The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1927, Page 1

UNOR FoR THE FOR ATE No. 189. Ouvside New Yoru, by muii, Vol. IV. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Now ork, by mail, $8.00 per your. 4.00 por year, Materod as senund-class matter at the Pont Ortice «t New Yo: NEW YORK, TUESDAY, PUBLISHING Published Dally oxvept Gunday by THE DAILY WORKER | . FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents OO.,, $8 Fire oat, New York, M. ¥. ® © ‘sacco AND VANZETTI ARE DEAD! LONG LIVE SACCO AND VANZETTI HE FOUL murder has been committed. .Sacco and Vanzetti are dead. Their lives have been burned out of them in the i electric chair by the owning class assassins. But for the workers of the world, Sacco and Vanzetti still live, carrying the torch of labor’s struggle for emancipation thru. every land. ; Sacco and Vanzetti were banner bearers of the revolution. It was for this they died. Millions spring forward to take up the banner of revolution where they were forced to drop it. * * * HE RULING class feared Sacco and Vanzetti. It sought to smother this fear thru the legalized assassination of our comrades. ; The rulers believed Sacco and Vanzetti less dangerous dead than alive. So they murdered them! UT THE seven years of torture inflicted upon Sacco and | Vanzetti, the victims of American capitalist “justice,” | aroused international labor to a realization of the hungry lust | | for working class blood of the American dollar worshippers. The seven years of suffering of Sacco and Vanzetti has} done more than any other single influence to help cement the | unity of world labor for greater struggles against the common oppressor, international greed, at the head of which stands the; | American plutocracy, *. ~ ms ; ' * * * 4 i HE WORKING class never forgets. Down thru the years | Tuesday, August 23, 1927, will be remembered as the day of | martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti. The children of the work- | ingelass, each new generation, will always remember. | i * * HE MURDER crew from Thayer, the puny capitalist judge | of Dedham, to Coolidge, New England’s strike breaker presi- | dent, from the multi-millionaire ‘mill baron of Massachusetts, | former senator, William Butler, to the Morgans and Rocke- , fellers, will regret to the last dying day of the social system in| defense of which they make war upon the working ‘class. ] Sacco and Vanzetti dead are mightier than ever, battering | at the pillars, growimg ever weaker, that support the social | structure, the upholders of which took their lives. | Sacco and Vanzetti are dead; Long live Sacco and Van- | | zetti! pS se LONG LIVE THE.WORLD REVOLUTION! THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY? By FRED ELLIS “THEIR NAMES WILL BE SHOUTED IN FUTURE GLASS WAR BATTLES” 4 bgt following is the statement of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee on the execution of the two revolutionists, our comrades: * * * E mourn with sorrowing hearts the loss-of our murdered comrades, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. We know this sorrow is shared with us by tens of millions of workers and sympathizers throughout the world.! Today the criminal government -of Massachusetts perpetrated a erime of | such enormity that will cause its name to stink in the nostrils of all civilized men forever. But our grief is heightened with a feeling of just hatred for a system of | society under which two innocent workers may be murdered in cold bleed | as human sacrifices to master-class hate. We dedicate ourselves now to! the abolition of ‘this system of society where legal class lynchings are ear-| ried on with diabolical cailousness. (Continied on Page Three) ~ One Killed, 25 Hurt In Geneva Protest of Double Murder LONDON, Aug. 22.—On? person was killed and more than twenty-five | wounded in Geneva tonight in Sacco- Vanzetti demonstrations, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch re- ceived here tonight. Sev 1 of the woundea persons are in a critical condition. Five thousand workers gathered in| the Place Palai Geneva—and paraded through the (Continued on Page Two) ot The Daily Worker Called To execution is considered to be no mere coincidence. Federal Court PPEARING in the United States District Court—Southern District of New York—be- fore Judge J. Burns, our comrades, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne and Bert Miller | of The DAILY WORKER staff and David Gordon asked for an adjournment of their case un- | til Monday, August 29th. Attorney Joseph R. Brocsky presented the plea for adjournment. The fact that the hearing was called on the dat? August 22, set for the Sacco-Vanzetti | | It coincides with the supervision which has been instituted over The DAILY WORKER offices by the Bomb Squad. Many signs point H indisputably to the fact that the prosecution is being pressed at this particular time because of the leading part taken by our DAILY WORKER in the agitation for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. f For this reason we ask our friends and supporters to again set the wheels in motion to protect The DAILY WORKER against its enemies. must be revived with vigor. The Guard The DAILY WORKER Fund Our forces must again be mobilized for the coming attack. A retainer of $500.00 will-have to be deposited with our attorneys before they can take up our case. We rely upon all readers of The DAILY WORKER and branches st a to act at once on the question of the immediate collection of funds. particularly upon all Party 4 -the Central Park of | —@ WARDEN STARTS ELECTROCUTIONS AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT: GOV. FULLER REBUFFS EVERY PETITION Workers Died With Greatest Bravery; Refuse Religion; Machine Guns Menace Crowds _,(Special To The DAILY WORKER.) BOSTON: Aug. 23.—Nicola Sacco and Bartelomeo Vanzetti are dead. They were murdered by order of “The Commonwealth of Massachusetts” in the electric chair at the Charlestown state prison a few minutes after midnight. | Each was pronounced dead a few seconds after the electrical switch was thrown by Robert C. Elliott, Sing Sing executioner, and their bodies were laid on the stone slabs brot into the ceath chamber. THE MURDER CREW WORKS FAST. Sacco entered the death chamber at 12:11; he was pro- nounced dead at 12:19. Vanzetti entered the death chamber at 12:20; his lifeless body was removed from the electric chair at | 12:26. Both workers made short speeches protesting their inno- cence to the last. Little opportunity was given them, however, and they were rushed into the chair and hurriedly strapped by prison guards. Celestino Madeiros, 25-year-old Portuguese who confessed ;that he was a’member of the Morelli gang of Providence which | committed the murder for which Sacco and Vanzetti were framed, jwas the first to be electrocuted, he being pronounced dead at | 12305. At 11:20 o’clock Michael A. Musmanno, one of the attorneys for the defense, dashed up to the prison and hurried into the warden’s office and asked if he could see the condemned men. “Tt’s too late,” said the warden. | “Is there no hope of seeing them?” | “Not now,” replied the warden, “but I will tell them that you were here,” “Can I go with you when you tell them?’ “No, too late,” said the warden. Musmanno leaned against the wall completely wilted. reporters asked him: “Did you have a message for them?” \last message,” he replied. The “Of course, I had a (Continued on Page Three) BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI