The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-26

of the United States did not do
enough in it's struggle to save
Sacco and Vanzetti from the cleo
trio chair, The fact that our two
comrades are dead is proof enough.
There will be, and should be,
much discussion as to whether
much more could have been done
with the militant forces at present
available, and with the working
class of this country in its present
state of mind.
The immediate goal of this strug-
gle was set forth in the slogan,
"Sacco and Vanzetti Must Be
Freed!"
Mass demonstrations, short
strikes, petitions, adoption of'reso-
lutions by the various labor organ
izations over the land, the sending
of protest kilograms to Governor
Alvan T. Fuller, of Massachusetts,
and other members of the crew of
official murderers, in addition to
the wide distribution of literature,
constituted the program of liberia
ton. It was not an over-ambitious
program. 1t was one around which
all thinking workers could mobilize,
drawing in hosts of less class con-
scious elements.
Any organization or individual
that cried Enough" before the
sum total of that program had been
carried out, must stand convicted
as allies of the executioners of our
two comrades.
The mass demonstrations and the
short strikes were, to be sure, the
most ambitious parts of this pro-
gram. 1t was on the edge of both
of these efforts that the Socialist
sector of labor's battlefront for
Sacco. and Vanzetti crumpled up and
melted away.
The actual words, ct is enough
to hold a meeting in the Scenic Au-
ditorium. 1t is not necessary to
| hold another demonstration on Bos-
ton Common" came from the lips
of a prominent socialist in Boston,
on the Sunday preceding the killing
of Sacco and Vanzetti.
This socialist, let his name be
/ forgotten, evidently felt that the
face of the socialist party, if not
| of the working class, could be saved
with an indoor meeting, even tho
our two comrades went to their
| doom.
Here one finds contrasted very
clearly the two views in the strug-
gle to save Sacco and Vanzetti from
the grip of their official murderers:
FIRST:-To do everything pos
/ sible, within the means and the
power of the working class in it's
present stage of development.
SECOND:--To do just Enough
4 so that an argument can be adj
/ vanced against any charges that
not enough was attempted or ac-
complished.
Foremost among those who were
carefully doing just enough to save
| their faces, as they thought, were
the officials of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, Green, Vol,
Tobin & Co. But they never did
come out as champions of Sacco
and -Vanzetti For this they will
have to answer.
But the socialists really tried to
parade themselves as the friends
of Sacco and Yanzetti. Yet from
the start they revealed their duplic-
ity. They refused to join the united
front of labor, instead causing ev-
erywhere a divided front of the
/ workers. They turned their faces
against mass demonstrations, the
instance of last Sunday on Boston
Common being only one among
many. They opposed the strike.
1t may be said that the, demon
strations for Sacco and Vanzetti
took on greater proportions than
anything of the kind yet attempted
in the whole history of American
labor. Repeatedly the workers in
New York marched to the city hall
in the face Of police attack. Else
where they did the same, especially
in Detroit, where the open air DEM
onstration in Cadillac Square was
held under the direction of the De-
troit Federation Of Labor. Social
lists oppose such struggles in the
streets, substituting instead the
polite forms of indoor gatherings.
Instead of joining the strike
movement on the day that Sacco
and, Vanzetti We're condemned to
burn at midnight, they sent another
committee to plead with Governor
Fuller, cynical spokesman Of the
capitalist class that fears but one
attack,-the threat to its economic
: power. Instead of aiding this at
tack on the capitalist class, the So
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