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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-19
BY JAY LoVESToNE.
|. THE ASWELL BILL.

/. The ASWELL BILL.
THERE are at least a dozen bills be-
L fore congress which aim to limit in
some way or other the rights of the
foreign-born workers in the United
States. Some of these bills are more
outspoken than others in their objec-
tive to put the unnaturalized worker,
in particular, and the foreign-born
workers in general, at disadvantage
e economically and politically.
We herewith begin the first of a
series of articles dealing with the
most vicious of these bills before the
sixty-ninth congress.
The first bill to be analysed is the
one introduced by Congressman AS
we'll of Louisiana, one of the most
backward states in the country.
Mr. Aswell's bill, known as HR-55S3,
introduced in the house on Dec. Is,
1925, provides "for the registration Of
aliens, and for other purposes" If
some one thinks that the registration
of aliens is bad enuf, he will find upon
examination that other purposes" in
this bill are even worse.
Will Register Workers!
T EFT us examine the main features Of
- the Aswell bill. 1t says: Every
alien who enters the United States on
or after the first day Of registration as
fixed in such proclamation shall be
Immediately registered in like manner
by the immigration officials at the
place of entry"
The sixty-ninth congress is as black
as any worker would desire a CON
gress not to be. Consequently there is
today greater danger than at any
time previously that bills of the Aswell
type may be carried by congress. This
provision means much more than mere
registration on the first day of entry
for immigrants. This bill provides fur
thermore that every alien subject to
registration as provided in this act
shall, subsequent to his official regis
tration, register once each following
calendar year" 10 r
What does this mean? This means
that of the millions of proletarians in
this country, nearly 100000 who are
unnaturalized, who are foreign-born
workers in this category, will have to
register every year. Where can we
stop at? What measures will the po-
lice and the governmental authorities
in general take to insure the carrying
out of this decision to register approx
mately 100000 individuals? If the
bill is to mean anything at all in prac-
tiee, it will have to translate itself
into registration of all workers.
Why? The answer is very plain.
The employing class government
will have to find some ways of guar
the proper execution of the
provisions of this bill. This means in
practice that workers would be STOP
ped here and there, and now and then
by some government official to ask
them for their registration cards.
Perhaps the workers might look "for-
eign" to some government official
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law not only declares for registration
and cataloguing but provides for the
perpetuating of the disadvantageous
position in which the foreign-born
worker finds himself at some time or
other because of his not having been
naturalized yet. What chance does
an active striker stand of getting his
citizenship papers? All of this infor-
nation gathered by the government
would be placed at the disposal Of the
big bosses. The government agents
would welcome and utilize to the full
est extent this opportunity to pry into
the lives and conditions of the for
eign-born, of the unnaturalized work
ers,. and then to turn over the findings
to the class that dominates the gov
eminent machinery.
The President-chief strikebreaker.
TO- the president, Who is com
= mander-in-chief of the army, this
bill gives additional powers when
it provides that Whenever in the
judgement of the president, the inter
ests of the national defense require, he
mays by proclamation, require all or
any part of the aliens required to be
registered by this act, to report at
such times and places as he shall fix"
The implications CT this section of
the bill are far more dangerous to. the
workers than it would appear on the
face of a cursory reading of the
words. Picture to yourself a strike
of coal miners, amongst whom there
are thousands of unnaturalized, for
eign-born workers. The company is
in tight fix because of the effective
ness of the strike. Some scabs try
to approach the coal pits. The work
ers welcome the scabs in an appro-
pirate mapner. The strikers speak to
the scabs in the only language they
understand. Forthwith the president,
under the guise of the demands Of
national defense, orders the thousands
of unnaturalized, of foreign-born work
ers to move out of the strike zone and
to go elsewhere. This. would entail
the arrest of thousands of workers
and would mean the breaking up of
the strike.
No more monstrous strike-breaking
measure has ever been proposed be-
fore congress than this AswelI bill.
Fines and Prisons for the Workers.
60 close tab do the capitalist
- agents propose to have on the
workers that the. bill provides:
Whenever the physical appearance
of an alien registered under this act
is changed materially, such alien shall
report such facts to the post Office of
the district in which he is registered"
Truly, not even in the worst days of
chatte1 slavery was such a system of
limitations, restrictions and barriers
worked out. for the enslaved.
And woe unto the workers who fail
to register. A hundred dollars fine or
sixty days prison or a combination of
the two will be the reward awainting
such a worker. Then, should a
worker give his information to the
government agents in such a way as
to enable the latter to call the state
ments of the registered proletariat
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questioning and examining any work
or at all whom they would suspect Of
being foreign-born? This means,
very plainly, the giving of power to
horde of detectives, agents to ex-
anime the workers and to control the
movements Of every worker in the
United States, regardless of his ma
tivity
Even the committee on legislation
Of the executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor could sense
and did sense. the terrible danger to
the American working class lurking
in bills of this character. In its last
report to the fifty-fourth annual con-
vention held at Atlantic City from Oc-
tober to 16, 1925, this declaration
was made: This highly obnoxious
measure which would, if enacted into
law, mean the adoption by our gov
eminent of the spying practices of
private detective agents.
"The potential danger of the prin-
ciplel embodied in this bill is very
great. 1t has all the elements of
strike-crushing, union-breaking pro-
posal :"
AS the executive council points out,
Bills of this kind are potentially dan
gerous because they can be frequent.
ly used by hostile interests to the in
jury and disadvantage of the labor
movement"
Upon registering, the foreign-born
worker will be compelled to give GER
'tain information to the agent of his
boss who does the registering. First
of all, he will be compelled to make
a report of all arrests or convictions
in his record. A worker may have
been arrested for refusing to obey a
notorious injunction. A worker may
have been arrested for picketing, he
may have been arrested for talking to
a scab. A worker may have been
arrested for not being able to meet
certain bills and thus getting into fl
nancial difficulties. All such arrests
must be reported to the government.
We do not doubt that the use of such
information will prove of value to the
ruling class and to the exploiters in
their efforts to break the backbone of
resistance to their wage-slashing and
campaign.
Preventing Foreien-born Workers
From Becoming Citizens.
MIR. ASWELL has quite handsome
A'A appetite when it comes to meas
uring his concern for the welfare of
the employing class. He would have
every unnaturalized foreign-born
worker also provide to the agents of
the government amy other informa-
ton, as specified by regulations, bear
ing upon the fitness of such aliens for
Activity in strikes, po-
litical activity, participation in any of
the more conscious cultural move
ments of the working class, would of
course be considered by the govern
ment agents, at the head of whom
would be the secretary of labor, as in
formation indicating the lack of fit
ness of the foreign-born worker regis
tered for American citizenship.
1t is clear that this provision of the
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What The Bosses Congress Wants to Do Against the Workers

