The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1927, Page 2

We Pay Tribute to the Memory nr $NGGO AND | of Our Martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti VANTETT Murdered in cold blood our heroes died with the note of defiance on thelr lips and yn- | wavering devotion to the cause of the working class in thelr hearts. How shell we oxpross our deep sense of loss!. How shall we give vent to our undying hatred of the system, which so heartlessly takes the lives of the truest and bravest in our midst? Ne tears will serve us now. The iron. fist.of the ruling class has steeled us well againat such softness. By its brazen defiance of milllons of voices, raised in the name of simple justice, to stay the execution of this horrible crime, the capitalist class has denionstrated, so that even blind can see, its.ruthless disregard for even the most elementary standards of human rights. It has dared te do this thing because it has felt its power to see it through, without let or hindrance. And we, the working class have learned tho lesson, which the eles- trie current that charred the bedies of Sacco and Vanzetti, has seared deep in our hearts.’ We shall crush the rule of the tyrants. We shall challenge the power of the ruling class which bes dared to commit this infamous deed. We will build up our strength until the day when the oppressors will be overthrown and labor shall be enthroned as the ruling class. We shall build up our organs for the struggle, build and strengthen The DAILY WORK- ER, guard it well from its enemies, who yesterday murdered Sacco and Vanzetti and today This shall be our lasting tribute te the memory of our By JAMHS P, CANNON, (Beely,, International Leber Defense) Saceo and Vansott! are dead but. thal nanies will Hve forever and-be- come asthining banner for the upward. . striving tollera of the world, They have boewe murdered by the assausine of the-eapltallst class, Their exeou- tion weaia cynically brutal deflance of | the: wowddewide demand. of the mil- Hons of" people that they be berated’! or at least-be given o new trial to} | prove over -mgain thelr innocencdé, It was -a-legal lynching, a flehdish: act; of class vengeance, cunningly _pre- pared and planned and Violently con- |summated by the willing tools. of the | -eapitalist class. Sacco and Vanzetti died for the’ working class. Like their immortal} comrades of Chicago’s Haymarket | as martyrs to the cause of | This was known or felt by of millions of workers in every corner of the globe who fought bit- a m terly to the very last moment to vin- nai _, “I am Tnnocent!” dicate the two martyred labor fight- The men were given a badge, a re-) “T wish to tell you I am innocent | ors. Their admirable loyalty and de+ volver and a club and will be sta-/and never committed any crime. I | votion to the cause of labor was the! tioned at school houses and other| thank you for everything you have 3 4 raise their hands against our paper. fallen fighters, Sacco and Vanzetti. ; 7 re gly Strikes, Boycotts, Mass 3%; "ss police clerk, Capt. Joseph|and said calmly: , Protest Over Murder Harriman, for guard duty. (Continued from Page One) End in Boston either Jay or tomor- is le only crime they were guilty of, they! row, ‘ e headquar- eA as ae seh peer jdone for me. I am innocent of all were innocent of the crime charged | ters e Committee. : Sov u ‘on-|crime, not only of this: one, but all. against them by their executioners. strations, An additional hundred of the, sworn in tomorrow. I am an innocent man,” Vanzetti said. “T wish to forgive some people for what they are now doing to me,” he concluded. The last words of Vanzetti uttered a minute before the current of death silenced his voice were the echo. of the deep convictions of ‘the people: “I wish to tell you that I am innocent and, have never committed a crime, but perhaps sometimes sins. I am in- nocent of all crimes, not only of this one but of all. I am an innocent Condolences To Mrs.: Sacco. will be| tary + * * BOSTON, Aug. — Nicola Sacco Celestino Madeiros, 25-year-old ;/and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are dead. _| Portuguese who confessed that he was ‘ They were murdered by order of!a member of the Morelli gang of _| “The Commonwealth of Massachu- | Providence which committed the mur- , setts” in the electrie chair at the|/der for which Sacco and Vanzetti 23 23. d re f hundreds of New Yo lt: condole: sands I send Vow. vii Charlestown State prison a few min-| were framed, was the first to be elec- | man.” . t his’ comrada-ins| Utes after midnight. troeuted, he being pronounced dead at} The Massachusetts executioners arms will | orever in the hearts! Each was pronounced dexd a few | 12:05: Have put to death two giprious spirits, of his: fellow-v We I deep-/ Seconds after the electric switch was| At 2 o’clock in the morning a wagon | These two fighters living for Be ee ly for you and your fatherless chil-| thrown by Robert C. Elliott, Sing Sing | drove into the prison yard. The life- | Years in the shadow of the electric executioner, and their bodies were laid | less bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti were /Chair unceasingly tortured by their dren, Inez : é on the stone slabs brot into the death | lifted into the wagon and driven away | Suspension between delay and death, Miss B: wire to 8 : : chamber. ) to a mortuary two miles away in the }Calmly watching the relentless net of | urdered| The two innocent workers, who have|East End. It was-here that Mrs, | the capitalist lynchers closing Bacal knowledge| been tortured for the past seven|Rose Sacco, Miss Luigia Vanzetti, | them, showed by their heroic conduc! how the revolutionary fighters of the | working class can die at the hands! of their class enemy. | The noble dignity which sustained them throughout the | Nicola, | Years, died with the greatest bravery.