The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MO Vanzetti Proves Judge Biased (Continued from Page One) for a family and start a settled life. ‘Well, but there are people maybe in this ease court that could testify to what I have say and what my father and my uncle have say to me is not a lie, that really they have the means to give me position every time I want it. T “Not Right to Exploit Man.” Well, I want to reach a little point further, and it is this: That not only have I not been trying to steal in) Bridgewater, not only have I not been in Braintree to steal and kill and have never steal or kill or spilt blood in all my life, not only have I strug- gled hard against crimes, but I have refused myself the commodity or glory of life, the pride of life of a good po- sition, because in my consideration it is not right to exploit man. T have refused to go in business be- cause I understand that business is a speculation on profit upon certain peo- ple that must depend upon the busi- ness man, and I do not consider that is right and therefore I refuse to do that. Now, I'should say that I am not only innocent of all these things, not only have I never committed a real crime in my life—though some sins, but not erimes—not only have I struggled all my life to eliminate crimes, the crimes that the official law and the official moral condemns, but also the crime that the official moral and the official law sanctions and sanctifies—the ex- ploitation and the oppression of the man by the man, and if there is a reason why am here as a guilty ian, if there is a reason why you in a few minutes can doom me, it is this reason and none else. : Tribute To Debs. — j I beg your pardon (referring to paper). There is the more good man I ever cast my eyes upon since I lived, a man that will last and will grow al- ‘ways more near and more dear to the | people, as far as in to the heart of the people so long as admiration or goodness and of sacrifice will last. 1) mean Eugene Debs. I will say that even a dog that killed chickens wonld have found an Ameri- can jury to convict it with the proof that the Commonwealth has produced against us. That man was not with me in Plymouth or with Sacco where he was on the day of the crime. You can say that it is arbitrary, what we are saying, that is good and he ap- vlied to the other his own goodness, that is incapable of crime, and he be- lieved that everybody is incapable of crime. Well, it may be. like that, but it is not. It could be like that, but it is not; and that man has a real experi- ence of court, of prison and of jury, just because he went the world a little better he was persecuted and slan- dered from his boyhood to his old age, and, indeed, he was murdered by the | prison, He know, and not only he, but every man of understanding in the world, not only in this country but also in the other countries, know that we have provided a certain amount of a record of the times. They all stick with us, the flower of mankind in Europe. The better writers, the great- est thinkers of Europe have pleaded in our favor. | ‘Thousands Believe In Innocence. | pesmaenmnensnicoamemaapncenetimnemeaismmcat The scientists, the great scientists, the greatest statesmen of Europe have mleaded in our favor. The people of foreign nations have pleaded in our favor. Is it possible that only a few om the jury, only two or three men, who would,condemn their mother for werldly honor and for earthly fortune —-it it possible that they are right against what the world, the whole world, has say it is wrong, and that 1 know that it is wrong? Tf there is one that should know it, if it is right or if it is wrong, it is this man. You see it is seven years that we are in jail. What we have suffered during these seven years no human tongue can say, and yet you see me before you, not trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes. straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear, Eugene Debs said that not even a @og—something like that—not even a heen found guilty by American jury with the evidence that the Common- NS that kill the chickens would have SS ealth have produced against us. I fis that not even a leprous dog would have his appeal refused two times by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ~-not even a leprous dog. ' yer ruel, Prejudiced.’ They have given a trial to Madeiros for the reason that the judge had vither forgot or omitted to tell the jory that they should consider the man innocent until found guilty in the court or something of that sort. That man confessed. The man was tried aff has confessed, and the court gave him another trial. We have proved that there could not have been enother Judge on the face of the earth more prejudiced and more eruel than you have been against us. We haven proven that; still they re- fuse the new trial, we know, and you know in your heart, that you have jwen agains® us from the very be- ginning, before you see us. Before you see us you already know that we owere radicals, that we were under- dogs, that we were the enemy of the + insti that you can believe in ‘good faith in thelr Fi a don’t jwant to dondéma that—and that it was easy on the time of the first trial to get a verdict of guiltiness. | Proof of Judge’s Bias. We know that you have spoke your hostility against us with friends of yours on the train, at the Uni- versity Club of Boston, on the golf |elub of Worcester, Mass. I am sure ‘that if the people who know all what | You say against us would have the | civil courage to take the stand, maybe your Honor—I am sorry to say this because you are an old man, and I \have an old father—but maybe you | would be beside us in good justice at this time. Plymouth trial “you say to the best of my memory, of my good faith, that jerimes were in accordance with my principle—something of that sort, and you take off one charge,*if-I remem- ber it exactly, from the jury. |. The jury was so violent against me that they found me guilty of both charges, because there were only two. Before they would have found me guilty of a dozen charges against your iTonor’s instructions, Of course I re- | member that you told them that there | was no reason to believe that if I vere the bandit I have intention to kill somebody, so that they will take joff the indictment of attempt to murder, Well they found me guilty of what? |tike that. But, Judge Thayer did | give more to me: for that attempted |give more to me for that attempt of jvobbery than all the 448 men that were |in Charlestown. | All of these that attempted to rob, all those that have robbed, they have not such a sentence as you gave to me {for an attempt at robbery. I am will- |ing that everybody that does believe me that they can make commission, | they can go over there, and I am very | willing that the people should go over | there and see whether it is true or | not. There are people in Charlestown | who are professional robbers, who | have been in half the prisons of the Ynited States, that they are steal, or |hurt the man, shoot him. By chance he got better, he did not die. Well, |the most of the guilty without trial, by self-eonfession, and by asking the | aid of their own partner and they got \eight to ten, eight to tweleve, ten to fifteen. None of them has twelve to fifteen, as you gave men for an at- | tempt at robbery. Clean Life. Lipsthatinnilpiittciipmngeensansaaaanaharmineentessintytaish And besides that, you know that I {was not guilty. You know that my |life, my private and public life in Plymouth, and wherever I have been, was so exemplary that one of the | worst fears of our prosecutor, Katz- mann, was to introduce proof of our | life and of our conduct. | He has taken | it off with all his might and he has succeeded. , You know if we could have Mr. | Thompson, or even the Brother Me- |Anarney, in the first trial in Plymouth, you know that no jury | would have found me guilty. My first lawyer has been a partner of Mr. | Katzmann, as he is still now. The first lawyer of the defense, Mr. Vahey, has not defended, and has sold me for thirty golden money like Judas sold Jesus Christ. If that man has | not told to you or to Mr. Katzmam | that he know that I was guilty, it is because he know. that I was not guilty. Judge Prejudiced Jury. | | That man has done everything indi- | veetly to hurt me. He has’ made long speeches with the jury about things |that do matter nothing, and on the point of essence to the trial he has passed over with few words or with complete silence. This was a | premeditation in order to give to the | jury the impression that my own de- fender has nothing good to say, has ;nothing good to urge in defense of | myself, and therefore go around the | bush on little things that amount to nothing and let pass the essential points either in silence or with a very weakly resistance. We were tried during a time that ‘has now passed into history. I mean | by that, a time where there was a hysteria of resentment and hate against the people of our principles, against the foreigners, against slack- ers, and it seems to me—vrather, 1 am positive of it, that both you and Mr. Katzmann has done all what ‘it ‘were in your power in order to work out, in order to agitate still more the passion of the juror, the prejudice of the juror, against us. Witnesses Coached. 