The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-28
press Service OF International Labor psfenssl

NFreSs service OF international Labor Detense)
THE supreme court of Massachusetts, has spoken
at last and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola
Sacco two of the bravest and best scouts thatever
served the labor movement, must 60 to the electric
chair.
The decision of this capitalist judicial tribunal
is not surprising. 1t accords perfectly with the
tragcal farce and the farcial tragedy of the entire
trial of these two absolutely innocent and shame
fully prosecuted working men.
The evidence at the trial in which they we're
charged with a murder they had no more to do
with committing than had, would have convicted
one but foreign labor agitator" in the hydro
phobic madness of the world war. In any other
case the perjured and iagranty made-to-ofder
testimony, repeatedly exposed and well known. to
the court, would have resulted in instantaneous
acquittal Not even a sheep-killing dog but only
"vicious foregnradical" could have been convicted
under such shameless evidence
Sacco and Vanzett were framed and doomed
from the start Not all the testimony that could
have been piled up to establish their innocence
beyond question of doubt could have saved them
in that court. The trial judge was set and inn
movable. There must be conviction. 1t was so
ordained by the capitalist powers that be, and it
had to come. And there must be no new trial
granted lest the satanic perjury of the testimony
and the utter rottenness of the proceedings appear
too VIGOROUSLY rank and revolving in spite Of the
conspiracy of the press to keep the public in gnor
ance of the disgraceful and damning facts
Aside from the disgustingly farcial nature Of
the trial which could and should have ended in
fifteen minutes in that master-class court the
refined malice and barbaric cruelty of these cap
italist tribunals, high and low may be read in the
insufferable torture inflicted thru six long ageil
izing years upon their imprisoned and helpless.
victims.
1t would have been merciful 70 the last detee
in comparison had they been boiled in oil burned
at the stake, or had every joint torn from their
bodies on the wheel when they were first seized
as prey to glut the vengeance of slave drivers who
wax fat and savage in child labor and who never
forgive an 'agitator" who is too rgidly honestito
be bribed, too courageous to be intmidated and
too defiant to be suppressed.
And that is precisely why the milIowning. labor
sweating malefactors of Massachusetts had Saeco
and Vanzetti framed, pounced upon thrown into
a dungeon and sentenced to be murdered by their
judicial and other official underlings
appeal to the lcorking men and aoomen of
America to Hink Of these ttoo loyal comrades,
these t,oo honest cIean-hearted brothers of ours,
IN this fatefM hour in aOhich then stand face to
face aoith their bitter and ignominious doom.
The capitalist courts of Massachusetts have had
them on the rack day and night devouring the flesh
of their bodies and torturing their souls for six
long years to finally deal the last vicious. heart
less blow, aimed to send them to their graves as
red-handed felons and murderers
Would that it were in my power to make that
trial judge and those cold-blooded gowns in the
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