The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
GREAT EFFORT
ONLY CAN Save
SACCO, VANZETTI
State Seeks to Upset
New Confession
BY ART SHIELDS, Federated Press.

BOSTON, (FP)-- Organized labor
has to work fast In the rescue Of Sac
co and VanzettI. The stage Is set for
early sentence Of electrocutIon. The
supreme court Of the state has twice,
In the last month, denied new trial
motions. And though a final motion
Is now pending for trial Judge Thayer
Of the superior court, on the basis Of
newly discovered evidence Of q sensa-
tIonal nature, the danger to the de-
PENDANTS Is Immediate.
New Confession.
The exact nature Of the new evil
: dence is a secret until further investi-
cations are made.
But it is Already common property
that Celestino Madeiros, awaiting the
death sentence for the Staying of a
Wrentham bank cashier, has signed a
confession that he and gang of pro
fessional hold-up men committed the
1920 South Braintree payroll murder
for which Sacco and Vanzetti were
convicted, and that the two italian
labor men had nothing to do with it.
Move Fast.
District Attorney Wilbar, announc-
ing that the Madeiros sentence was set
for June 10, said that the disposal of
Maderios would make 1t easier to dis
pose of the Sacco-Vanzetti case too.
His idea evidently is to get the ad-
mitted South Braintree murder out OF
the way SO that the frame-up of the
two innocent workingmen could be
consummated.
Still Use Fake.
Wilbar and the state police are tax
ing advantage of a mysterious explos-
ion that wrecked a house Of a man
named Samuel Johnson in West
Bridgewater, an hours ride from Bos-
ton.
They are slanderously saying that
the friends of Sacco and Vanzetd did
it though not a shadow Of evidence Is
brought forward TO sustain the charge
and in four days no move has been
made 10 arrest anyone connected with
the case.
Samuel Johnson was a brother-in-
law of Mrs Simon Johnson, who lives
several miles away, and who was .
minor witness for the state in the
Sacco-Vanzetti trial. The authorities
argue that defense agitators made,
mistake in the house.
Committee Strikes Back.
The Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit
tee vehemently repudiated the libel
and struck back at the police for ex-
citing prejudice SO basely at such a
critical moment
But Wilbar reepats: II believe that
the sooner the death penalty is ex-
acted in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the
sooner the agitation we have seen will
be abandoned.
'If the electrocution took place be-
fore, as it should have. we could have
escaped such outrages as this West
Bridgewater occurrence"
Charge Made of Thin Air.
Whether the explosion in the John
son home was the act of an agent
provocateur or was caused by a priv
ate enemy is mystery. But the &C
cusation that the friends Of Sacco and
Vanzetti were responsible was taken
out of thin air.
1t was made the morning OF the ex-
plosion before any investigation. A
discharged employee Of johnson was
questioned by police because Of al
legged threatening remarks and be-
cause he was supposed TO have kept
dynamite in his shack but the man
was released on an abb.
A farm boy who gave the writer a
ride in his fivver TO the scene of the
explosion said: Yes, they say Sacco
did it; this woman was against him
and he lived next door,"
All OF which was utterly wrong, but
the boy had been reading newspaper
headlines. Even the greatest editor"
Arthur Brisbane. in commenting in his
column said definitely that friends of
Sacco and vanzetti had planted the
bomb and in the home OF a witnessi
Union Labor Behind Them.
But union men see through this. A
union taxi driver said to me-:
They've been trying for six years 10
get Sacco and Vanzetti. This is the
latest" Union labor has declared for
new trial for sacco and vanzetti.
Both the Massachusetts Federation
OF Labor and the A. f. OF L. have gone
on record In strenuous resolutions.
But the sands Of their case is running
out; the frame-up is almost consum.
mated. It is time for labor to speak
out even more aggressively to save
these victimized members OF it, own
class.