1 I remember that Mr. Katzmann has introduced a witness against us, a ‘certain Ricci. Well, I have heard that witness. It seems that he has nothing to say. It seemed that it was a foolishness to produce a witness that has nothing to say. And it seemed if he were called by the Common- wealth to tell to the jury that he was the foreman of that laborer that was near the scene of he crime and who claimed—and it was testified in our behalf—that we were not the-men and that this man, the witness Ricci, was his foreman, and he has tried to keep the man on the job instead of going to see what was happening, so as to give the impression that it was not true that the man went toward the street to see what happened. But that was not very important. |The real im; is that that man rs i aot tot. TUN Oe tHut Was thie: Wwhtdy Boy . When you sentenced us at the| | And if I am right, you take | out that and sentence me only for at- | of the gang of laborers—and he testi- fied that he take a pail and go to a certain spring, a water spring, to take that he go to’ that spring, and there- fore it was not true that he see the that he can tell that neither I nor Sacco were the men. But it was in- troduced to show that it was not true that that man go to that spring, be- cause they know that the Germans has poisoned the water in that spring. That is what he say on that stand over there. | War Hysteria. | Now in the world chronicle of the time there is not a single happening of that nature. Nobody in America --we have read plenty things bad that the Germans have done in Europe during the war—but nobody can prove and nobody will say that the Germans are bad enough to poison the spring waler in ihis country during the war. Now thi ¢t seems, has nothing to do with us directly. It seems to be a thing by incident on the stand he- tween the other thing that is the es- sence here. But thej ury were hating us because we were against the war, and the jury don’t know that it makes any difference between a man that is against the war because he believes no country, because he is a cosmo- politan, and a man that is against the war because he is in favor of the other country that fights against the coun- try in which he and therefore a spy, and he commits any crime in the country in which he is in behalf of the other country in order to serve the other country. We are not men of that kind. spies or spies of any kind.’ Katzmann know very well that. Katzmann know that we were against the war because we did not believe in the purpose for which they say that the war was done. | Opposed To All War. “ We believe it that the war is water for the gang—it was not true! bandit, and herefore it was not true} that the war is unjust, because he has | No- | body can say that we are German) -Y, APRIL 11, 1927 Page Three Ce ae, 5 | Lithuanian Communist | Gets Death Sentence; | Life in Jail for Two KAURMOS, Lithuania, April 10. || —The trial of three members of |! the Communist Party here resulted in a death sentence fof Milamedas and life imprisonment for Josmon- tas and Kintenis. {have the right to incline to believe |that the jury have never approached before the trial any one that was suf- ficiently intimate with me and Sacco to be able to give them a description of our personal conduct. The jury don’t know nothing about us, They} have never seen us. The only thing that they know is the bad things that! were arrested and the bad story that the newspaper have say on the Ply- mouth trial, 1 don’t know why the defense coun- sel have made such an agreement, but | I know very well why Katzmann has made such agreement, because he know that half of the population of Plymouth would have been willing to |come over here and say that in seven |years that I was living amongst {them that I was never seen drunk, that I was known as the most strong and steadfast worker of the commu- nity, 4s a matter of fact I was called a! |mule, and the people that know aj little better the condition of my fath- er, and that I was a single man, much wondered at me and say, “Why you) work like a mad man in that way| |when you have no children and no | wife to care about?” | Katzman Lied. | Well, Katzmann should have been/| | satisfied on that agreement. He could have thanked his God and estimate | |himself a lucky man. But he was not| | satisfied with that. He broke his word | ‘and he tell the jury that I was tried | before in this very court. I don’t know |if that is right in the record, if that was take off or not, but 1 hear with) my ears. When two or three women | were against us, | thority, even by the jury, the newspapers have said when we | | fend this case, the prosecution has taken more time than the defense. And there is a great consideration ‘that must be taken in this point, and it is that my first lawyer betrayed us—the whole Ameri¢an population We have the mis- fortune to take a man