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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
MASSACHUSETTS
LABOR DEMANDS
PROBE OF BOARD
Organ of State Reflects
View of Bosses

FALL RIVER, Mass, August 5. -
During the continued report of the
committee on resolutions at yesterday
mornings sessions the convention of
the Mass. State Federation of Labor
almost unanimously went on record
for bill demanding a full inquiry
into the operations of the state board
of labor and industries. Objections to
the resolution were raised by Gately
and the delegates of the telephone
operators in Boston but this opposi-
ton was swept aside when Mary
Thompson of the Women's Trade
Union League made the first militant
speech of the convention.
The complaint of Delegate Thomp-
son was that the resolution was not
strong enough. "The state board of
labor and industries does not only re-
quire an investigation it requires to
be cleaned out and cleaned up it re-
quired that real representatives of
labor investigate conditions. AT
present the state board is bosses
organization"
Thompson cited cases where she had
represented textile workers on strike
and when she had protested against
the attitude of the supposedly neutral
arbitrator she had been told to keep
nuiet or leave the hall and that but
for the show of fight put up by the
rank and file workers on her deputa-
ton she would have been elected from
the hall.
1t is time the delegates to this con-
vention realized that they have
nothing to hope for except from mem
bers of the working class. General
Sweetzer is a Gar" and cannot give
a fair hearing to workers organiza-
tons. She further exposed the de-
partment's practice of warning en-
ployers before sending out inspectors
TO their factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Worldwide Strike Wave For Sacco and Vanzetti

their comrades over the world. ave
are not surprised by this news be-
cause we know the capitalist class Is
hard without any mercy to the good
soldiers of the revolution" says Sac
co the shoe worker and strike leader.
"It is up 10 you now brothers, COM
rades, YOU are the only ones that can
save u.s."
Sitting in their death cells only a
few feet from the electric chair that
is to burn out their lives in six days
they scrubbed their messages out on
one sheet of paper in longhand and
gave it to their tried defenders AL
dino Felicani and Gardner Jackson OF
the defense committee they were per-
mitted perhaps the last visit from
any but lawyers and relatives. Van
zetti the fisherman says: Governor
Alvan T. Fuller is a murderer as
Thayer. Katzmann the state perjur-
er and all the others. He shakes hands
with me like a brother, makes me be-
lieve he was honestly intentioned and
that his killing of the three carbarn
boys was not so as to have no pre-
cedent to save US. Now ignoring and
denying all the proofs of our inno-
cence he insults US and murders US.
We are innocent. This is the war of
plutocracy against liberty, against the
people. We die for anarchy. Long
life to anarchy"
Signed, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Au-
gust 4th, 1927. Charlestown State
Prison.
Capitalism Without Mercy.
Sacco wrote: "In the death cell we
are just informed from the defense
committee that Governor Fuller has
decided to kill us August the tenth.
We are not surprised by this news
because we know the capitalist class
is hard. without any mercy to the
good soldiers of the revolution. We
are proud of death and fall as all the
anarchists fall, it is up to you now,
brother comrades. AS l have told you
yesterday that you are the only ones
than can save us because we have
never had faith in the governor. For
we have always known that Cover
nor Fuller, Thayer and Katzmann are
the murderers.
with warm fraternal greetings to
all" Signed Nicola Sacco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Calls On All Units to
Start Demonstrations

