The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20
SAFE, Two Members
of Our Class
By w. j. WHITE

THE workers of the world are witnessing one of
those struggles which comes but once in several
decades of years. The case of Sacco and Vanzetti
is such struggle and the on-looker today the
forces of the struggle in the light of the publicity
thrown on it in its true light. A struggle between
the forces of ownership and the struggle of those
who work and toll for their living In this sense the
mere victims of this struggle are forced for the
terms of their seven years of incarceration to sit
behind the walls of their stone and iron ceRs of
Galgotha and die thousand deaths while this class
drama is enacted and they but the on-lookers.
This is being tried in court which has the
highest Of jurisdiction in such cases, the court of
public opinion and there is not the slightest doubt
in the minds of the workngcass jury that the pris-
oners are not guilty. and they have far rendered
their decision in such emphatic manner that the
court relied upon to put these innocent workers to
death by burning them with electricity unto death
has been unable to carry out the wishes of the master
class who have done their hardest to send these
victims of their wrath to this ignomnious end The
battle far has been with the woringcIass out of
whose loins these workers come. That these work.
ers are living today is because of the mighty pro-
tests of the hosts of labor Not to the fairness of
this mythical thing known Hjustice," not at all,
but alone to the fact that the forces of labor have
been made articulate in this crisis and have made
their cries heard around the world and have so
aroused the wrath of their class that it has made
the masters hesitate lest in carrying out this class
destruction of these two workers they do themselves
So far as these two workers concerned they
have no fear. What makes them pause is that they
have been told by those whom they hire for the pur-
pose of pointing out to them the course they must
travel that the killing Of these workers will make
for the dsgracng and unmasking of their courts,
and the state and national governments.
There is no sentiment in this for the workers in
the prison of Massachusetts. None whatever The
only consideration governing these bought and paid
for servants is that in doing these workers to death
fhay may fho Gle
true light this thing which they have passed upon
the workers for the past centuries as working and
working alone for these workers This is the mighty
thing these servants are pointing out, and are cry
ing madly to the masters to halt their murderers be-
fore it is too late. A few centuries back the cry
was: 'Watchman what of the night?" This tragedy
is fast bringing into existence new cry and this
one is now being transformed into: "What new move
has the masters made in the case of Sacco and
Vanzetti"
Tragedy is stalking abroad in this case Death
is reaching out its bony hands for these working
class victims of this capitalist conspiracy to MUIR
der. Several times they have been marked to die
in order that the workers might be intimdated and
forced to pause in their wrath against their robber
masters Nothing but the organized mass of their
brothers and sisters have stayed the hand Of the
assassins, and nothing but the united protest of
these same workers will be able to stay this killing
and free these innocent victims of CAPITALIST hate
and the staying of their hands in this deliberate
attempt to KILL There is but one force that these
murderers fear and that is the mighty force of labor
in a mass protest which shows the masters that
labor is waking to the fact that such things as this
case is making them awake from their long slumber
That shows the masters that the carrying out of
this murder will be more source of danger to them
and their i'll gotten gains because It will 90 to
arouse their victims to the need of overturning the
present system of ownership which lies at the base
of this murder of these two members of our class.
the workngclass.