The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1929, Page 1

| } } } 2EMEMBER SACCO AND VANZETTI: FREE THESE SIXTEEN GASTONIA DEFEND NTS WHO FACE E ‘CTRIC CHAIR OF SOUTHERN CAPITALISTS; TRIAL IN FIVE DAYS DEFIANCE THAT. SACCO, VANZETTI HURLED IN TEETH OF CAPITALIST COURT AS IT DOOMED THEM SACCO: and some other nationality that hates each other. You are the oppressor.” Well. class, “I know that the sentence will be between two classes, the oppressed class and the rich class, and there will be always collision between one and the other, We fraternize the people with the books, with the literature. You perse- cute the people, tyrannize over them and kill them. We try the education of people always. You try to put a path between us That is why I am here today on this bench, for haying been the oppressed VANZETTI: for myself | I would live again to do what I have done already.” THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week D aily = Entered an second-class matter at the Post OItToe: mt New York, N. ¥ Vol. VI., No. 143 Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing Company, Inc., 26-28 Union Square, N. lew York City, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1871 SUBSCRI Outside Iam suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical. my fe but I am so convinced to be right that you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times I have suffered more for : Im New York, by mall, New York, by mail, 6.00 per year. $5.00 per year. “This is what I say: I would not wish to a dog or to a snake, to the most low and misfortune creature of the earth—I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. ‘is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian. But my conviction I beloved than amily, for my FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents HONOR SACCO, PROTEST GASTONIA ON UNION | SQ. TODAY Japanese Concentrate Forces in Manchuna South of the Frontier of the U.S.S. R. WORLD DEMONSTRATIONS PAN PACIFIC TRADE UNION MEET CALLS SOVIET, CHINESE WORKERS TO JOINT STRUGGLE ON WARLORDS: Provocations Continue, Civilians Across Soviet Trade Union Leader Reported Murdered | By Nanking BULLETIN (Wireless By Inprecorr) | . R., Aug. 21. Pan-Pacific Trade Uhion Conference yesterday issued a joint declara- tion with the Central Committee of the Soviet Trade Unions, stating that the present conflict in the Far East is not a conflict between the pedplés of the Soviet Union and China, but between the toilers of both countries, on one hand, and the Chinese feudal reactionaries and mili- tarists plus the foreign imperialists, on the other. ‘They further pledge. themselv: MOSCOW,.U.S. S. native and foreign exploiters are and peasants republic has been established. * HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug. 21. here today that the Japanese government has begun to move troops along the Southern Manchurtan Railroad in a position to concentrate against the Soviet Union at the first possible opportunity. * (Wireless B MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 21.—Nanking provocations are continuing with the Chinese forces in the Porganitchnaya dis- | trict systematically firing on Soviet side of the frontier. stant danger of its life. . The Nanking forces vesterdey fired @ a monitor in the} Amur River. Red Army forces also re- oulsed numerous attempts of white guardists to raid into Soviet | territory in the last two days. At one raid near Manchuli the white guardists were repulsed and) lost a number of dead and wounded. They were driven back over the bor- | der into Manchuria. Soviet citizens arrested by Hens king authorities in Manchuria and thrown into crowded internment camps are being miserably treated. (Continued on Page Five) CELEBRATE ILGW CLOAK SELL-OUT Tammany, Bosses and “Union” Join Hands The recent betrayal of the cloak- makers by the scab International La- dies Garment Workers Union with the aid of the bosses and Tammany Hall was celebrated yesterday af- ternoon at a luncheon in honor of Raymond V. Ingersoll, chairman of the strikebreaking Cloak and Suit Industry Commission held at the | exclusive Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Among those present were Al-| fred E. Smith, Tammany Hall lead- er; Benjamin Schlesinger, president, and David Dubinsky, vice-president | of the I.L.G.W., the company union in the cloak, suit and dress industry. The luncheon was held under the joint auspices of the company union and the several bosses’ associations in appreciation of the work Inger- soll has done against the interests of the cloakmakers. Speeches were made in which the recent “strike” of the company union was andl La vane The Soviet population is in con-|, PROTEST SWELLS THRU. WORLD FOR GASTONIA DEFENDANTS WHO FACE TRIAL IN FIVE DAYS | Fire on Unarmed Soviet U.S.S.R. Frontier Authorities 1 —The Chinese Trade Unions at the es to continue the struggle until the driven from China and a workers — Reports were received * yy Inprecorr) everything that moves on the| GERMANY ASKS AGREEMENT ON YOUNG PAYMENT Britain and nd U.S. Strive, For Her Support THE HAGUE, Aug. 21.