The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1928, Page 8

Page Eignv THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1928. . vila — WE — FOILS Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party Published by NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS’N, Inc., Daily, Except Sunday 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: “Deiwork” Phone, Stuyvesant 1696-7-8 By Mail (in New York only): $4.50 six imonths $2.50 three months $8 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2 three months Address and mail out checks to THE DAILY’ WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. -ROBERT MINOR -WM. F. DUNNE office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 18799 For President WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For the Workers! VOTE COMMUNIST! QiX | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY For the Party of the Class Struggle! For Vice-President BENJAMIN GITLOW Against the Capitalists! Sacco and Vanzetii One year ago in the death house of Charlestown prison were fitted the steel head-pieces of the electric chair upon the heads of the two Italian laborers whose names are now the best-known Italian names and the best-loved in the entire world. The historical moment in the United States called for a savage blow against. the militant section of the working class (and thus of course against the working class as a whole); it was und policy” from the capitalist point of view to murder Sacco and Vanzetti. Also the international situation made it psychologically necessary and a “sound policy” to throw the murdered bodies of the two Italian laborers into the faces of the score of Latin-American and European nations whose masses had dared to “meddle” in the case. By throwing the dead bodies onto the world-stage American imperialism said: “Who is master in this world?” Millions of wor raised under the sod- den slave-philosop’ given them through every channel of capitalist culture, believe in the everlasting character of the capitalist society, belfeve also in the one great, ab- | Stract justice, rising in godly grandeur above | human affairs, uninfluenced by class con- flicts and dealing even-handedly with all men—a theological conception, one of the most important in the ideological structure of the capitalist system. From the very insistence of the capitalist authorities that the killing of Sacco and Van- zetti represented “justice,” the working class begins to get a new understanding of what “justice” is. In the course of long and painful months the working class of the world has had it burned upon its minds that the murder of two innocent workers as an act symbolizing the mastery of the capitalist class over the working class, is “justice.” Yes, justice, in a capitalist order, means murder. Justice means perjury and bribery, ° lying, swindling and murder or anything else which will under the circumstances tend to uphold the present order of society, the capitalist society of exploitation. Sacco and,Vanzetti received the only kind of justice there is in this country. It is the only kind of justice that can exist in a capi- talist country. Evidence has nothing to do with political trials, except. fictitious evi- dence employed to maintain the illusions of the masses. It is demonstrated that evidence had nothing to do with the Sacco-Vanzetti case. All concerned know beyond a shadow of doubt that both were innocent. The only i s: “What outcome will best bene- order of capitalist property ?” spokesman of the whole United States capitalism, Thayer answered: To hang these anarchist bastards.” If Sacco and Vanzetti are not to have died in vain, then we are duty bound to bring sharply to the minds of the working class just what their deaths mean. We must make the workers understand that in the murder of these innocent men there was nothing in- consistent with the administration of capi- talist laws, but that the murder was the most typical, characteristic action of the le- gal system of capitalism in general, and of the United States in particular. It was an act of the class struggle. The wor must learn the na- ture of capitalist institutions. ley must Tearn that there is no justice in the s above, but that capitalist “justice” r in the filthy little person of a Judge Thay sitting in a little court house administering a@ man-made system which has the purpose of preserving a certain form of property- relationships and social organization. Justice, in a class society, can only be class justice: Besides the capitalist class justice that Sacco and Vanzetti received, there is only one other justice existing in the world today. It also is class justice, but of another class. It is the justice of the revolutionary tribun- als of the working class, set up by free work- ers to try such criminals as Thayer and Ful- ler. Such justice of the working class exists only in the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies—for the present. It will come later throughout the world. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists. Today there is practically nothing remaining of proletarian revolution- ary composition in the anarchist movement. But Sacco and Vanzetti died as revolution- ists, and their fearlessness and loyalty are the pride of the revolutionary working class of the world. Nicola and Bartolomeo be- | longed to the revolution, and the accrued result of their martyrdom is a strong liga- ment in the mighty body of revolution. What form does the revolution take? A form which the two martyrs could not#see, but which nevertheless their martyrdom will help to strengthen. Vanzetti and Sacco were revolutionists in that they believed in and fought for the realization of a free society—free from ex- ploitation of man by man—and in that they trusted to the working class to bring that change by class struggle. Their aim was a society without government of compulsion— a state-less society. Insofar as this alone is concerned they were correct, but the methods of the long struggle to attain their aims were lost for them in a confusion of idealistic thinking. All of the hard and cruel facts of the mur- der of Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrated with ruthless logic exactly the flaws that exist in the anarchist views they held. The central point is the question of the state. Nothing more than the unswerving murderous course of the American capitalist class and its in- stitutions in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, proves that the working class cannot accomplish the overthrow and suppression of the pres- ent ruling class without, first, the revolu- tionary organization and mass discipline and second, the ruthless dictatorship of the vic- torious, proletariat. Nothing better proves that the proletariat cannot win its struggle without the organization of the firmest ele- ments of the proletariat in the revolutionary party of the Communist revolution. If Sacco and Vanzetti are. not to have died in vain, the working class must learn from their martyrdom some knowledge useful for destroying the system that murdered them, and for attaining the free society of which they dreamed. They must learn the nature of the capi- talist state, an instrument for the suppres- sion of a class by another class, and not an “impartial” institution above the classes, serving all “equally.” They must learn that for the realization of the ideals of Sacco and Vanzetti, this capi- talist class must be overthrown and must be ruthlessly suppressed by the power of the working class itself organized as a revolu- tionary state *power of the new farm of workers’ councils—soviets. And above all they must learn to fight, and to fight with the iron discipline of class loy- alty and revolutionary organization which alone can lead to victory and free society, and vengeance for Sacco and Vanzetti. They must learn that the building of the revolutionary Communist Party is the im- mediate answer to the murder of labor’s martyrs. PAMPAIGN CORNER Now, let us see what our com- yaign organizers are doing. Sidne: 3loomfield, campaign manager fo he New England states, writes: “Winfield A. Dwyer has invaded scheduled to go located. Tew Hampshire to collect signa- ‘res on our petitions. Comrade gs Valter Paanenen of West Concord, Tew Hampshire, is actively engaged n this task, and is covering the ‘earby towns of Hilford, Wilton and Noncord.. He has just ordered a Sipment of Party Platforms. Com- ‘des Chase and Iram, both of thom are Party candidates in New ‘ampshire, have just covered. sev- val ¢Qoints, including Newport, District 3, communfque: Claremont and Stoddard. where the great Amoskeag Mills are We are arranging a Weis- bord tour and making arrangements for the Foster-Gitlow meetings. But the main job will be done by local , whom we are planning to to the utmost.” * “Comrade Benjamin, organizer for sends in the following Dwyer is Manchester, Union. This worker stgtes that he sends this contribution from the first pay he has received after sev- eral months of unemployment, as his answer to the brutalities of the po- to speaker at an open-air meeting. Other contributions have been re- ceived by the ‘district office from the Ruthenberg Branch of the Inde- pendent Workmen’s Circle, which sent $5, the first installment of a $25 pledge which they have made. * ““he Party office in District 3) The North Philadelphia branch of politicians is in receipt of a contribftion of $10/ the to the $100.000 Communist Cam-| through their delegate to the en- America nor an: paign Fund from Joseph Chilofsky,| larged campaign committee which mptter,” asmember of the Electrical Workers’, has been formed in this city.” Workers Club sent in $10 | poor fish peddler—all! CAPITALISM The Face of the Workers Enemy By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN We stood with lowered heads be- fore the graves of Sacco and Van- zetti. They died the heroic death of revolutionary fighters. They died irreconcilable enemies of the capi- talist order. Their methods of | | struggle may only partly approach | words, mass proletarian action, yet they | of men rising to immense spiritual | heights in defiance of the most for- | midable foe with death staring in| the face. Their death is saturated | with the essence of greatness. | “Our words—our lives—noth- ing! The taking of our lives— lives of a good shoemaker and a That last moment belongs to us—ihat agony | is our triumph!” | In Hearts of Workers. | The working class has taken the | two martyrs to its