The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1928, Page 3

) THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV, 10, 1928 Page Three MARTYRS IN LABOR’S ARtosion Wrkingnen! MASS MEETING TO-NIGHT, at 7.20 o'clock, HAYHARKET, Randelyh St, Bet Desplaines and Halsted. Mood Bpeakers will be present to denounce the tatest ‘atrocious act of the police, the shooting of our fallow-workmen yesterday afternoon. ‘THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Achtung Arheiter! Groge Massen-Versammlung Heute Abend, hal 8 Ube, auf oem artt, %* Stroge, pwifhen Desplaines. u. Halfted-Ste. mn newefien Gabatenfeei der Rolie, dabem fie gefirra: Redhemitiog unfere Brader eridob. geiein. ‘Dad Execullv- Comite. Albert R Parsons, hung CAUSE; T George Engel, hung Adolph Fischer, hung. Louis Lingg, suitide or murdered Michael Schwab, life imprisonment HE HAYMARKET VICTIMS OF CAPITALISM IN CHICAGO, 1887 Oscar W. Neebe, 15 years. “The time will come when ou FRENCH DEPUTIES r silence will be more eloquent than the voices you strangle today!” —AUGUST SPIES. REFUSE TO SEAT 2 AUTONOMISTS Communists 'P rotest Action PARIS, Nov. 9.—The chamber of deputies yesterday refused to seat the Alsatian autonomist deputies, Ricklin and Rosse, by a vote of 220 te 39, with 200 members abstaining end amidst a strong demonstration of protest from the. Communist deputies. Ricklin and Rosse obtained a large majority in the Alsatian elections while behind prison bars awaiting trial on the charge of acts, words and writings expressing their belief in autonomy for Alsace. They were eventualyl sentenced to a prison term of five years on the ground that their actions “endangered the security of the French state.” They appealed the case, but their appeal was rejected and later President Doumergue granted them a pardon. In the debate in the chamber the Communists charged the govern- inent with wilfully ignoring the will of thousands of Alsatians and sup- pressing the autonomy movement in the province. MICHELIN PICKET LINE 1S DEFIANT Promise Relief; Faker} Exposed at Meet Continued from Page One urged the formation of a strong rub- ber workers union which will be a weapon of the workers in fighting the Michelin bosses. Much of Brody’s speech was in French and was greeted by the workers with enthusiasm. Brody pointed how, with the huge plant hopelessly paralyzed by the walkout, the bosses cast about for other means to cripple the strike. They, with the help of town author- ities and local elergymen, got in touch with Harry Hilfers, notorious labor faker and A. F. of L. organizer On May 1, 1886, great strikes shook the nation under the slogan for an Eight-Hour Day. The workers whose pictures are shown above were leaders in the struggle. At a meeting called to protest against the murder of four strikers: by police, a bomb was thrown by someone whose identity was never known. Police who had attacked the meet- ing were killed. Capitalism took its vengeance: Albert R. Parsons, George Engel, August Spies and Adolph Fischer, were hung on No- vember 11,1887. Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab were sentenced to life imprisonment, Oscar W. Neebe to 15 years prison. Louis | Lingg, in jail, either committed suicide or was murdered, STEALS FAIL T0 MEXICO PROTEST Hilfers to some strikers the divine | had summoned. The suspicion with! which Hilfers was received by the| : strikers was turned into rage when, ‘Increase Communist at the mass meeting later Brody ex- fesed the strike beeaking roleani,| Vote Thruout U. S. in New Jersey. Clergymen intro-| duced’ the well dressed gentleman} ‘NOTE TO BOLIVIA | Objecting to Clerical Attitude Labor Martyrs Murdere In Fight for 8-Hour Day Tomorrow the 4ist anniversary waiting for an opportunity to at- |of the murder by the capitalist class| tack the workers, jof the victims of the Haymarket Police With Revolvers. |frame-up will be observed by work-|_, Mayor Harrison left at about 10 | |o’clock. Hardly was he gone, when ers throughuot the country. Ing detachment of 200 police with | Chicago, where the Haymarket mar-| drawn revolvers descended on the |tyrs were executed, the Young|Square. Capt. Ward, who was in Workers (Communist) League is Charge, ordered the meeting to break : esas .|up at Se sa vas fin- arranging a demonstration in their ishing “Ha. Feo LN ie honor. In New York City the In-/captain turned to his men to give | ternational Labor Defense wjll honor) the order for attack. Suddenly out |these pioneer labor martyrs at a of an alley a bomb was hurled, fall- |mecting .at Webstér Hall, 119 E.