The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-12
Detroit Auto Cars Open
Attack on Foreign Born
To Shield Their Profits
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THE extremes to which The Chicago Tribune, in common
with the whole herd of kept newspapers is willing to 60
JUDGE against them is again revealed in item, this
time from Detroit Mch under the headline State Troop
Take Charge of Alien Center; Hamtramck Is Again in
It the Tribune that is foremost in Chicago in seek
ing charge every crime of the underworld especially the
shootngs incidental the profitable business of booteggng
the alien population Therefore, its latest propaganda
from Michigan must needs also carry this viewpoint
Hamtramok, Mich, is municipality in itself nesting
in the midst OF Detroit It is the home OF automobile work
the seat of power of the Ford dynasty in the automobile
industry.
had grown to 4e615 by 1920 more than II times great
It outspped the population growth Of Highland Park
that made showing of 412o in 1910 compared to 46499
in 1920
This reflection of the tremendous growth of Detroit
ITSELF that practically doubled in 10 years Detroit stood
below the half million mark at 4657e6 in 1910 showed
population of oe373o 1920. Including Hamtramck and
Highland Park the t o. this s tn
1t inevitable, of course that such huge growth in
population should bring with it tremendous problems The
capitalist municipal government of Detroit solves these ques
tons in the usual capitalist way.
There has been tremendous influx Of Negro workers
into Detroit for instance Instead of protecting these Negro
workers in their rights the whole power OF the city govern
ment was used against them When mobs attacked the
of the Negro DOCTOR Osan H. Sweet resulting in one
DEATH police arrested Dr. Sweet and 10 other Negroes
who subsequently placed trial for their lives None
of the whites in the mob arrested placed trial. In
fact claimed that The police funconed as members OF
the mob
1t was shown in a school taken in December,
1920 that as per children of natveborn Negro
parents sos per of native born white parents, while
as per children of foregn-born parents Children
of Polish parents most with those of Rus
sian parents second.
Seventy of the whole population of Detroit
foreign-born or the children Of foregnborn parents
There must be something wrong with capitaisrns ma
chney Of oppression when its press begins attacking this
10 of the population. The shooting of Patroman
Charles Budds by Acting Chief of Police William Marquardt
but the for this attack Marquardt
said be protege of the cys mayor brought in from
Gary lnd where the police adopts at terrorzng the
foreign-born in the steel mills. When politicians and gang
stes begin shooting out among themselves the capitalist
press compelled to purposey the truth in order to
put the odium of blame on the whole population.
The that the hundreds of thousands of workers
in great plants including the Ford slave pens,
beginning STIR The demand for organization and struggle
is rife among Them They have the parasite stock
holders pocket increasingly huge dividends They demand
wage increases instead of wage cuts.
1t in this crisis that the attack the foreign-born
becomes the major weapon of the employers in Detroit
where the most vicious ed raids conducted against
labor in 1920.
Detroit labor will be warned in advance. The workers
will stand together Negro and white foreign and native
born-Poh Russian, American. The attacks of the kept
Sheets inspired by their capitalist owners soidy, not
divide, the working class.