SACCO AND VANZETTI NEAR EXECUTION
Shields, Art
Sacco and Vanzetti Near Execution Y. Schoolboys Face Military Training Revival STATE ASKS FDR IMMEDIATE SENTENCE Defense Hopes to Stay" Radicals' Execution By Sensational New Evidence By...
...the Gera...
...It is astounding how but a week's preparation could oafl forth the response of so magnificent* gathering aa met at Ranter Hail, the largest meeting ple.ee In town...
...W* could realise what th* pickets had to encoiShter daily and especially during the winter months as they trudged from-headquarters four mile* or more through the snow to reach their furthest outposts...
...The cooking was done on the premises...
...Hence, tha Importance of the "Support the Psoaslo Strike...
...This attempt to link amove seat Vanaettl to the case through Bode, wap one of the flimsiest strands as tin prosecution's heasp...
...The course, then, is not optional, is not tsken after school, is an elective snd, liks any other elective, must be continued for an entire term for regular school credit...
...P hftUce th?t the Joint Board of the _ •¦^¦w*^,si...
...Our credulity In these matters la to coat us $2.«*0,oO0 ia new telephone rates alone, to say nothing of what we pay for gas and electric power...
...church—not only tables a iSSlllH"" condemning compulsory milpar/ training in colleges but endorses #» mninier military training camps...
...Newspapers are utterly at variance with the- court record la say lag the death ear used In the South Brain tree oar was kept there for the prosecution admitted that the death car was a Buiek and the Boda oar waa an Overland...
...Two- hundred delegates eepraisadSgg about aa many labor argantsaUrtssaarsi s present...
...wondered -whether .any...
...A camp In the vicinity of Passaic would be Improvised on a farm appropriated by a friend, which would accommodate on* hundred children at a time...
...Preslgspt Coolldge gives' Europe some excsaast advice on the necessity tor disiisjsment...
...This 1* now certain...
...This question is to the fore again with the smashing defeat administered a Baldwin candidate in the Hammersmith by-election when a Labor candidate matched his program against...
...with Vanaetti, were arrested on the' carline into Brockton...
...They were given the chance to see the Whole ahOw...
...J*» abolish the war system, however, 22* * primarily of the 11ml°* srmaments or even of comdisarmament...
...S. Kling of the Machinists' Union of New Haven, were made vicechairmen...
...It makes progress Impossible...
...Sacco and Vanzetti Near Execution Y. Schoolboys Face Military Training Revival STATE ASKS FDR IMMEDIATE SENTENCE Defense Hopes to Stay" Radicals' Execution By Sensational New Evidence By Art Shields THE nuiei of Sacco and Vaasettf are again stretched scrosi the f-column width of Boa ton nth paper* in a violent campaign of abut that Is obscuring the ease with lurid hoes of prejudice as the Mat court moves to save the Uvea of the defendants are being- made...
...Company unionism ia • an instrument by which selfish employers hope te dupe their workers away from organizing in real unions...
...At another some boy* and girls stopped their playjng...
...The struggles of the nations at Geneva to And a formula for the reduction of armament would be the world's gree^pt farce it it were not also a tragedy...
...K the electrocution took place before, am it should have, we could have tics pad such outrages as this Wast Bride** water occurrence...
...the background...
...A. Wise, Joint Board of Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers' "Union, I. L. O, W. V. of New York, and Louis A.' 'Baum of the Photographic Workers' Union of New York...
...Abraham Binns, Federated Textile Operatives of New Bedford, Mass...
...J) that profit* may legitimately be concealed by ouch relations as exist between, th* Now York Telephone Company and th* American Telephone A T*l*gr*ph Company end It* owner which pays 13 per cent at tbe very moment It* subsidiary plsads poverty...
...lota of spaghetti andf everything else that a gnKpryewrled—except cusfte . coaST be found...
...At any rat*, we hop* the issue wUl he decided on its own merits and not under th* influence of the Irrelevant maneuver* of left or right wans...
...waa pat seen any more that night...
...The place waa tber classroom of n Ukrainian school, which occupies the rear of a store kndwn a* th* Hungarian Club...