This in itself is already tautamount
to registration. Wes know from our
Experiences with the military registra-
ton during the war that the registra-
ton was all-inclusive in effect insofar
as the nuisance of being hailed and
stopped by government agents was
concerned, altho formally the statutes
provided for military registration in
classiications only of certain sections
of the male population.
OF course the worker will have to
pay the government an initial fee of
$40 and subsequent fee annually Of
So for this great privilege of being
catalogued and indexed in the files of
their exploiters.
Every Movement Of Workers to Be
Watched.
DUT there are even worse features
= than this one inJthe Aswell bill.
Even annual registration is not enuf
of a check on the fOreign-born worker
for our exploiting class government.
The bill goes on to sprovide that:
Whenever any alien permanently
removes from the district in which he
is registered, he shall report to the
post Office of such ldistrict and give
such information in regard to his
movements as may be required by
regulation. He shall within two days
after arriving in the district to which
he removes, report to the post office
OF such district and likewise give such
information as may be required by
regulation" r
What worse espionage system could
one conceive? The workers move
ments are thus checked up and fol-
lowed very closely-and why? There
can be only one reason animating the
employing class and it's government
for proposing such methods of limit
ing the freedom, of sitting the work
ing class. These methods have as
their purpose the reduction of the mo-
bility, the robbing of the freedom of
the workers in order to cripple these
millions of foreign-born and conse-
quently the whole working class in
their struggle against the exploiting
class, in the struggle for working
class rights, for better conditions of
life and employment
Setting Up an Elaborate Espionage
System.
LOW elaborate spy system the
= 1 government proposes to build up
for the capitalists is shown by the
provision of the bill which declares
that: Every alien shall, on demand,
at any time exhibit his certificate of
identification to any agent of the de-
partment of labor. to any state, terri
torial or local police or peace officer,
and to any other officers designated
by the president"
Under this provision, the govern
ment, thru the president, may appoint
a huge army of detectives, may EN-
power and very likely will empower,
a horde of private detective agents
to act as sort of special set of regis
trars. But how would, these tools of
the employing class know who is an
alien and who is not, who is foreign
born worker and who, isn't, except by
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misrepresentation or raise, tnen the
unnaturalized working man may be
put in the position of having to pay
a fine CT not more than $4,000 or be-
ing imprisoned for not more than
two years, or to be punished by both
fine and Imprisonment.
A New Deportation Ruse.
1--WE HUNDRED THOUSAND Doll
L LARS are provided as minimum
for the initial expense sof enforcing
this bill The browning infamy Of
this notorious strikebreaking measure
is the section providing that: ANY
alien who is convicted of a violation
of any provision of this act shall be
Immediately taken into custody upon
the warrant of the secretary of labor
and deported."
Could there be devised a more dead
y, effective system of union-smashing
than that provided in the Aswell bill?
Recent years have seen the foreign
born workers participate actively
with increasing frequency in strikes
and in other struggles of the working
class against the exploiters. This
bill aims to cripple the weaker sec
ton of our working class, which hap
pens to be foreign-born. The capital
lists know very we'll that blow struck
at one section Of the working class
is blow at the whole working clasE,
at every section Of the working class.
They have picked out the foreign
born as the ones to attack first in
their new frontal onslaught because
they figure that the foreign-born
workers are the most vulnerable, are
the weakest because of language diff
culties, because of their lack of knowl-
edge, or rather because of their insult
ffcient knowledge of the customs and
conditions of the country.
All Workers Menaced,
THE foreign-born workers are part
4 of the American working class.
The native workers will not be fooled
by these dastardly maneuvers Of the
bosses. The answer of the trade
unions and the other labor organiza-
lions to this campaign of the exploit
ers will be the formation of big coun-
ellis for the protection of foreign-born
workers thruout the country. The
dangers of the Aswell and other bills
of this type being enacted into law
in this country are very great. There
is only one force that can prevent
these bills from becoming law. This
is the power of the organized working
masses, united on class basis to de-
stroy these efforts of the capitalists
to perpetuate and strengthen their
hold on the political and economic re-
sources of the country.
Greater efforts than ever should
now be made to draw the foreign-born
workers who are not yet union mem
bers into the labor unions. A more
intensive and extensive campaign for
uniting the forces of the workers po-
is now the order of the day.
The American workingmen will show
that they know how to handle all of
these plans for establishing detective
agency government in the United
States
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The power Of the working class 10
organization. Without organization Of
The masses, the proletarat---is moth.
NO. organized--It is all. Organize.
ton is unanimlty Of action. unanlnIty
Of practical activities"
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FOX the DAILY WORKER.
Evening star., 1926-06-06

