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LABOR MUST ACT! SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE!
FIRST SECTION
This issue consists of two sections,
J be sure to get them both.
Vol. IV. No. 145.
Current Events
By T. J. O’Flaherty.
a
TWO royal palaces that housed the
1 pretender to the throne of France,
and ex-king Manuel of Portugal have;
seen their best days. Both were lo
cated in London. One of the royal
estates now plays the role of gravel
pit and the other harbors superan
nuated cable and telegraph officials. \
The pretender died and the Portu- j
fuese parasite is living in the sunny I
south of France. The day of kings :
by divine right is past; the day of 1
Icings by right of money is here, but!
not for long, we hope.
* * *
OAVAGE sentences are being im
posed on the striking furriers, ar- !
rested on the picket line. Because!
the pickets refused to accept the dis
trict attorney’s conception of what
constitutes legal picketing they are
being given heavy jail sentences, with
additional terms of imprisonment in
flicted on them, for contempt of
court, on account of showing dis
pleasure at' the severity of the sen
tences. So militant workers are sent
to the workhouse for exercising their
legal rights. But what is a little law
or two between friends?
• * •
IF Harry Sinclair, oil millionaire,
* has been incarcerated for contempt
of court over the Teapot Doin'' liti
gation, we are in ignorance ox the
fact. Sinclair entered into a con
spiracy with A. B. Fall and other
government officials to rob the na
tion of some of its oil lands. To date
all the gentlemen involved are at
'liberty, and enjoying more than their
pro rata share of the national wealth.
What is sauce for the capitalist gan- i
-der is something else again for the
proletarian goose.
* • »
ACCORDING to a Washington dis
** patch, Joe Bearak, a Boston lawyer
and member of the Socialist Party,
has been congratulated by Secretary
of Labor Davis for his work in help
ing to smash the needle trades unions
by ousting the progressives and Com
munists. Davis, in recognition of
* Bearak’c worth as a strikebreaker,
gave the shyster a copy of the history
of his life. Davis rose or sunk from
puddler to politician and is the mil
lionaire owner of the Loyal Order of
Moose. Davis’s contract with the or
der puts one dollar in his treasury
for every sucker that joins the Moose.
A compliment from that kind of a
fellow should be appreciated by Joe.;
# * *
EVEN if Morris Sigrnan, president
“ of the I. L. G. U. should succeed
in completely destroying the union
he will not be compelled to waste a
lot of shoe leather looking for a job.
He has a farm and amusement park
in lowa and his training as an anti-
Communist barker should serve him
in good stead when he stands outside
the entrance to his main tent and
urges the potential customers to j
walk right in and see the curiosities.
* * *
WHILE one socialist is being com-'
" plimented for his union-smashing
activities and another right winger
is dividing his mental energies be
tween the union of which he is a
president and his amusement park, j
one hundred big industrial leaders are
meeting in San Francisco to fight
trade unionism. They are going to
give every worker a “chance to be
happy” by freeing them from the
protection of their unions. This is
the kind of freedom that will extract
more beans from the workers’ pot. j
While the reactionary labor bureau
crats and the socialists are using up
their energies fighting the Commun
ists the bosses are going ahead with
their union-smashing plans.
* * * i
TENERAL FENG YU-HSIANG, the
** so-called “Christian General” has ■
turned his back on the Chinese rev- :
olution and joined up with Chiang
Kai-shek and the foreign imperial
ists. This renegade will now turn
his sword against the masses whose
sacrifices have made possible the
success so far registered by the rev
olution. The lure of imperialist gold
was too strong for the double-crosser
Feng, whose record as a betrayer is
as black as the blackest of Chinese
militarists.
* » *
CENG’B treachery following on the
* heels of that of Chiang Kai-shek,
is the most severe blow yet suffered
by the revolution and means of a def
inite setback to the cause of liberation.
The Chinese bourgeoisie have done
what their prototypes have done in
all other countries under similar cir
cumstances. ’ They have sold out to
foreign tyrants rather than see the
exploited masses in their own country
take power. But no matter how long
the struggle will last the workers and
peasants of China will persist until
they have settled accounts with the
imperialists and with the Fengs,
Chiang Kai-sheks and others.
