The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-27

By W. w. WEINSTONE

struggle IN America is filled with the brutality of
the capitalist class, with violence and murder
against individuals and masses of workers, there
widespread illusion among great number of
people that Sacco and Vanzett would not be exc
cuted.
This illusion affected not only the liberals and
humanitarians in whose hearts 'hope springs eter-
nally" but the petty-bourgeos socialists as well.
So brazen has been the frame-up threadbare the
evidence and so profound the protest that these
people believed the Massachusetts Bourbons would
not dare go through with the sentence But these
pettybourgeois liberals humanitarians and social
lists refuse to recognize the period in which live
"a period of sharp and decisive class struggle and
of imperialist reaction.
These people failed to aid in modifying the
masses of labor because they do not understand the
position of American capitalism today and the
transformation of America from a period of So
called liberalism" and democracy" to the stark
reactionary country which it is today. The Ameri-
can capitalist class has always been vengefuI and
despotic toward the workers. Yet 1887 knew a
Governor Altgeld who, still bearing the traditions
Of the pre-monopoly PERIOD freed the remaining
victims of the Haymarket outrage. The Fullers
OF today are the products of the monopoly period
in which a despotic financial olgarchy rules with
iron hand over industry and government. 1t is
this reactonary, imperiast oligarchy that muir
dered Sacco and Vanzetti.
Justice under American imperialism today is the
justice of a Mussolin that knows law but force
and weapon but murder toward the working
class In the days of Altgeld American capitalism
still found OF fine phrases and democratic ges-
lures to deude the American But that
epoch drawn to a close with the imperialst
when the governor who expounded the New
Freedom Wilson, became the president who
plunged America into the world slaughter, the au-
thor of the treacherous League of Nations and the
collaboration of the enslaving Versailles treaty.
;r hot
affrms the period of imperalist domination of
America-the period of capitalist reaction, the per-
iod of raids and deportations against foreign-born
workers, the period of imperialst and decisive
class struggles. This period knows more of the
America, "asylum" for foreign-bom workers.
This is period when America has become instead
a huge penitentiary for all labor! What does this
American imperialism for the protest of in
ternational labor? It feels strong! Its treasures
are Overlooking with the riches Of the world. 1t
feels and knows it is the banker to the world With
the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti it hurls chal-
lenge to the working class. AS the Caesars of old
crushed the protest of their slaves and confirmed
their power by stringng the limbs OF their victims
along the Appian way that all might see and trem-
BILE, so the American Caesars crushed the bodies of
Sacco and Vanzetti before the public gaze of mil
lions, that the huge masses of workers may the
brutal might of American capitalm and submit un-
protestingy to its yoke.
This is the reactionary America that speaks the
language OF the eXecutoner. ms is the America
that keeps Mooney in jail, that hangs the Frank
Littes that prepares CONSUMPTION laws against for
egn-born labor, that prepares fresh attacks upon
the wages and working conditions Of American la
Dor. This is the America that carried through the
foul execution of Sacco and Vanzett Petty-bour-
geois illusions regarding this America par
alysis for the working class ana in the end be-
trayal to the struggle for the defense against
ton-a betrayal of the mobilization of the masses
to crush the power of the capitalist class.
In this struggle for the freedom of Sacco and
Vanzett the socialist party and it's allies, the VOLS
and Greens, where they have not given direct as
sistance to these hangmen Gas in the of Green
and Wol), have sewed illusions among the workers
to expect mercy from these executioners of the
capitalist class. American labor must learn its
lesson. Unceasing class struggle! Only power only
might, only the full strength of the working class
expressed in mighty industrial unions in powerful
labor party, in revolutionary leadership of the labor
movement by the Communist Party that had nc
illusions and has illusions regarding the class
enemies of the working class can prevent future
oYI Axroty tho llr1cIon