The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 2

ee pene peer Page Two THE DAILY W 'W YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927 THE DEATH MARCH | | By JAY ROBERT GETTERS. I give youse guys just seven mi ordered his men to stand by. We continued our march however, fearlessness of the righteous. Sacco and Vanzetti were to die. D Just five more minutes and we'll a Uniforms pacing up and down. click. with the Jeers, catcalls. Somebody shouts Hooray for the Bolsheviki. Crowds milling on the other side of the street. utes to go. They will lead them in. We grasp our placards Burn. DEATH. Time’s up. Get in here. Boos—hisses. The police station. The captain leers at us. Sacco and Vanzetti° must not die. Bedlam. Sacco and Vanzetti must not die. tion—Internationale. The place rocks with cheers. Detention room. Reds. Hello Ikey. Roosha. May I have some water? Water? Take these bitches-to cell nine. Da, da da, da, da. Why the hell Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth— Goddammed lies. We are greeted by“other jailbirds. die. Arise ye prisoners of starvation— Bight of us are crowded into a §mall damp and foul stinking cell. The long narrow steel bench is wet anti smell suspiciously. From all over th ejail we hear our comrades. They shout Hooray for Communism. every Hostile glances. nly. The Death Watch does not falter. | A frail youth is being dragged down the street by two policemen. Let me go he screams, my wrist, Christ, my wrist. Til take that bitch. Somebody sings the Star Spangled Banner. Justice. “I'll get those anarchistic bastards.”’— (Judge Thayer.) Arise ye prisoners of starva- Lots of tired patrolmen and goddamed women We'll give you— Saceo_and Vanzetti must.not s. With that the sergeant | determination and| | one of you. The cameras Three min- More huh? doncha go back to Shut your goddamed mouths you Red bastards. /SACCO-VANZETTI MURDER TYPICAL OF CAPITALIST “JUSTICE,” SAYS INTERNATIONAL RED RELIEF MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 26.—The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti is| not an isolated incident, but is mere italist class “justice,” says the E Relief in a statement issued yesterday, The text of the appeal follows in full: What seemed impossible has pened. Entire humani ing from indignation beastly murder. S: have been executed. the American bourge -|° ed its hireling: 2 led the lying and m ruggle against the two revolutionaries. Since the fi it was quite c! “Justice” that their fate was decided and that they would die in the elec trie chair. cl judges of the American bou e have attempted with all kinds false and futile con-j, siderations to apply legal foundatio to the death sentence Expose Class Entire humanity w justice has ne ) trampled upon wetti case tore off the hypoc mask from the f: of Amer justice. The preparations f ° Sassination of Sacco and Vanzett provoked a shout of indignation from millions of people. Millions of people indig swered the challenge of the : ¢lass executioners who murde two innocent men whose w were dedicated to the emanci struggle and who were theref stined to fall victim to cay But the so-called judg deaf. American ambassado: Bol Shoo 16 aii sul branded with the disgrace of a Bey cee Comr expelled st. h. double You who for the Jown witk Liberate Demand the d women into p ousands of men and women have| from ed of the “right of shelter” | > thus been dk w” by the pack of bloody execu- n now in all capitalist countries | when they force into humanity struggling for} emancipation, | r Ra. your ith the International Red Re-| the white the political pri one example of the operation of cap- | iv ttee of the International | ons. Tens| their countries} lared “outside will be able to plunge) their relentless | d your voices in pro-} ake of the liberation of} y- anks and create al e against the attacks justice and the voice to-| bourgeois class justice.| ystem of an-| bloody the strugglers for liber-| terror. unlimited the solidarity of all toil- ggle against bourgeois e and the white terror. the International Red Re to hide themselves from all hon WORLD TO CCO AND - | thinking people the whole world over. VANZETTI | The two innocent victims had their| | | lives burned out in the electric chair| They tortured you for sevén years, that American class justice migh Until the very last ° Wh rid of two witnesses of its disgrace- ful regime. The flood of indignation and protest from millions of people against the brazen accomplishment of the assassination of Sz Vanzetti is an accomplished fact. You who were destined to to see this deed of bloodthirst justice consider that the as of Saeco and Vanzetti x tional case, but belongs to the system of bourgeois class justice. Campaign of Terrorism. The victims condemned to death by *|'They still don’t seem quite satisfied, | Present some further claim; | ~| And even now that you have died, | | They hound you just the same. ed on the throne that sears, | Death’s currert thru you passed. And even acter you have paid sco and| Them every pound of flesh, And loving hands your bodies laid. In coffins painted fresh. | Before your ashes we all vow You'll not have died in vain, “trial” and without “trial” may be! Their’s is the doubtful victory eounted in thousands. Bourgeois class| But our,s the final gain! justice has thrown tens of thousands | $. —ADOLF WOLFF, | Samples.of Justice By WALTER SNOW The result of the Sacco-Vanzetti correction of flaws in the Mass: ’ achusetts judicial procedure. ’ aecording to stiff-collar liberals, will be the Only in Massachusetts, we ~ have heard the vacillating “World” assert, could such a tragedy have happened. But who swallows such hokum? One