The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-01


worker suspected of reading red labor
Of the c. G.. T. U. Qeft) is constantly
who are members Of reformist or fasci
The government is pushing to tn
who refuse to submit to capitalist exp
foreign spies, is carrying on a real
reign Of terror among the immigrant
proletariat. They have no rights-to
possess a picture Of Lenin, to speak
Of the Russian revolution, even in
private, or to discuss the interests of
the proletariat, brings swift Yenge-
ance.
Expelled for Having Lenln's Portrait.
In Lorraine, Mussolini has sent his
own thugs to see that this piece of
dirty work is carried thru. Acting I'M
der fascist orders, the police have
forcibly entered and searched the hun
dreds of workers dwellings, and work
ers who have been found in possession
Of Communist papers or leaflets, or
even photograph of Lenin or Mat
teotti, have been beaten up, and then
ordered to clear out.
In one house two women who dared
to demonstrate when the police
smashed up their poor furniture In the
course of their search for "subversive
literature" were brutally maltreated.
The chief object is Riscossa, a Com
munist paper published in France for
circulation among the Italian COM
rades.
In several cases workers have been
submitted to torture in order to force
them to declare thru what channels
this paper came into their. hands.
Spanish Miners Suffer.
In the mines of the Campagnie des
Mines d'Azin, in the north, the chief
engineer made up his mind to get rid
of all the Spaniards who were work
ing there, despite that fact that they
had been recruited on contract by the
company. A wage cut was in order,
and the company wanted to substitute
more submissive workers for the
Spaniards. The Spaniards, holding out
against the cut, were accused of revo-
lutionary activity, and the explosions
began. Some of the men were sum-
moned from the mine at 1880 in the
morning, and by 1890 had already
been driven across the border into
Belgium.
These are just few Of hundreds of
similar cases of workers who have
been brutally expelled without ex-
PLANTATION, without delay, pitilessly
torn away from their wives and chill
dren who are left to starve. The ex-
pulsions are not only being applied to
the recent refugees, but also to foreign
workers who have been living in
France ten, and in a few cases even
twenty years.
To Break Up Unions.
Aside from other considerations,
these explosions of class-conscious
foreign-born workers involve a very
real danger for the workers of France.
Taking this opportunity to rid France
of number of workers with revoiu-
tionary tendencies, is only secondary
matter with the Herriot government:
the chief object is to brighten immi-
grants away from the workers organ
izations, so that unorganized and de-
fenseless, they will be compelled to
accept any wages or hours that the
bosses choose to give them.
The government does not at all de-
sire to put an end to immigration, but
1t does want the immigrant workers
to remain unorganized, in order that
there may be steady supply of scab
labor on hand to break the resistance
OF the revolutionary French workers.
Workers Fight Back.
Numbers of the workers are answer
ing the terror directed against them
by taking their stand beneath the ban
ner of the revolutionary unions and or
ganizing for resistance. But" said
one of the Italian comrades, "our re.
sistance cannot be really effective uu.
less the French proletariat comes to
our add"
/ The Communist deputies have re.
peatedly brought up the question OF
exclusions in the chamber of deputies
but the socialists and the left bloc
have taken absolutely no action in
the matter.
Commenting on this fact, Human.
lite, the French Communist daily
writes:
THUS 1t is to the working class
alone that we appeal. All workers
unions and declarations must show
their solidarity with these hunted for
eign workers. In the continual ar.
/ rival in France of new forsign con.