The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-22
Two Years After the Murder of Sacco and
VanZetti
Vanzetti


the feet of the working class the shattered and burned bodies
of Sacco Vanzett These two workers. gues of the
crime charged against Them endshly tormented for
years. and finally led to the electric chair where bolts
of chained lightning sent surgng through their tor
tured bodies and Vanze victims of the
most frightful class murders in history.
In the long struggle their liberation these two Italian
workers had become symbols of the organization and srug
giles of the working against the capitalist of this
country Their murder attempt the part of the
ruling class to errorze all who dared to challenge its ruth
less exploitation of the wage workers of this country
The vile instruments that the American capitalist class
used carry this murder Governor Fuller Judge Thayer
President E. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University Judge
Grant W. Stratton president the Massachusetts Inst
tue of Technology knew these two workers innocent
but they had their instructions and carried them out
Today years after the murder of Sacco and Van
zet millions workers. who first began perceive the
meaning of capitalist class justice at that time under
that capitalist laws courts judges police
social institutions of the ruling class maintained for the
purpose mercessy suppresng the working class order
to enable the capitalist class continue to pile up wealth
through the exploitation of labor.
Vanzetti joined the list of abors martyrs
will always be remembered and honored by the workers
of the world Today throughout the whole world untold mil
lions of workers in the mperat nations and the
the exploited colonies and semcoones will the memory
United States foreign countries dare not to-
day openly appear The American embassies regarded
houses of shame and objects of oahng and contempt
For the workers of the United States and of the world
this anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti
special significance because the identical ruling class so
contemptousy challenged by numbering Them is today
endeavorng to railroad to the electric chair 16 striking mill
workers and strike leaders in Gastonia North Carolina
TheC nriSon toda and
for long in the shadow of the electric chair
charged with murder because they dared defend themselves
against assault of police thugs and who attacked
their tent colony with the object of destroying and muir
dering the strikers and their families.
From the beginning of the attempt of the capitalist
poers to send the Gastona victims to the electric chair
the defense has been conducted along clear class lines The
meddng liberals the yellow socialists that case aided
the murderers by sowing all sorts of illusions about capitalist
justice and who up to the last day. tried sabotage
demonstrations and strikes and tell the have
faith in he orderly of justice to Sacco
Vanze will not be able to repeat their reacheous perfor
in the Gastona To the end the Gastona fight
must be and will be continued class lines There be
the most intensive mobilization of the working class in the
United States and throughout the world these work.
workers everywhere have slave to pay tribute
to the Uncle Shyock mperast loan monger of the world
must recognize that the Gastonia victims today in Jail
because they participated drive to organize and lead in
struggles the workers of the New South which
industries Just as bankers and ndustrasts the
North murdered Sacco and Vanze in order to terorze
labor in the textile mills and shoe factories the out
fit with investments in the South trying repeat their
dastardy acts still greater scale to stop the working
class struggle against naturalization
Today the New York masses demonstrate at Union
Square at five o'clock in the afternoon combined Sacco
Vanze memorial and defense of the Gastona victims In
other city and industrial center the country similar
demonstrations will be held.
The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union and all
revolutionary workers everywhere who demonstrate in
of Sacco and Vanze today will recognize that the
malignant imperias that is melting the Chinese BAN
dit government against the Soviet Union the identical
ing class that murdered Sacco and Vanzet and sriv
ing to burn alive the Gastonia prisoners.
In Latin America there will be tremendous demonstra
tons and strikes because the cassconscous workers in the
southern republics know only too well that the class
that exploits hem that sends marines and bombing planes
against them in order that Wall Street may realize SUPER
profits through their exploitation and degradation also
ders workers in the United States for daring challenge
the same mperialist oppressor.
Throughout the world the masses must take up the
battle cry:
Remember Sacco and Vanzetti!
Stop the bloody hand of Yankee row ro;cod