...The relief stores were a real tree...
...drill during ' school periods, not after school...
...The Hammersmith byelection means but one thing...
...WHILE military training for students is being repudiated in schools and colleges all over the country, the militarists in the public -school system of New York City are attempting to foist drilling for war upon the high school students...
...To fight for the1 Passaic strikers, therefore, is to lead th* vanguard of the unorganized workers towards unionism...
...in svsry possible way...
...SW YORK CITY...
...The some day the presbytsdm General Assembly — which is asfsaatd...
...Finally, Wagenknecht explained the method*-that could be utilized to raise funds and secure donations of chjfhing...
...Tet here there waa a perfect order...
...I'm on special duty...
...The workers on the other •' hand, are entrenching themselves for the long siege during the hot summer months-until business picks up-again...
...The mill owners Have lost the women's wear season and they will now try to hold out until the...
...jr^8 »> no way of equalizing the 5*n*th ot treat nations and small, emonly hops lies in abolishing the ¦*w «y«t«m...
...HIGH SCHOOL TO FORCE DRILL FOR WAR Department Head Directs Spying on Rebellious Students— Coercion Is Planned...
...We aped through th* countryside...
...Second portions were gladly furnished...
...The Reserve Officers Training Corps Is to make Its appearance first In the New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, one of the largest schools In the city...
...to cheer us as w...
...When It eras' raining It wa* too wet to mend it and when it waa clear hs didn't need to...
...MS Johnson, whose home waa wrecked, M '* brother-in-law of a Mrs...
...Who cen compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train ef thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of bsing considered irreligious or immoral T—J...
...To all Prefects of Beys' Classes: R.O.T.C...
...400 RESTAURANTS SIGN PACT WITH UNION Four hundred owners of restaurants have already> signed up with the Waiter's Union Local 1. granting the demands of the union...
...passed...
...when any of the speakers used sny slogan-like phrases, the vigorous itpplause of the strikers thrilled the audience...
...Michigan, most of them had not had the opportunity to observe the Passalo strike in action...
...Her* was th* bridge of Lodi wher* th* first clash with th* police h*4 oecurrpd...
...Machmlsts Union, Now Haven...
...The result also will be regarded generally a* a reproof to the government for its "handling of the coal strfkav and its failure to do anything toward checking the industrial paralysis that steadily is creeping...
...So Jteg as our churches endorse military dBaa>and our schools teach young, Ifofj et fourteen the theory and pracset of militarism, our advice to Eursfs will sound Mke the grossest sort at hypocrisy...
...The** were picnics, circularlsatlon, committees visiting unions and local oonf or one...
...Stanley Clark and Joseph Salerno, who sketched the evidense la the esse and urgedV continued smpport by organised labor...
...and (4) that you have "public" ownership bees us* stock In the A. T. A T. Is widely distributed...
...Sbnesi Johnson, who figured In the lectin asat Vapsetti trial as a minor witness, described as a star witness and it was suggested that the explosives must have been Intended for her home, which is several miles away, and that a mistake must have been mads...
...The echoes of the Passaic strike were helxyr .heard th other centers...
...Weisbo'rd voiced.' what many believe is the increasing significance of the Passaic text fie strike...
...Thus three hundred were accommodated daily, on week days for the evening meal, on Saturdays at noon also...
...Observers...
...And whatever* the decision there must he sondarity la enforcing it...
...The**) who nasi b**n acctrttomad toW4am aatomobit* sightseeing w*r* concerted by till *•» tiperleBM, T»» sombre mill* pasaWL...
...But It is the logic of aeJlam...
...Thert were seven of th*m...
...Boda...
...Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of relief, was eleoted chairman...
...Reptt 6...
...Voters Repudiate Baldwin For Stand During Strike London...
...Mass., and'R...
...LABOR MEETS TO AID PASSAIC STRIEERS Great Detitj*i»tretion of Support Taltes Place —Endurance Fight Is On fcy JUouisv Stfverstein THE next stag* » the Passaic taxtile strike has begun...