| TE, between, the first and second ice. It explode |iith St, called to protest the’ Ital-lwith a +terrifie noise, practically |ian fascist terror. In many other killing eight policement and wound- cities workers, at the initiative of/ing scores. It is now certain | the I. L. D., will hold memorial meet~| that this bomb was thrown by an ee | agent provocateur. |ings. | The. bloodhounds of the capitalist 1: ue Haymarist frame-up, the} class were immediately unleashed. |first great American frame-up, was| The boss press poured all the bl |i direct product of the fight i a Rates of/on the anarchists and yelped for the American workers for the eight-|their blood. Militant workers and |hour day. During the eighties workers their leaders were jailed, the Ar- |in the leading industries were slav-| heiter Zeitung was raided and jing 12 to 16 hours under the most) general reign of terror instituted. terrible conditions. Among the| pies and Fielden were the first to leaders in the struggle for the eight-| he arrested, while Parsons succeeded hour day were five Chicago anar-|in eluding the police until the open- chists, Albert Parsons, August Spies. ing of the trial, when he voluntar Oscar Neebe, Adolph Fischer and) iy appeared me +. i Samuel Fielden. P F. eae * Thousands Strike. ‘asada May 1, 1886, was set as the day|,1he 8% i jwhen the workers would make their fasion. into the case on May 17, |determined fight. On that day thou-| Hon, ama, aulclly returned indict- abteentned : ;|ments against Albert Parsons, Au- eT Coie ere ouclgust Sples Michael Schwab, Sam. on strike under the leadership of ¢ f \the Central Labor Union, the een.|el Fielden. Adolph Fischer, George d |Engel, Louis Lingg, Oscar Neebe, |tral body of the Germ: lestoun siavGitkarsia Areas eae Rudolph Schnaubelt and William Jing on the lake shore called by the|S¢liger, who were charged with the \Cenéral Labor Union on May Day | ™urder of the policeman killed by was attended by 25,000 workers, | the bemb explosion. Schnaubelt | Parsons, Fielden, Spies and Michael °S¢aPed arrest by fleeing to Europe Schwab were the principal speakers|#"d Seliger turned renegade. The at this meetings. jother eight were put on trial May | On May 8 the strikers at the Mc-|21 before Judge Joveph E. Gary. | Cormick Reaper Works held a mass| The eight anarchists were not ac- meeting in front of the factory.|tvally accused of having killed the Suddenly police appeared on the|POlicemen, but of having killed the |scene armed with clubs and revol-|their words the throwing of the vers. With the greatest ferocity) tomb. The mayor openly admitted they attacked the workers, killing| that the law was Leing’ stretched to ‘six and wounding more than 60, | ridiculous degree to “get” the ; Workers Indignant. |eight working class leaders. |__A storm of indignation swept the| “Guilty!” Says Boss Jury. hots of the city at this | cold-| The trial lasted 49 days in a ter- acinar of aoe their fel-| voristic, jingo atmosphere, surpassed eee Gore en was editor only in the _ Mooney-Billings and Bae ceaen rbeiter Zeitung, | Sacco-Vanzetti cases. On Aug. 20 re g article, denouncing|{he jury brought in a verdict of this murderous assault by the uni-| guilty against all eight. Spi formed hirelings of the b A| Fielden, P weab,. Fisher! Fe osses. |Fielden, Parsons, Schwab, Fischer, Ear necting wes immediately call-/Tngel and Lingg were condemned to next evening in the Hay-| death and Neebe to 15 years’ impris- |market, at Randolph and Des Plai: ines | \St., to . “~~ | onment, pee Protest against the police | The announcement of the sen- Thousands of work fi tences aroused a storm of protest square. Parsons, Spies, filled the throughout the country and in every |den were the principal sneakers.|P%t of the world. Workers con- “\start Moi | The grand jury began its “investi- | fers always has played. The strik- ers openly threatened to drive Hil- ters out of town if he showed his face in the vicinity. Continued from Page One SANTIAGO, Chile,’ Nov. 9.—(U.P) steal the returns from the Commu-|—Mexico has sent a second note to | riets, are continuing to come into the Bolivia regarding the attitude to- The meeting was orderly through- jout as was publicly attested tby Mayor Carter H. Harrison, who was |tributed their pennies and raised | jthousands of dollars for the defense | jad As in the Sacco-Vanzetti case 'Now All Safe, Teapot Dome Man Asks ‘Trial’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(UP)— The trial of Robert W. Stewart. chairman of the board of Standard Oil Company of Indiana, on an in- dictment charging perjury before the Senate Teapot Dome committee, will y in District of Columbia Supreme Court before Justice Jen- nings Bailey, according to Stewart's lawyer, Frank J. Hogan. Hogan, who obtained Stewart’s ac- quittal on a Senate contempt charge last spring, said he was eager to bring the case to trial as soon as possible. BUMPER CORN CROP. