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

who struck and demonstrated in other cities,-they
understand the meaning of the murder, they have
accepted the challenge, they, their side have
given strong and solemn warnings
Shoulder to shoulder and arm to arm they stood
at Union Square 1t had not been so easy to quit
work at o'clock. One risked ones job one risked
ones bread. The watchfu eye of the official union
machinery followed every striker, noted the names
of the rebels, put them the blacklist Tomorrow
they may find themselves on the street. Today they
could not withstand the call to strike Today they
are burning in feverish anguish at Union Square
And what the words that meet with the
greatest acclaim? What are the slogans that
kindle the hottest flames? 1t has long been known
that the victims innocent. One has learned to
see the guilt of the Thayers and Fuers, the
Lowells, Brandeises, Holmeses One has paid them
the tribute soaring contempt. One has not the
slightest hope of favorable action on the part of
the State One is tried of compassion exhausted by
pain, poisoned by hate What else can be said?
Where is the way out
But something has happened Relief has come
An avenue of release has been opened: line of
work appears to beckon!
we shall build up the labor organizations"
the speakers says Sin the first line the labor unons
we shall turn them into instruments of struggle
against capitalist exploitation; we shall turn them
into instruments of power to be able to halt the
hand of the assassin in like that of Sacco and
Vanzetti.
"We shall build up labor party to represent
the laboring We shall utilize the labor
party as united front of all the toiling and the
exploited against the power of their exploiters We
shall create a political weapon to Illustrate such
attacks as the frame-up Sacco and Vanzetti
I'VE shall build up Communist Party to
march at the head of the entire labor movement
and to unity all it's activities by one clear aim along
ceary defined road-the abolition of capitalism"
There is a new meaning to those familiar words
New sparks hndle in the eyes of the assembled A
stone weights melts in their souls "We shall work."
eve shall struggle" ave shall build TODAY and to-
morrow" "We shall strengthen our ranks and steel
our Wills the speakers say and it is in the hearts,
of the masses that they read those words 1t is like
an OATH But STILL the most wonderful the actually
hberatlng word has not been uttered. Now it comes
only when the working class will hold the
power OF state will such trials against working class
fighters become impossible" With power in the
hands of the working class just punishment will be
meted out for such crimes" "Proletarian Justice
will secure freedom for the working class!"
Waves of approval surging from the hui
man sea- Eyes sparkle. The theology of class
struggle, hitherto set of thoughts, becomes live
emotional experience. Every drop of the workers
blood feels that they need working class courts.
working class laws, working class rule working
class state! They life their eyes and see mounted
policemen above their heads, machine guns on the
sidewalks armed motorcycles ready for action. re-
vovers and clubs everywhere, and they say to them
selves, "This is the same power that has already
dressed Sacco and Vanzett in the garb of DEATH
This power is servant of masters, it has been
created to secure their domination. We cannot
rely on it. We must have own power in order to
live like human beings"
The future has touched the assembled thousands
with the finingers of message. They felt clearly
that 1t is there, that it is not work of imagination
Thousands Of workers of sudden realized that thew
were citizens OF new world, FOR which they must
fight for which it is worth suffer In the light of
this new world the death of Sacco and Vanzetti
assumed IN new aspect They do not die in vain.
Their work is not lost Their spirit lives We will
march on to that goal where they were driven by
their impetuous souls. We shall arrive.
And that evening in front of the Freiheit-was
it not an oath of class unity merging of thou
sands of spirits in spirit of revolt?
Nobody had called, nobody had organized the
vigil. They came in thousands many -tongued, many
voiced; Italians, Greeks, Russians Yanks. They
stood in the dark while their spirits gowed They
stood in silence while cries pierced the dark sky
overhead
They lived with Sacco and Vanzetti. They went
with them through the last hours of their lives
through the last agonies. A miracle happened