The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-30
$4,000 WORKERS
HONOR SACCO AND
.VANzETTI IN N. Y.
Speakers Cite Loyalty
to Working Class
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clouds. She remained for a short
time and then was taken to the Hotel
McAlpin, while the other members Of
the party stayed to accompany the
memorial urn to Stuyvesant Casino.
This impressive memorial which is
surmounted by clenched fist bears
in red letters the inscription "Sacco-
Vanzetti, Martyred by American
Plutocracy, August %, 1927"
Honor Dead Workers.
Following Mrs, Sacco's departure,
the speakers representing various par
ticipating organizations paid their re-
spects to the two dead workers, and
pledged the support of the workers
to the task of keeping their memory
always alive. In addition to H. s, Van
Valkinburgh, W. W. Weinstone and
Rose Pesotta, Ben Gitlow, represent
ing the Workers (Communist) Party
spoke, and also Carlo Tresca, William
l.. Patterson of the Negro Labor Con-
gress, Benjamin H. Fletcher of the
l, w w, L. Frisina, James P Cannon
of the International Labor Defense,
Pat Devine, Rebecca Grecht and
Powers Hapgood.
Defense Committee Breaks Promise.
AS the workers began gathering in
Union Square to pay their last tri-
butte to the remains of their martyred
brothers, Sacco and. Vanzetti, word
reached those in charge OF the mem
orial meeting that the party from
Boston has missed the scheduled train
and would reach New York an hour
late. With this came the news by
. press wire from Boston that the
ashes of the two workers were not
accompanying the party, due to
last minute controversy with the Bos-
ton Defense Committee.
This act on the part of the Boston
committee was a deliberate repudia-
ton of all their promises and ar
rangements completed early last
week. The committee had provided
Mrs. Clarina Nicholson with written
credentials, and had authorized her
as member of the Sacco-V anzetti
Memorial Committee of Boston to
come to New York and prepare the
memorial reception for the ashes.
With the Memorial Committee, the
Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Commit
tee, the International Sacco- Vanzetti
Committee and large numbers of
labor and fraternal organizatio
thruout the city fully cooperated. ,rf
Socialists Sabotage.
The only exception to this was The
socialist party which did what it
could to sabotage the meeting, being
determined-like certain members of
the Boston Defense Committeeman
this should not be a mass memorial
for Sacco and Vanzetti.
However, plans were completed for
the workers to gather by thousands;
and in spite Of the Boston Commit
tees betrayal, the workers honored
the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti in
demonstration that made observers
confident that the two martyred
workers viii never die tlowers-red
roses, asters, carnations-sent by
labor and fraternal organizations
thruout the city began arriving long
before 5 o'clock and were placed
around the platform and banked on
the sides.
Stands Draped.
Red and black draped the stand
and surrounded two large pictures of
Sacco and Vanzetti which hung in
full view of the crowd. In the center
back ofsthese portraits the memorial
urn was set when it arrived and it's
surmounting clenched fist rose high
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symbol Of the threat which the or
ganized workers make against the
forces which killed their comrades.
Mrs. Rose Sacco Arrives.
In the delegation from Boston
came Mrs. Rose Sacco, Aldino Fell
cani of the Defense Committee, Mrs.
Ella Reeve Bloor Mrs. Jessica Hen
lderson of the Citizens National Com
mittee, Powers Hapgood, and w. H.
Van Valkenburgh Of the information
al Sacco-V anzetti Committee who en-
deavored to force last-minute des-
patch of the ashes as had been pro-
Jmised. This delegation had to con-
tent itself with bringing the two
death masks of Sacco and Vanzetti
which are now on view at Stuyvesant
Casino beside the memorial urn which
was designed by Adolf Wolff to cover
the ashes.
Police on Hand.
K. Promptly at three o'clock the first
police contingent arrived at Union
Square, looking for trouble, together
with the first band of newspaper
photographers. A small squad of
mounted police was on hand too keep
ing the square free for the four or
five hundred which arrived at four
o'clock. They were lined up for roll
call, and were soon reinforced by
more mounted police, armored cars
and motorcycle squads with dozens
og gold badges and STAYS and white
caps, and automatics prominently
displayed on hips.