The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-12
Sacc0 Continues Hunger
Strike; Both Calm
(Continued from Paqe Onel

BOSTON, Aug. II. - Sacco and
Vanzetti still live.
Through the high slitted windows
of Charlestown prison they glimpsed
today the pallid light of another day.
1t was a day they had not expected to
see, and one which they did not know
they were going to see until a scant
thirty minutes before they were to
have taken the short march to the
electric chair.
Fiction writers often feature IAN
eleventh hour reprieve.' The twelve
day respite given to .Sacco and Van
zetti by Governor Alvan T. Fuller, has
literally that. It was 1880 p. m. when
Warden William Hendry stalked down
the corridor in front of their cells and
informed them that the governor and
his executive council had granted an
opportunity to their counsel to make
one last fight before the state courts
to save them from the hawning chair
in the room beyond. They were DOOM
ed to die a few minutes past II o'clock.
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Outside the prison were more than
500 police and state troopers, heavily
armed
Behind a headline" were bristling
machine guns and flaring floodlights.
Their presence attested to the fears
and the precautions against trouble
| that the execution of Sacco and Van
zetti entailed. In Boston itself and
far beyond, in New York, Chicago
London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, all
over the world, were innumerable
thousands waiting word of their
death.
The men had been CARRIED for the
| death chair when the news came.
They wore the gray prison trousers
and blue and white shirts with short
! sleeves. All were resigned to their
going. Sacco,, weak from his % days
of hunger striking, lay on his cot, his
eyes closed. Vanzetti, stronger and
more philosophical, rested quietly.
Madeiros was in his CELL Occasionally
Vanzetti would break into a low song
in which his own companions in the
adjacent cells joined.
Until August %"
Boys" said Warden Hendry, "the
governor has given you a respite I'M
til August p. Now | want you to be
men, and want you to eat"
Il want you to be menl"
No ono -
the jeering irony of that request
from the blood stained warden to the
men who have stood unflinchingly de-
fiant thru seven years of hell!
There was silence in the cells for a
few moments after the warden made
his announcement. Then a sigh from
the weakened Sacco, as his compan-
ion, Vanzetti, spoke.
Il am glad" said Vanzetti, simply.
Il want to see my sister before l die"
Mrs. Sacco Collapses.
The news of the respite was received
quietly enough by the men who were
resigned to death. But to their fam
lilies, and to the hundreds of their
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protest their execution it was differ
| ent. There were cheers from those
who had been arrested earlier in the
day for picketing the state house in
their behalf. They went to court to-
day with light hearts to answer
charges Of sauntering and lettering,
while there's life there's hope.
Mrs. Sacco was in a state of col
lapse when the news was brought her.
She had bade her husband goodbye at
the prison yesterday and hurried away
to the home of friends. Her small
daughter, Inez, who is seven, born
after her fathers arrest, cried most
Of the evening because, the friends
said, she "felt" something was hap
pening.