from Califor- nia, and he came here and he was{ ostracized -by you and by ever au- nd is so much so that fo part of Massachus- jetts is immune from what I would ‘eall the prejudice—that is, to béTieve that each people in each place of the world, and they believe to be the bet- ter of the world, and they believe! that all the other are not so good as they. So of course the man that came from California into Massachusetts | to defend two of us, he must be licked if it is possible, and he was licked all right. And we have our part, too. Attacks First Lawyer. What I want to say is that: Every-' body ought to understand that the first defense has been ‘terrible. My first lawyer did not stick to defend us. He has made no work to collect | witnesses and evidence in our fevor, The record in the Plymouth court is a pity. 1 am told that they are al- | most one-half lost. So that the de- fense had a tremendous work to do in order to collect some evidence, to collect some testimony to effect and te learn what the testimony of the State has done. And in this consid- eration, it must be said that even if the defense take double time of the State without delay, double time that they delay the case, it would have been reasonable; whereas it took less than the State. Well, I have already said that I not only am not guilty of these two! crimes, but I never commit a crime in| my life—I have never steal, and I! have never kill, and I have never spilt blood, and I have fought against \the crime, and I have fought and I jhave sacrificed myself, even to elim- | inate the crimes that the law and the| Church legitimate and sanctify. } This is what I say: I would not! wish to a dog or to a snake, to the | jmost low and misfortune creature of | the earth—I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for | powers, the note declares, “The Soviet ENGLISH TRAINS IN CRASH Conditions grow worse on Britis al ahi ea ES calc aiasiaan ound aa h railroads since the workers were betrayed by the rail union chiefs at the time of the British general strike, Wrecks are a natural consequence. Soviet Union| Recalls Ambassador at Peking (Continued from Page One) ments, money and property seized in the raid.” The withdrawal of the embassy will | leave only the Russian consulate staff in Peking. John Bull Foiled. Announcing Russia’s refusal to be} drawn into a war by the imperialist | | Soviet emba Above is a photo of a recent collision at Hull in which eight passengers were killed and many injured. countries, and first of all by the peo- ple of China and the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics.” Britain Inspired Raids. PARIS, April 10.—The raids on the sy in Peking and on the consulate at Tientsin were inspired by the imperialist powers, according to M. Rakovsky, Soviet ambassador. Declaring that Chang Tso-Lin would never have dared to raid the embassy unless he had been supported and en- couraged by the powers, he said, “These incidents in Peking appear to } “wrong, and we believe this more now from Plymouth come to take the day hy day, the consequences and the | Where this gentleman sit down over result of the after war. We believe there, the jury were sit down in their more now than ever that the war was | Place, and Katzman asked this wom- wrong, and we are against war more 2M if they have not testified before now than ever, and I am glad to be| Vanzetti, and they say, “Yes,” _and on the doomed scaffold if I can say to | he tell to them, “You cannot testify.” after ten years that we understand, | St#nd, the women reach that point | | things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical; 1 have suffer-| ed because’ I was an Italian, and in- | deed 1 am an Italian; I have suffered | more for my family and for my be-! {loved than for myself; but I am so! responsible foreign imperialists are | armed intervention which is now pre- | government fully understands that ir-| be merely preliminary to a large seale {provoking Russia to war, and fuliy| paring in China. We do not intend | mankind, “Look out, you are in a/| They left the room. After they tes-! convinced to be right that you could! catacomb of the floor of mankind. tified just the same. But in the execute me two times, and if I could) |For what? All that they say to you, meanwhile he tell to the jury that I/be reborn two other times I would! jall that they have promised to you—| have been tried before. That, I think, | live again to de what I have done al- it, was a lie, it was an illusion, it was/is not to make justice to the man who|reaqy. I ‘have finished; thank you. ja cheat, it was a fraud, it was a/is looking after the truth, and it i8 8) “Nicola Gacco—Yes, sir. I am not crime. | frame-up with which he has split my! an orator. It is not very familiar | ‘They promised you liberty. Where life and doomed me. |with me, the English language, and | is liberty? They promised you pros- | Five Years of Persecution. 