The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1929, Page 1

Ba ih Tr i aa Se Ras r e ue to it~ Fight the Vicious Frame-Up Against Accorsi! Demand His Release From the Hands of the Mellon Gang! Daily Entered as second-class mutter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ander the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Published dally except Sanday by The Company. thc. 26-28 Union Square, Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥- a1 i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in New York. by mail, $8.00 per year. Vol. VI, No. 237 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929 Price 3 Cents Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Save Salvatore Accorsi! Salvatore Accorsi, a Pennsylvania coal miner, is threatened with the same torture and death that the capitalist class out to Sacco and Vanzetti. The Mellon gang of Pennsylvania millionaires who have ruthlessly sought by murder and imprisonment to destroy the militant movement of the miners and steel workers, have fastened their talons on Salvatore Aceorsi in one of the most deliberate frame-ups in American labor aistory. Accorsi is being tried for the killing of Trooper J. Downey, who was shot in the attempt of the Pennsylvania state police to crush under their guns, their clubs and their horses’ hoofs the protest demonstra- tion of the Cheswick, Pa., coal miners against the judicial lynching of Saeco and Vanzetti on August 22, 1927, At the time this Downey, the gunman of the Mellon robbers, was killed, Accorsi was at home, four miles from the scene of the brutal attack on the mine workers by the Mellon uniformed gangsters. At the inquest every witness, including cronies of blood-thirsty qunerer Downey, testified they did not know who killed the Mellon thug. of America meted It is plain beyond even the slightest question that the charge that Accorsi fired a shot that killed the Mellon policeman is a frame-up of the outright and unqualified sort. It is such a rank frame-up that the “witnesses” who have anything to do with fixing responsibility on Ac- corsi are like so many cheap actors hired in the market to speak their parts on the stage. But this case is far more than a frame-up. For even if Accorsi had fired the shot that killed the Mellon thug—the case would be one in which the entire working class would be duty-bound to come to his defense. Assuming that the shot was fired from among the work- ers who were being attacked with firearms and clubs and ridden down by the mounted police—the shot was merely an act of self-defense. We do not acknowledge that the working class is to be ridden down and murdered with impunity! The right of workers’ self defense must be ned here as in the Gastonia case. Eighteen months after the af , when Accorsi had moved to New York with his wife and three children, because of unemployment in | the mines, he is transported back to Pittsburgh, with the help of the | Tammany Hall lackey, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the charge of murder. It took the Mellon police 18 months to manufacture their evidence and perfect their frame-up! A few monins before Accorsi was arrested the Mellon coal and iron police cold-btoodedly tortured to death the coal miner, John Barcoski. The murderers were freed. Now they plan the legal lynching of Accorsi, cold-blooded legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti by the state of Massachusetts and Gov. Fuller stirred the working class of the world, but the Pennsylvania courts and police expect to go the bloody Fuller regime one better. Salvatore Accorsi is selected for the electric chai tive of the working class they hate. The Mellon interests are thirsty for vengeance against the Pennsylvania workers for defending them- selves against unprovoked and murderous attacks. Accorsi has been ¢hosen as the v With the history of Sacco and Vanzetti fresh in our minds, with the struggle to overthrow the capitalist verdict of class vengeance in the Gastonia case now at its height, with further daily proofs of the cold-blooded frame-up of Mooney and Billin we know that the fate si is sealed—unless every class conscious worker raises his and demonstrates against the plotted murder of their fellow r, Salvatore Accorsi. s a representa- m. “mash Mellon's frame-up!. Demand-the-immediate release of Sal- vatore Accorsi! Organize against the legal lynching of Accorsi! Do not let the capitalist class repeat the Sacco and Vanzetti case! Work- ers, defend Accorsi! Class Against Class in the Iilinois Miners Strike Storms clear the air. The miners of Illinois go on strike today for demands that