The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
BRITISH empire
ENTERS war ON
foreign WORKER
Australia Takes Up U.
S. 100 Per Cent Cry


horn workers.
From America to Japan, from Eu-
rope to Australia, this drive, under
various forms, but with the same fix
lty Of purpose, Is to be observed.
In Germany and Scandinavia, those
Of 'Nordio blood" are exalted as the
salt Of the earth. Special immigra-
ton laws are demanded against the
So-called inferior" races.
And the workers are asked to join
IN because their standard Of living is
likely to deteriorate with the influx
Of these undesirable aliens.
Want Cheap Labor.
We all know how keen the bosses
are in keeping up the wages and
standard Of living of the workers. We
all know how distasteful it would be
for them to employ cheap foreign la
Dor.
It is in America that the capitalist
drive against the foreign-born work
ers is most strilxingiy in evidence.
There, with a unanimity of purpose
which is remarkable, the bosses have
launched a powerfully subsidized cam
paign for 100 per cent Americanism. I"
The effect of this campaign is the
imposition of drastic laws designed to
exclude many races hitherto freely
admitted.
Same Campaign In Australia.
Whenever there is a public Office to
be filed, the press gets up on Its hind
legs and banks for 100 per cent
Americans" Deluded 100 per cent
American" workers, thinking the boss
means it, and hoping, anyway, to re-
duce the competition for jobs, Join In
the racial hunt against their foreign
born fellow workers.
In Australia the same press cam
paign is just now commencing. This
campaign started against Greek and
Italian shopkeepers and barrowmen.
1t quickly spread to Serbian laborers
on public works. II is now comfort
ably ensconced in the factories, and
directed against all foIeign-born work
ers.
The Lithgow ironworkers demanded
the sacking of foreign-born workers.
The bosses agreed with alacrity, and
sacked around hundred. Why?
Why should the boss, who thrives
on cheap labor, foreign or otherwise,
have initiated this drive against one
section Of the workers? The reason
is sticking out mile.
To Divide Workers.
The boss sees his crazy Industrial
system rocking on its foundations, and
he is organizing, merging and CONSOLE
dating his forces against the workers,
irrespective of religion, color, nation
atty or anything else.
You never hear of split in the
ranks of the big vested interests (the
smaller fry of employers do not
COUNT on any sectarian or racial is
sue. It is only the workers who are
urged to divide their ranks.
The big drive of the employing class
against the foreign-born workers in
all countries is undertaken to divide
the workers, and because the foreign
born are the weakest politically.
Divided in Craft Unions.
AS a separate industrial unit they
do not exist, for they are divided up
among the various craft unions, and
politically they are defenseless.
OF course, the drive proceeds me-
thodically thru its various stages. The
workers must not be alarmed. First
the drive is against the South Eu-
ropeans," and the workers help to
sandbag their fellow workers under
the cry Of "low wages" Then the
drive will be extended to North Eu-
ropeans," and then to Britishers, and
new cries will be invented.
BY that time the bosses wfll have
the workers Just where they want
them. They will, IL the workers don't
wake up.
Capitalism Is international.
N those countries where the for
eign-born workers are most numer-
GUS, AZ IN America, the capitalist
drive against them is more powerful
and more clearly visible.
The few anti-foreign incidents that
have cropped up in Australia are not
Isolated events. They are part OF q
worldwide movement, initiated by the
employing GLASS. Already the 8. M.
Herald adopts the international boss
es' slogan, and calls for 100 per cent
Australians"
The workers can only successfully
fight international capitalism by or
ganizing themselves internationally.
The -foreign-born" agitation inau-
gurated by the bosses seeks to pre-
vent that. Don't let US help the
bosses.
Workers OF the world, unitei
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