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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22

0rtGl Edltt0n OF Inc LJe ana
Death of Sacco and Vanzetti.
International Publishers, NeW
York;.
CACCO and Vanzetti were brought
y into the neatly swept court room
at Dedham on April 8, 1927, to hear
themselves sentenced to die in the
electric chair. The scene was fully
illumined; the press of the entire
world was represented, millions who
felt deeply about the case watched
with bated breath. The sentencing
was merely a formality, yet it
seemed that something might hap
PEN.
And something did happen. Van
zetti made a speech to the court.
For the great epic of the class
struggle there is a prologue ready
made: Bartolomeo Vanzetti and
Judge Webster Thayer facing each
other in the illumined court room of
Dedham.
Judge Thayer on the rostrum of
authority, narrow figure num-
bling dead words. Words as cold
and precise as corpses, Words dis
inferred from the morgues of sta
tute and precedent. Words that
evoke a musty ingrown past.
And Vanzetti in the prisoners
cage. Alive, far-seeing, reaching
out for words to express a new vi
sion, cropping for electric words to
light up new vistas. Finding words
that touch off the Imagination and
explode. the walls of the narrow
court room.
Behind Thayer, the dead accumu-
lation of precedent and wealth and
privilege, guarded by bayonets. A
narrow world that is organized,
rigid and unfeeling. Behind Van
zetti, the multitudes, as yet unor-
ganized the amorphous multitudes,
surging forward and retreating and
surging further forward, their live
bodies and their live hopes against
the dead past and its bayonets.
Thayer barricaded by statute
books and surrounded by bayonets
is yet a weak, shrinking. figure,
frightened by his own black cowl,
by the sinister memories of witch
bangings, by the sting of light on
eyes accustomed to shadow. He
rises to pronounce the dead formula
of death.
"The jury did it," he mumbles,
'the jury, not l. The jury and the
law and the court--not l. ! am
Just a small sick man about to die"
And Vanzetti standing, it seems
alone, but erect and unafraid,
speaking with the voice of a mil
lion. He, too, pronounces death
verdict. 1t is directed against the
decaying past; not merely against
the lonely frightened figure on the
lostrum of authority. He speaks
for the weak, the despised, the in
undated. Vanzetti does not ex-
plain nor apologize. He condemns
with words of fire and challenges
with the resonance of million
threats.
Thayer-old, worn, dyspeptic,
bitter-has come to Judge the men
in the prisoners cage. But he
shrinks from their words and their
gaze. The skeleton clatter of his
formula is lost in the echoes Of
Vanzetti's verdict. For it is Van
! zetti-calm, eloquent in the aware
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22

TINS was not an accident This parade big political
n because the objective need
oulonary forces really in unicaon
@ our general strategy raying points
mere Will of
it in Europe ASIA Africa other connenthe
prepared VIII be the
greater viii be the number o. a live the revolution
airy camp Why should hold qudatoly viewpoint ques-
ZION cannot understand People all blame
upon the objective situation upon
sphere OF influence This mistake We mostly blame,
because have given too little aid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
AGAINST FRACTIONAL STRIFE.

must also lay stress something else which perhaps
directly connected with the question which
considerable
fractional struggle carried without adequate political
and without adequate political justification The main
complicated they
torical traditions In parties the
opinion that will
measures to combat It. Allow me to give examples
Take the situation within the YugoSav
big scale
conferences congresses pnums etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
81 Know the Sentence Will Be Between the
Oppressed and Rich Class Vanzetti

