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.
Anti-radical sentiment was running high in America at the time, and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was regarded by many as unlawfully sensational. Authorities had failed to come up with any evidence of the stolen money, and much of the other evidence against them was later discredited.