The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
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Numerous gatherings III the morning. enthusiastic
meetings and imposing demonstrations in the after
noon, IN the evening mammoth meeting at the
Paris Pantheon. That is the record of this great
day.
Thursday the 18th of August, L'Humanite an
nounced the of the reprieve to the Paris york
ers. "They Are Still Alive!" The huge headline of
the Communist paper struck all ewes like a cry of
victory, and did the shouts of the crowd on the
boulevards, at the halls in all the quarters AMI of
the newsboys bearing the thousands of copies of
LHumanite which the workers of Paris were snatch
ing for.
But feeling of nexpressble anguish was min
ged with the Joy of the masses. The grim attempt
would re-commcnce tho the immense revolt re-
manned. They could kill them yet. The reprieve
only CHASTITY farce
From daybreak Of the 18th of August this pre-
sentiment haunted the spirit of the workers and
from then on they were on guard
Now we know alas, how greatly their PRESENT.
ments were justified. Eight days later the Massa-
chusetts courts confirmed their verdict 1t was
followed by an outburst of fury from the workers.
Saturday. the 21st Of August, fifty meetings were
organized in Paris. Other demonstrations t,ok place
in the provinces. snd the following Sunday, under
a pouring rain more than 10000 workers gathered
at the Butte du Chapeau Rouge near Pre-. Saint
Gervais
WITH soaked cletl es, stamping around Fo5 h,urs
IN the RAIN their faces cut by the drops the workers
turned for the last time, while there was still
chance, to the leaders of the American Legion the
guests of Paris, and beyond the Atlantic to the
American capitalists the deniers of justice and con-
trollers Of the war debts
But the hours passed With the precsioa of clock
WGk the news from Boston confirmed the suspicious
THAI TIE worst was about to be accompls shed The
Z. e. j. U. without losing a ,soment, az. ,resged a
proposal for common action to the c. T. G. The
Communist Party made a similar proposal to the
socialist party for the purpose of organizing a
monster demonstration in the heart of Paris
Then, five o'clock in the morning. Electrocui ed
Two hours later, while in the rue Montmartre the
crowd OF workers waited breathIessy under the
windows of LHumanite the Party's paper made the
following appeal to the workers:
Now that, the horrible class sentence has been
executed, it is the duty of every class conscious
worker in awaiting the final reckoning to take inst
reprlsals against the murderers
"But it goes without saying, that in accord with
the Communist International tho undersigned or
CARNATIONS in speaking of necessary reprisals do
not in any way contemplate acts of individual terror
which they have always refused to consider as a
means of revolutionary action for the proletariat.
"That which you must do is organize, prepare
put in motion those collective reprsas of the inter-
national working class against the capitalism of the
United States which is collectively responsible for
the crime.
"1.-Defy the American Legion by preventing the
American fascsts from parading insolenty thru the
city of the Sons of the Commune. The accomplices
of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti will be received
cannot be defied with impunity