The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
WHAT Labor Party Could Haze
Done for S0CCO and V0nzeth

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Tins, or compelled them to retreat
for time from their intended work
ing class victims.
There is the case of Lanzutsky in
Poland, Rakosi and Szanto in Hun
gary, and many others. New Hun
garian trials against these and 9TH
ers are now in process.) Mass pres
sure from the unions, Labor Parties,
and other organs of the labor move
ment in Europe have often resulted
in the diminution of prison sentences,
communication, amnesties, ETC.
American Labor Party Could Fight
Frsme-up.
There is no reason why in the
United States of America a Labor
Party cannot likewise be a powerful
instrument to prevent the capitalists,
their police and their courts from
torturing and imprisoning class-con-
scious workers whose only Grimes"
consist in fighting, organizing and de-
Tending the interests of the working
class
In the Sacco-Vanzetti case, a Labor
Party could have been used as lever
to force open the files of the Depart
ment of Justice, which held the truth
about the innocence of Sacco and
Vanzetti. 1t is known to nearly every
| one that the Department of Justice
aided in the framing of these limo
cent workers.
The Labor Party In Congress.
Surely Labor Party, through rep
resentatives in the United States con-
gress, could have raised the issue of
class justice and demanded COM
! plete investigation of the corruption,
malpractice, skulduggery and stink
ing frame-up involved in the Sacco-
Vanzetti case.
AS it was, isolated senators, rep
resentatives and groups fearful of the
effect on the workers minds because
of the extreme grossness of the SaT /,
co-Vanzetti case, felt impelled to ss =, :.
slider congressional investig# -
These groups hoped to still thu ~,
ing protest of the American Nv.
and their loss OF faith in 10,
institutions of governmentK -
larly judges and courts, { :,
the mrch-vaunted trial h -
ones peers.
" VI mig 'a0' o'l'i.s Trial ir
Sacco and Vanzet'N +u;oJ ~
murder charges, OBJ .o,od o,,,l
false to every per 80, ~. -
sense. Everyone u,darstonds
American politi +La+ So
and Vanzetti W ~, t.;a1 -
cause they wer ~. ,,ora oloss
ctiss1s *orkers trying to awaken
and 6s nize the workers as a class
, to resist American capitalism.
The politics of the working class
, were on trial in the Sacco-Vanzetti
case; not the politics or beliefs Of
any particular group Of the working
class, such as the anarchists, the so
cialists, the Communists, but the poll
ties of class as a whole, that is, of
workers who understood their posi-
ton in society as an oppressed and
exploited class and tried to devise
ways and means to get rid of CAPT
talist exploitation.
The Real Crime of SaccO and VanZetti
Therein lay the real crime of Sacco
and Vanzetti, who symbo!ized this
rising tide of RESPONSIVENESS and
revolt (even in the comparatively bet
ter-paid American working class, 50
largely affected by bourgeois ideas,
habits and beliefs.)
Labor Party Would Make Issues Clear
Through a Labor Party, party
of the working masses of America. |
there could have been made clear the
real issues involved in the Sacco- }
Vanzetti case. I
These issues were not Criminals"
and "murderers" against Society"
hut the workers versus a privileged |
ruling class. The respective economic
and political views of the various
working class groups, such as the
Communists and the socialists, might |
also have received a broader and
clearer hearing and the working class
might thus have obtained wider po-
litical education.
The Labor Party could have con-
Quoted mass educational campaign
mass meetings, leaflets, lectures,
papers, etc.--to show how. in this
classic case, class justice works.
Labor Party Could Show Up Justice
The cOn1plete fraudl1lenca of the
american courts of Justice judges,