The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-30
SaccO and Vanzetti Were "Given
the Works"

The Outlook and Independent" the lib
eral capitalist magazine which publishes the
newest details of the frame-up and murder
of Sacco and Vanzetti apologies to the capt.
talist class for doing so, in these words:
"Once men lose faith in the administration
of their laws, society is on the road to disin-
tegration."
The magazine explains further that:
at is for this reason that there is laid upon
the press of any country the profound obliga-
ton of eternal vigilance and close scrutiny
where courts, legal procedures and lawyers are
concerned
"It is in response to this obligation that The
Outlook and Independent prints in this issue
the results of its investigation of the convic-
ton of Bartoomeo Vanzett for the Bridge
water hold-up." (Our emphasis
Here we have the motive of a capitalist
organ in exposing further crime of the
capitalist class and government which was
already completely exposed. To re-establish
among the millions of workers who were dis
illusioned by the action of the capitalist gov
eminent in numbering Sacco and Vanzetti-
to re-establish among them their faith in
capitalist lawsuits is the motive.
Now let's see what the method is. The
capitalist magazine assures its readers that
the crime of numbering Sacco and Vanzetti
is explained by the fact that Judges, like
other men, are human, in their capacity for
error" and that, ''juries are human and
make mistakes"
In other words the method of restoring
working class confidence in capitalist govern
ment, is to convince the workers that the
cold-blooded, carefully planned, long consid-
cred and carefully executed murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti was all mistake" an "error'
of court which really intended to deal out
justice of the same sort equally well to all
classes. To convince the workers that the
capitalist courts are all right in their pur-
pose and their normal functioning-is the
method.
Then the capitalist magazine goes another
step and expounds its political philosophy
"Yet our system is the only means we have
of dealing out justice and protecting society.
(our emphasis) 1--WE improve this sys-
TEN, but cannot discard it."
Every intelligent worker knows that that
capitalist magazine would not have dared
print word of exposure Of the details of the
murder Of Sacco and Vanzetti if tens of mil
lions of workers had not already-in spite of
that capitalist paper-created a worldwide
movement against the capitalist government
of the United States for that matter. Did
the Outlook expose the crime before the
masses of workers became agitated over it?
No. And with the present explanation of
the Outlook and Independent, every worker
who reads it should know that the magazine
publishes this exposure only for the precise
reason that it gives: to restore the faith"
of the working class in the capitalist gov
eminent which murders workers.
We declare to the workers that there was
no terror" in the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti by the state of Massachusetts, with
the whole machinery Of the United States
government tacitly but actively participat-
ing and equally responsibility. The capitalist
court did not make a mistake" in picking
Sacco and Vanzetti as enemies and murder
ing them. The action of the government in