The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-15
The Reply Of the Workers to the
Murder Of SaccO and Vanzetti
By MICHEL HoLLAY (Paris).

BY MICHEL HOLLAY (Paris)
NEVER has the world proletarat been so profoundly
~ stirred in its million masses, has the world ex-
perienced such passionate storm of indignation against
capitalist reactionary class justice, in these days
after the murder of the two workers Sacco and Vanze
which had been dragged out for long years.
The world proetariat which is experiencing to its own
cost the terrible effects of the American methods of
naturalization which after severe struggles forced
under and is still being forced under this economic yoke
the world proletariat nsnctvey felt that this vile
stage, the stage of ratonalized capitalist barbarity
The International working class has nstnctvely per-
ceived that all revolutionary workers in the prisons of
the capitalist countries threatened with the electric
chair; for it knows that the methods of torture of the
prison of SngSing have already found eager mtators
in Poland, Roumana, Bulgaria. Yugosava, Italy
imtators who will regard it their immediate task to
introduce this latest achievement of bourgeois class JUS
tce, the conversion of the former death minute into
chain of many years of death"
The petty bourgeois democrats social democrats and
trade union bureaucrats talked of numbering of Justice"
of "trampng underfoot the conscience of humanity
But the slow torture death of these two innocent
workers in Schattendorf, after the murders in
Vienna after the series of murders of many Commu
mist workersa this together with the close protection
of the American Embassies by the police of the nterna
tonal capitalist class, has caused the interna-
tonal proetarat to realize that here it is something
than "ustice scandal" that here it is a system
of political strangling of the working class 1t was the
realization of this fact that caused the conscience of the
international proletaran class to flame up.
The mass demonstrations in Geneva, where the work
stomed the Palace of the League of Nations and the
American hotels, the bood-baths in Leipzig and Halle
the hundreds of thousands of workers who demonstrated
in Berlin, Hamburg and other German towns, the
nous excitement in Moscow, Leningrad, Charkow and
thruout the Soviet Union, the strike and protest
ments in the United States, the general strike in Mex
leo, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, the DEM
onstrations, often accompanied by bloodshed lin Lon
don, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Lege, Oporto,
Stockholm, Base Copenhagen, the disturbances in Sid
ney and JAPAN the burning of the American flag
ynho of bV he African
the stormng of the American Consulate in Casabanca
orocco) the bloody demonstrations in the cities
of France the street fights in Paris all the protest dem
onStratonS in thousands OF towns IN the world, where
everywhere the cassconscous proetarat stood at the
head signal warning to the bourgeois class exe-
cutoners: No farther!
THAT in many cities (London Geneva Halle etc. and
especially in Paris the classical city of spontaneous
outbreaks of popular Indignation it to bloody fight
ing is the expression of the tremendous excitement of
the toilng population of the whole world. And if the
bitterness in Paris and in the whole of France marked
the highest point Of the of international ndigna
ton this is due to the energetic campaign which has
been conducted for the past six years by the Communist
Party of France for Sacco and VanZett, campaign
which made Sacco and Vanze brothers of every French
worker and which at last swept along with it the
social democratic and Left bourgeois press This indig
nation is due in also to the increased class
repression in the last few months against the French
working class and it's guard caused by the first
attempts at naturalization and the increased prepara
tons for
of August the press and agitation campaign of the Com
munst Party of France set in with increased energy
while considerable ebbng of the campaign noticed
in the social democratic and Left bourgeois press.
The "Humanite' called upon the workers to be ready
for action; not to allow themselves be lued by the
hope of pardon The revolutionary trade unions &C.
g. 7. w. carried energetic agitation for the boy
colt of American goods and the sabotagng of the Con-
gress of the American Legion.
THEY proposed to all proletarian organizations incud-
ing the reformis trade union central and the Social
list party of France that joint action be undertaken in
the event of Sacco and Vanzetti being murdered The
Populaire and the 'Peuple" (organ of the reformst
c. G. To- and its organizations which tremendously
excited when, the 9Th of August the c. G. T. u. or
ganzed on its account imposing strike of the
entire advance guard of the French working Glass;
given the opportunity of demonstrating their inter
national solidarity But they, the centras rejected the
proposa For how deep this campaign for saving Sacco
and Vanzett from the clutches of their class enemies
how deep the slogans of working masses, is proved by
the great manifestations, the bloody fights in the
French towns the will of the workers to continue the
fight is proved by the which the social
cratic town councils compelled to adopt they had
to fly the flags the town halls at half mast they
had to refuse the subsidies for the official reception of
the American Legion. In fact the Left bourgeois "Quot
idien compelled to adopt the slogan of the c. p of
France "Ihe festival is at end" (this refers to the
festival to be held the 9th of September in honor of
the American Legion) it wrote August oath in its
article.
"The festival is at an end but the fight still goes on
in France and must go in the whole world in order
to berate all our class comrades.
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