The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-09-16

connected with every real and i'm
agined outrage on the calendar, in
Guiding such as occurred while they
were in Jail.
No reasons for these damaging
allegations are given except a
casual reference to confession"
by Ella. That confession, if it
exists, has never been made the
basis of arrests. If it is of such
serious nature that it explains
many atrocious crimes, then it is
extremely strange that the authori-
ties should have shipped it's author
to Italy instead of holding him
for prosecution or as a witness
an affidavit before his departure,
in which he gives blood-curdling de-
tails of the treatment to which he
and Salsedo were subjected.
Many persons in no wise con-
nected with the defense and wholly
out of sympathy with the social
views of Sacco and Vanzetti have
protested against these attacks.
AS the case will soon be brought
before the higher courts, irrespon-
sible accusations can only serve to
create a hate-charged atmosphere
in which a fair decision will be
impossible.
Growing Indignation
Further reports on the growing
indignation against the verdict in
Italy have arrived in a cable to
al Progresso," an Italian daily in
New York, from it's correspondent
in Rome. The case was discussed
on the floor of the Chamber of
Deputies, the new Prime Minister,
Signore Bonomi, taking part.
The Premier stated in reply to
an inquiry by Deputies Vella and
Graziadei that his Governments
Embassy in Washington as we'll as
the Consulate in Boston had been
instructed to give full support to
the defense of the two Italian cit
liens on trial for their lives. These
Deputies, when interviewed, assert
ed that they thought the conviction
unwarranted by the evidence and
that the question would be brought
into Parliament again.
Opinions on Verdict
Editorial in The Boston Ameri-
can, August Is: "The evidence as
it appears from the stenographers'
notes is most unconvincing to US
and we are informed that nearly
all the newspaper reporters from the
Boston papers who covered this
trial agree that the verdict of
guilty was not justified"
HnnkinS National Chair
man of the Committee of 4S, in
letter to the press: "The convic-
ton of the labor organizers Sacco
and Vanzetti of the murder of the
paymaster and guard employed by
the Slater and Morrill, Shoe Com
pany at South Braintree, Mass,
on April Is, 1920, brings before the
public in striking form the danger
of circumstantial evidence and the
brutality of our capital punishment
laws. No one, of course, except
Sacco and Vanzetti themselves
knows whether they are guilty or
not. They have both protested
their innocence earnestly and APP
parently sincerely. The evidence
against them is entirely of a cir
stantial nature, and in many re-
spects of the flimsest character"
Alexander Howat, President, Dis
trict IA, United Mine Workers of
America, Kansas, in a letter to the
Denfense Committee, August s.:
GAS | have said on more than one
occasion, after hearing different
statements in connection with the
case of Brothers Sacco and Van
zetti, am fully convinced beyond
any question of doubt that they are
absolutely innocent of the crime
which they are charged with, and
want them to know that | believe
in them, and my good wishes are
with them"