The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-15

Snoud De among Inc leadlng demands on Secco-
Vanzetti Day, August %.
The arrest and Imprisonment of Nicola sacco
and Bartolenaeo Vanzetti took place during the
relentless war waged against the fcreign-born in
the years Immediately following the world war
and during the economic crisis of 1s2o-21.
It. was during these same years following the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia when oppressed
workers in many countries were rising against
the social order tormentng them, that the So
called Boosted tradition of America as a land
Of asylum for political refugees was completely
shelped.- $500
America was made safe for 'lssian Whit
guardstS treking across the Atlantic or Pacific
raonaFctist supporters Of the turnbled down
houses of the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns and
Hspsburgs were welcomed But the bars were
up against all working class revolutionaries, re-
inforcing the quota barrier.
Fourteen Point" woodrow wilson of the ver-
Sailles Peace was still president of the United
States when Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested.
Attorney General j. Mitchell Palmer, the Phila-
delphis Quaker, had just carried through his
notorious January Red Raids" with 5000 wat-
rants issued for as many arrests Three thou
sand arrests were actually made with 762 actu-
ally ordered deportsd, So great was the rising
rage of the workers however, that only 271 were
actually sent out of the country. Yet it was in
the midst of this vicious terror that Sacco and
Vanzett we're arrested, framed up on the charge
Of murder, thrown into steel cage in the court
room OF the infamous Judge Webster Thayer.
Outside the courthouse the heavily armed SOL
diery continually paraded the streets while the
poison press of the boss class everywhere clam
ored for the lives of these two workers
While hundreds of others were being deported,
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Massachusetts, courts for special punishment 1t
would not do to permit them to go to Italy,
where the workers we're even then selling the
factories Mussolini had not yet emerged as
the savior of capitalism
Not political asylum, but burning alive in the
electric chair was the substitute that boss class
rule meted out through Judicial lynching to these
brave working class fighters
In memory of Sacco and Vanzetti in the new
period of the growing deportation terror, the
fight for political asylum and against this phase
of the war upon the foregn-born must grow to
avalarch strength.
Within recent months the Hoover department
Of labor under both James j. Davis, now Unit
ed States senator from Pennsylvania, and his
successor, william w. Doak has again made
raids involving 5000 foreign born These raids
are Illegal in violation of capitalsn's own laws.
Some have been made under inspiration of the
fascist spokesman of foreign tyrannies. They
have been accompanied by brutal acts of vio-
lence and intimidation
Not only membership in the Communist Party,
but in the Trade Union Unity League and its
affiliated organizations has been declared sufl-
Gent basis for deportation. This is escn in the
arrests of William Murdoch and Pat Divine, the
leaders in the New England textile strike. In
their efforts to crush militant working class ac-
tivities the government bloodhounds run down
the native born, as in the arrest of Nat Kaplan,
Boston district organizer of the Communist Par
ty, and Anna Burlak textile strike leader. Wher-
ever strike threatens, these government agents
are rushed in to use the deportation warrant as
strike-breaking weapon.
In fact the federal prosecutor in the Boston
courts in the case of Murdoch, Devine and Berk-
man, openly declared that the warrant for ar
rest on deportation charges was being delber-
ately used as strike breaking weapon.
This is in the year 1881 eleven years after the
arrest OF Sacco and vanzetti - four years after
their murder.
The Hoover-Doak federal prosecutor nade this
declaration in the shadow of the state capt.
toll where Governor Alvin T. Fuller, his face
wreathed in a sadistic smile sat in his Office on
wide demand for saving the lives of Sacco and
vanzetti, instead ordering them to die,
Massachusetts, made the electric chair the
CHASTITY symbol of an American democracy"
stripped of illusions
Massachusetts, its hands still crinlsoned with
the blood of Sacco and Vanzetti, tries to sharpen
the deportation weapon to resist the growing
strike struggles sweeping through its industries
1t is in these strike struggles that workers are
inspired to great efforts against deportation.
The memory of Sacco and Vanzetti lives in
these strike struggles as it should in every class
battle the nation over
Save the lives of Sacco and vanzett;l"
This cry failed in 1927. Against deportationss
For the right of political asylumr' is raised
sharper, in nlightier waves of protest in 1881,
as a result of this ruling class murder of our
comrades four years ago. In their memory, in
their name, forward to new battles, victorious
struggles
Demonstrate on August %! Out in the streets
in mighty protests in memory of Sacco and
Vanzetti Forward to new battles victorious
struggles.