The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1929, Page 4

Page Four VICTIMS TO B REOPENED SOON Charlotte Poisoned by Lies of Press world will house there C0 it} of the their police an International nternational Labor Defense has call for these demon: General Strikes for demonstration: d by the workers t on behalf of the tonia strike Vast Mobil workers of onia Jonit A ee nouse to hou: r fun¢ 1 take place in ndus' nter of the land. I be accomplished through a united front of the working class, img as one gizant ce to free | : | -uaintea | The besses ‘all finc that hich t ackes | y deed, the follow- ts of all] { :¢aase they fought fo: % two fundamental rig ren: The indusputable tight of all] orke: © organize into unions for] itions than $10 or $12 aj) ) hours toil. The. indisputable right of all] workers to defend themselves and taeir families from the murderous aslaughts of the bess-controlled po- | cf and thugs. | These are the two principles for | hich the 23 strikers and strike lead- | rs of the National Textile Workers Tnion have been imprisoned and) wreatened with death. These are he two principles which hold tre-} xendous implications for the entire | orking class, of the north and the outh. Lehman, Urging Class Collaboration, Lauds) A. F. of L. Leadership | SYRACUSE, Aug. 21.—Enthu- lastic tyjbute to the company- nionism of the A. F, of L. was aid by Lientenant-Governor Leh- | aan before the New York State| *ederation of Labor yesterday when 2 predicted that the ‘growth of arge corporations should be a help ather than a hindrance to the de- ~eloping of constructive relations be- ween labor and industry.” “I am increasingly confident that nder the able leadership which has rown up within the last years in «bor circles, and with the more en- zhtened point of view of manage- nent and public alike, we shall see s gradually increasing tendency to- ards cooperative effort in in- astry,” he_ said in traditional A. Wi. of L. style. class, the smal) r existence vet of the middle class. Th therefore not revulutionary, but ” TRIAL OF MILL MURDER RSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929 AT MIDNIGHT By A. B. MAGIL In Memoriam Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Betrayed | and Murdered in the American Class War, Aug. 22, 1927 I “Both are dead.” | Dead. Press the button. Turn on the juice. Dead. Waiting, waiting For w Ywo w sit down in a chair. And be dead. Show's over. fime to go home, go to bed. Time to forget, put it out of your head. Dead. Death. Grim Reaper. Symbolic. Cloak. Hood. Scythe. Skull. Dead. Both. 1 walked out into the huge soft night. No light. Someone had strangled the stars. I Seven years to make a shroud. Seven years to make it strong enough Yo hold the whole of life. (Wonder how long it takes to make an electr’: ¢37!:7) Seven years for two wops. husetts is too proud—” 's to make a shroud. i WORKER | STARVATION MURDER DEATH Iv. Three men in frock coats playing dice. Three men and a fourth playing with skulls. Fin s weblike and precise, ing clamly the fluttering dice. Harvard accents glide like gulls From lips like nooses hard and strong. What are the stakes? How long, how long? Four men in frock coats playing dice. Dice. Are they loaded? Loaded. Bloated. Four bleated frock coats plyaing with skulls. i g And on two faces hangs the mask Of the immobile anguish of the years. This is the honorable task those unbitten by subtle doubts and fears. Climb, you lousy wops, into your holes. The god of the Fullers and Thayers will care for your souls. VI Nights made black for deeds like this, Nights made black, muffled and secret. Press the button. Turn on the juice. Show's over. the corroding dawn, Waiting, Crawls like a thief, trembling and ghastly white, Through the thick bolted sight. | The job is done. Whistles shriek in factory and mill. And the implacable sun, Climbing, Hangs splendid and terrible and still, Go back, slaves, go back. Go back to the factories, the dancing machines. Go back, dancing slaves, Noon. sun is a big round brass spittoon. seethes, blown up. pses like a pricked balloon. Il intolerably blue, empty, shining, remote the sky. ntolerably serene, calm the tall great-winded trees, nm every leaf, every grass. y no sadness, no blight even of the cool keen panting autumn, ‘The brown stain of the taking away. ° Nothing to mar, no hunger of stamped-out growing, no ery Out of denial. Trees lift strenuous leanness, raise petulant hands, drag darkness To them. Nothing, nothing to mar. Ix Each sound is their sound, Life demands life. Beyond the pathos and the pain That humans martyr humans with Their blood shouts over all the earth. Blood, red blood. My -brothers’ blood is on my hands. My brothers’ agony burns my flesh. Agony. Blood. » On