Labor in Europe Speaks Up in Fight for Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
The editorial says that labor in Europe is protesting the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, citing Laurence Todd of the Federated Press, writing from Washington, that state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest, and a second Federated Press correspondent in Boston that public opinion seems to be shifting. It states that the high court examined all the exceptions in so far as argued and, finding no error, let the verdicts stand, so that it had nothing to do with whether the testimony justified the verdict, and it calls on the workers of the United States to join the effort.
The piece is written as an argument addressed to its readers: it urges that the workers of the United States join the effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. It further asserts that if some capitalist were on trial the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him, while the judges of the high court blink themselves blind when a worker faces the court, ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals. The statements of fact in the item about protest abroad and about opinion in Boston rest on two Federated Press reports, one by Laurence Todd from Washington, which the editorial quotes and builds its appeal upon.
Two men convicted in Massachusetts and refused a new trial by Judge Thayer.
LABOR in Europe is speaking up in the fight for the lives of Ni-cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Laurence Todd writes for the Federated Press from Washington that the "state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest" which has greeted "the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti."
The workers of the United States must join in this effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. * * *
The realization that European workers are bearing the brunt of the fight for the class war prisoners in this country, should spur American workers to increased activity.
Another Federated Press correspondent, this time in Boston, declares that public opinion "seems to be shifting somewhat from its hostile attitude toward Sacco and Vanzetti toward the position that there must be something in these workers' claims of innocence after all."
This is an inevitable result of Judge Thayer's course handling of the case, his light disposal of the confessions of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, his slighting references to defense counsel, his zealousness in seeking to belittle the testimony of Celestino Madeiros, and especially his reference to "the verdict of a jury approved by the supreme court of this commonwealth." In fact, the supreme court never proved the guilty verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti. All that the supreme court did, in its own words, was to "examine carefully all the exceptions in so far as argued, and finding no error the verdicts are to stand." The high court merely went thru the technical procedure of the trial. It had nothing to do with the question of whether the testimony presented justified the verdict. That is all that it can do when the present appeal from the decision of Judge Thayer denying the new trial demanded comes before it.
If some capitalist were on trial, of course, the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him. But it is different when a worker faces the court. Then the judges of the high court blink themselves blind ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Labor in Europe Speaks Up in Fight for Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
The editorial says that labor in Europe is protesting the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, citing Laurence Todd of the Federated Press, writing from Washington, that state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest, and a second Federated Press correspondent in Boston that public opinion seems to be shifting. It states that the high court examined all the exceptions in so far as argued and, finding no error, let the verdicts stand, so that it had nothing to do with whether the testimony justified the verdict, and it calls on the workers of the United States to join the effort.
The piece is written as an argument addressed to its readers: it urges that the workers of the United States join the effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. It further asserts that if some capitalist were on trial the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him, while the judges of the high court blink themselves blind when a worker faces the court, ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals. The statements of fact in the item about protest abroad and about opinion in Boston rest on two Federated Press reports, one by Laurence Todd from Washington, which the editorial quotes and builds its appeal upon.
Two men convicted in Massachusetts and refused a new trial by Judge Thayer.
LABOR in Europe is speaking up in the fight for the lives of Ni-cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Laurence Todd writes for the Federated Press from Washington that the "state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest" which has greeted "the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti."
The workers of the United States must join in this effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. * * *
The realization that European workers are bearing the brunt of the fight for the class war prisoners in this country, should spur American workers to increased activity.
Another Federated Press correspondent, this time in Boston, declares that public opinion "seems to be shifting somewhat from its hostile attitude toward Sacco and Vanzetti toward the position that there must be something in these workers' claims of innocence after all."
This is an inevitable result of Judge Thayer's course handling of the case, his light disposal of the confessions of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, his slighting references to defense counsel, his zealousness in seeking to belittle the testimony of Celestino Madeiros, and especially his reference to "the verdict of a jury approved by the supreme court of this commonwealth." In fact, the supreme court never proved the guilty verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti. All that the supreme court did, in its own words, was to "examine carefully all the exceptions in so far as argued, and finding no error the verdicts are to stand." The high court merely went thru the technical procedure of the trial. It had nothing to do with the question of whether the testimony presented justified the verdict. That is all that it can do when the present appeal from the decision of Judge Thayer denying the new trial demanded comes before it.
If some capitalist were on trial, of course, the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him. But it is different when a worker faces the court. Then the judges of the high court blink themselves blind ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Labor in Europe Speaks Up in Fight for Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
The editorial says that labor in Europe is protesting the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, citing Laurence Todd of the Federated Press, writing from Washington, that state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest, and a second Federated Press correspondent in Boston that public opinion seems to be shifting. It states that the high court examined all the exceptions in so far as argued and, finding no error, let the verdicts stand, so that it had nothing to do with whether the testimony justified the verdict, and it calls on the workers of the United States to join the effort.
The piece is written as an argument addressed to its readers: it urges that the workers of the United States join the effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. It further asserts that if some capitalist were on trial the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him, while the judges of the high court blink themselves blind when a worker faces the court, ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals. The statements of fact in the item about protest abroad and about opinion in Boston rest on two Federated Press reports, one by Laurence Todd from Washington, which the editorial quotes and builds its appeal upon.
Two men convicted in Massachusetts and refused a new trial by Judge Thayer.
LABOR in Europe is speaking up in the fight for the lives of Ni-cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Laurence Todd writes for the Federated Press from Washington that the "state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest" which has greeted "the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti."
The workers of the United States must join in this effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. * * *
The realization that European workers are bearing the brunt of the fight for the class war prisoners in this country, should spur American workers to increased activity.