only has to carefully read capitalistic news- papers to realize that politician-judges and prosecutors in every *state in the union go in for red-baiting and union-smashing stunts e ery time they can get a popular hand or a smile from some “chairman of the board.” Also they are perpetually decrying investiga- tions, holding—like the Massachusetts (rew—that the powers that be enn do no wrong. Here are a few curren amples of justice that can be classed as footnotes to the Sacco-Vanzetti frame-up. Judge Henry A. Fuller, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a jurist of twenty years’ experience, comments on the of Grand Jurors hou need not inv advice. Congre shalt not w dut igate, nor criticise, nor give s enough of that. . - Thou by bei nduly inquisitive in Fullerizes ng Harold St, to the workhou fe for merely distributing Sacco-Vanz e is no room for you Reds here. I am only that I cannot give you more time, but I un- derstand the workhouse is congested. * a * Approved police tactics as reported, not by us, but by the “World”: Immediately afte he mourn- ing throngs in front of the Freiheit office learned that Vanzetti was dead, “The police began to run their motoreycles through the crowds and the pop- ping of exhausts drowned the weeping.” The same paper reports conduct following the af- ternoon meeting: “Although the mob contented it- self with passive resistence to the police (actually they ‘were unable to move any faster as police or- dered the entire meeting crowd to disperse down Union Square East) the latter were forced to use their horses and clubs freely to set the shouting and milling throngs in motion. Several were injured.” * * * The authority of the book-censoring, Boston po- lice: The commitment of Powers Hapgood, arrested for organizing a “death watch” parade, to the Bos- ton Psychopathic Hospital for observation on the or- ders of a police captain reveals that “under the state laws a police officer can have a prisoner com- mitted to such an institution for a brief period of observation.” . * * * The “turn the other cheek” attitude of liberals as ressed in an after-execution Sacco-Vanzetti edi- “The Evening World strongly opposed the ing out of the sentence. It now hopes with equal earnestness that there may be no bitterness, no recrimination, no rancorous harping on what might or should have been, in after-discussion of the event.” Will the “Evening World,” we ask, suggest that copies of Prof. Felix Frankfurter’s book be burnt all up? * * * “He was kindly and beloved by a very large num- ber, including most of the workers . - he created enthusiasm among the workers, and was an example of love and cooperation rather than a disciplinarian, and was thus able to achieve the greatest results. A sample of a hymn the “World” allows one Adolph Lewisohn to sing in its columns glorifying —Judge Elbert H. Gary. What hope, liberalism? Vanzetti Writes Last Sunday, barely thirty hours before he was murdered in the Massachusetts eleteric chair, Bartolomeo Vanuzetti penned a letter to Nicola Sacco’s 14-year-old son, Dante: “Your father is one of the bravest men I ever knew,” he wrote to the boy who was seven years old when his father was framed and thrown into prison. In conclusion, he urged him to join in the movement “against the exploitation of man by man.” The letter follows: * ree My Dear Dante: B I still hope, and we will fight until the last-mo- ment to revindicate our right to live and to be free, but all the forces Of the state and of the -money and reaction are deadly against us because we are liber- * tarians and anarchists. I write little of this because you are now and yet too young to understand these tMfitigs and other things of which I would like to reason with ygu- But if you do well, you will grow and understand your father’s and my principles for which we will soon be put to death. T tell you now that all that I know of your father, he is not a criminal, but one of the bravest men I ever knew. Some day you will be able to understand what I am about to tell you, that your father has sacrificed everything dear and sacred to the human heart and soul for hgs faith in liberty and justice for all. That day you will be proud of your father, and if you come brave enough, you will take his place in the struggle between tyranny and liberty: and you will vindicate his name and eur blood: Tf we have to die now, you shall know, when you will be able to understand this tragedy in its fullest, how good and brave your mother has been with you. your father and I, during these eight years of struggle, sorrow, passion, anguish and agony. Even from now, you shall be good, brave, with your mother, with Inez and with Suzie—brave, good Suzie—and do all you can to cgnsole and help them. I would like you to also remember me.as a com- rade and friend of your father’s, your mother and to Dante Sacco Inez, Suzie and you, and I assure you that neither I have been a criminal, that I have committed no robbery and no murder, but only fought modestly to abolish crimes from among mankind and for the liberty of all. Remember, Dante, each one who will say other- wise of your father and I is a liar, insulting inno- cent dead men who have been brave in their life. Remember and know also, Dante, that if your father and I would have been cowards and hypo- crites and rinnegators of our faith, we would not have been put to death. They would not even have convicted a lebbrous dog; not even executed a deadly po@soned scorpidn on such evidence as that they framed against us. They would have given a new trial to a matricide and an habitual felon on the evidence we presented for a new trial. Remember, Dante, remember always, these