Continued from, Page O7,e)
mand of millions of workers who have
Loyalty ranged themselves on the side
of Saceo and Vanzetti because they
are convinced of their innocence.
Banner Bearers of Workers.
"Sacco and Vanzetti are the banner
bearers of the working class, and this
action is the possible prelude, if the
legal murder is carried out, to a new
persecution drive against the workers
of the United States, and against the
radicals especially.
international Labor Defense has
persistently pointed out the class is
sue involved in the whole case, and
that the sole hope of Sacco and Van
zetti lay in a huge class movement
for their vindication and freedom. The
latest events in the case have fully
confirmed this position, and have
conclusively proved the bankruptcy
Of relying upon the Justice or fair
play and the liberal intentions of
the rulers of Massachusetts.
Stay Murderers' Hand.
eve have a big task before US
the task of reviving on a colossal scale
a movement on a class, basis to defend
the working class and Sacco and Van
zetti for whom it fights.
1--WE do not give up the fight for
a moment. We do not admit defeat
for we still have reliance upon the
irresistible power of the organized
working class which can yet be mob
ilized to stay the hand of the Massa-
chusetts executioner. We will fight
to the last moment for life and free
dom for Sacco and Vanzetti."
Call to All Units.
An appeal has been sent by Inter
national Labor Defense to all of its
units throughout the country and to
the labor press, calling for monster
demonstrations everywhere for Tues
day, August 9th, the day before the
execution date is set. Labor organ
izations are being urged to call short
protest general strikes everywhere
on that day, and in addition, to send
kilograms of protest to Governor Full
Ter and to President Coolidge at
Rapid City, S. D., urging him to in
tervene for the release of Sacco and
Vanzetti
Cablegrams have been sent to labor
defense organizations in France, Ger
many, England, Belgium, Russia,
China and Canada, urging demon
STATIONS, especially before American
embassies and consulates. 1t is ex-
pected that within the next few Gays
millions of workers throughout the
world will be in the streets, demand
ing justice for the seven-years-long
persecution and tortue of the two
heroic labor fighters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
ROAR OF PROTEST
C REETS FULLER'S
SNARL FOR DEATH
barrow Assails Fuller
Affirmation; Madness

The wave of protest against the
murderous Fuller decision continues
undated. Persons prominent in all
walks of life and Of varying shades of
political opinion have expressed horror
at the callous brutality of the Fuller
affirmation of the death sentence of
the two condemned workers:
CLARENCE BARROW, world ia
nous lawyer, "No alien, radical or
Communist could get a fair trial in
this country at the time these men
were tried. AS a matter Of public
policy, in view of the fact that so
many people either believe in their
innoncence-or doubt their guilt
would be madness to execute these
workers. I think it is a great injus-
tice for Massachusetts to take the
lives of these men. The state will
never recover from it. Men will al
ways feel that Sacco and Vanzetti
were executed because they were radi-
calls"
POWERS HAPGOOD, miners lead
er and nephew of Norman Hapgood,
in telegram to Governor Fuller,
"Your refusal to grant a new trial to
Sacco and Vanzetti and your conduct
ing of the Investigation in secret,
brands you as the murderer of these
two innocent men,"
HUGH FRAYNE, organizer, Amer
lean Federation of Labor, "No COM
ment"
BEN GOLD, manager Furriers'
Joint Board, "The last legal door of
freedom has been closed to these
framed-up labor leaders. They have
been guilty Of the crime of trying to
organize the unorganized, for this and
for this only have they been con-
demned Now labor in whose behalf
they fought must come to their aid.
The unanimous voice of labor will de-
mand by means of the general striE9
that the Massachusetts, legal hierarchy
cannot strangle our two comrades.
The furriers will be there"
ROGER FRANCEZON, organizer
of the |. W. W., "The workers in our
unions were Mortified when the news
Of Governor Fuller's decision flashed
through the world Through the voice
of Fuller, the textile barons of Massa-
chusetts have declared relentless war
against the workingclass. That class
must now show the world that it can
liberate its warriors. The general
strike is the only weapon"
MARTIN l. LOEB, New York: at
will be easier for Sacco and Vanzetti
to die than for Massachusetts to bear
the shame. l am convinced as are
millions Of people that Sacco and
Vanzetti are innocent"
ROSE BARON, secretary 1. L. D.:
"There is yet time. Only the mighty
arm of labor can save these tortured,
innocent workers. Down tools on
Tuesday,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
London Protest.