heart. The work- \ers of the world see in those two | |victims, picked out at random -by |the ruling class from among. all its |opponents, an example of strength, |courage, humaneness so widespread among the exploited masses. One, {a man of iron; the other a man of |dreamy softness; one, a silent and |stubborn recluse; the other a poet | opening his heart to all the winds; jone, in Vanzetti’s words, “a man, a | lover of nature and mankind, a man | |of action”; the other, in his own! By Fred Ellis | Sacco and Vanzetti Will Live in Workers’ Hearts as Labor Martyrs ‘a living hurricane of jcare whether the “bastards” were thoughts, feelings and sentiments.” | cuilty or not? but how many judges |gave the working class an example | Both made of that metal that breaks ;in every state of the union care to but does not bend. know the innocence or guilt of labor We pay our heart’s tribute to the | fighters brought before their bench? dead martyred friends, but our eyes | Guilty Because Militant. are turned to the living foe. Our} Sacco and Vanzetti were found Sacco-Vanzetti memoriais must give guilty -Lecause they dared to chal- the workers a clear picture of the | Jenge the existing system; thousands rulers under whom we are compelled to live. The conviction and execu- tion of the two victims shed a lurid where in the United States for the light on the state of mind of con- | sole reason that they fight tl man- centrated capital which is the law | nfacturers and financiers. The most of this land. | outrageous law violation was perpe- Part of Class Struggle. | trated against two peaceful, radical The liberals and socialists are | workers, but does any state or any wont to blame the “Massachusetts | city of this country follow its own courts.” To them it is an “unfor-|laws when it comes to workers tunate episode” which one ought to fighting for a better life? Sacco remember for the sake of history|and Vanzetti fell the victims of a and in the name of justice. To the |crudely executed “frame-up,” but workers this is not an accident and |does anybody know the number of not an isolated case. To the work- |“frame-ups” employed everywhere ers it only reveals in one flash the | against workers séized on the picket agitators, are found guilty every- of strikers, strike organizers, labor | face of the enemy which they see every day in less tragic but no less significant encounters. stand alone. | line, against workers distributing eyes literature, against speakers | denouncing Wall Street? With grim | criminal action of his judges, but isn’t it the conviction of every gov- ernor, every cabinet member, every | president, that the “law” must be |upheld under all circumstances once | its edge is directed against the work- jing class? Lowell, Grant and Strat- ton, representing the “intelligentsia” of the country, proved as biased and las hostile to Sacco and Vanzetti as ; was the judge himself; but isn’t the average American college. president, editor, engineer or lawyer full of the same class prejudice and class hatred as that farnous trinity 7 Massachusetts Not Alone. Massachusetts does not stand alone. Sacco and Vanzetti are no “anfortunate exception” to the rule. | It is time for the working class, for | all of us, to ‘realize that there is no liberty for the working class in this country: that the struggling, | unsatisfied worker is deprived of all tha so-called constitutional guaran tees; that he is confronted by a solid wall of the organized state power |that does not shirk before the most |hideous crime; that in this respect | many instances it is even worse, |than- it was in Russia under the |ezer after 1905. z enemy’s face. | \T | ingelass. The working class must see the It will then realize The Massachusetts courts do not determination the millionaire gov- |that it can rely on nothing but its Judge Thayer did not ernor of Massachusetts upheld the own organized force. Told You So HIS is the first anniversary of the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti by the capitalist govern- ment ‘of the state of Massachusetts. Today millions of workers in every part of the world will hold demon- strations commemorating the lives of those two gallant workingclass warriors and pledging themselves to fight on against the capitalist system that sent Sacco and Vanzetti to their doom. ie Cle HERE will be two kinds of memorial meetings today. One kind will be held under the auspices of the Communist movement in the United States and other countries; the other under the auspices of lib- erals, anarchists and pacifists. The Communists will not only point out that, Sacco and Vanzetti were framed by the authorities, that they were killed in the electric chair not be- cause of a crime of which they were innocent but because they fought for the workingclass, but they will also point out that there never is and never can be any more justice under a class government than that class can afford to grant its suppressed class enemy. * T BE liberals would have us believe ’ that a “good” governor in the position of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts would have used his office to grant Sacco and Vanzetti a new trial. This is a dangerous illusion to hold up before the work- This is on a par with the A. F. of L. political policy of “re- ward your friends and punish your enemies.” This kihd of nonsense means that the workers do not have to organize into a revolutionary class party to fight against judicial assassination now, and for their ultimate emancipation from wage slavery. Feo" the beginning of the Sacco- Vanzetti defense fight the Com- munists made a mass issue out of it, knowing that the power of the masses only could stay, the hands of the executioners. Unfortunately the American workingclass were still too much under the sway of the re-¢ actionary labor bureaucrats to throw their collective weight behind the protest. The leaders of the A. F. of L.