7|%* I know, as my friend has told me, perity. Where is prosperity? They; -————————_—_ | my comrade Vanzetti wil speak more! have promised you elevation. Where} It was also said that the defense/long, so I thought to give him the is the elevation?” has put every obstable to the hand- | chance. , ling of this,case in order to delay the' I never know, never heard, even! H War In Vain. lease. That sounds sweet for us, andj read in history anything so cruel as | ' thar- | think it is injurious because it is/| this court. After seven years pros- ee td tetienaia ae ee true. If we consider that the|ecuting they still consider us guilty, | psi of. Charlestown has doubled in | P¥osecution, the State, has employed | And these gentle people here are ai numbers. Where is the moral good | 9"¢ entire year to prosecute us, that | rayed with us in this court today. | that the war has given to the world? | sd wei of the sid ye that the wae [ass Verdc, 7 Where is the spiritual progress that| "#5 last was taken by the prosecu _—_ |we have achieved from the war?/ tion to begin our trial, our first trial.! J] know tlte sentence will be be-| ‘cation, the aim of which is to make | | itself to be provoked by anybody, but | Where are the security of life, the Then the defense make an appeal to! ty, ‘een two classes, the oppressed class | security of the things that we possess | YOU and you waited, or I think that fox ae Mab P | You were resolute, that you had the! Wh lh age dea Sh | resolute in your heart when the trial nes? whee Pi Pimetritirg and the | {itished that you will refuse every bao ' gots an that vi you. admiration for the good characteris-, sca ey a Nasi si a0 tics and the good of the human na- ou waited a month or a month, ; and the rich class, and there will be always collision between one and the other. We fraternize the people with the books, with the literature. You! persecute the people, tyrannize over them and kill them. We try the edu- understands that the Peking cabinet has become a tool in the game playea by foreign imperialist groups. “Therefore, the’ Soviet government is and will be guided in its policy by; the interests of the workers of the| world, as well as by the massés of | the Chinese nation. Wants World Peace. | “Responding to the Peking provo- worse the international situation and} transform the hostilities at the present | time led by several imperialist pow- | ers into a new world war, the Soviet | government declares it will not allow | will by all means defend the peace be- tween nations. “The Soviet government has no doubt that in its desire for peace it! will find support by all workers of all | “Stevi aia aati Saas | Judge Thayer know all my life, and} he know that I am never guilty, never ~—not yesterday nor today nor for ever, to have Russia made the goat for what has happened, nor for what is going to happen in China.” cee SORE Rush Nationalist Troops North. SHANGHAI, April 10.—Altho wild reports of Nationalist defeats at Pu- |kow and Yangchow are flooding the city, no reliable information about the Nationalist drive northwards has been received. Reports from the front seem to in- dicate that the Nationalists have suf- fered slight reverSes along both fronts, Chiang Kai Shek’s divisions at Shanghai are betng rushed to Pukew and ‘Yankchow to reinforce the Na- tionalist lines. Troop trains departed ‘from the North Station all day long, and Chiang Kai Shek himself is re- ported to have left for the front. Feng Ready to Strike. In the meantime General Feng Yu- hsiang with his well-trained battalions is hovering in the west, ready to swoop down on Peking at an opportune mo- ture? Never as now before the war; 24 @ half and just lay. down your | cation of people always. You try to} there have been so many. crimes, so decision on the eve of Christmas—_ put a path between us and some other many corruption, so many degeuera- tion as there is now. In the best of, my recollection and of my good faith, during the trial Katzmann has told to the jury that a certain Coaeci has brought in Italy the money that, according to the State theory, I and Sacco have stole in Braintree. We never stole that money. But Katzmann, when he told that to the jury, he knows already that that was not true, He knows al- | ready that that man was deported in Italy with the Federal policeman af- |ter our arrest. I remember well that the Federal policemen with him in policeman has taken away the tranks from the very, boarding house where he was, and bring the trunks over here and look them over and found | not