|and members of the defense commit- > cause gf mil-|/Both made short speeches protesting | tee claimed them. thruout the world. We| their innocence, but little opportunity ou to re-, Was given them as they were hurried- | alone in| ly rushed into the death chair. died as m lions of toiler grieve with and courage, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. u and ask 3.—Hope member t 7 for the five missing Dole fliers and a a ; ; t your g ions “mourn with)" “Farewell my wife and child and their two would-be rescuers, Capt. re ticad fap Beacons pti pha ee my friends,” shouted Saeco as the| Billy Erwin and Alvin HicRwaldt, had| 14 vel without fear or-embar| warden Hendry gave the signal to the | all but vanished with the coming of One hundred | executioner. |dawn today—one week after the ill- janitors, their as-| As Vanzetti was led into the death| fated “Golden Eagle” and “Miss men employed| chamber he turned to the two guards | Doran,” hopped off on their disas- of learning in this|and shook hands with them. He sat |trous attempt to reach Honolulu. rassment. It was their murderers, the | governors and the judges who hid \their faces in fear and shame. Their | determined loyalty to the cause is at | the same time a mark of shame on the . heads of the cowards and the prophets | of respectability who could never} | make common cause with these, clear | eyed fighters. Yes, their names will live forever | \MidSummer Jamboree GRAND “CARMEN” GRAND OPERA OPERA FULL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA for the electric. current that killed) them has burned their names per- | manently into the hearts of the toil- | ers of the world. Their miserable exe- | cutioners will be buried in oblivion while thenames and struggles of Sac- co and Vanzetti still remain a shining | guide to the masses, an inspiration to | the oppressed everywhere. They are + eur noble and heroic martyrs. Their | conduct up to the very last moment | was in that spirit. The fight of the! working class has already made their names immortal and for us their mem- orv is imperishable. Their voices are stilled but their silence thunders; around the world.. The workers of | ¥ America who fought to free Sacco) ai i and Vanzetti must pay tribute to their | Caer y) i ; heroic memory in every section of : the country. The workers must gath- er at memorial meetings to pledge themselves to keep alive the memory |] of Sacco and Vanzetti and their fight, to pour their hatred upon the heads of the murderers to build our} strength to prevent new Sacco-Van- zetti cases and to obtain freedom for | the class fighters who are also vic- | tims of the frame-up and still in pris- ‘on. nih | i The International Labor Defense will continue its work for that cause |in the spirit of Sacco and Vanzetti. | Honor and respect to our fallen, comrades. Remember Sacco and Van- | zetti. Remember labor’s deathless | martyrs! NANTICOKE, Pa. Aug. 23.—! a ing death last night 2,000 hard coal | miners assembled here to protest against the murder of- the two inno- | cent prisoners. Resolutions denounc-| ing the “outrageous murder” and de-| manding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti were sent to President Cool-| idge and Governor Fuller. i Id IT was the capitalist government of the Unlted States. of America that burro! Nisola Bacco and. Baz- tolomeo- Vansettl to-death in the luman slaughter house, one of the many torttive chambers of the Chavlestewn Ponitentlary at Bos» ton,| Massachusetts, This {6 tho most important leason that. the. American working class must learn as the lifeless bodies of our comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti, f0 courageous in life, so brave in the face of death; are removed from the abbatoir of the New England oligarchs: of great greed, Learning this leason to the full, thet the: United States government of the blood-Insting owning class ‘is the real assassin of the two work- ers, Sacco and: Vanzett!, the. work- ing class of this country must in- evitably develop its srtength along the right path, toward the defeat | of that government and the aboli- tion of the social system for which it stands, American. labor must) stand aghast. at the ease and self-assur- ance with which the murder crew in Boston, the long-heralded center of “American culture,” proceeded with its: bloody work. This brief article will deal with merely one effort,—the struggle of the workers to break away from the political domination of the work- ing class, to turn their backs on the republican and democratic par- ties, to develop their own indepen- dent political action—thru thé Labor Party—and unite the forces of the working class to battle the ruling class forces guilty of the assassination of Sacco and Van- zetti. * * * Where