The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-30
American Legion Judge Will
Find His Resolution No
Protection in France
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


> Central Worcester (Massachu-
setts) District Court has set sail
for France.
The farewell rendered him by the
judicial harlots of his home state,
now internationally notorious be-
cause of its lynching of the two
workers, Nicola Sacco and Bar
tolomeo Vanzetti, was affectlonate
in the extreme. Lynchers, es-
pecially the lynchers Of workers,
stand upon the common ground OF
lust for human blood.
But it may be taken for granted
that Justice Hartwell will receive
quite a different welcome when he
lands on French soil, where the
workers will recognize in him an
other connecting link between the
slaughter of Sacco and Vanzettl and
the interests supported by the
American Legion, fascist aid OF the
American reaction, that has this
year chosen Paris as the scene of
its annual drunken orgy, that
parades under the name of a "con-
vention."
Justice Hartwell goes to France
to attend the convention" of the
American Legion. A farewell was
rendered him at Worcester, Mass,
which is also the home town Of
Judge Webster Thayer, who acted
as the lynching Judge in the muir
der of Sacco and Vanzetti.
AS if fearing the wrath of the
workers of France, the members OF
the Worcester County Bar Associa-
ton, that attended the farewell ban
quet, Joined in adopting resolu-
ton, not supporting the integrity of
or eulogizing the legionnaire judge,
Hartwell, however, but commencing
the lynching judge, Thayer, on the
part that he played in putting Sacco
and Vanzetti to death in the cleo
trio chair.
Judge Hartwell, however, will no
doubt carefully carry copy of this
resolution with him to France in
an effort to buffet the mounting
wave of working class Indignation
aroused over the monstrous crime
committed against the two workers,
Sacco and Vanzetti, which French
labor recognizes, as it should, as an
attack against the worlds working
class.
> First of all, French labor will not
be misled by the flowery verbiage
used to condone the crime of the
murderous ruling class of Massa-
chusetts.. The resolution reads:
1.-THE members of the Worcester
County Bar Association extend to
Mr.. Justice Webster Thayer their
fluctuations and hearty approval of
his judicial conduct in the recent
trial of the Sacco- Vanzetti case.
His fairness turnout the long and
tedious trial in preserving for the
defendants all of their constitu-
tional rights, which at that time
met with the open and public APP
proval of d defense council, is
heartily commended. Ever alert
for exact justice for the defendants
realizing his duty to the great
Commonwealth which he SO honor
ably serves, we applaud his stand
for unfolding of the law, at any
cost, to the end that the sacred
traditions of Massachusetts, that
this is government of law and not
of men is still the watchword of
the right thinking and so b er
minded citizens of the Common
wealth"
1t must have taken even a law
yer or a judge in his cups to write
such piffle, even in the state of
Massachusetts. Let US remember
the actual attitude of the ''impar-
tiar judge, Thayer, toward the de-
PENDANTS, Sacco and Vanzetti, seek
ing "justice" in his capitalist court.
The workers of France already
know that Thayer, one of the
leaders Of the Massachusetts lynch
ing mob, after its conviction in his
court of Sacco and Vanzetti, asked
Professor Richardson, of the law
department of Dartmouth College.
did you see what | did to those
anarchistic bastards?"
Thayer not only made this state
ment, in this form, to Professor
Richardson, at a football game at
Hanover, New Hampshire, but he
repeated it in various forms, at
different places, during the time
that the Sacco-Vanzetti case was
in his court.
Felix Frankfurter, professor of