The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-01
GRANTING is GIVEN
BITTER TASTE OF
DEMOCRACY HERE
Denied Hall in Boston
for Sacco Speech

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BOSTON, Mass, May 31.-George
Granting, noted Swedish attorney, is
today beginning his work Of gather
ing first-hand information about the
Sacco-Vanzetti case. It is for this
I purpose that he has been sent to
America by his countrymen who are
vitality interested in the fate of these
two Italian radical workers.
Members of the local Swedish
colony, and friends Of Sacco and Van
zetti yesterday outwitted the Boston
authorities who refused to grant
permit for a parade, or for a meet
ing in Faneuil Hall or at the Park
man bandstand to welcome Branting.
They gathered 1900 strong, at the
railroad station when he arrived and
walked with him" to Boston Com
mon where they held an open air
meeting under a permit which had
been granted to another organization.
Any sort of permit had been denied
to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com
mittee.
In his brief speech on the Common,
Branting stated that he had been sent
from Sweden "to make quite i'm
partial study of the Sacco-Vanzetti
case and to give fair report This
step is dictated of an earnest interest,
an interest common to all countries.
l assume it can be understood now
here as an inconvenient curiosity.
America gives an example to the
world and therefore a widespread at
tention on her actions is natural"
Committee Hits Fuller.
Official opposition to permitting
the welcome planned for Branting
comes Immediately following the pro-
tests Of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense
Committee to Governor Fuller be-
cause of the way in which he is con-
Quoting his investigation of the case
Of these two workers. In a second
letter of the committee to the gov
ernor, which was made public on Fri
day last, it is charged that Governor
Fuller is investigating the guilt or
innocence of the two men instead of
combining himself to the question of
whether or not they had a fair trial.
The committee points out that there
are legal ways in which a new trial
can be provided if it is found that
they did not have a fair one, and it
is the governors job to decide wheth-
err or not the trial was fair.
Besides the lives of our two
friends, in whose innocence we have
implicit faith, there is another issue
at stake in this case. That is the
administration of justice in the courts
of Massachusetts. The majority of
people who have written you, includ-
ing the finest minds in this and other
countries, are deeply troubled by this
latter issue"
Would Counterfeit Venom.
The committee states that it has
requested the governor to have COM
mission present at this investigation |
in advisory capacity, because the
issue is so important. 1t now adds I
tilC AGduC5b az lGdSL W dllOW COuU- &
sci for the defendants to be present /
whenever anything is said against
them" The governor so far has not |
replied to this communication, but he
is proceeding with his private investi- /
cation and examination of various /
witnesses.
Letters continue to come from all /
parts of the world in behalf of Sacco /
and Vanzetti. The Confederation of 1
Revolt in Youth Of Geoningen, Hol- /
land, has demanded immediate re-
lease of the two men, sin the name |
Of human justice" The Paris section
of d'Action Uhiversitaire Republi- /
caine ct Socialiste, consisting Of /
students, asked for release.
An impartial review Of the case is \
asked in resolution adopted at
meeting of the Methodist preachers
of Chicago; and a demand for free
dom was made in a resolution passed 4
Saturday by 1000 workers Of Roches-
ter, N. Y, a large number Of them
members of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Of America.