Why Sacco and Vanzetti Died
Oneal, Jamea
Why Sacco and Vanzetti Died Brothers of Light By LUCIA TRKNT In Memoriaa, Sacco and Vanzetti, Innocent Labor Martyrs Electrocuted by Massachusetts in August, 1»27. KAEN turn the brutal...
...The fusionists want to re-form thy city administration...
...They are Socialists and opposed to the politics of capitalism...
...It traced the two murder cars, not one as charged in the Sacco-Vanxetti trial, and accounted for the trans, fer of number plates from one car w another...
...Judge Thayer refused to grant a new trial in an opinion that Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard Law' School declared was a "farago of -misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations...
...He and every Socialist candidate are entitled to the votes of the workers and all others who want to destroy Tammany Hall and other forms of the politics of capitalism...
...Several members of the Morelli gang, the real killers, made false statements in the course of the investigation, but the evasions of Sacco and Vanzetti alone were considered by Judge Thayer as "consciousness of guilt...
...Where Waa the Money...
...From all parts of the country, by car, truck, hitchhiking, even riding the rods, these Socialist youngsters, ranging in age from 14 to 25, are on their way to their Seventh National Convention...
...On February 10, 1921, Antonio Mancini of ProvU dence killed a man in New York City with a foreign-make automatic gun, 7.66 millimeter calibre, through which were fired bullets of American .32 calibre...
...Because our candidate would then be a hostage of those who are- opposed to everything for which we-Socialists fight...
...They represent labor...
...They were Italians and radicals...
...That evidence abo revealed who the real killers were...
...The vulgar and shocking statements of the trial judge against the accused men, his passing upon appeals that involved his own rulings and prejudice, his misrepresentation of the evidence in his instructions to the jury, the cooperation of the prosecutor in these shameful proceedings, and the approval of the gruesome farce by the governor and the three members of his commission to review the trial, are now history...
...We are...
...The fusionists have nothing to lose and much to gain by getting Socialist support...
...The crime - was committed on April IS, 1920...
...fornia, Milwaukee, New England and Reading itself...
...Herbert B. Ehrmann, an attorney, was then assigned by William G. Thompson, counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, to the work of checking the confession...
...Charles Solomon is the stsndard bearer in this fight for power and principle...
...New York City is one fortress to be taken by the ballot-armed toilers many of whom are outcasts in the civilization they and their fathers have built...
...William Liebknecht once said, "He who discusses with the enemy, negotiates with him, and he who negotiates, compromises...
...But official Massachusetts was determined to execute a humble cobbler and a poor fish peddler...
...The president of this group is I .conard Grass, notorious real estate promoter, and the secretary is Fortney Stark, 25-year old secretary of the Milwaukee Real Estate Board, who has announced to the citizens of Milwaukee that he will be their next Mayor, The Socialist party Is contesting the petition in the courts and believes there Is a probability that the Court will throw it out...
...Tax-dodgers are also anxious to have interest on delinquent taxes eliminated...
...Sacco, Vanzetti, you are ourt, Brothert of light...
...The enemy...
...About 200 delegates are expected Saturday morning, and an even greater number of visitors, when National Chairman Julius Umansky calls for the opening of the convention with the singing of the Internationale...
...This was in November, 1925, but not till after his second conviction in May, 1926, was the confession investigated as it was feared that knowledge of it would prejudice Madeiros' case before the new jury...
...Young Socialists and old look to the convention with pride because of the great work already done and with hope for the accomplishments that are ahead...
...Official Massachusetts dares not face the accusing evidence of judicial murder...
...To effect such jobs requires "spotting" of shipments at the factory by a confederate...
...Charles Solomon, the present Socialist candidate for Mayor, was one of the Socialist candidates for the Assembly who was defeated by the fusionists although at first he beat the fusion candidate...
...By Aaron Levemtein Yipsels Gather for Reading Convention TMIE Young Socialists are on * the march...
...Saturday a parade of young Socialists will wind through the heart of the city to a mass meeting...
...Furthermore the real estate speculators would like to unload a lot of their bad bargains on the city...
...Confession Verified Step by step Mr...
...No large sum of money was found in the possession of Sacco or Vanzetti...
...These are some of the high spots in the evidence that directly link this gang to the crime for which Sacco and Vanzetti were sent to the chair and which Judge Thayer, Governor Fuller and hi* commission of review swept aside...
...Aren't we in favor of ousting Tammany...
...Party workers have found many cases of long lists of names written by the same person...
...It has been defeated a number of times since the Civil War by reform movements...
...After the South Brain* tree crime Madeiros made an extensive trip to the West and to Mexico with a circus girl, taking with him $2,800, after having served a sentence of five months for larceny...
...As a banker he helped to finance the Hoover campaign last year...
...Who is Charles Solomon...
...Another reform movement proposes to destroy Tammany...
...Tried in a Massachusetts court before a biased judge and in an atmosphere charged with hysteria and upper class malice, these workers were doomed to death before the trial began...
...This will be the largest convention since the World Waf...
...Even their traveling constitutes an act of service, speaking and organizing all along their routes...
...we have nothing to gain and everything to lose by giving it...
