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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Class Verdict.

! know the sentence will be be-
tween two classes, the oppressed class
and the rich class, and there will be
always collision between one and the
other. We fraternize the people with
the books, with the literature. You
prosecute the people, tyrannize over
them and kill them. We try she edu-
cation of people always. You try to
put path between US and some other
nationality that hates each other.
That is why | am here today on this
bench, for having been the oppressed
class. Well. You are the oppressor.
You know it, Judge Thayer. You
know all my life. You know why |
have been here, and after seven years,
we that you have been prosecuting,
me and my poor wife, and you still
today sentence us to death. | would
like to tell all my life, but what is
the use? You know all about what
say before, and my friend-that is,
my comrade-will be talking because
he is more familiar with the langu-
age, and / will give him a chance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Opposed To All War.

We believe it that the war is
wrong, and we believe this more now
after ten years that we understand,
day by day, the consequences and the
result of the after war. We believe
more now than ever that the war was
wrong, and we are against war more
now than ever, and l am glad to be
on the doomed scaffold if l can say to
mankind, Look out, you are in a
catacomb of the floor of mankind.
For what? All that they say to you,
all that they have promised to you
it was lie, it was an illusion, it was
cheat, it was fraud, it was a
crime.
They promised you liberty. Where
is liberty? They promised you pros
perity. Where is prosperity? They
have promised you elevation. Where
is the elevation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Tribute TO Sacco.

My comrade, the kind man, the
kind man to all the child, you SEN
tence him two times, in the Bridge
water case and the Dedham case, con-
nected with me, and you know he is
innocent. You forget all this popu-
lation that has been with us for seven
years, to sympathize and give us all
their energy and all their kindness.
You do not care for them.
Among that peoples and the com
rades and the working class there is
a big legion of intellectual people
which have been with us for seven
years, not TO commit the ubiquitous
sentence, but still the Court goes
ahead. And ! think | thank you all,
you peoples, my comrades who have
been with me for seven years, with
the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and l will
give my friend chance.
| forgot one thing which my COM
rade remember me. AS | said before,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Clean Life.

And besides that. you know that |
was not guilty. You know that my
life, my private and public life in
Plymouth. and wherever have been,
was so exemplary that one of the
worst fears of our prosecutor, Katz-
mann, was to introduce proof of our
life and of our conduct. He has taken
it off with all his might and he has
succeeded.
You know if we could have Mr..
Thompson, or even the Brother Nc
Anarney, in the first trial in
Plymouth, you know that no Jury
would have found me guilty. Ny first
lawyer has been a partner of Mr..
katzmann, as he is still now. The
first lawyer of the defense, Mr..
Nahey, has not defended, and has sold
me for thirty golden money like Judas
sold Jesus Christ. If that man has
not told to you or to Mr.. Katzmann
that he know that was guilty, it is
because he know that was not guilty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
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Tribute To Debs.

beg your pardon referring to
paper).
There is the more good man ever
cast my eyes upon since l lived, a
man that will last and will grow al
ways more near and more dear to the
people, as far as in to the heart of
the people so long as admiration or
goodness ard Of sacrifice will last. l
mean Eugene Debs.
will say that even dog that killed
chickens would have found an Ameri-
can jury to convict it with the proof
that the Commonwealth has produced
against US. That man was not with
me in Plymouth or with Sacco where
he was on the day of the crime. You
can say that it is arbitrary, what we
are saying, that is good and he ap-
piled to the other his own goodness,
that is incapable of crime, and he be-
lieved that everybody is incapable Of
crime.
Well, it may be like that, but it is
not. 1t could be like that, but it is
not: and that man has real expert
ence of court, of prison and of jury,
Just because he went the world little
better he was prosecuted and SLAM
derod from his boyhood to his old age,
and, indeed, he was murdered by the
prison
He know, and not only he, but every
man of understanding in the world,
not only in this country but also in
the other countries, know that we
have provided a certain amount of a
record of the times. They all stick
with us, the flower of mankind in
Europe. The better writers, the great
est thinkers Of Europe have pleaded
in our favor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Kaufman Lied.

Well, Katzmann should have been
satisfied on that agreement. He could
have thanked his God and estimate
himself lucky man. But he was not
satisfied with that. He broke his word
and he tell the jury that | was tried
before in this very court. don't know
if that is right in the record, if that
was take off or not, but | hear with
my ears. When two or three women
from Plymouth come to take the
stand, the women reach that point
where this gentleman sit down over
there, the jury were sit down in their
place, and Kaufman asked this wom-
an if they have not testified before
Vanzetti, and they say, EYES," and
he tell to them, "You cannot testify"
They left the room. After they tes-
titled just the same But in the
meanwhile he tell to the jury that
have been tried before. That, think,
is not to make justice to the man who
is looking after the truth, and it is a
frame-up with which he has split my
life and doomed me.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Judge Preiudiced jury.