\ confined themselves to uttering platonic doubts of the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti. The liberals depended on intellectuals and bourgeois edi- +s SN cae |tors and politicians who crawfished when the campaign carried on by the | Communists threatened to assume mass proportions. * * 6 os Workers (Communist) Party, as a member of the great united front labor defense organization the I. L. D., was the driving force behind the movement to save Sacco and Vanzetti. Tho not in agreement with the anarchist philosophy held by the two doomed men, it saw in * | th ist ing- his position, is hardly bettar, ‘and dae Seen OE oe) wor ns class who were willing to sacrifice | thei lives for the cause of labor. and saw-that it was because of this |that the capitalist government of | Massachusetts decreed that they must die. Had Sacco and Vanzetti been parlor anarchists of the type to be found on many . capitalist | newspapers, they would be living to- lice, whom he witnessed arresting a! Garvey, Negro Misleader, Asa By OTTO E. HUISWOOD Marcus Garvey, the “blind” Negro} | “Moses,” “Provisional President” of | | Africa, has for once turned his at-| | tention to American domestic poli-| tics. This sponsor of the “Back to | Africa” movement and the naive | philosophy of Negroes voluntarily | isolating themselves from their) ‘natural allies, the class-conscious| workers of all countries, has at last, “Blind Moses” Takes Bosses’ Gold to Betray Workers of His Race is no doubt that the democratic politicians do mean some good to the Negro. Do they not hang and burn him at the stake, and is not It is evident that Marcus Garvey, the leader, believes in the myth that Abraham Lincoln freed the Negro. This proves his complete ignorance seen a light—the glitter of gold. He | jim-crowism. disfranchisement, seg-|of the social conflict at that time, is now championing the cause of the democratic party and Al Smith, the arch-enemies of the Negro masse: It is rather curious that .Garvey, who during the many years of his, activities in the United States/ spurned all active participation in) the struggles of the masses for the improvement of their condition in ‘America has now aligned himself | with the party of slavery and the) lynching bee. But, for Mr. Garvey, | principles and consistency do not exist. His policies are rather based on a catch-as-catch-can’ philosophy. A Different Song. A few years back Marcus Garvey addressed a letter.to a number of} white business men public officials, mo | liv and finencially for the pur-| of ranatriatine Negroes to Af-| He had an interview with Sim- m the then Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and the subject of his conversation with this Grand Cyclops, was to the effect that this is a white man's country, that the man was entitled to his su- premacy here, but, on the ‘other hand, Africa was the home of the black race. and that he should be aided in establishing a nation of his own on that continent. Today he is sineing a different song. In the “Negro World” of July 28, Mares Garvey says: “Once more the time has come for the American Negro to use his ballot wisely in the interest of domestic politics and| supremely in the interests of the blac’ race.” And he proceeds to tell his readers that they must vote jfor Al Smith, “not because the |democratic party has been more | kindly disposed toward the Negro than the republican party, but be- |cause Hoover represents a gang of! who mean absolutely |nothing good to the black ‘man ir. ywhere else for that rica white The gnterenes from this s 4 tatement |. regation, and peonage the law in the ‘outh—the stronghold of the demo- atic party? And what does it mat- es to Mr. Garvey, if Robert Powell is lynched in Houston, Texas, just at the time of the national conven- tion of the democratic party and only a few miles from the conven- tion hall? Does the fact that Negro visitors to the democratic convention | were placed aside like lepers in a|who are the power behind the demo-| eage-like structure mean anything to the “Moses”? Raskob and DuPont. Garvey opposes Hoover and the republican party, because he was convicted for using the mails to de- fraud and deported under a repub- lican administration. and “this Mr. Hoover in this our present has come upon the scene big American interests to reduce Liberia to slavery, the slav- ery from which Abraham freed us in America in 1865.” because | Lincoln | which made it imperative that chat- tel slavery, a primitive system of production, be abolished and make way for wage slavery. Besides, it is apparent that he entertains the illusion that the