...On Sunday two sessions will be devoted to the reports of the various committees, election of League o.-cers and making plans for the next two years...
...It filled in the admitted gaps and discrepancies of the 8aceo-Vantetti trial...
...The story is told in full for the first time by Herbert B. Ehrmann in his book, "The Untried Case," published this week by the Van< guard Press of New York City...
...But we are not in favor of an alliance with the enemy...
...Their names were known...
...Five bullets of this calibre fired through such a gun were taken from the bodies of Parmenter and Berardelli, killed at South Braintreo...
...What happened...
...Early in his in* vestigstion he was gripped by fear that Sacco and Vanzetti were doomed...
...They were sent to the chair...
...The following day there will be a field organizers' encampment to discuss problems encountered by the hitch-hiking agitators...
...The killers, all except Madeiros, still live...
...Overwhelming testimony proved that Sacco and Vanzetti were elsewhere at the hour when the crime at South Braintree was committed...
...From present indications the Socialist attorneys will challenge at least ten thousand of the signatures...
...Out on bail for thefts of shoes, the killers were in need of large fundi for their defente...
...Socialist and labor leaders believe that this majority can be increased if an election becomes necessary...
...leader has for years been the ally of Tammany Hall...
...With the well-organ* feed Socialist machinery In Milw ukee, there can be little -,'oubt as to the outcome...
...Already many eatei have been found of forgery and miirepretenfation...
...THE fusion reform movement in New York City has been effected with F. H. LaGuardia carrying the banner for Mayor...
...The fusion movements in the post-war period were devoted to defeating Socialist candidates for Congress, the Assembly and the Board of Aldermen and the Municipal Court bench...
...The tax-dodgers who are behind the move want to get Hoan out of office because he refaaea to lower taxes and thus further cripple the city'a social services...
...The Sacco-Vanzetti trial was based on the theory of one car being used and • continuous flight of this car from the crime I Direct connection of the Morelli gang with the Rice and Hutchins shoe factory, where the killings occurred, was established when it was revealed that gang members were under indictment for stealing shoes from freight cars in Providence carrying Rica and Hutchins shoes...
...They will not compromise, or bargain or retreat...
...he wanted to save Sacco and Vanzetti but did not want directly to accuse the real killers...
...Charles Solomon and his associates on the Socialist ticket represent something more than opposition to the dirty regime of Tammany Hall...
...Imagine a Socialist in office required to consult with Sam Koenig and the banker supporters of Herbert Hoover...
...They had dodged the draft...
...Where Socialists were strong Republicans and Democrats and fusionists united against us...
...The car used at the scene of the murder was a Buick, and the one Sacco and Vanzetti called for when they were arrested was a six-yearold Overland which waa ruled out of evidence at the trial, and some years later it was shown that it had not been used that winter...
...Another Kind of Fusion In straight party fights we beat the candidates of the capitalist parties, but these parties fused in our strong districts for a number of years and slowly beat us down...
...and Mancini was a member of the Morelli gang...
...First of all they represent the welfare of the working masses...
...Celestino Madeiros, under sentence of death for another crime, had confessed that he was a member of the Providence gang that committed the South Braintree crime and that Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing to do with it...
...The issue has become a clear one between the work era and the real estate sharks...
...That is bad enough, but can there be any agreement whatever with the banking, real estate and capitalistic elements associated with the fusionists...
...Madeiros had been convicted of killing a bank cashier and while awaiting the result of a bill of exceptions confessed to his share in the South Braintree murders...
...Out of court, Trial Judge Thayer could refer to the doomed men as "anarchistic bastards" and then sit in judgment on the appeal based upon the new evidence...
...At the mass meeting the speakers will include Jim Maurer, twice Socialist vice-presidential candidate, and for many years president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor and member of the Legislature, Socialist Councilman Jess George of Reading, Warren D. Mullins, organizer of the National Association of Leather Workers, Ralph Bigony, the /party's county organizer, Lester) Schulman, Industrial Organizer of the Young People's Socialist League, Julius Umansky, and Arthur G. McDowell, editor of the Challenge, national organ of the Yipsels...
...The two cars used in the crime, the precise spot where they were exchanged, the time required to effect the change, and the switching of the number platea of the cars were disclosed by the investigation...
...KAEN turn the brutal switch *™ today Who piled the faggott yean ago, Bui we forget their cruel name* And all we ever know It that the love of men like you, The quiet flame which it your speech, The flowert of tympathy you plant, Arc dote to human reach...
...The author is not a radical...
...No such, gun wat found in the pottettion of Sacco or Vanzetti...
...Because of this motive there were discrepancies in the Madeiros story...
...The Socialists elected a Congressman, ten members of the State Legislature, seven members of the Board of Aldermen and one judge...
...A fine m»n, a clean man, an intelligent •an, a sincere man, and Fusion candidate for Mayor...
...At 2 P. If...
...1 The gavel will fall for the first session Saturday at 9 A. M. for the acceptance of credentials, and the reports of the National Secretary, the Industrial Director and the Educational Director...
...It was presented to Governor Fuller and his commission of review...
...we are asked...
