The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29


THE murder of Sacco and Vanzetti
by the American ruling class is
arousing strenuous and unprece-
denied protest by workers the world
over. No martyrdom of a spokes-
man of labor, in the worlds entire
history, has evoked such demon
strations against the social system
that ordered the sentence of death,
as have taken place during the past
week, that still continue.
Several factors are contributing
to this historic development in the
class struggle.
Sacco and Vanzetti were slain by
the dominant imperialism in the
worId-the capitalist government
of the United States.
There is hardly a worker or
farmer, anywhere in the world,
that has not some grievance against
this American Imperialism.
For the workers of all Latin
America, the seven years prison
torture inflicted upon Sacco and
Vanzetti, terminated by the savage
death penalty carried out against
them in the electric chair, merley
crystallized their own years of mis-
cry under the dollar diplomacy"
of the Wall Street hangmen. To
them, a voice raised against the
legalized assassination of Sacco
and Vanzetti, is protest against
the blood bath visited by American
military forces upon the peoples of
Nicaragua; a protest against the
looting and plundering of all Latin
American countries.
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For the workers of Europe, the
execution of Sacco and Vanzetti,
visualized sharply the dollar kaiser
dom that has been aiding every Eu-
ropean reaction in suppressing la
boris efforts to rise. The murder
of Sacco and Vanzetti parallels the
murder of workers in Germany I'M
der the Dawes Plan, the slaughter
of labor in Italy under the Wall
Street financed fascism of Musso-
lini, the suffering resulting from
the Hoover-aided overthrow of the
Hungarian Soviet Republic, the
misery upheld by American finan-
eial aid to the reaction in the Baltic
states and the Balkans, especially
in Poland and Roumania.
To the workers and peasants of
the Union of Soviet Republics, the
murder Of Sacco and Vanzetti
makes more apparent than ever the
new war danger. They can see in
it not only an increasing oppres-
sion of the workers in the United
States, but also American imperial
ist participation in and leadership
of the developing attack against
the First Workers Republic.
To the workers and farmers not
only of China, but of all Asia, the
American dollar tyranny, its hands
dripping the blood of Sacco and
Vanzetti, is revealed clearer than
ever as the capitalist enemy of
their struggle for liberation, not
only from foreign imperialist dom
ination, but also from continued en-
slavement by their ruling classes.
In every land, therefore, there
are deep-going causes for bitter ha-
tired of the American imperialist
regime. 1t has found quick ex-
preston in the worldwide wave of
horror and Indignation in the ranks
of the workers of every nation.
1t will be impossible for the
American kept press to sweep aside
this storm of protest by declaring
that it has been engineered by
"the agents of Moscow" That is
what it is now trying to do in an
effort to save the face of the Amer
lean Legion, that is hard put to
hold its convention in Paris in the
face of French working class OPP
position.
1t is, of course, no accident that
the five internationals of the work
ing class that are inspiring and
leading the world protest for Sacco
and Vanzetti, all have their head
quarters in Moscow. In no other
country could they function. 1t is
only on the free soil of. the Soviet
Union, under the protection of the
Workers and Peasants Govern
ment that they are able to carry on
their activities. 1t is only because
there is Proletarian Dictatorship