The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1927, Page 7

BUILD THE FIGHT TO CONGRESS MUST GET | SAVE THE LIVES OF FACTS OF ATTACK ON SACCO AND VANZETTI THE DAILY WORKER. SACCO AND VANZETT!. 4 SECTION TWO—SPECIAL SACCO-VANZETTI PAGE OF THE THIRD BIRTHDAY EDITION OF THE DAILY WORKER, JANUARY 13, 1927—SECTION TWO DELAY SACCO-VANZETT! APPEAL Seven Years Bitter Struggle SACCO. AND VANZETTI MUST NOT DIE! | SACCO-VANZETTI HE Sacoo-Vanzettl case firet arose as a part of tho anti-red outbreak Immediately following the “red raids” early In 1920. Sacco and Vanzetti, two itallan radical workers, became prominent on ao count of thelr activities In arousing fabor agalnst the torture and perse- outlon of thelr friends, Robert Ella and Andrea Salsedo, by D. of J. ag- ants. From that moment they were marked men. eee re attempt was at firet made to doport them. It was with this in view that Sacto and Vanzetti were originally arrested and ques- tloned as to thelr radical activities. But It Immediately became clear that the evidence was hardly sufficl- ent to accomplish this purpose. An- other way of “getting” these two labor agitators had to be discow ered. Payroll robberies were very com- mon in that section of Massachu- setts and It did not take long before the Idea occurred to some Ingenious mind that one of the best ways to “get” rid of Sacco and Vanzett! would be to connect them up with ‘ene of these. As Letherman, a pos tal Inspector and D. of J. man in later explained: evidence required for that purpose. was the opinion ef the depart To Save Sacco and Vanzetti From Jaws of Class Justice obviously absurd. But this piling up of evidence In favor of the con- demned workers had no effect what- ever on the class courts manipulat- ed from behind the scenes by agents of the department of Justice. As Weyand, another former agent of the department, states in his aff davit: “Shortly after the trial of Sacoo and Vanzetti was concluded | sald to Welss (another agent) that I dig not belleve that they were the right men, meaning the men who shot the paymaster, and he replied that that might be so, but that they were bad actors and WOULD GET WHAT THEY DESERVED ANY- WAY.” The department. of Justice was out to “get” them and the mere fact of innocence could not be al- lowed to stand In the way! il bt case finally came up before the Supreme Court of Massaohu- setts on January 11, 1926. On May 12 of the aame year the court re- Jected the request for a new trial and left it to the superior court to sentence them. This new outrage stimulated even more the movement here and abroad In defense of Sacco and Van- zettl New demonstrations involv Ing tens of thousands of workera took place ali over the world, In America the International Labor De- fense organized a gigantic defense campaign and took the Initiative In broadening and centralizing the pro- test movement In calling the Sacco- Vanzetti conferences, which. were organized In scores of olties of aaa | COREL CIVEN CASE EXTENSION More Time Allowed to Prepare Appeal By Federated Press. BOSTON, Jan. 12. — More time has been granted to Sacoo-Vanzetti de- fense counsel William G. Thompeon te Prepare for final appeal to the Masa- achusetts supreme court. Thompson Is building up his arguments and brief on exceptions to superior court Judge Webster Thayer’s last denial of new trial to the two Italian working men, Chief Justice Rugg of the supreme court extended the time, altho the case has headed the list to be argued before the full bench at Its January term. Another respite will have to be giv- en Celestino Madeiros if the supreme court hearing does not result in decision by Jan. 27, The convicted murderer on whose confession the last plea of Sacco and Vanzetti for new trial was made secured stay of execution from Governor Alvan T. | Fuller to that date. Madelros Material Witness. Madeiros is spared on the grounds that he would be a material witness at any. possible new trial of the two Italians. He confessed to participation in the So, Braintree crime for which the two radical workers were com victed before his conviction for sn- other robbery and murder was affirm- ed, Judge Thayer's denial of the Inst Sacco-Vansetti new trial motion brot such @ storm of protest from Masa achusetts citizens as none of his pre: vious refusals in this six year old case. GBaceo and Vanzet for el rica ‘with hungrede of laber un- \Thayer brushed aside Madeiros’ con- fraternal organizations, i * WOULD BE ONE WAY OF DIS- "ood and fession and ignored the startling af. e@ee- INALLY, on