arms. Even if l come back there
with not a cent in my pocket, my
father could have given me a posi-
ton, not to work but to make bust
ness, or to oversee upon the land
that he owns.
g.. Well, | want to reach a little
point farther, and it is this, that
not only have l not been trying to
steal in Bridgewater, not only have
l not been in Braintree to steal and
kill and have never stolen or killed
or split blood in all my life, not
only have | struggled hard against
crimes, but | have refused myself
of what are considered the commo-
dity and glories of life, the prides
of life of good position, because
in my consideration it is not right
to exploit man. | have refused to
go in business because | understand
that business is a speculation on
profit upon certain people that must
depend upon the business man, and
| do not consider that that is right
and therefore | refuse to do that.
"Now, should say that l am not
only innocent of all these things,
not only have l never committed
real crime in my life-though some
sins but not crimes-not only have
| struggled all my life to eliminate
crimes, the crimes that the official
law and the moral law condemns,
but also the crime that the moral
law and the official law sanction
and sanctify--the exploitation and
the oppression of the man by the
man, and If there is a reason why
| am here as guilty man, If there
is reason why you in few min
utes can doom me, it is this rea-
son and none else.
"There is the best man I ever
cast my eyes upon since l lived, a
man that will last and will grow
always more near to and more dear
to the heart of the people, so long
as admiration for goodness, for vir-
tues, and for sacrifice will last. l
mean Eugene Victor Debs. He has
said that not even a dog that kills
chickens would have found an
American jury disposed to convict
it with the proof that the common
wealth has produced against us.
&C.. He knew, and not only he
knew, bat every man of understand
ing in the world, not only in this
country but also in other countries,
men to whom we have provided
certain amount of the records of the
case at times. they all know and
still stick with us, the flower Of
mankind Of Europe, the better writ
ers, the greatest thinkers Of Eur
ope, have pleaded in our favor. The
greatest scientists, the greatest
statesmen of Europe have pleaded
in our favor.
as it possible that only q few,
a handful of men Of the jury, only
two or three other men, who would
shame their mother for worldly
honor and for earthly fortune; Ia II
possible that they are right against
the world? For tho whole world
has said that it is wrong and I
know that it is wrong. II there h
one that should know It, II 1t 10
right or if 1t Is wrong. It ia and
this man. You 500, 1t 10 seven years
that we are in jail. What we have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22

Comrades words about the various tendencies
time the greatest danger
in from the socaled ultra lefts
of the opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
frustrated but the OF sntegraton OF the
opposition the eliminating point of which the collapse OF the So
called Bund leads inevitably certain conclusions We
social democratic tendency Some
consider this to be exaggeraton
history has shown that the of the
opposition Social Was this chance
Certainly We distinctly the dialectcs of the
relationships traLeft and the Right At
the principal from the Right tendency
whole The period of stabiza
uenc Of Social Democracy certain specific peculares in trade
avyare the elements which keep this danger alive
This danger various forms the individual Parties How did
manifest itself? Firstly by aspiration to legality at price, by
the limits of bourgeois legality
necessary beyond such limits by excessive
bourgeois This Right tendency manifested itself
ignoring necessity aentuang the class struggle for
instance during Strikes strikes not carried This
tendency itself the adoption policy
Social insufficient accentuaton of the
struggle Social Democratic manifested itself
the whole Parties with orntaton do always
their international duties the regard to the
Chinese revolution This certainly definitely Right tendency The
observed also the trade union activity where
union discipline frequently considered important
discipline other with which
will deal presently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22

ness of multitudes speaking thru
his voice-who does the judging.
Nicola Sacco," the clerk asked,
"have you anything to say why SEN
tence of death should not be passed
upon your"
Sacco replied that his friend Van
zetti would speak for both.
Nevertheless his feelings got the
better of him, and he exclaimed:
II never knew, never heard, even
read in history anything so cruel as
this court. After seven years
prosecuting they still consider us
guilty.
81 know the sentence will be be-
tween two classes, the oppressed
class and the r>ch class, and there
will be always collision between one
and the other. We fraternize the
people with the books, with the lit
erature. You persecute the people,
tyrannize them and kill them. We
try the education of people always.
You try to put path between us
and some other nationality that
hates each other That is why l am
here today on this bench, for hav-
ing been of the oppressed class.
Well, you are the oppressor.
"You know it., Judge Thayer-
you know all my life, you know why
| have been here, and after seven
years that you have been persecut-
ing me and my poor wife, and you
still today sentence us to death.
would like to tell all my life, but
what is the use?"
"Bartolomeo Vanzetti," the clerk
repeated, shave you anything to
say why sentence of death should
not be passed upon you?"
YES" Vanzetti replied.
He talked quietly, with gentle
smile, as one talks to children. He
paused to find word in the tongue
foreign to him-but the simple
homely sentiments which are not in
law books came without pauses,
from somewhere deep within him.
What | say" Vanzetti began, sis
that | am innocent, not only of the
Braintree crime, but also of the
Bridgewater crime. That | am not
only innocent of these two crimes,
but in all my life | have never
stolen and | have never killed and
have never spilled blood. That is
what | want to say. And it is not
all. Not only am | innocent of
these two crimes, not only in all my
life I have never stolen, never killed,
never spilled blood but | have
struggled all my life, since l began
to reason, to eliminate crime from
the earth.
Everybody that knows these two
arms knows very well that | did not
need to go into the streets and kill
a man or try to take money. | can
live by my two hands and live well.
But besides that, | can live even
without work with my hands for
other people. have had plenty of
chance to live Independently and to
live what the world conceives to be
higher life than to gain our bread
with the sweat of our brow.
"My father in Italy is in good
condition. could have come back
in italy and he would have well
coined me every time with open
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
SYMPTOMS OF BUREAUCRACY.

