The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-24
FULLER OFFERED
D. OF ]. FILES;
Rejected THEM


ing desperately against time, three
attorneys of international fame were
in Washington but few hours be-
fore the electrocution of Sacco and
Yanzetti, seeking to pry open the lid
on the department of justice files.
They were Frank P. Walsh, who
gained renown as chairman of the
industrial relations commission; Ar
thur Garfield Hays, New York at
torney for the Civil Liberties Union;
and Francis Fisher Kane, former o..
S. district attorney at Philadelphia.
Put it up to Fuller.
Following a three hour conference
with Acting Attorney General Far
mum, they wrung from him consent
for Governor Fuller, President Lowell
or Attorney General Reading of Mas
sachusetts to inspect the Department.
files relating to the case. An entire
room iii the departments building IS
devoted to the storage of files con-
corning the deportation deliriums Of
I9l9-1921.
kilograms were dispatched inn
mediately to Governor Fuller and to
President Lowell, asking them to in
spect the files and appealing for a
respite The statement of the defense
counsel with the kilograms were re-
leased to the press associations
through Federated Press.
Governor Fullers laconic refusal
to do anything that might interfere
with the electrocution Of innocent men
is now known to the world.
The department, through j. Edgar
Hoover, chief of its bureau of in
vestigation, on the same day per-
mitted the release of an inspired story
by William Hard explaining what it
choose to regard as its attitude
toward Sacco and Vanzetti, Hoover,
although not quoted directly, adopts
the same attitude he held in an inter
view obtained recently by Federated
Press. 1t is that:
Sacco and Vanzetti were under sur
veillance as members of the Galleani
group of anarchists The department
already had SaIsedo and Ella, other
members, in custody. Salsedo was
either murdered or committed suicide
while in jail Ella was deported.
Found Only Innocence.
The department placed spy, Car
bone, in cell next to Sacco TO gain
information.
The department had operatives sta
TONED in the court room during the
trial to report on Sacco and Vanzetti
and on anarchists visiting the court
room.
The department spied on members
tof.-the Sacco-Vanzetti defense com
mittee in Boston.
The New York office spied on mem
hers of the Galleani group to see if
/ they had received moneys suddenly
after the South Braintree holdup.
The spy Carbone discovered moth
ing. No action was taken against the
anarchists visiting the trial. No ac-
I ton was taken against members of
! the defense. committee No money
was traced to any members of the
/ Galleani group. Thus despite the eff
forts of a score Of agents, the depart
/ ments admits it was never able to
trace criminal activities of any kind
/ to any members of the Galleani
i group.
/ Hoover Embarrassed.
j The department. according to
4 Hoover, is anxious to have its files
4 inspected by Fuller or Lowell. The
world, which cannot differentiate be-
| tween the United States and Massa-
chusetts any more than we can be-
tween Great Britain and Warwick
shire or France and the department
of the Seine, believes that the de-
partment of justice is largely respon-
/ sible for the frame-up of Sacco and
Vanzetti.
And whatever the fine legal nice
4 ties of the case are, it is indisputable,
Hard declares, that the deportation
deliriums are an outstanding feature
of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. That de-
lirium was engineered by the de-
partment of justice under A. Mitchell
Palmer That delirium was respon-
sible for the consciousness of guilt"
which Sacco and Vanzetti are said to
have shown when arrested; but it was
consciousness of radicalism, not muir
der Judge Thayer told the jury
however that their consciousness OF
guilt was the outstanding evidence
against Sacco and Vanzetti.
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