The misses sixteen model Statistics show
that business girls who have 10 travel TO and
fro in the rush hours are growing narrower
and narrower Squeezed in an overcrowded
conveyance twice each day. even the plump
est stenog bound to change contour
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13
NUMEROUS ARRESTS
 DURING WEEKEND
Burglars Enter Kensin8ton Store
 in Daring Robbery
GIRL INJURED IN CRASH
Nonen's League to Meet-Caucuses Tonight Promise to Be We'll At talded-Family Reunion Elects Cfftcers-Other Items.

Accidents and a burglary furnish
 ed plenty of excitement to Berlinites
 ove. the weekend. Officers were
 kep. busy both Saturday and Sunday
 and the heaviest amount of arrests in
 weeks took place yesterday. The
 docset for Tuesday evening is swell
 ed to large proportions and many
 cases are scheduled for trial before
 Juege George G. Griswold.
 Officer Frank Brown arrested Err
 nest Herwig of Kelsey street early
 ye,terday morning after Herwig's
 ca. had crashed into a car operated
 by Kid" Kaplan, Meriden boxer.
 Charges of reckless driving were
 lodged against the New Britain man
 alter witnesses testified that his car
 vas occupying 1e feet of the road,
 leaving Kaplan about six feet in
 which to drive. The collision took
 pace about o'clock Sunday morn
 irg near the Charles Mott place on Warrington Ridge. Both cars were
 badly damaged and had to be lowed to nearby garages. Herwig is under
 so to appear in court Tuesday eve- nng.
 Stanley Shinger of 109 Orange .treet, New Britain, was detected by B. county game warden, fishing in the American Pape Goods company's pond in Kensington. Shinger, when questioned as to whether he pos sessed a license, admitted that he did not The New Britain man broke away from his captor and ran for freedom. Officer Frank Brown, when notified, located him and lock- ed him up in the New Britain bas- tile under bonds of $50.
 Thieves footed the drug store of Henry Suprenant of Kensington early Sunday morning, forcing the front door of the establishment with a crow bar About $25 worth of cigarettes was stolen as well as eight pipes and several miscellane- ous articles amounting to about | s1o0. The drug store is located in a ! we'll lighted district and the burglar dared detection by passerbys as they | Local officers are working | on the case and it is thought that i several important clues have been found that might lead to an arrest | in the near future.
 Mrs. Ida Frost of 99 Myrtle street, Stamford, wrecked her car yester- r day morning near the Bunce resi- dent on the pike. Mrs. Frosts six year old daughter, who was riding In the front seat with her mother became ill and leaned out the side of he car. Mrs. Frost tried to admin ister aid to the child and lost con- trol of the machine, crashing into a telephone pole by the side of the road The little girl was badly cut about the face by flying glass from the broken windshield and was aken to the home of Dr. Thomas c. | Hodgson, where six stitches were -aken in the wound The car was badly damaged in the accident and vas taken to nearby garage.
 Jack J. Silverman of New York ,ity was arrested late last night by Officer George Kanupka for speed ng on Berlin street. He was releas- d on bonds of s35 for appearance n court Tuesday evening.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13
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The Magic of the Medicine Man

