The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-04-22

mas spoken at last ana BarCOmeO NanZettl
and Nicola Sacco, two Of the bravest and
best scouts that ever served the labor
movement, must go to the electric chair.
"The decision of this capitalist judicial
tribunal is not surprising. 1t accords per-
fectly with the tragical farce and the far
cial tragedy of the entire trial of these
two absolutely innocent and shamefully
prosecuted working men.
"The evidence at the trial in which they
were charged with a murder they had no
more to do with committing than we had,
would have convicted no one but for
eign labor agitator" in the hypdrophobic
madness of the world war. In any other
case the perjured and flagrantly made-to-
order testimony, repeatedly exposed and
well known to the court, would have re-
suited in an instantaneous acquittal. Not
even sheepkilling dog but only "vi-
ciOus foreign radical" could have been
convicted under such shameless evidence,
as Eugene V. Debs commented on the pro-
cedure of the trial.
"Sacco and Vanzetti were framed and
doomed from the start. Not all the tes-
timony that could have been piled up to
establish their innocence beyond a ques-
ton of doubt could have saved them in
that court. The trial judge was set and
lmmovable. 1t was so ordained by the
capitalist powers that be, and it had to
come. And there must be no appeal
granted lest the satanic perjury of the
testimony and the utter rottenness of the
proceedings appear too notoriouslv rank
and revolving in spite of the conspiracy
OF the press to keep the public in ignor-
ance of the disgraceful and damning facts
that would come before the United States
Supreme Court.
aside from the disgustinglv farcial
nature of the trial which could and should
have ended in fifteen minutes in that mas
ter-class court; the refined malice and
barbaric cruelty of these capitalist tribu-
nails, high and low, may be read in the
msufferable torture inflicted through sew
en- long, agonizing years upon their i'm
prlsoned and helpless victims.
ct would have been merciful to the last
degree in comparison had they been boiled
IN oil, burned at the stake, or had every
JOINT been torn from their bodies on the
wheel when they were first seized to gIut
the vengeance of slave drivers, who wax
fat and savage on child labor and who
never forgave an 'agitator' who is too
rgidly honest to be bribed, too courage
Gus to be intimidated, and too defiant to
be suppressed.
And that is precisely why the mill
owning, labor sweating malefactors Of
Massachusetts had Sacco and Vanzetti
framed, bounced upon, thrown into DIM
geon, and sentenced to be murdered bv
their judicial and other official underlinos
We appeal to the working men and
women of America to think of these two
loyal comrades, these two honest. clean
hearted brothers of ours, in this fatefuI
hour IN which they stand face to face
with their bitter and ignominious doom.
The capitalist courts of Massachusetts
have had them on the rack dav and NIGHT
devouring the flesh of their bodies and
torturing their souls for seven lonp
years to finally deal the last vicious
heartless blow, aimed to send them 70
their graves as red-handed fellons and
murderers.
Would that it were in our power 70
make that trial judge and those cold
Dlooded gowns in the higher court suffer
Tor one day the agonizing torture. the
pltlless misery, the relentless cruelty thew
have inflicted in their stony-hearted GIN
dlclaI calmness and serenity" upon Sacco
and Vanzetti through their seven endless
years!
Perhaps some day the solemn and be-
gowned servants of the ruling powers NAV
nave to atone for their revolving crime
against innocence in the name of iusticel
they have pronounced the doom of
their long suffering victims and the press
declares that the last word has been spols-
en-. We deny it.
There is yet another voice vet n ba
heard and that is the voice of an outraged
working class. It is for labor now TO
speak and for the labor movements to an
nounce its decision, and that decision is
and must be, Sacco and Vanzetti are in
nOcent and shall not die!
To allow these two intrepid proletar;ar
leaders to perish as redhanded criminals
would forever disgrace the cause of labor
in the United States.
The countless children of generations
yet unborn would blush for their sires and
grand sires and never forgive their cow
ardice and poltrooney.
1t can not be possible, and we shall
not think is possible, that the American
workers will desert, betray and deliver to
'helr execuuoner two men who have stood
IS staunchly true, as unflinchinglv loval