The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-18
ASKS CANDIDATE
or WALL ST. TO
STATE POSITION
Communist Nominee,
in Letter, Exposes
AIS Role
Kept Mum Last Year

In an open letter to Gov. Smith,
Benjamin Gitlow, Communist can
didate for vice president, chal-
,enges the democratic presidential
nominee to state his position on the
execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in
his acceptance speech, which will be
delivered on Aug. %, the ,anniver-
sary of the execution of the two
Italian labor leaders in Charles
town, Mass.
Gitlow will speak at Sacco-Van-
zetti memorial meetings on August
%, and declares that he will use
the anniversary of Sacco and Van
zetti's execution to arouse the 1c-
tired of the masses to the vile sy3-
tenn of capitalist frame-up and muT-
der Of innocent workers, and %
mobilize them to fight to end il"
Text of Letter.
The letter reads:
august II, 1923.
Honorable Alfred E. Smith,
Governor of state of New York,
albany, New York.
Dear Sir;
August % viii mark ons yesr
since Sacco and azetti were e. G.
trocuted by the state Of Massa ~
sets. These two workers were =
solutely innocent of the crime &c
which they were executed.
state of Massachusetts ignored and
defied the mighty protest o. IN
hundreds of millions of peopit Z.
all the countries of the world, 10
demanded that the judicial murd
of these two innocent workers
should not take place.
"The United States government,
in the face of the widespread pro-
test movement in this country IS
well as abroad, refused to interfere
and sanctioned this outrageous.
brutal execution.
Protests Ignored.
'Never in the history of the
whole labor movement did a capi-
talist power fly so brazenly in the
face of such a widespread demand
as that of the millions of workers
and peasants throughout the world
who raised the cry for the release
of Sacco and VanzetN.
''1he United States government,
by its action in the Sacco-Vanzetti
case, proved conclusively to the
workers and farmers of America
and the whole world that as the
government of Wall Street, of the
bankers and super-trusts, it will
commit the vilest and most afro
cious deeds against the labor move
ment in order to protect capitalist
profits and investments.
Bloodthirsty Imperialism.
The Sacco and Vanzetti case ex-
posed United States imperialism in
all its savage nakedness and bestial-
ity. This imperialism, fattened
with the blood profits of the world
war, is depriving workers of the
right to organize. is smashing their
unions, is jailing hundreds of work
ers fighting wage-cuts in Massachu-
setts. keeps Mooney and Billings in
prison, uses the government as a
strikebreaker, orders militia and
troops against striking workers.
crushes the movement for inde-
pendence in the Philippines, rapes
Nicaragua, butchers Haiti, sends
warships and troops to crush the
Chinese Revolution, and refuses to
recognize the Soviet Union, the
first Workers and Peasants Re-
public in the world This imper-
ialism is preparing for world war,
which it will provoke in order to
guarantee the foreign investments
and enterprises of Wall Street.
This imperialism of the United
States that murdered Sacco and
Vanzetti is preparing for the
of millions of workers
and farmers in an imperialist war
for Wall Street.
Challenges Smith.
"The workers are, therefore, on