another drawback Party work
must this openlyhat the symptoms of
lately increased only Party the Commu
Party Union but other Parties Now and
this finds expression in supercenased leadership in the total
part of local organizations ETC. Of
eentrasm and centralized leadership Central Com
be leading bodies This elementary truth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
Judgment Day Arrives in Dedham, Mass.

suffered during these years no hui
man tongue can say, and yet you
see me before you, not trembling,
you see me looking you in your eyes
straight, not blushing, not changing
color, not ashamed or in fear.
q. We have proved that there
could not have been another judge
on the face of the earth more pre-
JUDGED, more cruel and more hos
tile than you have been against us.
We have proven that. Still they
refuse the new trial. We know,
and you know in your heart, that
you have been against us from the
very beginning, before you see us.
Before you see us you already know
that we were radicals, that we were
underdogs, that we were the enemy
of the institutions that you can be-
lieve in good faith in their good
ness-I don't want to discuss that
and that it was easy at the time of
the first trial to get a verdict of
guilty.
eve know that you have spoken
yourself, and have spoke your hos
tility against us, and your despise-
ment against us with friends of
yours on the train, at the Univer-
sity Club of Boston, at the Golf
Club of Worcester. am sure that
if the people who know all what yota
say against us have the civil cour-
age to take the stand, maybe Your
HONOR am sorry to say this be-
cause you are an old man, and |
have an old father-but maybe you
would be beside us in good justice
at this time
g.. We were tried during a time
whose character has now passed in
to history. | mean by that, time
when there was a hysteria of re-
sentiment and hate against the peo-
pie of our principles, against the
foreigners, against slackers, and it
seems to me-rather, / am positive
of it, that both you and Mr.. Katz-
mann have done all what it were
in your power in order to work out,
in order to agitate still more the
passion of the juror, the prejudice
of the juror, against US.
&c. We believe more now than
ever that war is wrong, and we are
against war more now than ever,
and am glad to be on the doomed
scaffold if can say to mankind,
Look out; you are in a catacomb
of the flower of mankind, For
what? All that they say to you,
all that they have promised to you
it was lie, it was an illusion, it
was a cheat, it was fraud, it was
a crime. They promised you lib
erty. Where is liberty? They
promised you prosperity. Where is
prosperity? They have promised
yOu cicNdtioi. w HCiC IL ttiS cftNd-
ton?
From the day that I went In
Charlestown, the misfortuaate, the
population Of Charleatown, has
doubled In number. Whoro ia the
moral good that tho war has given
to the world? Where Is the Apir-
itual progress that we have achieved
from the war? Where are tho re.
eurity of life, the security of tho
things that we poHaesa for our nee.
essity? Where Ia the respect FOR
human life? Where are tho re.
speet and the admiration for the
good characteristics and the good Of
the human nature1 Never before
" CONTINUED on i'aSa Sirs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-22
By EUGENE LYONS.

