The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-17
Labor Must Expose the
Capitalist Government
AS Murderer of Workers
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TWO former agents OF the depart
4 ment of justice have admitted,
in affidayits read at the reopening
of hearings demanding a new trial
for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti, that our two comrades
were deliberately framed" by the
powerful United States government
that wanted to get rid Of them.
This is what The DAILY WORK
Err has always charged. Without
ceasing The DAILY WORKER has
Numbered that Sacco and vanzetti
are innocent Of the murder commit.
ted IN the South Braintree, Mass
payroll robbery, April Is, 1920, more
than six years ago. The actual muir
derers have been revealed as mem
bers of the Morelli gang of Provi-
dence, r. l., thru the admissions Of
one Of the gangsters, Celestino Ma
deiros, now facing a death sentence
for another crime.
The two ex-agehts Of the depart.
ment of Justice, Lawrence tether-
man and Fred ], Weyland, now con-
fess that Sacco and Vanzetti were
being railroaded to the electric chair
as "one way of disposing of them"
The frame-up job was merely part of
red-baiting drive of President Wood
row Wilson'S Attorney General, A.
Mitchell Palmer with THE AP-
PRovAL OF THE DEPARTMENT
IN WASHINGTON, TO WHICH
FULL REPORTS WE'RE MADE"
In Lethermans own words:
ait was the opinion Of the depart
ment of justice agents here (5oston)
that a conviction Of Saoco and Van
zetti for murder would be one way
of dlsposing of them"
Let those words scar themselves
into the minds of every worker in
America. They reveal, better than
many volumes, the real nature of the
employing class tyranny that has
reared a government in Washington
to keep labor in slavery.
In attacking the spokesman Of la
Dor the government has two alter
natives. It can either bring them to
trial for the principles that they
espouse or it can frame them up on
some fraudulent criminal charge.
The government fears the former.
1t results in court clash over vital
principles as in the Michigan cases
growing out of the raids on the
Communist Party convention at
Bridgeman. Communist principles
gain hearing before broad masses
of workers. Then no death penalty
has as yet been fixed for those
espousing the cause of the social re-
volution in this country.
The government, therefore, pre-
fers the frame-up, in the case of
Mooney and Billings, in the case of
Sacco and Vanzetti, and in many
other similar cases that dot the
pages of American labor history
The tactics of the Pinkerton and
Burns Detective Agencies, become
the tactics of the United States gov
eminent. altho William ]. Burns did
not get into the department Of
justice until the democrat, Palmer,
had been succeeded by the notorious
Harry M. Daugherty, now on trial
for collecting graft totalling SAL 900
out of a deal to return alien pro-
perty in his custody valued at ST.
100000 to it's German owners.
Murder is the popular frame-up
charge. 1t is legalized lynching.
Thus Joe Hill was put to death by
the government in Utah. II was a
lynching bee as much as the murder
of Frank Little. slain by mob dur.
ing the war. Only the Voice Of labor
has so far halted the legal lynching
Of Mooney and Billings, Sacco and
Vanzetti. The attacks on Sacco and
Vanzetti was cold-blooded and de-
liberate. The ex-agent, Letherman,
in the employ of the detective serv-
ice of the government for 39 years.
mainly in the post Office department,
further states:
at. was the general opinion Of
such Of the agents as had actual
knowledge Of the saeeo-vanzettI
case that saceo and vanzettI. .
were not highway robbers and had
nothing to do with the South Brain
tree job"
The Wilson-Palmer department of
justice had ~ men on the jobbing Of
Sacco and Vanzetti, carefully pre-
pairing the frame-up in order to
make II alright. Some Of these