The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-13
BIAS CHARGED IN
Liberties
.SACCOSTATE:MENT
Workers Party Refutes
Committee Charges

Pointing out that the "investiga-
ton" of the smash-up of the Sacco-
Vanzetti demonstration in Union
Square last Thursday, conducted by
committee appointed by the American
Civil Liberties Union was never ac-
tually conducted and that the ''inves-
tigation committee" was headed by
Norman Thomas, prominent socialist
leader the Workers (Communist)
Party, New York district, requests
that the Civil Liberties withdraw its
unfair charges against the Workers
(Communist) Party and appoint q
new committee to conduct genuine
investigation of the affair
Despite the fact that. socialists had
denied Ben Gold an opportunity Of
calming the audience and had called
in the police who broke up the demon
stration, the statement of the "fnves-
tigation committee" headed by Nor
man Thomas, socialist leader, accuses
the left wing of violating "the prin-
ciples of free speech and assenlblaga "
The Workers (Communist) Party
statement which denies the charges
of the committee follows:
No Consultation With Lefts.
Director,
American Civil Liberties Union,
100 Fifth Ave,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
In reference to the findings of the
investigation committee that you have
appointed for the purpose of inves-
tigating the breaking off of the Sacco
demonstration at Union Square last
Thursday we wish to say the follow
ing:
We are surprised that your
committee without any investigation,
(altho it was an investigation commit
tee) for we were not asked to furnish
any information on the matter, prac-
tically charges the Workers Party
with responsibility for breaking up
the meeting, when your committee
states that the meeting was broken
up by "outside interference" and then
sin connection herewith we should add
that complaints have come to US that
four other "open air meetings were
broken up by alleged organized" left
wing" or Workers Party groups
No Reference to Police.
Your committee fails to mention
even the fact that the socialist party
chairman and arrangement commit
tee in charge of the demonstration
were directly responsible for break
ing up the meeting by calling police
to squelch the insistent demand on
the part of large sections of the audi
ence that Ben Gold speak. You also
fail to offer any criticism of the po-
lice in this action.
The Workers Party, as we'll as the
left wing, have been the most active
in behalf of the campaign for the free
dom of Sacco and Vanzetti since their
imprisonment The Workers Party
and the left wing have placed the
unity of the movement for the free
dom of Sacco and Vanzetti above any
differences on other questions when
this issue was involved. When the
l4lUcIdtlOl COHlIillJ6E IOI todCCO tIu
Nanzetti issued the call for the one
hour strike and the demonstrations
we placed the unity Of the movement
for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti
above all else for the moment and did
everything possible to mobilize the
working masses for the demonstrs-
tion, in spite Of the fact that this
committee disregarded the feelings
and sentiments of the masses and re-
fused to allow the left wing to have
any speakers or share officially in
the demonstration.
Audience Wanted Gold.
The demand that Gold speak came
as a spontaneous demand on the part
of the masses assembled the moment
Gold was recognized by the audience.
What followed afterwards was the
logical outcome Of the policy followed
by the socialists who We're in the Of
ficial charge.
refusing the left wing speak
ers in spite Of the fact that, based on
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