LONDON, Aug. 5.-A huge demon
stration to protest against the legal
murder of and to demand the liberia
ton of Sacco and Vanzetti will be held
at Trafalgar Square on Sunday, Aug
7.
An appeal to the masses to dem
onstrate everywhere against the STAY
ing of the two prisoners was circu-
lated here by the International Glass
War Prisoners Aid in the form of a
petition bearing the names of Prof.
Albert Einstein, Bernard Shaw, Fl. G.
Wells and many prominent members
of parliament and the church.
Precautions are being taken to
guard the American embassy and con-
sulates as feeling against the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Paris Unions to Strike
In Sacco and Vanzetti
Protest; Rally Sunday

PARIS, France, Aug, 5.-"If
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
any congress of the American Lee
gion in Paris will become abso-
lutely impossible" declared HUI
mantle today. The workers are in
furiated and the Unified Labor
Federation has called a twenty
four hour strike for Monday, Aug.
9Th.
On Sunday afternoon, August
7th, the Sacco and Vanzetti Com
mittee of Paris will hold a mass
demonstration on the outer boule-
wards of Paris to which will flock
thousands of workers from the
"cordon rouge" the Red suburbs
which surround Paris on all sides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Williamstown Takers
amazed" at Fuller's
"UncOnvincing" Words

WILLIAMSBURG, Mass, Aug. 5.
Members of the Williamstown Insti-
tute of Politics today characterized
Governor Fuller's decision in the Sac
60 and Vanzetti case as "nhuman,
amazing, and weak"
DR.. Pierre lie Paulle, former lee
turer at Harvard and head of the
round table on international law, said
that he considered the case as work.
ing against the aims of justice, and
alluded to the treatment of Sacco and
Vanzetti as worthy of Orientals. "Chi-
nese tortures have never been more
cruel than the fortunes of these men,"
he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Ask Coolidge Intercession.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 5. - De-
claring that Nicola Sacco and Bartol-
omeo Vanzetti are innocent and that
their execution in Boston would be
regarded here as judicial murder"
the Sacco-Vanzetti emergency COM
mittee of Buffalo Telegram resi-
dent Coolidge today askirg IN to
intercede
Behalf thousands Buffalo believe
Sacco, Vanzetti innocent respectfully
urge you intercede prevent what we
would regard as judicial murder" the
telegram read.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Needle Trade Defense

Announcement of the latest Grand
Affair of the Joint Defense Com
mittee can now be made. This, will
be a Grand Jamboree at Starlight
Park, all day August 28th. Starlight
Park is the Luna Park of the Bronx.
1t accommodates 100000 people and
has many amusements with a wonder
fully fine swimming pool for bathing,
in addition. Most of these features
have been taken over by the Defense
for the entire day and evening, COM
mencing at 10 a. m. There will be
music, dancing, vaudeville, fire works,
and numerous other features to be
announced later. A special produc-
ton of the Opera Carmen" in the
Great Open Air Stadium of the Park
will be given.
Pledge Support to ClOakmakers.
The Joint Defense and Relief Com
mittee is now carrying on a cam
paign for workers self-defense or
ganization of 100000 workers and
sympathizers to pledge themselves to
pay a small weekly voluntary tax for
the support of the fighting cloak
makers and furriers. Every class
conscious worker and sympathizer
must become member of this organ
ization. Only through such large
mass organization that is ready to
constantly support the fighters will
we be able to successfully carry on
the fight against Sigman, McGrady,
Woll and Company If you are not
a member of the Workers Self De-
Tense, join it Immediately. Send in
your name and address and also the
amount that you pledge yourself to
pay weekly.
At meeting of the campers at
Unity, all pledged themselves to make
weekly donations to the Defense.
Every person who stays in the camp
for a week pays LOO and week-en-
ders SO cents. A committee was cleo
ted to carry this into effect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Uruguayans Prepare to Strike.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug. s.
Preparations are in full swing here
for giant strike against governor
Fuller's decision in the Sacco and
Vanzett case. While feeling is in
tense and everything possible is being
done to make the remaining days
count, the Uruguayan government is
establishing guards around the Amer
lean legation and consulate and
around the American commercial and
industrial enterprises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
STRIKE

No leprous corpse in ministerial gown,
No microcosmic tsar with lust for power
Nor hate wealth shall strike these workers down
Comrades ours the might brothers. is the power
Comrades, millions of Threats
Millions of marching feet,
Millions of mighty
Can save them.
In us resides the strength to loose their bars,
In US resides the might in the power
To give them life and strength to strike the tsars
Comrades this is the time brothers. this it the hour
Comrades millions of Threats
Millions of marching feet,
Millions of mighty
Can save them.
JOHN HAMBURG.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Even Fascist Paper.