things; we are not criminals; they convicted us on a frame- up; they denied us a new trial; and if we will be executed after seven years four months and seven- teen days of unspeakable tortyyes and wrongs, it isjfor what I have already t,"1 you; because we were for the poor and against-.ne exploitation and oppression of the man by the man. The documents of our case, which you and other ones will collect and preserve, will prove to you that your father, your mother, Inez, my family and I have sacrificed by and to a state reason of the American plutocratic reaction. The day will come when you will ufderstand the atrocious sense of the above-written words, in all its fullness. Then you will honor us. Now, Dante, be brave and good always. I embrace Yours, BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI. P. S. I left the copy of “An American Bible” to your mother now, for she will like to read it, and she will give it to you when you will be bigger and able to understand it. Keep it for a remembrance. It will also testify to you how good and generous Mrs. Gertrude Winslow has been with us all. Good- bye, Dante. BARTOLOMEO. Carry on the Fight for which Sacco, Vanzetti Gave Their Lives Support The Daily Worker, which led the struggle to save them. Defend The Daily Worker against the attack of those, who murdered Sacco and Vanzetti. Help to maintain The Daily Worker to carry on the fight for which Sacco and Vanzetti died. Answer the capitalist as- sassins with your sup- port of ‘The Daily Worker in its fight FOR Nicola Sacco The Defense of Class War Prisoners A Strong, Militant Labor Movement A Labor Party and a Labor Government The Protection of the Foreign Born The Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union wi: Hands Off China The Abolition of Ail Imperialist Wars The Abolition of the Capitalist System Bartolomeo Vanzetti I Here Is My Tribute to The Memory of Sacco, Vanzetti. DAILY WORKER 83 First St, New York, N. Y. Inclosed you will find dollars as my tribute to the memory of Saeco and Vanzetti, and as my contribution to help the Daily Worker carry on the fight, for which they have given their lives, Name Address .. City. country, “thee deportation of “undesirables.” HE day’s mail brings a-° letter reading in part as follows: “Dear My, Editor:—As a matter of general information will you kindly inform us why it is that people do 9? not seem to like the avay things are done in this country persist in sticking around. Uncle Sam is a kindly old gent, but he is perfectly able to run his affairs without European advice... “Just as soon as foreigners un- derstand that Americans respect the voice of the courts, just that soon will foreigners either fall into line or go home. It is the duty of the press to make this fact very clear and very emphatic for the education and safety of their readers.” The letter. is typewritten and signed by “Thomas X. Bender, New York City.” * * * The content of this letter is just anothet prejudiced sentiment thrown up out of the ocean of poison spread by the daily press against Nicola Sacco- and Bartolo- meo Vanzetti. It is not now directed against Saeco and Vanzetti. They have been murdered by the social sys- tem that the writer sponsors. They are dead. It is aimed instead at the many millions of foreign-born workers who writhe upon the wrack of modern industry, multitudes dream- ing of a better day,,when their tortures may come to an end. * * * This “Thomas X. Bender” is not alone. He is typical of the 100 per cent “American” who furnishes sup- port for the fascist activities of the American Legion, who puts on a night shirt, hides his face behind a mask and parades in the darkness as a member of the Ku Klux Klan; who is anxious to tell all the world that, “if you don’t like this coun- try, why don’t you go back where you came from?” * * * This Bender type of mind domina- ted the jury in the court of the black-gowned Thayer, getting the verdict of “Guilty!” and the sen- tence of “Death!” against Sacco and Vanzetti. It is the type of mind that the enemies of labor hope to exploit to put thru the next session of con- gress legislation for the register- ing, the finger-printing and the photographing of all foreign-born” workers, preliminary to inflicting the same regulations upon all workers. * * * This brand of capitalist legisla- tion is not new. It has been before congress in various forms ever since the “red raids” of 1920, ever since Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian workmen, wee torn, from friends and family and thrown into prison, to be forced for seven years along the tortuous road that led to the human slaughter house of the capitalist class in Charlestown Penitentiary, in Boston. It is legislation that the workers have fought year in and year out, under the leadership of the Com- mittee for the Protection of Foreign-Born workers. Greater energy than ever is needed today, however, to combat this slavering capitalist beast that stands forefeet upon the prostrate forms of Sacco and Vanzetti. * * * From the earliest times the wretched of Europe fled across the Atlantic seeking better times in this country. No human being walks soil in America who has not had some foreign ancester, There has been no greater tide of migra- tion, in all the world’s history, than the flood of human beings, es- pecially during the last century, that has poured into the United States. By 1880, the arriving immigrants reached a total for the year of 457,257 and the next year far sur- passed the half million mark, The year of greatest migration was 1907 when 1,285,000 arrived in spite of the money panic that set in during this period. If the war had not broken out in 1914, this