The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-16
LABOR RALLYINC FOR SACCO- -VANZETTI STRIKE

By T. J. o'FLAHEaTx.

By T. J. O'FLAHKaTY.
THf! supreme court Of the state of
n Massachusetts meets today to de-
eide whether Sacco and Vanzetti shall
die in the electric chair on August
22nd or shall have a new trial. AS
these lines are written Sacco is on
the thirtieth day of his hunger strike
and the prison authorities are con-
sidering forcible feeding. 1t would
appear from all indications that a
bitter determination to execute the
two condemned men exists among the
ruling classes of this country.
THE legal hocus pocus that has been
indulged in recently by the Massa-
chusetts governor and the judicial
arm of the capitalist commonwealth,
as we pointed out, was only for the
purpose of appearances; to create the
impression that the two doomed
workers were given every possible
consideration they were entitled to
under the law. But this law is moose
to strangle those who threaten the
capitalist state. 1t is not question
of justice but one of expediency.
THE mighty demonstrations that
were held all over the world not
only threw a scare into the ranks of
the most reactionary sections of the
ruling classes but even those CAPT
talist publications labelled liberal felt
that their expressed sympathy for
Sacco and Vanzetti might tend to en-
courage greater militancy on the part
of the workers, so they have recently
been soft-pedalling on, the case. The
New York World, which short time
ago conducted an editorial campaign
demanding new trial for the con-
demned workers has now switched
the issue to an editorial campaign
against the Communists who are
given credit for the worldwide pro-
test demonstrations. The Commu-
nists are entitled to the major part
of this credit.
1T cannot be repeated too often that
only the power of the masses ex-
pressed thru strikes and other forms
OF mass protest can stay the eXecu-
tion of Sacco and Vanzetti and free
them from either the chair or a liv-
ing death in prison. Polite repre-
sentations from liberals and pacifists,
expressed fears for the 'honor" of
the state of Massachusetts, and such
nonsense has no effect on the hard
boiled plutes who head the capitalist
system in this country They fear
the spirit of rebellion among the
masses which one day will put an
end to such crimes as the one per-
petrated on Sacco and Vanzetti.
ONE of the most contemplate ac-
" tions that any section of the
workingclass movement could be-
guilty of was that of the Boston sec
tion of the Socialist Labor Party,
when it refused to hand over its
speaking permit on Boston common,
last Sunday, to the Sacco-Vanzetti de-
fense speakers; the police having re-
fused the latter permission to speak.
On the previous Sunday both the So
cialist and the Workers (Communist)
parties gave up their permits and had
their seasonal permits cancelled by
the police in retaliation. The S. l.. P,
true to it's craven conduct during the
war, would rather enjoy the oppor
tunity to bask in the smiles, of the
Boston police department while dis
cussing the evolution of the tool of
industry" than throw in it's lot with
other sections of the workingclass
movement in struggle to save two
proletarian lives from the electric
chair Words fail to express the con-
tempt that those fake radicals de-
serve from the workingclass.
AS those lines are clicking off the
II typewriter German junkers air.
plane is flying towards US with Chi
cago as her destination A few days
ago, / saw picture of German U-I
zoat in the movies sinking British,
Italian and Greek merchant vessels to
the immense satisfaction and pleasure
of the audience. Ten years ago, if
either of those two Incidents took
place there would be cursing and
shooting. Ten years % the Germans
were "Huns" and 'baby-killers." To-
day Germany is the backbone of civil
ization. But should the German and
American ruling classes get into
grips again over foreign markets or
colonies we would be taught to hate
them just as vigorously as they were
hated since spring t917 until long
after the armistice.
"
CLBERT H. GARY, chairman of the
II United States Steel Corporation
died at his home on Fifth Avenue,
yesterday morning, at the mellow
age of 81. We are often told that
life among the great industrial mag
mates is strenuous and that they are
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