...The struggle thus resolves Itself Into an endurance test, less spectacular, less dramatic than the events of recent ooeaaspace but Just as vital to success, nevertheless...
...The meeting was not like the mass gatherings to which they were accustomed...
...The delegates were now In a flit mood for the conference itself as well as for lunoh, to which they were not treated...
...him this was a special bus...
...under Mr...
...meal of veal gou'.ash In bis white- bowls with applesauce for desert to follow...
...ia the price o$ our swallowing such propaganda as is express*d la these notions: (1) that privet* operation is more efficient than public...
...heart talks...
...Now mere is a certain sort of logic In the aotion that under modern conditions all a country's resources have potential iSBtsry value...
...The key-note of this intensely—al¦ott...
...whereas tad old on*-«aned for * hours( An *tuua inn «t?$L5ft *aa -alar* accused for the night waiters...
...N. J„ Saturday, May it, UK...
...over Great Britain...
...Stolberg declared...
...evangelically enthusiastic—conference was struck by Mercer Greene Johnston of Baltimore, a former rector of thi» fashionable Trinity Church of N«.9ferk...
...Brummer wrote: "Encourage the R.O.T.C...
...HOW much longer can Premier Baldwin delay a general election...
...Welsbord pointed out that all this indicated that the unorganized worker...
...Conservative Speakers stressed th* Constitution...
...It has been supplied the New Leader from the memory of several who saw it...
...State and local police told newspapermen that they ascribed the «a£ plosion to agitators for Sacco and VansetU...
...He told her: "That's all rifht...
...Such bllhvas are being considered are, for reasons that tbe Committee on Coal and Super Power has recently given, absurdly futile...
...Not only, dp .the workers c4U for a union hut -more than that they will have nothing to do with company unions, which th*y call—and wisely so—the bosses' unions...
...The following represents the exact sense of the note sent out by* Drummer, though it may deviate as to Phraseology here and there...
...The small vote obtained by th* Liberal showsJthe depressing: effect Of the Lend Oxford-Lloyd G*org* quarrel on thl fortunes of the Party and indicate* that the day is not far distant when the Liberal party may cease to exist...
...Th* Illustration la peculiarly appropriate In view of the failure of Coopres* so fsr to pass adequate lagtaTaUon •gainst the emergency in ths soft coal Industry that everybody knows win become acute ia 1027...
...Managed entirely by the striker!!, thty did a thriving business...
...Bags cf flour, Soap, milk, sugar, oil...
...When they convened, they found "that every available place in the rear of the hall and the gallery waa occupied by striker*,* men and women, radiantfaced, proud of their consciousness of power, appreciative of the help that these' formerly £trsngers were bringing to them...
...The union demanded an•• hour day...
...t * "I believe," the Boston American quotes Wilbur, "that the sooner the death penalty Is exacted In the SaccoVansetti case, the sooner the agitation we have seen will be abandoned...
...The other kitehen handled three hundred ^i'dron additional...
...Tee days later a Massachusetts comsiSee releases a. report showing that ;tPH high school boys are receiving affitary instruction—a thing which did *K happen in Germany under the •Uher...
...Here you I, You're under arrest...
...But this move is forestalled for the* moment by a new trial motion pending before Judge Thayer based em newly, discovered evidence shortly to be made pubiif...
...Busses were provided and the delegates toured the strike sone...
...Early in May, ltSO, an Italia* named Michael Boda kept an Overland car there...
...Albert Weisbord...
...The textile workers nf New England were straining at the leash waiting to fall In line...
...j^^&y^^^^^s^^^^^i...
...They know their friends...
...And the fact that most tsar 11 urn from the President to the pjtaUiaiu don't know that we are P^pxrites won't alter the matter...
...3) that $ par cent 1* a aaared rat* Ot return on capital Inverted ia public utllltie*— the court* told us that...
...The sober, phlegmatic Dutchmen have given the audience its biggest laugh by arguing that the number of cows and other live stock possessed' by a nation should be considered in estimating Us military resources...
...This R.O.T.C...
...One could not fail to be Impressed by the growing emphasis that has!been placed udbn the union as such.' A few week* ago this demandi was in...
