The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-15
.SACCO, VANZETTI
DENIED RETRIAL
and FACE Death
Onlythe Workers Mass
Protest Can Save Them
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BOSTON, May 13-conVlcted in 1920
for the alleged murder of a shoe COM
pany paymaster, Frederick A. Par
menter and Allesandro BanadelIi, his
guard, and the robbery Of the pay roll,
Nicola Saceo and Bartholomew Van
zetti, two italian workers have now
been brot one step closer to the cleo
trio chair by the ruling Of the supreme
court Of Massachusetts which has
just refused to grant them new trial.
For six years the progressives, lib
erals, and the organized labor move
ment has carried on an incessant cam
paign Of protest and defense Of the
two convicted men in a desperate at
tempt to save them from execution on
charges which were obviously the re-
suit Of conspiracy against the two
workers who had spent the greater
part of their lives in the work of de-
Tending the interests Of workers and
the labor movement.
RaIIroaded.
1t was shown that at the trial the
burden of the prosecutions song was
not so much the declaration that the
two men had been murdered by Sacco
and Vanzetti, since 1t was proved
among other points, that the bullets
found did not at all coincide with
the bullets in the revolver which was
owned by Vanzetti, the prosecution
instead, played upon the prejudices of
the court and jury by harping on the
fact that both Sacco and Vanzetti
were radicals, anarchists" and for
eigners. At the height of the postwar
hysteria they were convicted.
The treatment accorded the prison.
ers, pending their appeal. has been
such that they have at various times
had to be confined to hospital prisons
or an insane asylum.
World Interest.
Their case aroused not only inter
est in the United States but thruout
the world. In every corner of the
world labor demonstrations were held
protesting the Imprisonment and
frame-up. Labor papers everywhere
took up their cause. Anatole France,
the late dean of French letters known
to the world Of culture, sent special
appeal to the American people to pre-
vent the legal execution of these two
barely known Italian workers. Thru
out Europe resolutions were adopted
by tens of thousands of organizations
expressing solidarity with the defense.
Great Protest In U. S.
In America, hardly a man in public
life with the slightest liberal inclina-
tions but protested the arrests, the
Imprisonment and the planned kill
ing. Literally hundreds of newspa-
pers, journals, and periodicals. of all
kinds expressed their opinion on the
case in manner favorable to the de-
Tense. But not that, nor the repeated
exposures of the testimony and even
the witnsss of the prosecution, has
prevented the action of the supreme
court.
Workers Only Hope.
One hope only is now left to these
two men who have borne up so brave
ly during the fight for their freedom.
1t is the development of a tremen-
dous movement of protest and solidar-
ity and demonstration which may lead
to preventing the authorities from
carrying out their intention to lead
Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric
chair.
International Labor Defense has
already issued a statement in which
it reiterates its uncompromising soh-
darity with the two workers and
urges a mass protest movement. Ac.
cording to reports, pardon by the gov
ernor of Massachusetts, alone can set
Sacco and Vanzetti free.
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