The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-26
SACCO-vANzETTI
MASS MEETING
IN many CITIES
Workers Hold Protest
Demonstrations Mich. /

!
zetti must not die" is the cry Of the
militant workers thruout the world.
On March I, protest meetings are be-
ing held in all cities of the country.
The !. w. W., the Sacco-Vanzettl de-
Tense committee, and other working
class bodies are making common
cause with the Workers (communist)
Party in a nationwide protest against
the continued imprisonment of Sacco
and Vanzetti as punishment for their
activity in leading the oppressed
workers of the textile industries in
Massachusetts,.
1t has been shown over and over
again that Sacco and Vanzetti were
condemned to death by capitalist
Judge on framed up charge of muir
der, and with the use of perjured tes-
timony.
Chaplin at Chicago Nicer.
In Chicago on March 1, Ralph Chap
lin, the well-known poet and member
of the l. w. W., Jack tombstone, Sec
rotary of the Trade Union Educational
League, and Antonio Pressi, editor of
the Italian Communist paper, II Lavo-
ratore, will speak at a mass meeting
in Emmett Memorial Hall, Taylor and
Ogden streets, at 2:30 p. m. The
meeting has been arranged by the Chi
cago local of the Workers Party.
The Central Opera House in New
York has been engaged for the Sacco-
Vanzetti protest mass meeting to be
held at p. M, March 1. The speak
ers will include Frank Bellanca of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Pro
lessor Felice Guadagni of Boston,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Moissaye g.
Olgin, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz. The
New York meeting will be held under
the auspices of the Sacco-Vanzetti- des
Tense committee, Italian locals of the,
needle trades unions, and the Work.
ers (Communist) Party. m v~
A conference called by the Work
ers Party of Worcester, Massachu-
sets, was held on Friday night in
the Day building to rally the work,
ers to the defense of Sacco and Van
zetti. Thirty-five delegates represent
ing twenty organizations went on re-
cord demanding the release of the two
class war prisoners and pledging the
support of their respective organiza-
tions.
The conference took the name of
the "Sacco-Vanzetti defense confer
ence of Worcester" affiliated with the
Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee of
Boston. The executive committee of
the local conference consists of Evald
Anderson, Joseph Ginsberg, ]. John
son, II. Sidney Bloomfield, Arne Halo
men, Harry Epstein, David Kaufman,
Gunhilde Helle, and Guiseppi Paggilli.
Local unions and Italian organiza-
tions will be enlisted in the campaign.
Worcester is the home town of Judge
Webster Thayer, who presided at the
trial and sentenced Sacco and Vanzet-
ii after hearing the framed up evil
dence.
The Labor Defense and Free Speech
council of western Pennsylvania is
conducting the Sacco-yanzetti meet
ing in Pittsburgh, Pa, in the Labor
Lyceum, 80 Miller St., March 1, at 2
p. m, The workers of the steel and
coal center will protest against the
capitalist frame up against the two
labor leaders. Arturo Giovannitti
will be the principal speaker. Let
us save Sacco and .Vanzetti from the
capitalist hangmen" will be the slogan
of this meeting. .y
A big parade viii be held in Bos-
ton, followed by a mass meeting in
Fanueil Hall -.
Ettor Speaks In Detroit.
Joseph Ettor. who himself faced the
electric chair for. his activity as an
organizer in, the great Lawrence tex
tile workers strike will speak at the
Detroit Sacco7yanzetti mass meeting
on March /. ~
The Connecticut district OF the
Workers (Communist) Party, in CO.
operation with the Sacco-vanzetti de-
Tense committee, Is also holding meet
ings in Bridgeport, Hartford, SIAM
ford and Waterbury on March 1.
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