The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-09-09
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By HARVEY O'CONNOR, Federated Press

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1from Paris recounting hostile demon
STATIONS against the American legion
Are causing concern in the state de-
partment. French public opinion, ir-
ritated by American assertions that
I'VE Won the war;" has reached the
breaking point on numerous occasions
in the past lew weeks as the advance
guard of the legion convention, to be
held In September proceeds with its
capture of Paris"
But since the electrocution of Sacco
and Vanzetti, French patience is at
an end and incidents are occurring
daily On the streets of Paris which
bOde i'll for the convention, according
to the Paris correspondent of The
Manchester Guardian. The whole
French people expected mercy, if not
justice, to be shown the two Italian
workers, he writes. From now on
little effort will be made to hide re-
sentiment and the legion, as represen-
tatlve of those classes in America re-
sponSible for the death of Sacco and
Vanzetti, will be shown plainly Just
what the French nation thinks of
~AAACA4O1 anu lIo JuSIlCG.
The legion parade scheduled for
Sept 10 in which 10000 members are
to marin from one end of Paris to
the other, will be the critical point.
Humanite, brilliant worker daily of
Paris, called upon labor to prevent
this insolent parade of the American
fascist legion lin the city of the chill
dren of the Commune" In case of
violence, the 10000 legionnaires, re-
membering their own record in raid
ing worker halls in the United States,
might make a raid on Humanite and
other labor headquarters, with fear
full consequences. The French gov
eminent plans to have at least $4,000
troops guarding the 10000 legion
nalres along the parade route.
The world over America is regarded |
with emotions ranging from hatred to
contempt. Among workers there is
hatred against the cruel, Unsuitable in
dustrialism that demand absolute sub
mission from its working slaves un-
der threat of death. Among liberals
there was lOathing of a government /
which fails to hold in equilibrium the .
scales of justice between capital and .
labor. And among employers ard
tories there was contempt for an as
SasslnatiOn so crude and brutal that
1t had lnflamed the world.
Washington cannot see the end of
the SaccOVanzetti case. Certainly
the grim tragedy in the electric chair 4
dld not terminate the case. Rather
1t has entered new phase; a phase
IN which labor and liberals will have
to say. The stage has been
held so far by the Thayers, Fullers ;
and Lowells, but from now on the
worlds opinion will be the dominant {
factor.
Conservative papers of the national ;
capital licked their chops over the
blood of Sacco and Vanzetti and call
ed for more, in leading editorials. The
Post, whose title as most
reactlonary paper in America can
only be disputed by the Chicago Tri-
pune or the Boston Transcript, urges
hunt against all foreignborn work
RS holding the same views as Sacco
md Vanzetti and the prison for such {
latlveborn workers. The Star calls {
or force to quell American portests c
galnst the execution, and congratu- g
ates Ihayer, Fuller, Lowell and Mas
achusetts justice for their bloody v
riumph. r
On the other hand the News de- i
lares it is the duty of the American
'eople to "see that never again shall O
UGH an exhibition of judicial inepti- c
ude market the course of American v
Justice" The Baltimore Sun, which a
lrculates widely in Washington. as i
erts that there is a widely held con- Il
'lction that in "this case Massachu- h
etts has blundered terribly" t
Mother Jones, lying helpless in a
Washington hospital, will not be told E
1 the electrocution of Sacco and Van b
ETH. For fear that it would hasten
ne death of the 98-year old fighter l.
or labor, the grim message has been D
into tiding that the two G.
,orkers have been granted an indefi- r
lite reprieve. 'They would never Il
are! Mother Jones repeats. "To il
Ill SaccO and Vanzetti would stir up s
ne whole world" II
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