The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1927, Page 5

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7 ome rt seapabone Tue New Section of Th SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927. This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in Tne DAILY WORKER. A Dangerous Point in the Fight to Save Sacco, Vanzetti ‘BERAL papers that is to say those~publications that try to paint the capitalist tiger in as peaceful a color as possible, are showering praise on Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachu- setts for granting a reprieve un- til the 22nd of August to Saceo and Vanzetti who were sen- tenced to die in the electric chair on Aug, 10, The governor is rep- resented to be a humane person and more of a statesman than a politician. This is a lot of drivel. But it is more dangerous than drivel delivered on ordinary occasions. This is no ordinary occasion. The lives of two militant workers are hanging in the balance. We must not be deluded by balderdesh about the magnanimity of a capitalist ‘government, officered by different flunkies, that kas kept Saeco and Vanzetti in‘the shadow of the death chair for seven years. Governor Fuller’s official statement, purporting to give an impartial review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in all its ramifications, was the biased report of a partisan. Tho couched in more temperate langu- age than the diatribes issued from the bench by Judge Thayer it was none the less vicious, and be- cause of its diplomatic wording more likely to con- vince many people that Sacco and Vanzetti’s consti- tutional rights were strictly observed. What those gullible people ignore is the class character of the judiciary of Massachusetts as well as of all other states, which is a gigantic machine for crushing labor opposition to the capitalist state. The fact that the New England money barons have not killed Sacco and Vanzetti inside the past seven years is a tribute to the solidarity displayed by the workers of the United States and’of the world in protesting against the judicial murder. All this legal rigmarole is an effort to convince the masses that Sacco and Vanzetti are about to be executed, not because of their radical opinions, but because of the commission of a specific cririte. No greater evidence of Governor YVuller’s inhuman hatred for those two labor leaders could be had than his delaying the reprieve dintil the/last mo- ment. Imagine two sensitive souls sitting in their death chambers, expecting that every approaching footstep bears a messenger of death. And when that messenger comes, he comes’ with a reprieve, which means twelve more days of agony, with another awful night at the end of it. I+ is said brave men die only once while cowards die many times a day. But life can never again mean the same to Sacco and Vanzetti. And their survival after seven years of torture is testimony to the powers of tndvrance of a human being. Surely no fiend in human form could think up greater punish- ment than has been meted out to Sacco and Van- , zetti for the past seven years. Yet this is what some people call “a square deal.” If the state supreme court which meets in Boston next week decides adversely on the exceptions taken by the defense to the rulings of Judge Thayer -~ there are no more legal avenues thru which the condemned men can hope to escape, Justice Holmes of the United States supreme court has ruled that even in the face of Judge Thayer’s prejudice (Holmes is careful to qualify his statement by-saying that he does not mean to imply that Thayer was prejudiced!) he has. not the power to issue a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Saccp and Vanzetti. Nothing short of want of legal power on Thayer’s part would permit Holmes to issue such a writ, he says. And because of this legal fiction a prejudiced judge has a legal right to send two innocent men to jail! The department of justice refuses to divulge the secrets of files which hold evidence of a frame-up between the Massachusetts officials and officials of the D. of J. ‘in the opinion of those conversant with the case from the beginning. Here is another link in the chain of evidence which goes to prove that Sacco and Vanzetti are the victims of open, shop labor-hating forces of New England. The Rebels No drums roll and no banners flaunt Where go the rebels pale and gaunt. They wear the noose and crown of thorn And by each one a cross ig borne— John Brown and Lovejoy steadfast go, And shrouded ones are moving slow On bloody feet. Gene Debs is here And Socrates is striding near, . Then Jean Juares and Liebknecht pac Beside the Anarchists. Each face Is lifted and each voice in song As countless others join the throng Of all the dead in Labor’s cause. : They march and march without a pause. And they shall never stay their march Nor down again their flaming torch Until the workers get their meed And all the human race is freed! HENRY REICH, JR. e DAILY WORKER’ —Drawing by Fred Ellis. In those few dark days that are left before the elyck in Charlestown prison strikes the hour and the minutes which spell doom for Sacco and Van- zetti world labor must increase its protest ten-fold. The protests of labor recently saved workers from -the hangmen of Hungary. They have saved scores of workers in,many coun- tries of Europe that were marked for death because of their loyalty to labor. Here in the United States they saved Tom Mooney from the electric chair tho they were not strong enough to force official ‘hands to open the prison gates, : ‘ They saved Moyer, Heywood and Pettibone, when they were charged with the murder of the governor of Idaho. ‘ They can save Sacco and Vanzetti. Those few remaining days must be world-shaking days. vit ul t “Pong lig

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