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U.R)—A corn crop of 2,895,449,000 bushels, compared with 2,773,708,000 bushels | harvested in 1927, was predicted to- day by the agriculture department. |11, 1887, was fixed as the dete-of execution of the others: | _ Protest Meets Continue. Gigantic protest mestings contin- ued to be held. On Nov. 10 Louis |Lingg cheated the gallows when he [committed suicide cr was murdered in his cell. The other four were |hung next morning. As the death. |hoods were being pulled over their |faces, Spies said: “The time will |come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are | strangling today.” Six years later Governor Altgeld, who succeeded tine vicious Oglesby, after making an investigation of the case, pardoned Fielden, Schwab and Necbe. Haywood’s Ashes Beside Martyrs. \inseription on the monument to the Haymarket martyrs, erected i Waldheim Cemetery, where they were buried. The ashes of Bill Hay- wood, American Communist leader, | who was strongly influenced by the Haymarket affair, are now on their way to be buried beside the remains of these pioneer victims of the American class “justice.” It was to fight against frame-ups such as the Haymarket case that the | International Labor Defense was or- |ganized several years ago. Lucy | Parsons, widow of the great labor | tional Committee of the I. L. D. Spies’ prophetic words form the | |martyr, is a member of the Na-|+ GERMANWORKERS. COOL TO THE ANNIVERS ARY Thousands, However, Greet U.S.S.R. BERLIN, Nov. 9.—Tofay is the tenth anniversary of the birth of the German republic, but the work- ers in Berlin do not seem to be especially elated over it. No public holiday has beer pro- med, as is the practice of le’ and jubilant government when it is only ten yeers old, for the populace is in no mood for jubila- tion. While it was very easy for the German Communist Party to muster thousands of workers all over the country to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the social-democ: do not have similar success in the joicing” over their republic. el: “re- Half-Hearted Holiday. | The “focialists” did propose to jhave a national holiday, but only in a half-hearted way, for the Com- munist fight on the armored-cruiser Project is too fresh in the minds of |the workers. In addition, hundreds |of thousands of workers are at pres- ent locked out in the Ruhr, and the |workers generally are restless due to their low wages and the high cost of living, both a product of the “so- |cialist”-sponsored German republic. The atmosphere is none too com- fortable, with Alfred Hugenberg, | chief of the German nationalist |the worke |party, declaring that he would like |tc see some form of fascist dicta- ltorship, while the Communist Party is such a thern in the side of the social traitors. | Scheidemann Trembles. | Scheidemann, the first chancellor |cf the German republic, has told |how the republic came tbe pro- | claimed, in the face of a proletarian revolution. From his account it ap- pears that the republic found ‘its in- | spiration from a bowl of scup in the Reichstag restaurant. Some of his Econom 1 | ‘ 126.4 Ecuador Regime Bans GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Nov. 9. —Police authorities at the last minute prohibited the holding of a demonstration last night to commemorate the eleventh anni- versary of the Russian Revolu- tion. Workers are enraged at the repression and there is talk of holding a demonstration to pro- test the police banning of the an- niversary meeting Jingoes Try to Revoke Worker’s Citizenship Continued from Page One munism, he could not honestly have taken the oath to uphold the con- stitution. The case is important, according to the defense atterneys, as it raises the question for the first time as to whether or not the holding of Com- munist _ principles sufficient grounds for cancellation of citizen- ship. Victory for the government would set a precedent for revocation of the citizenship of all naturalized Commu and would open the way for consequent deportations. is restaurant, hly ex- cclleagues entered the breathless and evidentls cited. “Karl Liebknecht, the Communist firebrand, is speaking to the crowd. He will proclaim a Sovie: Repub- lic This was enough to move Scheide- mann, the social-democrat, to leave his soup and appear at the Reich- stag window. In mortal fear that would actually preclaim® a workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment, he brought himself to deliver a few rhetorical sentences and then shouted: “Long live the German Repub- lie ‘3 He went back and finished his ad soup, as one who had fully done his duty in betraying the German work- crs. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux- emberg, true leaders of the working class, were later murdered by Get: man “socialists.” TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR Cash Purchase office of the Daily Worker. Uni-| ward Mexico of Bolivian Foreign) present. In fact, the mayor did an|#PPeals were made to higher courts, Relief. Harriet Silverman, secretary of take” device adopted in Milwaukee. the New York branch of the Work-\The Workers (Communist) Party ers International Relief, emphasized the importance of relief for the strikers whose pay envelopes for the last year have been averaging from $13 to $20. The speaker pledged the Workers International Relief to aid the strikers of the! Michelin Tire Co. in their struggle and promised that the workers throughout the country will gener- ously come to their assistance. |listed on the official ballot as “In- | dependent” parties under the general | heading containing the listing of |the democratic, republican, prohibi tion and socialist parties. One Method. Within the two “Independent” vartv listings, the name of William Z. Foster appears over the under- At the meeting in the morning.|scription, “Workers (Communist) which was as equally well attended,| Party of America.” Following his Brody, Montana and Beszio ad-|name is that of Benjamin Gitlow dressed the strikers. The militant) over the inscription, “Socialist L jrit of the strikers and their de-|bor Party.” Verne L. Reynolds, Resiainstion to persist in their strug-| candidate of the Socialist Labor gle until the Michelin bosses give Party is also listed as the candidate in was evident not only during the|of the Workers (Communist) Party. meeting, but in the mass picket) Official protest has been launched line which formed in the fields and/hy B. Sklar, sub-district organizer demonstrated in front of the Mich-| of the Workers’ Party, with the elec- elin plant immediately afterwards.’ tion commissioners Against these tac- The strikers, though hampered by tics and a demand for a new elec- their inability to secure a hall in tion has been made. The demand has Milltown, most of whose real estate heen referred to the District At- is owned by the Michelin Co. are torney. This was all a “printers’ daily turning out in hundreds de- mistake,” the commissioners said. fiantly to face the wind and cold) In Pittsburgh many ballots are for hours on the -picket line. andi vow to have been deliberatel " ~ v9 di | y in 1h eh Saline chal tesa |thrown out. In four election dis- tricts at least twelve votes thus far Benoa ete SRD, checked up have not been recorded. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9(U.P)-—The . que among these is a “printers’ mi’ Minister Abel Iturraide in the Bo-| livian Chamber of Deputies. | The Mexican Ambassador to Chile, and the Socialist Labor* Party are| Alfonso Cravioto, handed the_ note) |to Bolivian Minister Finot today. | The first Mexican note protested jagainst the Bolivian foreign minis: |ter’s statements in the chamber af- |ter a catholic demonstration in La |Paz. During the demonstration, con- \siderable criticism of the Mexican | policy toward the Catholic Church had developed. The second note of today charac- terized Bolivia’s communication in response to the first note as “giving a twisted interpretation to its im- |port” and accysed the Bolivian gov- ernment with “lacking tact” in the matter. Movie Firm Gobbles Up St. Louis Company | Warner Brothers Pietures, Ras authorized purchase of a con- trolling interest in Skouras Brothers Enterprises, Inc., of St. Louis and in the St. Louis Amusement Com- pany, according to a letter sent stockholders today. According to the letter this ‘pur- chase will give Warner Brothers a predominant position in the moving picture field in St, Louis and an important position in Indianapolis. Inc., In Washington, Pa., one election ture department announced | watcher reports that 50 votes cast for the Labor Party (which endorsed Foster and Gitlow) were not re-| ported. A protest has been lodged and a recount is demanded. In Danville, Ill., specimen ballots which contained all the candidates when passed out were cut in tavo and” the section containing the Commu- nist candidates eliminated. “today that there was little change ni crop prospects during October and generally warm weateher has facilitated the harvesting of late crops. Rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cotton, beans, peanuts, sugar bects, y pears, oranges, grape fruit, pes are all showing yields r above expectation. to | Stvest | We demand the immediate aboli- tion of all vagrancy laws} protec- of unemp! r from bch dass walt Asi! unusual thing for mayors, he went! Which were uniformly refused. Fin- so far as to instruct Capt. Bonfield, ®!ly Governor Oglesby of Illinois was who was in charge of a squad of asked to commute the death sen- police at the meeting, to dismiss/tences to life imprisonment The |his men. 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