SACCO AND VANZETTI

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1927, Page 2

SACCO AND VANZETTI

SACCO and vanzetti TO BE EXECUTED OX AVKDNESDAY (Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 9.80 a.in.) MONTY! DEO, Aug. 8. Fearing disturbances may result from the twenty-four hours’ strike called b> the Labourites for to-morrow as a Sacco-A’anzetti demonstration, troops are being kept at the armouries in readiness for any emergency. While the strike is announced as ot “a voluntary character.” the leaders have declared their intention of attacking imy who do not participate.

Shouts of "Down with the Yankee Imperialists " were heard at xesteilav’s meeting of protest when American justice was denounced. N'EAV YORK. Aug. 8.

Petitions for a writ of habeas corpus and a stay of the execution of Sacco and A’anzctti were refused to-day by the State Supreme Court at Boston. The execution takes place on AA ednesdav.

PLEA FOB CONDEMNED

XEAV YORK. Aug. 7. AA'liile an excess of a hundred thousand police and special guards continue their vigilance in the various large cities against possible outbreaks of violence as the result of the baccoYiinzetti case, no further bombings are reported to-day. Counsel for the condemned meanwhile will make a final plea before Judge Thayer to-morrow for another trial, but this is not expected to be granted, and it is feared {hereafter that a- racial demonstration will begin. The Socialist Party and group trade unions issued a call for a one-dav protest strike,on Tuesday, involving 330 thousand men. Permission to hold a monster protest meeting here was refused by the police, .but the loaders declare that it will nevertheless he held.

A large force of police, armed with riot guns, dispersed 10.099 in a protest meeting at Boston to-dav. Peculiar forms of public hysteria have been created by the situation. The newspapers are printing scare headlines over all kinds of minor accident items, setting forth rumours that they have been caused by bombs; the collapse of an old building at Washington. the burning af a small railroad trestle at Xew Jersey and dozens of other similar act idents. which fortunately were not attended by casualties, have been attributed to sympathisers of the condemned. The- newspapers furthermore, repot t that they are constantly receiving telephone calls from frightened citizens, who state that they are fearing explosions, and asking for information. ■Reports from many cities state that polite are stopping all persons carrying luggage or bundles in the stieet, and searching for possible bombs.

APPEAL TO F.S. EMBASSY

LONDON. Aug. 7

Police precautions are operating in London and the chief cities of the Continent, against the possibilty ol Sueco-A'anzetti disturbances.

Scotland Yard is most active following threats of Labourites demonstrating in Trafalgar Square to-day. A delegation representing the International Federation of Tradesmen was received at the American Embassy at Paris, the Secretary of which promised to transmit an appeal.

The polite prohibited a demonstration in place d'Elanati. consequently the promoters are planning a procession. it is doubtful if it will be permitted.

The* Aloseow press, unabashed by the recent orgy ot Soviet executions, demands that the toilers of the world should strike to prevent the SaccoVanzettL executions.

THE AAIERICAN EXECUTIONS.

LONDON, Aug. 6

A spectacle of a home-made electric, complete with a huge volt-meter, black hood and foil pi’ates, by the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square, surprised Londoners in the middle of the afternoon. The occasion was a Sacco and Vanzetti demonstration, organised by the International Class AVar Prisoners’ Aid Society. A crowd of five thousand, composed of delegations of London Communist branches from tho suburbs sang revolutionary songs, and waved placards hearing the legend: “Down with the American torturers.” A resolution was carried expressing- their desire to show American Imperialism that London workers will do all possible to save Sacco and A anzetti. After the meeting a deputation proceeded to the American Embassy to present the resolution.

Paris reports stale that a Communist syndicate at tho Anezin mines called a twenty-four hours’ strike, and mass meetings of protest were held in Roubaix and Lille.