The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-31

tn HE Massachusetts supreme court
i has taken the appeal of Nicola
Sacco and Bertolomeo Vanzettf for
q new trial under advisement. 1t
promises to bring in a decision
within a month.
Attorney William G. Thompson
told Judge Webster Thayer, at
Dedham, Mass, that the case is so
simple it ought to be possible to
reach a decision in five minutes.
Thayer took several months to deny
the new trial demanded. Now the
state supreme court says it needs
month. For what? Perhaps to
hand down another false, vicious
document excusing the putting to
death of these two militant work
ers.
Thompson brought before the
supreme court Of Massachusetts an
array Of additional facts to prove
the frame-up against Saceo and
Vanzetti 1t was again shown that
the prosecution in the name of the
Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts," in league with the murder
agents of the department Of justice,
did everything possible to hide all
evidence that would tend to prove
the innocence of the two Italian
workers. 1t is very evident that
this suppressed evidence" would
have wrecked the states CASE"
which is the big reason why the
judicial wing of capitalism in Mas
sachusetts is fighting so energeti-
cally against the granting of new
trial. 1t has succeeded for nearly
seven years, during all Of which
time both Sacco and Fanzetti have
suffered all the t2rtures of the
capitalist dungeons in which they
have been incarcerated.
s.
In addition to the endless parade
Of witnesses who have alre ady
been marched before the Massachu-
sets courts, testifying to the inno-
conce Of both Sacco and Nanzetti
and the baseless charges against
them. there now comes u PinSerton
detective Henry Hellyer, row in
the service Of the Travellers Insu-
rance Co. The Pinkertons are sup
posed to be the hardest boiled of
them all. The Pinkertons were the
first aggregation of human blood
hounds that open shop employers
set upon trade unionists. They are
a vile aggregation, shown not only
in the Moyer-Haywood-P ettibOne
case, when these officials of the
Western Federation Of Miners were
placed on trial for their lives in
Idaho, but in many labor strug-
gle thru many sections Of the land.
they introduced spies into the
trade unions on a large scale to
disrupt and destroy the unity OF
the workers.
This Pinkerton was loyal TO the
traditions Of the private detective
agency he serves in helping to
frame" Sacco and Vanzetti. Every
fact, every word that might help
save the lives Of these workers was
carefully concealed. Some OF these
facts are now coming to light af-
ter more than six years. Some Of
the truth that was concealed, as
brought out by Attorney Thompson
before the Massachusetts supreme
court, was as follows:
That several of the govern
ment's Identification witnesses in
his (Hellyer, the Pinkerton) pres
ence had previously identified
certain criminal as the man they
afterward identified as Sacco.
"That two women brought by
him (Hellyer) to the district attor-
ney not only had declined to iden-
tify Sacco and Vanzetti, but had
given a description Of the driver
of the murder car absolutely ex-
Guiding the possibility that it was
Vanzetti, as claimed by the district
attorney.