...Thla sum waa about one-sixth of the payroll stolen at South Braintree and -»ix bandits participated In the crime...
...These movements have dlaappeared and Tammany Is as powerful as it ever was...
...For these reasons they must be executed...
...Sacce and Vanzetti have passed on, but they live in the affections of the tens of million* all over the world] who fought to save them...
...Sam, carrying the flag of righteousness, is screamingly funny...
...They fight for Socialism...
...He is also clean, intelligent and sincere, but if that were all we could say, we would not ask a vote for him and the Socialist ticket...
...They are confident that the workers will support the leader of the Socialist administration which has made every effort to continue esiential social services and which has not foreclosed on any small home owner whose taxes are delinquent...
...Many signed because they were told it was a petition to keep Hoan in office...
...Fusion discouraged our supporters...
...The colors in the parade will include banners from all parts of the United States and several provinces of Canada...
...New Evidence What makes that hideous state crime still more revolting is the fact that new evidence had already been gathered to prove that Sacco and Vansetti were innocent...
...So the New York •et-un is of general importance to all Socialists...
...Then the two-party system of nominations was resumed in' the former strong Socialist districts...
...Socialists hold aloft the banner of revolt against Republican, Tammany and fusion politics...
...Socialists would destroy it...
...The petitions were circulated by an organized group calling itself the Recall Council...
...ganiiatioa...
...There is another test of what fusionists stand for...
...Sacco and Vanzetti had also been evasive in some matters when arrested because of the war terror against radicals...
...With 4he stoic courage displayed by the martyrs of every age and every struggle for human freedom, these two Italian workmen taught us how to live,and how t<> die...
...ARE always dote at breath ittelf, Our heritage that thall redeem The panorama of our dittrett, The, futile, broken dream...
...Last year there were 87 delegates...
...Governor Fuller 'and hit review commission followed the course of Judge Thayer in considering this new evidence...
...Tax-Dodgers Seeking The Recall of Hoan By Andrew Biemiller Special to The New Leader MILWAUKEE...
...By Jamea Oneal •TUESDAY of this week was ' the sixth anniversary of the judicial murder of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for a crime they did not commit...
...They were opposed to the war...
...Party workers have copied the entire list of names on the petitions, and every signer la being visited to find out if he really signed...
...Not even if Socialists were assured the election of our candidate for Mayor...
...Sam Koenig, the Republican chief, is also for the fusion ticket and this G.O.P...
...Your healing pretence haunts ut now Whc cannot ever lote you quite...
...So the Fusionists ask Socialists to support those who have been allied against ua in the past and who will be allied against us again when we become strong...
...Who is F. A. LaGuardia...
...In the last election Hoan received 110,000 votes and his opponent 05,000...
...Grass himself owes nearly |100,000 in back taxes, and others owe anywhere from 16000 to 1260,000...
...He is a conservative lawyer shocked by the fatal legal procedure and bias that destroyed the lives of two humble workmen...
...The convention will reassemble for a two-hour session between 4 and 6 P. M., after which the evening will be devoted to a dramatic entertainment, a banquet and other types of Socialist recreation...
...During the World War the Socialist Party was strong in New York City...
...Henry Rogers Win throp is chairman of the finance committee of the fusionists...
...Convention committees on Industry, Or...
...Students, the Chat, lenge, Constitution, Resolutions and Finance will be elected...
...Tammany ia a rotten political machine...
...Much of this startling evidence was placed before the responsible authorities...
...Ehrmann verified the confession almost in every detail despite the fact that Madeiros did not mention the names of - his confederates...
...He is the Socialist candidate for Mayor...
...No Compromise...
...Hoan has several times thwarted the efforts of Grass and some of his associate* in this direction...
...The cynical brushing aside of the evidence he gathered verified his fears...
...The speakers will be Assemblyman Darlington Hoopes, member of the Socialist Party National Executive Committee, city councilman George Hoverter of Reading, Aaron Levenstein of the National Executive Committee of the YPSL, and representative spokesmen of the League organization from Cali...
...Five Los Angeles delegates were arrested on the picket line in the garment workers' strike...
...It should be overthrown...
...Socialists in other cities may face similar alliances in some city elections...
...Two veteran Socialist attorneys, Morris Stern and Robert Heat, are representing Mayor Hoan and the Socialiat Party in the legal proceedings and are receiving*wholehearted cooperation...
...The events will begin on the evening of Friday, August 25th, with a welcome to the delegates at a mass meeting in the beautiful Socialist Park built up by the workers of Reading as a testimonial of their devotion to the Socialist cause, where the sessions will be held...
...If It is not the Socialists are confident that they can pile up a tremendous majority for Hoan in a recall election...
...Fusion Wants Us, But Do We Want Fusion...
...They are coming to Reading, Pa., strongest center of Socialist activity in the East...
...We cannot compromise our basic views without forfeiting our own respect and the confidence of our supporters as well...
...With deadly logic it traced the killing and the killers from Providence to Braintreet and from Braintree to Providence...
...Real estate speculators, owners of office buildings, and wealthy taxdodgers have joined force* in an effort to recall Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee, and have deposited petitions con* taining 46,000 names with the County Court...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 9
