The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-11
Bz ROBERT MINOR


NIFTY does the working class have one Of It's
biggest and most important demonstra-
lions on Saturday August %?
Because on August %, 1927-four years ago
two innocent American workers born in Italy,
Enrico Sacco and Bartelomeo VanzetH, were
burned to death in the electric chair in Massa-
chusetts. Two workers Of highest honesty and
loyalty to their class were framed up and con-
victed of murder" while attempting rob-
berry C!D. The charge was upheld by the pro-
fessonal perjury of the police and the perjury
Of criminals organized and coached by the Of
ficers Of the law, and the jury was goaded to
prejudice Of "hundred-per-cent white Ameri-
cans" against the "low-down Wops"!
How this sounds like the Scottsboro case
today
The unquestoned innocence of the victims Is
not the reason why the working class of the
whole world remembers the murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti. The working class remembers
them because their murder by the authorities
Of capitalist government Of Observation-Disclosures
ported by President Coolidge and the Federal
Government machinery including the U. S. Su-
preme Cortland including those foul hypo-
critics. the liberal" members of the Supreme
Court especially the adroit liberal hypocrite
in the service Of reaction, Justice Brandeis-
deliberate murder for the purpose of ter
murder Of two individuals. but the murder of
two heroic representatives of the struggle of the
working class for liberation from capitalist
slavery. That is why the capitalist class muir
dered them That is why the working class re-
members them. The fact that the two dead
Ttahan-American workers, despite their class
loyalty and heroisnl we're still unable to see
through the petty-bourgeois illusions of the
theory of Anarchisrn does not alter the fact
that Sacco and Vanzetti belong to the prole-
tartan revolution. The revolutionary cause for
which Sacco and Vanzetti died has no other
existence than the Communist Revolution in
which the workers know that there is no other
way OF defeating and destroying capitalist
slavery except that which leads through the
proletarian dictatorship displacing the capital
ist class dictatorship, a period of proletarian
democracy. Sacco and Vanzetti belong to the
revolution.
And because Sacco and VanzetH are martyrs
and symbols of the struggles OF the oppressed
OF the whole vorld-tlose who are true to this
struggle remember Sacco and Vanzetti not with
idle words and tesrs-we remember them with
action in the for which they died. And
especially with action on behalf of the living
class-war prisoners who, like Sacco and Van
zetti. now rot in capitalist jails and now face
death as they did, on the electric chair. August
% therefore is not day OF mourning, of sor-
row and pessinlisml Not for the working class!
August % is a day of mobilization of the forces
of the working class for the struggle to save
such present victims of the same capitalist franz
ers and hangmen, as the Scottsboro boys and
the arrested Negro share-croppers at Camp Hill,
Alabama!
Sacco and Vanzetti belong to the Negro share
choppers Of Alabama in their courageous fight
for life against slavery to the white landlords.
Sacco and Vanzetti belong to the heroic coal
miners fighting for life in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia and Kentucky. Sacco and Van
zetti belong to the Negro and white workers Of