The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20
By MICHAEL GOLD.

l am writing in Boston on Wednes-
day. By the time this article appears
the Massachusetts Supreme Court
will have probably delivered its deci-
sion in the matter of new trial for
Sacco and Vanzetti. Prophecy belongs
to the tribe of gypsy fortune-tellers;
yet 1 risk the prediction that the Su-
preme Court will not grant a new
trial.
If am wrong, and hope I am,
l also predict that any new trial will
be as unfair as the other trials, and
will again convict our unfortunate
comrades. l feel this way because
l have been in Boston this past week,
and despair seizes the heart of any
Sacco and Vanzetti sympathizer in
this brutal decadent city.
For no trial in Massachusetts will
ever free Sacco and Vanzetti. Every
clerk, suburbanite, petty bourgeois
climber, Rabbit and Sunday school
graduate in this state has been ire
vocably prejudiced against the two
Italians. The Arrow Collar mob is
now as inflamed against all dissen-
tiers as it was during the war. Does
an atheist hope for justice from a
jury of holy rollers? Does a Jew
hope for justice from a jury of Rus
sian monarchists? Does a Negro
hope for justice from a jury of small
town southern whites? Radicals hope
as little for justice in Massachusetts.
Sacco and Vanzetti are in the
clutches of something greater than
legality. They have become symbols
of the world revolt of the proletariat.
The bourgeois mob of Massachusetts
has been whipped into war psy-
chology, and nothing less than death
for the two workers will now satisfy
them. Pick a jury from this mob
| (and what other jury can you get in
this state) and the seven-year lynch
ing will eliminate in an execution
1t is almost hopeless situation.
The Governor Leads the Lynchers.
In the past few days several events
have demonstrated this atmosphere
again. One would have thought the
exposure of Judge Thayer's unguard-
ed hatred of the two Italians might
have made the officials more care
full. One would have deemed the IT,
tanic indignation of Europe enough
to at least make the Massachusetts
oligarchy cautious in keeping up its
pretense of legal fairness.
But this heart-breaking persecu-
ton continues in the spirit of the
original trial before Judge Thayer in
Dedham seven years ago. Yesterday
on the morning when the Supreme
Court was to conduct the hearings on
new trial, bomb was exploded at
the home of one of the original jurors
who found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty
If the bomb were the contribution
of some anarchist friend of the two
men, it would be bit of insanity. 1t
would be an example of the childish
egotism, neuroticism and undisciplin-
ed emotion which the anarchist move
ment has become.
But it was not an anarchist bomb
1t was doubtless a bomb placed by
some skilful public" agent. 1t was
exploded very carefully so as not to
kill anyone. 1t was set off at exact
! ly the right time, in order to make
| the first page of the newspapers q
few hours before the Supreme Court
met. Worst of all, a well planned
publicity campaign against Sacco and
Vanzetti was Immediately released
after the first story had proven sue
cessful-that first story being the
| bomb.
Governor Fuller Immediately sent
letter to the family whose home