—Gustave | Stressmann, German foreign minis- ter, in an official letter yesterday to Henri Jasper, Belgian premier, in- sists that the creditor nations ac- cept the Young Plan at once as far as it applies to Germany, and that they settle between themselves the question of division of reparations. As far as Germany is concerned the dispute over the question of divi- (Continued on Page Five) START FUND FOR WORKERS’ FIGHT ‘Vote Communist’ Says | Party Button | Have you a “Vote Communist!” | button and contribution list for the | | Communist Party $25,000 election fund? If you haven’t then you are weakening the blows of the Party against the capitalist class.” This is the message of Rebecca Grecht, Campaign Party Director, to work- ers who are fightng to get the Party on the ballot. “Every contribution, will help create a working class fund for struggle against Tammany govern- Treseugeei on nope mired ® ga jSummary of the Case | | wounded. of Gastonia Workers December, “1928, Fred Beal, | | Southern District Organizer of | the National ‘Textile Workers | Union, begins organi:ing Union| local in Charlotte and Gastonia. April 2, 1929, 2,500 workers of the Loray Mill in Gastonia of the| Manville-Jenckes Company strike under the banner of the National Textile Workers’ Union when sev-| eral union members are fired. | April 18, the Workers’ Inter-| national Relief Store is raided by| a band of maskec men breal:ing| down the building and destroying | | food supplies under the nose of | the miltia. ‘ | Grand Jury “investigation” re- | sults in whitewash for mob. May 16, strikers write a letter | to Governor O, Max Gardner sery-| ing notice that they built their) own headquarters and will de- fend it. | July 3, threats of attack on| colony bring textile workers from| far and wide to defense. Police attack “Red” Hendricks on way to speak to newly hired Loray textile workers who plan to| strike. Postpone attack on colony.) July 27, texile workers from) five states of the South praise| action of arrested in defending) | colony and pledge support. Call) for Charlotte Conference October | 12 and 13. June 7, drunken Gastonia police | attack and fire into Workers In- ternational Relief tent colony in) Gastonia, after breaking up a picket line by force. Police Chief) Aderholt is killed, two policemen and one union organizer are The same nigh: the colony is; raided again, 71 men and women) thrown in jail, gassed and beaten. Of these 22 are held for murder | or murderous assault. | July 29, the trial opens in Gas- tenia with 13 men and 3 women) charged with murder and 8 other | strikers and organizers charged| with murderous assault. After workers throughout cou: -| try protest vigorously against the) attempt to railroad the textile) workers to death brought the me- dium of Gastonia’s confessedly hostile court. July 30, Judge Barnhill grants a change of venue to Charlotte, Mecklenberg Cornty. August 2, Amy Schechter, Vera Buch and Sophie Melvin, the three! women charged with murder are released on bond, with th2 indi- cation by the prosecution that their charge would |> changed to murderous assault. The prosecu- tion changes its tactics in order to make easier ‘the electrocution of the 13 men. August 19, sever held on tharges of assault with secret weapons with intent to kill ap-,| pear in Gastonia court. Trial jis postponed to October 15; na change of ven. for the de- fendants held on this charge. Freed on $5,000 bail each, they return to campaign to rally sup- port for defense conducted by In-} ternational Labor Defense, and preparation for the Charlotte Con- ference and intensified struggle of textile workeys of the Sou-h. | August 24, opening of nation- wide 10-day campaign of the Ga: tonia Joint Defense and Relief Committee, to swell protest and raise funds for the legal def-nse corps. Augst 26, trial of 16 textile workers charged with murder opens in Charlotte, N. C. Man- rille-Jenckes attorneys, represent- ing the state, demand nothing short of the chair fof the 13 men defendants, —) “Nicola Sacco “Bartolomeo Vanzetti Sacco Statement Combats Lies on Gastonia Trial All American workers who have read the lies in the capitalist and lib: eral press concerning a “fair trial” in Charlotte, August 26, for the 23 Gastonia strikers, must read one of “How you are deluded. This not even eommon sense, com- ing from you. I would say noth- ing if such talk came from a man in the moon, but from you, who jtung. - | the last statements of Nicola Sacco, coming like a voice Sut of the grave to warn the working-class. In this statement he repeats that | national