...for power and prestige...
...With paper napkins a.< tuft - cloths, they were having a reliMli'.n...
...Jacob C. Robinson of the Pressmen's Union of Detroit and chairman of the local International Workers' Aid was elected Secretary...
...Pried'* direction, knowing that by so doing they will take two periods of physical training per week with their class and have two periods per ¦ week of R.O.T.C...
...Damn all company unions...
...At one of the mill* th* whole crew of scabs was sitting on the lawn furtively-nibbling lunch at a safe dlstanc* from .th* Iron railing...
...New the good persons and others who endorse our military training camps and believe in teaching school boys the beauties of bayonet drill would doubtless claim that they are thinking only of the collateral benefit of such training m the way of health, etc But don't may realise- that these collateral benefits also exist—if they exist at aU—in Burope, which we exnflr*m<i*srin* Only most Europeans MJ*apaM£sjt»Cxw£ana to daim that they ajSJll jlili i, J tta.besjr.,payx ,1aUMP up health and character and fjHKn't Ter a minute believe that **••» ao simple minded that we drill ssr sehool boys in order to make them aSaWtant, peace-loving citlsens...
...A drive for on* hundred thousand dollars for children's relief would soon be started...
...Then the meeting was thrown open to the delegates for 'heart-to...
...io -i' .¦•!-:• oJn 1 it At the beginning of :th* s nth reel to strike I remember I wrote that the public, including the' workers, reminded me of th* Arkansas man who never mended his roof...
...Wagenknecht had the njore prosaic message to deliver but it turned out to be just_as romantic...
...for the « ¦U>.T.C...
...Before a third mill a policeman leaped upon th* running board of our busno, not to beat us up—but to get a free ride...
...If you hesr any ' student spaak disrespectfully ef the R.O.T.C...
...Conference" held in Passage...
...Moreover, the government supporters are deprived of their favorite argument, that Intervention of the Liberal candidate allowed the Laborite ts slip In...
...The conference ended with the determination of every delegate to see the Passaic strikers thru their coming siege of the atroaghatda of the textile borons...
...It waa- these four stations, where t:;e striker* came with their relief cards, that were the mainstay of the strike...
...Mor* than ever did th* mills, even if ivy-covered, seem an abomination to th* landscape...
...The excuse for this propaganda of hysteria is aa explosion that wrecked the houss ef a man named Samuel Jehaaen In Went Bridge water, an hour's riaa trees -Beeton...
...Sixty kiddles were seated close to each other on tiny classrrom benches...
...Police are using the hue and cry* that they themselves started...
...Conn...
...Out on bail, he is now awaiting a hearing...
...Johnoan at the) garage May I, la company with Boda, The police bad told her she said te telephone them when Boda arrived and later that night Sacco...
...Addresses were delivered by Albert Welsbord, Elisabeth Ourley Flynn, Robert Dunn and Alfred Wagenknecht and appropriate, resolutions were passed...
...Here is the announcement sent to all the teachers in the school's boy classes by Principal H. A. Potter: May 27, 1986...
...for although the contest was three-cornered, tli* Laborit* won by a clear majority, get* ting mor* than 1,500 votes over the total east for the Conservative and Liberal candidates cjombhted...
...walked out, the Forstman-HaSmfe...
...But the big Interests don't want this kind of legislation, and Harry Dubb would a great deal nether read about Joyce Hawley In a bath tub than how to get coal In a family coal bin next winter...
...They are now seeking to intimidate an constitutional" agitation for the defense...
...IN NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOL By permission of the Superintendent the R.Q.T.<X, in September, w4ll aoatiire a new Statue la this -schaeU., S«r» enenU...
...whjoh waa held previously by a Conservative, is regarded ao a sever* blow ta th* presti*o of th* Bfcldwin administration, for Qluekstein, metaphorically spooking, wrapped himself in the British flag ¦nd...
...deserted saloon the .officers oJfche law had just yesterday made one.of their Ill-famed beastly offensives against the striker...
