The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-25
Faith in American Institutions"
and What Can Be Done About It
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

By WILLIAM F. dunno.
THE frame-up now takes it's plac,
1 with the injunction against the la
Dor unions as a legal weapon in tn,
arsenal of American capitalism.
Sacco and Vanzetti have been muir
dered by the capitalist rulers of The
United States while millions, con
WINGED of their innocence, unable t
believe the awfulness Of the crime
they witnessed, looked on will
staring eyes,
The mute but undeniable evidence
of the crime is now the charred bodie:
of Sacco and Vanzetti-two loyal anC
militant members of the workingclass
murdered by their class enemies, the
enemies of the labor movement, the
executioners in the pay of the bosses
of Massachusetts.
TO the workers of America the
corpses of our murdered comrades
says:
Our deaths at the hands of class
enemies, yours and ours, accom-
plished by the frame-up, proves
that every honest and militant
spokesman of the working class in
the United States, every active or
ganizer, every agitatOr and teacher,
every writer and speaker, who urge
the solidarity of labor, powerful
union organization and effective
struggle for wages and working
conditions and a workers and far
mers government, faces our fate.
Hatred and fear of the mass
strength of organized workers,
backed by the power of American
capitalism and its government, sent
us to the electric chair
"a fearful procession of the best
fighters in the ranks of the Ameri-
can working class will follow us to
the grave soon unless American la
Dor reads Alright the warning we
give-and acts"
american capitalism fears but
it does not respect the American
labor movement. Only power will
force respect"
Begin at once to organize the
unOrganized millions, lay the foun-
datiOns for labor party to fight
for the masses in the strOngholds
of capitalism, shatter the paralys-
ing belief in the impartiality of
American capitalist justice, set the
feet of American labor upon the
straight path of the class struggle"
DO this and our seven years of
torture ending in our murder will
not have been in vain"
THE defiance of the American labor
movement, the contemptuous gesture
with which the capitalist flunkeys
have hurled the dead bodies of SaccC
and Vanzetti into the face of the
American workingclass, brings into
sharp relief against the towering
background of capitalist institutions
the weakness of the American labor
The labor movement is weak mum
erically, it is weak in class conscious.
ness, it is weak in structure.
ABOVE all, the shamefully proven
n before the whole world, the reac.
ton and cowardice of its officia
leadership stands out as the chief
reason for it's failure to prevent the
legalized frame-up and murder Of
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Forced by mass pressure to make
some sort of gesture, President
Green, in the name of the executive
council of the American Federation
asked Governor Fuller for clemency
but in the same message said:
These working men and women
for whom l speak are loyal to our
government and have faith in
American institutions.
while the personalities of Sacco
and Vanzetti may mean little, faith
in the integrity of our courts and
the instrumentalities of govern
ment is of transcendent Importance.
The success of government depends
upon the confidence which it's
citizenship manifests in govern
mental institutions. !. :"
NOR more craven utterance has ever
~ been made by labor union of
fetal.
At the exact moment when "oul
courts and the instrumentalities OF
were numbering two in
nocent workingmen, President Green
the head of the organized labor move
ment, announces that labor is loyal
to our government" and has faith
in American institutions"
His only appeal is that Governor
Fuller act to strengthen and not to
weaken these instruments Of oppres-
sion and murder. He asks only the
Massachusetts, executioners stay their
hands so that his task of betraying
the labor movement will not be made
harder.
Green speaks as one murderer
arguing with another as to method.
THE burned bodies of Sacco and
Vanzetti show that the leadership
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