and international protest of millions of workers can save him— and not a reliance on the “fairness of the courts.” He had already suf- fered too much at the hands of the capitalist system to have any illu- sions about capitalist “fairness.” . And his words resound like peals of thunder {spread by such institutions at the ew Nation, the New Republic, the York Times, the New York Vol! These latter have repeated time and again a “fair trial” can be expected—that mass protest is un- necessary—that the methods used by the Gastonia Joint Defense and Re- to drown out the lies} are also in the struggle for lib- erty, this is too much. Do you know the ends to which the de- fenders of this decrepit old soci- ety will go? Under the circum- stances it pains me to see such blind optimism in a comrade. Are you waiting to see them kill us | first so that you can build us a monument?” To Sacco’s young son Dante, Van- zetti wrote the following warm touching farewel Dante, remember, always these t : we are not | criminals; they convicted us on a frame-up; they denied us a new tri and if we will be exe- cuted after seven years, four months and seventeen days of un- eakable tortures and wrongs, it “Remember, of thé prisoners, | are so near the tomb your let- lief Campaign to mobilize tha work-| is for what I already told you: ers are “detrimental” to the cause because we were for the poor and against the exploitation of the man by the man.” The letter follows: | “As I wrote you before I re- peat again today, only an inter- national clamor —.a protest — can free us. And yet, while we ter amazes me with its unwar- |_ nvol ranted optimism, saying ‘you in the numerous rests of Com- must not despair, dear Nicola, | munist speak 8th Street and for though the suffering belong | Seventh Avenue, during the past and weary, it is soon to end in freedom. ” (Continued on Page Five) Two Years Ago! Now Gastonia Defense! “Our Only Hope of Life in Comracies Outside”, Say Sacco and Vanzetti Defeat the Murd pels Samy of Sacco, Vanzetti ries Jtagon vows TooLs Aw oe4O8 THS WORMS TO STAY HAKD OF EXEGUTIONER IN MASSAGHUSETT! wre Yok 6 This tsa reproduction of the first page of fe Daily Worker of August 9, 1927, calling the masses to strike against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Today 23 Gastonia strike le stand in danger of death and long sage terms pen capitalist “justi Save them! Court Refuses Quick Trial in Harlem Arrests He (eating 40 face the iasue involved |ten days, repeated continuances are | Summary he Sacco and Vanzetti Case May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested on a street-car while going from West Bridgewater to Brockton, Mass. By August 1, Vanzetti is sentenced to from 12 to 15 years by Judge Thayer in Ply noe for attempting to rob a cashier in Bridgewater on Dec. 24, 1919. July 14, 1921, Sacco and Van- zetti are convicted of murder in the first degree as chief partici- pants in the murder which oc- curred in South Baintree on | | April 15, 1920. ; October 12, 1921 the workers of Paris conduct a huge protest demonstration against the ver- dict, in which 20 workers are wounded. Tens of thousands of meetings and demonstrations take place thruout the world in soli- darity with Sacco and Vanzetti- December 24, 1921 Judge Thayer refuses to grant a plea | | for_a new trial. || February 16, 1923 Sacco be- gins a hunger strike in the Nor- folk County jail which lasts 30 | | days. Octoher 1, five motions of the |fense to challenge the verdict of 1924 Judge Thayer denies de- 10, 1926, Celestino Madeiros, a sentenced criminal declares that he knows the murd- | |er was committed by the Morelli gang. May 1926 The State Su- |preme Court denies a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, maintain- ling that they were legally con- victed. 19, 1926 twenty nd workers gather in Madi- | | son Square Garde «, New York, to} | | demand a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. Apr't 5, 1927 the state supreme court denies all pleas for a new trial. April 9, 1927 | hands down a decision that Sac | and Vanzetti shall die in the elec- | trie chair on July 10, 1927. FF April 10 International Labor | | Defense issues call for demonstra- tions of protest throughout the United States and appeals to the labor movement of the world to} |join in a final movement to save |Sacco and Vanzetti from being murdered. April 23 Governor |Puller institutes his ber: investigation committee give sanctity to the legal execu- | | tion. July 29 Governor Fuller post- | |pones the execution to August 10. star cham- July \workers st e in protest in New | York. Over 25,000 attend a dem- jonstration in Union Square | July 17 Saceo and Vanzetti be- |gin a hunger strike. In the meantime, strikes, dem- |onstrations nd meetings are tak- ing place in every part of the | world, demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, or