...It was declared that speakers at 'a coming protest meeting in Brockton, the men's shoe capital, might be axrestsd...
...e The New York HeraJd-Tribune, outright Conservative organ, - carries the following dispatch on the-Hammersmith by-election: . "The Laoor party won a smashing victory In the North Hammersmith Parliamentary by-election' when its candidate, James Patrick Gardner, carried the seat with HJft6 votes, to 9,414 for Samuel Gluckstejn, Conservative, and a, mere 14*4 lor G. P. M»rn ^tfar%SatVrSl»S«nW most important sbace the general election a year and a half ago, for It la the first time a popular verdict has been registered at ¦ the polls on the government's handling of and responsibility for the general strike...
...It is to be accompanied by undisguised coercion "ot the students Into taking the course under pain of penalty to their scholastic standing...
...Mercer Greene Johnzton, Baltimore Commute* tor Passaic Strikers Relief...
...The prosecution had) argued that Boda was a South Braintree murder suspect and that Ss rrs) bad been seen by Mrs...
...before' them fa* quick r%.....ataat thm -w**» th* Botany where th* .first -workers had...
...Even to us In th* bus the rid* was a long on...
...It waa lrr surh an electrified atmosphere that the "Support the Passaic Strike Conference" took place...
...Stolberg waa arrested for disorderly conduct...
...If a public school teacher had to handle a similar situation, she would have thrown herself into her »i-inclpel'a arms in despair...
...A pictorial booklet entitled "Hell in New Jersey" would be sold -at 25 cents a piece, the proceed going toward th* relief work...
...It was said that last Sunday's mass meeting in Lawrence would be investigated on the theory that the agitation there and the explosion aa West Bridgewater might be linked together...
...are, byjg hm^th^mi^^^^ i^they iwth^thaat^s take the Initiative in the uisMaOeta, r*>»it>n of th* report, a nspptaJKhieli fp Snany respects ** very f*"'?^^U^^r^rfc'' calculable factor^ In Industrial disputes...
...The speakers there were) Elisabeth Our ley Flynn...
...Contribution* should bo aont to: EMIRMNCY CQeMITTKS roB rrJttKB Rtutr, m BROADWAY...
...first step ought to be the abolition of universal military training and serJ*6*- It is absurd for France or for Holland to argue that a small nation should make up for its comparative Bck of economic resources and population by keeping more men under arms...
...The only ad*quCt« remedy fe* naUonalisation with democratic con troL The purchase price ought to be kept down - to the lowest possible figure snd the government ought te get s lot of that hank out of Income and Inheritance taxes...
...Coming as it does on' the heels of three other stinging Conservative defeats by Labor, it means that Baldwin baa been repudiated by tne voters...
...Jersey Gets Polite Stolberg Arrested for Damning Company Unions Before Textile Strikers m 1 The company union is sacred In Newi "Jersey, Benjamin Stolberg, well-known Journalist, was delivering a talk to a mass meeting of striking textile workers in Passslc the other day...
...There are two of them...
...The original copy, signed by Brummer, and Initialed by all the teachers in the history department, was returned to Brummer...
...8. Mill...
...Mrs...
...issue during th* campaign, declaring that a vote f*r Gluckstein was * vote for Baldwin...
...At the suggestion of Wagenknecht a representative resolutions committee was chosen by the conference as follows: Chafles W. Erwin, Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...As the Germans have pointed out, it only remains for some nation to propose that psychological tests be given to find out what country possesses a potential Napoleon or Bismarck in order that he too may be included in the military assets of the nation...
...A moving picture of the strike would be sent on the road as a rallying point for the holding of mass meetings and relief drives...
...You can't pull that language here, damn it...
...A picket leader acted a* guide...
...HAP/SKC Following the issuance of this statement to the teachers by Potter, Sidney Brummer, head ot the history department of the school, sent a notice to all history Instructors...
...Simon Johnson, the sister-inlaw of the man whose bouse was) injured, was with her husband, a sjsjrsnTJ keeper...
...R. S. Kling...
...Is something which te'ssry good for other people...
...The picturesque mother Ella Beeves Bloor of the United Fronted Committee of Lawrence...
