The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1927, Page 2

base Two Two THE DAILY WORKER. YEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927 Demand the State Department’s Sacco-Vanzetti Report! { due respect for the gentleman of the M achusetts judici who ha had anything to do with this ¢ seems to many good Americans be eration which these gentlemen persistently overlook. very great opportunity sir, yo I beg you to take it and thu | save the good name of America fi fair play to all within her gates. Save WORKERS WRITE TO THEIR DAILY ABOUT SAGCO AND VANZETTI battling unite e, co. for Goy. Fuller Wants te r free one| that good name, not only he Follow in Footstens 1 wall, and x their free-| now, but in the pages of hi remember that it is not, M Of President Coolidge Writing @m the New York, one that is going e by public opinion in this! it all America. Act so| it shall be evident to all the| d that the governor of Massachu- | m is their and me to stop this; if WORKER rge, is DAILY cares more for the honor of| American justice than for he| r machinery of the law, and the pride st has! of the law. | beeline respectfully yours, 3 0 , of the ed) R. D, O'Leary, Professor of must be etion and C hina. nglish, University of Kansas, (Har- to him, now al ambi- i °| vard, 1895.) | tions are left perhaps even t will save * * | further doom. John M. Levitt, former Commander at the to Rose ew York} Com- of the World War Vete: following telegram yesterda ‘|Baron, Secretary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency nd Makers Union solution to 7 “Consciousness of Gullt” KELLOGG HIDING UDGE THAYER, Gaacnnee Fuller, t the “advisory commit- “tee” comprising President Lowell of Harvard, President Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Judge Grant and the rest of the Massachusetts murder crew dwelt at great length upon what they described as ‘‘con- sciousness of guilt,” in their frame-up to railroad Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair, They claimed that because these two Italian workers refused to divulge the names of other anarchists to police bullies they revealed a conscious- ness of guilt when questioned, because they did not at first state that they were going to obtain some radical literature for distribution. On such flimsy evidence these workers have been con- stantly in the shadow of the electric chair for seven years. Sincé the Massachusetts gang has established the theory of “consciousness of guilt” it may be applied to its inventors, particularly to Gevernor Fuller. When the explosion wrecked the house of a juror we declared that in our firm conviction it was the work of an agent of the Massachusetts authorities, who wanted to discredit the defenders of Sacco and Vanzetti and enable Fuller to give the word to murder these tortured workers on Monday night. The utterances of Fuller tend fully to confirm our conviction that he had guilty knowledge of the explosion. In a letter to the juror whose house was : 2 2 mittee: | “We the workers of the Sweat Band: «Just wired Governor Fuller to use | beni jt ati nion protest against the un-| the power of his office to free Sacco| rey hak ust action of the Massachusetts legal| and Vanzetti that America might 1e could no freedom, who lon cold and lifeles: ation, why se before the the land, or else commute their ser tence, deemin; of simple hum ity and mercy, year: torture enough More than a else he should have commuted sentence to allow for the possibility of new facts coming to light to prove their innocence, as they already have in the confession of one of the men who belonged to the gang which did the killing. * General Strike Will Save Vanzetti. Sacco and Dear Comrades: With an aching heart I write: this letter. It was a terrific shock to me, to. read in The DAILY WORKER, the doom of S and Vanzetti. Ful- ler has called it “justice.” But I and many other call it a cold blooded mur- der. It will be another “bloody- stain,” on the State of Massachusetts. In no other case was innocence effectively proved, as in Sacco and Vanze' Governor office hunt so er is but a political 1 who would send not only two innocent men to ¢ but even a thousand. What are hu-, man beings, to men like Governor | Fuller? Dear Workers, are we g stand by and see the killing in cold blood, of our two Comrad are not. Sacco and Vanze die. We have five days, from the date of t letter. Will you precious days slip by, without collec- {and women. condemn the murderous acco and Vanzetti.” acco and Vanzetti. The am not pleading for Sacco and tti because I am an Italian, but they are two progressive How ean Governor Fuller, who is} not a lawyer but a labor hater, con- demn two workers whom the entire world believes innocent.” The following is a copy.of a letter: |, August 11, 1927. Hon Alvan T. Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, Boston Massachusetts. Dear ‘Sir: As an American citizen, soliticitous | for the good name of my country the} world over, I beg you to reconsider your de on in the Sacco- -Vanzetti ease. All at once, this good name about: to become a byword and a hi x through-out the civil on world, rong all kinds of men. Tez a long , and be a statesman in this mo- ment critical for the reputation and | the influence of America in the years ahead. A strong doubt about | the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti exists n the sober, minds of many millions of honest, and justice loving men Judge Thayer’s behavior ng upon his own fairness has an incredible spectacle. This is ainly no time for the preservation | comity between judges to be a} chief consideration; and that, with all | of tion against the two labor | letter to The DAILY L, Cimma, secret of Alliance of North| en section, hits the once more play safe in its traditions of jystice and democracy. May join your picket line in my former army uniform—John M. Levitt, former | Commander of World War Veterans.” | Los Angeles Courts to Deport Workers for Saceo-Vanzetti Rally LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 17.— | With the exception of Malcolm Bruce, |Jean Russel and an Italian named | Gondolpho, all Los Angeles workers “/arrested in the last few days in con- nection with a Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting at the Plaza, August 9, have been released from jail. The three first mentioned will have a deporta- tion hearing in the federal court at 9:00 a. m. tomorrow, August 12. The workers who will be tried for deportation were arrested with many others who were charged with’ crim- inal syndicalism when a Sacco-Van- zetti protest meeting was broken up by the police in the Plaza a few days Jago. Among those arrested were Sam |Globerman, secretary of the Workers |Party, Malcolm Bruce, Joseph Sim- linoff, Michael Hughes, Frank Spec- !ter, Nat Prager and Homer Bartchy, | who was recently expelled from a Los Angeles high school for Communist propaganda work there. A raid on the Workers (Commun- ist) Party headquarters has yielded the police only a supply of American jand Mexican Communist literature. | All the comrades present at the time \of the raid were set free by the po- | lice. The Gayest Affair Mid- Sumnamer Jamboree of the Season BENEFIT OF THEJOINT DEFENSE COMEDIES OPEN AIR DANCING 50 iebats , Admission and Dancing $1.00 Admission, Dancing and OPEN AIR OPERA | “CARMEN” SUNDAY AUGUST 28 Roller Coaster — Ferris Wheel — Skooter — Gold Mine—Lovers’ Reel—House VAUDEVILLE SHOW Buy Tickets at | DAILY WORKER | 108 East 14th Street | FREEFHEIT 30 union sa. JIMMIE HIGGINS i BOOK SHOP 106 University Place STARLIGHT PAR illustration Courtesy “New Masses” paca el STREET, BRONX, N. Y. damaged Fuller declared: | responsible.” Translated into plain En; political enemies. “It woltid be well for those w or sentimentality, contributed such dire results to be held jointly ho, through ignorance and malice glish, instead of read in the crude diction of Euller, this means that the governor of Mas- sachusetts would like to be able to jail or assassinate all those who in any way criticised the trial, the judge, the corrupt jury and the governor and his committee. shows the dark malignancy of Fuller and his murder crew. They would have bombs explode at convenient times and places and then proceed to wholesale terror against all their This utterance Fuller’s utterance reveals “consciousness of guilt” a thousand times more convincing than the evidence on which Sacco and Vanzetti were railroaded. Let no one be intimidated by the ravings of this blood- hound in the state house of Massachusetts. of workers drive forward to the strike of Monday, determined to shatter the shackles off Sacco and Vanzetti and return them to activity in the ranks of the labor movement. Let the masses BOSTON, Aug. 16.