That man has done everything indi-
rectly to hurt me. He has made long
speeches with the jury about things
that do matter nothing, and on the
point of essence to the trial he has
passed over with few words OF
with complete silence. This was a
generalization in order to give to the
jury the impression that my own de-
fender has nothing good to say, has
nothing good to urge in defense of
myself, and therefore go around the
bush on little things that amount to
nothing and let pass the essential
points either in silence or with a very
weakly resistance.
We were tried during time that
has now passed into history. | mean
Ivy that, time where there was a
hysteria of resentment and h a e
against the people of our principles,
against the foreigners, against slack
ers, and it seems to me--rather,
am positive of it, that both you and
Mr. Katzmann has done all what it
were in your power in order 10 work
out, in order to agitate still more the
passion of the juror, the prejudice of
the juror, against us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

have the right to incline to believe
that the jury have never approached
before the trial any one that was suf-
ficiently intimate with me and Sacco
to be able to give them a description
of our personal conduct. The jury
don't know nothing about as, They
have never seen us. The only thing
that they know is the bad things that
the newspapers have said when we
were arrested and the bad story that
the newspaper have say on the Ply
mouth trial,
| don't know why the defense coun-
sci have made such an agreement, but
| know very we'll why Katzmann has
made such agreement, because he
know that half of the population of
Plymouth would have been willing to
come over here and say that in seven
years that | was living amongst
them that l was never seen drunk,
that | was known as the most strong
and steadfast worker of the commu-
nifty.
AS a matter of fact / was called a
mule, and the people that know a
little better the condition Of my faith
er, and that | was a single man, much
wondered at me and say, "Why you
work like a mad man in that way
when you have no children and no
wife to care about ?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Verdict on Christmas.

We do not believe in the fable of
the evening Of Christmas, neither in
the historical way nor in the church
way. You know some Of our folks
still believe in that, and because we
do not believe in that then it don't
mean that we are not human. We
are human, and Christmas is sweet to
the heart of every man. / think that
you have done that, to hand down
your decision on the evening of
Christmas, to poison the heart of our
family and Of our beloved.
am sorry to be compelled to say
this, but everything that was said on
your side has confirmed my suspicion
until that suspicion has changed to
gertrude. So that you see that one
year IL has taken before trying us.
Then the defense, in presenting the
new appeal, has not taken more time
than you have taken in answer to
that. Then there came the second
appeal, and now | am not sure wheth-
er it is the second appeal or the third
appeal where you wait eleven months
or one year without an answer to US,
and | am sure that you have decided
to refuse us n new trial before the
hearing for the new appeal began.
You take one year to answer it, or
eleven Notwithstanding like that
SO that you see that out Of the five
years, two were taken hy the State
from the day Of our arrest to the
trial, and then one year to wait for
your answer on the second or the
third appeal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
War In Vain.

From the day that / went to Char
lestown, the misfortune, the popula-
ton of Charlestown has doubled in
numbers. Where is the moral good
that the war has given to the world :?
Where is the spiritual progress that
we have achieved from the war?
Where are the security of life, the
security Of the things that we possess
for our necessity?
Where are the respect for human
life? Where are the respect and the
admiration for the good Characters
tics and the good OF the human ma
ture? Never as now before the war
there have been so many crimes, so
many corruption, so many degeuera-
ton as there is now.
In the best of. my recollection and
Of my good faith, during the trial
Katzmann has told to the jury that a
certain Coacci has brought in Italy
the money that, according to the
State theory, | and Sacco have stole
in Braintree. We never stole that
money. But Katzmann, when he told
that to the jury, he knows already
that that was not true. He knows al
ready that that man was deported in
Italy with the Federal policeman af-
ter our arrest. l remember we'll that
the Federal policemen with him in
their possession-that the Federal
policeman has taken away the trunks
from the very boarding house where
he was, and bring the trunks over
here and look them over and found
not single money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Five Years of Persecution.

