The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-27

In the narrow crooked streets of Boston the mobs
Of worried clerks rush about their business The
cafeterias are crowded Taxicats carve their way
through the traffic. The cops sweat and worry
Everyone is tense. Buying and selling goes on as
manufacturing must over disturb this in America.
But the ncwsboys ere shouting, in chant like tke
chorus of mad futurist play:
"Sacco and Vanzoti Must Die, Must Die"
And everyone mutters, converses, comments wor-
ries, They agree that Sacco and Vanzetti must die
aren't they Italians? aren't they anarchists? But
the clerks wcrry-tEe city worries
Governor Fuller doesn't worry. He is genial as
the delegations are ushered in. He takes the Of
fenSive. liberal woman poet timidly tries to con-
vince him that capital punishment is both wicked
aad inefficient lie puts her through smiling
catechism. What does she know about criminals?
What does she know about law? She founders and
suffers, and then retreats in tears The Governor
smiles at his political advisers: they smile at him
labor delegation from New York arrives They
are right wing leaders in the needle trades who re-
fused to call protest strike against the execution
believing that friendly words with the Governor
would be effective.
The Governor regards them with a smile of pleas
ure. Before evea that wordhero Judge Panken or
that A. F. Of L. poet Shiplacoff can utter sound
Fuller has begun attacking them with questions
How do they know Sacco and Vanzetti were nno-
cent? How DO they know Judge Thayer was preju
dIced Were they present at the trial? Do Ehey
live in Massachusetts? They try to put in few
feeble arguments, but this irrtates the Governor,
they desisI
They do -: ~ish to offend hint may prejudice
hin-they still believe there are STRINGS of mercy
in the chill millionaires heart
Two cubwomen arrive from Newport, r. L. women
with important husbands. They are pink liberals
and they think the poor Italians should be given an
other chance, or at least life imprisonment and they
have had tea and dinners with the Governors wife
in the past and they know Mr.. Fuller is good man.
He listens to them, assures them politely he will
ponder and pray their fluttering words and
bows them out They rather confused but
hopeful
Whitefaced liberals with big names troop in all
day. They have followed this case, and until the
last minute will not believe the fair name of Amer
lea is to be sulfed by the execution of Sacco and
Vanzetti They believe in the pure white abstraction
they call Justice" They sure one need only
present the facts" to the Governor They believe
in reason" They believe that there are no classes
or class waEin America, but that this case is SIM
ply miscarriage of "Justice."
Now they humping head first against the
stone wall of the capitalist dictatorship and class
justice They are puzzled alarmed, sickened by the
Governors smooth determination. They repeat whole
pages of the Nation and the "New Republic" at
him They utter the thousand and one phrases dear
TO liberalism, but the Governor sheds them like
ducks back and he politely leases the liberals He
is reaist, this governor; he is cass-conscous he
despises liberals. But he is always polite
They stagger out into the street their world
shattered Liberal phrases do not soften a class
conscious Governors heart. They can't understand
1t at all And the Governor is smiling at his lad
Visers" and they smiling at him.
From every of the world thousands of teI.
agrams poured in on the Governor. They were last
minute, desperate messages from mayors, congress-
men, labor organizations, churches writer's, jan
anese, French Italian, American African A whole
world was pleading for mercy to two innocent men
1t was the biggest event in recent hstory-this
first international protest labor issue
The kilograms arrived, but the newspapermen
told their friends later something that they had not
the courage to print, namely
That These kilograms Were Never Read!
They were tossed into huge wastebaskets and
then taken away and burned by the janitor They
were on the floor, they were in the corners thew
were cynically walked upon by the class-conscous
Governor OF Massachusetts--the eectric-chair Gov
ernoc.
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