The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-11
CuyYgntEUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHERTy.

capitalist injustice, Sacco and Van
zetti, was the action of the socialist
party representatives at the demon
stration in Union Square last Thurs
day when they broke up the giant
meeting with the aid OF the police
rather than allow Ben Gold OF the
Furriers Union to address the gather
ing, at the urgent request Of 80 per
cent Of the audience.
THO the secretary of the committee
under whose auspices the demon
stration was held had agreed with
representatives of the Sacco and
Vanzetti Emergency Committee to
accept their cooperation and permit
their speakers to address the meet
ing, the socialists violated this agree
ment and turned the city police,
horse, foot and Bomb Squad loose on
the workers gathered there to show
their loyalty to their brothers who
are threatened with execution IN a
Massachusetts, prison.
1T is admitted by all honest witnesses
4 to the disgraceful conduct of the
socialists that Ben Gold, rather than
give the socialists an excuse for call
ing in the police and venting their
wrath on the militant left wing
unionists in the demonstration, wished
to speak to the masses advising them
the situation and urging them to re-
strain their indignation and refuse to
be provoked. But Gold got kicks IN
the face and chest for his pains and
the clubs of the police did the rest.
CARLO TRESCA, editor of II Mar
" telo. and one of the first to take
up the battle in behalf of Sacco and
Vanzetti, told me in this office that
in his opinion at least 95 per cent OF
the workers present at the demon
stration wanted to hear Gold speak.
They had little use for the liberal
hokum handed out by the republican
politician La Guardia, that governor
Fuller was a decent fellow and would
do the right thing by the convicted
men. Those workers place more re-
lance in the mass strength of the
workers than in the invisible goodness
that is buried away deep in the heart
of some capitalist servant.
IN the light of what happened at the
Union Square demonstration last
Thursday it is perfectly clear that
the socialists have completely lost
whatever semblance of decency man
Il 10 fba11o ci11on tho
1919 when they used the police to
oust left wing delegates from the
convention in Chicago. They are now
in open alliance with the Bomb,
SQUAD. the entire police force, the
EMPLOYERS, the labor takers and the
capitalist press. The stories in the
newspapers describing the breakup
of the demonstration might have been
written by William ]. Burns's pub
licity man. The socialists are well
come to their allies.
HENRY FORD, who once won him
III self an unenviable reputation by
declaring that "history is bunk" has
again grasped the prize for general
and unusual ignorance by admitting
that he knew not the nature Of the
material published in his own paper,
the Dearborn Independent, for sew
eral years past. In this weekly, Ford
had whole, nicely-boxed page all
to himself. Hardly a week passed
that the publication did not contain
a broadside against the Jews, and the
multi-millionaire flivver magnate
hired small army of Czarist forgers
to manufacture protocols designed to
prove that the Jews were the cause
of all earthly woes from Bolshevism
to General Motors.
WHEN Ford's Hebrews were not
w busy devouring gentle babies
they were engaged in the lucrative
practice of getting strangle-hold
on the banking business, Matching
wars between nordic nations and
making life miserable for honest one
hundred percent Americans like the
kluxer souled, slave-driving aut o.
mobile manufacturer. Ford spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars on
this propaganda and the man who
employed agents to snuffle for alco-
holic smells as his workers reported
to his factory gates in the morning,
the man had experts wracking their
brains for new methods to get more
profits out of the bone, and sinew
of his slaves, did not consider any
amount of money too much to spend
on his anti-Semite phobia.
NOW, this great man appears wear
~ ing sackcloth and rubbing salt into
his wounds. He claims that he did
not know that anti-Semitic articles
were appearing in his paper, until he
found time to look over the files.
Then he was sorry that the Jews re-
sented those articles and regarded
him as an enemy. Poor, naive
Henry! Isn't it surprising that some