May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettl were arrested at Brockton, Mass. ‘and charged with the murder of the paymaster and guard of the Slater and Merrill Shoe Company at South Braintree. From the beginning, those ao quainted with the case were con- vinoed of the Innocence of the two ‘men. Letherman's affidavit states: “Iq wae also the general opinion of such of the agents In Boston as had any actual knowledge of the Sacco- Vanzetti case, that Sacoo and Van- zettl, altho anarchista and agitators, were not highway robbers and had nothing to do with the South Brain- treo crime. My opinion, and the epinion of most of the older men In the government service, has always been that the South Braintree crime was the work of professionals.” Nevertheless, altho this was the Vanzetti to the grave; they had to “get” them one way or another. J% the middie of last year new ovi- dence came Into the hands of the defense which conclusively proved the entire Innocence of the accused. A fellow by name of Madeiros, him- self under conviction for murder, made a eensational confession in whioh he pointed out the real crim- Inals and completely exonerated the two radical workers. The confes- slon was recetved under very ex- traordinary ocircumstancea. One evening Sacco was handed a maga- zine and was told It was from Mad- elros and that he should look in- side. im the magazine Sacco found a slip of paper which read ag fol- lows: “| hereby confess to belng In the South Braintree shoe com- pany orlme and Sacco and Van- zetti was not In said crime, (Sign* ed) Celestino Madeiros.” Madeiros also indicated that the notorious Morelli gang of Provi- subsequent murder. Of course a demand was immedi- Sigco AND VANZETTI, the two radical workers, are fac- ing an open grave—dug for them by ‘the Federal De- partment of Justice. t Officially Sacco and Vanzetti are charged with the mur- der of the paymaster and guard of the Slater & Merrill Shoe Company. Officially, too, the whole case against them is in the hands of the Massachusetts state authorities. As a matter of fact, however, the real “crime” of these two Italian workers is their militancy in the cause of labor, particularly their work in defending two other victims of the Palmer “red raids,” Elia and Salsedo. As a matter of fact, too, the attempt to murder Sacco and Vanzetti thru judicial procedure is instigated, organized and supported from first to last by the Federal Department of Justice. GAcco AND VANZETTI were actively engaged in organ- izing protests against the mishandling of Andrea Sal- sedo who met his death while illegally detained by the agents of the Department of Justice. It was because of this that they were first arrested and questioned on their radical ac- tivities. The aim of the federal authorities was to deport ous workers and was ready to stop at nothing. Thru the confessions of some of its former agents, the THE. whole history of the six year persecution of Sacco and Vanzetti has been nothing more than a series of at- tempts of the Department of Justice, operating thru the state authorities, to “dispose of these two men” in the face of their obvious innocence, in the face of confessions point- ing to the real culprits, in the face of a mighty wave of resistance and protest on the part of labor from every cor- ner of the globe. The workers of America must not allow anyone to be fooled by the fake charges of murder. They must tear aside the veil of legal fiction that hides the real character of the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the most brazen example of deliber- ate anti-labor frame-up, as the most flagrant piece of class justice that has occurred for a long time! Sacco and Van- zetti are not facing death for murder! That is only a smoke screen thrown up by the Department of Justice to hide its own activities. Everybody knows that the two persecuted workers .have never had anything to do with the murder charged against them or with any other crime. The D. of J. men, according to their own confessions, knew they were Sacco or Vanzetti had anything whatever to do with it. Sacco and Vanzetti are facing death as a result of the Expose Conspiracy of Capitalist Justice |selves favorably w |Hocking (philosophy), fidavits “from former federal agents ~~ who told what the department of justice had done to help convict Sacco and Vanzetti of murder when depor- tation for their radical views was balked. Show Prejudice. Thayer went out of his way to at- tack defense counsel Thompson, form- er head of the Massachusetts bar as- sociation, as