The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 10

NICOLA SACCO (1894-1927) Born in Torremaggiore, Italy. Came to U.S. at age of 17, where he became shoe cutter. Worked in various New England cities. Sur- vivors: Wife, Rose Sacco; son, Dante, 14; Inez, 6, born four months after Sacco’s ar- rest, Active as organizer and speaker for years. eS 50,000 workers crowd Union Square to demand freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti—in the face of machine guns, armored mo- torcycles, gas and tear kombs, and 2,000 cops. Mrs. Glendewer Evans of Boston worked ceaselessly to free the two workers. WVanzetti’s letters to her front prison reveal in a poignant way his literary and intellectual interests. 7 HE MURDER OF T' Webster Thayer, who presided at the “trial” of the frame-up victims. His conduct at that time was viclently prejudicial to the defend- ants, and even Fuller’s reactionary committee described it as “indiscreet.” When he sen- tenced Sacco and Vanzetti in Dedham last spring he didn’t dare look in their faces once during the entire proceedings. JOHN SARGENT »John Sargent, attorney general of U. S., who re- fused to permit examination of department of justice files showing conspir- acy to “get” Sacco and Van- zetti because they were radicals. POSSESSED ELE OOO LS