The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1928, Page 1

| | | NICOLA SACCO. FIGHT CAPITALIST “JUSTICE,” RED AID URGES ON SACCO MEMORIAL On the first anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti, the Executive Committee of the International Red Aid has issued’ a call to the world] workers to their fight against the rapacious white terror. “A year has passed,” says the appeal, “since the class justice of the American bourgeoisie brutally murdered Sacco and Vanzetti de- intensify spite the storm of protests all over the world and the passionate indig- |nation of the workers everywhere | and despite the fact that they were both clearly innocent of the crimes | with which they were charged. . “By this bloody act of ven- geance the bourgeoisie proved once again to the masses that it was prepared for all crime and all blood- shed in revolutionary movement.” “The nearer the approach of the danger of a new ‘imperialist war its struggle against, the| and intervention against the Soviet Union which the international bour- geoisie is preparing, the more bit- ter and brutal grows the interna- and peasants’ movement, the more| ruthless grow the methods used to| smash the revolutionary movenient,| the more furious grows the hatred| of the bourgeoisie against the revo- lutionary advance guard of the| workers and peasants.” In order to make the path clearer and easier for its imperialist’ plans, the statement says, the mas- ter class intends first of all to crush out the vitality of the revolutionary movement, and for all. “The bloody violence and the| mass executions in China, the white terror in India and Indonesia, the bestial sentences, the murders and tortures in fascist Italy, the perse- eutions and white terror in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and in the so- called democratic countries like bourgeoisie ; to break the Peslutatiee! 7 poe tional struggle against the workers’|of the workers and peasants once| disposal in it: THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR FOR A WORKERS’ PARTY AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Great man: Britain, France and Ger- show all too clearly that the is adopting the most brutal and ruthless methods at its struggle against the |revolutionary movement.” The appeal coneludes: “Workers! Do not forget the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti! Re- member the thousands of murdered victims of the white terror in China! “Remember the hundreds of thou- sands'of class oners who war pr are still in the tortune chambers of the bourgeoisie! “Demand the abolition of the Demand the aboli- prison regime! tion of torture as a weapon ag: the working class! “Demand the abolition of the E ceptional Laws and the Special Tribunals against the working class! Demand the release of al! class war prisoner American workers, join the International bor Defense. Demand the release of Mooney and Billings.” FINAL CITY EDITION Pul Vol. Vv. No. 199. Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker blishing Associa m, Inc., 26-28 Union a.) New York, N. X. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 192 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 p New York, Outside Price 3 Cents by mail, $6.00 per rear. SACCO ‘VANZETT DENONSTRAT TWO NEGROES 0 WORKERS PARTY NEBRASKA TICKET Davis, Albert Hanied| at Ratification Convention Ratify Party Platform | With the endorsement of Foster | and Gitlow, the of nomination eight electors and a complete state| ticket, the Workers (Communist) Party concluded a ratification con- vention in Omaha, Nebraska, on Aug. 19 whielt set a new mark for! the Party in that state and aroused | the enthusiasm of the delegates and| sympathizers, according to a tele- gram from Roy Stephans, special organizer in Nebraska. An outstanding feature of the con-| vention was the nomination of two| Negroes on the state ticket. Unanimous Acceptance. The following nominations were made and unanimously accep’ Edward YL. Schlekat" of rin Omaha for Governor; W. E. Davis,) a Negro, for Lieutenant-Governor; | Dole Albert, a Negro, for Secretary | of State, Charles Dayton, Sioux) City, for auditor; and Roy Stephens, | Congressman, for the second dis-| trict. | In accepting ‘the nomination for) Lieutenant-Governor, Davis declared | that the Party shows that it cham-} pions the cause of the Negroes by! of the Fifth World Congress of the| Continued on Page Seven NATIONAL SACCO VANZETTI MEETS. =: Demonstrations Thru-| out Country Hundreds of thousands of work- ers will meet today in mass dem-| onstrations throughout the United States to honor the memories of the two labor martyrs, Nicola Sac- co and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were legally murdered a year ago today by the labor hating and reac- tionary courts of American big business, and to pledge themselves to the destruction of the capitalist system that made the murders pos- sible. The meetings, in addition to re- affirming the mass protest against the killing of Saceo and Vanzetti, wil be turned into fiery protests against the incarceration of Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings, and the Centralia prisoners. New York City, at Union Square, | August 22, 5 p. m,, with Robert | Minor, Jack Stachel, Martin Abern, Moissaye Olgin, Max Shachtman, | Paul Jones, and numerous others. Boston, Paine Memorial Hall, Appleton St., August 22, with Ben-| Coontinued on Puge Six | SAY MEXICAN NUN LED ASSASSIN MEXICO CITY, ‘Aug. 21 (UP —The nun, Maria De La Concep- | cion, held with a number of other suspects in connection with the as- sassination of President-elect Al- plots to kill both * Obregon and President Calles many months be- fore the actual crime, according to a police statement issued tonight. The arrests of seven women and five men alleged to have been asso- ciated in plotting the assassinatjons, revealed the existence of a group which, besides seeking the death of litical | Retell was responsible He n both the cham- t n head- | bert Hoover, At the , of Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s sisters, above at their home in Villafalletto, the birthplace of the martyred worker. inhalant Vanzetti Luigia and Vincenzina, are shown OPEN WORLD YOUTH CONGRESS Communist athe agues Meet in Moscow (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 21.— Two hundred and fifty delegates and more than four thousand guests yesterday crowded a big theatre here to attend the opening session Young Communist International. After Chitarov had made the open- ing speech, referring to the victims of the White Terror all over the aorlde the entire assemblage rose in ce of the victims. he members elected to the Praesidium of the Young Commu- nist International, included as honorary members, Stalin, Bukharin, Krupskaya, Clara Zetkin, Thael- mann, Marty, Max Hoelz, Gramsci,| |and mgny other internationally | known Communist leaders. Kosarev welcomed the Congress} Continued on Page Two ‘WHITING GIVEN COMMERCE POST Anti- Union P: Paper Boss | Picked by Coolidge (By United Press) SUPERIOR, Wis. Aug. 21.— oke, Mass.. as the new secretary. The oath of office was admi |tered at Coolidee’s private office here by court attaches of Superior. Whiting arrived here early today to 9|hold a conference with Coolidge. a Aes tary of Commerce to succceed Her-| is president of the Whiting Paper Company of Holyoke. | and'a notorious union-hater. Re-| cently his corporation merged with, President Coolidge today accepted) the resignation of Herbert Hoover) as Secretary of Commerce and. ap-) | pointed William F. Whiting of Holy-|the machine in control the squad of William W. Whiting, new secre-| HILLMAN THUGS ASSAIL WORKER | Attack Tailor While at Work in Shop sentiment among the workers against paying dues to the official- | dom of the Amalgamated Clothing | Workers Union because of their re- sentment at the transformation of their ‘once powerful into a company union, the machine organization in control decided to begin a new form of terror by beating up work. ers while they are at work in the shop. Workers in the big plant of Wil liam T. Goldman, mapufacturer of GGG men’s clothing, had told Hillman’s dues collectors that they \felt reluctant to pay dues to an or- | ganization that has fast hecome an | efficiency instrument of the employ- ers, the right wing business agent, Tony Frunzi of Local 161, came up |to this factory yesterday with a gang of thugs and viciously as-| saulted Abraham Jacobs, a lapel | maker, who though criticizing the | union officialdom nevertheless never aceorated non-payment of dues. | After crashing a workers’ month | | with a bunt weapon that knocked out three teeth and cut his lip, one | of the assailants, J. Schneider, mem- ber of the executive board of Local | (161, reached his hand into the pros- | |trate worker's pockets and emptied |them of about $44 he had there in| pay just received. | Threatening similar treatment to underworld officials left the factory. Jacobs was later treated by an am- bulance from St. Catherine’s Hos- pital. The doctor ‘in- closing the torn lip was compelled to take four stitches. “Good WILL” FLIGHT | GUATEMA™JA CITY, Guatemala, | Aug. 21 (UP) —Liéutenant- Colonel Roberto Fierro, who started from Havana this morning on a non-stop Alarmed at the rapidly growing | all those who oppose the dictates of | CALCUTTA AND BOMBAY TIED UP BY HUGE STRIKE Troops in North Meet} Peasant Resistance on Roads (By United Press.) MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (UP).