The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

these. Not one of them, there is no
exception, ever recanted, ever plead
ed, ever flinchd when capitalism's
hangmen flinched when capitalism's
him. Neither did Saeco and Van
zetti.
Labor has had too many martyrs
in America. What we want now is
some more victories. 1t is not to
the credit of the American prole-
tarians that they have allowed so
large a number of their best to be
butchered by the enemy.
A Few Points to Remember.
The lessons of the Sacco-V anzetti
case are a summary of our mistakes,
and the tactics of the frame-up ex-
perts. Briefly, they are these.
There is no such thing as justice
in a class case. The employer
class, in control of the legal machin-
cry, is influenced by one thing only,
fear. If it is proved to them that it
is inexpedient to kill their victim,
they won't. Otherwise they will.
Organization is the best defense.
The weakness of the labor movement
during the early days of the Sacco-
Vanzetti case, its purely defensive
tactics at first on the industrial and
political field, lost in advance the
best chance to win.
The best chance to win is at the
first trial; you have to fight, you
have to take the offensive in the
beginning. The jury system is ca
pable of every form of corruption,
but the juror is still more sensitive
to mass opinion than the hard boiled
plutocrat, or his legal hireling, the
Judge. If you lose the first trial
in labor case you no longer have
legal rights, you can only beg or
threaten. appeals" have invaria-
bly, been denied, unless they are
merely the formal cover for threat,
and the longer the threat is in mate
rializing in formidable force, the
greater the force required to pry
the victim loose from his murderers.
Suspect the capitalists when they
bring gifts. If court offers bar
gain, a compromise, a Communication,
reprieve, be sure it is merely a
thanking maneuver, the sooner to eff
feet the predetermined objective,
death for the worker victim.
Put not your faith in liberals.
They have funny ideas, and they
seldom learn anything. They are
always surprised at each new Gin
justice" and they always fall imme-
date victims to each new blandish-
ment of the prosecution, or the es-
tablishcd authorities. Whenever one
Of them gets grasp of the class
forces involved, and becomes a re-
alist, he ceases to be liberal and
either goes reactionary or revolu-
zionist. Liberals can help; if they
direct the defense, as for too long
time they did for Sacco and Van
zetti, they will always stop fighting
Just when the decisive blow should
be struck. The international Labor
Defense, which did so much to rouse
labor in the later years of the Sacco-
Vanzetti case, was always attacked
for it's plain events showed it was
right.
Let us remember some of these
things when we commemorate the
death of Sacco and Vanzetti this
year, and let us remember them in
the present Gastonia case. Let us
prepare for the next legal lynching
party by building industrial, politi-
cal and defense organizations before
hand. Our new industrial unions,
our fight to revolutionize the old
unions, our international Commun-
list movement, and our International
Labor Defense are the decisive fac
tors; lawyers are useful but Incl
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