(From First Anniversary Mem
orial Edition Of "The Life and
Death of Sacco and Vanzetti.
International Publishers, Neao
York;.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06
POOR MAN GAINS 4 FORTUNE FROM O|L
 FIND IN PANHANDLE

LAS VEGAS, Ney, Mar. 6. (R)-- Broke, except for what he is able to make between periods of illness, a cripple from the loss of one leg, one of the most cheerful fellows ever met, Sam Adams, of this town, now has reason to smile and smile broadly.
 Several years ago, while i'll Texas he acquired quarter section of land in the wilds of North Texas near the Oklahoma border, in Sherman county. During all the time since, he has scraped together enough money to pay his taxes, sometimes going without the necessities of life, to hold the land Now he can smile for his quarter sec tion suddenly turned out to be adjoin- ing land upon which oil was struck snort time ago. Wnlle ne mas not sold his property for hundreds of thousands as quarter sections similar ly situated have been, he is a rich man as a result of the oil discovery, and unless all indications fail he will live the rest of his life ill comfort with sufficient means to overcome his illness.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06
BIG SHIPPERS OF ORE

MAYO, Y. T., Mar. $. (P)-It is es- timated that 5000 tons of rude ore and concentrates will be shipped from Mayo this year, The Treadwell Yu- kon Co.,, has to rush sacks in over the ice to meet the demand. There are more small operators working this season than ever before.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06
SCRAP BOOK ExERPs

Vancampen Heilner New York City "As you have probably seen in the pa- pers l am giving Alaska lot of pub licity and it will probably receive more I shall never forget the won derful people I met on my trip up there nor how kind they were to me-"
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06
SNOW RUNNING AWAY

It is expected this month, as in pre- vious years, all snow will have dis appeared from the streets of Seward Last year on March 15 not an indica- ton of snow was visible within the city limits
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06

The s. s. Oduna of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, arrived in port from <he South last night departing again early this morning.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06
LITTLE SNOW DOWN LAKE

Down around the lower Kenai lake country one will find little snow right now but back in the hills 1t is still two or three feet in depth. The road to Russian river is practically bare.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06

A Standard Oil tanker arrived in port from the South last night with cargo of oil
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06

The M. s. Discoverer left port at 9 o'clock for Illiamna and way ports and carrying mail under a special con- tract.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06

The longer you deal with this old established market of csrstens the letter you will like it
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06

The grade school basketball team was defeated last night by the Mission team by the score of 16-9.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-03-06

A famous "Tarzan of the Apes" pia, at the Liberty tonight.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14
INITIATING A Law FOR
RURAL POWER DISTRICTS


There was total of 80 signatures
on the petition initiating a law tc
permit the formation of power dis
tr.c.s in rural communities for the
purpose of manufacturing and sell
ing electric eN,rgy,' mailed at White
Bluffs last Saturday.
The bill has the endorsement of the
Grange and the petition here was cir.
culated by w. F.. Shaw, secretary
of the White Bluffs Grange. Mr.
Shaw said that he could have secured
many more signatures but that there
was only room for, so on the petit
ton sent him.
At present there is no law permit
tifg the manufacture and sale Of cleo
tricty by municipalities, except by in
coporated cities who operate under a
charter granted them by the state
The proposed bill, if enacted into law
by the legislature, would grant this
power to rural communities.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14
WOMAN's CLUB NOTES

