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other tendencies in the labor movement He did
valiant work in the defense and we marched to-
gether the picket line, went to Jail together,
united forces in common effort to make the
Boston strike successful, etc. Some day men like
Alfred Baker Lewis and Upton Sinclair and others
who believe in labor unity not labor division and
in fighting capitalism not Communism will realize
that the socialist party officaldom believes other
wise that it cannot be removed, that it uses the
Baker Lewises and Sinclars as fig leaves to cover
its reactionary nakedness and they will break with
the party which serves capitalism by dividing and
weakening the labor movement
g. PROGRESSIVE" CAPITALIST POLL
TICIANS PROP UP THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
IN TIME OF CRISIS. Brandeis's refusal to inter
the silly pretext that he had personal rela
lions with people interested in the case" and Bor
abs shameful declaration that self-respecting
government would yield to "the opinion of mankind"
or demonstrations of popular will-are outstanding
evidences of the fact that the socaed progressives
props of capitalism who in time of crisis find
progressive Qualifications for reactionary acts.
TO- WE MUST BUILD LABOR PARTY AND
FIGHT FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS GOV
ERNMENT The necessity for labor to unite it's
forces politically, clean out the agents of the capt.
taist political parties from leadership in its own
ranks and sweep the boss-controlled judges, legis
lators and executives out of power is an obvious
lesson from the Sacco-Vanzctt case
ii. WE MUST FIGHT FOR THE ABOLITION
OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM. 1t is not merely
a Thayer or a Fuller or Katzmann but the sys-
tenn that breeds Thayers and Fullers and Katzmanns
that exploits workers and persecutes them for
tivity behalf of their cass-it is the capitalist
system that has murdered our two comrades
H. THE WORKERS MOVEMENT CANNOT
BE DESTROYED BY TERROR History is
side in the class struggle All the forces of social
development lead to the Strengthening and ultimate
triumph of movement. An act of class brutality
and terror, such the murder of Sacco and Van
zett, in place of frightening the workers into
desertion of movement has the opposite result.
1t arouses and awakens countless fersh hosts of
workers. The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti has
disillusioned millions of workers with the capitalist
courts has stirred up their miltancy, driven them to
the left, put them in a fighting mood. 1t has weak
ened the ruling class by unnaSking it. 1t has
strengthened international proletarian solidarity by
teaching the workers of Europe, Asia, Africa, Aus
traa and North and South America to act together
in common cause. 1t has brought sympathy
and support to the labor movement from inteHec
tuals still under the sway of belief in capitalism
and its institutions Those who already sympathized
have become more actively sympathetic. The Hey
wood Brouns and Edna Saint Vincent Miays, the
Lawsons and Dos Passos and innumerable other
writers and artists have been brought closer to the
workers movement had their sympathy aroused
and some breath of our struggle and must
necessarily pass into their writings, serving to
dermine capitalism ideologically and prepare the
way for better social order. Sacco and VanZetu
fought for the organization of certain unorganized
workers and against capitalism A little handful
of workers followed them and knew of them. Today
they have been made into martyrs and heroes and
millions follow them into struggle for the or
ganizaton of the unorganized and against the CAPT
talist system In life their voice reached only hand
fuls In death their voice is heard round the world.
Sacco and Vanzetti are taking their vengeance.
That which weak in them has persisted. That
which strong has been magnified into power
ful force that makes the mighty tremble in their
places Of power Ours is the task of keeping alive
the memory OF their struggles and sufferings, their
herosm ard their martyrdom. Of carrying on the
caIse of labor for which they died. of organizing
the unorganized workers, of unfyng labors forces,
of putting end to the frame-up system. Of abol-
ishng capitalist justice capitalist control of courts
and governors, of abolishing the system whose ene
my and whose victim they were, Let us pledge our
selves that they shall not have died in vain. Let
us pledge ourselves to carry the cause for which
they fought and died until the workers free and
capitalism no longer exists the face of the earth
That is their wish. For that they died. For that