ROME, Italy, Aug, 5.-La Tri-
buna, official organ of the Fascists
commenting editorially on the Sacco
and Vanzetti case calls it the darkest
judicial episode in history and adds,
mo, it is not justice which for sever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Plan Legal Battle.

Probable legal procedure in the last
court skirmish to save Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from the
electric chair was outlined this after
noon by NJ. A. Mushwanno, a young
Pittsburgh attorney, who has been as
sisting the defense. The legal moves
he said would probably be in this or
der:
l. A request of the superior court
for new trial ON the ground of new
evidence discovered during the review
by Governor Alvan T. Fuller, evidence
that has never been before court.
2. A request for another guberna-
torial respite, pending a decision by
the court.
8. Application to the federal district
court for a writ, taking Sacco and
Vanzetti out of the jurisdiction of
Massachusetts, courts, or upon failure
to secure habeas corpus writ to file
writ for new trial.
4. An appeal to the United States
Supreme Court on constitutional
grounds if final action in the state
courts fail
Legal Chances Slim.
While legal conferences were in
full swing, the possibility doomed that
all court avenues looking to a stay
Of execution has been closed.
In the meantime, the police guard
at states prison was doubled. Warden
William Hendry denied reports that
he had received several threats of
death and violence to the institution.
Vanzetti spends much of his time,
according to prison officials, in pac-
ing his prison cell. Sacco, growing
weaker each day, keeps to his cot.
From separate cells in the death
house, the framed-up workers talk to
each other, although they cannot see
each other.
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derer and has barred Aldino Felicani,
Defense Committee treasurer, from
death house.
Felicani had taken out the Sacco,
Vanzetti messages, out of which the
warden says he had censored the lines
describing Fuller as a murderer. The
lines reappeared in the printed state
ments.
Tomorrow Attorney Arthur D. Hill
will file a new trial motion at Ded-
ham and will ask the superior court
in Boston for writ staying the exc
cution of the framed workers.
MOSCOW, Aug. 5.-Protests from
workers and peasants organizations
turnout the Soviet Union began to
pour in today when the news spread
that Governor Fuller had decided to
murder Sacco and Vanzetti.
Moscow's leading morning newspa-
pers editorially denounce the ap-
preaching execution, and the Izvestia
calls it zone of the most hideous
crimes of class justice"
Nothing helps-neither proofs Of
innocence nor confession of the actual
murder, nor the protests of the most
prominent American jurists," it adds.
There are five days remaining.
These days must be devoted to gran
dose agitation, which should prevent
the commission of this unheard of
crime"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Rio De Lantern Prntesf

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug, s.
The Municipal Council has passed
resolution protesting sin the name of
the City of Rio de Janeiro and Amer
lean culture and civilization" against
the judicial murder of Sacco and Van
zetti. United States buildings in Rio
are under heavy guard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Canadian Co-opnratives
Show Big New Increase

MONTREAL, (FP) Aug. 5.-Ad-
ditions to cooperative societies in
Canada last year numbered 353,
bringing the total up to 1155 societies
with membership of 100000, accord
ing to report of the Dominion labor
bureau. Included in this group are
the pools which handled 1S0,000,000
bushels of wheat and 30,000,000 bus
hels of grain in 1926, operating
through a central agency, the largest
wheat marketing organization in the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06

Dorothy Dezeter, executive secre-
tary, Women's international League
for Peace and Freedom, declared:
Naturally am amazed. I was
startled that Governor Fuller's state
ment was so weak defense of his
action, it was so unconvincing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Milwaukee Labor to Hold Protest

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 5.-A
mass demonstration to protes t
against the killing of Sacco and Van
zetti will be here Saturday under the
auspices of organized labor. Work
ers and sympathizers will rally on the
square in front of the court house.
Representative Victor L. Berger
characterized governor Fuller's de-
cision as "as Ubiquitous as the case
of Alfred Dreyfus." Sacco and Van
zetti will not die because they COM
mitted crime, he said, "but because
they are workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Yanzetti's Sister Sails.

BOULOGNE, France, Aug. g.
LUCIA Vanzetti, sister of BartolomeO
Vanzetti, who was recently deported
as having been refused permission to
leave France by the Boulogne au-
thorities has now been granted leave.
She will embark Saturday for Boston
in order to be with her brother during
what may be his last days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Tampa Cigarmakers Strike.

