The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15

The columns of demonstrators climb towards the
place Clichy, the place Blanche the place Pigalle
Up there, it is night of pleasure, the nightly
night of pleasure which is reaching its height-jazz
charleston, champagne at hundred francs a bot
tie, and gambling de luxe.
The gay rioters affected to smile behind the
tsy>4-.-. V5y1z..-. L.l5 =. ldJ>ys
sprang open.
The Moulin Rouge, the headquarters of the Gamer
lean Legion" smiles and shines with all its lights
under its thousand bulbs
The window-panes crash
Sacco! Vanzetti! Pardon
And buried in the depths of its cabarets, while
the anger of the masses rolled on these interna-
tionalists in orgies made the acquaintance of the
real Paris, the Paris of the Sons of the Commune
on the very ground where it's last barricades were
raised.
One hundred and twenty-four police were wounded
during the set-to. Two hundred and eleven arrests
were made. The accused appeared before the courts
the next day and were given severe sentences.
The same day in spite of government ban, huge
demonstrations marched in Lyons Rouen. Marseles
and Mines. Everywhere the slogan of a boycott
was acclaimed. The labor municipalities refused to
vote the credits for the reception of the American
Legion.
The just fury of the masses was the signal for
an intense reactionary offensive Forty-eght hours
later the perfect of the Seine announced his desire
to increase the police electives.
1t is clear, however that the disorders which trans
pred on Thursday were entirely the result of the
police brutalities. 1t is enough to read the appeal
which we reproduced above, to determine the char
acter which the Party and the G. G. r. u intended
to give to this demonstration. Even several social
democratic papers, under pressure from the Masses
were constrained to admit the police brutalties
But the reactionary press was let loose It de-
manded the immediate arrest of Valiant Coutt1rer
The masses of Paris were master of the pavements
on Thursday night They would not permit the
American legionnaires, the accomplices of the muir
derers, to to insult the workers who had felt
such profound solidarity with Sacco and Vanzetti
Here is the text of the letter addressed to the
president of the Chamber of Deputies by Cachin
Doriot and Marty, the Communist deputies mprison-
ed at the Sant6:
"Mr. President: We have the honor to advise
you that it is our intention interpeIlate the gov
eminent the mpossiblity of holding the projected
national fete the occasion of the convention of
the American Legion on Sept 49,
The emotion of the Masses aroused by the
execution of the unfortunate and innocent workers
Sacco and Vanzeti is so profound that the organiza
ton of such celebration in period of mourning
may, with reason, be considered as an insult to the
workers of this country
with Communist wishes,
M. Cachin, A. Marty, ]. Doriot the deputies i'm
prisoned at the Sante"
The French workers know that the dollar slaves.
the representatives of the French Republic bound to
the almighty dollar have deserved well of the Wall
Street bankers But after the demonstration on
the 21st of August, it was clear that Paris on the
18th of Sept, the national fete day and the dav of
American Legion Convention, Paris would not dance
on the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti