The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-26
u. S. LOhTHED BY
WORLD ABOR FOR
BOSTON MURDERS
Boycott of U. S. Goods
To Be First Reprisal
By HARVEY O'CONNOR,
Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Z0.-Amef-
lea entered a new era as an assassin
of radical working men with fear
marked on her features, but no re-
morse. Although the Statue of Lib
erty, inanimate and insensate, still
stood on its pedestal in New York
harbor, in Washington there was no
pretense that America still held high
the regard of the world as in the days
when Bartholdi's monument was pre-
sented.
Kellogg's Desk Buried BY Protests.
Instead instructions were being
cabled to all American ENJOYS abroad
on the renewed need of protecting
themselves against the hatred engen-
dered by the electrocution of Sacco
and Vanzetti. A desk was piled high
in Secretary of State Kellogg's office
with the eleventh hour cables from
every nation pleading for commuta-
ton of sentence. The pleas, unheed-
ed, served as formal notification that
America has sacrificed the good will
of the world.
Officials were sullen and silent In
the state department there was ner-
vous apprehension that the next cable
to be delivered might tell of violence
abroad. Violence seemed to be the
one fear; beyond feelings of human
ity, sympathy or remorse, the func-
tionaries understood but one form of
reprisal; that is the form which meets
assassination in kind.
U. S. Loathed By World.
The world over America is regard
ed with emotions ranging from hat
red to contempt Among workers
there is hatred against the cruel in
satiable industrialism that demands
absolute submission from its work
ing slaves under threat of death
Among liberals there was loathing of
a government which fails to hold in
equilibrium the scales Of justice be-
tween capital and labor. And among
employers and tories there was con-
tempt for an assassination so crude
and brutal that it had inflamed the
world.
Washington cannot see the end of
the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Certainly
the grim tragedy in the electric chair
did not terminate the case. Rather
it has entered new phase; phase
in which labor and liberals will have
something to say. The stage has been
held so far by the Thayers, Fullers
and LoweIls, but from now on the
worlds opinion will be the dominant
factor.
World Boycott of L. S.
That opinion will plague America
for a generation. State and COM
merce department heads fear to think
of what may be the cumulative re-
suit of the execution of Sacco and
Vanzetti. But they see a steady and
unrelenting warfare against Ameri-
can goods in foreign markets; they
see an unending prospect of physical
protection for all American represen-
tatives abroad; they see for years the
prospect that American citizens
abroad will be subjected to insult and
ostracism unless they can prove that
they tried to prevent the Charlestown
state prison horror.
At the last meeting of Washington
workers and liberals on behalf of their
tortured comrades, employers and
their government were told what to
expect in the way of reprisal from
American workers. That threat was
that a campaign would be renewed
with hundredfold force for the or
ganization into unions and labor party
OF the millions of toilers in the great
mass industries of steel, coal, trans
portation and textiles. With the Gre
alton of vast organizations of labor
controlling the economic life of the
nation and Transforming it into sys-
tenn for the protection and advance
ment of labor's interests, there could
never be a repetition Of the foul muir
der of Sacco and Vanzetti