The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-08

have done your duty in the Saceo-
I Vsnzetti case. You have been
| wise, patient, dignified and cour-
| sgeous- worthy of the best tradi-
/ tons of the commonwealth"
asserts that Governor Fuller has
brushed to one side nearly all the
relevant evidence which has accumu-
lated in seven years to prove that
Sacco and Vanzetl are absolutely In
nocent of the South Braintree pay
roll murder in 1920.
Governor FuIler's decision "does
little or nothing" declares the Sun,
ITO dispel the widely held belief that
the execution Of these two men would
be, as DR.. Fabian Franklin has said,
a stain upon the name Of Massachu-
setss and calamity in its effects
throughout the world ,"
Two courses" the editorial states,
"wero naturally open to Governor
Fuller in making public his refusal to
intervene with the original verdict Of
Judge Webster Thayer. He might
have stated his bare decision to that
end, supported by mention Of the
separate conclusion Of the Lawrence
Committee Or he might have an
swered point by point the weighty
evidence which the defence has ac-
cumulated, particularly since the
trial, to show that Sacco and Van
zetti are innocent of the South Brain
tree crime. Instead, the governor
answers few Of these points and
ignores others, including many Of the
issues most embarrassing to the pro-
secution. Inevitably the result is to
create suspicion that there are GER
tain awkward questions which the
Governor cannot-or at least does not
\. wish to--attempt to explain away.
Governor Fuller's statement goes
at length into the Bridgewater case.
Of that prior case the governor says,
practically everyone who witnessed
the attempted hold-up and who could
have identified the bandits identified
Vanzetti." Yet Prof. Felix Franklin
ter's comment on Vanzetti's prosecu-
ton for the Bridgewater trial is that
it "grew out of his arrest for, and
were merely a phase of the Braintree
affair. The evidence Of Identification
Of Vanzetti in the Bridgewater case
bordered on the frivolous, reaching
its climax in the testimony of the lit
le newsboy who had caught glimpse
Of the criminal and knew by the way
he ran he was foreigner
sit is difficult to see why Cover
nor Fuller drags in the Bridgewater
affair. It is difficult to see why he
makes no mention of the connection
Of the Department of Justice with the
Braintree trial. And it is difficult to
see why he does not state that new
evidence was not considered by the
Supreme Judicial Court Of Massachu-
sets in refusing a new trial. The
adverse decision Of the governor is
couched in dispassionate language,
is the result of hard and conscien-
tious labor on his part, and has the
implicit backing of the influential
Lowell committee But it does little
or nothing to dispel the widely held
belief that the execution of these men
would be, as DR.. Fabian Franklin has
said, "a stain upon the name Of Mas
sachusetts and a calamity in it's ef-
fects throughout the world"
"To let Sacco and vanzetti de-" de-
clares an editorial appearing in all
the Scripps- McRae newspapers, "is to
breed hate and contempt for the in
stitutions which Governor Fuller, by
his decision, seeks to uphold. 1t is
that which makes the Sacco-Vanzetti
case, with its seven long years of
winding a tortuous way to a tortuous
death, a grim and terrible tragedy"
The officers of the Workmens Cir
Gle No. 30 have addressed the fol-
lowingappeal to their members:
You are requested TO carry out the
following decision made at our last
meeting held Aug 5, at 257 East
Houston Street:
Resolved that ali members Of this
Branch be instructed to carry out all
decisions that may be made by the
working class movement in the effort
to secure the release OF Sacco and
Vanzetti, whether it be a call for
strike or any other protest action or
all action combined.
Those who fail to carry out this
decision will be heavily fined by the
branch.
MANILA, p. l., Aug. News of /
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