The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-25
Strengthen the Unions for
New Struggles with the
Sacco- Vanzetti Slayers
BY j. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

sets were among those most in
sistent that "Sacco and Vanzetti
Must Die!"
The Monthly Labor Review,
August, 1927, issued by the United
States Department Of Labor, under
the direction of it's secretary, James
J. Davis, confesses in its review of
Employment in Selected Manufac-
turing Industries in June, 1927"
that:
Employment in manufacturing
industries decreased or per cent in
June as compared with May, and
payroll totals decreased "a per
cent. This is the third successive
month of decreased employment.
Employment in June, 1927. was
"a per cent lower than in June,
1926, and payroll totals were 90
per cent lower"
On Page 1877 Of the same report
we find this statement:
"The following groups of indus
tries were much less favorably
placed as to employment in June,
1917, than in June, 1925: iron and
steel; lumber; stone, clay and glass;
metal, other than steel; and vehicle.
Each of the separate industries
making up these groups has sus-
tanned noticeable losses in employ
ment."
Almost daily the capitalist press
is forced to admit that the number
of poorest workers forced to seek
aid from the various professional
charities is rapidly increasing.
Among these are to be found an
ever larger number of disabled war
veterans and their families, unable
to keep alive with the doles pro-
vided by the government that per-
mitted the parasite few to take
billions in war profits, while it
fought for years against giving the
smallest bonus to the cannon fodder
prepared for the murder feast.
The New York Times. on Tues
day, August %, the morning that
capitalist greed took the lives of
Sacco and Vanzetti, gravely dis
cussed in it's editorial columns the
statement of United States Senator
Reed Smoot, in Washington, that
1T is unreasonable to assume that
prosperity is going TO last forever"
Senator Smoot comes from Utah,
the state that ordered out a firing
squad in 1915 to pierce with bull
let's the heart and brain of Joe Hill,
the writer of revolutionary songs.
The workers are still singing, in
increasing numbers, the songs of
Joe Hill, just as their enemy, Sen
ator Smoot, continues to sing the
song of greater profits for the cap
italist class.
Senator Srnoot urges that taxes
be lowered so that profits may be
increased. Nowhere does he urge
that the wages of the workers be
increased so that they might save
few pennies against the day when
the plague of industrial depression
will again sweep the land
The murder of Sacco and Vanzeti
by the capitalist rulers must there
fore act as storm signal for all
workers. 1t is a signal of sharper
struggles ahead
There is no better way for the
workers to prepare for these on
coming days of industrial storm
than to strengthen their trade
unions thru the adoption and carry
ing into effect of militant pro
grams, the placing of loyal class
leaders at the heads of the various
organizations. the bringing in of
vast hosts of new members until
it may truly be said that the in
dustry is 100 per cent organized;
the amalgamation of the many
small craft unions into huge indus
trial unions, and the linking up Of
the economic organizations the
trade unions - in the developing
drive for the Labor Party.
The capitalist assassins prepare.
Labor must also prepare. Other
wise there will be many more Sac
co-Vanzetti cases. Otherwise labor
will face growing oppression.