International Workers’ Delegation, during which the author visited over 40 cities ang towns, during the period of the Chiang Kai-shek and photographs. split. With original - documents nS ‘CHINA AND AMERICAN IMPERIALIST POLICY By Earl R. Browder.—A pictu: Chinese Revolution. ($2.00 a hundred CHINA IN REVOLT re of the role of America in the —.05 in bundle lots.) A discussion on China by outstanding figures in the Com- munist International, — 15 The demand for “The Awak- ening of China” has brought _ out a new attractive edition at half price. NOW 50 CENTS DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 83 \First Street, New York EPTEMBER 6, 1927 Page Three CIVIL LIBERTIES "Sere. UNION DENOUNCES. . - POLICE VIOLENCE Cites Suppression of | Sacco-Vanzetti Protest Flagrant instances of violent sup- | pression of free speech and unex-} ampled police brutality in connection | with Sacco-Vanzetti protest demon- strations in many cities thruout the United States are contained in a statement just issued by the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union. New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and a number of other large cities are mentioned by the organiza- tion as scenes of legalized violence on the part of the police department. | The statement follows: While the eyes of the world were | | | } Tos RMR MRLs HY ite | Woe the convention did not repre- ! | general {ess of the British proletari A Flax Town. Work started in the Pskov distr Shows English Doom, . in the construction of a flax t factory with 9,000 spindles sp and 2 ning mill with | automatic flax MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 5.—} Alexander Lozovski has pointed out in Pravda that the Edinburg Trade ing muis Export of Moscow Industry. In 1925-26 the exports of the Mos- Jni $ Wi e rex cow industry amounted to 280,000 Union Congress will be more reae-| bles: in 1926-27, 1,280,000 rou tionary than Bournemouth which cov: pai ; % and in 1 28 it is intended to | Se) erate: oF ihe lit up to 2,600,000 roubles. congress will be a marked point in|Aid to Starving Peasants of Western the course of the decay and the bank- | White Russia. ruptey of the nationally limited and| Sixty-nine thousand roubles social-imperialistie policy of the trade | been collected in iet White Rus union and labor party leaders. The|in aid of the starving peasants broad masses in England are moving | Western White Russia (Poland). very rapidly towards the left. The| pea ants organized a mass British Comminist Party and the left | stration at the M wing Minority Movement are grow-|ted money for thi a s of The demon- ry Fair and collec- 1ungry brothers ing. The momentous historical proe- | German Workers in Soviet Sanitoria. i. eman- | Patrolman Daniel (“Hand: some”) Graham of New York police force, is held for murder of his friend, Judson H. Pratt. Graham is charged with slay- ing Pratt for $4,700 payroll, | focused on the central figures of the | }recent trag in } chusetts, the | ty | police many of the! authorities of |larger cities in the United States en- | | gaged in activities which, summed up, | jconstitute an all-time all-American record for the ruthl violation of | which, it is alleged, he blew in the constitutional ghts of free) in one wild night at the night | speech and assemblage, | clubs. 5 Arrests in Boston. (CInternetionel Uiuetrated News) | Outstanding instances of the legal-| Not only were his men outrageously ized violence which brought about} brutal in handling the people, but i this condition include the following: | there was not the slightest pretext Scores of protestants who joined | toy what took place. No disorder had | the first caravan from New York to! accurred.' Neither the people in Boston on August 10 were arrested | charge of the meeting ni jand roughly treated by the Boston | ence showed the slightest evidence of | police when they attempted to parade ‘inciting to riot’ or in any way doing jor hold protest meetings the next day | more than engage in the exercise of on historic Boston Common. Permits | thojy constitutional right of free ‘for meetings in public places were speech.” | denied by the police who also pre- Tereenve: Mourners. jeer ee holding: of mbshings) in Consistently following th policy | Private halls by intimidating the own-| o¢ irutality all during the period of ers into refusing to rent them. protests against the murders in Bos- ; Powers Hapgood, miner and Har- ton, the police did not show the slight- ard graduate, was arrested and re-| est feeling of humanity, even in the leased on bail on several occasions | presence of death. When the funeral jwaen he attempted to address Sacco- | of . 4 went through the city, its way near Vanzetti sympathizers on Boston| the state house was blocked off by Common, Arrested on a charge of | torn-up streets and city trucks turned speaking without a permit, he was | sideways and stalled. Mounted police- jfined and then charged with unlaw-|men rode repeatedly into the thou- |ful assemblage and atta¢king an of-| sands who marched behind the biers, |ficer. The arresting officer testified | swinging their clubs and injuring | that Hapgood had not attacked him | many, | but he was nevertheless sentenced on| In New York, meetings which took |the charge to six months in prison. | place in Unton Square were treated | His case was appealed and while he} jin the same manner, hundreds of {was out on bail, he was again seized | policemen hedging about the speak- jby the authorities and taken-to the|ers and audience while mounted psychopathic ward of a Boston hos- | troops waited a few paces away for | pital where his clothes were, taken | the order to eharge—and the order away from him and he was held a| wag frequently given. At one time, prisoner. After many hours delibera- |@ young woman who had not partici- tion, the learned doctors of the hos-| pated in the meeting but who was pital were forced to admit that Hap- | passing across Union Square Square godd was normal and above the aver- | was knocked unconsciously by an ex- the audi- | Depew has led a busy life, so | “we are tired of arresting you.” imprisonment is now on ‘appeal. tee, was sentenced to one year’s im- prisonment by a Boston Municipal Court judge because.she placed a placard among the floral offerings to anarchistie bastards?