The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-05
FuIIer's Preiudiced Decision


characterized the procedure of the state of Massachusetts
Of Sacco and Vanzett since its inception was
glarng forth the decision of Governor Avan Fuller
mumionae Of the scab Packard Motor Car Company
ppant and careless tone confirms conviction
that the hearings conducted by the and by his COM
mttee of three who characterized his decision linen
whose reputation for intelligence open-mindedness, intellectual
honesty good judgment above reproach farcca in
the extreme that the fate OF the men had been decided before the
Investigations started and that the hearings staged solely
for the purpose of trying conceal the crime contemplated by
the state
The utter dishonesty of Fuller his fear of real investigation
very cabre of the he appointed
his committee President Abbot Lawrence Lowell of Harvard
University heads of the poisonous institutions of
called higher learning the whole world maintained for the
exclusive purpose of teaching the of the predatory capital
how best fleece the workers Harvard supported by such
mperiaist monsters as P Morgan Co., and is called bu
war Judge Robert Grant and President Sam
ue w Saton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had
both expressed views hostile to Sacco and Vanzet before Their
appointments the committee and both of them servle
agents of the abohatng mill that foul pollution
that calls itself the Back Bay aristocracy of Boston,
So fearful Fuller that the known facts regarding the
vndcve attitude of Judge Thayer the disregard the
prosecution for the socaed rights ignorance
not the corruption of the jury the refusal to admit newly dis
covered evidence basis for trial. would force official
recognition shat he selected whom he knew be eenmes
of Sco and Vanze and who would sink low enough become
parties to the last murderous act in the conspiracy.
Fuller had been mpeed by the slightest degree
honesty he would have appointed least labor representa-
tive on the committee and given the greatest possible publicity
to the proceedings by holding hearings Instead this the
whole thing was yelled in Witnesses for the defense
We're so inundated and generally roWbeaten that they
the collapse they left the enences
of educational judicial conducting their
sagepay designed to whtewash the woudbe murderers
Instead of honest investigation that would eneavor
to ascertain the facts the decision reveals the
oahsome efforts to conceal the facts For instance Fuller
the claim the defense the reason the men re-
fused to tell the police who arrested them after the
crime for which they finally charged committed the
about their movements at the time of their because
they wanted to shield their radical friends from
He to something particularly criminal the fact
that they about start out o'clock night to dis
tribute radical literature Every radical and revoutonist in the
labor movement knows is not at all this sort
of work. not merely at ten o'clock but twelve midnight
two four o'clock the morning other so-caed I'M
reasonable hours when the bourgeois expoers labor
peacefully sleeping and dreaming greater profits to be
wrung out Of labor revealing in cabares with kept ladies
Fuller also he found that the Jurors thoroy
belief is given presume the fact
that they brought verdcts of guilty against radical
is sufficient to their honesty Fuers eyes, Fuller
also procams his belief the words Of the witnesses the
prosecution This only another of stating his belief that
the ab witnesses for the defense without exception liars
The fact that they working and would tend
to strengthen that the part of the aborhang buzzar
who is governor of the state of Massachusetts,
The Fuller decision class document designed to vndcae
the peruers who testified for the openshoppers of the state
and belitte everyone connected with the defense.
Its sins of commission glazing its of
Fuller does not mention the role of the agents of the United
States Department of Justice He entirely the fact
that Vanzett in New York trying protect his eow-wor
Salsedo from the foul clutches A. Mitchell Pamers gun
gangstes he knew the circumstances
the which death at the hands of
the department of justice May 1920 when his body was
found crushed almost beyond recognition Park Row from
which the government maintained torture chambers This
incentive the part of the government Vanett is
entirely ignored by Fuller.
But this Fuller should not stand as the final de-
cson 1t still possible for effective action the part
workers of this and other countries Too long
depended the mparay of the capitalist Judges
institutions of capitalist class dictatorship which only
impose by force the will of minority Of the population
vast majority Instead of workers standing courts of
the Fuers Thayers the time will Fuers and
hayers other enemies of the working class will stand before
the revolutionary tribunals of the workers
Fuers decision should do much to dspe faith intelligent
workers have in the courts and capitalism
and help immensely that power that
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