THE DAILY WORKER.
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BUKHARIN BRANDS
FENG TRAITOR TO
CHINESE REVOLT
Says Left Wing Mustj
Purge Kuomintang
| MOSCOW, July I.—With the
treachery of General Feng Yu-hsiang
| and the consolidation of native big
j business interests the task of libera
ting China lies entirely in the hands
of the workers, peasants and petty
bourgeoisie, according to an article
in the Pravda by N. Bukharin.
N. Bukharin’s article follows:
“The bloc of Feng Yu-hsiang and
Chiang Kai-shek means a further
step in the separation of the class
forces of China. Chang Tso-lin’s
camp is the camp of feudal reaction;
this camp is actually in the descend
ent. The second camp, the camp of
the liberal bourgeois counterrevolu
tion, at a given stage in the develop
ment of events in China, is the victori
ous force holding quite a peculiar
place in the struggle of classes.
The class basis of the generals
coups is to be sought in the passing
of the liberal bourgeoisie to the
counter-revolution and in the agrar
ian revolution of the Chinese pea
sants. The bloc of Chiang Kai-shek
and Feng Yu-hsiang and other gen
erals plus (eventually) the left wing
of the “Fengtienese” such is the
bourgeois bloc from a military aspect.
At present this bloc is the strongest
of the struggling camps. The
i strength of this liberal counter-revo
| lutionary camp consists in the num
i erical predominance of its armed
| forces and its political position as
| compared with the political position
!of the feudal camp. The bourgeois
I camp already tends to amalgamate
with the feudal reaction and im
perialism; however it is in a certain
measure still independent—on the
surface.
Liberals are masquerading as the ‘
: true liberators of China, as distinctj
i from Communists whom they call!
agents of the “Russian State.” One of
the strong points of the liberal coun
ter-revolution is that it has its agents
in third camp, namely, vVuiian.
Feng’s Betrayal.
Wuhan’s weak point is that it has |
I not sufficient armed forces. With)
j Feng’s betrayal, Wuhan lost the best
part of its military forces, while the
I remaining part under rang Snen-cm
;is likewise unreliable. The reliable
military units are insufficient num
erically.
Furthermore, both in the Central
Committee of the Kuomintang and
! the government are Cniang lvai
-1 shek’s spies and wavering petty
bourgeois politicians, a weak ununi
fied political leadership in Wuhan, in
distinction to growing mass move
ment, is a most vulnerable point.
If the Communist Interiiational’s
S directing line were practically ful
; filled the situation would not be so
i dangerous for Wuhan.
The strength of Wuhan in a power
-1 ful movement of workers and pea
sants.
This revolution will throw away
the wavering prattlers and the en
j emy’s spies and wavering terrified
| “leaders”.
So far the camp of the bourgeois
i counter-revolution has been fighting
i against feudalism and to some ex
j tent, against the imperialists. At
the same time it acts against the
; workers and peasants of its own na
j tion, thereby becoming the henchman
i of the counter-revolution.
Must Mobilize Workers.
I The substance of the actual class
battles is the struggle for hegemony
in the bourgeois democratic revolu
| tion between the working class and
liberal bourgeoisie or otherwise, which
i amounts the same, the struggle be
tween the liberal and plebian de
| velopments of the Chinese revolution,
j The more dangerous actual situation,
I the more energetic must be the sup
port of the third camp, the more en
| ergetic the mobilization of the
I workers, the peasants and the petty
\ bourgeois masses.
; The policy of the Communist In
ternational: mobilize the masses;
loosen the agrarian revolution;
loosen the labor movement, struggle
; against the traitors. Wuhan must
repel all compromising tendencies on
the part of the semi-agents of Chiang
Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang; it
,! must steer in the direction of clear
ing the Kuomintang of these waver
' ing elements. It is necessary that it
really consolidate the Jacobin “pleb
ian” cadres which can fight to the
' end against all obstacles and defeats.
Feng Yu-hsiang has passed into the
1 camp of the enemies of the peoples'
revolution and against him must be
' declared a relentless war. The tac
' tics of compromising with Feng and
company could be based only on an
1 absolutely liquidatory attitude to
l wards the agrarian revolution and to-
I wars the struggle for the plebian
' way of China’s development.