—Judge Thay- er.” She was charged with attempt- jing to incite a riot. and. distributing anarchistie literature. This is thought to be the first appearance of Judge Webster Thayer as an author of | anarchistie literature. | Police “Needlessly Brutal.” Describing the actions of the Bos- |ton police as “needless, unprovoked brutality,” Creighton J. Hill, in a let- ter to the Boston Herald, gives the |following description of the breaking up of a meeting on Boston Common: | “In fifteen years of newspaper re- | porting, I have never witnessed a |scene equaling that on Boston Com- {mon this afternoon for needless, un- | provoked brutality on the part of the Boston police. . . . I saw one woman knocked down by a blow from a policeman as she was trying to move }away. Had there been the least sign lof mob danger to warrant Superin- permission had been delayed beeause | tendent Crowley’s conduct, it might {have been at least understandable. | age in intelligence. He was released. | cited policeman. Later, at a gathering on the Common, | by employees of a bank on the square | a policeman recognized him and | and taken into the slapped him in the face, remarking, | gave her first aid. Hapgood’s sentence of six months’ |’ Miss Mary Donovan, secretary of | \the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Commit- | the two dead men which read, “Did | you see what I did to those two | ge | in intelligence. She was picked up offices where they Charge Into Crowd. | On August 29, the police used | horses, motorcycles and fire appartus to charge into a crowd of 10,000 or more persons who, after holding a memorial service, attempted to parade behind the automobile which carried Mrs, Rose Sacco, widew of Nicola Sacco. Many persons were injured. On August 9, police attacked stu- nts of the New York City Col- lege who were holding a protest meet- ing on the campus. The students were | roughly handled and placards which they carried were torn from their hands. Police Thuggery in Chicago. In Chicago, permits for meetings | were refused and use of private halls | withheld by the same method prac- | ticed by the Boston police—intimida- tion of the owners. For passing out | handbills urging a strike to save Sacco |and Vanzetti, seventy persons were arrested by the police shortly before the execution. Included among them was Aurora D’Angelo, a young girl, whose clothes were partly torn from her by the police. When she was re- leased on bail and continued her agi- | | tation, she was arrested a ‘second and | ja third time and finally confined in the psychopathic ward of a hospital as in the case of Powers Hapgood. Also, as in the case of Powers Hap- good, the doctors were forced to re- port her sane and above the average | She is now awaiting eipation from reformist illusions is} ¢'S will auataeye a Leningrad Py now under way. | August 15th. en route to Soviet | itoria. With the decay and disintegration | of the British empire in the back- | ound the ing reformist and so-| l-imperialistic trade unionism so decaying. “Let it die—w not be those who will mourn over its | grave.” The Voice of the Veterans of the Paris Commune. Antoine Gay and G e Inard now al] | living in Moscow letter td a inin the President of the Central g | Executive Committ of the U. R. stating that t | the menace of the [ \Citizen Soldiers, Now |s. 8. by world re: d. express s : their readiness to exert all their ma- | Hutiipped to Terrorize | tera ina moral foree in detonce of Workers, Get Medals) he Soviet Republic. 4 Statement of Georgian Intellectuals. A mass meeting of Georgian i ectuals was held on Augu | FORT DUPONT, Del., Sept | Hundreds of citizens soldie al NOW | rp, payed 5 . T There were amc {scientifically equipped for c is 2 rf 6 present many former Mer on the great business of labor shy 7 H haba bec SRs, ete. The meeting jof the bigg: camp, howev as the immen tra uated from her: . an coe i tion of insu Ce peg discontinued | "8 and other adventures by the P connec |actionary parties and Menshevik emi- amount of technical } ; cae 3 gres. The resolution dec stg whe ie, ne - jorganization of an insurrection in | order to turn an American) Georgia against the Soviet Govern- citizen into a well-trained cossack ment is the greatest crime against involves too long a course. the Georgian people, |, rhe, closing, exercises at the camp| New Workers’ Delegation to the consisted in the distribution of medals | U.S. S.R to the most promising sharpshooters The Unity Coihanitbes among the potential terrorists and to|1,y participants in the first and second jothers who have distinguished them-| Gorman Russia-Delegations) sent 5 selves by exceptional heroism on the | statement to the A. U. C. T. U aiyé ac Pager ese eal Kitchen. | ing that there is a big movement e Citizens’ Military Training | among German workers to send a Camps are part of the propaganda] now delegation to the U. S. S. R. for | for war which is being carried the Tenth Anniversary. of Outeber on by the United States Government} Revolution. A. U. C. T. U. replied |in order to prepare for the next im-! with an invitation to such a delega- perialist war in which it sees itself | tion arrayed against British imperialism : 4 F ; as | for the oil and rubber supplies of the| 6 The delegation will be in the U. S | world. ot "| against the: organi (organized Ss | the middle of November. It will con- |sist of elected representatives from factories and trade union of- als. There will be about 10 women Levine May Carry Woman. | LONDON, Sept. 5,—Charles hy | Levine, owner of the Transatlantic | inthe delegation. : |plane Columbia, announced this eve-| The members of the first and |ning that he would hop off for New| Second German delegations published | York tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock | 22 appeal to the German working |if weather conditions permit. |class to sign an address to the Rus- Food for the journey was placed | §!