'fi1sTe are many good books III the
library that can be enjoyed these long
Writer evenings. The greater stock OF
books is at the grade school but there
are a number of good ones at the high
school as well. Mr.. Underhill and Miss
Chambers have both been good enough
to say that they VIII give out books to
any who care to send in for them by
the school children. The following are
few of the many that will interest every
one, and the Woruan'a- Club will soon
purchase it's regular quota of new
Volumes:
Ramona" Jackson;" Silver Spoon" y
Galsworthy; THE Bird Woman,
Schultz; "Jane Eyre" Bronte; "The
Grandmother" Westcott; "The Per-
ennial Bal chelor,' Parrish; Passage
to India" Forster; "The Professor
House." Gather.
The Woman's Club will hold bake
sale Saturday, December is, at the
White Bluffs Trading company store.
Cakes, PIES, cookies and rolls will be
offered for sale.
At the regular study meeting
Wednesday, twelve members were
present. After the ordinary rou-
tine Of club work, the entire time
for the program was given over to
talk on Contemporary Poetry"
by Mrs. O'Larey, followed by an
interesting discussion of the sub
ject b. all the members present.
The date for the Christmas par
| ty was set for Friday afternoon,
| December %.
At the business meeting last week
! resolutions were passed endorsing the
| ard-Kellogg Peace Pact, also the
County Library bill that is to be in
troduced in the state legisture at
lis next session.
Any one interested III second hand
furniture, stoves or rugs, may find
what they need by calling Mrs. R. B.
M injury. The articles can be seen
at the little house opposite the Nc
hurry home. Proceeds will go to the
Woman's Club fund. Donations Of
used articles will be gratefully ac-
cepted by the club. Arrangements for
hauling these may be made by calling
Mrs. McMurry or, Mrs. F. Do, Taylor,
PRECEDENT.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14

YOUR automobile is some
thing like a miniature city.
There is an electric light and
power system, q water sys-
tenn, a fuel system.
In the new Ford, you will
find each of these systems
of the latest design and best
materials. Every part has
been made to serve you faith
fully and well at a minimum
of trouble and expense.
Take, for example, the
generator--onc of the most
important parts of the cleo
trical system which supplies
the current for lighting and
for engine ignition.
In the new Ford, the gen.
orator is of the power-house
type and is distinctive in
many features. 1t has been
specially designed to pre-
vent most forms of trouble.
Oiling is necessary only once
a year. About the only thing
you need do is 10 have the
charging rate changed as
the seasons change.
Closely allied to the cleo
trical system is the ignition
system. 1t, too, is of new
mechanical design in the
new Ford. There is but one
high tension cable and that
connects the coil with the
distributor. Even cables
from the distributor to the
spark plugs have -
been eliminated. ~
Special care has also 49,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14

been taken to make the dis
tribuior water proof, thus
preventing short circuits
from rain, etc.
The entire electrical and
ignition systems of the new
" Ford are 80 simple in design
and 80 carefully made that
they will give you surpris-
ingly little trouble. Yet that
doesn't mean they should
be neglected. Certain little
attentions are needed from
time to time.
The storage battery
should be given water and
the connections kept clean.
The generator charging rate
should be changed as indi-
Gated. Spark plugs should
be cleaned at regular inter-
walls. Distributor points
should also be kept clean
and the distributor cam
given a light film of vaseline
every 1000 miles.
These arc just little
things, but they mean a
great deal to your car. You
can have them looked after
at very small cost by the
Ford dealer when you take
the car in for oiling aud
greasing.
A thorough checking-up
at regular intervals will
lengthen the life Of your car
and give you many thou
sands Of miles of
- carefree, economical
- motoring.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14
HIGHLAND ADVOCATE SOLD

Mr.. and Mrs. Sawyer have sold the
Richland Advocate to E. B. Sisson and
the new owner has taken possession.
The Sawyers took over the Advocate
about nine years ago when tie paper
YVES rather forlorn publication and
have built it up to be one Of the best
small town newspapers in the state.
They have moved to Snoqualnlie, near
Seattle, where they have purchased a
newspaper in larger fielc. Mr.. Sisson
is an experienced newspaper man, hav-
irg been employed for several years as
forc,ran in the Pasco Herald office,
and before that worked in tn, Courier
office at KenMewick
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14
WEDDlNG ANNIVERSARIES

Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Foltz enter
tanned MIR. and Mrs. Paul Schicka at
dinner last Saturday evening, the oc-
casion being Mr.. and Mrs. Foltz,s
thirteenth and Mr.. and Mrs. Schicka's
twelfth wedding anniversary. Later
in the evening Mr.. and Mrs. Schicka
were surprised by number OF rela-
tives and friends who gathered to
assist in the celebration. Pinochle was
played and at midnight a lovely lunch
was served to the following guests:
Mr.. and Mrs. William Moede, Mr..
and Mrs. c. l. Wright, Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil Cords. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Scficka, Earl Roberts, Bonnie Mocde
ard Rthard Sd,ic'sa. s