are absolutely essential, not only for the life of union organization, but for the lives of the miners themselves. The six-hour day and five-day week, the rest periods on cutting and loading ma- chines, the hiring of more men on the machine crews, the social insur- ance paid for by the bosses and the state, are needed to save from starvation nearly a half of the miners of the state, thrown out of work by the mechanization of the mines, and the speed-up and rationalization that followed. The demand for a $35 minimum wage weekly, in an in- dustry that used to pay a basic wage of $7.20 a day, shows how much wage cuts and short time have reduced the miner’s income. Other demands made by the Illinois miners, through the National Miners’ Union state convention, are similarly important. If ever a strike de- served the support of the entire working class, this one most plainly does. When the miners engage in this life and death struggle, they find immediately, before the date set for the walk-out, the hwick admin- istration of District 12 (Illinois) of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica throwing aside all pretense of being for the men, and openly de- claring in favor of seabbing. Harry Fishwick announces that the strike will be “quite vigorously opposed” by his organization, and excuses this by the well worn formula of International President Lewis of the U. M. W. A. “We have certain obligations in the contract to both the public and the operators and we will see that these obligations are discharged.” Fishwick’s gang was assailing Lewis only a few days ago for just this sort of talk in the Howatt case, the Besco strike, and others, but that was before they realized that the miners of Illinois meant busi- ness. And the Muste movement, through its organ, the Federated Press, announces that it can build the Fishwick organization into its tentatively proposed “new A. F. L.,” a worthy pillar to stand beside that monument to the sell-out, the United Textile Workers! The state, which poses in Illinois as elsewhere, as the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, of course abandons that pose, too, in this time of crisis. The sheriff of Franklin County states flatly that he is going to see that the U. M. W. A., “the only union recognized by the coal operators,” is able to carry out its slave contract at the expense of the strikers. Here we have three days before the battle opens, all forces of reaction, the bosses, the state, the A. F. L., and the Muste gang lining up together to fight the workers. This is a challenge that should rouse.every drop of fighting blood in every worker. Here are our enemies, in league against us,.and in the open. Win this strike! All to the aid of the miners’ strike! 5,000 New Members for the Party of the Working Class Our Party today begins a determined effort to add 5,000 workers to its ranks. On the basis of its revolutionary program and its active leadership of mass struggles, the Communist Party of the United States appeals to all class conscious workers to take their places in the front ranks of the widening sharp struggles in this country—and thus in the vanguard of the world’s working class led by the Commu- nist International, Without a revolutionary party of the working class the social revo- lution would be no more than a pious wish. Our Party is the Party of the working class, but it must be immediately strengthened. Its* pro- gram is the only program by which the American masses, led by the Communist Party, can advance to victor But programs are not enough. From the ranks of the working class must come the revolutionary fiber, intelligence and loyalty, out of which Communist leadership is built. Our Party is still toa weak | Secure Jury in Accorsi _ Frame Up Triai; Public Barred in First Session | Prosecution Represents Coal Operators; Tries Prejudice Jurors on Communist Issue | Miner Defendant Not at Meet Where Cossack Died While Attempting to Murder Worker PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 9.