Between the Covers

Unbound. Event program. One small quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 6" x 9" closed. Lower leaf tanned at two edges with a tiny corner crease, near fine. The speakers were Walton Hale Hamilton of Yale Law School; Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Chairman of the Committee on Social Justice of the Central Conference of American Rabbis; union organizer Powers Hapgood; Mary Donovon Hapgood of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee; and Gardner Jackson of the Memorial Committee. The final page prints an excerpt of a letter from Vanzetti to Gertrude L. Winslow of the Memorial Committee.

From the text on page two: "Sacco and Vanzetti could not have been murdered in the present economic depression. These two men symbolized what was in direct opposition to the inflationary tendencies which where violently proceeding in terms of accumulation and impersonalized acquisition ... Sacco and Vanzetti would not have to be killed now in order to destroy the warnings to which no one wished to listen four years ago."

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