The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-24
Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered

party thus did their share in forming the screen
behind which capt. lIist justice worked swiftly
and surely. With such leadership the working
class would have many days Of mourning"
IT is necessary to draw the lessons from the
tragedy which as befalIen us.
The workers mu understand that when the
arm-straps and lef irons of the electric chair
are taken loose fl I'M the dead bodies CT our
brothers. Sacco ard Vanzetti-THE ATTACK
UPON THE WORT ING CLASS is NOT END
Ed We must unt erstand that this is but the
beginning of nev intensification of the big
offensive of capita against labor. The Ameri
can capitalist class feels itself powerful beyond
all precedent; thev proceed with the murder
confident that the working class will offer LITTLE
resistance; the res istance insufficient though
it was) stirs the capitalist class and all its
agencies to even m ore efforts to suppress work,
ing class organizat ons. The workers must ex
pect more attacks Upon their trade unions, and
especially upon the most militant sections OF
their class. 1t is necessary to red0uble every
energy R0w to strengthen the whole working
class front
NE William Green sort of leadership in the
trade unions W ill be driven to repeat in ever
worse form their actions as protectors of the
capitalist institute MS, during the growing Of
fensive and the cor sequent sharpening of strug-
GLE The workers must learn from the role
played by the trade union bureaucrats in the
Sacco-V anzetti cas- e-must learn that only by
the energetic buiIf ing of the left wing in the
trade unions, toge Their with. the building and
Strengthening of tie tradeFunions inside OF the
A. F. of L. and alst the independent unions, and
by throwing off the leadership Of trade union
bureaucrats who aTe agents of captal-only by
this means and by taking up the militant strug-
gle Of the workers organizations against the
capitalists, the effectively defend our class
the class for which Sacco and Yanzetti fought
and died.
The workers mat learn from the part played
by the socialist party, that that party is only
another one of the agencies which confuse and
blind the working class in the interest of the
capitalist class, viding and misleading the
workers in the holr of crisis when only unity
and militant action under courageous leadership
can be effective.
= ROM the way ir which this case was handled
l. by the ''respC ctable liberals who gained
control Of the direction of &he Sacco-V anzetti
defense committee thru the consistently con-
fused and indivit ualistic policies of certain
workers enjoying he confidence of Sacco and
Vanzetti-the wOrl-ers must learn not to adopt
the methods or ne leadership of the petty
bourgeois defenders of capitalism, when they
are engaged in a life-and-death struggle with
capitalist hangmer. The workers must learn
the bitter lesson th At it is not by the individual
istic methods of tn anarchists, nor by the only
Slightly different respectable" methods Of the
liberal reformers, that the great mass move
ments can be set il motion which can save the
lives of our class artyrs and win it's battles.
The workers MI st learn to distrust and to
hate the courts o the capitalist government
and to rely upon heir own organized working
class strength outs de of and opposed TO the in
stitutiOns OF the capitalist state. Only the or
ganized mass power of our class can win con-
cessiCRs from the ruling class as a by-product
of class struggle, aud only this same organized
mass power win he ultimate victory of our
class Of which Sacco and Vanzetd dreamed, and
or which they dice. III