The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-31
Owning Class Fears the Field
of Class Struggle in the
Textile Industry
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

IN it's account of the impressive
L funeral of Nicola Sacco and Bar
tolomeo Vanzetti, Sunday, the Bos-
ton Herald said
THE strangest procession Boston
has ever seen passed thru the rain
soaked streets yesterday behind
the bodies of Nicola Sacco and
BartOlomeO Vanzetti."
But Boston is destined to see yet
stranger sights. From the soil of
the working class struggle, en-
riched by the blood of our mar
tyred dead, there painfully rises
the power of labor, organized and
militant.
That will not only be a strange
sight for Boston, for Massachusetts,
for New England. 1t will be an
unwelcome sight for those who put
Sacco and Vanzetti to death in the
electric chair. 1t will be like seeing
the ghosts OIL the dead
Sacco and Vanzetti died that the
power of labor in New England
might grow. While Attorney Cen
eral Arthur K. Reading, of Massa-
chusetts, tells the members of the
National Association of Attorneys
General, gathered in convention at
Buffalo, New York, that Sacco and
Vanzetti were given a "fair" trial,
the actual pauperization of the tex
tile workers of New England con-
tinues.s
Attorney General Reading thus
tries to bolster the lie that sticks
hard in threats of the Massachu-
sets murder crew, while forgetting
the actual industrial conditions in
Massachusetts that will bring other
Saccos and Vanzettis into the field
of the class struggle.
The monster crime committed
against Sacco and Vanzetti has
convinced new millions of workers,
not only in the United States but
turnout the world that there can
be no "justice" for workers under
the capitalist system. Capitalist
injustice to labor thus becomes
more apparent than ever, in the
courts, in industry, everywhere.
While the attorney general Of the
mill barons Of Massachusetts is
peddling his piffle in Buffalo, the
agent of Americas industrial over
lords, Herbert Hoover, secretary of
commerce, is sending out his prop
uganda, thru the governmental "bu-
reau of the census" aiding the prof
iteers in the textile industry No
effort to aid labor, but, to quote
from the circular issued:
ITO aid business executives in
Analysing tendencies in production,
prices, stocks, exports, ETC., in the
textile field, the Department of
Commerce has just published the
Textiles Section of the Record Book
of Business Statistics. In this Bull
letin, which will be followed by
sections relating to other indus
tries, there are presented statistics
month by month from 1909 thru
1926, were available, on the vari-
Gus phases of the cotton, wool, silk,
rayon and other textile industries.
The statistical data are supple
mented by descriptive text, illus
trating the actual uses of this ma
terial by business concerns in plan
ming sales and production policies,
purchasing, etc, thru the publica-
ton of these data currently in the
Departments monthly Survey of
Current Business
RSus the government that muir
dered Sacco and Vanzetti shows its
eagerness to aid the textile barons
directly benefited by the lynching
of these two workers.
i At the same time the socalled
l"department of labor" of the gov
eminent, presided over by Secre-
tary of Labor James j. Davis, the
Pittsburgh banker, develops its at
tack against the foreign-born and
inaugurates campaign for new
deportations.
One need only look at the actual
statistics to learn the rich prize
that New England's industrial oil
garchs had staked in the slaughter
of Sacco and Vanzetti. They believe
that the lynching party at the Char
lestown State Prison, on the night
of August %, will help them main
tain the slavery conditions outlined
in the reports of the bureau of la
Dor statistics of the department of
labor, conditions that mean an in