The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-25

THE ruthless murder of Sacco and
= Vanzetti, in the after-midnight
hour of last Tuesday morning, was
but the beginning of a new often
sive against labor by the ruling
class assassins in anticipation of
the dark days of Industrial de-
preston ahead.
There is no dispute that there
are many storm signals indicating
that the much-advertised republican
prosperity" of the Coolidge regime
is on the wane. As unemployment
develops, as iobless workers grow
hungry and homeless, unrest in
creases, discomfort mounts and the
owning class faces new difficulties.
The exploiting class, that ordered
the Lighting bolt of death shot thru
the warm, living bodies of our COM
rades, believes in preparedness"
No worker has forgotten the elab-
crate program of preparedness"
that was carried out in 1916, on the
eve of the American entry into the
world war. Workers were con-
scripted to march thru the streets
of the nations great cities. They
were taught to believe in 'the war
to make the world safe for democ-
racy." If they did not walk the
chalk line of cringing servitude
and insane jingoism, they were
faced with the hangman's moose
dangling over the heads of Tom
Mooney and Warren X. Billings,
framed up incidental to the holding
of the preparedness day" in San
Francisco, California.
Preparing for the sending of
millions of workers into the Euro
pean death trenches of the world
slaughter in 1916, the ruling class
planned to hang Mooney and Bill
ings "by the neck until DEATH as
a warning to thinking workers not
to seize this occasion as an excel
lent one to strengthen their unions.
The crime of Tom Mooney was that
he tried to organize the street car
men of San Francisco.
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Similarly today, the profit takers
aR faced with a new crisis, an in
dustrial depression, during which it
will again attempt to force the
working class to keep its place
millions to starve, millions to walk
the streets looking for jobs, mill
ions of homeless to sleep in the
open places, many to die of hunger.
many to become early victims of
ravaging diseases that spread
death wholesale, in times like these,
thru the poorer working class dis
tricts.
The great capitalists do not at
tempt to meet the crisis with un
employment insurance or other So
cial legislation provided by their
kept government. There is no
thought of the interests of those
who labor. Instead of protection
against the evil of recurring periods
of idleness, which is inherent in the
capitalist social order, the workers
are faced with the brutal spectacle
of two of their bravest done to
death in the electric chair This is
the "WARNING!" that the work
ers, in the days ahead, must sub
nit to hunger, homelessness and
death, IN SILENCE, or meet the
fate provided by the murderous
capitalist law that took the lives
of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The oppressors have already ad-
mitted that their prosperity" is
on the wane. 1t was Colonel
Leonard P. Ayres, vice-president
of the Cleveland Trust Company.
who said on Monday, August Is,
midway between the last reprieve
granted and the final day of execu-
ton of Sacco and Vanzetti, that:
Our prosperity seems to be get
ting tired. 1t is showing signs of
fatigue. 1t may recover its earlier
vigor later on. but just at present
TT is UNMISTAKABLY SLOW
ING DOWN"
The warning issued by Ayres is
directed to the big bankers and the
great industrialists to prepare for
the stormy days ahead. The New
England bankers and the textile
mill and shoe barons of Massachu-
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