—That Vanzetti | | expected little from Governor Fuller| or his biased advisory committee is revealed in two letters which he wrote to Mrs. Jessica Henderson, a friend, who made them public Sun- day. Asking that his sister, Luiga, be notified before he died “since the governor is decided to execute us, Vanzetti July 20th: “{ see, dear Mrs. Henderson, that you are still optimist and hopeful, veatly trusting to Governor Fuller. N be you are right and will be right, But for all that I am told and I can understand both the governor and the commission distrusts all our witnesses all the govern- ment’s perju: understand or both of that. “Governor Fuller told Rose (Mrs. Sacco) that my lawyers at the Pl stand; that I refused to take it and sent a boy of 12 years to talk for me by reciting a lesson learnt by heart. A greatest wrong that this believe vas never done to truth and to an in- ent man as I am. “How ean the governor not believe in Beltrando and all my truthful wit- How can he believe that a a t a three hours of cross-ex- lamination by Katzmann? VANZETTI EXPECTED LITTLE FROM GOV. FULLER'S COMMITTEE OF HANGMEN, HIS LETTERS SHOW BIC STRIKE FOR declares in a letter dated} mouth trial wanted me to take the| And Katz-| your letter sent by Rose, I will write something more. But while I have it in mind: if you are not sure of anything, try, yes, if you please, to encourage my people with words of) fortitude, but don’t be too optimist | with them, because, if I am not) wrong and things are turning to the’ worst, it is better to prepare them from now to bear my lost rather than} give them hopes which would make more terrible a fatal news. “With great heart yours, “BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI.” The second letter, dated July 21, in part follows: “From the commission interview of, us, I got the impression that Presi-! dent Lowell and President Stratton’ tile.to us by pre-determination. Yet derstood certain most vicious actions of the prosecution and the iniquity }of Judge Thayer’s conduct. | '“As for Judge Grant he is but an- jother Thayer. | “These things I explain and will! explain in our statement why we are “Since then, all that I was told and ‘can understand of both the governor and the committee’s words and atti- |tude convinced me that they are Id boy could have perjured | against us, inclined and prejudiced, Thousands of workers assembled on against us, disbelieve all our wit- mann put him on the stand again for ‘more than an hour, next day and {without warning. |does not believe Beltrando, he neither | perjury? ) Assails Attitude in Inquiry. “He’s capable of perjury? Why then, Beltrando tells now of his posi- tiveness of my innocence every- where? Always? To all? How can the governor believe in the state’s perjurers against us, he who knows or should know that they changed three times their depositions, in or- der to fit them to me and convict me, “And what of the commission? Judge Grant is against us to death as he has always been since our ar- rest and without knowing the case. We know now positively that all he want is to execute us. members is against us. ago they abused three Italian men because they witnessed the truth. Lately it was found out the three men had told the truth—but as an indication of feeling the fact re- mains. “This is the reason why we began our hunger strike. If after seven years and three months of agony, during which we proved our inno- cence and the iniquity of our trial and trialers, we have to be murdered in such way as this for crimes of which we are innocent—we prefer to let ‘us die of starvation rather than die without a protest, I wonder if our seples can believe that we are » “Wall, tomorrow, after havi ‘read believes all the other my witnesses.) \How can he believe that a boy ashe grilled again Beltrando, who said) ence, they went wild with enthusiasm Beltrando is now, could insist in ajthe same things; and after that the! and broke into the singing of the “Also the attitude of the other two} A few days} \cannot or want not understand, or If the governor}both, but are doubtlessly against us.| of | “Yousknow what the governor told Rose and Boltrando Brini. After that, |governor told some one that Bel-| \trando must have come at my house| at 9 a, m. (so that I have had time! to come back from Bridgewater). Feels Certain of Execution. | “Well, after that Beltrando went to him and told him that he had never told him so and all the gover- nor seemed to care for was to learn who had told Beltrando that he had said so. So you can.see that his at- titude is one of a man -who honestly and hardly tries to convince himself that he is right to send S. & V. to the chair, and not at all the attitude of a man impartial and unprecon- | cetted. | “It is all this that gave us the jcertitude that we are going to be murdered and this investigation will be the extreme insult, and for this we are fasting. We want, at least, protest. if