The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-31
Labor's Inactivity Ally
of Employer Vengeance
on Sacco and Vanzetti
BY j. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

"That Captain Harry Proctor
(then head Of the state police) had
informed the district attorney the
crime was committed by profession
al criminals and that in his opinion
Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent"
The professional criminals"
mentioned, the court was advised,
we're members of the infamous Mo
relli gang Of Providence, Rhode
Island.
These facts are sufficient in them
selves to reveal the real nature of
the frame-up against Saceo and
Vanzetti that has the approval of
the Coolidge regime in Washing
ton in that the capitalist govern
ment refuses, thru It's attorney-gen-
eral, John Garibaldi Sargent, to re-
veal the contents of files Of the
department of justice containing
all the facts damning this case as
one OF the worst frame-ups in the
whole history of the employers
war aginst the working class.
have never seen Judge Otto A.
Rosalsky, who has just sentenced
nearly a score Of garment strikers
to Jail and prison. But l imagine
he is the same type Of employers
judicial lackey as Judge Thayer up
at Dedham, Massachusetts,. Rosal-
sky does the dirty work of clothing
bosses, while Thayer is the lick
spittle Of the shoe and textile
barons, both just as servile and
Shiny. There is no doubt that
there are Rosalskys on the Mass
achusetts supreme court bench.
They wouldn't be there if they were
not the obedient creatures of the
master class.
1t is claimed that this offal Of
humanity, clothed with the author
ity Of the capitalist law, has So
called "code of honor" Attorney
Thompson, in reviewing the nature
Of the framc-up, advised the Mas
saehusetts high court that:
"The canon Of the American Bar
Association is plain on this point.
1t reads, THE primary duty of
lawyer engaged in public prosecu-
ton is not to convict, bat to see
that justice is done. SURPRISING
facts or secrcting evidence which
might be Of assistance to the ac-
cused is highly reprehensible.'
But that is evidently intended
merely for consumption by the gull
lible. 1t doesn't apply to workers,
whether they appear before Thay-
er, in Massachusetts,, the unspeaG-
able Rosalsky, in New York, or the
infamous Donnie Sullivan, in Chi
cage. For workers there is only
one question on the lips of the capt.
talist courts and that is, "How can
they be railroaded the quickest and
easiest to Jail, to prison or the
death chair?"
Assistant District Attorney bud
ley P. Ranney, who seeks the lives
of Sacco and Nanzetti, declares that
use of underhand methods by the
police are necessary and justifiable
"as one way Of disposing Of radi-
Gals who they could not deport."
There speaks the capitalist Gus
tice, chat is seeking to murder our
two comrades.
When the working class begins
to realize this condition under the
capitalist system, then there will
be hope for Sacco and Vansetti,
thru the aroused mass protest Of
labor, and for the prisoners of the
class war here in New York and in
other sections of the country. II
It is not aroused In time Sacco and
Vanzetti will die, the victims alike
Of working class inactivity as well
as ruling class determination to rid
itself, oven by judicial murder, Of
it's most courageous foes.