, Even though Wuhan should fall
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Entered a3 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York. N. Y., u.ider the act of March 3, 18f*.
FFERSON MARKET COURT |
Striking furriers leaving Jefferson Market Court just after Magistrate Ewald imposed sentences of jail and
fine on women pickets. The judge was hissed, and the police attacked the crowd in court.
Mass Arrests and Mass Jail Sentences tor
Picketing a Challenge to Labor Movement
The jail sentences handed out enmasse to striking fur
workers following the mass arrests for picketing and which
include men and women indiscriminately put squarely to the
labor movement of New York City, the labor movement of
the United States as a whole and to all elements outside
the labor movement proper, but who believe in, sympathise
with and support the aims and struggles of the working class
certain questions which cannot be evaded.
The issues are clear:
In the face of brutal exercise of the police power of the
city in an arbitrary manner, against workers who are break
ing no law, and on a scale unknown heretofore, with the
open purpose of destroying the right to picket in a struggle
between bosses and workers, will the officers of the DJjvw
York Central Labor Council continue to avoid making a
public protest to the authorities coupled with a demand that
this onslaught on the fundamental rights of unions ceas< \
In the face of a state supreme court decision legaliaAig
picketing—a decision secured at the cost of much
time, effort and sacrifice on the part of the labor move
ment—will the officials of the labor movement of this state
permit hundreds of workers—hundreds, we repeat, and the
court records show it—to be jailed for any term a judge
sees fit to fix for upholding the right of the unions to picket?
With bands of mercenaries assaulting striking workers
and pickets, gangsters whom even the capitalist press is
forced to admit are in the pay of the reactionary forces who
are trying to break the morale of the strikers and destroy
their union, with the fur district occupied by police,and
thugs, a state of siege in force so far as the strikers are
concerned—will the organized workers of New York and the
rest of the United States remain silent?
We do not think so. Neither do we believe that passivity,
in effect acquiescence in the stoolpigeon tactics of trade
union reaction which has produced such things as union
officials acting as informers and prosecutors against striking
workers, will prevent protest from the circle of labor sym
pathisers whose assistance to the labor movement has been
of tremendous value in times of crisis especially.
We wish to warn the labor movement, in no spirit of
hostility to those who do not agree with us on issues and
methods, but in the most sober and emphatic manner that
what it is witnessing in the furriers’ strike in New York
today is a forerunner of the methods which will be employed
on a nationwide scale if the bosses and city, state and na
tional authorities meet no organized and determined re
sistance from thfc labor movement to mass arrest and mass
jail sentences.
We say this with the knowledge that in America and
every other country any concerted attack, and particularly
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What the Federal Indictment Means
Under the Federal Grand Jury indictment against The DAILY WORKER and members
of the staff, the four defendants, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, Alexander Bittelman
and Bert Miller, and also David Gordon and Joseph Kalar, are subject to the following pen
alties under the federal statutes:
On the first count Five Years’ Imprisonment, or $5,000 Fine or Both.
On the second count Five Years’ Imprisonment, or $5,000 Fine or Both.
On the third count Two Years’ Imprisonment, or SIO,OOO Fine or Both.
Thousands of dollars of bail will be required.
In addition to this the mailing privileges of The DAILY WORKER may he revoked at any
time that the federal authorities see fit. The cost of the proceedings in the Federal Courts
will run into thousands of dollars.
Comrades, we understand the intent and the purpose of the attack against The DAILY
WORKER and its staff. We realize that American capitalism is facing such a serious sit
uation that it seeks to rid itself of its most dangerous opponent, The DAILY WORKER. The
whole weight of the United States government is being brought down upon us. We must
bring the whole weight of the labor movement down upon the reactionary forces which are
seeking to throttle our paper. For the next few months we face the battle of our lives. The
chief need at this hour is money sos the big fight which is ahead. We expect every com
rade to do his share to meet the new attack against us.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927
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RIGHT WING PLOT
TO JAIL FURRIER
PICKETS EXPOSED
Unity Committee Tells
of “Forward” Gloating
Calling upon the needle workers to
protest against the wholesale jailing
l of the furriers, the Unity Committee
of the Fur, Cloak and Dressmakers’
Joint Boards, yesterday distributed
' thousands of leaflets in the market
pointing out the treachery of the right
: wing.