—The attempt of the coal | operators of this state to electrocute Salvatore Accorsi, a miner, | because a state trooper was shot while riding down, clubbing, | tear gassing, and firing on a miners’ protest meeting in Ches- | wick, Pa., in 1927, began this morning here in Judge Mc- Laughery’s criminal court. The jury was completed during the afternoon, and has on it: a construction foreman, the wife of an upholsterer, a car insp‘ctor, a railroad brakeman, a carpenter, a plumber, a me- jchanic, a salesman, a real es-© jtate man, a railroad engineer. | tor, and one other. | Throughout the selection of the4 jurors, the prosecution made all pos- BEGINS IN MANY sible attempts to prejudice them | with propaganda against Commu- nists. The prosecuting attorneys | attacked Accorsi as a Communist, | and as a member of the Interna- tional Labor Defense. In spite of |this, the majority of the veniremen favored the defendant. The defense | had only 20 peremptory challenges. The judge is a comparatively un- |known former’ superintendent of |schools in Mercer County. Assistant District Attorney Lang- |; (Continued on Page Three) FIGHT STIMSON'S WAR THREAT |N. Y. Communists Call! Six Meetings Six monster demonstrations to follow the enthusiastic meeting in | Central Opera House last Fride |have been called by the New Yor | District of the Communist Party] | |for this coming Friday evening, at |8 p m., in every part of the city lin order to protest the continued |preparations by the United States |for war againgt the Soviet Union. The meetings will take place at the following places: Manhattan, Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. and Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. | near 42nd St.; Bronx, Rose Gardens, |1347 Boston Rd.; Williamsburg, |Grand St.; Bronsville, Hopkinson | Mansion, 428 Hopkinson Ave., Long Island; Bohemian Hall, Second and | Woolsey Aves., Astoria. | In a leaflet issued yesterday in 50,000 copies the actions of the | denounced as part of the same pro- a “Arrayed against us,” says the | Miller’s Grand Assembly Hall, 318} | American government were roundly | ILLINOIS MINES Unity League, Defense Relief Plan Action to Assist in Victory PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 9.— | |The Executive Board of the Na- || tional Miners’ Union today ap- pealed to all left-wing workers and organizations to respond in- stantly to the courageous strug- || gle of the fighting Mlinois coal || miners, who are striking under | |the leadership of the N. M. U. If All are urged to come to the im- mediate assistance of the Na- tional organization in order to | |send squads of additional organ- | |izers badly needed to publish thousands of circulars, and gen- erally take full advantage of the | strike movement now in progress. appeal, “are all the enemies of the working class. The Illinois strike is ‘straight left.’ A victory for the fighting N, M. U. in the Mi- | nois fields represents a victory | for the entire left-wing labor movement. All workers, all or- ganizations must rush funds at once to the Union, 119 Federal St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Organizers must be sent. Strike agitation must be increased. The workers must stand by the fighting coal miners in their struggle against | |the employers, Lewis-Fishwick machines, the capitalist, state, sheriffs, deputies, etc., the fake Musteites and treacherous ‘so- i Rush all contributions WEST FRANKFORT, IIl., Dec. 9. (Continued on Page Two) —Mass picketing started in many places throughout the state of Illi- nois, where the miners went out this PICKETS RESIST [morning on general strike to win | |demands for the six-hour day, five- | day week, no discrimination, rest _ THUGS AND COPS periods on machines, more crews on |machines, no check-off, unemploy- |ment relief and other ‘things vital Militant Dressmakers Organize Trade to the life of 50,000 coal diggers. Reports of mines on strike and picket lines Zormed began coming (Continued on Page Three) Polish Workers Fight Police and Storm U. S. Consul; Defend USSR (Wireless by Inprecorr) WARSAW, Dec. 9.—On Saturday there were surprise demonstrations before the Sejm (Polish parliament) and the Paviak prison where polit- ical prisoners are held. The work- ers broke windows of the United States consulate, protesting anti- Soviet intervention in the conflict on the Manchurian frontier. Armed police attacked the workers and made many arrests Militant pickets of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; held their ground before the Wae- {ner and Friedman struck shop yes- leaping against a charge of knife and club wielding International Ladies | Garment gorillas, even though the Tammany police charged with the thugs to protect them. The police were directly ordered | to the attack by an I.L.G.W. hench- man, Schneid. They arrested sev- eral pickets, among them Nat Lev- enthal, who had been knifed in the hand of a gorilla. Hundreds of sympathizers gath- ered, when they saw the police and (Continued on Page Twe) in this respect for the immense tasks which confront it. Especially is our Party: weak in the decisive industries—coal, steel and metal, transport and chemical. It is in such industries as these that our dis- trict and local organizations