The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-27

in a universal desire to avenge their death. But
how shall we do it -,-u,
Certain indivdualists who society and its pro-
cesses onv as the work of good individuals and bad
individuals have tried to concentrate their hatred
upon Fuller or Thayer Katzmann. They are
hateful contemplate, despicable creatures Some
dav when the working class has won power IN
America our tribunals will call them to account for
the murder of our comrades. But today the eXecu-
ton of individual vengeance upon them would not
move the working class one step forward, would
not weaken the frame-up system one iota-Would
rather strengthen it in the wave of reaction that
,vould follow There are a thousand Thayers on
thousand judicial benches, a thousand Katzmanns
functioning as district attorneys. we were TO
execute one of them thru individual action 1t would
on1v serve to delude class into forgetting the
frame-up system, into believing that Sacco and
Vanzet have been avenged into forgetting the real
cuprit the capitalist system and the capitalist con-
troll of government. Remove Thayer or Fuller or
Katzmann from the scene and the system that ere
ated them and placed them in positions OF power
over the lives and destnies of their fellow men would
create fresh tyrants to take their places Judge Gary
died last week but the steel trust continues to coin
the sweat and the blood of workers into solid gold
IF every individual directly connected with the Sacco-
Vanzetti frame-up locally and nationally were to die
tomorrow, the frame-up system would remain I'M
shaken
2. WORKERS CAN EXPECT NO JUSTICE IN
THE CAPITALIST COURTS. If we think it IS
only because the judge happened to be Webster
Tbaver that Sacco and Vanzetti have been murder
ed then we have learned nothing from our bitter
experience But there is lesson that every worker
must learn. 1t is taught by the Mooney case, 1t is
taught by the Centralia case, it is taught by the
Anita Whitney case it is taught by the Min Wagon
Drivers case and the Stone-cutter's case, it was
taught by the Haymarket case, it is taught by every
Injunction every verdict of guilty against picket
every violation of free speech, press or assemblage
rights That these dead comrades Of ours shall not
have died in vain every worker in our land must
be made to understand it. "W Workers can expect no
justice from the capitalist courts"
3. OUR GOVERNMENT IS so CONSTRUCTED
AS TO THWART THE POPULAR WILL. The
Declaration of Independence speaks Of decent
respect for the opinions of mankind Mankind thru
out the world voiced the opinion that these two
men were innocent and must at least get fair
trial But all agencies of government involved show
ed an indecent contempt for the opinions OF man
kind And they also showed contempt for the opin-
ions and will of the American people The dis
tinguished progressive" Senator BOrah even thot
if would be "cowardly" to yield to popular demand
Yet Judges and senators and governors are sup
posed to be "public servants" and express the will
Of the people. But government is so constructed
that the very opposite is true. Setting aside the
fact that wealth controls press and pulpit and school,
the big political parties, individual politicians, ap-
pointments nominations and elections courts, exc
cutives and legislatures the question
purely from the standpoint of abstract democracy,
1t
of checks and balances, of judicial legislation and
contempt proceedings, of precedent of independent
judiciary, of growing executive power, of appoint
ment of two-party system, etc, etc. is not respon-
sive to popular will Now Senator Borah the pro
gressive" makes a boast of this fact.
4. OUR RULING CLASS WILL NOT GIVE UP
ITS POWER WITHOUT A STRUGGLE. Socialists
and liberals have tried to promote the illusion that
America is different" Altho history shows no
single instance of ruling class that has relin-
quished its power and privileges without strug-
gle, America is supposed to be democracy respon-
sive to popular will where majority opinion will
be sufficient to destroy the capitalist system and
institute better social order by just voting it in
The American master class is supposed to be ready
to give up its privileges without struggle The
murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, proves the opposite
Every frame-up case, every strike every injunction
every of police troops in strikes, proves the
opposite When steel workers fight for an eight
hour day-not to abolish capitalism but just to live
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