The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-07
BY MAX REDAcHT.


phelian hoof of its real character as
a capitalist dictatorship. The greater
the importance and powers of the
workers grows in the economic ma
chinery of society the more open
must capitalism maneuver with it,
political power to retain it's ruling po-
sition, the more open must it use its
instrument of rule, the government
This government develops gradually
into an undisguised agent of capital
in foreign lands. And at home it be-
come, an agency for strikebreakinf
and an instrument for labor .persecu-
ton. .s-e
In late years these strikebreaking
activities Of the government of the
american capitalists have revealed
themselves In activities against labor
struggles and against labor unions in
general, and also in the attempts to
adapt the immigration policy to the
task of importation of prospective
strikebreakers.
Selective immigration is nothing
but an attempt TO sift prospective
immigrants and assure a steady
stream of meek hands" into the
United States.
But although those workers admit
ted into the United States may have
politically spotless, a strike-less
and unionless past so that they can
pass the closest scrutiny of American
consular agents, yet, the bitter, expert
ence of these workers in the profit
mills of American capital may drive
them into labor organizations, into
strikes, and eventually even into the
revolutionary party of the workers,
the Communists Party. So our steel
and other industrial barons of the
United States find selective immigra-
ton insufficient. It does not guaran-
tee absolute and definite submissive
ness of all the hands" finally admit
ted into the country
9 80 remedy this Internationally to
give another pfooof Of the character
of gloried democracy" in the United
States, attempts are made to tie a
string to all immigrants. The depart
ment of labor is to be made a real
and unmistakable agency for the sup
ply of strikebreakers to open-shoI
American capital. To assure supply
of strikebreakers for the department
of labor that body is to be given pow
ers which would automatically make
it the slave driver with the immigrant
workers as the slaves.
A number of bills have been drafted
in late years to accomplish this end.
There is at this moment bill before
the house of representatives in Wash
ington introduced by Congressman
Aswell.
Mr.. Aswell is professor. He adj
vanced rapidly in his chosen field of
activity because he quickly caught
on to the educational needs of capt.
talism. To drive meekness into and to
drive tendencies to think out of the
heads Of the pupils-that is the es-
sence of the science of housekeeping
education. Mr.. Aswell proves in his
serves his capitalist masters as eff
GENTLY in the field OF legislation as he
did in the field of education.
The bill provides the registration OF
all aliens and the payment of year
ly registration fee Of from SO to $40.
The bill practically regulates the
immigrant worker to an existence OF
a peon. 1t puts him under police
regulation and police supervision. The
immigrant worker will have the hand
of the police suspended over his head
like Damocles sword. Any partici-
patton in a strike is bound to bring
the alien worker into conflict with
the police, since the main task Of the
police is to prevent the wage slave
from leaving the tread mills of profit
hungry American capital. To strike,
to picket, or to do anything in con-
junction with the other workers Of
an establishment that would force the