must concentrate in the recruiting cam- paign. Abstract appeals will not succeed. workers must be on the vital issues of the class struggle as they ap- pear here in increasing definite form as the wave of unemployment rises, as the speed-up is intensified and as the war preparations of American imperialism becomes obvious to every worker. Build the Party in the basic industries! The Daily Worker is one of the principal instruments for building the Party. It must be utilized to the utmost. At the same time the Daily Worker itself, as the central organ of our Pary, must be built. Its circulation must be greatly increased during the recruiting cam- paign. The Daily Worker will pay special attention to the work of the districts in the membership campaign and every district must see that news of the progress of the campaign is sent to the Daily Worker regularly. Five thousand, new members for the Party of the American pro- letariat, a steady growth in the circulation of the Daily Worker, will be a revolutionary answer to the attacks of Wall Street imperialism upon our class and its Party, Everywhere our appeal to wor Ger we ) miner. w+ x ‘ADMIT NANKING 1S COLLAPSING | UNDER CHIANG |U.S. Consul Orders All} | Citizens Evacuated | from Capital | — | ‘Chiang Denies Quits ‘Concentrates to Hold! ..4 | Shanghai Area BULLETIN. MANILA, P. IL, Dec. 9.—Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay, Jr., with orders from the Wall Street politi- cal executive committee in Wash- ington, has instructed the cruiser Pittsburgh to leave for Shanghai at midnight, man imperialist military forces in| Chinese waters the thirty-ninth de- | stroyer division, composed of the, McLeish, Simpson, Parrott, Edsall, | Bulmer and McCormick were ord- | ered to Shanghai. This is Wall} Street’s attempt to bolster up the falling Chiang Kai-shek regime. ** ® NANKING, Dec. 9.—An Asso- ciated Press despatch reports fight- | ing within Nanking itself. National- ist troops were reported withdraw- ing toward Nanking from the Proy- ince of Honan. hoe oe LONDON, Dec. 9.—Preparations have been made to evacuate foreign imperialists at Shanghai, said Ar- thur Henderson, in answer to a |question in the House of Commons | today. Rumors of the declaration | of martial law by Chiang Kai-shek are prevalent here. The Nanking | war lord fears an uprising of the proletarian masses in Shanghai. rie ae SHANGHAI, Dec. 9.—With mili- tary mutiny flaming all along the} | Yangtze, and Canton expected to fall at any moment to the rebels, | the Nanking government is ad-| mitted even by its American backers speaking in the form of the Ameri- can consul at Nanking, to be facing overthrowal. Foreign gunboats, British and American, and Standard Oil tank- ers, are removing American women and children and some men civilians from Nanking itself, since the American consul adyises such re- moval as the mutineers seem to be advancing on every side. In this situation, yesterday, | Chiang Kai-shek declared false the | rumor that he was resigning, and | jsaid he would “fight to his dying | breath.” The government is con- centrating now only on defending the Nanking and Shanghai region, giving up all hope apparently of “saving” the rest of the country. At Ichang, far up the Yangtze, | foreign civilians were also being re- moved and dispatches from foreign naval authorities stated the situa- | tion was “serious.” FOOD WORKERS VOTE ON T.U.UL Referendum to Join’ Unity League The question of affiliation of the | Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union ; to the Trade Union Educational | League, by vote of the convention in Labor Lyceum late Sunday, handed over to referendum of the} membership to decide. The mili-! tants in the union and the national | food workers’ committee of the T. U. U. L. are carrying on an ac- | tive campaign to explain to the} workers the necessity of linking up| their union with the fighting trade | union center in the United States, and participating .in the general | class struggle of all workers, as (Continued on Page Two) SAVINGS DEPOSITS DROP 25% | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Further | indications of the severity of thc) present unemployment, and proof of the growing crisis and its effects on | the masses, is contained in the re-| |port of the Department of Com-| merce that savings deposits in all! jbanks in the U, S. have dropped 25, per cent below the figure of last} year. The drop in savings account deposits has been dropping at the rate of 10 to 17 per cent a week | for the past two months, VARE, ONE OF MELLON GANG, TO RUN. AGAIN. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 9.