— Twenty-five thousand rubles. sent for the relief of striking railroad workers in India by the Railway- men’s Union of the Soviet Union, have heen returned by the bank in Caleutta, through whom the transfer was to have been made. The Soviet press was inclined to doubt the bank’s explanation that | the All-Indian Federation of Rail- | road Workers refused to accept the gift. The “Evening Moscow,” in a satirical tirade, charged that the bank held up the money trans- fer to hurt the Indian strikers. It claims that the federation de- Government Alarmed | nies having refused the money. “ * * | (By United Press.) | CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 21—A| | general strike was declared today | employes of the Tata Steel | Continued on Page Seven TRAINMEN READY FOR STRIKE GALL |Rank and File May Act Despite Officials CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 21 (UP) | —Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on lines west \of Chicago whose wage increase de- | mands were recently rejected, are | voting heavily to strike, A. F.) Whitney, Brotherhood president, said here today. The strike vote was ordered last |week after the collapse of a con- \ference in Chicago at which the Brotherhood rejected a wage in-| crease offer with the provision that certain working rules be abolished. em eek. CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 21,—In- formed labor leaders here declared |that there is a widspread sentiment }among rank and file trainmen on) the western lines for strike action. SHOE WORKERS ISSUE APPEAL Urge oie Handing of Strong Union to all shoe A mobilization call the American Writing Paper Come| flight here as the first leg of his workers of Greater New York and | pany, then the largest organization | of its kind in the world. Combined. | | they own many score of open shop} Canada. | good-will flight around Central) America, is reported to have landed at Belize, capital of British Hon- ), mills thruout the United States and duras, at 1:05 p. m., due to bad | these Siyekers weather, HUGE USSR varo Obregon, was the leader of | OIL EXPORT. ‘Four Times as Much as Under Czar MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (UP).—As an indication of the enormous expan- sion of the Petroleum Industry in the Soviet Union may be cited the fact that fir the three months May to July exjorts almost equaled the total for the entire year of 1913. It is noun here that 855,000 ported in those three months. That is 61 per cent more than in the corresponding quarter last year. Exports for the nine months of the Russian fiscal year, beginning No- vember 1, amounted to 1,961,500 tons, or 40 per cent. More than last fin the game period of 1925-26, year, and twice the amount oe | vicinity was issued yesterday by the Joint Council of the Independent | Shoe Workers’ Union appealing to t. unite for the task of building ap verful and militant Shoe Workers’ Union in the city. The anpeal calls attention to the recent Unity Conference called at the initiative of the workers of the |S. Liberman shop, the purpose of which was to unify the various ac- |tions of the shoe workers. } | The unity committee has now completed its work, the statement declares. The place for every worker is now within the ranks of the union. (The full text of the shoe work- ers’ appeal will be published shortly in the columns of the Daily Worker). 1 | republican After Judge Webster Thayer, agent of the Massachusetts capitalists, them with the sentence of death passed upon Sacco and Vanzetti, _Dedham cou rthouse manacled INTENSIFY RED WEEK CAMPAIGN Choice of Maihold by G. O. P. Significant Two events of utmost importance were tishered into the political arena on Monday; the heginning of the Red Week financial drive of the Workers (Communist) Party in New York, and the appointment of H. Edmund Machold as chairman of the state committee. The latter, while it has no revolutionary import, is significant of the support of Hoover and the republican state ticket by the power interests and their $11,000,000,000 of propaganda money. While the workers of New York —that portion which is class-con- scious—do not expect the total of thair contributions to the Communist Campaign .Fund to compete with the huge sums being showered into the laps of \the capitalist candidates by public utilities and munitions bene- factors, the intensity of the Red Week campaign will in no degree be lessened. Labor-Hating G. 0. P. The appo'ntment of H. Edmund Machold to the republican state chairmanship, for a pertinent ex- ample, brings to mind the number of power companies Machold con- trols, and it is rather safe to pre- dict comfortable “presents” from the interlocking directorateships of Continued on tick Two Seamen to Hold Sacco, \Vanzetti Meet Tonight! A Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meet- ing will be held tonight at 8 o’clock at the International Seamen’s Club, £8 South St. Prominent speakers will be present, it is announged, ON ON UNION SQ. TODAY Steel, Railroad and Textile Workers Strike in India ie Wi Year dae Sacco, Vanzelti Manacled After Sentence to “detectives. Eisenstein, Great USSR Movie Director, Will Visit U. S. in Autumn In an announcement issued last night, American movie directors stated that.S. M. Eisenstein, noted director of the cinema in the Soviet the United States to direct one picture for the United Artists. Union, will soon visit Eisenstein, whose remarkable work in “Potemkin,” “The End of St. Petersburg,” and a score of other cinema masterpieces that en- joyed great successes throughout the world, will bring with him his theories on mass movies, developed since the Russian Revolution. DRYS TO HOLD CONGRESS. ANTWERP, Aug. 20.—The Inter- national Anti-Alcohol Congress is scheduled to hold its nineteenth congress here, where a large dele- gation of American drys are ‘ex pected. The Soviet Union has also been invited to attend “unoffi- cially.” ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 21- Stephanos Skouloudis, premier and foreign minister of Greece in 1915 and saint died here Baers the two workers were led out of the EXPECT RECORD CROWD TOHONGR HEROIC MARTYRS Fifty labs Unions; Many Speakers to | Participate 1,000 Police on Guard One of the largest demon- strations ever held by the workers of Greater New York is expected to take place this jafternoon at 5 p. m. on the an- |niversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti who one year ago today fell victims to the rapaciousness and ven- geance of American capital- ism. From every section the city ahd its outlyiny dis members of the r we class in the intere: of which two labor martyrs laid down their lives will journey to the demon- stration. Wide Representation. More than 50 labor unions have | already signified their intention of |being represented. _ Forty-seven | nationally known speakers will ad- dress the vast throng from four specially constructed platforms. The speaking stands will be draped in red and black, flowers will be banked at the foot of the center platform and large pictures of the two martyrs jecorate each stand. From police headquarters, it was had learned, that than 1,000 uni- formed and plain clothes cops will be on hand to see that “order” is preserved. The meeting, however, is expected to have all the surge and fire which marked last year’s Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. The usual attempt is being made by the police to create the impression that violence may occur. completed his job for more EXPEL MILITANT FROM CAP UNION U nderworldMarshalled by Chicago Officials Thousands To Participate. Word was received yesterday at the International L r Defense headquarters that many fraternal organizations and labor units will CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—Marshaling| assemble at their respective head- all their underworld characters, the quart and will march in mass reactionary officials of the Chicago | formation to the scene of the dem- Capmakers’ Local 5 and the heads | onstration, All organizations af- of the right wing Chicago Hebrew 4 filiated with the Working Women’s Trades, came down to a membership : Federation will meet at the Labor meeting of the local Monday night, Temple at 5 p. m. and march in a and after creating an atmosphere of |hody to Union Square. They will terror railroaded through a mea: from ie carry banners and slogans and will braeiee union membership 5. but one of the colorful incidents Morris Feingold, a leader of the left i pos in the monster demonstration. wing in the union and until recently a general field organizer. Telegrams, letters and messages A mass meeting of protest against still continue to pour into the of- these terrorist methods of retaining fice of the New ork section of control of the union will be held the I. L. D. pledging support from this Thursday evening, August 23, | the various fraternal and labor or- in the Capitol building, 159 N. State ganizations. Unions and clubs which St., Room 803, leaders of the pro- | will take part in the huge meeting gressive forces in the organization declared this afternoon. No Discussion Permitted. The machine business agent, sure of himself because of the presence are as follows: Unions To Be Present. United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners, Local 1090; Inter- HIT SOCIALIS World Anti-Imperialists Rap Reformists (Wireless to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Aug. 21.~Representa-| tives from all parts of the world con- solidated their fight against im- perialism at the meeting of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Anti-Im-| perialist League, which opened its sessions here on Saturday. The! position of the Second International on the colonial independence move- ments was severely criticized. | After Muenzenberg made thei { Seeratapat report Continued on Page Two national Seamen’s Union; Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local 8; Paper Box Makers’ Union; Architectural Iron and Bronze T BETRAYAL Working Class Women; Amalga- mated Food Workers of America; Furriers’ Union; International La- dies’ Garment Workers, Locals 22 and 43; twenty-seven branches of the Workmen's Circle; Suit Case, |Bag and Portfolio Makers’ Unior; {Hand Millinery Workers’ Union, on Britain, Vanmunster on Holland| L0c#! 43; Shoe and Slipper Work: and Madame Drevet on France,|¢™® Union; Workers (Communist) | Speaking for the English delegation| Party, Young Workers (Commia™ Maxton declared himself in favor of| Mist) League; Young Pioneers of | absolute independence for India. A resolution condemning the atti-| York section of the tude of the second international and Labor Defense, under whos Coontinwed on Page Six Continued on Page Ti and Saklatvala, Maxton, Ledebour and Lessing dis-| cussed it, Chattopadyaya reported| on the Indian situation, Bridgemann | America; 45 branches of the New | International aus: Workers’ Union; United Couneil of *