The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 9

elie AP inl essen American Workers Must Learn! By W. W. WEINSTONE Despite the fact that the history of the class struggle in America is filled with the brutality of the capitalist class, with violence and murder against individuals and masses of workers, there was a widespread illusion among a great number of people that Sacco and Vanzetti would not be exe- cuted. : This illusion affected not only the liberals and humanitarians in whose hearts “hope springs eter- nally,” but the petty-bourgeois spcialists as well. So brazen has been the frame-up, so threadbare the evidence and so profound the protest that these people believed the Massachusetts Bourbons would not dare go through with the sentence. But these petty-bourgeois liberals, humanitarians and social- ists refuse to recognize the period in which we live —a period of sharp and decisive class struggle and of imperialist reaction. These people failed to aid in mobilizing the masses of labor because they do not understand the position of American capitalism today and the transformation of America from a period of so- called “liberalism” and “democracy” to the stark reactionary country which it is today. The Ameri- can capitalist class has always been vengeful and despotic toward the workers.” Yet 1887 knew a Governor Altgeld who, still bearing the traditions of the pre-monopoly period, freed the remaining victims of the Haymarket outrage. The Fullers of today are the products of the monopoly period in which a despotic financial oligarchy rules with an iron hand over industry and government. It is this reactionary, imperialist oligarchy that mur- dered Sacco and Vanzetti, Justice under American imperialism today is the justice of a Mussolini that knows no law but force and no weapon but murder toward the working class. In the days of Altgeld, American capitalism still found use of fine phrases and democratic ges- tures to delude the American masses. But that epoch was drawn to a close with the imperialist war when the governor who expounded the “New Freedom,” Wilson, became the president who plunged America into the world slaughter, the au- thor of the treacherous League of Nations and the collaborator of the enslaving Versailles treaty. The Sacco-Vanzetti murder is the bloody seal that affirms the period of imperialist domination of America—the period of capitalist reaction, the per- iod of raids and deportations against foreign-born workers, the period of imperialist war and decisive class struggles. This period knows no more of the America, an “asylum” for foreign-born workers. This is a period when America has become instead a huge penitentiary for all labor! What does this American imperialism care for the protest of in- ternational labor? It feels strong! Its treasuries are overflowing with the riches of the world. It feels and knows it is the banker to the world. With the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti it hurls a chal- lenge to the working class. As the Caesars of old crushed the protest of their slaves and confirmed their power by stringing the limbs of their victims along the Appian way that all might see and trem- ble, so the American Caesars crushed the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti before the public gaze of mil- lions, that the huge masses of workers may see the brutal might of American capitalim and submit un- protestingly to its yoke. This is the reactionary America that speaks: the language of the executioner. This is the America that keeps Mooney in jail, that hangs the Frank Littles, that, prepares conscription laws against for- eign-born labor, that prepares fresh attacks upon the wages and working conditions of American la- bor. This is the America that carried through the foul execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Petty-bour- geois illusions regarding this America means par- alysis for the working class an@ in the end a be- trayal to the struggle for the defense against reac- tion—a betrayal of the mobilization of the masses to crush the power of the capitalist class. i In this struggle for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, the socialist party and its allies, the Wolls and Greens, where they have not given direct as- sistance to these hangmen (as in the case of Green and Woll), have sewed illusions among the workers to expect mercy from these executioners of the capitalist class. American labor must learn its lesson. Unceasing class struggle! Only power, only might, only the full strength of the working class expressed in mighty industrial unions, in a powerful labor party, in revolutionary leadership of the labor movement by the Communist Party that had no illusions and has no illusions regarding the class enemies of the working class, can prevent future Sacco and Vanzetti cases. Away with the illusions of the cowardly petty-bourgeois socialists. On with a determined, unflinching struggle against capital- ist masters—the executioners of our martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti. % A Platform and a Slogan for Governor Fuller - The Murder Candidate By WILLIAM F. DUNNE Fae Minneapolis Tribune is another capitalist journal which breaks a lance against those who hold that Governor Fuller, mindful of the kudos which Cal acquired by getting credit for breaking the Boston police strike, decided to send Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair after Coolidge had stated that he did “not choose to run.” The Minneapolis organ of steel, railroad and flour milling capitalism brands such speculation as The Nation indulged inprecently “a vile and ghastly insinuation.” : wir all the righteous anger? Is it something now in the United States that capitalist politicians should try to ride into office with the support of the capitalist and middle classes grateful—for the crushing of a strike or the conviction of agitators and organizers of the work- ing class? T is of course a ghoulish business but does not the whole system rest on the ability and willing- ness of the capitalist class to squeeze the lifeblood from: the masses in mine, mill and factory—and in case of resistance to kill enough to make the rest quit? Fickert, the prosecutor of Tom Mooney was not too squeamish to make political capital out of his attempt to send Mooney to the gallows. ~ 12:20 A. M., AUG. 23, 1927. By WALTER SNOW. The clock ticks on And the electric lights are still burning, But the minutes that have slipped by so casually since midnight Have seen Sacco And Vanzetti Breathe as well as I do now And then, like madmen, be strapped into a thing of steel : And have the current that often lit their study books . ~ Run through their bodies . Making them cease to think of their op- pressed comrades, Unable to raise again their voices against tyrants And to even breathe Because the bankers, the judges and the priests so decreed. The clock ticks on © But, starting with this very morning, Thousands who have been asleep before Will awaken ORAH, the knight errant of middle class Ameri- canism, rose to fame and fortune by reason of his services to the metal mining magnates of the Coesur d’Alene in the prosecution of Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone. It was not his fault that the Working tiass saved them from the hangman. Senator Walsh of Montana was_ re-elected largely because of the votes bought and stolen for him by the copper trust as areward for his eloquent and patriotic justification of the murder of Frank Little. A’ least a dozen lackeys of the lumber trust in the state of: Washington stabilized their waver ing political fortunes by smearing themselves with the blood of Wesley Everest, tortured to death by a*white-collared mob in Centrafia. Was not the most famous utterance of Theodor- Roosevelt that statement in regard to the Haywood- Moyer-Pettibone caseby which he sought to pre- judice the nation against them: “Murder is murder?” HO: shall number ‘the horde of little minions of coal, oil, steel, shipping, who swept into public office on the wave of gratitude from the rulingclass aroused by the arrests, prosecutions and imprison- ment of the I. W. W. during and after the war? HO can count the miserable little tools of Wall Street and its subsidiaries who were allowed to dip their hands into the campaign fund of the two capitalist parties by reason of their part in the “red raids” of 1919-20 which caused directly and in- . directly the separation of families, unimaginable physical and mental deaths ? wi does the capitalist press rush to the defense of Governor Fuller? It is evident that he has right and justice on his side, that in allowing Sacco and Vanzetti to be murdered he acted on precedent hallowed and sanc- tified by the endorsement it has from the most eminent, ‘as well as the most humble, of American statesmen. e OVERNOR Fuller should quiet at once all tendency toward “vile and ghastly insinuation.” He should, in a statement marked by the quiet dignity which the issue warrants, announce himself as a candidate on a 100 per cent American ticket with its official insignia an electric chair rampant on the charred corpses of two foreign-born working- men and the motto: “In hoc signum vinces.” (By this gign we conquer.) HE higher the office he runs for the more sup- port he will get from the lords of finance and industry and his campaign documents, which should be signed by a bloody thumbprint, will make his signature known thruout the world. Developments in Nicaragua and China make it almost imperative that the next president of the United States should have served an apprenticeship in murder. But— No “vile and ghastly” insinuations. Let us stick to the simple and more horrible truth. suffering, and uncounted