The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
HAPG0OD, KRASKE
And DOS PASSOS
FINED IN BOSTON

BOSTON, Aug. 31.-Powers Hap
good George Kraska, and John Dos
Passes have been fined ten dollars
each in the municipal court for picket
ing the State House. The charge
against them is lettering and sumter
ing. All three appealed.
Army Man Goes Free. 49,.
Paxton Hibben, formerly in the
diplomatic service, and now a captain
in the United States Army Reserve,
was acquitted altho he admitted hav-
ing been among the pickets. Judge
Sullivan, before whom the cases We're
tried, said that he believed Hibben
had not heard the police order to
move along altho the officers on duty
declared that they had warned each
of the picketers individually.
az am not guilty of sauntering or
lettering" Hapgood said in his state
ment, According to Funk and Wag-
nails definition of these words, saun-
tering means AN idle stroll and
lettering means 'idling' or lingering
idly by the way I was certainly not
idling or wasting time, nor was I rest
ing. -
Ion the contrary, l was engaged
in the serious business of trying to
help save human life. I was trying
to persuade governor Fuller to pre-
vent the execution of my comrades
Sacco and Vanzetti, both of whom
were entirely innocent of the crime of
handitry with which they were
charged They were trying to build
better and more just social system
and have now been legally murdered,
crucified for opposing injustice in the
same way that many Of the greatest
men in history have been murdered
and crucified.
Brands Investigation.
81 was not lettering but was con-
veying to Governor Fuller a message,
asking him why, if his conscience was
clear. he had held the investigation.
in secret behind closed doors, far from
the public eye, where the brutal char
acter of the frame-up could not be
exposed This fact made me feel that
the governors conscience could not
be clear,
eff trying to save life is 'saunter-
ing and lettering then 7 am guilty
of the charge. IF trying to persuade
Governor Fuller to prevent murder is
not 'sauntering and lettering then I
am not guilty even tho Governor Full
Ter did not heed my persuasion and
allowed two innocent men to die"
Kraska Denies Charge.
Kraska spoke as follows: --
81 deny that was sauntering and
lettering. Together with other Amer
lean citizens walked on the sidewalk
in front of the State House on Sat
urday morning, Aug. 20, for a serious,
and definite purpose. I consider that
it is my duty to protest against any
attempt to send workers to death
upon such inconsistent evidence as
was brought out by the state against
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Remembering my American his
tory, from grammar school, (for I
cannot claim any more schooling than
that, owing to the economic conditions
which forced me to work at the age
of fourteen) that William Lloyd Gar.
rison was dragged thru the streets of
Boston for views contrary to the then
existing powers l thought how he is
today accepted as heroic, and statues
are erected to his honor in this city.
With that lesson in mind | attempted
to persuade peacefully the present
authorities against shamefully carry
ing out the disgraceful murder Of
these two workers.
"T walked with my other comrades
(some of whom are here with mel
solemnly and without interfering with
anyone whatsoever, carrying a card
with the inscription: TRY it on ire
ferring to the cap which was identi-
fled as Saccos but never tried on
HIM as one of my expressions to pre-
vent judicial murder, which has
since been carried out"