he had previously attack. ed Fred H. Moore, earlier defense counsel, Dr. Morton Prince, nationally known specialist in nervous diseases, wrote publicly that Thayer’s decision show- ed its emotional rather than judicial basis, prejudice instead of reasoning. Others wrote their approval of the conservative Boston Herald's reluct- ant change of opinion on the case This paper cam t for a new trial and a thoro inv tion if that were prevented by 1} rks. Many Classes Favor New Trial, Among those who expressed them- ward A. Fi- ent George W. lene, merchant; Pr | opinion of the agents of the te dence, R: 1, were the real instiga. | these “reds.” But when it became clear that any evidence innocent yer they were sending berg $2 death. The i \Coleman, of Babson Institute; Francis || mant of Justioe, the federal author” | tore of the South Braintree hold-up | the authorities could cook up would be ridiculously insuffi- vestige of doubt has been eliminated by the recent confes- | owes Sayre and his wife (the former i tlee ssicreianee jd eke ° vir ia Shaciaitrenimulitceset hae cient, a frame-up on murder charges was.arranged. The sion of Madeiros to the effect that the South Braintree job ie Wilson, daughter of Woodrow. authorities In railroading Sacco and | ing committed the hold-up and the | Department of Justice was out to “get” these two courage- wae Screniges fy Ws totorious Morell wang anid tist neither "| Wilson): Professirs Williaa MIS Samuel Eliot Morison (history), and Frank William i | in the trial that followed, every- sas ; > i i iT “4, " Tausig (political economy)—ail of i thing poseible was done to'charge | st0lY made for a new trial. On | activities of this department are now mattérs of notorious determination of the Department of Justice to “get them Ee A eitae Sabla Heakeeee { the atmosphere with a strong anti- | 24l¥ 18 1926 a date wes set for a | fact. In his affidavits made public some months ago Law- for their labor activities. It proved impossible to get any (philosophy) wat Boston: CRIcenGl | radtoal and antl-alien sentiment. | {yar "¢,0n * new motion fer a re 1 rence Letherman, for 25 years a postal inspector and for evidence on that head sufficient for deportation and so @ |io54 p Moors, senior member “of ‘The clase partiality of the presiding Judge, Webster Thayer, was so cyn- leally obvious ae to evoke protests from even the capitalist newsapers. Statements to the effect that these “damned foreign radicals would get theire” were heard everywhere. On duly 14, 1921 both men were convict- ed and sentenced to death. eee — brazen plece of clase justice aroused stormy protests of thoue- ‘ands of workers at home and broad. Im the month that followed—a stay of execution had been granted and tmotiona for a new trial were ar gued—the entire labor movement of America and of the world were aroused to a high pitch of Indigna- tion. The case began to assume real International proportions and American embaesies in many a for elgn country were ploketed by work- ere protesting against the Judicial murder of thelr two comrades in America, As time went on the utter hollow. ness of the case against the two Itallan workers became more and more evident. One after another the witnesses produced by the secution were exposed ae per ieee and unrellable characters. Experte testified that from many an- gles the ohargea of murder and. robbery against the defendants were Justice played another grim joke upon the unfortunate workers who were being gent to the grave. The jJugje before whom the arguments for a new trial were to be made was none other than the original trial Judge, Judge Webster Thayer, the Judge whose hostile and obvi- ously prejudiced conduct had been commented upon by the capitalist prose! The result was, of course, a fore- gone conclusion. Despite the new evidence absolutely proving the in- nocence of the two Italian workers and despite a number of police affi- davits to the same effect, Judge Thayer on October 24, 1926 refused to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti. ye electric chalr still throwe its menacing shadow over Sacco and Vanzetti. Only the intensifica- tlon of the protest movement on the part of the workers of America and of the world can call a halt to this seven year persecution of two radi- cal workers who are being fast rail- roaded Into the grave. The fate of Sacco and Vanzetti lies in the hands of the workers of Amerloa!, Only the power of labor can s:atch the two, victims of the department of Justioe’s “red raid” activities trem the Jawe ef deathi three years a