The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
VANzETTI PENS
STATEMENT FOR
FULLER ON CASE
Eloquent Document
Does Not Ask Pardon
(speeiaI to DAILY WORKERl

Especial to DAILY WORKER)
BOSTON, May /. - Bartolomeo
Vanzetti has just addressed a state
ment composed by his own hand, to
Governor Fuller asking a reversal of
the sentence of death imposed upon
Nicolo Sacco and himself.
After standing out for weeks
against efforts of William G. Thomp-
son, defense attorney. to get him to
sign pardon plea, Vanzetti took the
bit into his own teeth and penned his
own statement yesterday in which
there is no note Of appeal, humility or
abandonment Of his ideals. Sacco,
whose knowledge Of English is not so
fluent as Vanzetti's, has maintained
the same attitude and refused TO sign
any document until his partner in the
tolls of Massachusetts justice COM
pleted his statement.
Against all the arguments of lib
eral friends and their attorneys, both
the Italian workers have refused to
word the petition so that there would
be the slightest hint of an appeal for
pardon. This determination not to
ask for capitalist mercy, and will
ingness to die rather than swerve
from their ideals has resulted in a
document which is expected to be as
dramatic as Vanzetti's great speech
in Dedham court when he was SEN
fenced to burn
Fuller Awaits Letter.
The statement will probably reach
the governor tomorrow through de-
Tense counsel. Fuller has declared
that he was awaiting the formal doc
ument before proceeding on the case.
Dan Robert NJ. Hotchins of Yale
Law School has added his name to the
hundreds Of lawyers, headed by Dean
Ezra Pound Of Harvard Law School
who have appealed to Governor Full
Ter for a full review Of the case. At
mass meeting attended by 700 Yale
students and faculty members, a
unanimous memorial to Fuller was
adopted asking commission. Pro-
lessor Borchard, Jerome Davis and
William Lyon Phelps have expressed
approval of the petition.
Twenty-Five members of the Clark
University faculty at Worcester,
Mass, Alexander M. Bing, president
of the New York City housing Cor
poration, John Myers, industrial Sec
rotary of the Federal Council Of
Churches, the : Ilades and Labor
Council of Corsas try, England, the
Proletarian PS-es SD scores of other
letters and kilograms received yes
terday asked a complete review Of
the case.
The workers of Cleveland in mass
meeting April &c, passed the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved that this meeting demands
of Governor Fuller that he take the
only step that will in some measure
rectify the shameful injustice that
has been done the two men, by par
doning and releasing them without
delay; and be it further
Resolved that copy Of this res
olution be sent to Governor Fuller,
the labor press Of this country and
to the Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor with
the request that it Immediately use
its good offices and the influence of
the organization to insist upon the
release of the two workers.
Signed: A. Fagin,
Chairman.
NEW YORK, May 1--we the
Four Hundred Members of Branch
Fifty, Workmen's Circle, assembled
at special meeting of the branch.
Two hundred and Fifty-seven East
Street, New York City, on
April 10Th by unanimous resolution
emphatically condemn the gross mis-
carriage of justice in the courts of
Massachusetts, in the case of Sacco
and Vanzetti. These two workers are
victims of class tyranny. Their only |
guilt is their championship of the
workers cause. We, their American
fellow workers, demand that you set |
them free" We have sent the tele-
gram to the Sacco-V anzetti defense
committee, Freiheit, The DAILY |
WORKER, Einikeit, Tog, Friend tc
the general office of the Worlsmens' /
Circle, and to Governor Fuller of
Massachusetts. Resolution Com
mittee; Charles Lehman, Abraham
Leventhal, Sol Romans and Nathan
Gerlack.
Garment Workers Protest
CHICAGO, May Local 104, |
International Ladies Garment Work
ers Union has passed the following |
resolution on Sacco and Vanzetti:
WHEREAS, Nicola Sacco and
Bartolemeo Yanzetti-two champions
Of Labor-have again been denied q
new trial by the Massachusetts Su-
preme Court, thus automatically SEN
fencing them to death in the electric
chair,