The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-25
FULLER OFFERED
D. OF ]. FILES;
REJECTED THEM

w 2oIlIANO1 YIN aug. -t.--- W yin
ing desperately against time, three
attorneys of international fame were
in Washington but few hours be-
fore the electrocution of Sacco and
Fanzetti, seeking to pry open the lid
on the department of justice files.
They were Frank P. Walsh, who
gained renown as chairman of the
industrial relations commission; Ar
thur Garfield Hays, New York at
torneysfor the Civil Liberties Union;
and Francis Fisher Kane, former U.
S. district attorney at Philadelphia.
Put it up to Fuller.
Following three hour conference
with Acting Attorney General Far
NUM-, they wrung from him consent
for Governor Fuller, President Lowell
OF Attorney General Reading Of Mas
sachusetts to inspect the department 3
files relating to the case. An entire
room iii the departments building is
devoted to the storage of files con-
corning the deportation deliriums of
19l9-1921.
kilograms were dispatched i'm
mediately to Governor Fuller and to
President Lowell, asking them to in
spect the files and appealing for a
respite. The statement of the defense
counsel with the kilograms were re-
leased to the press associations
through Federated Press.
Governor Fuller's laconic refusal
to do anything that might interfere
with the electroeution of innocent men
is now known to the world.
The department, through j. Edgar
Hoover, chief of its bureau of in
vestigation, on the same day per-
mitted the release of an inspired story
by William Hard explaining what it
choose to regard as it's attitude
toward Sacco and Vanzetti. Hoover,
although not quoted directly, adopts
the same attitude he held in an inter-
view obtained recently by Federated
Press. 1t is that:
Sacco and Vanzetti were under sur
veillance as members of the Galleani
group of anarchists The department
already had Salsedo and Ella, other
members, in custody. Salsedo was
either murdered or committed suicide
while in Jail Ella was deported
Found Only Innocence.
The department placed spy. Car
bone, in cell next to Sacco TO gain
information
The department had operatives sta
toned in the court room during the
trial to report on Sacco and Vanzetti
and on anarchists visiting the court
room.
The department spied on members
of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense COM
nittee in Boston.
The New York office spied on mem
bers of the Galleani group to see if
they had received moneys suddenly
after the South Braintree holdup.
The spy Carbone discovered moth
ing. No action was taken against the
anarchists visiting the trial. No ac-
ton was taken against members of
the defense committee. No money
was traced to any members of the
Galleani group. Thus despite the eff
forts of score of agents, the depart
ments admits it was never able to
trace criminal activities of any kind
to any members of the Galleani
group.
Hoover Embarrassed.
7 h G department, according to
Hoover, is anxious to have its files
inspected by Fuller or Lowell The
world, which cannot differentiate be-
tween the United States and Massa-
chusetts any more than we can be-
tween Great Britain and Warwick
shire or France and the department
of the Seine, believes that the de-
partment of justice is largely respon-
sible for the frame-up of Sacco and
Vanzetti
And whatever the fine legal nice
ties of the case are, it is indisputable,
Hard declares, that the deportation
deliriums are an outstanding feature
Of the Sacco-V anzetti case. That de-
lirium was engineered by the de-
partment of justice under A. Mitchell
Palmer. That delirium was respon-
sible for the consciousness of guilt"
which Sacco and Vanzetti are said to
have shown when arrested but it was
consciousness of radicalism, not MUIR
der. Judge Thayer told the jury
however that their consciousness of
guilt was the outstanding evidence
against Sacco and Vanzetti.