It reads as follows:
“Three hundred fifty workers, men
and women, have been sentenced to
‘ jail terms ranging from 5 days to 6
i months. What was their crime?
“Even the police who testified
against them admitted that their
crime consisted of nothing more vio
lent than that of peacefully picketing
j in the fur market.
“The real reason why these work
ers were sent to jail is because IT
WAS REQUESTED BY SIGMAN
! AND MCGRADY. The judge was
nothing but a puppet in their hands.
; Sigrnan, McGrady and the Forward
have determined to break the furriers’
strike at any cost. The time has ap
; parently arrived when they who were
at one time so-called labor leaders are
now the leaders of the police and the
j courts.
“Day after day gangsters are
I caught in the murderous attempts on
the lives of our workers. These gang
sters have long criminal records as
safe-crackers, robbers and murderers.
I These men of the underworld are
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[World Tourists Sail
For Russia July 14;
Last Call for Visas
The time is short before the sailing
date for the six weeks’ trip to Lenin
grad and Moscow, organized by the
World Tourists, of 41 Union Square,
Room 803. They are off on July 14th!
Many Americans have been curious
and anxious to visit Russia for a long
time, but the difficulty of getting a
visa in the absence of a Soviet Con
sulate in the U. S. A. has forced them
to postpone the trip.
Now is your opportunity. An ar
rangement between the U. S. S. R.
Society for Cultural Relations and the
World Tourists has made it possible
to guarantee a visa for everyone who
joins this tour.
British Right Wingers
Try to Smash Alliance
Os Anglo-USSR Workers
LONDON, July I.—That the
right wing leaders of British
Trade Union Congress are taking
steps to break the Anglo-Russian
Committee is indicated in a re- 1
port of the labor correspondent of
the Westminster Gazette.
Several days ago the All Union
Central Committee of Trade
Unions representing more than ten
million organized workers of the
Soviet Union, accused the British
right wing leaders of betraying
their labor movement and of at- j
tempting to break the Anglo-Rus
sian Committee.
If the reports in the Westminster
Gazette are correct the guess of
the All Union Central Committee
is correct.
engineerslre !
FOUR OFFICIALS j
ON BANK CHARGES
Prenter Rushed Out by
Abolition of Office
CLEVELAND, July l.—The Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers to
day had returned to the oi-iginal meth
od of officering the organization, fol- j
lowing abolishment of offices of presi
dent, vice president and secretary,
which were created in 1924.
Alvanley Johnston, once a caller on
the Great Northern Railroad, auto
matically was placed in'command of
the B. of L. E. affairs
The deposed officers are W. B.
Prenter, president; L. G. Griffing,
first vice president and treasurer; H.
P. Daugherty, second vice president
and C. E. Lindquist, secretary.
Trustees Named.
Three trustees were named tern- J
porarily by Johnson to take over the
management of the brotherhood’s fi
nancial and business enterprises with
the exception of the pension and in
surance departments and report semi
annually to the organization’s advis- j
ory board.
Prenter Holds On.
Prenter has already signified his
intention to fight expulsion from the '
office which gave him control over
all the brotherhood’s extensive but
unremunerative (to the union) busi
ness ventures into scab coal mining j
and class collaboration banking, real
estate, etc.
The investigation committee ap
pointed by the convention to look into
shady deals connected with the mil
lions of dollars invested recommended
the removal of all the higher officers
of the union.
Upton Sinclair Returns
Home; Promises Censors
Os Boston More Battle
(By Federated Press)
Before returning to his home in
Pasadena, Calif., Upton Sinclair told
the Federated Press than he would
give the Boston censors another
fight this Fall when the book clerk
who sold the banned novel Oil is put
on trial on a charge of violating the
obscenity law.
Sinclair sold an unexpurgated Oil
in the Puritan City, but the police re
fused to arrest him. Hi? next move
was to parade through the streets as
a sandwich man, selling a special Fig
leaf Edition of the book, with the
9 censored pages humorously blocked
out with black figleaves.
