All PVOs would be required to provide, as a minimum, an amount of financial responsibility equal to ten percent of the sum of the highest amount of UPR plus EPR within the two years immediately preceding the filing of the application. This amount would be in addition to the amount required to cover UPR.
Sacco and Vanzetti (see picture, left) were committed anarchists who had been active in many workers' struggles. In 1916, Sacco was arrested for taking part in a demonstration in solidarity with workers on strike in Minnesota. In the same year he took part in a strike in a factory in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of first-degree murder and they were sentenced to death by the trial judge. A series of appeals followed, funded largely by the private Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee.