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

THIS is the first anniversary of
the legal murder of Sacco and
Vanzetti by the capitalist govern
ment of the state of Massachusetts.
Today millions of workers in every
part OF the world will hold demon
strations concentrating the lives
of those two gallant workingclass
warriors and pledging themselves to
fight on against the capitalist system
that sent Sacco and Vanzetti to their
doom.
THERE will be two kinds of
memorial meetings today. One
kind will be held under the auspices
OF the Communist movement in the
United States and other countries:
the other under the auspices of lib
erals, anarchists and pacifists. The
Communists will not only point out
that Sacco and Vanzetti were framed
by the authorities, that they were
killed in the electric chair not be-
cause of a crime of which they were
innocent but because they fought
for the workingclass, but they will
also point out that there never is and
never can be any more justice under
a class government than that class
can afford to grant its suppressed
class enemy.
| THE liberals would have us believe
that a good" governor in the
position of Governor Fuller of
Massachusetts would have used his
office to grant Sacco and Vanzetti
a new trial. This is dangerous
illusion to hold up before the work
ingclass. This is on a par with the
A. F. of l.. political policy of ere
ward your friends and punish your
enemies" This kind of nonsense
means that the workers do not have
to organize into revolutionary
class party to fight against judicial
assassination now, and for their
ultimate emancipation from wage
slavery.
+ ROM the beginning of the Sacco-
Vanzetti defense fight the Com
munists made mass issue out of it,
knowing that the power of the
masses only could stay, the hands of
the executioners. Unfortunately the
American workingclass were still Z
too much under the sway of the re-
dictionary labor bureaucrats to throw
their collective weight behind the
protest. The leaders of the A. F. of
h.. confined themselves to uttering
platonic doubts of the guilt of Sacco
and Vanzetti. The liberals depended
on intellectuals and bourgeois edi-
tors and politicians who crawfished
when the campaign carried on by the
Communists threatened to assume
mass proportions.
THE Workers (Communist) Party,
as a member of the great united
front labor defense organization the
|. L. d., was the driving force behind
the movement to save Sacco and
Vanzetti. Tho not in agreement
with the anarchist philosophy held
by the two doomed men, it saw in
them protagonists of the working
class who were willing to sacrifice
their lives for the cause of labor
and saw that it was because of this
that the capitalist government of
Massachusetts decreed that they
must die. Had Sacco and Vanzetti
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to be found on many capitalist
newspapers, they would be living to-
day. But they believed in organi-
zing the workers and fighting for
higher wages and working condi-
lions and that is why they were
executed.
r HE mass demonstrations today
l will be utilized, in addition to re-
| freshing the memory of the working
class regarding the crime committed
against Sacco and Vanzetti, to
mobilize the masses for a great
drive to free Tom Mooney and
Warren X. Billings, now incarcerated
in living tombs in the state of
California and to open the Jail gates
for the I. w. w. prisoners in Walla
Walla, Washington. The Interna-
| tional Labor Defense is organizing
this drive. The movement to free
these class war victims will not be
based on liberals and intellectuals, +.
tho the assistance of all human be.
ings will be welcome, but it will b.
based on the exploited masses of the
United States.
WI HILE those workers are suffer-
:" ing the fortunes of the damned
in Jail, millions of their class are go
ing their way needless of their
agonies. In this election campaign,
neither the republican, democratic
nor Socialist parties have word
to say about the class war prisoners.
The Workers (Communist) Party
only places the release of all clscc
war victims in the forefront of it's
program. The more sacred duty re-
mains to be performed by the
American workingclass than to COM
pei the arrogant jailers of Tom
Mooney. Billings and the victims of