the grant- | of letters and telegrams cablegrams of protest. || August 10, twenty minutes be- | |fore the time set for the execu- | |tion, and while millions of work- Fuller postpones the cate of exe-| cution to eaguat 22. | August 22 Rose, wife of Sacco, | jand Luigia, sister of Vanzetti, approach Governor Fullc> for last minutes after Lcunmtoktis oun TO DEMAND RELEASE OF TWENTY-THREE STRIKERS |N. Y. Workers in i Hie Meet: Meet; . Many Other Rallies in U. S.; General Strike in Rosario Workers of USSR, Germany, England, France, Join Huge Wave of Protest BULLETIN ROSARIO, Argentina, Aug. 2 No disturbances were reported. rate the murder of Sacco and Va ‘The downtown streets of this city, | republic, were almost deserted. | 21.—A general strike, called pathy with striking street car workers, Business houses night shutters over the show-windows, Practica in today. sym- went into effect here The strike is also called to commemo- zetti and to protest against the Gas- second most important in the kept heavy shee lly no omnibuses, which had been used to help break the street car strike, were on the streets. The number of street cars operated by strikebreakers was perceptibly reduced. More than 800 police and troops patrolled the business se n, with motorcycle officers guarding the outlying districts, prepared to do their utmost to help break the strike. * * MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21.—The convention of the militant Mexican Unitary Confederation of Labor, meeting here, telegraphed a protest to President Hoover against the brutality of the police and courts of North Carolina against the Gastonia strikers. The convention con- demned “the plans to assassinate 16 workers of Gastonia, N. € charged with murder,” and demanded their immediate release. The convention is being attended by delegates representing more than 1,000,000 workers. * . ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug .—Acting on orders from the p: owner of the hall here that had been engaged for the Sacco-V Gastonia Défense and Relief meeting has barred the meeting. The meeting will be held Saturday at 7:30 p. m. at the corner of Broadway and Park, despite what the police may do. e, the nzetti- ae “The Gastonia prisoners must be freed!” will be the ery of thousands of New York workers who at five p. m. today will gather in Union Square to commemorate the second anniversary Alvin T.| to) 7 a quarter of a million) ing of a new trial. Tens of mil-| | |lions of workers are set in mo-| | \tion. Fuller's office is swamped | with thousands upon thousands | and) Jers are demonstrating, Governor, minute action. He declines to act.) The execution takes place a few | of the legal murder of Sacéo and Vanzetti and to rally for the defense and relief of the 23 Gastonia textile strikers and strike |leaders who are charged with ey and ass | MARION NTW AND ‘UTWU RANK AND FILE FOR UNITY To Launch Joint. Fight in Charlotte | MARION, N. C., Aug. 21.—Alfred Hoffman’s strike-breaking orders to stop militant picketing and com- capitulate before the millmen and their militia, was de- nounced in a leaflet signed by a united front committee of members of the National Textile Workers | Union and the United Textile Work- ers of Marion. Hoffman, the Muste “progressive” leader who has heen leading the strike, is still in conference with the mill officials and representative of the governor, “co-operating to keep the peace.” Hoffman was booed down and almost beaten Monday when he called upon the strikers who threw a solid picket line around the Clinchfield mill, to cease their mili- tant opposition to the reopening of | the mill. completely Urge Unity. The slogan on the bottom of the leaflet declares for “unity of all tex- ° (Continued on Page Five) ault with intent the” protest comes at a time when the imperialist powers of the world are intensifying their ag- gressions against the Sc t Union, which means that the railr ing of the Gastonia prisoners part of the program of suppression of the militant working s that Amer- ican capitalism has launched in preparation for The demon- stration today therefore, also a (Continued on Page Five) ‘NO ARBITRATION, SAY N. J, CARMEN Vote Tonight; Workers Want Strike Action NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 21—A categorical refusal to arbitrate their demands is expected to be voiced by 8,000 New Jersey street car and bus men when ballots are submitted to them tonight. Violent dissatisfaction with the tacties of the reactionary amalga- mated union leaders was expressed by over 2,000 workers of the Public , Service Co-ordinated Transport at | the Labor Lyceum, when they howled | down officials who tried to paint the “brighter” side of arbitration, The demand for militant strike action was expressed by all ten locals (ooretnaed: on Page Five)