The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-24


learning that American Imperialism is more
beastly than all other dark forces which have
ever threatened to ruthless domination of all
peoples and the exploitation Of all who toll.
The national government at Washington still
attempts to hold before itself the ragged llal of
legal form which places the responsibility for
this crime solely upon the State Of Massuchu-
sets.
But the workers Of other countries have al
ready seen what American workers must also
see--that the government of the United States,
and Calvin Coolidge, the servant of Wall Street
in Washington, are fully as guilty of this horri-
bic murder as are the smaller flunIlies of the
courts and executive mansion of Massachusetts.
Legal forms do not interfere with actions
when the big financial powers of the United
States have desire. Coolidge let Sacco and
Vanzetti die because CooIidge's masters wanted
to strike the working class in the face with this
crime.
DUT the loss of the lives of our martyrs also
- lies at the door of some who have chosen to
appear before the working class as Sacco's and
Vanzetti's defenders" tt is necessary to speak
plainly. Those who have appeared as defend
ers' but who have at the same time Obstructed
the only forms Of~acti0n which would have and
could have saved Sacco and Vanzetti,-have also
by their actions served to turn the electric eur
rent into the bodies Of our working class mar
tyrs. It is plain that nothing but the most pow
erful mass movement could have saved these
men. The executive council Of the American
Federation of Labor refused to sanction gem
eral strike of protest against the execution The
executive of the A. F. OF L. issued just enough
words on this case to keep themselves from be-
ing branded as friends Of the hangman But
they refused to use the most effective means.
William Green, the agent Of American capital
ism in the ranks Of the workers, has served his
masters again, but in a more hideously cruel way
than usual.
ONLY a powerful mass movement could have
" saved SaccO and Vanzetti This could not
be put into motion except by the united efforts
Of all possible forces Of the working class organ
izations and such as claim working class char
acter.
4 The Workers Community Party for that rea-
son proposed to the socialist party and to all
other organizations claiming working class
character, to form q united front Of ALL for
the tremendous task of saving our working class
heroes under the shadow of DEATH The Work
ers (C0mmunst) Party was at the time in a
struggle with the socialist party, which was
helping the employers to break strikes and de-
stroy trade unions in New York City. But since
there are still some workers who blndIy think
the socialist party working class body. the
Workers (Communist) Party offered to form a
united front for the calling out of all working
class forces into the field for demonstration
that could have been effective. But the socialist
party wanted no mass demonstration. wanted no
unity of the working class.
The socialist party is not party that
fights. It's answer to the sentence of death of
Sacco and Vanzetti, was to propose a "Day of
Mourning" This proposal could only serve to
quiet the working class while the execution pro-
ceeded. 1t was merely following in the wake
of the petty-bourgeois liberal elements. This
was typical Of the present historical role of the
parties of all coUe Hes, and of
the Second international to which it adheres.
Mr.. Morris Hiilquit, Mr.. James Oneal, Mr.. Abra
ham Cahan and the other leaders of the socialist