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ogize. He paused to exhibit stain
less legal conscience-and his thin
voice trembled.
Under the law of Massachu-
setts," he began, "the jury says
whether a defendant is guilty or
innocent. The court has absolutely
nothing to do with that question.
The law of Massachusetts provides
that a judge cannot deal in any
way with the facts. AS far as he
can go under our law is to state
the evidence.
During the trial many excep-
tons were taken. Those exceptions
were taken to the Supreme Judicial
Court. That court, after examin-
ing the entire record, after examin-
ing all the exceptions-that court
In its final words said, The verdict
OIL the jury should stand; excep-
lions overruled.' That being true
there is only one thing that this
court can do. 1t is not a matter of
discretion. 1t is a matter of statu-
tory requirement, and that being
true there is only one duty that
now devolves upon this court, and
that is to pronounce the sentence.
1T is considered and ordered by
the court that you, Nicola Sacco,
suffer the punishment of death by
the passage of current of cleo
trlclty thru your body within the
week beginning on Sunday, the
tenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand, nine hun
dred and twenty seven. This is the
sentence of the law.
1T is considered and ordered by
the court that you, Bartolomeo Van
zetti. -"
Vanzetti: "Wait minute, please.
Your Honor. May 1 speak a minute
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HIT TREACHERY
OF REFORMISTS
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
welcoming the attitude of the Com
munist International was unani-
mously adopted. 1t was decided to
hold the next congress of the League
in Paris at the end of July, 1929.
At the Sunday session General
Denyanda, Madame Drevet, and the
representative of the Communist
Party, Tchaukai spoke. Saklavala
analysed the situation in India.
Drevet on Indo-China, Mohammed
Hatta on Indo-Asia.
On the motion of the British dele
cation a sharp. resolution against the
second international's decision re-
garding India was adopted. In his
closing speech Maxton, of the indie
pendent Labor Party, severely at
tackled the second international's de-
cision against participation in the
Anti Imperialist League.
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SOVIET MONGOLS
ISSUE DENIAL
Charge japanese Move
to Gain Manchuria

ULAN BATCR, Mongolia, Aug.
21.-In a statement issued today the
Mongolian Soviet Republic emphatic
ally denied that It had instigated the
revolt in inner Mongolia against the
Manchurian goernment denouncing
these reports as propaganda and
provocation by the Japanese with a
view to gaining a free hand in Man
churia The goernment resents the
publication of these reports in the
Japanese and English press. The
Statement says in part:
.'Lately the foreign press and the
radio have announced a peoples in
surrection in and about Barga. The
Japanese press particularly spreads
news of this rebellion and in addition
reoprts that Mongolian troops are
participating.
"The Monaghan Government en-
phatically denies its participation or
the participation Of its army in any
rebellion. It-requests citizens of the
republic adequately to controvert
there provocative runors."
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MCCOY SATISFIED
WITH NICARAGUA

MANAGUA, Aug. 21.-General
Frank Mccoy, American supervisor
Of the elections in Nicaragua this
fall, has returned from twelve
day tour Of the country and reports
himself satisfied with the, progress
of the American occupation through
out the country.
He said further that the Nicara-
guam national guard, differed by
American marines, was replacing
the police in many towns and was
doing effective work"
with my lawyer, Mr.. Thompson?"
Thompson: 81 do not know what
he has to say"
Thayer: Il think l should pro-
nounce the sentence. Bartolomeo
Vanzetti, suffer the punishment of
death. =" e
Sacco (interrupting) y: |tYou know
| am innocent. Those are .the same
words I pronounced seven years
ago. You condemn two innocent
men,"
Thayer: g.. by the passage of a
current of electricity thru your
body within the week beginning on
Sunday, the tenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-seven.
This is the sentence of the law"
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SECRET TROOP
MOVES FEATURE
PEACE PLANS
Britain, France Hold
Joint Maneuvers
BIZ United Press.


