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...University of Vermont, where I also graduated a few years later; I knew his brothers who were good fellows, but John Dewey, while a brilliant man in his line I am sure, does not appeal to me after the stand he took in the Sacco-Vanzetti matter not long ago, and he with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state like Vermont where there are no such...
Some 150 people heard the speech, in which Cohen reminded them of the injustices to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, to Moody and Billings in California, to Hoffman in Tennessee, and to himself in Cambridge, where he was not allowed to distribute Socialist circulars on the streets. Police allowed the meeting to run its length without interruption...
...refused the right to hold meetings in University rooms, on a multiplicity of pretexts, but other organizations against whom the same objections might have been raised, have done so. The Student Employment Bureau refused to give us men to sell the Progressive, because the Progressive was exposing new Sacco-Vanzetti evidence. Now we are refused the right to distribute "flyers" inside the Yard Gates, although other organizations have several times used the Yard, and CRIMSON subscription agents are given the freedom of the dormitorities. To our complaints, we are answered that for each individual case a specific decision is necessary...
...many the case before Judge Barnhill was compared in importance to that of Sacco & Vanzetti. The details were different but in each was the same underlying clash of political, social and economic beliefs...
...Radical. He was the Communist candidate for Secretary of State. When the Radicals held a political demonstration last November in front of the State House, within which was Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, Harry Canter participated by marching around carrying a placard which said: "FULLER-MURDERER OF SACCO AND VANZETTI." Harry Canter was arrested. To the policemen he said: "Law isn't made for the workingman...