...About a hundred others filled applications for settlements and only SO others are still resisting the worker's demands...
...The . delegates were sophisticated, you see...
...Other organised workers have noticed the example set them...
...W« stopped at one of th* children's relief kitchen...
...were orgaalzable...
...He told of the relief work.that had been accomplished and explained future plans...
...will then become compulsory as any other sleeted subject, and 2/10 of a unit for graduation per term ef 4/10 per year will be assigned to for successful completion of the RO.T.C...
...jttnaJly, if the nations are to get •hTWhers the problem of limitation of •raiments must be considered in terms ot arms and men trained to be soldiers...
...The result, however, showed a falling off of more than 3.000 in the Con••rvative vote and a gain of more than 2,000 In the Labor vote...
...bring him down to the office at once...
...appears that all rn nasals and Itaaaeg assumed a new importance aa ana*> pacts in the eyes of tha aaTliiilTIIss eg about the tha* that the ojarhmeT saphw ¦ nil iMatfsaBaay Sa»auMjsa^l|away Jostle* Maty «, - TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas jffaa IgARMAMENT, It would anpear 11 from discussions at Geneva and J»T slsswhere...
...the United Piece Dy*> -tfcc New Jersey Worsted...
...N. J„ who had lost hjs position because of hie sympathy with the Peterson silk strike of 1319...
...It is certainly not ¦ E*****7 of adopting solemn reaolu"•¦»» agsinat poison gas—resolutions *a* nation with chemical in^•**« can and will violate in time of It is quite true that the race ^* *Bsas*»nU is a contributory cause $ is not the principal cause ?T ^**orld will not get very far in ~?**"*nt until the nations are "WlUjsJjy disarmed, until they strip *T~***«*es of their present hates and FJ*** But it is nonsense to imagine fP *** naUon can strip itself of hate Jf*fear so long as nationalism and WUilam are rampant...
...His declaration that "fop every dollar you have given yon owe another dollar" called forth a roar of applause...
...Tha case against Boda was so.weak that he had been released when arrested suae thus far the interna between the South Braintree murder aa May a and the anestf of Bacon and Vsnawtu May %. Bat Boda waa considered a radical and It...
...Consequently, the government's lose of this West London seat...
...mind you, to, represent a Jsa^aei.1...
...perman*rit organUStion would arise from the strike...
...course...
...Our picket-guide informer...
...Out' of the P** Of these two forces is born the •™*riaysm of the stronger powers and jV^te and fear complex of the !¦*•«¦• Herein lies the chief root of gjf' We can never rid the world of P» *ree ot evil until we begin to at!•* Its root instead of merely lopping W as branches...
...Not a shred of evidence waa offered save the thin stuff that...
...As newspapers fanned the llama District Attorney Wilbur of Norfolk County seised the opportunity to announce that ha waa pressing for ad immediate pronouncement of the death sentence...
...The public is urged to patronize only union restaurants...
...Rebecca Grecht, Workers ^Party...
...H. A. POTTER, Principal...
...The above mentioned employer^ are the independent owners, and ~^retr agreement expired June 1. The association restaurant owners "ife-ill hold a conference with the union on June I to arrange for an agreement...
...Xew Yorkers es-* to pay -$!.oe*.Oee more' for teiwsbea* service.' • That...
...the ; Conservative's - defense of tha gousi'inaanl'aionmaps hythp gariaral, s^aml-ra>s eei*5e£geF The result was unmistakable and has caused consternation to the Tory camp, who entertamed not even the slightest doubt that the election would be won by them...
...All m all f*MS asJIIiem warkera were repi*eaewb—gpv a- ^ ¦ Sine*'the delegates came from all parts of the country, at least as far £outh aa Baltimore, Maryland, and as far West aa Detroit...
...fall...
...If he doss, it is my wish that you psss him...
...If you have any doubt about pasting a boy at tha snd of the term, ask him If he belongs to the R.O.T.C...
...pp forced his wsy to the platform...
...T^Sere oh that quiet corner'hear the...
Vol. 3 • June 1926 • No. 21