the forced nutrition will hurt us, or because we will soon be killed. “T wish to thank you, Mrs. Hen- derson, for all that so very much that you have done and are doing for us and our poor families. “And, if we can meet any more, I secure you, that I will carry in my grave my appreciation, gratitude and affect to you. You eould not do more than you are doing for us. “Wishing you good and with most heartily regards, I am yours, _ (Signed) “BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI.” é |are honestly intentioned and not hos-! , cannot or want not) \it seemed to me that, in spite of their! {great scholarship, they had not un-| jmesses and believe the government, perjurers; in short, that either they, Being so, it does not matter] . EVIDENCE FROM SACCO,VANZETT! — Will Not Diiclais What Embassy ToldArgentine By Federated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — State | department officials refuse to release | the report on the Sacco-Vanzetti ca’ which was sent to American envo: abroad several years ago. The exist- | ence of this document was unknown | until dispate rom Bunos Aires re- | vealed that the Ameri ambassador | to the Argentine ha ued an apol- ogy for Massachuse based’ on the contents of the diplomatic report. At the state department it was em- phatically denied that the report had been prepared in conjunction with the department of justice whose acti in the Saeco-Vanzetti case are largely responsible for the doom hanging over | the two Italian workers. The report was based on information from the S. district attorney’s office in Bos- ton, it was stated. Point blank refusal met the request of the Federated Press for a copy of the department’s instructions to its| foreign representatives. The docu- ment is entirely confidential and was | intended for the private’ information of American diplomats. The action of the Argentine ambas- sador in issuing a formal defense of America’s efforts to electrocute Sac- ‘co and Vanzetti shows how deeply the case has effected South America. Newspapers in Buenos Aires from the extreme left to the business papers such as the Nacion and the Prensa have condemned Massachusetts’ brand | of justice and demanded ‘the libera-/> tion of the two radicals. -GLEVELAND HOLDS SACCO, VANZETTI ‘Two and ThreeMeetings, Nightly Carry On Work CLEVELAND, August 17. Con- | siderable activity has been carried anit in Cleveland during the past week “ps |connection with the campaign for the |release of Sacco and Vanzetti. Local Cleveland of the International Labor | Defense, together with the Cleveland branch of the Boston Defense Com- | mittee, and other orga’ tions, have | cooperated in the campai, with suc- | cessful results. In addition to neigh- | horhood meetings which have been go- | ing on for some time, a very success- ful meeting was held on the Public | Square, Tuesday, August 9, when more | than 3000 Cleveland workers assem: | | bled to voice their protest against the | murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. At |this meeting a call was issued for a general strike the following day, which was met with strong enthusi- asm, not only at the meeting, but also the following day. The general strike, which was called | hastily, met with wonderful response. Cléveland’s public Square Wednesday afternoon and night. A meeting was started at noon and continued until 11:15 p. m. when news was received the 12-day stay of execution} granted Saceo and Vanzetti, When| the information was given to the audi- “Internationale.” Both meetings: were conducted in an orderly fashion, in spite of the fact that Cleveland’s sensational sheet, the News, tried, in various articles and | editorials, to ineite riot and trouble. The activity for the coming week will be intensified so that every ounce of energy that can_be mustered by the International Labor Defense will be utilized in behalf of the. Sacco- Vanzetti campaign. A mass demon- stration will be held on the Public) Square, Thursday night, another Sun- | day afternoon, and a general strike |for Monday, August 22, with a mass | | meeting on the Publie Square on Mon- | \day beginning at noon and continuing \through the entire day and evening, 2 | and 8 neighborhood meetings are be- jing held each night. | Sacco-Vanzetti Poems. | DAILY WORKER poets are urged to write, their sentiments about the Sacco-Vanzetti case in free, untram- meled, didactic, dynamic, or even lyric verse for the Greenwich Village party exhibition which opened yes- terday at 100 Bedford street. 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