PARIS, Aug. 21.-With the sign.
ing of the Kellogg anti-war treaty
less than week away, the armed
forces of England, France and Italy
ere missed in their respective coun-
tries, preparing against possible
war.
Annual maneuvers are being held
by all three countries.
In England, artillery, cavalry,
tanks, armored cars and airplanes
began their maneuvers on Salisbury
Plain today, coinciding with navy
week" during which the people are
permitted to inspect navy ships at
The various ports. Last week. Lon
don was Bombed" numerically in
sham airplane maneuvers.
French troops are maneuvering
with great secrecy this week in the
mountains and valleys of that coun-
try, while joint Franco-Brstish
maneuvers We're decided on for the
Rhineland despite protests from
Germany
Italy also is having expensive
troop maneuvers.
Meanwhile, preparations went for
ward here for great gathering of
diplomats to attend the formal sign
ing next Monday Of the Kellogg
treaty, a movement to end wars of
aggression or conquest.
Secretary Kellogg is due on the
lie De France in a few days, He
will stop at the home of Myron T.
Herrick, United States ambassador
to France, Herrick announced today.
Kellogg sent a wireless today
saying he was enjoying the trip
and IN perfect health.
The American embassy announced
today that Kellogg wonld repay the
visit of President William T. Cos
grave Of the Irish Free State be-
fore he returns home. Kellogg
probably will leave Hav1e on the
cruiser Detroit on August 20, land
ing at Queenstown, Ireland.
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men have been laid off. And in the
hood painting department of the
same plant they used to turn out 16
jobs a day. Now SO are required
And of course several men were
fired"
Race-Track Speed.
At the Ford plants, most famous
for their race-track speed, the sold
ering department has increased pro-
duction> from 35 to 80 pieces per
hour in one year. At one of the
Fisher Body plants where they used
to make $50 to 100 bodies a day,
they now finish from 235 to 24O
with the same number of men on
the job. At the Hudson plant they
more than doubled the output for
the same number of men in one
year, at the same time reducing the
wage an average of 10 cents an
hour. (Auto Workers News. June,
1929
A worker from Briggs writes:
"We're still speeding up plenty
these days, on a piece work basis
Just as soon as we increase our eff
ficiency, we're due for a cut in
prices. Men still start at the aver
age wage of 45 cents per hour, and
women at IS cents per hour.
On certain operation a man has
to handle $500 doors to make So,
and on another operation $4,000
pieces of metalstrips must be cut
through the rolls to earn the same
amount of money. There is every
thing here to make a worker feel
that he is in prison: hard labor,
slave-drivers and hard-boiled guards.
Set Women Against Men.
Another way used to cut wages is
by replacing men with women. In
the core-making department of
Plant No. 20, men working for S.
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TO RALLY FOR
Shcc0-vANzETT7l
.Conttrn.eeZ . fro,,s. paan Ona

Contim1ed4 from, Page Ons
iamin Gitlow, Communist candidate
for vice-president as tn eprincipal
speakers.
Philadelphia, Labor Tnstfttue, 9th
and Locust, August "a, with Max
Shachtman. editor Of the Labor De-
fender, Herbert Benjamin. Workers
Party organizer, and an Italian
speaker.
San Francisco, August %, M,l-
sicians' Union Han, with Emanuel
Levin, William Schneider1nan, Ed
gar Ovens and Charlotte Anita
Whitney as chairman
Pittsburgh, Cameraphone The
atre, 6202 Penn Ave, August 26,
kwith Jack Stachel. organization
ysecretary Of the Workers Party,
|Magliacano in Italian and other
{speakers.
~ Detroit, Woodward and Alfred
Sts., August %, a demonstration
with William Reynolds, Alfred E.
Goetz, John Schmees and others.
Haverhill, Mass, Liberty Club
Hall, 244 Liberty ST., August %,
with II. Sidney Bloomfield.
Omaha, Jefferson Park, August
%, with JamesLace yand others.
Newark, Military Park, August
%, with Philip Frankfeld
Milwaukee, Harmony Hall, LIST
Ave-, and Mineral Street, August
Is, with English and Italian speak
ers.
Poughkeepsie, Fall Kill Hall,
Main and Washington, August %,
with Walt Carmen, business man
ager of the Labor Defender and
Nicola Napoli, editor of II Lavora-
nss- -
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MAN INJURED, ROBBED.