is the worker who would shake the assassin’s hand of Rob- ert C. Elliott, the ‘hideous-faced executioner, who threw on _ the powerful electric current that roasted our comrades alive? Yet the executioner, Elliott, was merely the servant of the dominant government, getting his $150 for each murder that he committed. It was the capitalist state that paid his Judas gold. The same capitalist. government paid Elliott that pays the puny human, Judge Webster Thayer, who sentenced Sacco and Vanzetti to death, no less the assassin and ex- ecutioner, as he sits, black gowned, | holding court at Dedham, Massa- . chusetts. The same capitalist government that paid Elliott pays Governor Alvan T. Fuller, the chief execu- tive of Massachusetts, who spoke the “NO!” of the American rul- ing class in answer to the demands of international labor that Sacco and Vanzetti be freed, being inno- cent of the crime charged against them. This is the same capitalist gov- ernment that has carefully selected all’ its judges, both in the federal and state courts in Massachusetts, as well as its own United States Supreme Court. Many lawyers sought a loophole somewhere for the two proletarians, Sacco, the shoemaker, and Vanzetti, the fish peddler. But they failed. The murder crew stood solid. The United States Supreme Court Jus- tices, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Harlan Fiske Stone, when appealed to, supported Fuller and Thayer, and they were in turn supported by William How- ard Taft, the Chief Justice himself, who had new infamy heaped upon his name because of the vicious resistance he offered to the anti- child labor amendment to the fud- eral constitution, that threatens to take children out of the mills of New England and put them in | school. ee * At the very moment that world the Sabor Party as a Challenge tothe Assassins of Sacco ancl Vanzetti Py 3, LOUIS ENQDABE, ; comrades, Baeco and Varh labor “6 bsctalrw | its attael ayainst t&) United States gavern: ment, demaS ding the opening of tha files of the \departmnent of jusiise that ocontainad! testimony wuffiel ent to farnisN\a baels gor the ve. lease of Sasax and Vanuettl, the fourvehead of (Xe tovernment, Cal. | vin Coolidge, pe te hitagel? rh in the national p around ismown as Yellowstone Parks in Wyoming. This is tho murded crew that Joined in making a TAcman holl- dey, a murder feast, i peihoae two cottd, ag the victimes, becausc the iw congth of the working class was. nob pow- | ¢rful enough to Iiberate,them., * * ” x thet {x loyal to Sitcco and turns its back on\the ex ner, Bllott; on the judge, } on the governoz, Walter; o judges, Holmes, Broydels, Stone, Taft; on the attorney gen- eral, Sergent; on the president, “Silent. Cal.” But in. order to be honest vweith themselyes, in order to be hoztem with the martyred dead, they mist also turn their backs upon all'thosy who give support to these polltical instruments of the ruling. class. >. | ~~ & “ Lab The hands of every trade union\ official who urges support of capi-\ | talist party officials, all allies off | “the murder crew,” drip wita the i| blood of Sacco. and Vanzett! just \ as much as the hands of Bllfott, the executioner, or Thayer, the ju- | dicial assassin, or their many asso- ciates, All labor must watch well the sessions of the American Federa- tion of Labor, that open Monday, Octobex 3, in Los Angeles, Califor- nia. At this convention the Ameri- ean Federation of Labor official- dom must provide the” program on which it intends to wage its part of the fight in the national presi- dential eleetion next year, 1928, It was within the strength of the American Federation of Labor, thru using its economic power, to\free Sacco and Vanzetti. But the Greens, the Wolls and the Tobins, refused to use this power ali thereby became the blood-brothers\ | of those who put Saeco and Van- zetti to death, : The power of the masses who toil must develop sufficient strength in all sections of the na & into existence am irresistib} ment for independent political ac- tion. This movement must even engulf the American Federation of Labor. The American. labor movement must be cleansed of the guilt fot the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, that the Greens, the Wolls and the Tobins have brought upon it. There must be no support in the ranks of American labor for those who shake, hands with the execu- tioners of our martyred comrades; and these executioners include all who support the capitalist social erder that spawned the present U assassin, the actual Saceo and Vanzetti. No effective voice was raised in any city council, in any state legis- lature, nor in the national con-' gress of these United States, de- manding that Sacco and Vanzetti be freed. They were all the legis- murderer of lative bodies, exclusively controlled | by the ruling class. Even under capitalism large num- bers of workers must be sent into the city councils, the state legis- jatures, to the congress in Wash- ington. But they must be sent as representatives of the working class fighting for their class. As labor approaches the 1928 na- tiqnal elections it must look well for those who have the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti upon their hands, All such are the enemies of those who labor. 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