Another Federated Press correspondent, this time in Boston, declares that public opinion "seems to be shifting somewhat from its hostile attitude toward Sacco and Vanzetti toward the position that there must be something in these workers' claims of innocence after all."
This is an inevitable result of Judge Thayer's course handling of the case, his light disposal of the confessions of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, his slighting references to defense counsel, his zealousness in seeking to belittle the testimony of Celestino Madeiros, and especially his reference to "the verdict of a jury approved by the supreme court of this commonwealth." In fact, the supreme court never proved the guilty verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti. All that the supreme court did, in its own words, was to "examine carefully all the exceptions in so far as argued, and finding no error the verdicts are to stand." The high court merely went thru the technical procedure of the trial. It had nothing to do with the question of whether the testimony presented justified the verdict. That is all that it can do when the present appeal from the decision of Judge Thayer denying the new trial demanded comes before it.
If some capitalist were on trial, of course, the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him. But it is different when a worker faces the court. Then the judges of the high court blink themselves blind ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Labor in Europe Speaks Up in Fight for Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
The editorial says that labor in Europe is protesting the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, citing Laurence Todd of the Federated Press, writing from Washington, that state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest, and a second Federated Press correspondent in Boston that public opinion seems to be shifting. It states that the high court examined all the exceptions in so far as argued and, finding no error, let the verdicts stand, so that it had nothing to do with whether the testimony justified the verdict, and it calls on the workers of the United States to join the effort.
The piece is written as an argument addressed to its readers: it urges that the workers of the United States join the effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. It further asserts that if some capitalist were on trial the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him, while the judges of the high court blink themselves blind when a worker faces the court, ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals. The statements of fact in the item about protest abroad and about opinion in Boston rest on two Federated Press reports, one by Laurence Todd from Washington, which the editorial quotes and builds its appeal upon.
Two men convicted in Massachusetts and refused a new trial by Judge Thayer.
LABOR in Europe is speaking up in the fight for the lives of Ni-cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Laurence Todd writes for the Federated Press from Washington that the "state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest" which has greeted "the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti."
The workers of the United States must join in this effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. * * *
The realization that European workers are bearing the brunt of the fight for the class war prisoners in this country, should spur American workers to increased activity.
Another Federated Press correspondent, this time in Boston, declares that public opinion "seems to be shifting somewhat from its hostile attitude toward Sacco and Vanzetti toward the position that there must be something in these workers' claims of innocence after all."
This is an inevitable result of Judge Thayer's course handling of the case, his light disposal of the confessions of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, his slighting references to defense counsel, his zealousness in seeking to belittle the testimony of Celestino Madeiros, and especially his reference to "the verdict of a jury approved by the supreme court of this commonwealth." In fact, the supreme court never proved the guilty verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti. All that the supreme court did, in its own words, was to "examine carefully all the exceptions in so far as argued, and finding no error the verdicts are to stand." The high court merely went thru the technical procedure of the trial. It had nothing to do with the question of whether the testimony presented justified the verdict. That is all that it can do when the present appeal from the decision of Judge Thayer denying the new trial demanded comes before it.
If some capitalist were on trial, of course, the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him. But it is different when a worker faces the court. Then the judges of the high court blink themselves blind ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Labor in Europe Speaks Up in Fight for Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
The editorial says that labor in Europe is protesting the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, citing Laurence Todd of the Federated Press, writing from Washington, that state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest, and a second Federated Press correspondent in Boston that public opinion seems to be shifting. It states that the high court examined all the exceptions in so far as argued and, finding no error, let the verdicts stand, so that it had nothing to do with whether the testimony justified the verdict, and it calls on the workers of the United States to join the effort.
The piece is written as an argument addressed to its readers: it urges that the workers of the United States join the effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. It further asserts that if some capitalist were on trial the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him, while the judges of the high court blink themselves blind when a worker faces the court, ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals. The statements of fact in the item about protest abroad and about opinion in Boston rest on two Federated Press reports, one by Laurence Todd from Washington, which the editorial quotes and builds its appeal upon.
Two men convicted in Massachusetts and refused a new trial by Judge Thayer.
LABOR in Europe is speaking up in the fight for the lives of Ni-cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Laurence Todd writes for the Federated Press from Washington that the "state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of protest" which has greeted "the refusal of Judge Thayer of Massachusetts to grant a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti."
The workers of the United States must join in this effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this country will become seriously worried. * * *
The realization that European workers are bearing the brunt of the fight for the class war prisoners in this country, should spur American workers to increased activity.
Another Federated Press correspondent, this time in Boston, declares that public opinion "seems to be shifting somewhat from its hostile attitude toward Sacco and Vanzetti toward the position that there must be something in these workers' claims of innocence after all."
This is an inevitable result of Judge Thayer's course handling of the case, his light disposal of the confessions of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, his slighting references to defense counsel, his zealousness in seeking to belittle the testimony of Celestino Madeiros, and especially his reference to "the verdict of a jury approved by the supreme court of this commonwealth." In fact, the supreme court never proved the guilty verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti. All that the supreme court did, in its own words, was to "examine carefully all the exceptions in so far as argued, and finding no error the verdicts are to stand." The high court merely went thru the technical procedure of the trial. It had nothing to do with the question of whether the testimony presented justified the verdict. That is all that it can do when the present appeal from the decision of Judge Thayer denying the new trial demanded comes before it.
If some capitalist were on trial, of course, the court would quickly find an endless procession of errors on which to free him. But it is different when a worker faces the court. Then the judges of the high court blink themselves blind ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty before the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 31, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927.
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