@" workers, The appeal says that aboard the Columbia this evening and | his address should prove the readi- | the gasoline tanks were filled. ness of the German workers to resist Levine said that Miss Abel Boll, of | 8"Y attack on the workers of the U. Rochester, N. Y., was anxious pecs i Bees of the differences they |make the flight on the Columbia as|@ve With them. ; ja pisietigée, bat. he wad, sndoctien | piel earenrly, seinh, the collection etre io tatee her Prime |of signatures, money will be collec- | g- ted to cover the expenses of the | heen aha ee | aelepation, over them and clubbing many. The : | injured numbered over two hundred. | Bucceastal verelopmen bat Dnieprostroi. | The trooper was killed by a pistol shot} g¢ the Wip Works, now iit prageena a temporary electric station and a fired by an unknown person. Twenty | | miners were arrested and charged | wood-working plant will be completed this year. | with rioting. There were no disor- | ders at the meeting until the trope: rock will be excavated and also 400,- appeared and charged. Representa-| 099 cubic metres of sand. 95 ten- tives of the American Civil Liberties | ant houses and 150 temporary dwell- Union are investigating the case with jings will be built. a view to aiding in the defense of the| A seven-story building will also miners who were arrested. ibe completed as the main office. In- A new group of 40 German work- | ti es that the | 3? R. from the middle of October to|* 120,000 cubic metres of | Edinburgh Congress News from U.S. S. R’ 1 of the origina cted rail- line of 6 r s. branches be const ed of 30 kilo- The cost of the works will ceed the origina planned ex- penditure New Textile Factories. in progress in tuction of In Fergen 3 mills pped with a capacity material the n Over 140,000 w engaged in construction ow this year. 80,000 of seasonal workers. e construc- e house in e been as- he storage for 40,000 Over 325,000 ill be produced cal year. 1 was 2,400,000 284,000 poods of that the pre-war has already been surpassed. Kuzbas Development. rust is about to erect ion with a capacity of The station will e to electrify the whole nck district. The pfo- n of coal will be electrifiéd in es. The station will er to Taiga and all a radius of 30 versts. depo: s found in the t of the Yan river. over 2 metres in depths. It estimated | that the deposit contai at least one million tous of anthracite. Steps jhave already Been taken to exploit it and work will begin in October, The geological committee did an enormous amount of work in the last ten years in the Kuzbas district which now been completed. Their res arch revealed that there are over 8 billion tons of anthracite in the Angero-Sujensk district alone, and altogether there are at least 400 bil- lion tons in the district. The coal output has tremendously inereased in Kuzbas during the last few y 24 the output in Kuzba 0 million poods and now the output of the Angero-Sujensk dis- trict is 64 million poods a year, which is 50 per cent above the pre-war level. iving conditions in Kuzbas have |eonsiderably improved. The con- struction of a big reservoir has rece jently been completed which will sup- | ply the whole mining district with water. A road for automobiles is now in construction which will serve the population in the mining district scat- tered over a territory of over 100 |square versts. Extensive building to | house workers is now in progress, In | addition to the large number of | houses completed, a new workers’ set- tlement of 1 sq. kilometre is now being completed. | Meeting of Former Mensheviks. | Ata meeting of former Mensheviks held in Poti, Crimea, at which 600 people participated, a resolution was adopted which emphatically condemns the provocative work of the former |Menshevik government of Jordania jand Ramishvili New Workers’ Faculties, Eleven new workers’ faculties will be opened within this year. They { will be located in Odessa, Dnieprope- |trovsk, Nikolaiev, Suma, Stalingrad, |Dugansk, Saporosha, Mariopol, Kri- ‘vorog, Zinovievsk and Artomovsk. “See Russia for Yourself” trial for inciting to riot and is out under bonds totaling $2,400. In Washington, D. C., two outstand- ing instances reveal the trend of the | official mind on free speech and civil liberty.” Representative Albert John- | son, Chairman of the House Commit- tee on Immigration, issued 2 warning that aliens who participated in Sacco- | Vanzetti protests would be arrested | and deported. Mrs, Lenora II. Jones, a Quaker, 59 years old, v lefi- nitely suspended from her position as | a tourist guide in the Capitol Build- ing, because she remarked that she would be willing to die herself to save the lives of Sacco atd Vanzetti and the honor of her coun!ry. She is the sole support of a crippled hus- band, In Los Angeles, the police indulged in wholesale arrests of radicals and | liberals and protest meetings were | broken up by officers armed with rifles, machine guns and tear bombs. 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