The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-15
LaFoIIette--Bitter Enemy of Immigration

F, cent law. He was i'll at the time
but is there reason to believe that he
would have voted against this mea.
sure had he been present in the SEN
ate?
The record of senator LaFolette on
previous and similar occasions, re-
veaIed above, proves that the Wscon
sin senator would have voted Eyes"
on this bill as he did on every other
occasion when he was present and re.
strictiVe immigration laws were be-
fore the senate for consideration.
An additional proof that senator La
Toilette would have heartily support
ed the per cent quota law which
passed the senate by 81 to votes, is
that the entire galaxy of progress
sive" senators, LaFollette's comrades
in arms, the friends Of the people,"
Brookhart of Iowa, Norris Of Nebras-
ka Borah of Idaho, Johnson Of Cali
fornia, Dill of Washington, Walsh of
Montana, and even the "farmer-labor"
senators of Minnesota, Shipstead and
Johnson, voted for this measure.
Obedient to the injunction Of presi-
dent Coolidge, who in his message to
congress on Dec. 6, 1928, declared as
follows on the question of immigra-
ton: America must be American.
For this purpose it is necessary to
continue the policy Of restricted immi-
grafton" the progressive" senator's
voted to keep out those, who, because
of economic necessity, want to come
to live with their relatives in this
country. The humane" and demo
cratic" American senators from the
progressive" west voted as one for
a law which is breaking up families
of immigrants, and puts untold hard
ships on all those who seek admission
tor this country.
The iniquities of the American i'm
migration policy can be compared on
ly to those of the Spanish inqusitlon,
and senator LaFoIlette has given his
whole-hearted support to this policy.
AS legislator he has helped to make
this baRbaric law, and as such he
stands convicted as an enemy, not of
the rich travellers, but Of the poor
people who seek entrance to this
country as immigrants.
The relatives and friends of these
poor immigrants who live a tragic
existence in the various European
ports awaiting their quota allowances,
and progressive workers in general
should stamp senator LaFollette as
bitter. enemy of immigration, and as
an enemy of the poor people.
The socialist party, the foreign-lan-
guage socialist newspapers, and the
reactiOnary leaders of labor organiza-
tons with large foreign memberships,
who now support LaFollette in his
ambition to become president of the
United States, have betrayed the for
eign-born workers they claim to rep
resent, as they have betrayed the prin-
ciples of international solidarity,
which requires. of every progressive
worker to support the free and I'M
hindered admission of workers who
come to this country because of eco
nomic necessity.
The progressive workers Of this
country will repudiate the consistent
foe of immigration, LaFollette, and
will denounce those who support him.
A vote for LaFolIette will not only
be a vote for capitalism but also a
vote for the barbaric immigration
laws, which LaFolIette helped to en-
act.
The progressive workers will vote
for the only party which stands for
free immigration, the Workers Party,
and its presidential candidates, Will
lam q. Foster, and Ben Gitlow, as
we'll as all the other local candidates
of the Workers Party in the various
parts Of this country.