The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-09
The UNITY OF LABOR AND The
union SQUARE DEMONSTRATION

THE unity of the labor movement vital to its
existence and progress 1t is the basic fact which must
underie the policy of labor in all its activities.
Socialist Party leaders who directly responsible
breaking up the Vanzet demonstration in
Union Square Thursday only struck blow at the soil
day of labor but directed attack at the very life OF
the labor movement itself.
No one will deny that the left wing workers, the most
advanced section of the trade union movement have carried
the burden of the fight for the liberation of Sacco and Van
zetti.
The Socialists in the conventions of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Atlantic City, in 1925, and at Detroit
1926 silent the issue They Joined
with the reaction in evading the ISSUE Abraham Shipa
cOf especially who most responsible for the police at
the workers Thursday did not raise his voice for
and Vanzetti at the Detroit A. F. of L. convention
The Socialists merely added another chapter, therefore,
to their betrayal of and Vanzett when they arbitrarily
the aid of the New York police refused to permit
speak after thousands of enthusiastic and mill
tant workers had demanded that he mount the speakers
stand and address them
The great demonstration for Ben Gold, in the face of
police clubs and the hOos of the mounted COssacks of the
employing clearly indicated that left wing workers made
up the great majority of the demonstrators that they had
made it the great that it promised to be until
broken by the alliance of the socialist right wnges and the
police.
Thus the Socialists have again violated the sodar
iy of labor the preservation development of which
and Vanzet facing death in the electric
chair.
The campaign the liberation of Sacco and Vanzetti
must be and broad enough to allow for
all sections of the working class to participate matter
their other differences may
tas seeking the lives of Sacco and VanZet must be
shown mistaken TERMS that section of the labor
movement is sOdy and unequvocaby for the immediate
lease of these workers. Any act of prOvocatOn DIVISION
which by implication intent excludes section of the
labor movement from expressing its sympathy with the
for the liberation of SaccO and Vanze weakens that
movement and destroys it's power.
The Socialists and right wngers in control of the demon
sraiOn worked in full cooperation with the police to enforce
dangerous policy the police force which today
arresng pckets breaking labor demonstrations The
capitalist press which has been most vicious in its efforts to
railroad and Vanzet to the electric chair is uering
poems of praise for the right wngers and hypoccal state
mens regret for what occurred at the demonstration
None will be deuded by these utterances.
The right wing the Socialist Party the chief OffciadOm
of the American Federation of Labor has done practically
nothing the freedom of SaccO and Vanzetti.
The police and the capitalist press, which has out
openly in alliance with the right wing, has been the most
INSCRIPTIONS opponent of the efforts to free these
The sole factor which has thus far stayed the hand Of
the execuoner and which will leave stone unturned until
they finally freed is the power of the rank and file of
labor manifested in labor demonstrations in part of
the world
The rank and file of labor has right to hear its
spokesman and enegades will succeed in their attempts
revoke that right disrupt the forces of labor not
in the name of SaccO and Vanzetti.