The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-15
TOUR OF SCENES In CASE SHOW
FRAME-JP OF SACCO And vANzETTI
(Continued from Paqe O1el

working class motherhood of Massa-
chusetts, of New England, of the
United States. Hers is a voice of
pain. much older but uttering the
same cry. as the voice Of Rosa Sac
co, who. goes daily to the Charles
town prison, in Boston, to visit her
husband Nicola Saeco, condemned
with BaTtolomeo Vanzetti to die in
the electric chair week from this
Monday midnight
During this week, it is the thunder
cry Of Americas working class wom-
anhood taking up the cry of Mrs.
Fruzzei and Mrs. Sacco, that should
merge in a mighty, crashing demand
for the release of Sacco and Van
zetti, a cry irresistible in its strength.
1t was under the guidance of Ed
ward Holton James, member of an
ancient New England family that has
not lost all of it's revolutionary spirit,
who is nephew of William James,
professor of philosophy at Harvard
University, that visited the places
in the vicinity of Boston that have
been brought into the limelight by
the Sacco- VanZetti case, now more
than seven years in the courts of
Norfolk County and the state of
Massachusetts,, and clamoring at the
doors of the federal government it
self Mr.. James was sentenced to 70
days in jail for trying to tell the
truth about the Sacco-V anzetti case
on Boston Commons, Sunday, August
z. But that has not dampened his
ardor in continuing the fight for the
liberation of these two prosecuted
workers.
Visit South Braintree.
We visited the shoe factory in
South Braintree, where the payroll
holdup used in IT,. frame-up against
Sacco and Vanzetti took place; also
Bridgewater, where another hold-up
was attempted that was charged
against Vanzetti, and for which he
was convicted and received a SEN
tence of 15t years in prison. We
spent some time in the Manley
Woods, where it is pointed out that
an automobile was planted in order
to aid the prosecution in its frame
up. We travelled the roads over
which the bandit" cars are alleged
to have sped ON their way, seeking
an escape; also to the Kelly (the
Three X Shoe Factory where Sacco
worked, and to the cottage where he
lived, and then on to the great shoe
town of Brockton, where they were.
arrested.
Two deep impressions stand out
from the seven-hour tour of these
scenes of payroll robberies, that
swept7thiso section of Massachusetts,,
as Well as the entire land, in the
years Immediately following the close
of the war. One impression is that
of flying automobiles, bandit cars, ;"
that pass thru the larger population
try roads lodging the main highways
that swept over unfrequented coun-
centers. Experienced hands must
have been upon the driving wheels OF
the cars, both in the South Braintree
and in the Bridgewater hold-ups, in
addition to well-trained eyes to pick
the right direction at every frequent
bend.
Proof of Frame-up.
In this connection it must be re-
membe.ed that neither Sacco nor
Vanzetti has ever owned an automo-
bile, they have never had their hands
upon the steering wheel of car, nor
have they the least knowledge of how
to drive one, and they have little
knowledge Of the geography of the
territory where the hold-ups We're
perpetrated.
My other impression is of the face,
patient and toll-worn of Mrs. Fruz-
zeli, the mother of is children, whose
husband, Giovanni, was reported to-
Italy to die after living and working
in this country for 20 years, like tens
of millions Of other foreign-born
workers, seeking to win livelihood
for themselves and their families in
American capitalist industry.
Fruzzeli's only crime, so far as
could learn was that his name APP
peared upon the subscription list of
the "Cronaea Soyversiva" THE Sub
versive. Chronicle1, edited BY Luigi
Gallealii, at Lynn. Mass. sGalleani
gave his name to the 'Galleani
Group Of anarchists, to which SaccoI
and Vanzetti are said to have belong
ed. It, was against this Galleanil
group -of anarchists that Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer levelled
his bitter attack before the commits
tee on rules of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, on June /, 1920,
FAKE Bomb Scares."
Fruzzeli, Galleani, Coaccio and
others who lived in this neighborhood
were deported. Agents of the De-
partment of Justive have confessed,
however, that the government
couh 1T get its hands on sufficient
evidence to deport either Sacco or
Vanzetti. 1t is claimed that follow