1t was also said that the defense
has put every obstacle to the hand
ling of this case in order to delay the
case. That sounds sweet for US, and
I think it is injurious because it is
not true. If we consider that the
prosecution, the State, has employed
one, entire year to prosecute us, that
is, one of the five years that the case
has last was taken by the prosecu-
ton to begin our trial, our first trial.
Then the defense make an appeal to
you and you waited, on l think that
you were resolute, that you had the
resolute in your heart when the trial
finished that you will refuse every
appeal that we will put up to you.
You waited a month or a month
and a half and just lay down your
decision on the eve of Christmas
just on the evening of Christmas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Thayer "Cruei. Prejudiced. "

They have given trial to Madeiros
for the reason that the judge had
either forgot or omitted to tell the
Jury that they should consider the man
innocent until found guilty in the
court or something Of that sort. That
man has confessed. The man was
tried ana has confessed, and the court
gave him another trial. We have
proved that there could not have been
another Judge on the face of the earth
more prejudiced and more cruel than
YOU have been against us.
We haven proven that; still they re-
fuse the new trial, we know, and you
know in your heart, that you have
been against us from the very be-
ginning, before you see us. Before
you see us you already know that we
were radicals, that we were under
dogs, that we were the enemy of the
institutions. that you can believe in
good faith in their goodness don't
want to condemn that--and that ii
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11

fend this case, the prosecution has
taken more time than the defense.
And there is a great consideration
that must be taken in this point, and
it is that my first lawyer betrayed
us-the whole American population
were against us. We have the mis-
fortune to take man from Califor-
mia, and he came here and he was
ostracized by you and by ever au-
thority, even by the jury, and is so
much so that no part of Massachus-
etts is immune from what would
call the prejudice-that is, to believe
that each people in each place of the
world, and they believe to be the bet
ter Of the world, and they believe
that all the other are not so good as
they.
So of course the man that came
from California into Massachusetts
to defend two of US, he must be licked
if it is possible, and he was licked
all right And we have our part, too,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Witnesses Coached.

/ remember that Mr.. Katzmann has
introduced witness against us, a
certain Ricci. Well, have heard
that witness. 1t seems that he has
nothing to say. II seemed that II was
a foolishness to produce witness that
has nothing to say. And it seemed
if he were called by the Common
wealth TO tell to the jury that he was
the foreman of that laborer that was
near the scene of he crime and who
claimed-and it was testified in our
behalf--that we were not the men and
that this man, the witness Ricci, was
his foreman, and he has tried to keep
the man on the job instead of going
to see what was happening, so as to
give the impression that It was rot
true that the man went toward the
street to see what happened.
But that was not very important.
The real Importance is that that man
say that II was not true. That GER
tain witness that was the water bcv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Proof Of Judges Bias.


We know that you have spoke
your hostility against US with friends
Of yours on the train, at the Uni
versity Club of Boston, on the golf
club of Worcester, Mass. | am sure
that if the people who know all what
you say against us would have the
civil courage to take the stand, maybe
your HONOR am sorry to say this
because you are an old man, and
have an old father-but maybe you
would be beside us in good justice at
this time.
When you sentenced us at the
Plymouth trial you say to the best
of my memory, of my good faith, that
crimes were in accordance with my
Notwithstanding of that sort, and
you take off one charge if remem-
Der it exactly, from the jury.
The jury was so violent against me
that they found me guilty of both
charges, because there were only two.
Before they would have found me
guilty of dozen charges against your
iIonor's instructions. Of course / re-
member that you told them that there
was no reason to believe that if
we're the bandit have intention to
kill somebody, so that they will take
off the indictment of attempt to
murder. Well they found me guilty of
what? And if / am right, you take
out that and sentence me only for at
ike that. But. Judge Thayer did
give more to me for that attempted
give more to me for that attempt of
robbery than all the 448 men that were
in Charlestown.
All of these that attempted to rob,
all those that have robbed, they have
not such a sentence as you gave to me
for an attempt at robbery. l am will
ing that everybody that does believe
me that they can make commission,
they can go over there, and / am very
willing that the people should go over
there and see whether it is true or
not.
There are people in Charlestown
who are professional robbers, who
have been in half the prisons of the
United States, that they are steal, or
hurt the man, shoot him. BY chance
he got better, he did not die. Well,
the most of the guilty without trial,
by self-eonfession, and by asking the
aid of their own partner and they got
eight to ten, eight to tweleve, ten to
fifteen. None of them has twelve to
fifteen, as you gave men for an at
tempt at robbery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Attacks First Lawyer.