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. 5. - Approx
mately $4,000 cigar factory workers
returned to work here this morning
after walking out on general strike
yesterday in protest against Governor
Fulier's decision to murder Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Innocent" says Princeton Professor

PRINCETON, N. j., Aug. s.
George Mclean Harper, professor of
English literature lin Princeton Uni
versity, yesterday declared that gov
ernor Fuller's decision will weaken
the respect for law and produce gem
eral discomfort" "His statement fails
to convince me-" Prof. Harper said,
"that the men are guilty or that they
had fair trial. The governor does
not mention the alleged perjury of
the 2 policemen who pretended to
identify a bullet, nor the alleged con-
spiracy of the states attorney who
is said to have knowingly permitted
this false testimony to be made in
court. The men have already en-
dured punishment more cruel than
death"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06

years has kept Sacco and Vanzettti
suspended between life and death, but
the most artful form of cruelty"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06

Is the development
of a mass movement
of protest against
the execution
of Sacco and
Vanzetti.
The power of labor,
united in a
gigantic effort
to secure their
freedom, is the only
power that will
save them.
In addition
to the huge
mass meetings and
demonstrations
which are being
held throughout
the country and
throughout the
world, it is
necessary that a
daily agitation be
carried on among
the workers, it is
necessary that they
be kept constantly
informed of the
nefarious efforts
of the capitalist
hehchmen to
murder them, and
of the growing force
of the movement
which is fighting
for their freedom.
Under these
circumstances
the drive for
Five Thousand
New Readers for
the Daily Worker
takes on a new
Importance.
1t is in the interest
OF SaccO and
Vanzetti, that the
Daily Worker Army
must grow.
1t is in the interest
of the successful
fight against the
attack of the
bosses, we must get
Five Thousand
New Readers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
l. w. w. Meeting Declares For
General Strike.

General Strike.
WALSENBURG, Colo, Aug. s.
Branch 220, I. w. w. at a mass meet
ing here elected a committee of action
to make preparations for joining
a general strike workers who re-
fuse to strike are signing the death
warrant of Sacco and Vanzetti," the
meeting declared
Women Workers Send Petition.
The DAILY WORKER has received
the following petition signed by
three workers:
81 Want Sacco and Vanzettti
Saved" (Signed) 'Cristina Safia,
Giuseppe CarusO, Mamie Safia.
&
SaccO, Vanzetti Messages.
By ART SHIELDS.
Soldiers of the revolution undaunt-
ed Sacco and Vanzetti send stirring
messages from their death cells to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
States mounts as a result Of the Sacco
Greatest Crime"

States mounts as a result of the Sacco
and Vanzetti sentence.
Greatest Crime"
The International Class War Pris-
oners' Aid characterized the crime as
the greatest in the annals of history
and as the complete disclosure Of
American class justice. This crime,
they said, will bring an ineffaceable
stain of the honor of the United States
thruout the civilized world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Lansbury Appeals For Mercy

LONDON, Aug. George Lans-
bury, member of parliament and vice
chairman of the National Labor
Party sent the following telegram to
governor Fuller:
an the name of humanity I appeal
to you to exercise the greatest of all
gifts, mercy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06
Berlin Communists Hold Huge
Meeting,

BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 5.-Thou-
sands of workers thronged the Lust
garten facing the former Emperor's
palace today, in monster mass
demonstration held under the auspices
of the German Communist Party.
Thousands of leaflets were distrib-
uted calling upon the American pro-
letariat to release Sacco and Vanzetti
from the electric chair, while speakers
addressed the enthusiastic crowds.
The whole German people is
aroused over the crime about to be
committed in Massachusetts. Even
such capitalist papers as the Berliner
Tageblatt calling the decision mot
only barbarous but unwise," while
the reactionary Voissische Zeitung
sees in the case Gan act of imhuman-
ity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-10

and only $40 fine on a speeding
charge in Municipal Court with the
plea that she was hurrying from her
work TO aid destitute family.
She promised that hereafter she will
control her temper or temperament"
in dealing with policemen. An officer
testified she waxed sarcastic when ar
rested.