ASHLAND, Pa, Aug. 81 (UP).
James Lewis of New York was
in the state hospital here today in
serious condition from injuries re-
ceivsd when he was held up and
robbed early this morning.
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months. They increase the bonus
in the first few days and then fire
them out before they reach the high
| bonus.
1 Group Piece Work.
In the Fisher Body plants the
group piece-work system is now de-
veloped into a still further form of
exploitation, best illustrated BIZ one
Of the Fisher Body shops in Cleve-
land. Here they hire the workers
at basic day rate, fluctuating be-
tween So and 70 cents an hour. The
company has designated for itself
certain rate for the operation. The
company allows the workers to make
one dollar an hour. The work is
given out in lots, which take be-
tween 11e weeks and two weeks to
perform. This lot, say, of 100 fen
ders, is to be finished in a certain
time in order to get the dollar an
hour. This group of workers, how
ever, do not get its bonus at the end
of each week, but when the lot is
completed. If the worker is laid
off, or quits himself, he gets only
his day rate. They use the same
form of group system in the Sterns-
Knight plant of Cleveland. In the
Chandler Cleveland Motors Corpora
ton the same group system is used.
The workers do not know what they
make every day They only find out
what they make on their bonus at
the end of a pay period of two
weeks.
The extent to which this group
system demoralizes the workers,
and makes them drive one another.
could best be shown by the peculiar
strike which broke out in the crank
shaft department of the Buick Mo-
tor Company, where the gang de-
manded of the superintendent that
two workers that were not fast
enough to keep up a high speed of
production should be taken out from
the gang!
The Ford Company does not use
this SYSTEM. Instead of giving the
man extra money for more produc-
ton, Ford pays this money to a
large gang Of bosses and straw
bosses, who keep razzing the mer
all the time. These "drivers" have
received many millions of dollars
in the past, as bonuses and they, in
turn, saw to it that Ford got it back
many times over from the sweat
and blood of the workers.
Evolve New Schemes.
But with the increased competi.
ton in the industry the Ford Com
pany has evolved new schemes. One
Of the favorite ways of cutting
wages is known as the Systematic
Ford plan" "The Ford Worker" Of
June, 1928, tells the story:
"a herd of hunting dogs of the
service department are placed under
the direction of specially trained
hound bearing the license number
Star 262. These animals roam over
the plant, hunting for some worker
they can send to the employment of.
flee for talking, or wiping the filth
off his hands before the bell rings
running to the lunch wagon or walk.
ing away from his machine towards
the tool crib. These dogs take your
number and send you to the employ.
ment office, where you arc usually
fired. This is invariably the case
! if you happen to be getting above 81
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JUDGMENT DAY COMES
TO DEDHAM, MASS.

Continued from page fiVe)
the war as now have there been so
many crimes, so much corruption,
so much degeneration as there is
now.
y g.. Well, 1 have already said
that / not only am not guilty Of
these two crimes, but l never COM
mitted a crime in my life. I have
never stolen and I have fought
against crime, and l have fought
and l have sacrificed myself even
to eliminate the crimes that the
law and the church legitimate and
sanctify.
''This is what / say: ! would
not wish to dog or to snake,
to the most low and misfortunate
creature of the earth-I would
not wish to any of them what /
have had to suffer, for things
that l am not guilty of. / am
suffering because l am a radical
and indeed l am radical; l have
suffered because l was an Ital-
ian, and indeed | am an Italian;
/ have suffered more for my fam
lily and for my beloved than for
myself; but / am so convinced to
be right that you can only kill
me once but if you could exc
cute me two times, and if | could
be reborn two other times, /
would live again to do what l
have done already.
Il have finished. Thank you"
x
Then Judge Thayer rose to speak.
He rose to pronounce sentence of
death. But first he paused to apol-
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Then Judge Thayer rose to speak
He rose to pronounce sentence of
death. But first he paused to apol-
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AlI-Opposition Coalition.

BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Aug. 81.
The formation of an all-national-
ity opposition coalition is indicated
by latest reports from Zagreb, where
the Creation peasant party and
democratic party leaders have al
ready formed a coalition.
Dissident members of the Bel
grade parliament, notably the few
remaining Croatian representatives,
some deputies of the Serbian pea
SAINT party and of the German min
GRITTY are expected to join the Croats
and Dalmatian parties against the
Belgrade regime. Two Milich, the
Croatian member of the government
radical" party, has already given
up his membership and joined the
Croatian peasant party.
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a day. Then you are replaced by
a man starting for SIS day or by q
student at 35 cents an hour"
In the brake-shoe department, B
building, Fordson, as throughout the
whole plant, it is reported by many
workers that boys getting around 35
cents an hour are being hired. The
company feeds them a lot of taffy
and calls them students" They
are expected to turn out as much
production as the higher paid man
next to them. They are promised
a raise if they make good. The
! bosses forget" about it. The one
thing they never forget is "step on
it"-more production, speed-up, raise
the standard of efficiency. These
boys are being used to beat down
the wages of the men.
Systematic Terror.
This story Of superintendent,
printed in the auto Workers
News" June, 1923, will give the
reader an idea of the systematic
terror which is used by the various
companies to speed up production
and to transform the worker into
real slave:
In one of the biggest departments
of the River Rouge plant, produc-
ton was running smoothly. In fact,
more production was being turned
out by this particular superintendent
than by any of the others. Never
theless an efficiency expert one day
walked over to him and told him to
fire fifteen men. (Which fifteen
mem" asked the head of the de-
partment. "Oh, any fifteen will
do" "And the reason?" asked the
superintendent. "You don't have to
give any reasons" was the reply.
"Well, even If don't give the men
a reason, want to know why just
the same" insisted the speaker.
very well, then, III tell you,"
said the efficiency expert. "You
are too friendly with the men. We
have noticed that when you go
through the department no one is
afraid of you. No one is more on
the alert, more uneasy and trying
to work harder than before. 1t is
different in the other departments
Any one can tell when the superin-
tendents are passing through. The
men are all uneasy and trying to
goad themselves to the maximum
effort. All the men think the heads
of their departments are son -
5"
"Are you not satisfied with the
production record here?" asked the
superintendent. "That part is quite
o. H." was the reply.
Unusual Foreman.
The superintendent then stated
Henry Ford may be able to make
what he wants out of other men, but
he is not going to make a son -
- out of me. quit"
Something like the above story
could be told about executives in the
Fisher Body, Pontiac plant, and in
other plants of the automobile in.
dustry. 1t illustrates the labor pol.
icy of this industry. Manufacturers
DON'T want leaders, they want slave.
drivers. They don't want workers
to have any spirit of independence
and self-respect, they want obedient
docile slaves.
The process of acceleration OF
production, of speed-up never stops
Here are few examples. A Dodge
worker writes that ain the Ducc
work we now spray the Victory Six
with two coats instead of one, and
at the same price" A Packard man
writes, "In the body division we
used to do six jobs day. Now we
do eight, and 20 per cent. Of the
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FOR SERVICES RENDERED

CHICAGO, Aug. 81 (UP).-
George E. Brennan, democratic
leader, who died August 8. left an
estate valued at 100000 to his wife
and daughter, Mary. relatives said
today, when his will was filed for
probate.
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Throughout the Spring and Summer
seasons.
center Market dealers this morning
reporte6 an Improvement in trading
conditions, demands having steadily In
creased since the close of the Lenten
season nearly two weeks ago. Prices OF
most commodities remained unchanged
Teday'S Wholesale Prices,
pound prints. 47a4712
tub. 4slaa46ia; store packed 80.
Eogs~-Fresh selected, 2Sa29; hennery
gaaSn. current receipts, ~.
Poultry, alive Turkeys, S0aS5; Win.
ter chickens, isaac, fowls, 20, rooSterS
17afs; ducks, lSa2o keats. young
T0aTs. old. 3S. DrcSsed-~Turkeys
A0a45, roasting chickens. 3Sa40; fowls
large 50. small. o. broilerS, SS; caponS
large. a4a45, small. SoaSS. ducks. 20s
os. keats. GOAL 10.
Meats. fresh killed Beef, 20a22, veal
2oa24. lamb. Soa25; pork loins. 26s27
hams, iea2o, shoulders. iSal4; smoked
hams. 2oa22: smoked shoulders. iSal4;
bacon. 20a22; lard, l2i2; calves, Is;
Spring lambs. lSa20.
Today'S market report on fruits and
vegetables Compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau Of Agricultural
Economics says,
Applies Supplies light; demand light.
market steady; Virginia, unclaSSitied.
- inches up. yellow newotonS, 6.5oa
200, Oh inches up, S.0oaS.50; boxes.
washington. medium to large size. eXtl q
fancy WmeSsrs. 3,7Sa4o0, buShel bas-
kcts No sales reported,
Asparagus Supplies moderate: de-
n,and moderate, market about steady /.
South Carolina dozen bunch crates.
green. very large size. mostly around
90 large Sige, 400a450. medium size,
2 Soa3 90. mostly 500, few fine quality
and condition very large size. T,00aG so f;
large sire. 6.ooa6,5o tall. zoe.
o. Sbbagc Supplies light, demand
moderate, market about steady: Florida,
/ hushcl hampers pointed type. most
Il S25. round type, mostly 500, few
higher
Celery Supplies moderate. demand
moderate. market steady. Florida. To-
inch crates. s-S 6oren, 42Sa4S0: S-a
dozen. z00a425
Lettuce - Western stock; supplies
moderate; demand moderate. market
about steady. Arizona. crates. iceberg
5ype. s~a dozen. S,7aa4 p0: Southern
stock. supplies light, demand moderate
market steady. North Carolina. ; peek
hampers. big Boston type, ordinary
quality, 2o0as,5o.
Onion Market Dun
Onions - Supplies light, demand
light. market dull; old stock. no sales
reported. new stock. Texas. standard