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

Of the Unlsed States Of America
that burroi Nicola saeeo and Bae-
telomeo Vanssttl to death, In the
human slaughter house, one Of the
many torture chambers oe the
Chsslestown peniteat!asy ct 9es-
ton, Massachusetts,.
This Is the most important lesson
that the American working class
must learn a. the lifeless bodies Of
our comrades, Sacco and Vsnsetti,
SO courageous In life, go brave In
the face Of death, are removed from
the ebbatoir Of the New England
oligarchs Of great greed.
Learning this lesson to the full,
that the United States government
Of the blood-lusting owning class Is
the real assassin Of the two work
ers, Sacco and Vanzett!, the work
ing class Of this country must in
evitably develop its strength along
the right path, toward the defeat
Of that government and the aboli-
ton Of the social system for which
it stands.
American labor must stand
aghast at the ease and self-assur-
aace with which the murder crew
in Boston, the long-heralded center
of American culture" proceeded
with its bloody work.
This brief article will deal with
merely one effort,--the struggle of
the workers to break away from the
political domination Of the work
ing class, to turn their backs on
the republican and democratic par
ties, to develop their own indepen-
dent political action - thru the
Labor Party-and unite the forces
of the working class to battle the
ruling class forces guilty of the
assassination Of Sacco and Van
zetti.
Where is the worker who would
shake the assassin's hand of Rob
ert c. Elliott, the hideous-faced
executioner, who threw on the
powerful electric current that
roasted our comrades alive?
Yet the executioner, Elliott, was
merely the servant of the dominant
government, getting his $3.50 for
each murder that he committed.
1t was the capitalist state that paid
his Judas gold.
The same capitalist government
paid Elliott that pays the puny
human, Judge Webster Thayer, who
sentenced Sacco and Vanzetti to
death, no less the assassin and ex-
ecutioner as he sits, black gowned,
holding court at DedhalA, Massa-
chusetts.
The same capitalist government
that paid Elliott pays Governor
Alvan T. Fuller, the chief execu-
tive of Massachusetts, who spoke
the mo" of the American rul-
ing class in answer to the demands
of international labor that Sacco
and Vanzetti be freed, being limo
cent of the crime charged against
them.
This is the same capitalist gov
eminent that has carefully selected
alp its judges, both in the federal
and state courts in Massachusetts,
as well as its own United States
Supreme Court. Many lawyers
sought a loophole somewhere for
the two proletarians, Sacco, the
shoemaker, and Vanzetti, the fish
peddler. But they failed.
The murder crew stood solid. The
United States Supreme Court Jus
tees, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis
Dembitz Brandeis and Harlan Fiske
Stone, when appealed to, supported
Fuller and Thayer, and they were
in turn supported by William How
ard Taft, the Chief Justice himself,
who had new infamy heaped upon
his name because of the vicious
resistance he offered to the anti
child labor amendment to the fed
eral constitution, that threatens to
take children out of the mills of
New England and put them in
school.
At the very moment that world