The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-27

To those not actually taking part in the swift
moving chain of events revolving around the burn
ing of Sacco and Vanzetti. it would be difficult to
comprehend and correctly analyze the complete sig
nficance of the distorted and halftold stories which
were blazoned in huge headlines in the capitalist
press thru the nation.
The kept press of Boston with few exceptions has
gone out of it's way since Gov Fuller white-washed
Thayer & Co.. to whet the appetites of its readers
for the approaching execution by placing side by
side pictures of the martyred workers and pictures
Of Jurors house which ''mysteriously" bombed
last week.
their job being to vigorously suppress every voice,
be it meek that raised in protest against
the carrying out of the last act in this tragic hoo
caust.
was one of group that comprised the second
platoon of pickets in front of the State House. The
sidewalk was literally swarmed with police both in
harness" and civilian clothes, while mounted police
rode leisurey up and down the street Hordes of
newspaper reporters and camera men made traffic
difficult and the crowd which filled the northwest
corner of Boston Common rapidly growing in
size and forced back to the center of the Com
mon by the police repeatedly.
Our picket line given the usual order to dis
perse but being firm in the conviction that were
exercising rights of peaceful persuasion as
guaranteed by law, continued to along the
curbing in orderly, determined manner holding
placards high.
detail of reserves swung around the corner
and were loudly applauded by a group of legion
naires, just leaving the State House after going
thru some form of ceremonial hocus- pocus. and in
a few seconds pounced upon and rushed
against stone wall. The police ordered by
their superiors to take good look at these people,
you will know them when you them again"
which followed by the grand march" to the
JOY Street Station. Several times during the long
walk to the jail cheered and applauded by
sympathetic workers and liberals from Beacon Hill
The noble blue-coat who escorted was of
questioning turn of mind. He inquired if I believed
in god and on receiving in the negative
burst out: That's what the trouble is with all you
people, no respect for gods laws and no respect
for courts" He suggested that should read Pope
Pious Encyclical and learn something. l agreed on
condition that he familiarze himself with the writ
ings of Marx and Engels as believed as two men,
bers of the wage-earning class we should share
our literary views.
Once lined up in the station house we were search
ed and booked and I was relieved of my copy of
The DAILY WORKER by an understrapper who
barked out that papers like that don't belong in
THIS country" While being assigned to our cells
we were given a rousing welcome by our fellow
workers of the first picket line Some one raised
his voice to the tune of Solidarity Forever" and all
hands responded with vigor that made our filthy
old ce-rooms ring Meanwhile the women, par
tcuarly those comrades of foreign birth, were
herded in the guard-room where they were forced
to put up with all sorts of insults and indignites
from the cops. These girls not to be bested
however, and when asked by the "brave officers"
when they were going back to "Rooshia" they were
quick to reply 'When is the Boston police force
going back to Ireland?"
More and pckets were brot in, each new