Tn the pioneer days of this coun- try, the Indian Medicine Man found in the roots and herbs of the woods and fields a remedy for almost every ailment of mankind. So po- tent did 1t prove that the relief from suffering seemed almost like magic.
 From roots and herbs. Lydia F. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass, made her famous Vegetable Compound which many women have relied upon for over fifty years.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13
Drum Corps Cops Honors

Iolll f, ManeT a.k
 Killing opt limit An.
 x-Allins out, intield fly in 3rd.
 Drum Corps Cops Honors
 The T. A. & B. drum corps journeyed to New Haven Saturday to obtain new honors for its already splendid record. The corps met other bands from New England and New York state and managed to come back with third prize for play ing and appearance. Drum Major Clarence Walker got first prize for baton swinging, keeping up his record as champion of New Eng land. The corps are considering other bids for meets throughout the state.
 Ice Man Injured
 Antonio Simone, ice man for Kensington and vicinity, severed four fingers on his right hand when his arm slipped while he was work ing a buzz saw while cutting wood. He was treated by local physician and returned to his home.
 A Fl. Bergeron, of kensington, has returned home from the New Britain General hospital after an operation.
 East Berlin Items
 John Mills and Olcott Mills and their families of Westerly. R. l.. in company with Mir. and Mrs. Vinal Hastings of Bristol. R. l. spent the weekend as the guest of Mrs. Fred Griswold and Mills Griswold of West Cromwell. They made the trip here by motor.
 R. B, Stevenson and family motor ed to Willimantic yesterday where they visited relatives.
 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burnett and daughter Frances of Hartford were calling upon friends in town yester- day. The Burnetts were former resi- dents of this place.
 Mrs. F. c. Dalbey and son Leo left yesterday for motor trip to Quebec, Canada and other points of interest They expect to be gone about two weeks.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Overstuffed Rocker, large in freside style, with Baker velour covering, spring seat. Price was S45. Clearance at S29.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13
Farewell Party
Reorganization Meeting

A meeting of the w. c. T. T.. will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. C. H. Bronson of 43 Maple street. This IS the first meeting since the sum mer recess and good attendance is expected. Election of officers will take placa
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13
Visiting in Town

Harry Murphy of Miami, Fla, Is visiting his brother, James Murphy of Whiting street, Mrs. Murphy is delegate of the Miami, Fla. hricklayers' union at it's national convention in Atlantic City He OK poets to return to his home during the next few days,
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Living Room Suite, three pieces in bro- catelle covering with damask reverse cushions. Was priced at S45O. Clearance at S295.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Large Coxwell Chairs with deep up- holstered back, covered in Baker velour, was S75 for S59.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Another beautifully upholstered in taupe and rose mohair, mahogany frame, was S145. Clearance at S99.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13
Will Begin Training

Miss Gladys Madaley, daughter Of Mir. and Mrs. Louis Madeley, will leave for the nurses training school of the Hartford hospital where she
 will begin training for the nursing
 profession.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Another large Wing Chair was Baker velour upholstering and regular price S85. Clearance at $50.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

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New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Preside Wing Chair, covered with con- bination blue and taupe velour. priced regularly at S55. Clearance at S39.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Two Piece Suits with solid mahogany frames, beautifully carved. coverings of walnut colored mohair, with reversible down cushions, was priced s45O. Clear ance at S295.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Another covered in mohair and wool tapestry combination, mahogany frames, was priced S162. Clearance at S95.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-13

Overstuffed Chairs. One of Nachman spring construction, with beautiful Jac- quard covering, was S65. Clearance at S39.50.
Evening star., 1926-10-26
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