year would have established a new record. At that the total reached was 1,218,480. The year of the American entry into the war, 1917, found only 296,403 new arrivals in this country. * ” * But that was also the year that world capitalism cracked. Up thru the bloodsoaked soil of ezarist Rus- sia came the gnarled fist of Work- er-Peasant Power, The Proletarian Dictatorship not only swept aside ezarism. It shook and cracked the pillars of capitalism thruout Eur- ope. Even American greed felt the sinewy fingers of revolutionary toil tightening about its neck, thumbs upon its throat. » * * “Selective immigration” was the first weapon of retaliation. The law not only provided for a thoro examination of those entering the but also provided for America ceased to be a haven for political refugees. Even the belief in governmental change, without an act of advocacy, became grounds for deportation. Fight for the Protection of Foreign-Born in Memory: of Sacco and Vanzetti By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. |. In January, 1920, the“full wrath of the Wilson-Palmer regime in Washington was turned.against the foreign-born. Five thousatid.war- rants. were issued. More than that number of arrests were made. It was this nest of persecution that spawned the frame-up of Saccé and Vanzetti. It also-gave birth to the legislation against the foreign-born, to the bills presented in congress by Johnson, of Washington; Aswell, of Louisiana; MeClintic; ‘Of. Okla~ homa; Sosnowski, of Michigan; Taylor, of Colorado, and Hayden, of Arizona, and others, all anxious to do the bidding of - their profits taking masters. Lo * * * - This was the crew nationally that stood back of the murder“band in Massachusetts; that will now, seize upon the prejudice created by the kept press, to put this legislation thru congress, depending upon sup- porters like our correspondent, Thomas X. Bender, to see them thru. * * * But American labor, native and foreign born, will acept the chal- lenge and take up the cudgels of battle, | _ Foreign and native born labor | in the United States will-amite at the double grave of Sacco and,Van- zetti, cement their forces and wage relentless war against the common oppressor—the capitalist. foe. + * * Workers of all nationalities,. of all colors, have joined in protest. against the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The clus of the police have fallen alike upon the heads of Negroes and white workers. Police horses and motorcycles have been used to charge against demonstra- | tions of workers speaking a multi- tude of different tongues.’ Police wagons have been filled“ with demonstrating workers, making no differentiation as to which .coun- try they hailed from, or whether their ancestors dated back to the revolutionary forefathers of this country. Arrests have been made indiscriminately; sentences dealt out wholesale, for daring to protest against the legalized murder; «alls against the working class, mot. against American or Italian, Lith uanian or German, Polish or Hun- garian worker, but against labor unified in a great struggle. * Lane eat - The struggle against the slayers of Sacco and Vanzetti has brought upon protesting labor a baptismal fire that cannot help but amala- mate the forces of those who toil. One of the many expressions that must be taken by this unity is the growing campaign for the Pro- tection of the Foreign-Born. In three months of preparation, three months of intense activity, three months of developing war against those who attempt to further chain labor thru legislation providing for the finger-printing, photographie | and registering of workers. Against this plot of the master class, the: unity of the working class, the best memorial to our martyyed- dead— Saceo and Vanzetti. e k Raleigh Paper Prints. Socrates’ Farewell as Sacco and Vanzetti Die | RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 26--Wit out comment, the Raleigh News and Observer, on the day before the elec trocution of Sacco and Vanzetti pub- lished the address of Socrates to his judges. For opposition to the estab- lished order, Socrates was condemned to death. He said: = The difficulty, my friends, is “Rot in avoiding death, but in avoiding ume righteousness; for that runs faster than death. I am old and move slowly and the slower runner has overtaken me, and my accusers are keen and quick, and the faster runner, who is unrighteousness, has overtaken them, And now I depart hence condemned by you to the penalty of death,-atid they too go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty. of villainy and wrong; and I.must abide by my award — let them abide by theirs. I suppose that these things may be regarded as fated-—and think that they are well. Nites And now, O men who have con= demned me, IT would fain prophesy-to you; for I am about to die, an Tas hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power. And I propkesy:to you, who are my murderers, that’ im- mediately after my death, punishment far heavier than you have inflicted on me will surely await you. Me you killed because you wanted to escape the accuser, and not to give an ac- count of your lives. But-that, wil not be as you suppose; far otherwise. For I say that there will be more at« eusers of you than there are now; accusers whom hitherto I -haye ree strained; and as they are. en they will be more severe with you, and you will be more offended at them, indi For if you think that by killing men you can avoid the accuser. cén- suring your lives, you are mistakes; that is not a way.of esiape whith is either possible or honorable; the cas- iest and noblest way is not to. be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.