The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-08
By WILL NUREMBERG (Berlin).

lest shame, the widest savagery,
the vilest strike, that ever wall
eyed wrath or staring rage pre-
scented to the tears of soft remorse.
All murders past do stand ex-
cused in this: and this, so sole and
unmatchable, shall give holiness,
purity, to the yet unbegotten sin
of times; and prove deadly blood
shed but a jest, exampled by this
heinous spectacle"
Shakespeare "King John"
r1LASS Justice triumphs! In spite of
mass protest and an cutlery of a
Hundred million as has seldom been
'lised in the last few years, in spite
of TIE representations and remonstra-
lions and remonstrances of numerous
and eminent pacifists-scholars sci
antists and men and women of inter
national repute-the American bour-
geoisie, in the night from 22nd to
23rd August, executed the two Italian
revolutionaries Sacco and Vanzetti!
In the fight, which lasted for seven
years and which in the last few weeks
aroused the whole public, the brutal,
barbarous American imperialism has
been victorious. We Communists, in
the course of the fight and the action
to rescue the two innocent murdered
proletarian revolutionaries, have new
er permitted any doubt that it was
not question of Sacco and Vanzetti
as individuals, but of the great fight
between the proletarian revolution
and the iron-clad American and in
ternational Imperialism.
Capitalism Murders Thousands.
In the last decades, especially in
the years since the war, international
imperialism has, both legally and IL
legally, condemned, executed and
murdered thousands and thousands of
workers. What, however, distinguish
es the case of Sacco and Vanzetti
from all other murders of revolution
airy proletarians, is the monstrous
bestiality, the almost sadistic barbar-
ity with which the bourgeoisie of the
United States dragged the two work
crs to the electric chair.
Seven years ago Sacco and Van
zetti were condemned to death, and
during this unendingly long time they
were repeatedly dragged from the
prison cell to the condemned cell, in
order, at the last moment and after
having experienced all the mental
agony of an immediate execution, to
be conveyed back to the prison cell;
and this only in order, after a few
weeks or months, to have to go thru
the same cruel business again, and
then, in the night from 22nd to 23rd
August-perhaps with the faint hope,
remembering their former expert
ences, of being saved yet once again
to die. All the horrors of medieval
torture pale before this atrocious
bestiality, which could only emanate
from the sick brains of insane Grim
inals.
Sacco and Vanzetti have been ex-
ecuted, murdered. By their execution
the imperialists of the United States
give a blow in the face to the interna-
tional working class and all sections
and circles inclining to them, who for
weeks past, in all countries and cities
of the earth, demanded the release of
the condemned. The murder of Saeco
and Vanzetti is a demonstration of
United States Imperialism, which in
the last few months demonstrated its
power and military force by lombard
ing unfortified towns in Nicaragua
and whose warships took part in the
| bombardment and destruction of Chi
nese towns and villages.
Challenge to Workers.
The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti
is a fresh and the most provocative
challenge to the American and the in
ternational proletariat. The murder
of the two proletarian revolutionaries
was possible because the bourgeoisie
of the United States had placed itself
determinedly and with all it's power
behind the cowardly murderers, in or
der, through the two murdered VIC
tins, to strike at the revolutionary
labor movement of America.
With the murder of Sacco and Van
States has remained true to its "dem-
ocratic" traditions. Like the five gal
lows in the prisons of Chicago on
which, in the year 1886, the victims of
the Pinkerton provocateurs were
strangled, the electric chair in Boston
today reveals the true countenance
and the real content of the bourgeois
democracy of the capitalist world.
With this murder the bourgeoisie of
the United States has shown in the
most striking manner to the working
class of the whole world, that in cap
italist society there exist neither JUS
tice nor law, but only naked, brutal
and barbarous class law and class
justice.
In former times the bourgeoisie had
some sense of shame, and attempted
to hide and conceal the arbitrary JUS
tice. Today, with the sharpening of
class antagonisms and of the class
| struggle it allows even the last film