The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
Sacco and Vanzetti 1927~Imperial Valley, 1881

These recommendations" are not mere "urg-
ing" of overzealous flunkeys. They represent
the original order" issued by the Los Angeles
Chambers OF Commerce-the states ruling pow
erS. For the State Prison these ''recommenda-
tions" are instructions which they can do no
less than carry out, If not checked by workers
protest This proves to the working class in
most convincing fashion that the capitalist
courts are but blinds" behind which is hidden
the mailed fist of the boss-class.
The pressure of workers protests forced the
California bosses to retreat from their original
intentions to bury our comrades alive-as they
have buried Mooney and Billings, j. B. NC
Namara, and others They were forced to re-
duce the maximum sentences from AZ years to
IA years on five workers and release, completely,
Frank Spector. On August the Prison Board
has already called in Erickson, Roxas and
Emery. However, they were postponed for the
latter part of September when the entire group
Of seven I'LL appear before the Prison Board for
the final sentences.
The nc remaining short period-tin end Of
Septembe must see the strongest drive to OBJ
tain the complete freedom for our seven COM
rades. This to be linked-up with the fight for
the release of Mooney and Billings, Scottsboro
boys, and general amnesty.
Backed by the strength of workers protests
the LID is going ahead with the last legal
stage-appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court de-
handing that the last remaining count, carry
ing IA years, be thrown out.
Alongside with this drive the LID in Cali
fornia is now carrying on mass united-front
campaign to repeal the Criminal Syndicalist
law. 1t is the goal of the recently organized
statewide anti-C S. law conference, now en-
bracing many working class organizations, in
Guiding dozens of A. F. of L. locals, to obtain
by December LIST $4,000 signatures of regis
tered voters so that the question of repeal of
this vicious boss-law be placed upon the 1892
ballot for referendum This is huge task
and must receive the support of workers not
only of California but also of the entire coun-
try. blow at the California c. S. law spells
a blow to every sedition law in all other states
where such exist.
The Communist Party who bears the brunt
of the bosses terror has initiated and inspired
the campaign for the repeal of the C. S. law
and has placed this as of the chief tasks
for it's California district Such campaign sets
into motion masses of toilers and by its very
process serves notice upon the masters that the
workers will not tolerate attempts to drive the
Communist Party and other revolutionary or
CARNATIONS underground and the falling of mill
tant workers. The existence of the G. S. and
other sedition laws is a sword that hangs on
thin thread over the head Of every worker and
his organization Its existence makes possible
the crushing of every attempt Of workers to
fight against their wretched conditions. The
fight to repeal the G. S. law is inseparably
bound up with the fight for the release of the
Imperial Valley prisoners-victims of that law.
Let August 22nd, the anniversary of the death
of Sacco and Vanzetti be the day when the
workers will demonstrate and demand the i'm
mediate unconditional release of the seven val
ley workers, Mooney and Billings and all other
class fighters and the repeal Of all sedition laws.
The Imperial Valley &c must be one of the
chief issues raised in all Aug. 20 demonstrations
and meetings.
The I. L. D. points to the immediate necessity
on the part of every workers union and fra
ternal organization and all the sympathetic
groups, and their memberships individually, to
at once wire to Gov James Rolph, Sacramento,
Calf and to the California State Prison Board
San quentin, California, demanding the re-
lease of the Imperial Valley prisoners and the
repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism law. Mass
pressure is the only effective weapon in the
hands Of workers for the release of their mill
tants. Let further pressure compel the
opening of the prison gates for the Imperial
Valley prisoners. Mooney and Billings, Scots
boro workers and every other militant behind
prison walls today. Forward to August 22nd-
the day Of working class homage TO our dead
fighters, Sacco and vansett, and the day Of
l. nEtA ~ thu eseedam - N alaasF 4tssA I'm :.