The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-17

were uuu6rcOVer. On6 was plauC-
ed" In a cell beside Sacco in the
hope OF entrapping him into confess
sions. Others served on Sacco-Van-
| zetti committees, one as a collector.
An effort was made to place another
in the home Of Mrs. Sacco. So care
fully and deliberately does the gov
eminent plot its attack on the adj
vance section of the working class.
The Wilson Palmer democratic adj
ministration was succeeded by the
Harding -Daugherty republican re-
gime that in turn gave way to Coo
lidgessargent rule, also republican,
in the department of justice. The
last, however, is just as guilty as
the other two. The frame-up is not
Characteristic Of any single admins
tration. 1t is an established weapon
of the capitalist tyranny.
Attorney William G. Thompson,
for Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that
he wrote to Attorney-General Sar-
gent demanding that the records of
the Boston Office be opened as a
matter of Justice where two human
lives are at stake. Yet Thompson
declares that not only has the at
torney-general failed to answer his
letter, but that Inspector Dowd, in
charge in Boston now, has refused
help giving as his reason unwilling
Ia
derers were never more cold blood
ed.
Thus Cal Coolidge, president of
the United States, stands revealed
as one of the executioners seeking
to strap Sacco and Vanzetti in the
electric chair, instrument of the cap
italist assassins in Massachusetts.
| Coolidge, thru hts close contact with
the department of justice, dominated
by his own appointee Sargent, and
errand boy as he is of the textile
and shoe barons of New England,
must have known the facts about
the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti.
He must have known the truth when
he was visited by william Green,
| president, and the rest of the Of
| fcialdom of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, at his summer retreat
in New York's northern woods. All
the greater the crime of Green, Vol,
Ryan, Duncan and the rest who
shook hands with a would-be muir
derer of courageous workers.
With the fake charges against
Sacco and Vanzetti thus blasted, it
is we'll to study their actual crime
against Americas ruling class. They
still sit in the Massachusetts death
house actually because they took up
the cause of fellow worker, Andrea
Salsedo, seized for deportation and
held by the department of justice on
an upper floor on one of those high
skyscrapers that canyon Park Row,
in New York City. Salsedo was held
prisoner for months. Efforts to
secure his release were futile. One
day in early 1920 his body came
hurting thru space, from the open
window Of the department of justice
Offices. 1t was crushed lifeless
against the pavement in the street
below. The inference is that the de-
partment of justice agents, failing
to get Salsedo to confess to any of
the numerous blasts that were TAX
ing place at this time, like the Wall
Street explosion and the Chicago
post ONCE disaster, had thrown him
from the window knowing that GER
tain death waited below to silence
Salsedo forever.
1t is charged that this is the meth
cd used to dispose of" Salsedo in
New York City, just as the electric
chair was to be used ito dispose Of
Sacco ard Vanzetti in Massachusetts.
The workers must now put the
United States government on trial,
Sacco and Vanzetti have not been
murdered. But Salsedo was slain in
cold blood. The murderers can be
found. The whole American working
class must be aroused in this new
effort.
A new phase of the Sacco-Vanzetti
case opens. Labor has been too much
on the defensive, struggling valiant
ly, to be sure, to save the lives Of
our two comrades in prison. Labor
must now enter upon an offensive
challenging the would-be murderer
in the Sacco.Vanzetti case, the ac-
tual murderer In the salsedo case,
challenging the United States cap