a single money, l vidence Now I call that murder to tell to the jury that a friend or comrades or a relativé or acquaintance of the has carried the money to Italy when | he knows it was not true. I can call | that nothing else but a murder, a | plain murder, | But Katzmann has told something It I understand well, there have been agreement of counsel during the trial |in which the counsel of defense shall not produce any evidence of my good conduct in Plymouth and the counsel of the prosecution would not have let the jury know that I was tried and convicted another time before in Plymouth. Well, I call that a one-sided agree- ment. In fact, even the telephone poles knew at the time of this trial at Dedham that I was tried and con- victed in Plymouth; the jurymen know that even when they slept. i ury Prejudiced by On the other side the never Séen I’or Sacco and I ry have ink: they their possession—that the Federal! charged man, of the indicted man, | else also against us that was not true. | just on the evening of Christmas. |nationality that hates each other, \7 That is why I am here today on this} ‘bench, for having been the oppressed | | We do not believe in the fable of |¢lass. Well. You are the oppressor. \the evening of Christmas, neither in| You know it, Judge Thayer. You | the historical way nor in the church know all my life. You know why I |way. You know some of our folks have been here, and after seven years, still believe in that, and because we We that you have been persecuting, | do not believe in that then it don’t;™¢ and my poor wife, and you still mean that we are not human. We today sentence us to death. I would} are human, and Christmas is sweet to! !ike to tell all my life, but what is the heart of every man. I think thatthe use? You know all about what I you have done that, to hand down|%4¥ before, and my friend—that is, your decision on the evening of |™yY comrade—will be talking because | Christmas, to poison the heart of our he is more familiar with the langu- family and of our beloved. age, and | will give him a chance. I am sorry to be compelled to say'|] Tribute To Sacco. i | this, but everything that was said on your side has confirmed my suspicion, My comrade, the kind man, the until that suspicion has changed to kind man to all the child, you sen- certitude. So that you see that one tence him two times, in the Bridge- | year it has taken before trying us, | water case and the Dedham case, cone Then the defense, in presenting the ected with me, and you know he is new appeal, has not taken more time immocent. You forget all this popu- than you have taken in answer to ation that has been with us for seven ‘that. Then there came the second | ets to sympathise and give us all appeal, and now [ am not sure wheth- their energy and all their kindness, er it is the second appeal or the third | ¥°Y 40 not care for them. | appeal where you wait eleven months) Among that peoples and the com- |r one year without an answer to us, "ades and the working class there is ‘and I am sure that you have decided!® big legion of intellectual people ‘to refuse us a new trial before the Which have , been with us for seven |hearing for the new appeal began. ea not Ani bere nde hep gl - af —- | sentence, ut si ie Cow goes Yon take coe your to: anpwar'it; or) Soca and I think F thank you ef, | Verdict on Christmas. | eleven months—something like that Q INTHE SPIRIT OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY /. may day1927 On May Day, The DAILY WORKER will print May Day greet- ® ings of individuals, trade unions, fraternal organizations and sports clubs, in a SPECIAL MAY DAY EDITION Individual names will be printed at the rate of $1.00 per name. Organizations will be allowed the special rate of $1.00 per inch and $100.00 per page. THE HAN ON MAY DAY—SEND YOUR MAY DAY GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER —so that you see that out of the five years, two were taken hy the State from the day of our a;:rest to the trial, and then one year to wait for your answer on the second or the third appeal, Defense Placed at Disadvantage. | don’t remember exactly, Mr. Williams was sick and the things were delayed, not for fault of the defense but en ac- count of the fault of the prosecution, So that I am positive that if a man take a pencil in his hand and compute the time taken by the prosecution in prosecuting the case, and the tite that Wiis taken by the deférive Then on another ‘occasion that J }you peoples, my comrades who have | been with me for seven years, with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I will igive my friend a chance. aah forgot one thing which my com- rade remember'me. 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