— William S. Vare, recently ejected from the Senate because he couldn't | successfully cover how he bought | and paid for votes, says he will run again. Vare is one of the Mellon) crew who are planning the legal | murder of Salvatore Accorsi, a coal | To add to the strength of Ameri- | A Victim of Stimson’s| “Peace Pact” HAITIAN REVOLT SEETHES | UNDER LID OF REPRESSION ‘Hoover Mobilizes War Machine, Including “Opposition” in Congress, to War on Haiti | Expose Lies of “No Censorship” and “Peace | Restored” as Cover for More Massacres BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—It is clear that somebody is lying about how many Haitians were murdered by marines last Friday at Aux Cayes. While the marine report from Brigadier General Russell given out by the State Department, a suspicious source to be sure, said that five were killed, press reports citing stories of eye-witnesses relate that there were twelve Haitian peasants slaughtered, also that the first blow was struck by a marine, who is a veteran killer from Nicaragua, and who knocked down a Haitian peasant with his gun, breaking the stock of the gun. The anger of the people at Borno, with whom they linked the name of George E. Freeman in cries of “Down with Borno! Down with Free- | man!” is well known. Freeman, who, as an imported luxury under the | title of “technical expert” such as swarm into any country oppressed by imperialism, was supposed to supervise education, but while cutting down the educational allotment for the people, he draws $10,000 a year | a month. . * . | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—While the news from Haiti, always censored in spite of the lying reports to the contrary Here is a Haitian wor ker murder= ed by Wall Street marines. Stimson, under the guise of “peace pacts” wants to murder the defenders of appearing in the capitalist press, states that “Haiti Is Again Quiet,” the fact that underneath the surface a strong mass moyement is stirring is shown by the continued array of war the workers government, the Sovict| being sent to suppress it. Two and peasants revolt, Stimson sends | Haiti. 1,000 “peace pacts,” armed marines, and has an assistant drawing $7, “WORLD COURT” “SUPPORT HAITI IS WAR MOVE REVOLUTION!” US Imperialism Wants|_ The following statement on the Worl Haitian revolt against United States orld Hegemony “|imperiatian Hascheen issued by the Pe ee ecg | American Negro Labor Congr y NGTON, Dec. 9—Yes-| The Neer 1 iti SRR = e Negro people of Haiti are atte aie Pert of the Helios again in revolt against the bloody ea dae heeclon be es aie and brutal American imperialism eee ees entere: ie which in 1915, with the utmost cal- 4 : his Tecommenda- | lousness, landed its marines in the pou Hoover, Stimson, secretary | then free and independent Black St is raped vie wera en United | Republic and introduced a reign of as son tablish: ate lege nin | ‘etter which drenched the land with Wi eactie seat ae ship.” |the blood of thousands of Haitian s is part e straggle that the | workers and peas ; Ss American capitalists are making for | Wret ant Aeeaie tes Dele hegemony of United States imperial- | right of self-determination” which SUnintey sintos the . World) Gaare eee Conca Center Ru. looked upon by Stimson and Hoover | “4s, 3 Mat me prattling about. as a step against British imperial- |The | Wall Street government ism in the struggle for world con-| Which, but a few days ago used the duce fake Kellogg Peace Pact as a pre- United States capitalism will at-|tense for attempting to wreck the temint taste sehe leader |peace negotiations then proceeding aggregation of hip of this | (Continued on Page Three) ea vane, (between Soviet Russia and the out- capitalist powers |v oneuvered Chinese militarist tools ,of British, Japanese and Ameri- jean imperialism—this same govern- jment no longer mouthing its hypo- critical peace prattle while seeking ja hostile world-wide imperialist front against the First Workers’ ILD AIDS HAITI ——-dy more amphibian bombing planes Union. When the Haitian workers | left Jacksonville, Florida, today to join the air squadron in in the form of | Only yesterday the so-called “High Commissioner,” Brig- | adier General Russell, notified Washington that the situation 00, while paying teachers only $6 0 serious that American | civilians were being removed {from Aux Cayes, where the battle took place the day be- fore in which U. S. Marines | murdered five and wounded twenty | Haitian peasants. Like action was taken by Russell with the Americans | at Jeremie. Russell admits the sweep of the f movement in his report, which says: | “On the morning of Dec. 7, a | crowd of about 2,000 surrounded the | outpost building at Chantel, yelling, |“Down with Borno! Down with | Freeman!” At Torbeck, near Aux | Cayes, where there is another out- | post, a crowd estimated at 1,000 | gathered on the morning of Dec. 7, j and threatened to kill the corporal | of the Garde, who was alleged to have telephoned into Aux Cayes the | approach of the mob that descended jon Aux Cayes on the afternoon of | Dec. 6, | “The crowd had been shouting, |‘Down with Borno! Down with | Freeman!’ but had not attacked the | Garde. Directions have been issued | to call in the above two small out- | posts to Aux Cayes, in order to pre- |vent rushing the outpost at night j and the capture of rifles and am- munition.” | Arrest Strikers. | It is evident that the situation is | “quiet” only because the Haitian | masses have been disarmed, and not Republic; no longer indulging in| because they have been “reassured” peace pretenses, is openly rushing | °T have any faith in Hoover or his marines and cruisers to drown in| White-washing “commission” as the WORKERS REVOLT Same Marines Used |nsitian masses, while at the same Agains ll Workers _ time seeking to divert the expected gainst A SSS | protests of the Negro masses of the | United States, and to afford the |Negro misleaders the means for an- | other betrayal of the masses by talk {about appointing a commission to “investigate conditions” in Haiti. Negro workers of America! The fight of the Haitian workers and (Continued on Page Three) Wall Street’s guns in: Haiti will be shown up to be the same guns that spat out death at Gastonia and Marion when two workers from the Caribbean Red Aid and from| Mexico arrive in Pittsburgh as fra- | ternal delegates to the Fourth NE (Continued om Page Two) Delays Are Dangerous! Delays are always dangerous, Never was this more true than now, when events are moving so fast. And never was it more true about anything, than about the building of the Emergency Fund of the Communist Party. Are you one of those who delays? Have you sent in your donation? Delays are dangerous,’ because the tremendous tasks which the Party faces are straining every resource. A lack our most necessary machinery, which will cost ten times as much later to rebuild. Ten dollars today may count as much as a hundred next week. Not only should every Party member and sympathizer send his donations. He should also bring this question to his workers’ club, fraternal society, or trade union, and propose: donations from the organizations. There are dozens and hundreds of such organizations in the various cities which support the general work of the Party, and which would donate money to help if the Emergency Fund were called to their attention. Do not wait until the District Committee has come around to you with the assessment. Send in your donation Analy and your receipt will be a payment on the assessment later. Delays are dangerous. ; Prompt response to the Party appeal doubles the effec- tiveness of your action. Send donations to Communi New York City, of money NOW may easily cause a breakdown of some of | | capitalist press infers. | In addition, it is admitted that ar- rests of “strike agitators” are tak- ing place at Port-au-Prince and at Cape Haitien. The “Borno” referred to is the puppet president foisted on and never elected by the Haitian people, by power of the marines. It is evi- dent that the masses repudiate Bor- no as a tool of American imperial- ism. Some time back the United States knew Borno would have to | go, so the U. S. instructed him to | “decline” another term, making sure of course that another equally | servile lackey would be “elected” by | the national “council” which Borno | appoints from among his family and machine supporters. The “Freeman” mentioned is one of the swarm of | “American advisers” who see that | the interests of the National City Bank are taken care of and that the Haitian workers and peasants are held down during the robbery. The lie being flaunted in the capi- | talist press that there is “no press \censorship” in Haiti, is an example (Continued on Page Three) DRIVERS FIGHT SELL OUT SCHEME: The employers’ association of the cleaning and dying shops is once | more trying to use the drivers’ local in Westchester County to enforce | the closed market, by which one | bosses’ driver will not take trade | from a retailer giving trade to an- |other shop. This is a renewal of |the Allied Council scheme which harnessed the union to the bosses’ two years ago, They have just had their helpful (A. F. L. officials call a meeting | Wednesday of the drivers’ local, to 1 (Continued on Page Two) 4 4 '