The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-27
OUR FOREIGN PETS

foreign populaelon ana mas asked
the assistance of the United States
government in deporting so-caIled
undesirable aliens from the country.
This city has become oVerrun with
SIclllans and gangsters from other
countries who have carried on un-
Interrupted warfare among them
selves, and who have run chleago's
murder list up to an alarming
height. The city police appear I'M
able to cope with them and are now
crying for help.
All Of which affords no small
amount Of qualification to our Race
everywhere in the United States.
We have watched how these for
eigners have been welcomed upon
our shores. We have been forced
to accept Jim Crow service, insults
In the courts, inferior jobs, and res
idential segregation, while foreign
ers have been given the best the
country has to offer. Any foreigner,
however poor and ignorant of Amer
lean principles, receives more cour-
teous service in American hotels
and theaters than any person of our
race.
We, as a race, are subjected to all
sorts of injustiees, even in Chicago,
while the foreigner, who fiouts our
laws and who works for the destruc-
ton Of our very government itself,
Is given every protection. Is II any
wonder, then, that we smile when
we see authorities of the city of
Chicago seeking aid to handle a
problem that they themselves
created?
This editorial raises two important
Questions: First, what is the correct
explanation of the countrywide drive
against the undesirable aliens?"
The second, what should be the rela-
ton Of the Negro toward the foreign
born workers as dictated by his racial
conditions and his interests as
a worker?
The Defender manifests total bank
ruptcy in dealing with these questions,
pitiful lack of understanding, lack of
broad vision, and superfciality. The
Defender attempts no conscientious
analysis of the problem. The De-
fender only repeats, parrot-like, the
ISLANDERS of the white kept-press
against the foreignJborn, encourages
prejudices, incites its readers against
the foreign-born and INDUCES in pa
triottc red-baiting. The readers of
the paper are presented with dis
torted viewpoint and with policy
toward the foreign-born workers which
Is harmful to the interests of the
Negro both from the racial as we'll as
the working class viewpoint.
The problem Of the foreign-born
workers is not a Chicago police prob
lem-as the Defender would make its
readers believe. It is a national prob
Ism. It is also not social problem
OF eliminating criminal" alien ele-
ments as is the contention of the De
fender. These charges of inferiority
and criminahty which are being hurled
against the foreignlborn are only
cloak to cover up the real aims of the
anti-foreignjborn agitation. But even
csnhning the discussion to the ques-
ton OF social "inferiority," to the
charges of "criminality" and other al
legged undesirable social qualities that
are made against the foreignIborn one
would expect a different attitude on
the part OF the Defender, To the ear
of Negro these charges sound sus-
piciously familiar. They are the same
charges Of ''inferiority" and "crimi-
naiity' as are usually hurled against
the Negro, only in this case the word
Negro is being replaced with the
word "foreign-born." In fact, both of
these charges come from the same
source-from the agents OF the white
imperialist ruling class-its kept press
and its scientists"
When it is profitable for the white
imperialists to incite the white work
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