The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22

and Vanzetti are a symbol of the
immigrant rebel worker whom they
could not completely enslave. They
will kill Sacco and Vanzetti first,
then they will turn on the other i'm
migrant workers. There will be
lynchings, linger-printings, deporta
tions, mass-hysterias in New Eng
land. These decadent Yankee mas
ters, those blue-b looded inheritors of
the rebel glory of Bunker Hill and
Gettysburg, are shaken by a rat-like
fear.
Bugles sound in the street I look
out, and see regiment of state
militia marching grimly by, bayonets
on the alert. Aeroplanes whirl in the
sky. Last night as I went by the
postoffice there were scores of silent
men with rifles on post. Every po-
liceman in the city is on 24-hour re-
serve duty, sitting nervously in the
station houses waiting for battle. The
fire department is modified. The
American Legion is guarding certain
homes. Even the assurances COM
panies are on active duty. They
have filled the newspapers with great
advertisements, Warning the business
men to insure themselves against
riots and explosions before it is too
late.
The newspapers spread scare after
scare Now the vast Boston subway
is to be bombed-now a certain rich
mans home, now a public building.
And every boob, yokel, blueblood or
Irish policeman and his relative
buys and believes these newspapers.
1t is panic. 1t is lynching. And
for what? There are two lonely i'm
migrant workers in the death house in
Charlestown jail and they are to be
electrocuted Monday night. And so
the city moves in fear. And the men
higher-up, who have created this
panic, rub their hands delightfully."-
When this is over, they will move on
to the next step in the great chess
game. They will be ready for their
mass attack on the immigrant work
ers then-their registry bills in Con-
gress, their deportations, their raids
and arrests. .... ....
The Charlestown jail in across the
historic Charles River from Bos-
ton, that placid stream of which the
good Longfellow wrote so placidly.
Charlestown is an industrial quarter of
the city, a congeries of slum streets
and grimy factories, of lumber yards,
freight sidings, ugly shacks and tin
can dumpheaps, fitting industrial
background for the murder New Eng
land industry is about to commit. i
Go mile down the same bank Of
the Charles and you come to Harvard,
the cultural mask of that murderer,
Harvard with it's sleek lawns, its
noble elms, its quiet redbrick old
buildings where genteel scholars la
Dor at science and art.
Sacco and Vanzetti are being tor
tured in the Charlestown JAIL and Har-
ward, the home Of science and art,
speaks not word. Harvard even
has helped in the torture. 1t was
President Lowell of Harvard who
perfumed the murder. This little
man is descended from James Russell
Lowell, who wrote fiery abolition
poetry. This little man hates Jews,
and tried to keep them out of his
college. This little man is a friend of
millionaires, and they support his
college. This little man is proud that
he is Nordic, Lowell, blueblood,
a Boston aristocrat.
Governor Fuller, another of the
executioners who will turn on the
switch today, is of different
category. He is a self-made man. He