democratic party is the party of the “small” business- man.” He has no doubt never heard of John J. Raskob, Pierre DuPont, and the other financial magnates | crats and who have just as great an | interest in the subjugation of Li- | beria. | In speaking of the occupation of | Haiti, Garvey says: “It is true that | it was under Woodrow Wilson’s re- gime that America assumed control of Haiti, but Woodrow Wilson never intended Haiti to be exploited as the republican party has done.” But Mr. Garvey does not tell us of his secret information as to how Wil- son and the democratic party in- |tended that Haiti should be ex- TO MASSACHUSETTS—A YEAR AFTER Now that they’re ashes, light as thistledown, To blow with all the winds that ever blow, ' Are you at ease, securer in your crown, And has your commonwealth no other foe? Are their lives gone ?—and does no tempest grow To leap upon your cou: rts and tear them down? THEY LIVE When you lived you were bound by bars, But what bars are big enough, strong enough To bind you today, Sacco and Vanzetti! —HENRY GEORGE WEISS Democrat | ploited. Here he exposes himself as the apologist of Wilson and the democratic party in their armed in-| | tervention in Haiti and the slaught-| | ering of thousands of poor, defense- | | lees workers. The one thing that) | that the democratic administration | he dges not dare tell his readers is that under democratic administra- tion the National City Bank and other big interests will not exploit Haiti. He knows too well that no Negro, not even the biggest moron in his organization, would believe that. But let Mr. Garvey tell us the real reason for his endorsement of the democrats: “ ... and it is now time for every Negro to vote for Al Smith and the democratic party, | So that we may expect something of ‘service in return for the support given whole-heartedly.” What is, this “something of service” that) “we may expect in return’? Betrays Negroes. Marcus Garvey stands revealed as one of those misleaders who for) some paltry consideration is ready to aid in rivetine the chain of op-| pression on the Negro masses. His jendorsement of the democratic | party, the party of the solid south, with its policy of .violent repression of the Negro workers, is a base be- itrayal of the Negro race. This blatant clown has placed the stamp of approval on the business inter-. ests who thrive upon the exploita- tion and enslavement of the Negro masses. Through the bitter experience of every-day struggle the Negro will jlearn that both the democratic and republican parties are the agencies (of the employing class, which ex- ploits both black and white workers and whose policy it is to keep the Negro at the bottom of capitalist society. The Negro workers must learn that both parties stand for the same thing—lynching, segrega- tion and exploitation. i The Negro,workers must support the party which champions his cause, the party which fights# against the system that oppresses and abuses him, the party which unites all workers regardless of race and which is dedicated to the com- _mon struggle for the abolition, of the capitalist system which divides & |day. But they believed in organi- |zing the workers and fighting for |higher wages and working condi- |tions and that is why they were executed. Cae, eee Ts mass demonstrations today will be utilized, in addition to re- freshing the memory of the working- class regarding the crime committed against Sacco and Vanzetti, to mobilize the masses for a great drive to free Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, now incarcerated in living tombs in the state of California and to open the jail gates for the I. W. W. prisoners in Walla Walla, Washington. The Interna- tional Labor Defense is organizing this drive. The movement to free these class war victims will not be based on liberals and intellectuals, tho the assistance of all human bee ings will be welcome, but it will be based on the exploited masses of the United States. ieee Wie those workers are suffer ing the tortures of the damned in jail, millions of their class are go- ing their way heedless of their agonies. In this election campaign, neither the republican, democratic nor Socialist parties have a word to say about the class war prisoners. The Workers (Communist) Party only places the releage of all claca war victims in the forefront of its program. The more sacred duty re- mains to be performed by the American workingclass than to com- pel the arrogant jailers of Tom Mooney, Billings and the victims of the Centralia frame-up to open the jail gates for our comrades. * * * AS Vanzetti wrote before the executioner pulled the fatal switch in Charlestown prison, he and his comrade Sacco might have spoken from soap boxes against the capitalist system until the end of their days without awakening the proletariat of the world as they were able to do thru their execution on a framed-up charge by the ruling classes of Massachusetts. Those two humble men became working- class heroes thru their sacrifice for the cause of the oppressed. Their memories will be honored for ages to come, when the rotten system that sent them to their doom, will be a historical blot and the names of their executioners recalled only to be cursed. en and evplo'ts hoth black and.