The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-03
Sacco and Vanzetti Killed For Being Agtators

The following article, written during the last
stages of the fight to SaccO and Vanzett
distributed to working class publications
thruout the world by the International Press
Correspondence.
OY its latest action regarding the carrying out of
- the death sentence the American bourgeoisie is
continuing its old, cruel game. The tortures of
Sacco and Vanzetti increased. We are familiar
with the capitalist justice of all countries, but the
case of Sacco and Vanzetti stands apart by itself
If in the free World Soviet Republic of the
future by some miracle, all memories and records
of the vanqushed capitalist world were annhllated
and there remained over only the records of the
trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, these would completely
suffice in order to reconstruct the true nature OF
bourgeois society. For in the of Sacco and
Vanzetti there is reflected as in "dew drop the
rld-embracing struggle between labor and capital
the entire lying fraud of bourgeois democracy, all
the cruelty of bourgeois class justice and not the
least the role of the social democracy confederate
and saviour of the bourgeoisie.
In the period of intensified class struggle, in
the period of imperialism, the most ruthless means
are being employed by the bourgeolse to MAINTAIN
its rule in face of the attack of the working class
The thousands and thousands of workers corpses in
Hungary, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Poland, Rou-
mania, China, Austria etc. are bloody proof OF
this But the case of Sacco and Vanzeth I'M
doubtedy deserves 'place of honor IN the history
of bourgeois class terror.
J. What is the real political import of this Trial?
Sacco and Vanzetti Were condemned to death
not because they shave committed a murder"-the
workers of all countries, in fact everybody knows
that Sacco and Vanzetti absolutely innocent
but because they revolutionary class fighters,
because, during the imperiast war, they agitated
against the war-makers, distributed anti-imperiast
leaflets; because after the war; they worked in the
American trade union movement active revolu-
tionaries. They were denounced as Reds and as
such are to be got out of the way.
The condemnation of Sacco and Vanzetti did not
ct the beginning that response among the
working class which it ought to have aroused. In
the wave of Communist prosecutions prevailing in
America at that time the of Sacco and Vanzeti
appeared to be of little Importance Gradually,
however, broader strata of the workers became alive
to the meaning of the trial.
In the whole world there set in a powerful pro-
test movement the like of which is not to be found
in the history of protest movements. The workers
protested against the intended judicial murder at
thousands of meetings; hundreds of thousands of
protest kilograms sent to the American judicial
authorities; section of the liberal bourgoise
Joined the protest movement of the workers.
The American bourgeoise was several times
obliged to draw back, to postpone repeatedly the
date of the execution but it did not release its vic
TINS The workers, on their part recognized more
and more that the cause of Sacco and VanZetti
their own cause, that it was a question of their
vital interests. Thus the fight for the release
of the two revolutionary fighters developed into
sort of trial of strength between the working class
and the bourgeoise, which possesses the greatest
importance the present situation OF the increased
offensive of capital and the threatening the
Soviet Union. That is the reason why the Ameri-
bourgeoisie is obstinatey defending its post
ton in the of Sacco and Vanzeti why it wishes
to save at all costs its soiled prestige, why it
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nittee have obtained to save Sacco and Vanzetti
and which proves beyond all doubt the innocence of
the two accused.
The news of the refusal to grant trial,
which meant the final confirmation of the death
sentence aroused the excitement and indignation of