The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-12
FULLER'S PREJUDICED DECISION

Inc same SyIclSIn, Lne same brutality ana
same prejudice that have characterized the whole
procedure of the state of Massachusetts in the
case of Sacco and Vanzetti since its very incep-
ton, glaringly set forth in the decision of
Governor Alvan T. Fuller, multi millionaire owner
of the scab Packard Motor Car Company of Bos-
ton. It's flippant and careless tone confirms our
conviction that the hearings conducted by the gov
and by his committee of three who are
characterized in his decision as men whose repu-
ton for intelligence Open-mindedness intellectual
honesty and good judgement above reproach,"
were farccal in the extreme; that the fate of the
men had been decided before the Investigations
started and that the hearings" were staged solely
for the purpose of trying to conceal and whitewash
the crime perpetuated consciously by the courts,
low and high, and their BOSSES the ruthless ruling
class of Massachusetts,
The utter dishonesty of Fuller, his fear of al
real investigation is indicated by the very calibre
of the creatures he appointed on his committee.
President Abbot Lawrence Lowell of Harvard Uni
versity heads one of the most poisonous institu-
lions of so-called higher learning in the whole
world, maintained for the exclusive purpose of
teaching the sons of the predatory capitalists how
best to fleece the workers Harvard is supported
by such imperialist monsters as j. p Morgan g.
Co, and is called a "bulwark of conservatism ;"
w.
Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology had both expressed views hostile to Sacco
and Vanzetti before their appointments on the
committee, and both of them are servile to the
labor-hating mill owners, that group of malevoent
individuals that calls itself the Back Bav aristocra
cy of Boston.
So fearful was Fuller that the known facts re-
garding the vindictive attitude of Judge Thayer
the vicious disregard of the prosecution for the
so-called rights of the accused the ignorance if
not the corruption of the jury, the refusal to adj
NIT newly discovered evidence as a basis for a
new trial, would force official recognition that he
selected men whom he knew to be enemies of
Sacco and Vanzetti, and who would stoop enough
to become parties to the last murderous act in the
horrible conspiracy
IL Fuller had been impelled by even the slightest
degree OF honesty he would have appointed at
least one labor representative on the committee
and given the greatest possible publicity to the
proceedings by holding open hearings Instead
OF this the whole thing was yelled in secrecy.
Witnesses for the defense were SO intinidated and
generally browbeaten that they were on the verge
OF collapse as they left the room where the emin-
ences of educational and judicial Massachusetts
were conducting their stage-play DESIGNED To
whltewash the wOuld-be murderers in star chamber
sessions.
instead of an honest investigation, one that
would endeavor to ascertain the facts in the case
The Fuller decision reveals the most indefensible
efforts to conceal the facts For instance Fuller
sneers at the claim of the defense that thhe
the men refused to tell the police who arrested
thin month after the crime for which thew finally
charged was committed, the truth about their
movements at the time of their arrest was because
they wanted to shield their radical friends from
arrest.
he seems to see something particularly criminal
IN the TACT that they were about to start out at
zen CLOCK at night to distribute radical literature
'eiy Douy IN the labor or progressive movement
A.o"s II IS not at all uncommon to do this sort
u "ork' not merely at ten o'clock but at twelve
mldmght, at two four o'clock in the mornino
and at all other so-called unreasonable bo,,rs
Che SNUG bourgeois exploiters of labor are peace-
FULLY sleeping and dreaming of greater nrofts -
DC "rung out of labor, revealing in cabarets
with their kept ladies'
Fuller also says he found that the "iurors ,uoro
thoroly honest men," No reason for this belief Is
given. l presume the fact that thew bronob+ -
verdicts of guilty against two radical workmen ;s
sufficient to prove their honesty in Fuuer,s ewes
ruler also proclams his belief in the words of the
witnesses for the prosecution This is only another
way OF stating his belief that the alibi witnesses
LOT One defense were, without exception, liars.
Inc fact that they were working men and women
would tend to strengthen that view on the mart
Oh the labor-hating governor of the state Of
Massachusetts.
Inc RULER decision is class document DESIGNED
70 indicate the perjurers who testified for the
open-shoppers of the state and belittle evervona
connected with the defense
It's sins of commission are as glazing as IFS sins
OF commission. Fuller does not even mention +bo
role OF the agents of the United tSates Deno~t
ment OF Justice. He entirely overlooks the fact
tnat vanzetti was in New York trying to nrotect
ms fellow-worker, Salsedo, from the foul clutches
OF A. Mitchell Palmer's gunner and ganestars ond
that ne knew the circumstances surrounding tba
manner IN which Salsedo met his death a. 49,
hands OF the department of justice on Nav .
i9@V' when his body was found crushed almost
beyond recognition Park Row from whence =
nau fallen from the fourteenth story of buildino
N winch the government maintained secret to,.t,,ro
chambers This incentive on the port Of tbe oo
eminent to discredit Vanzetti is entirel, ioreSo,
by Fuller. ignored