D. of J. man in Massachusetts, has explained how he collaborated with other D. of J. m8h in the Sacco- Vanzetti case. Before, during, and after the trial various “under-cover men” were assigned to the case; spies were sent to watch the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense,Committee and some of these agents even got into its employ. e e ° * a FRE J. WEYAND, another former agent’ who worked un- der Letherman’s direction, has also caét light upon the intimate connection of the federal authorities in the perse- cution of Sacco and Vanzetti. He, as well as Letherman and all of the other agents associated with them, KNEW THAT THE ACCUSED MEN WERE INNOCENIT of the crime charged against them. In his affidavits Letherman says that, from his own investigations as well as from the reports of his subordinates, it was clear that Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing whatever to do with murders at South Braintree. It was, however, as Letherman points out, the opinion of the department agents that A CONVICTION FOR MURDER Bh dl BE ONE WAY OF DISPOSING OF THE TWO Weyand told Weiss, another federal agent, that. there could be no question as to the innocence of the two radicals. Weiss answered that this might be so but “they would get what they deserved anyway.” When the attorney for the defense requested access to the records of the D. of J. in order to prove the innocence of the two men, Attorney General Sargent refused permission. The records are still held secret because access to them would show the real nature of the gente conspiracy or- ganized by the attorney general's office against two radical workers who were marked for destruction because of their ‘activities In the cause of labor. murder charge was arranged. And now the open grave yawns before the two Italian radicals, From first to last the work of the federal Department of Justice! ° ca ° ° HE workers of America must demand that the secret activities of the federal government in framing up and railroading militant workers be brought out into the open and exposed. The workers must face the question: Who will be the NEXT victim of that huge ruthless labor-smashing machine called the Department of Justice that has appropri- ated and improved upon all of the methods of the old czar- ist “political police’? Who will be the next worker to be framed up and railroaded to prison and death because of his activities in the cause of labor? At its last convention the American Federation of Labor called for an investigation of the activities of the Depart- ment of Justice in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Eighteen thou- sand people in the big demonstration in New York a few weeks ago and thousands and tens of thousands of work- ers in every country of the world have raised their voices in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti whose cause is the cause of the whole labor movement. . ° ° ° FRE demand for an exposure of the nefarious anti-labor practices of the Department of Justice in framing up militant fighters in the cause of labor must be supported by every honest worker who has the interests of labor at heart. The demand for a congressional investigation of the art played by the Department of Justice in the Sacco- Vanzetti case must receive the support of every worker and farmer who is determined that this case shall not become another Mooney-Billings case, a shame and a scandal to American lpbo- Moors & Cabot brokerage firm; Wil- | Mam Allen Neilson, president of Smith | College; Frank Hallowell, a wool mer- chant; Samuel McChord Crothers, Harvard preacher; and others joined the protest against Thayer's decision: Colorede: Governor . Would Oust Warden; Files Many Charges DENVER, Colo., Jan, 12. — Official charges of Governor C. J. Morley against ‘Thomas J. Tynan, warden of the state penitentiary, were filed by William Lambert, member of the civil service commission. The complaint jcharges Tynan with: Official miscon- |duct; being an habitual drunkard dur- \ing the past two years; using obscene language; being violent, abusive, and discourteous to residents ‘of Canon City; assuming an insolent and over- bearing attitude toward prisoners and emplqyes; neglecting prisoners; mis- applying state funds; doctoring the prison payroll in 1923 and 1924; using a revolver to obtain forced bets on the general election held on Nov, 2, 1926, Gov, Morley recently issued a ten- day suspension of Warden Tynan, me appointment pending investigation of the above charges, Tynan ignored suspense oa =si\ ¥ eee eee