The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20
Every Day NewSaccoF rame-Up

| the secret of the mass-deportatior
and anti-red frame-ups, the secrets
of thousands of immigrant homes
shattered, of thousands of working
class martyrdoms. The secret of the
death of Salsedo is there-that unfor-
tunate friend of Sacco and Vanzetti
who was tortured for three weeks in
the offices of the Department of JUS
tice in Park Row, at the end of which
time his body was found in heap on
the pavement, seventeen stories be-
low the place of his torture.
How did the Department of Justice
work? What provocateurs arranged
that bombs be thrown? What agents
ferreted their way into anarchist and
Communist groups preaching vio-
lence? What stool-pigeons worked
in factories, and marked down the
earnest, the studious, the social-mind-
led among the workers for punish
ment? How was the frame-up of
Sacco and Vanzetti conducted? Sew
eral ex-agents of the Department of
Justice have confessed to some of the
details, but the whole story is still
locked up in those files.
Back To the Death House.
In a few days the Supreme Court
will give it's decision. The warden of
Charlestown prison has said that if
lit is adverse, he will put Sacco and
Vanzetti back in the death-house. 1t
is hard to realize; but in few days
the two workers may be back where
they were a week ago. Bourgeois
Massachusetts is relentless. It's blood
is up.
During this week not single
newspaper here has had the courage
or desire to speak a friendly word
for Sacco and Vanzetti. 1t might lose
them circulation.
Certain sentimental bourgeois apol-
ogists have trilled lyrics and rounde-
lays in praise of Governor Fuller's
courage" in coming out against the
two men. But it was not courage
| it was the reverse. 1t was the Yam
kee shrewdness of an ambitious poll
tician. The influential Boston mob
is determined to get Sacco and Van
zetti-and the governor is leading
them. His eye, like that of every
governor, is cast on the presidency,
and he hopes to follow Coolidge who
landed there by similar courage in
breaking the police strike in Boston.
Deliver US from the courage" of
these politicians! 1t is the courage
of Nero, bravely burning Christians
at the stake, and refusing to be Gin
Inundated" by them. 1t is the courage
of General Gallifet, shooting 10000
workers in cold blood, defying them
to resist. 1t is the courage of men
who have lost all human values, who
like Mussolini, would slaughter their
best friends in the insane thirst for
political power. If the leader of a
foaming mob of lynchers whips them
further in their passion, the world
does not call it courage-so why is
Governor Fuller courageous ?"
No, the only courage shown so far
in this case has been that of two i'm
migrant workers-Sacco and Van
zetti. Their dignity, their steadfast
idealism, their unflinching moral
stand against the bourgeois mob is
worthy of golden page in the his
tory of the worlds proletarian
martyrdoms.
Two simple men-a fish peddler
! and shoe maker-are caught in a
great net, and tortured inhumanly
for seven years. And they grow I'M
der that persecution-they reveal
| themselves as rare, fine human be-
ings. 1t gives one new pride in the
workers = in the revolution - this
casual selection, this accidental choice
,, OF two immigrants to speak for the
worlds workers, and suffer for them
They were never heard of before
they made shoes, peddled fish, were
lowest of the low in the social scale
And now they speak in great accents
every word and gesture has the
ring of history. The rose to the
tragic immensities of their plight
and a whole world has listened tc
them, and found then worthy of their
situation in the tragedy.
Vanzetti even in these last nerve
racking hours, has been busy writing
Ia social testament that is said by
those who have seen it to be his best
leffort. Sacco is still as game as
Fever. and chats with his brave wife