SACCO AND VANZETTI

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1927, Page 2

SACCO AND VANZETTI

(Australian N.Z. Cable Association.) VARIOUS PROTESTS. PARIS, Aug. 23. Cochin, Doriot- and Marty, at present aro detained at. Santo prison. PARIS, Aug. 23. The President of the Chamber lias intimated his intention to interpellate Government- regarding tho holding of fostivites on the occasion of the American Legion’s visit, adding popular feeling aroused by the execution of ■unfortunate innocent workmen, Sacco and Vanzetti is so profound, that such a festivity at the time of mourning would rightly be considered a challenge -by tho workers throughout the country. GENEVA, Aug. 23. Rioters did four thousand sterling damge, including five hundred to the League’s glass hall and library. Police arrested 15, mostly young foreigners. The Swiss Government apologised to the League for the attack. HELSINGFORS. Aug. 23. Finnish Trades U nion Council, which is largely Communist has ordered a boycott of American goods and products from American raw materials. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 23. Last night’s demonstration resulted in eleven arrests and two policemen were injured. GENEVA, Aug. 23.

A continuance of fierce anti-Ameri-can feeling resulted in a hurried summons to Geneva of the State Council, which communicated with the Federal Council, with the result that an infantry regiment was detailed for the protection of the League and other public buildings. SOVIET PROTESTS. LONDON, Aug. 23. 'He “Times” Riga correspondent reports the Third International issued a manifesto on the occasion of the Sacco execution. urging the proletariat throughout the world to reply to this sacrifice on the altar of American bonrgeoise. with a resolve to organise a decisive battle with the accursed liourgeoisc Governments. The authorities are organising a mass meeting during working hours in all industrial centres, recording vows cf allegiance for tlie innocent revolutionaries.

COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATORS. BERLIN. Aug. 23. Sacco demonstrators last- night resulted in eighteen arrests. PARIS. Aug. 23.

Street demonstrations were prohibited and other precautions adopted, but a tomb at- Montpellier police- station kiilal a gendarme and wounded others.

AMERICAN DEMONSTRATORS NEW YORK. Aug. 23.

Twelve thousand people gathered in the Union Square at midnight, whore lilac,ards with the words. “Sacco and Yanzc-tti murdered.” were posted up by a Socialist paper. Tbe crowd dispersed quietly, without police intervention. Reports throughout the country indicate that there was little response to the call for strikes.

At Boston, however, mounted police charged a mob of three hundred, when they were about to stand with hared heads on Bunker Hill, as a tribute to Ssicco and Vanzetti. One thousand motor car horns were sounded at the time of the executions. At Cleveland, the Franciscan Monastery there was bombed shortly after the execution.

In San Francisco a clover police coup turned the head of a Sneco-Vanzetti parade into patrol waggons, and 150 were arrested who will be charged with unlawful assem b 1 v.

At Detroit, mounted police broke up a mob of .several thousands of people who were attempting to march on the City Hull, 'file -police knocked their hanners to the ground. Tbe crowd quietly dispersed.

STRONG GENEVA PROTESTS. GENEVA, Aug. 23. The Socialist, members of the Swiss State Counci have dissociated themselves from the disorders over the Sacco Vanzetti executions. A battalion of firemen were placed at the disposal of the police. r l he Swiss Federal Council has formally’ written a letter of regret to the League of Nations Secretariat. Filltlior details of the night’s rioting show that there was one death and dozens were injured including eir*lt policemen. Sixteen arrests were made. Trouble began after a meeting addressed by anarchists and Communists. WORLD WIDE PROTESTS. PARIS, Aug. 24. Serious riots have broken out here in connection with the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. A mob of from fifteen to twenty thousand persons endeavoured to collect in the centre of the city.

Mounted police charged the crowd, and many people were injured. The mob then seized and threw cafe chairs and tables about, shrieking, “Down with Governor Fuller!” “Down with the Murderers!” Five hundred Communists, who were , prepared to lynch someone at the American Embassy, came down the Faubourg Montmartre. 1 They broke through the police till reinforcements of the Renuhliean Guard were brought, who broke tlieVn up. but- only to find that th»v had rallied again. The latest news states that thousands of Communists are pouring into the streets from alleys, yelling, and firing revolvers, while terrified shopkeepers are hastily putting their shutters up.

In view of the Communists making the boast that they would put fifty thousand men into the boulevadds tonight, tropos and motor lorries have been prepared and the garrison are awaiting orders from the Prefect of Police.

PARIS, Aug. 23. Rioters in connection with the Snc-eo-Vanzetti executions attacked the Place Pigalle cabarets, which are frequented by Americans, and the demonstrators smashed the laimps and windows of the cabarets. PARIS, Aug. 24. Last night’s pillage and vandalism are reported to have included demonstrators spitting on the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb, on which American eyewitnesses afterwards placed flowers. The police state that the riot was the work of mischievous foreign elements. organising disorders for their own profit. FRENCH PRESS VERDICT. PARIS, Aug. 24. The* newspapers are almost unanimous in declaring the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti a miscarriage of justice. One paper cartoons the Statue of Liberty as holding up an electric chair. The papers, however, deprecate as futile the measures of the sympathisers, urging that the rabble should he put down. TN ARGENTINE CAPITAL. BRUNOS AYRES, Aug. 23. Demonstrations by Sacco-\ anzetti sympathisers were held before and after the executions in many South American cities. A crowd before a newspaper office here commenced to stone the United States commercial

houses immediately the announcement was made. The disturbance was quelled by the police only with tlie aid of reinforcements. Labourers stopped work at Monte Video and Asuncion, and paraded in orderly manner. 2000 MEN SACKED. SYDNEY, Aug. 24. When the employees of the city railway construction branch, who participated in the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration yesterday, presented them-, selves at work to-day, they were told that their services were not required. Over two thousand men were dismissed. This meant bringing, to a complete standstill the construction of tho underground railway. A deputation of the men later waited on the Chief Railway Commissioner, who informed them that they could only lie re-engaged through the Government Labour Bureau. This tho deputation refused, -and then they interviewed tlie Minister of Railways, who promised to intervene and to endeavour to effect a settlement. SYDNEY, Aug. 24. Seven hundred workmen, employed at the City Council’s Bimncrong Power House, also participated in yesterday's procession". When they atteriipt- ) cd to start work to-day, they found that the gates were looked, and notices were pasted up intimating that they must- interview the Engineer-in-charge before they would lie to resume. V The men marched in a body to tho Trades Hall, refusing to resume work on these terms, but- at a later meeting they decided to present themselves ready to commence to-morrow morning.