The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-24
Build the labor Party as a
Challenge to- the Assassins
of Sacco and Vanzetti
BY j. LOUIS RNAeAHL.

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against Ia United States eevesa=
mans, aasasA dina the opening az the
files Of ths ! department. Of iustaea
that oontailNAl testimony Hafs.ei.
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lease Of saaetv End VaHsstA, Tho
fisurehsad o. tlNA government, Gal
win Coolidge. pasYsnjeysns himself
In tho national playground lnown
as Yellowstoae parks In Wyoming
This Is the murder crew that
ioinod Ii making a 70 man hoii-
day, o murder Feast, VIA our two
comrades, gaeeo and YaA 'otti, ss
tho victims, because tho u sergfh
Of tho working class was noA pow
erful enough to iibernte}thsn.
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Labor that IL loyal to atcco and
Vanz2tt! turns Its back on Ntho exA
eeut!onor, EIiiotti on tho judge,
Thaysri en- tbs governor, lsulleri
on the judges, Eoln1ss, Bra pAsis,
9tone, Taft; on tho attorney gen.
erel, sGTgenti on the p-ssi.scnt,
"Silent Cal"
But in order to be honest with
themselves, in order to be ho1 Vast
with the rnartyred dead, they rn,1ss
also turn their backs upon ali ethosa,
who give support to these poittical
instruments of the ruling class,
The hands Of every trade union,
official who urges support Of CAPT,
talist party officials, all allies Of
"the murder crew." drip VITA the |
blood Of Sacco. and Vanzetti just
as much as the hands of Elliott,
the executioner, or Thayer, the ju-
dicial assassin, or their many aseo-
ciates.
All labor must watch well the
sessions of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, that open Monday,
October 8, in Los Angeles, Califor-
MIA. At this convention the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor official
dom must provide the program on
which it intends to wage its part
of the fight in the national presi-
dental election next year, 1928.
1t was within the strength of the
American Federation of Labor, thru
using its economic power, toN free
Sacco and Vanzetti. But the
Greens, the VOLS and the Toxins,
refused to use this power and
thereby became the blood-brotherA
of those who put Sacco and Van
zetti to death.
The power of the masses who
toll must develop sufficient strength
in all sections of the nation to bring
into existence an irresistible move
ment for independent political ac-
ton. This movement must even
engulf the American Federation Of
Labor.
The American labor movement
must be cleansed of the guilt fof
the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti,
that the Greens, the VOLS and the
Tobins have brought upon it.
There must be no support in the
ranks of American labor for those
who shake hands with the execu-
TONERS of our martyred comrades;
and these executioners include all
who support the capitalist social
order that spawned the present
United States government, the real
assassin, the actual murderer of
Sacco and Vanzetti.
No effective voice was raised in
any city council, in any state legis-
lature, nor in the national con-
gross Of these United States, de-
handing that Sacco and Vanzetti
be freed. They were all the legis-
lative bodies, exclusively controlled
by the ruling class.
Even under capitalism large num-
bers Of workers must be sent into
the city councils, the state legis-
latures, to the congress in Wash
ington. But they must be sent as
representatives of the working
class fighting for their class.
As labor approaches the 1928 ma
tional elections it must look we'll
for those who have the blood of
Sacco and Vanzetti upon their
hands. All such are the enemies