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“..Shall Not Have Died in Vain” (Continued from Page 6). other tendencies in the labor movement.’ He did valiant work in the defense and we marched to- gether on the picket Jine, went to jail together, united our forces in a common effort to make the Boston strike successful, ete. Some day men like Alfred Baker Lewis and Upton Sinclair and others who believe in labor unity not labor division and in fighting capitalism not Communism will realize that the socialist party officialdom believes other- wise, that it cannot be removed, that it uses the Baker Lewises and Sinclairs as fig leaves to cover its reactionary nakedness and they will break with the party which serves capitalism by dividing and weakening the labor movement. 9. “PROGRESSIVE” CAPITALIST POLI- TICIANS PROP UP THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM IN TIME OF CRISIS. Brandeis’s refusal to inter- vene on the silly pretext that he had “personal rela- tions with people interested in the case” and Bor- ah’s shameful declaration that no self-respecting government would yield to “the opinion of mankind” or demonstrations of popular will—are outstanding evidences of the fact that the so-called progressives are props of capitalism who in time of crisis find “nrogressive’’ justifications for reactionary acts. 10. WE MUST BUILD A LABOR PARTY AND FIGHT FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOV- ERNMENT. The necessity for labor to unite its forees politically, clean out the agents of the capi- talist political parties from leadership in its own ranks, and sweep the boss-controlled judges, legis- lators and executives ott of power is an obvious lesson from the Sacco-Vanzetti case. na E~ MUST FIGHT FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM. It is not merely a Thayer or a Fuller or a Katzmann but the sys- tem that breeds Thayers and Fullers and Katzmanns, that exploits workers and persecutes them for ac- tivity on behalf of their class—it is the capitalist system that has murdered our two comrades. 12. THR WORKERS’ MOVEMENT CANNOT BE PESTROYED BY TERROR. History is on our side in the class struggle. All the forces of social development lead to the strengthening and ultimate triumph of our movement. An act of class brutality and terror, such as the murder of Sacco and Van- zetti, in place of frightening the workers into desertion of our movement has the opposite result. It arouses and awakens countless fersh hosts of workers. The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti has disillusioned millions of workers with the capitalist courts, has stirred up their miltancy, driven them to the left, put them in a fighting mood. It has weak- ened the ruling class by unmasking it. It has strengthened international proletarian solidarity by teaching the workers of Europe, Asia, Africa, Aus- tralia and North and South America to act together in a common cause. Jt has brought new sympathy and support to the labor movement from intellec- tuals still under the sway of belief in capitalism and its institutions. Those who already sympathized have become more actively sympathetic. The Hey- wood Brouns and Edna Saint Vincent Millays, the Lawsons and Dos Passos and innumerable other writers and artists have been brought closer to the workers’ movement, had their sympathy aroused and some breath of our struggle and our cause must necessarily pass into their writings, serving to un- dermine capitalism ideologically and prepare the way for a better social order. Sacco and Vanzetti fought for the organization of certain unorganized workers and against capitalism. A little handful of workers followed them and knew of them. Today they have been made into martyrs and heroes and millions follow them into a struggle for the or- ganization of the unorganized and against the capi- talist system. In life their voice reached only hand- fuls. In death their voice is heard round the world. Saeco and Vanzetti are taking their own vengeance. That which was weak in them has perished. That which was strong has been magnified into a power- ful force that makes the mighty tremble in their places of power. Ours is the task of keeping alive the memory of their struggles and sufferings, their heroism and their martyrdom. Of carrying on the cause of Iahor for which they died, of organizing the unorganized workers, of unifying labor’s forces, of putting an end to the frame-up system. Of abol- ishing capitalist justice, capitalist control of courts and governors, of abolishing the system whose ene- my and whose victim they were. Let us pledge our- selves that they shall not have died in vain. Let us pledge ourselves to carry on the cause for which they fought and died until the workers are free and capitalism no longer exists on the face of the earth. That is their wish. For that they died. For that we must live and fight. And in that manner will the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti be avenged. READ THE DAILY WORKER EVERY DAY The Labor Movement and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case vy WM. P pies American ruling class has dared to execute our comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti. In the face of a world-wide protest of the workers and not- Withstanding the condemnation of everybody with even a tinge of liberalism in their makeup, the ex- ploiters, throwing aside even the pretenses of legal- ity, have ventured to do away with these two loyal champions of the working class. It was a brutal aet of terrorism, which will bring no profit to the capitalists. It was a cynical example of class justice which will waken masses of workers to the hypoerises and horrors of capitalism. The Sacco-Vanzetti case far transcends in significance the framed-up charge of murder which furnished the technical basis of it. It is a political issue of the most vital importance. The workers in other countries understood this infinitely better than here. Hence, their monster demonstrations. The capitalists, strong and arrogant in their profits of imperialism, wrung from the exploited workers all over the world, saw in the Sacco-Vanzetti execution an opportunity to deliver an attack at the labor movement, through its most advanced section, the left wing. .Hence, the tryants struck their deadly blow. In this great class drama what a sorry role was played by the men who stand at the head of the trade unions. Once again they have acted as agents of the employers. Instead of trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti and thus check this offensive of the employers against the workers, they have facilitated WITHOUT THE BOSSES Tune of America. By MARGARET CHIKI. All Comrades called to thee Ruthenberg of liberty To you we turned. Long did we want your lead To rid us with great speed, Of bosses proud and strong But it won't last long. The @hurch, The Courts, The Colleges—All Hangmen. eons 1 Woe Z. FOSTER their execution. Great mass strikes, militant demonstrations of all kinds were all that could have saved Sacco and Vanzetti. ° But these labor lieu- tentants would have none of such movements. They blocked every effort at real struggle against the executioners of our comrades. Their long course of treachery was climaxed in their last minute statements admitting the guilt of Saeco and Van- zetti (statements of A. F. of L., Chicago Federation of Labor, ete.) and asking that their sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. The befrayal of the workers by their false leaders evidenced by such treacherous policies as support of the old capitalist parties, refusal to or- ganize the unorganized, establishment of the B. & G. Plan, ete., receives just one more expression in their shameful failure to support Sacco and Van- zetti. It was such treason by the sc lled leaders of labor that jailed Mooney and Billings and that has kept them imprisoned for all these years. " Sacco and Vanzetti are dead, but the cause for which they died goes on, fertilized by the blood of these new martyrs. It is,our duty to make the capitalists pay as dearly as possible for these cold- hearted murders. Millions of workers all over the world are aroused and indignant at this attack upon their leaders and their organizations. -It is our big task to point out to them the full political meaning of the Saceo-Vanzetti case, to teach them that the same forces that murdered our comrades are those that oppress the workers in the shops and subject them to the bitterest of exploitation. The Sacco-Vanzetti execution must be the sig- nal for a renewed struggle against capitalism on every front. One phase of this must be a drive to free all political prisoners. To the eternal shame ef the labor movement such men as Mooney, Bill- ings and others remain year after year in jail. Every trade union, every shop must be made to ring with protests against the assassinations of their comrades. The masses of workers must be turned out to great memorial protest meetings In all industrial districts. August 22nd must be set aside as a day upon which the proletariat all over the world demonstrates against the murder of our eomrades and for the emancipation of the workers.