National Affairs: In Massachusetts

Harry Canter lived in East Boston. He was a 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."

Did Harry Canter's placard literally accuse Governor Fuller of committing the crime of murder? Last week a Boston jury decided that...

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