The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-09
IMMIGRATION BILL
ASSAILED TONIGHT.
BY CHICAGO LABOR
Mass Meeting Will FIay
'Selective' Scab Plan

In an EFFORT to bring the true charac-
ter of the Johnson Bill to the atten.
ton of the workers of Chicago, both
native and foreign-born, the Local
Council for Protection of Foreign-born
Workers has arranged for a mass
protest meeting to be held Friday,
May 9th, s p. M, at the Douglas Park
Auditorium, Ogden and Kedzie Ave
nues. Speakers for this meeting have
been invited from the Chicago FEEDER
alton of Labor, The Socialist Party
and the Workers Party.
The Conference Committee of the
United States Congress has reached
an agreement on the Johnson Immi-
grafton Bill as passed by both branch
es of the Legislative Department. It
has thus put it's stamp of approval Of
the efforts Of the employers to enslave
labor and lower the standard of life
of the American workers.
In circular issued by the local
council, the following points contain
ed in the Johnson immigration Bill
are particularly emphasized:
Registered Like Criminals.
The Johnson bill varies the stip-
ulation that immigrants coming into
this couLtry shall furnish all mill
tary records and prison records if
any. 1t seeks to obtain information
DC n tho r,,hIfo xoo0~dc 1xo0f h., A.
government to which the immigrant
owes allegiance, and demands a
photograph of the immigrant, to be
permanently attached to the Immi-
grafton Certificate.
In practice this means to consult
the various lists of the European
capitalists, before the immigrant is
granted admission to this country.
1t aims to establish a system of
selective immigration, threatening
the prospective immigrant to accept
status of submission so they may
be used by the employers as strike
breakers in their efforts to smash
the existing labor organizations and
lower the conditions of life of the
workers in this country both native
and foreign.
Many other bills of more vicious
character were introduced, but ow-
ing to the impending presidential
election, they were sidetracked for
the while, but any time in the fu-
ture they will again be brought for
ward with the danger that they will
become laws, unless the workers
voice most determined opposition.
Serf Labor Plan.
Some of these bills carry the slo-
gan America for the Americans"
and Keep out Cheap Foreign La
Dor" but on the contrary they are
constructed to better let in cheap
foreign labor on contract basis
under compulsion to remain in a
certain locality and in certain indus
tries, particularly at time when
the American workers will be on
strike.
Both the Johnson bill and the
other bills proposed show most
clearly the class character of the
present system of government. The
government is constantly being used
by the capitalist class as an instru-
ment to defeat the aims of labor.
The Johns n bill is dagger blow
at the heart of unionism in this
country. The workers must be alert
to this danger. The workers must
unite politically and industrially to
defeat any such bills in the future.
Build Farmer-Labor Party.
With the exploited farmers, the
workers in the industries muBt y
march forward together to build up
great Farmer-Labor Party which
will be able to settle accounts with
the politicians who serve the en-
ployers.
The farmers and industrial work
ers must use their instrument: a
class Farmer-Labor Party, to put
their own Representatives into pow
er and take control of their own
affairs.
Come to the Mass Meeting and hear
these bills discussed. Come and add
your protest to that Of the many hun
dreds of thousands of workers against
these blacklist laws