my hands. x Pity the wretches that will sit in the cells Of Charlestown and of Dedham Jails. Pity the poor stiffs that will come after To live a while in those exquisite he! To live and hear always two voices, always the tread Of feet always, always dead. Pity the fellows that will scrub the floors and walle Of Charlestown and of Dedham Jails, And never be able to wash away The great trembling stain Of Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s pain. (The men of this dying old society they brutally have pulled me away from the embrace of your brother and your poor mother.) Pity the rats that will gnaw the moldy crumbs Of Charlestown and of Dedham Jails, And smell the smell 0 their blood And gasp. (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.) Pity them, pity them all. XI Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! - Shrill signs hurl the workers’ cry. Strike. Protest. Telegram. Massachusetts doesn’t give a damn. A million-throated workers’ crying. Sacco and Vanzetti dying, dying. Sacco and Vanzetti dead. Dead. Both. WE SHALL NOT SOON FORGET! xl Hang up your justice on the sour-apple tree of your pride. Hang it up, I say, for vultures to feed on, For eet fattening, for the gladdening of all gnawing, ravenous things. Hang it up where its resonant stink will fill every corner and erack of the earth, Swing it, swing it. Hang up your justice on the sourapple tree of your pride. Arden, Del., August 23, 1927. “Reprinted from “America Arraigned!” an anthology of Sacco- _. Vanzetti verse, edited by Lucia Trent and Raloh Cheyney. | | Shall the Imprisoned Textile Workers of Gastonia Be Exec- uted in the Eletcric Chair as @ Sacco and Vanzetti Were The greedy, grasping, bru- tal slave-driving southern mill bosses who want to keep their workers unor- ganized so as to continue their bloody . exploitation, have voted YES! Workers in mine, mill and factory; labor unions and workers’ organizations must make the nation ring from coast to coast with a determined and defiant NO! and if you want to save their lives then into action! Quick! TODAY! Join the Ten Day Drive for Funds and Workers Solidarity Make Aug. 24 to Sept. 2 [inclusive] Victory Days for the Southern Textile Slaves and Their Imprisoned Fellow Workers! fiverywhere where worké@rs, meet—labor unions, workers’ halls TELL THEM ABOUT GASTONIA! Out into the streets, before factory gates, in mine and mill—TELL THEM ABOUT GASTONIA! Collect funds where workers work, where workers live, where workers meet. Collect funds by every means and all the time. Help save them! Organize Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Com- mittees in every city in the land; in every language spoken; workers’ children, young workers, women workers, Negro workers. Unite your forces into cne gigantic movement for the release of the Gas- tonia prisoners. No death sentences! Not a single prison sentence for any one of them! WHAT “CRIMES” DID THEY COMMIT? The 23 textile workers and organizers, who face the electrie chair and long prison terms are being tried by the mill bosses and state prosecutors for being loyal to the working class. They organized the National Textile Workers Union to protect themselves and their families from the bosses’ greed. They defended themselves, their union hall and tent colony against the armed attack organized by the mill bosses. They went on strike and picketed against starvation wages, speed-up, child labor, long hours of toil. They fought for their working class right to organize and struggle against the textile bosses and their pellagra breeding subsistance. gg ct Defeat the Plot of the Textile Barons to execute and imprison 23 courageous textile workers and organizers in an at-— tempt to smash the National Textile Workers Union and drive them out of the South! Uphold the right of these prisoners to defend themselves, to organize, to strike for living wages and ours of toil that wll let them live! Unite! Workers, Labor Unions, Work- ers’ Organizations Thruout the Nation! Unite! Protest! Demonstrate! Agitate! COLLECT DEFENSE FUNDS! Only the Solidarity of the Working Class Will Free Them! Gastonia Joint Defense and Relief Campaign Committee 80 EAST 11TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY Auspices: International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief Endorsed by the National Textile Workers Union Write for leaflets and collection lists, for tag day boxes, for camgaign Join the International Labor Defense and the Workers International supplies of any kind. Write for instructions on organizing a coopessting| Relief and build them into powerful workers’ mass organizations to de- committee in your city, feat the greedy ambitions of the capitalist class! aS Na A ES EE RS Se EI A