What want to say is that: Every
body ought to understand that the
first defense has been terrible. My
first lawyer did not stick to defend
us. He has made no work to collect
witnesses and evidence in our favor.
The record in the Plymouth court is
a pity. | am told that they are al
most one-half lost. SO that the de-
Tense had a tremendous work to do in
order to collect some evidence, to
collect some testimony to effect and
to learn what the testimony of the
State has done. And in this consid-
GRAFTON, it must be said that even if
the defense take double time of the
State without delay, double time that
they delay the case, it would have
been reasonable; whereas it took less
than the State.
Well, | have already said that / not
only am not guilty of these two
crimes, but l never commit crime in
my life-L have never steal, and |
have never kill, and l have never
split blood, and l have fought against
the crime, and have fought and l
have sacrificed myself, even to elm
mate the crimes that the law and the
Church legitimate and sanctify.
This is what say: | would not
wish to dog or to snake, to the
most low and misfortune creature of
the earth-I would not wish to any of
them what | have had to suffer for
things that | am not guilty of. But
my conviction is that | have suffered
for things that / am guilty of. l am
suffering because am a radical, and
indeed | am radical; / have suffer-
ed because | was an Italian, and in
deed l am an Italian; | have suffered
more for my family and for my be-
loved than for myself; but l am so
convinced to be right that you could
execute me two times, and if | could
be reborn two other times l would
live again to do what / have done al
ready. l have finished; thank you.
Nicola Sacco-Yes, sir. l am not
an orator. 1t is not very familiar
with me, the English language, and
as | know, as my friend has told me,
my comrade Vanzetti will speak more
long, so | thought to give him the
chance.
| never know, never heard, even
read in history anything so cruel as
this court After seven years pros
ecuting they still consider us guilty.
And these gentle people here are ar
rayed with us in this court today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Fake Evidence

Now | call that murder to tell TO
the jury that friend or comrades or
relative or acquaintance of the
charged man, of the indicted man,
has carried the money to Italy when
he knows it was not true. can call
that nothing else but murder, a
plain murder.
But Katzmann has told something
else also against us that was not true.
IL ! understand well, there have been
agreement of counsel during the trial
in which the counsel Of defense shall
not produce any evidence Of my good
conduct in Plymouth and the counsel
of the prosecution would not have let
the jury know that ! was tried and
convicted another time before in
Plymouth.
Well, call that one-sided agree
ment. In fact, even the telephone
poles knew at the time of this trial
at Dedham that | was tried and con-
victed in Plymouth; the iurymen
know that even when they slept.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
Thousands Believe In Innocence.

The scientists, the great scientists,
the greatest statesmen Of Europe have
nleaded in our favor. The people of
foreign nations have pleaded in our
favor. Is it possible that only a few
on the jury, only two or three men,
who would, condemn their mother for
worldly honor and for earthly fortune
it IL possible that they are right
against what the world, the whole
world, has say it is wrong, and that
! know that it is wrong?
If there is one that should know it,
If it is right or if it is wrong, it is
this man. You see it is seven years
that we are in Jail. What we have
suffered during these seven years no
human tongue can say, and yet you
see me before you, not trembling, you
see me looking you in your eyes
straight, not blossoming. not changing
color. not ashamed or in fear
Eugene Debs said that not even a
dog-something like that--not even a
dog that kill the chickens would have
heen found guilty by American jury
with the evidence that the Common
wealth have produced against us. l
say that not even leprous dog would
have his appeal refused two times by
the Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
mot even leprous dog.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
War Hysteria.

Now in the world chronicle of the
time there is not a single happening
of that nature. Nobody in America
I'VE have read plenty things bad
that the Germans have done in Europe
during the war-but nobody can prove
and nobody will say that the Germans
are bad enough to poison the spring
water in this country during the war.
Now this, it seems, has nothing to
do with us directly. 1t seems to be a
thing by incident on the stand be-
tween the other thing that is the es-
sence here. But thej ury were hating
us because we were against the war,
and the jury don't know that it makes
any difference between a man that is
against the war because he believes
that the war is unjust, because he has
no country, because he is a cosmo-
politan, and man that is against the
war because he is in favor of the other
country that fights against the coun-
try in which he is, and therefore a
spy, and he commits any crime in the
country in which he is in behalf of
the other country in order to serve
the other country.
We are not men of that kind. No
body can say that we are German
spies or spies of any kind. Katzmann
know very we'll that. Katzmann know
that we were against the war because
we did not believe in the purpose for
which they say that the war was
done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-11
mot Right to Exploit Man"

Well, / want to reach little point
further, and it is this: That not only
have not been trying to steal in
Rridgewater, not only have l not been
in Braintree to steal and kill and
have never steal or kill or split blood
in all my life, not only have strug-
gled hard against crimes, but have
refused myself the commodity or glory
of life, the pride of life Of good po-
sition, because in my consideration it
is not right to exploit man.
have refused to go in business be-
cause / understand that business is a
speculation on profit upon certain peo-
pie that must depend upon the bust
ness man, and l do not consider that
is right and therefore I refuse to do
that.
Now, I should say that l am not only
innocent of all these things, not only
have 1 never committed a real crime
in my life-though some sins, but not
crimes-not only have struggled all
my life to eliminate crimes, the crimes
that tIlS Ol4lCldi laW anu IhS OlISAdl
moral condemns, but also the crime
that the official moral and the official
law sanctions and sanctifies-the ex-
ploitation and the oppression of the
man by the man, and if there is a
reason why + am here as a guilty
man, if there is a reason why you in
a few minutes can doom me, it is this
reason and none else.