A. & C. Coni, publisher's of Oil, say
its sales gained a thousand per cent I
since the Boston censors got busy, j
Like all the labor novelist’s other;
books Oil is a big seller in Germany, j
Britain and other European coun-:
tries.
U. S. Marines March On
Nicaraguan Liberals
As Revolt Breaks Out
WASHINGTON, July I.—American
marines, under Brigadier General Fe
land, have been dispatched against
General Sandino, liberal officer, who
is occupying the state of Nueva Se
govia.
Despite reports previously received
here, a large section of the liberals
is openly revolting against the dicta
torship of Diaz, who is supported by
American marines.
General Sandino is reported to have
levied a tax against an American
owned mine, which the owner, Charles
Butters refused to pay. General San
dino is said to have seized the mine
upon Butter’s refusal.
FINAL CITY
EDITION
Price 3 Cents
SACCO, VANZETTI
SECRETLY TAKEN
TO DEATH HOUSE
Brutal Action Despite
30-Day Reprieve
BOSTON, July I.—Nicola Sacco
! and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, after seven
I years of torture following their con
[ viction on framed-up charges of mar
i der were early this morning secretly
and unexpectedly transferred from
the Norfolk county jail in Dedham to
the Charlestown state prison.
Despite the 30-days respite an
nounced by Gov. Alvan Fuller Wed
nesday the two workers were whisked
away in an automobile heavily
guarded by armed officers.
Blow to Defense.
A belated "explanation” was made
j in which it was said that "the trans
| fer was made to conform to the
| statutes” which require that those
; facing execution must be placed in
the death house 10 days before the
date set by the presiding judge.
For several days prior to the re
spite the Boston Sacco-Vanzetti De
fense Committee repeatedly urged
governor not to permit the removal
of the two men to the Charlestown
prison. The latest action comes as a
heavy blow to the Committee inas
much as they assumed that the re
spite would automatically block the
threatened transfer to the death
house.
* # *
Labor Protest Grows.
Labor has one month more to make
its protests against the impending
execution of Nicola Sacco and Bar
tolemeo Vanzetti. Thirty days more
must be ticked off by the big peni
tentiary clock before the two Italian
radicals go to the electric chair. An
executive order by Gov. Fuller de
lays the throwing of the switch till
j August 10th.
International protests come daily.
On the date of the respite came a
j cablet to Full - r from far-off Nev,
Zealand miners, and another from
the Syndicate for the Defense of the
Tenants of Nice, France.
; On the day of the respite Fuller
i interviewed Frank J. Bui-ke, a glass
bottle blower, and a witness at the
Dedham trial. Burke, who happened
;to be standing in the roadway at
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Demand Release of
53 Chinese Sailors
A thorough investigation of the
cars of the 85 Chinese workers who
forced their way off the “Rotterdam”
after they were refused shore leave
has just been started by the Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union.
Fifty-four of the sailors, jailed im
mediately after the outbreak, are still
being held in Hoboken despite efforts
of Ziangling Chang, Chinese Consul
in New York, to secure their release.
No charge has as yet been placed
against them.
Got $3 a Week.
They were hired as stokers in Rot
terdam about 10 days ago for a wage
of? 3 a week with a promise of shore
leave. When they arrived in Ho
boken, however, the officers ignored
their pleas to be let off.
Commenting on this Ziang-ling
Chang said: “If American sailors were
in the same situation in China Ameri
can marines would have long since
taken action.”
The arrested sailors charge that the
food on the “Rotterdam” was atroci
ous, a diet of rice and beans being
served them during the entire trip.
China and Soviet Union
To Be Taken Up at W. P.
Membership Meet., Wed
The District Executive Commit
tee is calling a special Party mem
bership meeting for Wednesday,
July 6, 8:00 P. M., at Manhattan
Lyceum, 66 East Fourt street, to
discuss the present international
situation, particularly:,
1. The attack against the So
viet Union and preparation for a
campaign for defense of the So
viet Union.
2. The present situation in
China and the prospects for the
Chinese revolution.
3. Immediate danger of W'ar
and w’hat our Party can do to
counteract it.
Bring your membership cards
with you. All members of the
Young Workers League arc asked
to attend this meeting.